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When Michelangelo finished the painting of the Sistine Chapel's ceiling, he spent the rest of his
life trying to remove the paint that had poured into his sleeve.
-- Francois Cavanna blah "Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the government of himself. Can he, then be trusted with the government of others? Or have we found angels in the form of kings to govern him? In marriage, the bridge gets a shower. But for the groom, it's curtains! We look forward to the time when the power to love of will replace the love of power. Then will our
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-- William Gladstone When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I only think about how to solve the
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-- Winston Churchill Never look at the trombones. You'll only encourage them.
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The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything.
-- Oscar Wilde Do not worry about your difficulties in mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater.
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-- Virginia Woolf As always, victory finds a hundred fathers but defeat is an orphan.
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Meetings are an addictive, highly self-indulgent activity that corporations and other large
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-- Dave Barry Marriage is a romance in which the hero dies in the first chapter.
-- Anonymous It ain't what we don't know that gives us trouble, it's what we know that ain't so.
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In matrimony, to hesitate is sometimes to be saved.
-- Samuel Butler I believe God is managing affairs and that He doesn't need any advice from me. With God in
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-- M. C. Reed If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts.
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-- Indian proverb Society and Culture The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.
-- George Bernard Shaw Many a man in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl.
-- Stephen Leacock Marriage is more than four bare legs in a bed.
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Thank God - every morning when you get up - that you have something to do which must be
done, whether you like it or not. Being forced to work, and forced to do your best, will breed in you
a hundre "The monster a child knows best and is most concerned with [is] the monster he feels or fears himself to be. " (Bruno Bettelheim, child psychologist) "Brevity is the soul of wit." (William Shakespeare) If a relationship is to evolve, it must go through a series of endings.
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- Napoleon Bonaparte Society and Culture I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them.
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"Every act of violence increases the recruitment of terrorists. Iraq has been turned into a base of terror." (Noam Chomsky, from The Toronto Star, March 23, 2004) Look at life through the windshield, not the rear-view mirror.
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-- Jerry Seinfeld Society and Culture We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
-- Winston Churchill Some birds aren't meant to be caged, their feathers are just too bright. And when they fly away,
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-- Anonymous Society and Culture
Count your age with friends but not with years.
-- Anonymous When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President; I'm beginning to believe it.
-- Clarence Darrow "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 "Humans beings can always be relied upon to assert, with vigor, their god-given right to be stupid." (Dean Koontz, Seize the Night) When a person can no longer laugh at himself, it is time for others to laugh at him.
-- Thomas Szasz, The Second Sin, 1973 Society and Culture I don't know exactly what democracy is. But we need more of it.
-- Anonymous Chinese Student, during protests in Tianamen Square, Beijing, 1989 I must follow the people. Am I not their leader?
-- Benjamin Disraeli "He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself." (Thomas Paine) Society and Culture
"The reason why kids are crazy is because nobody can face the responsibility of bringing them up." (John Lennon) Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day.
-- Thornton Wilder "There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) "I put on an act sometimes, and people think I'm insensitive. Really, it's like a kind of armor because I'm too sensitive. If there are two hundred people in a room and one of them doesn't like me, I' The question is not whether we will die, but how we will live.
-- Joan Borysenko Society and Culture "Is life not a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same
time, and still retain the ability to function.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald It takes two to speak truth --One to speak, and another to hear.
-- Henry David Thoreau Society and Culture
Public office is the last refuge of a scoundrel.
-- Boies Penrose, 1931 "Death where is thy sting? Love, where is thy glory?" (William Shakespeare) "It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Losing a wife can be hard. In my case, it was almost impossible. Peculiar travel suggestions are dancing lessons from God.
-- Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., Cat's Cradle Society and Culture Laywers, I suppose, were children once.
-- Charles Lamb There's no problem so awful that you can't add some guilt to it and make it even worse!
-- Calvin All television is children's television.
-- Richard P. Adler Society and Culture
Some men are born with cold feet; some acquire cold feet; and some have cold feet thrust upon
them.
-- Anonymous No one really listens to anyone else, and if you try it for a while you'll see why.
-- Mignon McLaughlin Blessed is he who has learned to laugh at himself, for he shall never cease to be entertained.
-- John Powell I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity.
-- Albert Einstein Society is like a stew. If you don't stir it up every once in a while then a layer of scum floats to the
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-- Ed Abbey Society and Culture The telephone company is urging people to *please* not use the telephone unless it is absolutely
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-- Seen on a t-shirt Two souls with but a single thought,
Two hearts that beat as one.
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