Music makes one feel so romantic - at least it always gets on one's nerves - which is the same
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-- Oscar Wilde All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others.
-- Chad A. Gamble, Escape, short story "The bite of conscience, like the bite of a dog into a stone, is a stupidity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "We have been the cowards lobbing cruise missiles from 2,000 miles away. That's cowardly. Staying in the airplane when it hits the building, say what you want about it, it's not cowardly." (Bill Mahe All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.
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- the Duchess of Windsor, when asked what is the secret of a long and happy life The charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that, from age to age, nothing
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-- Aldous Huxley He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose
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-- Anonymous Until the day of his death, no man can be sure of his courage.
-- Jean Anouilh Whenever I dwell for any length of time on my own shortcomings, they gradually begin to seem
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chara Good hours, excellent pay, fun place to work, paid training, mean boss. Oh well, four out of five
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-- Benjamin Franklin Financial Services A conference is a gathering of important people who singly can do nothing, but together can
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-- Samuel Paterson Financial Services
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-- Oscar Wilde The gods too are fond of a joke.
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-- Albert Camus Financial Services We have a habit in writing articles published in scientific journals to make the work as finished as
possible, to cover up all the tracks, to not worry about the blind alleys or describe how you had "The only things worth learning are the things you learn after you know it all." (Harry S. Truman) "Experience is not what happens to a man. It is what a man does with what happens to him." (Aldous Huxley) Financial Services
Good judgement comes from experience, and experience--well, that comes from poor judgement.
-- Cousin Woodman I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think.
-- Socrates And I shall love thee still my dear, Until my wife is wise. I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.
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- John D. Rockefeller "Children spell love...T-I-M-E." (Dr. Anthony P. Witham) Most rock journalism is people who can't write interviewing people who can't talk for people who
can't read.
-- Frank Zappa Women's liberationists spread the word that...the only peaceful family is one in which either the
wife is enslaved or the husband is androgynous.
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-- Paula Poundstone Financial Services There are three types of people in this world: Those who can count, and those who can't.
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-- George Santayana Music makes one feel so romantic - at least it always gets on one's nerves - which is the same
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-- Oscar Wilde Man is the best computer we can put aboard a spacecraft...and the only one that can be mass
produced with unskilled labor.
-- Wernher von Braun "Are you bored with life? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours." (Dale Ninety percent of everything is crap.
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- Jean-Paul Sartre "The evil that is in the world almost always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence if they lack understanding." (Albert Camus) I could prove God statistically.
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The world has achieved brilliance without conscience. Ours is a world of nuclear giants and
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-- Jean Kerr If it weren't for marriage, men would spend their lives thinking they had no faults at all.
-- Anonymous Who the hell wants to hear actors talk?
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Many a man that could rule a hundherd millyon sthrangers with an ir'n hand is careful to take off
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-- Finley Peter Dunne, Mr. Dooley O Every man knows his follies and often they are the most interesting thing he has got.
-- Josh Billings Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of
opportunity.
-- George Bernard Shaw Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-
proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe
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-- Seen on a bumper sticker "It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure on the world." (John Steinbeck Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end.
-- Semisonic, Closing Time Financial Services
"Gifts must affect the receiver to the point of shock." (Walter Benjamin) The wages of sin are death, but by the time taxes are taken out, it's just sort of a tired feeling.
-- Paula Poundstone "He who speaks of what he knows not only works hard to portray his ignorance." (Joseph Muchemi) Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end.
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-- Ralph Waldo Emerson What if nothing exists and we're all in somebody's dream? Or what's worse, what if only that fat
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