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The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may
well be another profound truth.
-- Niels Bohr The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind
woman.
-- S. T. Coleridge I have come to the conclusion never again to think of marrying, and for this reason, I can never
be satisfied with anyone who would be blockhead enough to have me.
-- Abraham Lincoln, in a letter to Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not
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-- Ed Howe In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
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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.
- Robert Orben I'd wipe the machines off the face of the earth again, and end the industrial epoch absolutely, like
a black mistake.
-- D. H. Lawrence A man is incomplete until he is married. After that, he is finished.
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If something is boring after two minutes, try it for four. If still boring, then eight. Then sixteen. Then thirty-two. Eventually one discovers that it is not boring at all." (John Cage) My initial response was to sue her for defamation of character, but then I realized that I had no
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-- Baudelaire Camping and Caravans My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music.
-- Vladimir Nabokov It was the greatest of the imperfect ventriloquist acts: when his lips moved, her body sang.
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A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.
-- Edward Abbey I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to.
-- Elvis Presley There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house
as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends.
-- Homer, Odyssey, ninth century Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after.
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- George Bernard Shaw The trouble with children is that they are not returnable.
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You've achieved success in your field when you don't know whether what you're doing is work or
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-- Anonymous Humanity has advanced, when it has advanced, not because it has been sober, responsible, and
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-- Tom Robbins Never go to bed angry. Stay up and fight.
-- Phyllis Diller Camping and Caravans When in doubt, make a fool of yourself. There is a microscopically thin line between being
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-- Grover Cleveland Camping and Caravans
It takes two to speak truth --One to speak, and another to hear.
-- Henry David Thoreau Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.
-- Oscar Wilde When you gaze long into the abyss, the abyss also gazes into you.
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When you steal from one author, it's plagiarism; if you steal from many, it's research.
-- Wilson Mizner We haven't the money, so we've got to think.
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I'm at the age where food has taken the place of sex in my life. In fact, I've just had a mirror put
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-- Albert Einstein Camping and Caravans
We trained hard - but it seemed that every time we were beginning to form up into teams we were
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-- Olin Miller The tragedy of life is not that man loses, but that he almost wins.
-- Heywood Brown Husbands are awkward things to deal with; even keeping them in hot water will not make them
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Do not assume that she who seeks to comfort you now, lives untroubled among the simple and
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remains fa The whole problem can be stated quite simply by asking, "Is there a meaning to music?" My
answer would be, "Yes." And "Can you state in so many words what the meaning is?" My answer
to that would be "Self confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings." (Samuel Johnson) I was nauseous and tingly all over... I was either in love or I had smallpox.
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- Buckminster Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint on it you can.
-- Danny Kaye The first duty of a lecturer: to hand you after an hour's discourse a nugget of pure truth to wrap up
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