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There is nothing better for the spirit or the body than a love affair. It elevates the thoughts and
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-- Barbara Howar Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.
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Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three pillars of learning.
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-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Every man knows his follies and often they are the most interesting thing he has got.
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In a novel, the hero can lay ten girls and marry a virgin for the finish. In a movie, that is not
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stealing, Only positive consequences encourage good future performances.
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imitates life.
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-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Recreation and Sports Maybe this world is another planet's hell.
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-- Robert Heinlein, Time Enough for Love, Lazarus Long Recreation and Sports
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-- Francis Bacon Curiosity killed the cat, but for a while I was a suspect.
-- Steven Wright The remarkable thing about television is that it permits several million people to laugh at the same
joke and still feel lonely.
-- T. S. Eliot Recreation and Sports
Love may be a dream but marriage is a nightmare.
-- Joan Collins "Furious activity is no substitute for understanding." (H. H. Williams) "He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself." (Thomas Paine) Mistress: Something between a mister and a mattress.
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-- Mark Twain Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
- H. G. Wells "Fools rush in where angels fear to tread." (Alexander Pope) Recreation and Sports
CAPITAL, n. The seat of misgovernment. That which provides the fire, the pot, the dinner, the
table and the knife and fork for the anarchist; the part of the repast that himself supplies is the
disg An economic forecaster is like a cross-eyed javelin thrower: they don't win many accuracy
contests, but they keep the crowd's attention.
-- Anonymous Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop
questioning.
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few grains of corn now and then."
-- Lyle Lovett, musician, upon marying actress Julia Roberts, "I think all great innovations are built on rejections." (Louis-Ferdinand Céline) Recreation and Sports
It is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions.
-- Aldous Huxley The more faithfully you listen to the voices within you, the better you will hear what is sounding
outside.
-- Dag Hammarskjold In all recorded history there has not been one economist who has had to worry about where the
next meal would come from.
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do...but she's certain that her boy will never get as great a wife as his father did.
-- Anonymous Recreation and Sports Love begins with a smile, grows with a kiss, and ends with a teardrop.
-- Anonymous "Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I only think about how to solve the
problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
-- Buckminster Recreation and Sports
"The intellect is always fooled by the heart." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) Flowers are words which even a baby can understand.
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ages as much as 20 years.
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"When I was four years old they tried to test my IQ, they showed me this picture of three oranges and a pear. They asked me which one is different and does not belong, they taught me different was wro It is with true love as it is with ghosts; everyone talks about it, but few have seen it.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld If I have not seen as far as others, it is because giants were standing on my shoulders.
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for life.
-- Andrew Brown "I'll tell you something: Luxury disgusts me." (Giorgio Armani) Recreation and Sports "Who is more foolish? The fool or the fool that follows it?" (Alec Guinness) Two souls with but a single thought,
Two hearts that beat as one.
-- Fredrich Halm The fickleness of the women I love is only equalled by the infernal consistency of the women who
love me.
-- George Bernard Shaw Recreation and Sports
