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- Henry David Thoreau ( "Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously u In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: It goes on.
-- Robert Frost Cricket is best described as organised loafing.
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-- Will Rogers Arts and Entertainment
"My daughter has never forgiven me. for what, I don't know, because for years, she won't speak to me. She blackens my name in the press and makes me think abortion is an excellent idea." (Klaus Kinsk Celestial navigation is based on the premise that the Earth is the center of the universe. The
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-- Kelvin Throop I "Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country." (Marquis de Lafayette) The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when
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- Albert Einstein Don't look back -- something might be gaining on you.
-- Satchel Paige Arts and Entertainment Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.
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-- George de Benneville The church is the great lost and found department.
-- Robert Short Arts and Entertainment
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-- Nicholas Murray Butler "One may sometimes tell a lie, but the grimace that accompanies it tells the truth." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known." (Blaise Pascal) I'm not into working out. My philosophy: No pain, no pain.
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- Ambrose Bierce Sleep is an excellent way of listening to an opera.
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- Mark Twain Arts and Entertainment
"When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; when health is lost, something is lost; when character is lost, all is lost." (Billy Graham) Now is the time for all good men to come to.
-- Walt Kelly "My wallpaper and I are fighting a duel to the death. One or the other of us has to go." (Oscar Wilde, his last recorded words) Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow.
-- Helen Keller Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.
- George Eliot Arts and Entertainment Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it. A dollar saved is a quarter earned.
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Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure.
-- George E. Woodberry 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.
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-- Abraham Lincoln Arts and Entertainment Men have become the tools of their tools.
-- Henry David Thoreau Where there is love there is life.
-- Gandhi True, we love life, not because we are used to living, but because we are used to loving. There is
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-- Friedrich Nietzsch Arts and Entertainment
"A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool." (William Shakespeare) Of the seven dwarves, only Dopey had a shaven face. This should tell us something about the
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-- Tom Robbins, Skinny Legs and All "My wallpaper and I are fighting a duel to the death. One or the other of us has to go." (Oscar Wilde, his last recorded words) The only way to entertain some folks is to listen to them.
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A leader in the Democratic Party is a boss, in the Republican Party he is a leader.
Harry S. Truman Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well.
-- Josh Billings "God is dead: but considering the state Man is in, there will perhaps be caves, for ages yet, in which his shadow will be shown." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, The Joyful Wisdom) By the time (the Leaning Tower of Pisa) was 10% built, everyone knew it would be a total
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-- Benjamin Disraeli Arts and Entertainment Do not let yourselves be discouraged or embittered by the smallness of the success you are likely
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-- Aristotle If it weren't for electricity we'd all be watching television by candlelight.
-- George Gobel Arts and Entertainment
"Gifts must affect the receiver to the point of shock." (Walter Benjamin) "Teacher played hooky. Sent message: 'Receiving instruction. Enjoying myself thoroughly. See you next week.'" (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) Education ... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth
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-- Chad A. Gamble, Escape, short story Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils.
-- Hector Louis Berlioz Arts and Entertainment A man in the house is worth two in the street.
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Statistics are like a bikini. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.
-- Aaron Levenstein The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
- Mark Twain The limits of my language means the limits of my world.
-- Ludwig Wittgenstein If stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out?
- Will Rogers In great matters men show themselves as they wish to be seen; in small matters, as they are.
-- Gamaliel Bradford Arts and Entertainment Cricket is best described as organised loafing.
-- Anonymous British Radio Broadcaster, 1996 Men are strong only so long as they represent a strong idea. They become powerless when they
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-- Sigmund Freud "The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do." (Anonymous) Arts and Entertainment
By all means marry. If you get a good wife you will become happy, and if you get a bad one you
will become a philosopher.
-- Socrates "I don't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones." (John Cage) By the time (the Leaning Tower of Pisa) was 10% built, everyone knew it would be a total
disaster. But the investment was so big they felt compelled to go on. Since its completion, it cost
a fortune In a hierarchy, every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence. Therefore:
? In time, every post tends to be occupied by an employee who is incompetent to carry out its
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where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.
-- D. H. Lawrence Arts and Entertainment "In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends." (Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.) The planting of trees is the least self-centered of all that we can do. It is a purer act of faith than
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-- Thornton Wilder There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as
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-- Albert Einstein Arts and Entertainment
I don't know anything about luck. I've never banked on it, and I'm afraid of people who do. Luck to
me is something else; hard work and realizing what is opportunity and what isn't.
-- Lucille Ball "How is it that we never have time to do a job right, but we always have time to do it over?" (Anonymous) "There is nothing more fearful than ignorance in action." (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1749-1832, Criticisms, Reflections and Maxims) "I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it." (Thomas Jefferson, to Archibald Stuart, 1791) A hippo does not have a sting in its tail, but a wise man would still rather be sat on by a bee.
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-- Richard Braunstein Fighting is essentially a masculine idea; a woman's weapon is her tongue.
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