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It makes no difference who you vote for - the two parties are really one party representing four
percent of the people.
-- Gore Vidal I date this girl for two years--and then the nagging starts: "I wanna know your name."
-- Mike Binder I still say a church steeple with a lightning rod on top shows a lack of confidence.
-- Doug MacLeod I still believe in liberalism today as much as I ever did, but, oh, there was a happy time when I
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-- G. K. Chesterton If you can't annoy somebody, there's little point in writing.
-- Kingsley Amis Colleges and Universities "If you meet a woman that smokes cigars ... marry her." (Arthur Lotti) The Holocaust was an obscene period in our nation's history...this century's history.... We all lived
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-- Yogi Berra A university professor set an examination question in which he asked what is the difference
between ignorance and apathy. The professor had to give an A+ to a student who answered: I
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-- Richard Nixon, U.S. President Diplomat: A man who can convince his wife she would look stout in a fur coat. Colleges and Universities "Furious activity is no substitute for understanding." (H. H. Williams) Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love,
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"Hold a true friend with both your hands." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Kill a man, and you are a murderer. Kill millions of men, and you are a conquerer. Kill everyone, and you are a god." (Jean Rostand) Show my head to the people, it is worth seeing.
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-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of
bread.
- Mahatma Gandhi I don't know exactly what democracy is. But we need more of it.
-- Anonymous Chinese Student, during protests in Tianamen Square, Beijing, 1989 Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. Colleges and Universities The great tragedy of science, the slaying of a beautiful theory by an ugly fact.
-- Thomas Henry Huxley A man sits with a pretty girl for an hour, it seems like a minute. He sits on a hot stove for a
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-- Albert Einstein "I don't care to belong to a club that accepts people like me as members." (Groucho Marx) Colleges and Universities
You have to walk carefully in the beginning of love; the running across fields into your lover's
arms can only come later when you're sure they won't laugh if you trip.
-- Jonathan Carroll, Outside "I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." (James Madison) Never judge a book by its movie.
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"Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishments." (Anonymous) Mathematicians are like Frenchmen: whatever you say to them they translate into their own
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-- Anon. The backbone of surprise is fusing speed with secrecy.
- Von Clausewitz Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.
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Twenty years fron now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones
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your I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones.
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It is well, when judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and
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-- Arnold Bennett The only thing that holds a marriage together is the husband bein' big enough to keep his mouth
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-- Archie Bunker, character on "All in the Family, We had a lot in common. I loved him and he loved him.
-- Shelley Winters To write a good love letter, you ought to begin without knowing what you mean to say, and to
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-- Jean Jacques Rousseau Most turkeys taste better the day after; my mother's tasted better the day before.
-- Rita Rudner Colleges and Universities "What dies if freedom lives? What lives if freedom dies?" (Lindsay Anderson, British filmmaker, from if.... (1968) The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may
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A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties; no
religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear
of Never judge a book by its movie.
-- J. W. Eagan Friends need not agree in everything or go always together, or have no comparable other
friendships of the same intimacy. On the contrary, in friendship union is more about ideal things:
and in that Marital Freedom: The liberty that allows a husband to do exactly that which his wife pleases.
-- Anonymous Always talk to your wife while you're making love... if there's a phone handy. Colleges and Universities To correct a natural indifference I was placed half-way between misery and the sun. Misery kept
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it.
-- Colin Wilson Marriage is not just a having a wife, but also worries inherited forever. Colleges and Universities
Thomas Jefferson--still surv...
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-- George H. Mead Colleges and Universities "Once spirit was God, then it became man, and now it is even becoming mob." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The only one of your children who does not grow up and move away is your husband. Too bad all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving cabs and cutting hair.
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