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To heck with marrying a girl who makes biscuits like her mother--I want to marry one who makes dough like her father. The greatest homage to truth is to use it.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes.
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-- Thomas Jones The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may
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In the early sixties, we were strong, we were virulent...
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- Bertrand Russell
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-- Amelia Earhart Such is life.
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-- Margaret Thatcher Those parts of the system that you can hit with a hammer (not advised) are called hardware;
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-- Unknown author, Levitating T We have to keep trying things we're not sure we can pull off. If we just do the things we know we
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- Sir Winston Churchill If we may believe our logicians, man is distinguished from all other creatures by the
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-- Joseph Addison We can do no great things; only small things with great love.
-- Mother Teresa News and Media blah "This is the hardest of all: to close the open hand out of love, and keep modest as a giver." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Everything that can be invented has been invented.
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-- H. L. Mencken News and Media
I am about to--or I am going to--die; either expression is used.
-- Dominique Bouhours, French grammarian, dying words We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next door neighbour.
-- G. K. Chesterton It is better to be looked over than overlooked.
-- Mae West I was going to change my shirt, but I changed my mind instead.
-- Winnie the Pooh In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but how
many can get through to you.
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powers as a State depend.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Virtue is not left to stand alone. He who practices it will have neighbors.
-- Confucius News and Media
When you're away, I'm restless, lonely
Wretched, bored, dejected; only
here's the rub, my darling dear,
I feel the same when you are here.
-- Samuel Hoffenstein I have always dressed according to certain Basic Guy Fashion Rules, including:
* Both of your socks should always be the same color
* Or they should at least both be fairly dark
-- Dave Barry Call on God, but row away from the rocks.
-- Indian proverb Most of our obstacles would melt away if, instead of cowering before them, we should make up
our minds to walk boldly through them.
-- Orison Swett Marden The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the
purpose of satisfying it afterwards.
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in a housecoat and hair curlers to burn my toast for me.
-- Dick Martin The Internet is so big, so powerful and pointless that for some people it is a complete substitute
for life.
-- Andrew Brown Silence is argument carried out by other means.
- ErnestoCheGuevara News and Media
Now comes the mystery.
-- Henry Ward Beecher, dying words, March 8, 1887 It's no credit to anyone to work to hard.
-- Ed Howe Where there is marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.
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- Father Larry Lorenzoni In a great romance, each person plays a part the other really likes.
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Faith is believing what you know ain't so.
-- Mark Twain The price of freedom is eternal vigilance.
-- Thomas Jefferson Beware you be not swallowed up in books! An ounce of love is worth a pound of knowledge.
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-- Anon. Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and around the hands and feet of the man. "Now that we have everything we need, we discover that there is almost nothing that we have that we want." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) News and Media
Dear Mrs, Mr, Miss, or Mr and Mrs Daneeka: Words cannot express the deep personal grief I experienced when your husband, son, father or brother was killed, wounded, or reported missing in action. -- C Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for
him.
-- Rich Little One may have a blazing hearth in one's soul and yet no one ever comes to sit by it. Passersby
see only a wisp of smoke rising from the chimney and continue on their way.
-- Vincent Van Gogh It's important to be open-minded, but not SO open-minded that your brains fall out.
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-- Marcus Aurelius In America, anybody can be president. That's one of the risks you take.
-- Adlai Stevenson News and Media
The closer I'm bound in love to you, the closer I am to free.
-- Indigo Girls, song lyric If we were not all so interested in ourselves, life would be so uninteresting that none of us would
be able to endure it.
-- Schopenhauer If you would thoroughly know anything, teach it to others.
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-- Sigmund Freud Here's to you and here's to me,
and I hope we never disagree.
But, if that should ever be,
to HELL with you, here's to ME!
-- Anonymous If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.
-- Voltaire News and Media
