"What is tolerance? -- it is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error; let us pardon reciprocally each other's folly -- that is the first law of nature." (Francois Marie Ar You have to kiss a lot of toads before you find a handsome prince.
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-- John F. Kennedy There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of
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- Mahatma Gandhi Recreation and Sports The charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that, from age to age, nothing
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-- Aldous Huxley Why doesn't she like me? Is it my hair, my overbite, the fact that I've worn the same shirt and
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If all men were brothers, would you let one marry your sister? When you gaze long into the abyss, the abyss also gazes into you.
- Friedrich Nietzsche "People drag their progeny around with them like a ball and chain, like some terrible deadweight that hinders their every move - and that, as often as not, effectively winds up killing them." (Michel Assassins!
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-- Margaret Atwood Going to church doesn't make you a Christian any more than going to a garage makes you an
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-- Billy Sunday Recreation and Sports
Even death is not to be feared by one who has lived wisely.
-- Buddha One of the greatest discoveries a man makes, one of his great surprises, is to find he can do
what he was afraid he couldn't do.
-- Henry Ford I regret that I have but one life to give for my country.
-- Nathan Hale This is the miracle that happens every time to those who really love; the more they give, the more
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-- Rainer Maria Rilke For a male and female to live continuously together is...biologically speaking, an extremely
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-- Shelley Winters Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution.
-- Mae West Recreation and Sports
All science is concerned with the relationship of cause and effect. Each scientific discovery
increases man's ability to predict the consequences of his actions and thus his ability to control
futur If a thing is worth doing at all, it is worth doing badly.
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-- Henry Kissinger Recreation and Sports If I have seen farther than others, it is because I was standing on the shoulders of giants.
-- Isaac Newton Marriage is bliss. Ignorance is bliss. Ergo... An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field.
-- Niels Bohr Recreation and Sports
The charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that, from age to age, nothing
changes and yet everything is completely different.
-- Aldous Huxley Working mothers are guinea pigs in a scientific experiment to show that sleep is not necessary to human life. I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think.
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-- Anonymous Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous; it is nothing if it is not ridiculous.
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Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions - it only guarantees equality of opportunity.
- Irving Kristol Life is the flower for which love is the honey.
-- Victor Hugo The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other
is ready.
-- Henry David Thoreau To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.
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Things are more like they are now than they ever were before.
-- Dwight D. Eisenhower, U.S. President There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you
yourself have altered.
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-- William Shakespeare Recreation and Sports "Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences." (Isadora Duncan) "I want my food dead. Not sick, not dying, dead." (Oscar Wilde) If you are going through hell, keep going.
- Sir Winston Churchill Recreation and Sports
Let go of your attachment to being right, and suddenly your mind is more open. You're able to
benefit from the unique viewpoints of others, without being crippled by your own judgment.
-- Ralph Mars "Let no one be discouraged by the belief there is nothing one person can do against the enormous array of the world's ills, misery, ignorance, and violence. Few will have the greatness to bend history If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man
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-- Henry Ford Change is not merely necessary to life, it is life.
-- Alvin Toffler "Hold the fort! I am coming!" (General William Tecumseh Sherman) Recreation and Sports We are not retreating - we are advancing in another Direction.
- General Douglas MacArthur When women go wrong, men go right after them.
-- Mae West I am returning this otherwise good typing paper to you because someone has printed gibberish all
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-- English Professor, Ohio University Recreation and Sports
"If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost." (Aristotle) A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take
her off his hands.
-- Sacha Guitry A friend is a gift you give yourself.
-- Robert Louis Stevenson Conceit causes more conversation than wit.
-- LaRouchefoucauld "There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) Recreation and Sports Football incorporates the two worst elements of American society: violence punctuated by
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"Hello Kitty is an icon that doesn't stand for a Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in
accordance with the dictates of reason.
-- Oscar Wilde Recreation and Sports
The church is the great lost and found department.
-- Robert Short Can you imagine what I would do if I could do all I can?
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-- Author Unknown Even a band of angels can turn ugly and start looting if enough angels are unemployed and
hanging around the Pearly Gates convinced that all the succubi own all the liquor stores in
Heaven.
-- P. J The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.
-- Harper Lee Recreation and Sports
"Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can
never tell.
-- Joan Crawford Ah Mozart! He was happily married - but his wife wasn't.
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- George Burns "One can do without people but one has need of a friend." (Chinese Proverb) I want to die in my sleep like my friend.... Not screaming and yelling like the passengers in his
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