He is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death.
- H. H. Munro (Saki) We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind
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-- Groucho Marx I haven't committed a crime. What I did was fail to comply with the law.
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-- Oscar Wilde "Whether it is a black cat or a white cat, as long as it can catch the rat, it is a good cat." (Deng Xiao Ping) Health
Love is what we are born with. Fear is what we learn. The spiritual journey is the unlearning of
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-- Vince Lombardi You have it easily in your power to increase the sum total of this world's happiness now. How? By
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- W.B. Prescott Health His ignorance is encyclopedic
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-- Steven Wright Health
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-- Thomas Edison Health The only thing you will ever be able to say in the so-called 'social' sciences is: "some do, some
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-- Eleanor Roosevelt Mistakes are the portals of discovery.
-- James Joyce Health
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-- Al Gore, U.S. Vice President Under capitalism man exploits man; under socialism the reverse is true.
-- Polish proverb There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.
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-- Philip K. Dick Health
As always, victory finds a hundred fathers but defeat is an orphan.
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- Carl Sagan Health If you want anything done well, do it yourself. This is why most people laugh at their own jokes.
-- Bob Edwards It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
-- Mark Twain The average person thinks he isn't.
- Father Larry Lorenzoni Health
Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love,
but no friendship.
-- Oscar Wilde "In fact, most deaths are not tragic. Few people die because of a flaw in character, which is the essential element of tragedy. They just die." (John Chancellor, The News Business) Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business.
-- Tom Robbins Conceit causes more conversation than wit.
-- LaRouchefoucauld "The only thing we have to fear is fear itself." (Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1882 - 1945, 32nd U.S. President) Health We never reflect how pleasant it is to ask for nothing.
-- Seneca "Talent does what it can; genius does what it must." (Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton) Minds are like parachutes - they only function when open.
-- Thomas Dewar Health
After all, all he did was string together a lot of old, well-known quotations.
-- H. L. Mencken, on Shakespeare "In order to preserve your self-respect, it is sometimes necessary to lie and cheat." (Robert Byrne) "The order of the world is always right - such is the judgment of God. For God has departed, but he has left his judgment behind, the way the Cheshire Cat left his grin." (Jean Baudrillard) Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before
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-- Oscar Wilde I'm like old wine. They don't bring me out very often, but I'm well preserved.
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Some people talk in their sleep. Lecturers talk while other people sleep.
-- Albert Camus "The concerned investment banker is the one who blows the horn on his Mercedes as he drives through a red light." (Anonymous) If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be
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-- Abraham Lincoln One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.
-- Virginia Woolf The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.
-- ROBERT FROST Health Where there is love there is life.
-- Gandhi Computers will not be perfected until they can compute how much more than the estimate the job
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-- Anon Marriage is the process of finding out what kind of man your wife would have preferred. Health
