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I still say a church steeple with a lightning rod on top shows a lack of confidence.
-- Doug MacLeod I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers.
-- Gandhi "I know that God won't give me more trouble than I can handle ... but sometimes I wish he wouldn't trust me so much." (Mother Teresa) The real questions are the ones that obtrude upon your consciousness whether you like it or not,
the ones that make your mind start vibrating like a jackhammer, the ones that you 'come to terms
with Spinster: A bachelor's wife. Property I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day.
-- Vincent Van Gogh Look not mournfully into the Past. It comes not back again. Wisely improve the Present. It is
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-- Henry Wadsworth Lo And now here is my secret, a very simple secret; it is only with the heart that one can see rightly,
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-- Antoine de Saint-Exupery Property
"How is it that we never have time to do a job right, but we always have time to do it over?" (Anonymous) As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; and as far as they are
certain, they do not refer to reality.
-- Albert Einstein [You reporters] should have printed what he meant, not what he said.
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-- George S. Patton, Jr. There is no one so bound to his own face that he does not cherish the hope of presenting another
to the world.
-- Antonio Machado And in the end it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
-- Abraham Lincoln Property
"There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) The surest way to make a monkey of a man is to quote him.
-- Robert Benchley Any sufficiently advanced bureaucracy is indistinguishable from molasses.
-- Anon. Men have a much better time of it than women; for one thing, they marry later; for another thing, they die earlier. --H.L. Mencken "The greater the artist, the greater the doubt. Perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize." (Robert Hughes) Property I went into a McDonald's yesterday and said, "I'd like some fries." The girl at the counter said,
"Would you like some fries with that?"
-- Jay Leno The only weapon that becomes sharper with constant use is the tongue.
-- Anonymous Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is enemy action.
- Auric Goldfinger, in Goldfinger by Ian L. Fleming Property
"I don't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones." (John Cage) In the end, everything is a gag.
-- Charlie Chaplin The full use of your powers along lines of excellence.
- definition of happiness by John F. Kennedy If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt The male is a domestic animal which, if treated with firmness, can be trained to do most things.
-- Jilly Cooper Property "To forget one's purpose is the commonest form of stupidity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "There is only one success: to be able to spend your life in your own way, and not to give others absurd maddening claims upon it." (Christopher Darlington Morley) Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half shut afterwards.
-- Benjamin Franklin Property
Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.
- George Eliot The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is
not read.
-- Oscar Wilde "Men act and women appear. Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at." (John Berger) "Eagles may soar, but weasels don't get sucked into jet engines." (John Benfield) History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte Property "Some people wear their heart up on their sleeve. I wear mine underneath my right pant leg, strapped to my boot." (Ani Difranco) We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next door neighbour.
-- G. K. Chesterton Our elections are free - it's in the results where eventually we pay.
-- Bill Stern Property
Thanksgiving is so called because we are all so thankful that it only comes once a year.
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knowing.
- Henry Louis Mencken Property "Anyone who thinks they're important is usually just a pompous moron who can't deal with his or her own pathetic insignificance and the fact that what they do is meaningless and inconsequential..." ( My grandfather once told me that there are two kinds of people: those who work and those who
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-- INDIRA "The brighter you are, the more you have to learn." (Don Herold) Property
We love because it's the only true adventure.
-- Nikki Giovanni You can only find truth with logic if you have already found truth without it.
- Gilbert Keith Chesterton All television is children's television.
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In a great romance, each person plays a part the other really likes.
-- Elizabeth Ashley We must believe in free will, we have no choice.
-- Isaac B. Singer ...the fog is rising.
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-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Property
Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than
the wisest man can answer.
-- Charles Caleb Colton "I put on an act sometimes, and people think I'm insensitive. Really, it's like a kind of armor because I'm too sensitive. If there are two hundred people in a room and one of them doesn't like me, I' Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe People say "I want peace." If you remove I {ego}, and your want {desire}, you are left with peace.
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-- Winston Churchill Property
Joint Checking Account: a handly little device which permits my wife to beat me to the draw. "Commit yourself to quality from day one ... it's better to do nothing at all than to do something badly." (Mark McCormack) Anything is possible, but only a few things actually happen.
-- Richard Rosen People may or may not say what they mean ... but they always say something designed to get
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-- David Mamet If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate.
-- Steven Wright Property It makes no difference who you vote for - the two parties are really one party representing four
percent of the people.
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-- George Bernard Shaw Property
Do not assume that she who seeks to comfort you now, lives untroubled among the simple and
quiet words that sometimes do you good. Her life may also have much sadness and difficulty, that
remains fa I begin by taking. I shall find scholars later to demonstrate my perfect right.
- Frederick (II) the Great When in doubt, make a fool of yourself. There is a microscopically thin line between being
brilliantly creative and acting like the most gigantic idiot on earth. So what the hell, leap.
-- Cynthia H Never practice two vices at once.
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-- Mother Teresa Love is blind -- marriage is the eye-opener.
-- Pauline Thomason An eye for an eye only leads to more blindness.
-- Margaret Atwood Property
