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The instinct of nearly all societies is to lock up anybody who is truly free. First, society begins by
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-- Don Stanford Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the
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-- John Kenneth Galbraith To correct a natural indifference I was placed half-way between misery and the sun. Misery kept
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-- Oscar Wilde Airplane travel is nature's way of making you look like your passport photo.
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The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything. Except what is worth knowing.
Journalism, conscious of this, and having tradesman-like habits, supplies their demands.
-- Oscar Wilde I believe in getting into hot water; it keeps you clean.
-- G. K. Chesterton History is more or less bunk.
-- Henry Ford The real test of friendship is: Can you literally do nothing with the other person? Can you enjoy
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-- Albert Einstein God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.
-- Voltaire Recreation and Sports
Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing.
-- Oscar Wilde Men marry because they are tired, women because they are curious; both are disappointed.
-- Oscar Wilde Nothing says lovin' like marrying your cousin!
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-- Abraham Lincoln Recreation and Sports
Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.
- Albert Einstein I didn't accept it. I received it.
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-- Alexander Pope 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 Recreation and Sports
If you want a place in the sun, you've got to put up with a few blisters.
-- Abigail Van Buren Having once decided to achieve a certain task, achieve it at all costs of tedium and distaste. The
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-- Russell Baker It was a day like this Marco Polo left for China. What are your plans for today?
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Imagine if every Thursday your shoes exploded if you tied them the usual way. This happens to
us all the time with computers, and nobody thinks of complaining.
-- Jeff Raskin Good friends are good for your health.
-- Irwin Sarason >From the moment I picked your book up until I laid it down I was convulsed with laughter. Some
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-- Groucho Marx The innkeeper loves the drunkard, but not for a son-in-law.
-- Yiddish Proverb Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.
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-- Bob Inglis, 1995 Recreation and Sports
Don't let it end like this. Tell them I said something.
-- Pancho Villa, dying words "Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former." (Albert Einstein) "Failure is not an option!" (Ed Harris, as Gene Kranz, Apollo 13) The wit of a graduate student is like champagne. Canadian champagne.
-- Robertson Davies My religion consists of a humble admiration of the unlimitable superior who reveals Himself in the
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convi Recreation and Sports May you be blessed with a wife so healthy and strong, she can pull the plow when your horse drops dead. Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and
retaliation. the foundation of such a method is love.
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