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-- G. K. Chesterton Even death is not to be feared by one who has lived wisely.
-- Buddha Assassins!
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-- Fran Lebowitz A conclusion is the place where you got tired thinking.
-- Martin H. Fischer Health
In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice
that I am not a Republican.
-- H. L. Mencken To read a writer is for me not merely to get an idea of what he says, but to go off with him and travel in his company.
Andre Gide Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes
unpunished.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe For most men life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed.
-- Clifton Fadiman The greatest homage to truth is to use it.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Health Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a
brand new ending.
-- Anonymous He who awaits much can expect little.
-- Gabriel Garcia Marquez Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.
- Jean-Paul Sartre Health
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-- Oscar Wilde Health Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well.
-- Josh Billings "Do not go gentle into that good night. Old age should burn and rave at close of day. Rage, rage against the dying of the light." (Dylan Thomas) When we treat man as he is, we make him worse than he is; when we treat him as if he already
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-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Health
We have a habit in writing articles published in scientific journals to make the work as finished as
possible, to cover up all the tracks, to not worry about the blind alleys or describe how you had You can pay attention to the fact, in which case you'll probably become a mathematician, or you
can ignore it, in which case you'll probably become a physicist.
-- Len Evans, professor, Northwestern Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche Worrying is like a rocking chair, it gives you something to do, but it doesn't get you anywhere.
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-- Dave Barry Health Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.
-- Albert Einstein If a thing is worth doing at all, it is worth doing badly.
-- Gustav Holst, on amateur music-making "The mark of our time is its revulsion against imposed patterns." (Marshall McLuhan) Health
For centuries, theologians have been explaining the unknowable in terms of the-not-worth-
knowing.
- Henry Louis Mencken Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly.
-- Simeon Strunsky I'm not indecisive. Am I indecisive?
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-- Frank W. Woolworth Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died.
-- Erma Bombeck "The most instructive experiences are those of everyday life." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Health
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-- Anonymous The last good thing written in C++ was the Pachelbel Canon.
-- Jerry Olson For I am a bear of very little brain and long words bother me.
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Repentance is not so much remorse for what we have done as the fear of the consequences.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld, Maxims, 1665 Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is most important that you do it.
-- Gandhi Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth. -- John Lyly Life is ours to be spent, not to be saved.
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-- Dr. Ian G. Macdonald, Los Angeles surgeon, quoted in Newsweek , Nov.18th 1963. The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain.
-- Lord Byron He is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death.
- H. H. Munro (Saki) Health
In the late 1600s the finest instruments originated from three rural families whose workshops
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-- Wedding Toast "The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man." (George Bernard Shaw) I'll sleep when I'm dead.
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-- Abraham Lincoln Health "People have to talk about something just to keep their voice boxes in working order so they'll have good voice boxes in case there's ever anything really meaningful to say." (Kurt Vonnegut) Facts are the enemy of truth.
- Don Quixote - Man of La Mancha The reason most people play golf is to wear clothes they would not be caught dead in otherwise.
-- Roger Simon Health
"People demand freedom only when they have no power." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Always bear in mind that your own resolution to success is more important than any other one
thing.
-- Abraham Lincoln Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife. -- PJ O'Rourke Marriage is a lottery, but you can't tear up your ticket if you lose.
-- F. M. Knowles Honor's a thing too subtle for wisdom; if honor lie in eating, he's right honorable.
-- Beaumont, Francis Health You can close your eyes to reality, but not to memories.
-- Stanislaw J. Lem Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that he sometimes has to eat them.
-- Adlai Stevenson Seeing a murder on television can help work off one's antagonisms. And if you haven't any
antagonisms, the commercials will give you some.
-- Alfred Hitchcock Health
Everyone believes very easily whatever they fear or desire.
-- Jean de La Fontaine I'm not indecisive. Am I indecisive?
-- Jim Scheibel, mayor, St. Paul MN It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.
-- Harry Truman If a relationship is to evolve, it must go through a series of endings.
-- Lisa Moriyama Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Health For best results: wash in cold water separately, hang dry and iron with warm iron. For not so good
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-- Laundry instructions on a shirt Lottery: A tax on people who are bad at math.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
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