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-- French Proverb In olden times sacrifices were made at the altar--a practice which is still continued.
-- Helen Rowland If we do not maintain Justice, Justice will not maintain us.
-- Francis Bacon Business and Economy
The better part of valor is discretion.
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-- Sioux Indian Prayer Death does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when it does
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-- Epicurus You probably wouldn't worry about what people think of you if you could know how seldom they
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-- Olin Miller Business and Economy If something is boring after two minutes, try it for four. If still boring, then eight. Then sixteen. Then thirty-two. Eventually one discovers that it is not boring at all." (John Cage) The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
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"One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Every man knows his follies and often they are the most interesting thing he has got.
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-- Archie Bunker, character on "All in the Family, Women's liberationists spread the word that...the only peaceful family is one in which either the
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-- R. Emmett Tyell, The Liberal Crack-Up, 1984 Distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes.
- Henry David Thoreau Business and Economy
"We always get bored with those whom we bore." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) We got to roll with the punches, play all of our hunches, make the best of whatever comes your
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-- Thomas Arnold Bennet Business and Economy
Marry in haste, repent in leisure.
-- Tilney "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) We trained hard - but it seemed that every time we were beginning to form up into teams we were
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-- Mae West Business and Economy
University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
- Henry Kissinger Prejudice is the child of ignorance.
-- William Hazlitt There are three kinds of death in this world. There's heart death, there's brain death, and there's
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-- Bernard Baruch Business and Economy
A theory is something nobody believes, except the person who made it. An experiment is
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-- Albert Einstein They're almost inseparable. Sometimes it takes ten people to separate them.
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-- Benjamin Tillett Business and Economy Ordinary riches can be stolen, real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that
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-- Oscar Wilde Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of
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-- George Bernard Shaw Airplane travel is nature's way of making you look like your passport photo.
-- Al Gore, U.S. Vice President Business and Economy
Do not assume that she who seeks to comfort you now, lives untroubled among the simple and
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-- William Blake The imaginary friends I had as a kid dropped me because their friends thought I didn't exist.
-- Aaron Machado Business and Economy
Watching the debate this afternoon it was apparent they loved term limits in the House -- as
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-- Bill Moyers I've always thought that underpopulated countries in Africa are vastly underpolluted.
-- Lawrence Summers, chief economist of the World Bank, explaining why we should export toxic
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-- Damon Runyan What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is
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-- Crowf Business and Economy The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.
-- G. K. Chesterton Love is like pi - natural, irrational, and very important.
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-- Anonymous Business and Economy
Obedience is the gateway through which knowledge, yes, and love, too, enter the mind of the
child.
-- Anne Sullivan In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
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-- H. L. Mencken Business and Economy Whatever you are, be a good one.
-- Abraham Lincoln Remember your dreams.
-- Maryanne Radmacher-Herhey My darling wife was always glum. I drowned her in a cask of rum, And so made sure that she would stay, In better spirits night and day. Business and Economy
I belong to Bridegrooms Anonymous. Whenever I feel like getting married, they send over a lady
in a housecoat and hair curlers to burn my toast for me.
-- Dick Martin We have art to save ourselves from the truth.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Imagination is the highest kite one can fly.
-- Lauren Bacall "Fear is a darkroom where negatives develop." (Usman Asif) To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.
-- Karen Sunde Business and Economy The wit of a graduate student is like champagne. Canadian champagne.
-- Robertson Davies I didn't have time to write a short letter, so I wrote a long one instead.
-- Mark Twain ... it is certain that the real function of art is to increase our self-consciousness; to make us more
aware of what we are, and therefore of what the universe in which we live really is. And since
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