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-- Mark B. Cohen The cynics are right nine times out of ten.
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-- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz Nobody ever died of laughter.
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My other wife is beautiful. There's nothing remarkable about it. All one has to do is hit the right keys at the right time and the
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not allow The paradox is really the pathos of intellectual life and just as only great souls are exposed to
passions it is only the great thinker who is exposed to what I call paradoxes, which are . . .
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-- Paula Poundstone Society and Culture
When people go to work, they shouldn't have to leave their hearts at home.
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-- Wernher Von Braun When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life
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-- Helen Keller Die? I should say not, dear fellow. No Barrymore would allow such a conventional thing to
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-- H. L. Mencken Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education
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"I have no special gift; I am only passionately curious." (Albert Einstein) Assassins!
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-- John Brown - last words Society and Culture "The brighter you are, the more you have to learn." (Don Herold) I regret that I have but one life to give for my country.
-- Nathan Hale Whatever you are, be a good one.
-- Abraham Lincoln Society and Culture
If I tell a lie it's only because I think I'm telling the truth.
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- Rudyard Kipling Society and Culture "The reason why kids are crazy is because nobody can face the responsibility of bringing them up." (John Lennon) Education is the state-controlled manufacture of echoes.
-- Norman Douglas Fanaticism consists of redoubling your efforts when you have forgotten your aim.
-- George Santayana Society and Culture
Why don't you write books people can read?
-- Nora Joyce, to her husband James Weaseling out of things is good. It's what separates us from the other animals....except weasels.
-- Homer Simpson, character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated television show Marriage is an institution in which a man loses his Bachelor's Degree and the woman gets her Masters. Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
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-- American Proverb "One often contradicts an opinion when what is uncongenial is really the tone in which it was conveyed." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "He who speaks of what he knows not only works hard to portray his ignorance." (Joseph Muchemi) Society and Culture
Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it.
-- George Bernard Shaw You've no idea of what a poor opinion I have of myself, and how little I deserve it.
-- W.S. Gilbert No matter who you vote for, the Government always gets in.
-- Anon. I have lost friends, some by death, others through sheer inability to cross the street.
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-- Jonson, Ben A good time to keep your mouth shut is when you're in deep water.
-- Sidney Goff Society and Culture
Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not
there, I go to work.
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doing spying.
-- Francis Gary Power, U-2 reconnaissance pilot held by the Soviets for spying, in an i I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude. we are for the most part
more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers.
-- Thoreau Never practice two vices at once.
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