"Some people must go to extremes to get the world in balance for themselves. Some can't bear bright lights, so wherever they go they search for the dark; they turn the lights down, anything to sustain I don't know why we are here, but I'm pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves.
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blah "If we did all the things we are capable of, we would literally astound ourselves." (Thomas Alva Edison) "In my opinion, the greatest single failure of American education is that students come away unable to distinguish between a symbol and the thing the symbol stands for." (Paul Lutus) Computers will not be perfected until they can compute how much more than the estimate the job
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-- Anon They gave me a book of checks. They didn't ask for any deposits.
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-- Mae West Travel and Tourism Researchers have discovered that chocolate produces some of the same reactions in the brain
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-- Abraham Lincoln Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
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-- Oscar Wilde Travel and Tourism
One survey found that ten percent of Americans thought Joan of Arc was Noah's wife....
-- Robert Boynton "Our lives are repetitious shams--every single day a simulacrum of the previous day. So for Man, he is out to pepper his daily activities with different things--he's fighting against boredom." (Matth The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
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-- Epicurus Travel and Tourism Some of us are becoming the men we wanted to marry.
-- Gloria Steinem "It ends not with a bang, but a whimper." (Thomas Stearns Eliot, aka T. S. Eliot, The Hollow Man) When you've spent half your political life dealing with humdrum issues like the environment... it's
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-- Margaret Thatcher, on the Falklands Conflict Travel and Tourism
Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for the appointment by the corrupt few.
-- George Bernard Shaw Ah Mozart! He was happily married - but his wife wasn't.
-- Victor Borge The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.
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-- Oscar Wilde Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.
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"All women love the men they fear. All women kiss the hand that rules them." (Lionel Atwill) The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain.
-- Lord Byron Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.
-- Don Stanford There are some experiences in life which should not be demanded twice from any man, and one
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-- Gerald Holton I shall return.
-- General Douglas MacArthur Travel and Tourism
Love is blind and marriage is the institution for the blind.
-- James Graham Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame.
-- G. K. Chesterton MARRIAGE, n. The state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress and two
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slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble minds. That deeply emotional
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"For better or for worse, our company (The News Corporation Ltd.) is a reflection of my thinking, my character, my values." (Keith Rupert Murdoch, media mogul, 1931-) "Never frighten a little man. He'll kill you." (Robert A. Heinlein) "A conservative is a man who sits and thinks, mostly sits." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) A human being is a part of the whole, called by us Universe, a part limited in time and space. He
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-- Homer, Odyssey, ninth century Travel and Tourism If I have not seen as far as others, it is because giants were standing on my shoulders.
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-- François de La Rouch If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be
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-- Abraham Lincoln Travel and Tourism
Conscience is the inner voice which warns us that someone may be looking.
-- H. L. Mencken Nothing that was worthy in the past departs; no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or
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-- Thomas Carlyle "Do something for the joy of doing it and pray you won't be punished." (Sammy Cahn) We have to keep trying things we're not sure we can pull off. If we just do the things we know we
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-- John Steinbeck Travel and Tourism
"It ends not with a bang, but a whimper." (Thomas Stearns Eliot, aka T. S. Eliot, The Hollow Man) Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of
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-- Mark Twain Whatever you are, be a good one.
-- Abraham Lincoln The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four Americans is suffering from some form of
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-- Rita Mae Brown The only thing worse than a man you can't control is a man you can.
-- Margo Kaufman Travel and Tourism Marriage is a lottery in which men stake their liberty and women their happiness.
-- Madame de Rieux Wives are people who feel they don't dance enough.
-- Groucho Marx It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get back up.
-- Vince Lombardi Travel and Tourism
If one advances confidently in the direction of one's dreams, and endeavours to live the life which
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-- Henry David Thoreau Computers can figure out all kinds of problems, except the things in the world that just don't add
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-- Anon This world is a comedy for those who think and a tragedy for those who feel.
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