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-- Gore Vidal He who awaits much can expect little.
-- Gabriel Garcia Marquez The best theology would need no advocates; it would prove itself.
-- Karl Barth For of all sad words of tongue or pen,
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-- Margo Kaufman Correction: Instead of being arrested, as we stated, for kicking his wife down a flight of stairs and hurling a lighted kerosene lamp after her, the Rev. James P. Wellman died unmarried four years ago Beneath the rule of men entirely great, / The pen is mightier than the sword.
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-- Barbara Howar Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more
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Love is a snowmobile racing across the tundra and then suddenly it flips over, pinning you
underneath. At night, the ice weasels come.
-- Matt Groening, Love is Hell It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is
the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be
cr They're almost inseparable. Sometimes it takes ten people to separate them.
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-- Gore Vidal Construction and Maintenance There is no more lovely, friendly and charming relationship, communion or company than a good
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-- Martin Luther I want to die in my sleep like my friend.... Not screaming and yelling like the passengers in his
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-- Clarence Darrow Construction and Maintenance
Second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience. "The only man who behaved sensibly was my tailor; he took my measurement anew every time he saw me, while all the rest went on with their old measurements and expected them to fit me." (George Bernar "We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then is not an act but a habit." (Aristotle) "There is only one success: to be able to spend your life in your own way, and not to give others absurd maddening claims upon it." (Christopher Darlington Morley) All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman and a pretty girl.
-- Charlie Chaplin Construction and Maintenance Television: A medium. So called because it is neither rare nor well done.
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There's a fine line between fishing and standing on the shore like an idiot.
-- Steven Wright Democracy is a form of government in which it is permitted to wonder aloud what the country
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-- Senator Soaper As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.
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-- Grace Hansen Do you not know, my son, with what little understanding the world is ruled?
-- Pope Julius III Construction and Maintenance "It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) Outside of the killings, Washington has one of the lowest crime rates in the country.
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"Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily." (Napoleon Bonaparte) "How can we know the dancer from the dance?" (William Butler Yeats) "You exist only in what you do." (Federico Fellini) "When you resort to attacking the messenger and not the message, you have lost the debate." (Addison Whithecomb) Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through
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-- Helen Keller Construction and Maintenance An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field.
-- Niels Bohr My mother-in-law broke up my marriage. My wife came home from work one day and found me in
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-- Lenny Bruce "It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Construction and Maintenance
The absolute yearning of one human body for another particular body and its indifference to
substitutes is one of life's major mysteries.
-- Iris Murdoch Not only is the universe stranger than we imagine, it is stranger than we can imagine.
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I didn't accept it. I received it.
-- Richard Allen, National Security Advisor to President Reagan, explaining the $1000 in cash and
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-- Anonymous Goodbye, Everybody!
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-- Indian proverb Construction and Maintenance
Destiny is not a matter of chance; but a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, It is a
thing to be acheived.
-- William Jennings Bryant It is not because it is difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that things are
difficult.
-- Lucius Anneaus Seneca Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.
-- Albert Einstein I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is; I only know that people call
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-- Bette-Jane Raphael Construction and Maintenance Show my head to the people, it is worth seeing.
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-- Calvin Trillin "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 Construction and Maintenance
Love makes the time pass. Time makes love pass.
-- French Proverb No man in the world has more courage than the man who can stop after eating one peanut.
-- Channing Pollack If you don't double-click me, I can't do anything.
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-- Anonymous A man in the house is worth two in the street.
-- Mae West We must become the change we want to see.
-- Gandhi Construction and Maintenance
Is there life before death?
-- Belfast Graffito There is a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious, makes you so sick at
heart, you can't take part. And you've got to put your body upon the gears and upon the wheels,
upon the lev We can do no great things; only small things with great love.
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-- T. S. Eliot Construction and Maintenance "Yes, I am a dreamer. For a dreamer is one who can find his way by moonlight, and see the dawn before the rest of the world." (Oscar Wilde) I think one of the reasons I'm popular again is because I'm wearing a tie. You have to be different.
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