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Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely
been detected.
-- Oscar Wilde To marry is to halve your rights and double your duties.
-- Arthur Schopenhauer "The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it." (Abbie Hoffman) Whoever controls the media--the images--controls the culture.
-- Allen Ginsberg There are two major products that come out of Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to
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-- Jeremy S. Anderson Arts and Entertainment Love makes the time pass. Time makes love pass.
-- French Proverb "Love is always a stranger in the house of avarice." (Andreas Capellanus) Imagine if birds were tickled by feathers. You'd see a flock of birds come by, laughing hysterically!
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Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you.
-- John-Paul Sartre In every man's heart there is a secret nerve that answers to the vibrations of beauty.
-- Christopher Morley When a person can no longer laugh at himself, it is time for others to laugh at him.
-- Thomas Szasz, The Second Sin, 1973 What if it was cats who invented technology... would they have tv shows starring rubber sqeak
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-- Douglas Coupland Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
-- Soren Kierkegaard Arts and Entertainment Children are a poor man's riches.
-- English proverb If God does not exist, then everything is permitted.
-- Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Devils If you want anything done well, do it yourself. This is why most people laugh at their own jokes.
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I don't know exactly what democracy is. But we need more of it.
-- Anonymous Chinese Student, during protests in Tianamen Square, Beijing, 1989 Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.
-- Virginia Woolf "You believe that flag burning shows disrespect towards those who have fought to preserve our freedoms. Punishing protestors shows an even more profound disrespect for the ideals that these people die "The evil that men do lives after them; The good is oft interred with their bones." (William Shakespeare, Julius Cćsar. Act iii. Sc. 2.) Love is temporary insanity curable by marriage.
-- Ambrose Bierce Arts and Entertainment Universities incline wits to sophistry and affectation.
-- Francis Bacon "Ah! Don't say you agree with me. When people agree with me I always feel that I must be wrong." (Oscar Wilde) Man's mind stretched to a new idea never goes back to its original dimensions.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes Arts and Entertainment
Husbands are like fires. They go out if unattended.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.
-- ee cummings If variety is the spice of life, marriage is the big can of leftover Spam.
-- Johnny Carson The grass may be greener on the other side of the fence, but you still have to mow it.
-- Anonymous Humanity has advanced, when it has advanced, not because it has been sober, responsible, and
cautious, but because it has been playful, rebellious, and immature.
-- Tom Robbins Arts and Entertainment He who laughs, lasts.
-- Mary Pettibone Poole Not only is the universe stranger than we imagine, it is stranger than we can imagine.
Sir Arthur Eddington (1882 - 1944) The absolute yearning of one human body for another particular body and its indifference to
substitutes is one of life's major mysteries.
-- Iris Murdoch Arts and Entertainment
Universities incline wits to sophistry and affectation.
-- Francis Bacon Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot.
-- Anonymous It was a day like this Marco Polo left for China. What are your plans for today?
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-- Henry Ford Gravitation can not be held responsible for people falling in love.
-- Albert Einstein Arts and Entertainment "There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) "The things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisi Whenever you eliminate the inedible, whatever remains, however unpalatable, must be food.
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We never live; we are always in the expectation of living.
-- Voltaire For the majority of People, smoking has a beneficial effect.
-- Dr. Ian G. Macdonald, Los Angeles surgeon, quoted in Newsweek , Nov.18th 1963. I read the book of Job last night - I don't think God comes out well in it.
-- Virginia Woolf "Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) He who dies a thousand deaths meets the final hour with the calmness of one who approaches a
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-- Heywood Brown Arts and Entertainment CAPITAL, n. The seat of misgovernment. That which provides the fire, the pot, the dinner, the
table and the knife and fork for the anarchist; the part of the repast that himself supplies is the
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can't read.
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To teach is to learn twice.
-- Joseph Joubert Our own heart, and not other men's opinions form our true honor.
-- Coleridge, Samuel Taylor There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world; and that is an idea whose time has
come.
-- Victor Hugo I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
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-- H. L. Mencken If we do not maintain Justice, Justice will not maintain us.
-- Francis Bacon Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly.
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Marital Freedom: The liberty that allows a husband to do exactly that which his wife pleases.
-- Anonymous The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.
-- G. K. Chesterton It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.
-- Gore Vidal The west wasn't won on salad.
-- ND Beef Council, billboard advertisement, 1990 The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
-- Lucille S. Harper Arts and Entertainment Establishing yourself, furnishing a house, building up a comfortable existence, and having that menace hanging over your head all the time - no, I prefer to live in hotels, cafés, just passing through The advantage of a classical education is that it enables you to despise the wealth which it
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It is not necessary to understand things in order to argue about them.
-- Pierre Augustin de Beaumarchais By all means marry. If you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher. -- Socrates People need loving the most when they deserve it the least.
-- John Harrigan The fickleness of the women I love is only equalled by the infernal consistency of the women who
love me.
-- George Bernard Shaw "That's the true sign. If the lover has not yet achieved his prize, his eyes will follow the woman, while she appears indifferent. But once he's gained his goal, it's the woman's eyes that follow him, Arts and Entertainment You can pay attention to the fact, in which case you'll probably become a mathematician, or you
can ignore it, in which case you'll probably become a physicist.
-- Len Evans, professor, Northwestern There is more stupidity than hydrogen in the universe, and it has a longer shelf life.
- Frank Zappa There are three great friends: an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.
-- Benjamin Franklin Arts and Entertainment
"I don't think it's the nature of any man to be monogamous. Men are propelled by genetically ordained impulses over which they have no control to distribute their seed." (Marlon Brando) May your wife be a witch who takes after her mother, and may you all live together in a one-room house. Youth is wasted on the young.
-- George Bernard Shaw An economic forecaster is like a cross-eyed javelin thrower: they don't win many accuracy
contests, but they keep the crowd's attention.
-- Anonymous True thinkers are characterised by a blending of clearness and mystery.
-- Victor Hugo Arts and Entertainment Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance.
-- Oscar Wilde I belong to Bridegrooms Anonymous. Whenever I feel like getting married, they send over a lady in a housecoat and hair curlers to burn my toast for me. -- Dick Martin "I know that God won't give me more trouble than I can handle ... but sometimes I wish he wouldn't trust me so much." (Mother Teresa) Arts and Entertainment
The only weapon that becomes sharper with constant use is the tongue.
-- Anonymous Don't trust anyone over 30 who used to say "Don't trust anyone over 30."
-- Anonymous The only thing that holds a marriage together is the husband bein' big enough to keep his mouth
shut, to step back and see where his wife is wrong.
-- Archie Bunker, character on "All in the Family, blah "The length of this document defends it well against the risk of its being read." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) While we are postponing, life speeds by.
- Seneca (3BC - 65AD) Arts and Entertainment "A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men." (Roald Dahl) The good people sleep much better at night than the bad people. Of course, the bad people enjoy
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