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I find television very educating. Every time sombody turns on the set, I go into the other room and
read a book.
-- Groucho Marx Acting is the most minor of gifts and not a very high-class way to earn a living. After all, Shirley
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There is more stupidity than hydrogen in the universe, and it has a longer shelf life.
- Frank Zappa "Try not to have a good time ... This is supposed to be educational." (Charles Schultz) Early to rise and early to bed.
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-- Lord Rutherford Travel and Tourism
I didn't have time to write a short letter, so I wrote a long one instead.
-- Mark Twain Beneath the rule of men entirely great, / The pen is mightier than the sword.
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-- Robert Frost Travel and Tourism
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Question: Ted Kennedy: "Where was George?"
Answer: Dry, sober, and at home with his wife Ah, well, then I suppose I shall have to die beyond my means.
-- Oscar Wilde, dying words Washington is a city of Southern efficiency and Northern charm.
-- John F. Kennedy In times of profound change, the learners inherit the earth, while the learned find themselves
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-- Mary Buckley Travel and Tourism
Talk to a man about himself and he will listen for hours.
-- Benjamin Disraeli What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
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-- Cousin Woodman Travel and Tourism
"As a child, I thought I hated everybody, but when I grew up I realized it was just children I didn't like." (Philip Larkin) When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I only think about how to solve the
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-- Thornton Wilder Eighty percent of married men cheat in America. The rest cheat in Europe.
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-- George Bernard Shaw I love cats because I love my home and after a while they become its visible soul.
-- Jean Cocteau "Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience." (George Bernard Shaw) Travel and Tourism
I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
-- Thomas Edison Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in
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-- Oscar Wilde The possibility that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause
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-- Abraham Lincoln May the road rise to meet you. May the wind always be at your back. May the sun shine warm
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The democratic theory is that if you accumulate enough ignorance at the polls, you produce
intelligence.
-- Philo Vance No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman.
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-- Barbara Bush, first lady, 1989 Travel and Tourism Don't anthropomorphize computers -- they hate it.
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-- David Mamet I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.
- Francois-Auguste Rodin (1840-1917), when asked how he managed to make his remarkable
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If all these sweet young things were laid end to end, I wouldn't be the slightest bit surprised.
-- Dorothy Parker Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of
the time.
-- E. B. White Love is the answer, but while you're waiting for the answer, sex raises some pretty good
questions.
-- Woody Allen Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world.
-- George Bernard Shaw My opinions are my wife's, and she says I'm lucky to have them. Travel and Tourism Always go to the bathroom when you have a chance.
-- King George V Obedience is the gateway through which knowledge, yes, and love, too, enter the mind of the
child.
-- Anne Sullivan Marriage is a rest period between romances. Travel and Tourism
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-- Oscar Levant, to Harpo Marx upon meeting Harpo's fiancee There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written or badly written.
-- Oscar Wilde Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from
history.
-- George Bernard Shaw Travel and Tourism
