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 The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat.
-- Lily Tomlin "The monster a child knows best and is most concerned with [is] the monster he feels or fears himself to be. " (Bruno Bettelheim, child psychologist) In the end, everything is a gag.
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-- D. H. Lawrence A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties; no
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-- Groucho Marx "The reward of a thing well done is having done it." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) In the blithe days of honeymoon,
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I lov'd her late, I lov'd her soon,
And call'd her dearest kitten.
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And cross like other wives.
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-- Seen on a bumper sticker "Nothing is permanent but change." (Heraclitus) "Those who hear not the music think the dancers mad." (Anonymous) Intelligence has nothing to do with politics.
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"Have love for your friend up to a limit for it is possible he may turn into your enemy some day; and hate your enemy up to a limit for it is possible he may turn into your friend some day." (Ali bin "Vegiburgers are wrong." (Mike Kaup) I don't know why I did it, I don't know why I enjoyed it, and I don't know why I'll do it again.
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Vote early and vote often.
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-- Chinese saying The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax.
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Imagination is the highest kite one can fly.
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-- Arnold Bennett "Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something." (Plato, 427 BC-348) A woman has got to love a bad man once or twice in her life to be thankful for a good one.
-- Mae West It is a product of Einstein's genius -- taking a commonplace observation, combining it with some
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-- Clifford M. Wills, 1986 Arts and Entertainment A girl must marry for love and keep on marrying until she finds it.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains.The superior teacher demonstrates. The
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-- William Arthur Ward I still live.
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We have only one person to blame, and that's each other.
-- Barry Beck, New York Ranger, on who started a fight furing a hockey game He had occasional flashes of silence that made his conversation perfectly delightful.
-- Sydney Smith, referring to Macaulay "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world, indeed it is the only thing that ever has." (Margaret Mead, 1901-78) A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
Robert Frost (1874-1963) Mary had a little lamb and the doctor fainted.
-- Anonymous Arts and Entertainment Republican boys date Democratic girls. They plan to marry Republican girls, but feel they're
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-- Anonymous "To make the individual uncomfortable, that is my task." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell 'em, "Certainly, I can!" Then get busy and find
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Who, being loved, is poor?
-- Oscar Wilde The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn.
-- Cicero There's too much blood in my caffeine system.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts.
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Love is an attempt to change a piece of the dream-world into reality.
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-- Honore de Balzac The older one grows, the more one likes indecency.
-- Virginia Woolf Wagner's music is better than it sounds.
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No wonder nobody comes here--it's too crowded.
-- Yogi Berra My father was a minister. I had to make up for the lack of sin.
-- Milwuakee mayor, on why he became a politician The work of internal government has become the task of controlling the thousands of fifth-rate
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-- Henry B. Adams A memorandum is written not to inform the reader but to protect the writer.
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"So little done, so much to do." (Cecil Rhodes) "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) "Every act of creation is first an act of destruction." (Pablo Picasso) She felt in italics and thought in capitals.
-- Henry James None but a good man is really a living man, and the more good any man does, the more he really
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-- Herman Melville Arts and Entertainment If you are all wrapped up in yourself, you are overdressed
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