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-- Tom K. Ryan Ridicule is generally made use of to laugh men out of virtue and good sense, by attacking
everything praiseworthy in human life.
-- Joseph Addison What sets worlds in motion is the interplay of differences, their attractions and repulsions; life is
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-- Octavio Paz When in doubt, make a fool of yourself. There is a microscopically thin line between being
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-- Mae West Great ability develops and reveals itself increasingly with every new assignment. Baltasar
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I worship the quicksand he walks in.
- Art Buchwald There is no course of life so weak and sottish as that which is managed by order, method, and
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-- Michel de Montaigne "What is tolerance? -- it is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error; let us pardon reciprocally each other's folly -- that is the first law of nature." (Francois Marie Ar I'm proud to be paying taxes in the United States. The only thing is - I could be just as proud for
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-- Abraham Lincoln Mistakes are the portals of discovery.
-- James Joyce Love: An obsessive delusion that is cured by marriage. Emergency Services
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-- Victor Hugo What does not kill me makes me stronger.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
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-- Indigo Girls, song lyric Why doesn't she like me? Is it my hair, my overbite, the fact that I've worn the same shirt and
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-- William Shakespeare 1564-1616 from King Henry the Fourth, Part I Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous; it is nothing if it is not ridiculous.
-- Thornton Wilder Emergency Services
"Babies are necessary to grown-ups. A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities. In a world that is cutting down its trees to build highways, losing its eart "Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it." (John Quincy Adams) If excessive smoking actually plays a role in the production of lung cancer, it seems to be a minor
one.
-- Dr. W.C. Heuper of the National Cancer Institute, as quoted in the New York Times on Apri I want to die in my sleep like my friend.... Not screaming and yelling like the passengers in his
car.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent.
-- Abraham Lincoln Emergency Services If a man does his best, what else is there?
- General George S. Patton "I either want less corruption, or more chance to participate in it." (Ashleigh Brilliant) People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid.
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If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.
-- Virginia Woolf The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.
-- Franklin D. Roosevelt If we do not maintain Justice, Justice will not maintain us.
-- Francis Bacon Government is like a baby. An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of
responsibility at the other.
-- Ronald Reagan, Saturday Evening Post, 1965 "He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches." (George Bernard Shaw) Emergency Services Losing a wife can be hard. In my case, it was almost impossible. Stung by the splendour of a sudden thought.
-- Robert Browning In a great romance, each person plays a part the other really likes.
-- Elizabeth Ashley Emergency Services
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-- Martin Mull A behaviorist is someone who pulls habits out of rats.
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It's true that I did get the girl, but then my grandfather always said, "Even a blind chicken finds a
few grains of corn now and then."
-- Lyle Lovett, musician, upon marying actress Julia Roberts, They had a dispute about a night out with the boys. But he finally decided to let her go.
-- Anonymous You have to kiss a lot of toads before you find a handsome prince.
-- American Proverb Whatever you are, be a good one.
-- Abraham Lincoln If you are going through hell, keep going.
- Sir Winston Churchill Emergency Services "All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream." (Edger Allen Poe) I am ready at any time. Do not keep me waiting.
-- John Brown - last words "The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do." (Anonymous) Emergency Services
Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.
-- Philip K. Dick Thus the metric system did not really catch on in the States, unless you count the increasing
popularity of the nine-millimeter bullet.
-- Dave Barry Repentance is not so much remorse for what we have done as the fear of the consequences.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld, Maxims, 1665 Music is the art of thinking with sounds.
-- Jules Combarieu blah "This is the hardest of all: to close the open hand out of love, and keep modest as a giver." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Emergency Services If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.
-- Voltaire "Courageous, untroubled, mocking and violent--that is what Wisdom wants us to be. Wisdom is a woman, and loves only a warrior." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I went into a McDonald's yesterday and said, "I'd like some fries." The girl at the counter said,
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-- Jay Leno Emergency Services
"Those that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." (Benjamin Franklin) "Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death." (General Michel Aoun) "The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) The average person thinks he isn't.
- Father Larry Lorenzoni Mary had a little lamb and the doctor fainted.
-- Anonymous Emergency Services There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home.
- Ken Olson, president, chairman and founder of Digital Equipment Corp., 1977 Everywhere I go, I'm asked if the universities stifle writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle
enough of them.
-- Flannery O'Connor "It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) Emergency Services
If I have seen farther than others, it is because I was standing on the shoulders of giants.
-- Isaac Newton There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of
bread.
- Mahatma Gandhi I am in total control, but don't tell my wife. Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow.
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-- Michael Leunig Diplomacy is the art of saying "Nice doggie" until you can find a rock.
-- Wynn Catlin, also attributed to Will Rogers "Once spirit was God, then it became man, and now it is even becoming mob." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Emergency Services
