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-- E. W. Howe I'm not into working out. My philosophy: No pain, no pain.
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-- Steven Wright Education Life is a sexually transmitted terminal disease.
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-- George Bernard Shaw Education
I am become death, shatterer of worlds.
-- Robert J. Oppenheimer, citing from the Bhagavadgita, after witnessing the world's first nuclear
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-- Jean Kerr Education The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech.
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-- Louis Nel, Deputy Minister of Information, South Africa Education
Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
-- Will Rogers The difference between 'involvement' and 'commitment' is like an eggs-and-ham breakfast: the
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-- David Letterman Politics doesn't make strange bedfellows, marriage does.
-- Groucho Marx Education Whoever controls the media--the images--controls the culture.
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-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Education
Journalism consists largely in saying "Lord Jones died" to people who never knew Lord Jones
was alive.
-- G. K. Chesterton Before you put on a frown, make absolutely sure there are no smiles available.
-- Jim Beggs A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend upon the support of Paul.
-- George Bernard Shaw The world has suffered more from the ravages of ill-advised marriages than from virginity.
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Once all struggle is grasped, miracles are possible.
-- Mao Tse-tung "To live is to dream and to die is to awaken." (Anonymous) A multiple personality is in a certain sense normal.
-- George H. Mead All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others.
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-- Elbert Hubbard It depends on your definition of asleep. They were not stretched out. They had their eyes closed.
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-- John Hogan, Commonwealth Parenthetical remarks (however relevant) are unnecessary.
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There are times when parenthood seems nothing but feeding the mouth that bites you.
-- Peter De Vries "This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) "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 There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as
though everything is a miracle.
- Albert Einstein Sex is like bridge: If you don't have a good partner, you better have a good hand.
-- Charles Pierce Education What do you take me for, an idiot?
- General Charles de Gaulle (1890-1970), when a journalist asked him if he was happy Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you help them to become what they are
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Marriage is more than four bare legs in a bed.
-- Hoshang N. Akhtar I'm not dumb, I just have a command of thoroughly useless information.
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-- Dean Acheson Education I went into a McDonald's yesterday and said, "I'd like some fries." The girl at the counter said,
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-- Jay Leno Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.
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In times of profound change, the learners inherit the earth, while the learned find themselves
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-- François de La Rouchefoucauld The artist alone sees spirits. But after he has told of their appearing to him, everybody sees them.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe To marry is to halve your rights and double your duties.
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-- Fred Allen To be or not to be isn't the question. The question is how to prolong being.
-- Tom Robbins Education
The Church is an organism that grows best in an alien society.
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-- Dave Barry Education The tragedy of life is not that man loses, but that he almost wins.
-- Heywood Brown People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid.
- Soren Aabye Kierkegaard If you cannot be the master of your language, you must be its slave. If you cannot examine your
thoughts, you have no choice but to think them, however silly they may be.
-- Richard Mitchell, from Education
"A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities." (Eda J. Le Shan) Question: Ted Kennedy: "Where was George?"
Answer: Dry, sober, and at home with his wife If ever I get married again it would have to be under an anaesthetic.
-- Marie Tonkin The planting of trees is the least self-centered of all that we can do. It is a purer act of faith than
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-- Thornton Wilder The trouble with children is that they are not returnable.
-- Quentin Crisp Education "When you resort to attacking the messenger and not the message, you have lost the debate." (Addison Whithecomb) For most of history, Anonymous was a woman.
-- Virginia Woolf Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop
questioning.
-- Albert Einstein Education
Marriage is a lottery in which men stake their liberty and women their happiness.
-- Madame de Rieux Anyone nit-picking enough to write a letter of correction to an editor doubtless deserves the error
that provoked it.
-- Alvin Toffler "People expect a certain reaction from a business, and when you pleasantly exceed those expectations, you've somehow passed an important psychological threshold." (Richard Thalheimer, president, The The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet.
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-- Aristotle Education We didn't lose the game; we just ran out of time.
- Vince Lombardi No wonder nobody comes here--it's too crowded.
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