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-- Ralph Waldo Emerson No other success can compensate for failure in the home.
-- David O. McKay, Encyclopedia of Mormonism, Advice to parents at General Conference of he
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Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
-- Abraham Lincoln Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.
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- Thomas Watson, Chairman of IBM, 1943 Love cures people, both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.
-- Dr. Karl Menninger Recreation and Sports
Sex is the mathematics urge sublimated.
-- M. C. Reed "One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries." (A. A. Milne) Marital Freedom: The liberty that allows a husband to do exactly that which his wife pleases.
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-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Recreation and Sports
I just need enough to tide me over until I need more.
-- Bill Hoest There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you
yourself have altered.
-- Nelson Mandela, A Long Walk to Freedom "Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country." (Marquis de Lafayette) A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents.
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-- Booker T. Washington Recreation and Sports "Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few." (George Bernard Shaw) But at my back I always hear Time's winged chariot hurrying near.
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-- Francis Rabelais, Works. Book i. Chap. v. Recreation and Sports
Statistics have shown that mortality increases perceptibly in the military during wartime.
-- Alphonse Allais It was the greatest of the imperfect ventriloquist acts: when his lips moved, her body sang.
-- Tom Robbins What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
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-- Paul Dirac Recreation and Sports
While we are postponing, life speeds by.
- Seneca (3BC - 65AD) An undefined problem has an infinite number of solutions.
-- Robert A. Humphrey I must follow the people. Am I not their leader?
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- George Bernard Shaw Recreation and Sports "Your children are not your children. They are sons and daughters of life's longing for itself. They come through you but not from you. And though they are with you, they belong not to you. You may gi The advice your son rejected is now being given by him to your grandson. Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you help them to become what they are
capable of being.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Recreation and Sports
Marriage is a rest period between romances. Winning is a habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.
-- Vince Lombardi ARDOR, n. The quality that distinguishes love without knowledge.
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University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
-- Henry Kissinger We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
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Ahad HaAm Is it better for a woman to marry a man who loves her than a man she loves.
-- Anonymous Recreation and Sports
The Republicans have a new healthcare proposal: Just say NO to illness!
-- Mark Russell Curiosity killed the cat, but for a while I was a suspect.
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"The reason why kids are crazy is because nobody can face the responsibility of bringing them up." (John Lennon) "He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches." (George Bernard Shaw) The last good thing written in C++ was the Pachelbel Canon.
-- Jerry Olson A good time to keep your mouth shut is when you're in deep water.
-- Sidney Goff "Where there's a marriage without love there will be love without marriage." (Benjamin Franklin) Recreation and Sports What do you take me for, an idiot?
- General Charles de Gaulle (1890-1970), when a journalist asked him if he was happy "What is tolerance? -- it is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error; let us pardon reciprocally each other's folly -- that is the first law of nature." (Francois Marie Ar My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed.
-- Christopher Morley Recreation and Sports
Second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience. Every major horror of history was committed in the name of an altruistic motive.
-- Ayn Rand In the book of life, the answers aren't in the back.
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-- Gandhi We have been friends together in sunshine and in shade.
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