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-- Jean Kerr Virtue is not left to stand alone. He who practices it will have neighbors.
-- Confucius It is well, when judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and
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-- Margo Kaufman Burton in Lonsdale I just need enough to tide me over until I need more.
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-- Laurence J. Peter Burton in Lonsdale
"I don't think it's the nature of any man to be monogamous. Men are propelled by genetically ordained impulses over which they have no control to distribute their seed." (Marlon Brando) blah bl "The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning, but without understanding." (Louis Brandeis) Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a
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-- Mark Twain Burton in Lonsdale
"Every now and then say, 'What the fu(c)k.' 'What the fu(c)k' gives you freedom. Freedom brings opportunity. Opportunity makes your future." (Curtis Armstrong, Risky Business, 1983) "Not only is there no guarantee of the temporal immortality of the human soul, that is to say of its eternal survival after death; but, in any case, this assumption completely fails to accomplish the A theory is something nobody believes, except the person who made it. An experiment is
something everybody believes, except the person who made it.
-- Albert Einstein, attributed Establishing yourself, furnishing a house, building up a comfortable existence, and having that menace hanging over your head all the time - no, I prefer to live in hotels, cafés, just passing through Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
-- Gail Godwin Burton in Lonsdale There are three great friends: an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.
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-- Martin Luther Burton in Lonsdale
"All women love the men they fear. All women kiss the hand that rules them." (Lionel Atwill) Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.
-- George Bernard Shaw "Inside of a ring or out, ain't nothing wrong with going down. It's staying down that's wrong." (Muhammad Ali) "Contrariwise," continued Tweedledee, "if it was so, it might be, and if it were so, it would be; but
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-- Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the
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-- John Kenneth Galbraith Burton in Lonsdale Whatever you are, be a good one.
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-- Red Buttons Burton in Lonsdale
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-- George F. Will, journalist, political commentator, 1994 I belong to Bridegrooms Anonymous. Whenever I feel like getting married, they send over a lady
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-- Dick Martin A good cook is like a sorceress who dispenses happiness.
-- Elsa Schiapirelli In olden times, sacrifices were made at the altar, a practice which is still very much practiced.
-- Helen Rowland Burton in Lonsdale The important thing is not to stop questioning.
-- Albert Einstein "When even one American--who has done nothing wrong--is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth--then all Americans are in peril." (Harry S. Truman) "Careful?! Was my mother careful when she stabbed me in the heart with a coat hanger while I was still in the womb?" (Trey Parker) Burton in Lonsdale
When one is trying to do something beyond his known powers it is useless to seek the approval
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-- Henry Miller Oregon Democratic Senate candidate Tom Bruggere, in describing his support for
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-- Arnold Bennett Good hours, excellent pay, fun place to work, paid training, mean boss. Oh well, four out of five
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-- Gore Vidal Burton in Lonsdale
Happiness is nothing more than health and a poor memory.
-- Albert Schweitzer What if it was cats who invented technology... would they have tv shows starring rubber sqeak
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-- Douglas Coupland "I owe much to my friends; but, all things considered, it strikes me that I owe even more to my enemies. The real person springs life under a sting even better than under a caress." (André Gide) "The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of the dream." (Eleanor Roosevelt) "Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Burton in Lonsdale Anything is possible, but only a few things actually happen.
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-- Groucho Marx I have never taken any exercise except sleeping and resting.
-- Mark Twain Burton in Lonsdale
Everybody can be great... because anybody can serve. You don't have to have a college degree
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-- Oscar Wilde To be or not to be isn't the question. The question is how to prolong being.
-- Tom Robbins A government is the only known vessel that leaks from the top.
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-- Wilfred Sheed Burton in Lonsdale A teacher is one who makes himself progressively unnecessary.
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-- Robert Bolt from A Man For All Seas Burton in Lonsdale
Free will is a golden thread running through the frozen matrix of fixed events.
-- Robert A. Heinlein _The Rolling Stones_ "Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily." (Napoleon Bonaparte) "Eagles may soar, but weasels don't get sucked into jet engines." (John Benfield) Organic chemistry is the chemistry of carbon compounds. Biochemistry is the study of carbon
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-- Mike Adams But at my back I always hear Time's winged chariot hurrying near.
- Andrew Marvell Burton in Lonsdale "I have great faith in fools; My friends call it self-confidence." (Edger Allen Poe) The marriage of Marxism and feminism has been like the marriage of husband and wife depicted in English common law: Marxism and feminism are one, and that one is Marxism. --Heidi Hartmann [The Unhappy Opportunity may knock only once, but temptation leans on the doorbell.
-- Anonymous Burton in Lonsdale
"I was a total loner, not by self-design. I just didn't know what the hell to say to people. I was so shy. I used to stammer and lisp and dribble at the mouth." (Sir Anthony Hopkins, on his youth) Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the
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-- Mark Twain I'm at the age where food has taken the place of sex in my life. In fact, I've just had a mirror put
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-- Fred Astaire Burton in Lonsdale
Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.
-- Albert Einstein There is no future in any job. The future lies in the man who holds the job.
-- George Crane A team effort is a lot of people doing what I say.
-- Michael Winner "Education is a vacine for violence." (Edward James Olmos) We are the echo of the future.
-- W. S. Merwin Burton in Lonsdale Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.
-- Oscar Wilde One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: that word is love.
-- Sophocles Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
-- Albert Einstein Burton in Lonsdale
