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-- Max Frisch Travel and Tourism
I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.
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If you don't double-click me, I can't do anything.
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I envy people who drink -- at least they know what to blame everything on.
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- Voltaire Travel and Tourism
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-- American Proverb My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music.
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- George Washington Carver Travel and Tourism
We are not in a position in which we have nothing to work with. We already have capacities,
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-- Abraham Maslow Those parts of the system that you can hit with a hammer (not advised) are called hardware;
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-- Emily Dickinson, dying words Travel and Tourism I drink no more than a sponge.
-- Francis Rabelais, Works. Book i. Chap. v. Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
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The course of true love never did run smooth.
-- William Shakespeare Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.
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