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Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.
-- Albert Einstein I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them.
- Ian L. Fleming "Nothing is permanent but change." (Heraclitus) "Inside of a ring or out, ain't nothing wrong with going down. It's staying down that's wrong." (Muhammad Ali) And life is what we make it. Always has been, always will be.
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-- Robert Frost It's true that I did get the girl, but then my grandfather always said, "Even a blind chicken finds a
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- Friedrich Nietzsche Arts and Entertainment
"There is only one thing more painful than learning from experience and that is not learning from experience." (Archibald McLeish) "Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave, and impossible to forget." (G. Randolf) "A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.
-- Voltaire I skate to where the puck is going to be, not to where it has been.
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He who knows only his own side of the case, knows little of that.
-- John Stuart Mill "Thanks to my solid academic training, today I can write hundreds of words on virtually any topic without possessing a shred of information, which is how I got a good job in journalism." (Dave Barry) Did you ever notice when you blow in a dog's face he gets mad at you? But when you take him in
a car he sticks his head out the window.
-- Steve Bluestone The Bible contains six admonishments to homosexuals and 362 admonishments to
heterosexuals. That doesn't mean that God doesn't love heterosexuals. It's just that they need
more supervision.
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-- Madeleine L'Engle "Dear World, I am leaving because I am bored. I feel I have lived long enough. I am leaving you with your worries in this sweet cesspool. Good luck." (George Sanders, suicide note) "A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool." (William Shakespeare) Arts and Entertainment
An understanding heart is everything is a teacher, and cannot be esteemed highly enough. One
looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our
human Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three pillars of learning.
-- Benjamin Disraeli "Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect every one who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are ine After finding no qualified candidates for the position of principal, the school board is extremely
pleased to announce the appointment of David Steele to the post.
-- Philip Streifer, Superintendent Half of the American people never read a newspaper.
Half never voted for President.
One hopes it is the same half.
-- Gore Vidal Arts and Entertainment Never regard study as a duty, but as the enviable opportunity to learn to know the liberating
influence of beauty in the realm of the spirit for your own personal joy and to the profit of the
commun We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
-- Winston Churchill Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the
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-- Isadora Duncan Arts and Entertainment
Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
-- H. L. Mencken There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you
yourself have altered.
-- Nelson Mandela, A Long Walk to Freedom What do I dislike about death? Must be the hours.
-- Woody Allen "I have an unfortunate personality." (George Orson Welles) Whoever called it necking was a poor judge of anatomy.
-- Groucho Marx Arts and Entertainment Mathematics, rightly viewed, posses not only truth, but supreme beauty -- a beauty cold and
austere, like that of sculpture.
-- Bertrand Russell Silence is argument carried out by other means.
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When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her.
-- Sacha Guitry Women's liberationists spread the word that...the only peaceful family is one in which either the
wife is enslaved or the husband is androgynous.
-- R. Emmett Tyell, The Liberal Crack-Up, 1984 The promises of maniacs, like those of women, are not safely relied upon.
-- Joseph Heller, God Knows Property may be destroyed and money may lose its purchasing power; but, character, health,
knowledge and good judgement will always be in demand under all conditions.
-- Roger Babson "The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore." (Samuel Butler) Arts and Entertainment The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.
-- Thomas Jefferson I'm not dumb, I just have a command of thoroughly useless information.
-- Calvin He had occasional flashes of silence that made his conversation perfectly delightful.
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"The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances." (Viktor E. Frankl) Death does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when it does
come, we no longer exist.
-- Epicurus Ask her to wait a moment - I am almost done.
-- Carl Friedrich Gauss, when informed that his wife was dying NEIGHBOR, n. One whom we are commanded to love as ourselves, and who does all he knows
how to make us disobedient.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 Eternal boyhood is the dream of a depressing percentage of American males, and the locker
room is the temple where they worship arrested development.
-- Russell Baker Arts and Entertainment If you want a place in the sun, you've got to put up with a few blisters.
-- Abigail Van Buren "The only way to have friends is to be one." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) blah "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." (Thomas Jefferson) Arts and Entertainment
Be willing to make decisions. That's the most important quality in a good leader. Don't fall victim
to what I call the 'ready-aim-aim-aim-aim syndrome.' You must be willing to fire.
-- Gen. George Hell is a half-filled auditorium.
- Robert Frost blah "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." (Thomas Jefferson) If you don't double-click me, I can't do anything.
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- Henry David Thoreau Arts and Entertainment Infatuation is when you think that he's as sexy as Robert Redford, as smart as Henry Kissinger,
as noble as Ralph Nader, as funny as Woody Allen, and as athletic as Jimmy Conners. Love is
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-- Oscar Wilde In America, anybody can be president. That's one of the risks you take.
-- Adlai Stevenson Arts and Entertainment
Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of
existence.
-- Sydney Smith "My daughter has never forgiven me. for what, I don't know, because for years, she won't speak to me. She blackens my name in the press and makes me think abortion is an excellent idea." (Klaus Kinsk There is nothing better for the spirit or the body than a love affair. It elevates the thoughts and
flattens the stomachs.
-- Barbara Howar If you cannot be the master of your language, you must be its slave. If you cannot examine your
thoughts, you have no choice but to think them, however silly they may be.
-- Richard Mitchell, from "Life is measured by the rapidity of change, the succession of influences that modify the being." (George Eliot) Arts and Entertainment The reason most people play golf is to wear clothes they would not be caught dead in otherwise.
-- Roger Simon I dislike arguments of any kind. They are always vulgar, and often convincing.
-- Oscar Wilde "I have no special gift; I am only passionately curious." (Albert Einstein) Arts and Entertainment
I admire the serene assurance of those who have religious faith. It is wonderful to observe the
calm confidence of a Christian with four aces.
-- Mark Twain "I fear we are not getting rid of God because we still believe in grammar." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain -- and most fools do." (Dale Carnegie) "If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they don't want to hear." (George Orwell) It's important to be open-minded, but not SO open-minded that your brains fall out.
-- Rick Radebaugh Arts and Entertainment Marriage is bliss. Ignorance is bliss. Ergo...
-- Anonymous Everyone believes very easily whatever they fear or desire.
-- Jean de La Fontaine "Education is the process of driving a set of prejudices down your throat." (Martin H. Fischer) Arts and Entertainment
"People who cease to believe in God or goodness altogether still believe in the devil. I don't know why. No, I do indeed know why. Evil is always possible. And goodness is eternally difficult." (Anne Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature.
-- Samuel Butler At the bottom no one in life can help anyone else in life; this one experiences over and over in
every conflict and every perplexity: that one is alone. That isn't as bad as it may first appear; and Honor's a thing too subtle for wisdom; if honor lie in eating, he's right honorable.
-- Beaumont, Francis "One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries." (A. A. Milne) Arts and Entertainment What would you attempt if you knew you could not fail?
-- Robert Schuller The artist alone sees spirits. But after he has told of their appearing to him, everybody sees them.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe My religion consists of a humble admiration of the unlimitable superior who reveals Himself in the
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