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"Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience." (George Bernard Shaw) The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.
-- ROBERT FROST Honor's a thing too subtle for wisdom; if honor lie in eating, he's right honorable.
-- Beaumont, Francis Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is enemy action.
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-- Thornton Wilder My initial response was to sue her for defamation of character, but then I realized that I had no
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I think, therefore I'm single.
-- Female philosopher Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution.
-- Mae West There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations.
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-- Aesop People say "I want peace." If you remove I {ego}, and your want {desire}, you are left with peace.
-- Satya Sai Baba Travel and Tourism To expect defeat is nine-tenths of defeat itself.
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-- Dag Hammarskjold As for the virtuous poor, one can pity them, of course, but one cannot possibly admire them.
-- Oscar Wilde Travel and Tourism
"I'm basically an optimist in life but this doesn't prevent me from deducing as a scientist that we are probably doomed." (Vladimir Chaloupka, physicist, University of Washington, regarding mankind's My initial response was to sue her for defamation of character, but then I realized that I had no
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-- ROBERT FROST Seeing a murder on television can help work off one's antagonisms. And if you haven't any
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-- Alfred Hitchcock Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when
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-- George Bernard Shaw Travel and Tourism
Curiosity will conquer fear even more than bravery will.
-- James Stephens I tried a mail order bride, once, but she was damaged in the mail, and I had to return the unused part for my full refund. Go on, get out. Last words are for fools who haven't said enough.
-- Karl Marx, dying words to his housekeeper They're almost inseparable. Sometimes it takes ten people to separate them.
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- Bertrand Russell
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A little inaccuracy sometimes saves a ton Travel and Tourism Say goodbye to the oldies, but goodies, because the good old days weren't always good and
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-- Billy Joel There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written or badly written.
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-- John Powell Travel and Tourism
Coffee is a beverage that puts one to sleep when not drank.
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-- Jonathan S. Haas Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do.
-- Dr. Benjamin Spock, American pediatrician, address to new parents The imaginary friends I had as a kid dropped me because their friends thought I didn't exist.
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If there is any one proof of a man's incompetence, it is the stagnant mentality of a worker who,
doing some small routine job in a vast undertaking, does not care to look beyond the lever of a
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- Ambrose Bierce What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
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If we knew what we were doing, it wouldn't be called research, would it?
-- Albert Einstein "Those who hear not the music think the dancers mad." (Anonymous) "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) Familiarity breeds contempt -- and children.
-- Mark Twain Good-bye. I am leaving because I am bored.
-- George Saunders - last words Travel and Tourism "If A equals success, then the formula is: A = X + Y + Z, X is work. Y is play. Z is keep your mouth shut." (Albert Einstein) An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field.
-- Niels Bohr We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh.
-- Agnes Repplier Travel and Tourism
CAPITAL, n. The seat of misgovernment. That which provides the fire, the pot, the dinner, the
table and the knife and fork for the anarchist; the part of the repast that himself supplies is the
disg It doesn't much signify whom one marries, for one is sure to find out next morning it was
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-- Rogers The time is always right to do what is right.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Executive ability is deciding quickly and getting someone else to do the work.
-- John G. Pollard Politics have no relation to morals.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli Travel and Tourism I'd wipe the machines off the face of the earth again, and end the industrial epoch absolutely, like
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-- D. H. Lawrence A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted
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-- Friedrich Nietzsche Whoever controls the media--the images--controls the culture.
-- Allen Ginsberg Travel and Tourism
Those parts of the system that you can hit with a hammer (not advised) are called hardware;
those program instructions that you can only curse at are called software.
-- Unknown author, Levitating T If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.
-- Voltaire The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains that I
have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time.
- George Bernard Shaw Life isn't a matter of milestones, but of moments.
-- Rose Kennedy The executive exists to make sensible exceptions to general rules.
-- Elting E. Morison Travel and Tourism The gods gave man fire and he invented fire engines. They gave him love and he invented marriage. "Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them." (Samuel Butler) Marriage is the only war in which you sleep with the enemy.
-- Anonymous Travel and Tourism
Repentance is not so much remorse for what we have done as the fear of the consequences.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld, Maxims, 1665 Happy are those who dream dreams and are willing to pay the price to make them come true.
-- Anon. Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of
genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.
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