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-- Prince I will try to follow the advice that a university president once gave a prospective commencement
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th To write a good love letter, you ought to begin without knowing what you mean to say, and to
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-- Jean Jacques Rousseau There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you
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Journalism is merely history's first draft.
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-- Wehrner von Braun Travel and Tourism Love is the answer, but while you're waiting for the answer, sex raises some pretty good
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-- Woody Allen I take my wife everywhere I go. She always finds her way back.
-- Henny Youngman The true spirit of conversation consists in building on another man's observation, not overturning
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-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton Travel and Tourism
Genius is an African who dreams up snow.
-- Vladimir Nabokov Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a losttradition.
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"No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave." (Calvin Coolidge) "Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom." (Raymonde Uy) Minds are like parachutes - they only function when open.
-- Thomas Dewar I have spread my dreams under your feet;
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-- William Butler Yeats, from "He wishes for the cloths of heaven" "Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death." (General Michel Aoun) Travel and Tourism Good Night, Good night! Parting is such sweet sorrow,
that I shall say good night till it be morrow.
-- Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare. Act II, Scene II, lines 220-221 The only thing you take with you when you're gone is what you leave behind.
-- John Allston Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.
-- Ernest Hemingway Travel and Tourism
Cricket is best described as organised loafing.
-- Anonymous British Radio Broadcaster, 1996 Conceit causes more conversation than wit.
-- LaRouchefoucauld Miracles occur naturally as expressions of love. The real miracle is the love that inspires them. In
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-- Marianne Williamson Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance.
-- Oscar Wilde A straight line is the shortest in morals as in mathematics.
-- Maria Edgeworth Travel and Tourism We must become the change we want to see.
-- Gandhi We can never be sure that the opinion we are endeavoring to stifle is a false opinion; and if we
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-- John Stuart Mill Hell is paved with good samaritans.
-- William M. Holden Travel and Tourism
I just want what every married woman wants, someone besides her husband to sleep with.
-- Peg Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show The real test of friendship is: Can you literally do nothing with the other person? Can you enjoy
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where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.
-- D. H. Lawrence "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world, indeed it is the only thing that ever has." (Margaret Mead, 1901-78) "The intellect is always fooled by the heart." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) Travel and Tourism Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which is never advisable. -- Oscar Wilde You've achieved success in your field when you don't know whether what you're doing is work or
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-- WARREN BEATTY Give her two red roses, each with a note. The first note says "For the woman I love" and the
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-- Anonymous Travel and Tourism
If you want a place in the sun, you've got to put up with a few blisters.
-- Abigail Van Buren Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.
-- Albert Einstein Men have become the tools of their tools.
-- Henry David Thoreau There are three kinds of death in this world. There's heart death, there's brain death, and there's
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-- Mary Alice Messenger Travel and Tourism
I've never had major knee surgery on any other part of my body.
-- Winston Bennett, University of Kentucky basketball forward The best time to hold your tongue is the time you feel you must say something or bust.
-- Josh Billings Acting is the most minor of gifts and not a very high-class way to earn a living. After all, Shirley
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-- Katharine Hepburn Knowledge is the intellectual manipulation of carefully verified observations.
-- Sigmund Freud "Self-confidence is the first requisite for achieving great things." (Samuel Johnson) Travel and Tourism If you can't convince them, confuse them.
-- Harry S. Truman Don't be so humble - you are not that great.
- Golda Meir (1898-1978) to a visiting diplomat Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.
-- Dietrich Bonhoeffer Travel and Tourism
My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music.
-- Vladimir Nabokov Don't marry for money; you can borrow it cheaper. I was a pilot flying an airplane and it just so happened that where I was flying made what I was
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-- Francis Gary Power, U-2 reconnaissance pilot held by the Soviets for spying, in an i Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely
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-- Oscar Wilde "There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) Travel and Tourism He is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death.
- H. H. Munro (Saki) I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than
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-- Albert Einstein "Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom." (Raymonde Uy) Travel and Tourism
Ninety percent of the game is half mental.
-- Yogi Berra For most of history, Anonymous was a woman.
-- Virginia Woolf I hate women because they always know where things are.
-- James Thurber Even a band of angels can turn ugly and start looting if enough angels are unemployed and
hanging around the Pearly Gates convinced that all the succubi own all the liquor stores in
Heaven.
-- P. J "I knew I was an unwanted baby when I saw my bath toys were a toaster and a radio." (Joan Rivers) Travel and Tourism To love another person is to see the face of God.
-- Lyric from Les Miserables The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the
purpose of satisfying it afterwards.
-- Anatole France I'm at the age where food has taken the place of sex in my life. In fact, I've just had a mirror put
over my kitchen table.
-- Rodney Dangerfield Travel and Tourism
You are educated when you have the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your
temper or self-confidence.
-- Robert Frost Imagine if every Thursday your shoes exploded if you tied them the usual way. This happens to
us all the time with computers, and nobody thinks of complaining.
-- Jeff Raskin Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so you apologize for truth.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Virtue is like health: the harmony of the whole man.
-- Thomas Carlyle It's impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune.
-- Woody Allen Travel and Tourism "Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known." (Blaise Pascal) The backbone of surprise is fusing speed with secrecy.
- Von Clausewitz Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you
have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not.
-- Aldous Huxley Travel and Tourism
