How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it.
-- Alexandre Dumas fils "There is no quality in this world that is not what it is merely by contrast. Nothing exists in itself." (Herman Melville) A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take
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-- Tom Lehrer Peculiar travel suggestions are dancing lessons from God.
-- Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., Cat's Cradle Ridicule is generally made use of to laugh men out of virtue and good sense, by attacking
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-- Joseph Addison The imaginary friends I had as a kid dropped me because their friends thought I didn't exist.
-- Aaron Machado Shopping Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a losttradition.
-- Jacques Barzun When Michelangelo finished the painting of the Sistine Chapel's ceiling, he spent the rest of his
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"Fake is as old as the Eden tree." (George Orson Welles) Success is just a matter of attitude.
-- Darcy E. Gibbons "I don't believe people die. They just go uptown. To Bloomingdales. They just take longer to get back." (Andy Warhol) "Life is measured by the rapidity of change, the succession of influences that modify the being." (George Eliot) And life is what we make it. Always has been, always will be.
-- Grandma Moses Shopping The time is always right to do what is right.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. For a male and female to live continuously together is...biologically speaking, an extremely
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-- Charlie Chaplin Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte When a friend is in trouble, don't annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up
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-- Robert Heinlein, Time Enough for Love, Lazarus Long "I offer images; I conjure memories of freedom that can still be reached ... But, we can only open the doors. We can't drag people through. I can't free them unless they want to be free--more than any Hell is other people.
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A conclusion is the place where you got tired thinking.
-- Martin H. Fischer Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get
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-- George Bernard Shaw, St. Joan It is not necessary that whilst I live I live happily; but it is necessary that so long as I live I should
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-- Kant, Immanuel Shopping "Great indebtedness does not make men grateful, but vengeful; and if a little charity is not forgotten, it turns into a gnawing worm." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Thus Spake Zarathustra) The nice thing about being a celebrity is that if you bore people they think it's their fault.
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A person should never be ashamed to own that he is wrong, which is but saying in other words
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-- Alexander Pope I'd marry again if I found a man who had 15 million and would sign over half of it to me before the
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-- Bette Davis The worth of the state, in the long run, is the worth of the individuals composing it.
-- John Stuart Mill If you haven't got anything nice to say about anybody, come sit next to me.
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-- Allen Ginsberg Shopping It is a product of Einstein's genius -- taking a commonplace observation, combining it with some
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-- Clifford M. Wills, 1986 When I give a lecture, I accept that people look at their watches, but what I do not tolerate is
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-- Marcel Achard A kitten is chiefly remarkable for rushing about like mad at nothing whatever, and generally
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-- Mark Russell ... it is certain that the real function of art is to increase our self-consciousness; to make us more
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Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely
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-- Oscar Wilde I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you an education.
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-- Gilda Radner Shopping To realize that you do not understand is a virtue;
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--Lao-Tzu, "Tao Teh Ching" It was the greatest of the imperfect ventriloquist acts: when his lips moved, her body sang.
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- Mahatma Gandhi "There is no quality in this world that is not what it is merely by contrast. Nothing exists in itself." (Herman Melville) You have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth
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-- Henry Ford Once all struggle is grasped, miracles are possible.
-- Mao Tse-tung For the memory of love is sweet, though the love itself were in vain. And what I have lost of
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-- Lyster Shopping
Ask her to wait a moment - I am almost done.
-- Carl Friedrich Gauss, when informed that his wife was dying "Who is more foolish? The fool or the fool that follows it?" (Alec Guinness) The wise see knowledge and action as one; they see truly.
-- Bhagava Gita I'm proud to be paying taxes in the United States. The only thing is - I could be just as proud for
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-- Arthur Godfrey To expect defeat is nine-tenths of defeat itself.
-- Francis Crawford Shopping This compact disc is made from analog masters recorded without noise reduction. Half the tracks,
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-- Abraham Lincoln A straight line is the shortest in morals as in mathematics.
-- Maria Edgeworth Shopping
Marriage is bliss. Ignorance is bliss. Ergo... Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.
-- James Matthew Barrie We don't like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out.
-- Decca Recording Company, rejecting the Beatles, 1962 "Against stupidity the very gods themselves contend in vain." (Johann Christian Friedrich von Schiller, 1759-1805, The Maid of Orleans. Act iii. Sc. 6.) Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell 'em, "Certainly, I can!" Then get busy and find
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-- Theodore Roosevelt Shopping "Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few." (George Bernard Shaw) Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.
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Musical people always want one to be perfectly dumb at the very moment when one is longing to
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-- Oscar Wilde blah "Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure." (Thomas Alva Edison) "Common sense and education are highly compatible; in fact, neither is worth much without the other." (Donald G. Smith) We didn't send you to Washington to make intelligent decisions. We sent you to represent us.
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