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-- John F. Kennedy I went into a McDonald's yesterday and said, "I'd like some fries." The girl at the counter said,
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-- Sting Services Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and around the hands and feet of the man. A husband is what's left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
-- Helen Rowland "The masses are far more likely to believe a big lie than several small ones." (Adolf Hitler) Services
"You exist only in what you do." (Federico Fellini) 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 Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
-- George Bernard Shaw "We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then is not an act but a habit." (Aristotle) The philosophy exam was a piece of cake -- which was a bit of a surprise, actually, because I
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-- Samuel Butler If a man does his best, what else is there?
- General George S. Patton "What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage." They will say you are on the wrong road, if it is your own.
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-- Anonymous Chinese Student, during protests in Tianamen Square, Beijing, 1989 "I know we're not saints or virgins or lunatics; we know all the lust and lavatory jokes, and most of the dirty people; we can catch buses and count our change and cross the roads and talk real senten "Dream as if you'll live forever; live as if you'll die tomorrow." (James Dean) Services
Minds are like parachutes - they only function when open.
-- Thomas Dewar Motivation will almost always beat mere talent.
-- Norman R. Augustine Man's mind stretched to a new idea never goes back to its original dimensions.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
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-- Doug MacLeod Services I hate it in friends when they come too late to help.
-- Euripides All science is concerned with the relationship of cause and effect. Each scientific discovery
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When you're experimenting you have to try so many things before you choose what you want,
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-- Fred Astaire My other wife is beautiful. With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die.
-- Abraham Lincoln The Democrats are the party that says government will make you smarter, taller, richer, and
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I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.
- Francois-Auguste Rodin (1840-1917), when asked how he managed to make his remarkable
statues Familiarity breeds contempt -- and children.
-- Mark Twain Elegance of language may not be in the power of all of us; but simplicity and straight forwardness
are. Write much as you would speak; speak as you think. If with your inferior, speak no coarser
tha The unfortunate thing about this world is that the good habits are much easier to give up than the
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thing.
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"And on the seventh day, God stepped back and said 'There is my creation, perfect in every way ... oh, damn it, I left pot all over the place. Now they'll think I want them to smoke it. Now I have to Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "We already have the statistics for the future: the growth percentages of pollution, overpopulation, desertification. The future is already in place." (Günther Grass, Winner of the Nobel Prize for Li Don't anthropomorphize computers -- they hate it.
-- Anonymous Honorable, adj. Afflicted with an impediment in one's reach. In legislative bodies, it is customary
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-- ND Beef Council, billboard advertisement, 1990 There are no days in life so memorable as those which vibrated to some stroke of the
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-- Ralph Waldo Emerson I want to die in my sleep like my friend.... Not screaming and yelling like the passengers in his
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You have it easily in your power to increase the sum total of this world's happiness now. How? By
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will 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 Victory belongs to the most persevering.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte "The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn." (David Russell) "A wise man among the ignorant is as a beautiful girl in the company of blind men." (Saadi) Services The Democrats are the party that says government will make you smarter, taller, richer, and
remove the crabgrass on your lawn. The Republicans are the party that says government doesn't
work and the Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance.
-- Oscar Wilde Question: If you could live forever, would you and why? Answer: I would not live forever, because
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Men marry because they are tired, women because they are curious; both are disappointed.
-- Oscar Wilde The grass may be greener on the other side of the fence, but you still have to mow it.
-- Anonymous Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect, and it is shameful to surrender it too soon or to the first
comer: there is nobility in preserving it coolly and proudly through long youth, until at last "Most people don't realize that large pieces of coral, which have been painted brown and attached to the skull by common wood screws, can make a child look like a deer." (Jack Handey) "He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches." (George Bernard Shaw) Services Adolescence is a period of rapid changes. Between the ages of 12 and 17, for example, a parent
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-- Anonymous "One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries." (A. A. Milne) The executive exists to make sensible exceptions to general rules.
-- Elting E. Morison Services
"Women might be able to fake orgasms. But men can fake whole relationships." (Sharon Stone) I am become death, shatterer of worlds.
-- Robert J. Oppenheimer, citing from the Bhagavadgita, after witnessing the world's first nuclear
explosion The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
-- General George Patton Very little is known of the Canadian country since it is rarely visited by anyone but the Queen and
illiterate sport fishermen.
-- P. J. O'Rourke "Plato was a bore." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Services "Club Secretary: I say, Lawrence. You are a clown!
Lawrence: We can't all be lion tamers." (Thomas Edward Lawrence, Lawrence of Arabia, 1962) Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish.
-- Albert Einstein I must follow the people. Am I not their leader?
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