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Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.
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-- Dale Carnegie Imagine if birds were tickled by feathers. You'd see a flock of birds come by, laughing hysterically!
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-- 'Doc' Edgerton The advantage of a classical education is that it enables you to despise the wealth which it
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-- Russell Green Recreation and Sports The course of true love never did run smooth.
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-- James Holt McGavran "The perception of beauty is a moral test." (Henry David Thoreau) Recreation and Sports
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Husbands are awkward things to deal with; even keeping them in hot water will not make them
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-- Mary Buckley "Common sense and education are highly compatible; in fact, neither is worth much without the other." (Donald G. Smith) Mathematics, rightly viewed, posses not only truth, but supreme beauty -- a beauty cold and
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-- Euripides If I had only known, I would have been a locksmith.
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- Saint Augustine Recreation and Sports
It's not the men in my life that count, it's the life in my men.
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-- William Hazlitt Recreation and Sports
The unfortunate thing about this world is that the good habits are much easier to give up than the
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austere, like that of sculpture.
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-- Rainer Maria Rilke Recreation and Sports
"The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing." (John Powell) Did you ever notice when you blow in a dog's face he gets mad at you? But when you take him in
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-- Steve Bluestone You have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth
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-- George Bernard Shaw He can compress the most words into the smallest idea of any man I know.
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-- George Santayana There is no sincerer love than the love of food.
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"We have been the cowards lobbing cruise missiles from 2,000 miles away. That's cowardly. Staying in the airplane when it hits the building, say what you want about it, it's not cowardly." (Bill Mahe I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to.
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-- Tom Robbins Recreation and Sports
Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
-- T.S. Eliot A poem is never finished, only abandoned.
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-- Rita Rudner Recreation and Sports Miracles occur naturally as expressions of love. The real miracle is the love that inspires them. In
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