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Now, now my good man, this is no time for making enemies.
- Voltaire (1694-1778) on his deathbed in response to a priest asking that he renounce Satan. I take my wife everywhere I go. She always finds her way back.
-- Henny Youngman Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through
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-- Helen Keller Love matches are made by people who are content, for a month of honey, to condemn
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-- Virginia Woolf Parenthetical remarks (however relevant) are unnecessary.
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Consequences, schmonsequences, as long as I'm rich!
-- Chuck Jones-directed cartoon Drink to me.
-- Pablo Picasso, dying words If people turn to look at you on the street, you are not well dressed.
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If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded.
-- Maya Angelou Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.
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If your wife wants to learn how to drive, don't stand in her way. Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.
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come.
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- Will Rogers No one really listens to anyone else, and if you try it for a while you'll see why.
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Happiness, it is said, is seldom found by those who seek it, and never by those who seek it for
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-- General George Patton "It seems to me that there are two kinds of trickery: the 'fronts' people assume before one another's eyes, and the 'front' a writer puts on the face of reality." (Francois Sagan) The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything.
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A coward is a hero with a wife, kids, and a mortgage.
-- Marvin Kitman Great innovations should not be forced on slender majorities.
-- Thomas Jefferson We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind her stands his wife. -- Groucho Marx Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by heart and his friends can
only read the title.
-- Virginia Woolf Honolulu, it's got everything. Sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother.
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-- Thomas Jefferson Creativity is the sudden cessation of stupidity.
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-- William Blake Computers and Internet
2,400,000 Americans play the accordian - hopefully not at the same time.
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-- Benjamin Tillett If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man
will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability.
-- Henry Ford Value your words. Each one may be the last.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec He can compress the most words into the smallest idea of any man I know.
- Abraham Lincoln Computers and Internet Man is the only animal that blushes--or needs to.
-- Mark Twain "Bread feeds the body, indeed, but flowers feed also the soul." (The Prophet Mohammad) Ah, well, then I suppose I shall have to die beyond my means.
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