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-- Albert Einstein I've had a perfectly wonderful evening. But this wasn't it.
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In olden times sacrifices were made at the altar--a practice which is still continued.
-- Helen Rowland The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may
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-- Niels Bohr Marriage is the one subject on which all women agree and all men disagree.
-- Oscar Wilde It's no credit to anyone to work to hard.
-- Ed Howe The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.
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- Goethe Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
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-- Anon. Shipton-under-Wychwood
And in the end it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
-- Abraham Lincoln "When you resort to attacking the messenger and not the message, you have lost the debate." (Addison Whithecomb) Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.
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-- Peter F. Drucker Love is the answer, but while you're waiting for the answer, sex raises some pretty good
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-- Woody Allen Shipton-under-Wychwood Now comes the mystery.
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-- Winston Churchill The innkeeper loves the drunkard, but not for a son-in-law.
-- Yiddish Proverb "To introduce something altogether new would mean to begin all over, to become ignorant again, and to run the old, old risk of failing to learn." (Isaac Asimov) Not only is the universe stranger than we imagine, it is stranger than we can imagine.
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really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.
-- Mark Twain Egotist: a person more interested in himself than in me.
- Ambrose Bierce Love is only the game that is not called on account of darkness.
-- M. Hirschfield Well if this is the wrong number, why did you answer it?
-- James Thurber Going to church doesn't make you a Christian any more than going to a garage makes you an
automobile.
-- Billy Sunday Shipton-under-Wychwood "I do not suppose I shall be remembered for anything. But I don't think about my work in those terms. It is just as vulgar to work for the sake of posterity as to work for the sake of money." (George Argue for your limitations, and sure enough they're yours.
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-- John B. Sedgwick, general, dying words, 1864 We don't like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out.
-- Decca Recording Company, rejecting the Beatles, 1962 The soul is healed by being with children.
-- Fyodor Dostoyevski Whatever women do they must do it twice as well as men to be thought half as good. Luckily this
is not difficult.
-- Charlotte Whitton Friends may come and go, but enemies accumulate.
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-- Abraham Maslow Sir Francis Drake circumsized the world with a 100-foot clipper.
-- Unknown history student Shipton-under-Wychwood
In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but how
many can get through to you.
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-- Ovid The good people sleep much better at night than the bad people. Of course, the bad people enjoy
the waking hours much more.
-- Woody Allen Hell hath no fury like a bureaucrat scorned.
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being off the network.
-- Guy Almes I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood. If it
does need additional interpretation by someone other than the creator, then I question whether it
ha Never try to teach a pig to sing. It wastes your time and annoys the pig.
-- Anonymous >From the moment I picked your book up until I laid it down I was convulsed with laughter. Some
day I intend reading it.
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me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat.
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