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-- George Bernard Shaw Washington is a city of Southern efficiency and Northern charm.
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-- Eddie Rickenbacker Business and Economy
"I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury." (Groucho Marx) The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
-- Blaise Pascal, Pens&eactue;es, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country.
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-- Bobcat Goldthwait "All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) Business and Economy
We can lick gravity, but sometimes the paperwork is overwhelming.
-- Wehrner von Braun Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.
-- Virginia Woolf I never miss a chance to have sex or appear on television.
-- Gore Vidal Victory belongs to the most persevering.
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-- Zora Neale Hurston It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely uneducated.
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"The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none." (Thomas Carlyle, 1795-1881) "Every act of creation is first an act of destruction." (Pablo Picasso) blah "The length of this document defends it well against the risk of its being read." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) "Think off-center." (George Carlin) Marriage is bliss. Ignorance is bliss. Ergo...
-- Anonymous Business and Economy The advantage of a classical education is that it enables you to despise the wealth which it
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-- Russell Green I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is; I only know that people call
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-- Rebecca West, "Nothing is permanent but change." (Heraclitus) Business and Economy
Beware of men on airplanes. The minute a man reaches thirty thousand feet, he immediately
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-- Tom Lehrer "A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) It is not good enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.
-- Rene Descartes "The market is not an invention of capitalism. It has existed for centuries. It is an invention of civilization." (Mikhail Gorbachev, June 8, 1990) Business and Economy Marriage is a great institution, but who wants to live in an institution?
-- Marx Groucho, the film "Animal Crackers" If we let people see that kind of thing, there would never again be any war.
-- Pentagon official, on why US military censored graphic footage from the Gulf War Parents often talk about the younger generations as if they didn't have anything to do with it. Business and Economy
We didn't lose the game; we just ran out of time.
- Vince Lombardi We are the echo of the future.
-- W. S. Merwin Winning is a habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.
-- Vince Lombardi A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence
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-- George Bernard Shaw "There are no uninteresting things, only uninteresting people." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) Business and Economy I'll sleep when I'm dead.
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Many a man owes his success to his first wife and his second wife to his success.
-- Jim Backus Govern a family as you would cook a small fish - very gently.
-- Chinese Proverb Be tolerant of the human race. Your whole family belongs to it -- and some of your spouse's
family does too.
-- Anonymous If you are going to sin, sin against God, not the bureaucracy. God will forgive you but the
bureaucracy won't.
-- Hyman Rickover The first half of our life is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
-- Clarence Darrow Business and Economy It's true that I did get the girl, but then my grandfather always said, "Even a blind chicken finds a
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-- Lyle Lovett, musician, upon marying actress Julia Roberts, "If I work toward an end, meantime I am confined to a process. The rainbow is more beautiful than the pot at the end of it, because the rainbow is now. And the pot never turns out to be quite what I e "Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Business and Economy
Life is like music; it must be composed by ear, feeling, and instinct, not by rule.
-- Samuel Butler Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them
good.
-- H.L. Mencken "So little done, so much to do." (Cecil Rhodes) Don't marry for money; you can borrow it cheaper. We come to love not by finding a perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person
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Marriage is like a cage--one sees the birds outside desperate to get in and those inside equally
desparate to get out.
-- Di Peatlins Hell is other people.
- Jean-Paul Sartre We have been friends together in sunshine and in shade.
-- Caroline Norton The scientific theory I like best is that the rings of Saturn are composed entirely of lost airline
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-- Mark Russell Marriage is a trip between Niagara Falls and Reno. Business and Economy "A man is only as faithful as his opportunity." (Chris Rock) My father taught me to work; he did not teach me to love it.
-- Abraham Lincoln Repentance is not so much remorse for what we have done as the fear of the consequences.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld, Maxims, 1665 Business and Economy
If we knew what we were doing, it wouldn't be called research, would it?
-- Albert Einstein Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business.
-- Tom Robbins People say "I want peace." If you remove I {ego}, and your want {desire}, you are left with peace.
-- Satya Sai Baba No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem.
-- Booker T. Washington The majority of husbands remind me of an orangutan trying to play the violin.
-- Honore de Balzac Business and Economy Ah Mozart! He was happily married - but his wife wasn't.
-- Victor Borge "I learned more from the one restaurant that didn't work than from all the ones that were successes." (Wolfgang Puck, restauranteur) Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.
- H. G. Wells Business and Economy
The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit.
-- W. Somerset Maugham "For others do I wait ... for higher ones, stronger ones, more triumphant ones, merrier ones, for such as are built squarely in body and soul: laughing lions must come." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh." (George Bernard Shaw) Airplane travel is nature's way of making you look like your passport photo.
-- Al Gore, U.S. Vice President The brain is a wonderful organ. It starts working the moment you get up in the morning, and does
not stop until you get into the office.
-- Robert Frost Business and Economy You can't say civilization isn't advancing: in every war they kill you in a new way.
-- Will Rogers The only thing worse than a man you can't control is a man you can.
-- Margo Kaufman The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed
desperation.
-- Henry David Thoreau, Walden (1854) Business and Economy
