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-- Ralph Waldo Emerson The closer I'm bound in love to you, the closer I am to free.
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-- Charles Lamb Independent Radio
Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them
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-- H.L. Mencken 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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-- Chinese saying It is important that students bring a certain ragamuffin, barefoot, irreverence to their studies; they
are not here to worship what is known, but to question it.
-- J. Bronowski, The Ascent of Man Property may be destroyed and money may lose its purchasing power; but, character, health,
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-- Roger Babson Independent Radio cannot imagine any condition which would cause this ship to founder. Modern shipbuilding has
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-- Wayne Gretzky Try praising your wife, even if it does frighten her at first.
-- Billy Sunday Independent Radio
If your wife wants to learn how to drive, don't stand in her way. Books had instant replay long before televised sports.
-- Bern Williams In a great romance, each person plays a part the other really likes.
-- Elizabeth Ashley The artist alone sees spirits. But after he has told of their appearing to him, everybody sees them.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Self-reliance is the only road to true freedom, and being one's own person is its ultimate reward.
-- Patricia Sampson Independent Radio Marriage is like a mousetrap. Those on the outside are trying to get in. Those on the inside are trying to get out. The philosophy exam was a piece of cake -- which was a bit of a surprise, actually, because I
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"Think where mans glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends." (William Butler Yeats) There is more stupidity than hydrogen in the universe, and it has a longer shelf life.
- Frank Zappa It is always right that a man should be able to render a reason for the faith that is within him.
-- Sydney Smith There's too much blood in my caffeine system.
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-- Norman R. Augustine Independent Radio ARDOR, n. The quality that distinguishes love without knowledge.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 A real leader faces the music, even when he doesn't like the tune.
-- Anonymous Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than the arguments of its opposers.
-- William Penn Independent Radio
We didn't send you to Washington to make intelligent decisions. We sent you to represent us.
-- Kent York, Baptist minister to US Rep. Bill Sarpalius Our elections are free - it's in the results where eventually we pay.
-- Bill Stern Conscience is the inner voice which warns us that someone may be looking.
-- H. L. Mencken Marry in haste, repent in leisure.
-- Tilney "I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is." (Alan Watts) Independent Radio "Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." (George Bernard Shaw) Repentance is not so much remorse for what we have done as the fear of the consequences.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld, Maxims, 1665 It's not as great a day for the bride as she thinks. She's not marrying the best man.
-- Anonymous Independent Radio
I don't want to achieve immortality through my work... I want to achieve it by not dying!
-- Woody Allen You can get more with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone.
-- Al Capone Insurance is like marriage. You pay, pay, pay, and you never get anything back.
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Don't stay in bed, unless you can make money in bed.
- George Burns "Majority rule only works if you're also considering individual rights. Because you can't have five wolves and one sheep voting on what to have for supper." (Larry Flynt) Independent Radio Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.
-- Oscar Wilde The more we do, the more we can do; the more busy we are the more leisure we have.
-- William Hazlitt Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end.
-- Semisonic, Closing Time Independent Radio
"Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) Blessed are the young for they shall inherit the national debt.
-- Herbert Hoover Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education
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Cicero (106 BC - 43 BC) They will say you are on the wrong road, if it is your own.
-- Antonio Porchi A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.
-- Edward Abbey Independent Radio There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.
-- George Santayana We can do no great things; only small things with great love.
-- Mother Teresa Humanity has advanced, when it has advanced, not because it has been sober, responsible, and
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-- Tom Robbins Independent Radio
"We have so little presumption that we should like to be known in the world, even to those who come after when we are no more. We have so little vanity that the esteem of five people, say six, amuses Try praising your wife, even if it does frighten her at first.
-- Billy Sunday "Someday there will be girls and women whose name will no longer mean the mere opposite of the male, but something in itself, something that makes one think not of any compliment and limit, but only o Often it does seem a pity that Noah and his party did not miss the boat.
-- Mark Twain "A man who tells lies, like me, merely hides the truth. But a man who tells half-lies has forgotten where he put it." (Claude Rains, as Mr. Dryden, Lawrence of Arabia, 1962) Independent Radio There are trivial truths, and there are great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false.
The opposite of a great truth is also true.
-- Neils Bohr Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
-- Henry Ford When you're experimenting you have to try so many things before you choose what you want,
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-- Fred Astaire Independent Radio
The weirder you're going to behave, the more normal you should look. It works in reverse, too.
When I see a kid with three or four rings in his nose, I know there is absolutely nothing
extraordinary May you be too good for the world and not good enough for your wife. It is absurd to divide people into good or bad. People are either charming or tedious.
-- Oscar Wilde "I think people resist freedom because they're afraid of the unknown. But it's ironic....That unknown was once very well known. It's where are souls belong....The only solution is to confront them--co It is most unwise for people in love to marry.
-- George Bernard Shaw Independent Radio "Politics is my hobby. Smut is my vocation." (Larry Flynt) In every man's heart there is a secret nerve that answers to the vibrations of beauty.
-- Christopher Morley Neither fire nor wind, birth nor death can erase our good deeds.
-- Buddha Independent Radio
And gain is gain, however small.
-- Robert Browning LOVE, n. A temporary insanity curable by marriage or by removal of the patient from the
influences under which he incurred the disorder... It is sometimes fatal, but more frequently to the
physician Why did Nature create man? Was it to show that she is big enough to make mistakes, or was it
pure ignorance?
-- Holbrook Jackson I love deadlines. I especially like the whooshing sound they make as they go flying by.
-- Douglas Adams "Transport of the mails, transport of the human voice, transport of flickering pictures--in this century as in others our highest accomplishments still have the single aim of bringing men together." Independent Radio The multitude is always in the wrong.
-- Wentworth Dillon, Earl of Roscommon, 1684 Before I married, I had three theories about raising children and no children. Now, I have three
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-- John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester Whenever I'm caught between two evils, I take the one I've never tried.
-- Mae West Independent Radio
"The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it." (Abbie Hoffman) The big difference between sex for money and sex for free is that sex for money usually costs a
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-- Benjamin Franklin Independent Radio Idealism increases in direct proportion to one's distance from the problem.
-- John Galsworthy Confidence is the feeling you have before you understand the situation.
--Anon. If you haven't got anything nice to say about anybody, come sit next to me.
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