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me from believing that all was well under the sun, and the sun taught me that history wasn't
everythin Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.
-- John F. Kennedy Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances
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-- Herbert Spencer Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can
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Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple, learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a
dozen.
-- John Steinbeck The louder he talked of his honour, the faster we counted our spoons.
-- Emerson, Ralph Waldo Blessed are the young for they shall inherit the national debt.
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-- Arizona senatorial candidate Claire Sargent, on women candidates Friends applaud, the Comedy is over.
-- Ludwig von Beethoven, dying words I was under medication when I made the decision not to burn the tapes.
-- Richard Nixon, U.S. President I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity.
-- Albert Einstein He who laughs last is generally the last to get the joke.
-- Terry Cohen Personal Pages The great man fights the elements in his time that hinder his own greatness, in other words his own freedom and sincerity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) We are not retreating - we are advancing in another Direction.
- General Douglas MacArthur The Democrats are the party that says government will make you smarter, taller, richer, and
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Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands, but English women only hope to find in their butlers. -- W. Somerset Maugham I admire the serene assurance of those who have religious faith. It is wonderful to observe the
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-- G. K. Chesterton The first clergyman was the first rascal who met the first fool.
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-- Daniel Webster, dying words Few things are harder to put up with than a good example.
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-- General Douglas MacArthur Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of
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-- General Omar Bradley Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
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I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll "The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do." (Anonymous) Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when
people laugh.
-- George Bernard Shaw "If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library." (Frank Zappa) The philosophy exam was a piece of cake -- which was a bit of a surprise, actually, because I
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-- Smith & Jones Personal Pages Marriage certificate is just another word for a work permit. "God is Man's stupidest idea." (Marcel Duchamp, French Dadaist) The majority of husbands remind me of an orangutan trying to play the violin.
-- Honore de Balzac Personal Pages
Hey, you can't fight in here! This is the war room!
-- Dr. Strangelove A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.
- Lao-Tzu Often it does seem a pity that Noah and his party did not miss the boat.
-- Mark Twain In the end, everything is a gag.
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-- Oscar Wilde A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
Robert Frost (1874-1963) America's one of the finest countries anyone ever stole.
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Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
-- Albert Einstein There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.
-- George Santayana If one advances confidently in the direction of one's dreams, and endeavours to live the life which
one has imagined, one will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
-- Henry David Thoreau Love begins with a smile, grows with a kiss, and ends with a teardrop.
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-- J. Heller Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of
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-- Clive James "God's creatures, great and small ... eat them one, eat them all." (John A. Simone Sr.) Personal Pages
"It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open one's mouth and remove all doubt." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) "Friends are those people who know the words to the song in your heart and sing them back to you when you have forgotten the words." (Anonymous) "Is man merely a mistake of God's? Or God merely a mistake of man's?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "I have great faith in fools; My friends call it self-confidence." (Edger Allen Poe) We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
-- Winston Churchill Personal Pages Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.
-- T. S. Eliot "I owe much to my friends; but, all things considered, it strikes me that I owe even more to my enemies. The real person springs life under a sting even better than under a caress." (André Gide) "The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) Personal Pages
It is dangerous for a national candidate to say things that people might remember.
-- Eugene McCarthy Life is the flower for which love is the honey.
-- Victor Hugo Use your own best judgment at all times.
-- The entire Nordstrom's Department Stores policy manual For of all sad words of tongue or pen,
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-- John Greenleaf Whittier Love is much nicer to be in than an automobile accident, a tight girdle, a higher tax bracket, or a
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-- Judith Viorst Personal Pages "I want my food dead. Not sick, not dying, dead." (Oscar Wilde) "A man must dream a long time in order to act with grandeur, and dreaming is nursed in darkness." (Jean Genet) "No man is clever enough to know all the evil he does." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) Personal Pages
I went into a McDonald's yesterday and said, "I'd like some fries." The girl at the counter said,
"Would you like some fries with that?"
-- Jay Leno The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
-- Mark Twain Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it.
Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it.
Hatred darkens life; love illumines it.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. A man who marries a woman to educate her falls a victim to the same fallacy as the woman who
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-- Elbert Hubbard "The masses are far more likely to believe a big lie than several small ones." (Adolf Hitler) Personal Pages Nothing says lovin' like marrying your cousin!
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Marriage has many pains, but celibacy has no pleasures.
-- Samuel Johnson "He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself." (Thomas Paine) Personal Pages
