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"Now that we have everything we need, we discover that there is almost nothing that we have that we want." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) If excessive smoking actually plays a role in the production of lung cancer, it seems to be a minor
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-- Albert Einstein Travel and Tourism There is no more lovely, friendly and charming relationship, communion or company than a good
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-- Martin Luther We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.
-- Mme de Staël If you cannot be the master of your language, you must be its slave. If you cannot examine your
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-- Richard Mitchell, from Travel and Tourism
"If you're in a bad situation, don't worry it'll change. If you're in a good situation, don't worry it'll change." (John A. Simone Sr.) All human actions are equivalent... and... all are on principle doomed...
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-- Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., Cat's Cradle Love is a snowmobile racing across the tundra and then suddenly it flips over, pinning you
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-- Matt Groening, Love is Hell For of all sad words of tongue or pen,
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-- John Greenleaf Whittier Travel and Tourism "The act of policing is, in order to punish less often, to punish more severely." (Napoleon Bonaparte) "If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way." (Mark Twain) Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions - it only guarantees equality of opportunity.
- Irving Kristol Travel and Tourism
"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 What a difference there is between what we say and what we think.
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-- Helen Rowland What I look forward to is continued immaturity followed by death.
-- Dave Barry Travel and Tourism The highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to make money do more for the
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-- Henry Ford The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One
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-- Bertrand Russell Travel and Tourism
All virtue is summed up in dealing justly.
-- Aristotle Most rock journalism is people who can't write interviewing people who can't talk for people who
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-- Frank Zappa Age does not protect you from love but love to some extent protects you from age.
-- Jeanne Moreau Democracy is a government where you can say what you think even if you don't think.
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-- George Bernard Shaw The less their ability, the more their conceit.
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Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for the appointment by the corrupt few.
-- George Bernard Shaw Every man knows his follies and often they are the most interesting thing he has got.
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Music makes one feel so romantic - at least it always gets on one's nerves - which is the same
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-- Oscar Wilde Everything that can be invented has been invented.
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-- Richard Darman, director of OMB, explaining why President Bush wasn't following up on his
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-- Richard Allen, National Security Advisor to President Reagan, explaining the $1000 in cash and
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-- Voltaire Travel and Tourism
Love is stronger than justice.
-- Sting Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow in Australia.
-- Charles Schultz Matters of religion should never be matters of controversy. We neither argue with a lover about
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-- George Santayana 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 Learn to laugh at your troubles and you'll never run out of things to laugh at.
-- Lyn Karol Travel and Tourism Men have become the tools of their tools.
-- Henry David Thoreau And life is what we make it. Always has been, always will be.
-- Grandma Moses When you're away, I'm restless, lonely
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here's the rub, my darling dear,
I feel the same when you are here.
-- Samuel Hoffenstein Travel and Tourism
Asking politicians to vote themselves out of power is like asking rabbits not to multiply, it ain't
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-- Ed Howe The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
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It is not good enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.
-- Rene Descartes And in the end it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
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-- Albert Einstein, attributed Travel and Tourism Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.
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-- Thomas Szasz, The Second Sin, 1973 Education is the state-controlled manufacture of echoes.
-- Norman Douglas Travel and Tourism
I think there are only three things America will be known for 2,000 years from now when they
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-- Henry Ford He that would have the fruit must climb the tree.
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