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-- Ronald Reagan You probably wouldn't worry about what people think of you if you could know how seldom they
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-- Olin Miller If everything seems under control, you're just not going fast enough.
- Mario Andretti "I would rather die standing than live on my knees!" (Emiliano Zapata) Friends need not agree in everything or go always together, or have no comparable other
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If all men were brothers, would you let one marry your sister? "Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I figure you have the same chance of winning the lottery whether you play or not.
-- Fran Lebowitz "It seems to me that there are two kinds of trickery: the 'fronts' people assume before one another's eyes, and the 'front' a writer puts on the face of reality." (Francois Sagan) May you be too good for the world and not good enough for your wife. Castle Donington I know nothing about sex, because I was always married.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Friends need not agree in everything or go always together, or have no comparable other
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I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with
typewriters.
- Frank Lloyd Wright What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is
the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset.
-- Crowf Ne'er take a wife till thou hast a house (and a fire) to put her in.
-- Benjamin Franklin Genius is an African who dreams up snow.
-- Vladimir Nabokov "How wondrous familiar is a fool!" (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) Castle Donington Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business.
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We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind her stands his wife. -- Groucho Marx 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 "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) Tear open packet, unfold and use.
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-- G. K. Chesterton Castle Donington In the blithe days of honeymoon,
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He who knows only his own side of the case, knows little of that.
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In olden times, sacrifices were made at the altar, a practice which is still very much practiced.
-- Helen Rowland The course of true love never did run smooth.
-- William Shakespeare "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) Truth must necessarily be stranger than fiction, for fiction is the creation of the human mind and
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-- G. K. Chesterton University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
- Henry Kissinger Castle Donington He didn't say that. He was reading what was given to him in a speech.
-- Richard Darman, director of OMB, explaining why President Bush wasn't following up on his
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Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of
our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.
-- John Adams We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.
-- George Bernard Shaw I heard someone tried the monkeys-on-typewriters bit trying for the plays of W. Shakespeare, but
all they got was the collected works of Francis Bacon.
- Bill Hirst 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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It's not as great a day for the bride as she thinks. She's not marrying the best man.
-- Anonymous A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.
-Robert Frost (1874-1963) To read a writer is for me not merely to get an idea of what he says, but to go off with him and travel in his company.
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The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same
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-- F. Scott Fitzgerald I have often regretted my speech, never my silence.
-- Anonymous I am in total control, but don't tell my wife. I heard someone tried the monkeys-on-typewriters bit trying for the plays of W. Shakespeare, but
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- Bill Hirst The more we do, the more we can do; the more busy we are the more leisure we have.
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"Think where mans glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends." (William Butler Yeats) "A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) "God's creatures, great and small ... eat them one, eat them all." (John A. Simone Sr.) Sex is like bridge: If you don't have a good partner, you better have a good hand.
-- Charles Pierce Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you
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-- Marcus Aurelius Castle Donington Health food makes me sick.
-- Calvin Trillin I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you an education.
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Love is blind and marriage is the institution for the blind.
-- James Graham The big difference between sex for money and sex for free is that sex for money usually costs a
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-- Brendon Behan There is only one nature - the division into science and engineering is a human imposition, not a
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-- Daniel Webster, dying words He can compress the most words into the smallest idea of any man I know.
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-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Castle Donington
If you want to sing out, sing out, and if you want to be free, be free, 'cause there's a million ways
to be, you know that there are...
-- Cat Stevens, from a song lyric Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.
-- Bertrand Russell Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains or slavery? Forbid it,
Almighty God! I know not what course others may take but as for me; give me liberty or give me
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-- Tom Lehrer A true gentleman is one who is never unintentionally rude.
-- Oscar Wilde Castle Donington "'Contrariwise,' continued Tweedledee, 'if it was so, it might be, and if it were so, it would be; but as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic!'" (Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking Glass) A great deal of talent is lost to the world for want of a little courage. Every day sends to their
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-- Sydney Smith Man and wife make one fool. Castle Donington
