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I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
- Mark Twain "In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of our tasks; the ultimate,
the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.
-- Rainer Maria Ril Many a man that could rule a hundherd millyon sthrangers with an ir'n hand is careful to take off
his shoes in the front hallway whin he comes home late at night.
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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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-- Bart Simpson, young character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated tele A beauty is a woman you notice; A charmer is one who notices you.
-- Adlai Stevenson A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.
-- Walter Winchell He who limps is still walking.
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-- Woody Allen Recreation and Sports "Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance, or a stranger." (Franklin P. Jones) You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it come true.
-- Richard Bach The Democrats are the party that says government will make you smarter, taller, richer, and
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"The reward of a thing well done is having done it." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) A narcissist is someone better-looking than you are.
-- Gore Vidal There ought to be one day - just one - when there is open season on senators.
-- Will Rogers "Fear is a darkroom where negatives develop." (Usman Asif) Morality consists in suspecting other people of not being legally married.
-- George Bernard Shaw Recreation and Sports Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country.
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Marriage: the only sport in which the trapped animal has to buy the license. Husbands are like fires. They go out if unattended.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor I heard someone tried the monkeys-on-typewriters bit trying for the plays of W. Shakespeare, but
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- Bill Hirst The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman. -- S. T. Coleridge To take what there "is", and use it, without waiting forever in vain for the preconceived - to dig
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-- William Faulkner Conceit causes more conversation than wit.
-- LaRouchefoucauld There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him asleep.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Recreation and Sports
"The only way to have friends is to be one." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
- Lewis Perelman It is better to die on your feet than live on your knees.
-- Emiliano Zapata This is the miracle that happens every time to those who really love; the more they give, the more
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-- Woody Allen In marriage, as in war, it is permitted to take every advantage of the enemy. Love is blind and marriage is the institution for the blind.
-- James Graham Recreation and Sports
When one is trying to do something beyond his known powers it is useless to seek the approval
of friends. Friends are at their best in moments of defeat.
-- Henry Miller The story of a love is not important - what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps
the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.
-- Helen Hayes "Once spirit was God, then it became man, and now it is even becoming mob." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Behind every great fortune there is a crime.
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-- James Lowell Recreation and Sports
This novel is not to be tossed lightly aside, but hurled with great force.
-- Dorothy Parker It is dangerous for a national candidate to say things that people might remember.
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-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Recreation and Sports You can observe a lot by watching.
-- Yogi Berra Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
-- Henry Ford The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and
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-- Albert Einstein Recreation and Sports
A wasted youth is better by far than a wise and productive old age.
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learn music and dancing, and thought it time well spent.
-- Michel de Montaigne We live at a time when man believes himself fabulously capable of creation, but he does not
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-- Jose Ortega y Gasset The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll Recreation and Sports If men knew all that women think, they'd be twenty times more daring.
-- Alphonse Karr My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music.
-- Vladimir Nabokov Spinster: A bachelor's wife. Recreation and Sports
"No one lies so boldly as the man who is indignant." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The grand aim of all science is to cover the greatest number of empirical facts by logical
deduction from the smallest number of hypotheses or axioms.
-- Albert Einstein He who dies a thousand deaths meets the final hour with the calmness of one who approaches a
well remembered door.
-- Heywood Brown There ought to be one day - just one - when there is open season on senators.
-- Will Rogers In the late 1600s the finest instruments originated from three rural families whose workshops
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Losing a wife can be hard. In my case, it was almost impossible. Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
-- Soren Kierkegaard Whatever you are from nature, keep to it; never desert your own line of talent. Be what nature
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-- Heidi Hartmann, The Unha Idealism increases in direct proportion to one's distance from the problem.
-- John Galsworthy Recreation and Sports If you are afraid of loneliness, don't marry.
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-- Nanette Newman, British actress Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of
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-- George Bernard Shaw Recreation and Sports
As for courage and will - we cannot measure how much of each lies within us, we can only trust
there will be sufficient to carry through trials which may lie ahead.
-- Andre Norton "Eschew the ordinary, disdain the commonplace. If you have a single-minded need for something, let it be the unusual, the esoteric, the bizarre, the unexpected..." (Chuck Jones) Love may be a dream but marriage is a nightmare.
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- Robin Williams, commenting on the Clinton/Lewinsky affair Recreation and Sports I think 'Hail to the Chief' has a nice ring to it.
- John F. Kennedy when asked what is his favorite song Love is what happens to men and women who don't know each other.
-- W. Somerset Maugham Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked
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-- D. H. Lawrence Recreation and Sports
