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Paradoxically though it may seem, it is none the less true that life imitates art far more than art
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-- Oscar Wilde When I can no longer bear to think of the victims of broken homes, I begin to think of the victims
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-- Peter DeVries Love cures people, both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.
-- Dr. Karl Menninger We can do not great things - only small things with great love.
-- Mother Theresa The limits of my language means the limits of my world.
-- Ludwig Wittgenstein Travel and Tourism If you can count your money, you don't have a billion dollars.
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The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with
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-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton During the first period of a man's life the greatest danger is not to take the risk.
-- Soren Kierkegaard It's true that I did get the girl, but then my grandfather always said, "Even a blind chicken finds a
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-- Lyle Lovett, musician, upon marying actress Julia Roberts, Motivation will almost always beat mere talent.
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If you can count your money, you don't have a billion dollars.
- J. Paul Getty If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate.
-- Steven Wright Why are women so much more interesting to men than men are to women?
-- Virginia Woolf Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future.
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-- E. W. Howe Travel and Tourism "Excellence is in the details. Give attention to the details and excellence will come." (Perry Paxton) There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world; and that is an idea whose time has
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Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than
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-- William Faulkner Remember your dreams.
-- Maryanne Radmacher-Herhey "Twelve magicians and two carnies have been shot dead doing the bullet catch. That's cool enough, but every night when we close our show with that trick and the loaded gun gets pointed in my face, it Man and wife make one fool. To be or not to be isn't the question. The question is how to prolong being.
-- Tom Robbins Travel and Tourism There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called
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-- James Holt McGavran If variety is the spice of life, marriage is the big can of leftover Spam.
-- Johnny Carson Grow old with me! The best is yet to be!
-- Robert Browning Travel and Tourism
"Anyone who thinks they're important is usually just a pompous moron who can't deal with his or her own pathetic insignificance and the fact that what they do is meaningless and inconsequential..." ( If God does not exist, then everything is permitted.
-- Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Devils Not to anticipate is already to moan.
-- Leonardo da Vinci If you can count your money, you don't have a billion dollars.
- J. Paul Getty To be able to say how much love, is love but little.
-- Petrarch Travel and Tourism Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance.
-- Oscar Wilde blah "An engaged woman is always more agreeable than a disengaged. She is satisfied with herself. Her cares are over, and she feels that she may exert all her powers of pleasing without suspicion." ( The unfortunate thing about this world is that the good habits are much easier to give up than the
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-- W. Somerset Maugham Travel and Tourism
The second day of a diet is always easier than the first. By the second day you're off it.
-- Jackie Gleason We have to keep trying things we're not sure we can pull off. If we just do the things we know we
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-- Cybi If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolute powerlessness make you pure?
-- Harry Shearer Education is an admirable thing, but nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
-- Oscar Wilde Good hours, excellent pay, fun place to work, paid training, mean boss. Oh well, four out of five
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-- Help Wanted Ad, PA newspaper, 1994 Travel and Tourism If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one.
-- Mother Teresa The crime bill passed by the Senate would reinstate the Federal death penalty for certain violent
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-- Chekhov Travel and Tourism
Don't marry for money; you can borrow it cheaper. Hell is a half-filled auditorium.
-- Robert Frost There ought to be one day - just one - when there is open season on senators.
-- Will Rogers Duct tape is like the Force. It has a light side, a dark side, and it holds the universe together....
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-- John Stuart Mill Travel and Tourism "Paper should be edible, nutritious. Inks used for printing or writing should have delicious flavors. Magazines or newspapers read at breakfast should be eaten for lunch. Instead of throwing one's mai Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think.
-- Niels Bohr What do I dislike about death? Must be the hours.
-- Woody Allen Travel and Tourism
Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than the arguments of its opposers.
-- William Penn A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.
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I do not see the EEC as a great love affair. It is more like nine desperate middle-ages couples with failing marriages meeting at a Brussels hotel for a group grope. -- Tynan In literature as in love, we are astonished at what is chosen by others.
-- André Maurois Your every voter, as surely as your chief magistrate, exercises a public trust.
-- Grover Cleveland It was the greatest of the imperfect ventriloquist acts: when his lips moved, her body sang.
-- Tom Robbins "Life is measured by the rapidity of change, the succession of influences that modify the being." (George Eliot) Travel and Tourism The gods too are fond of a joke.
-- Aristotle Author: A fool, who, not content with having bored those who have lived with him, insists on
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-- Montesquieu The absolute yearning of one human body for another particular body and its indifference to
substitutes is one of life's major mysteries.
-- Iris Murdoch Travel and Tourism
Do not worry about your difficulties in mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater.
-- Albert Einstein If you can count your money, you don't have a billion dollars.
- J. Paul Getty "The only way to have friends is to be one." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) When you don't know that you don't know, it's a lot different than when you do know that you
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-- Bill Parcels, New Engla I didn't accept it. I received it.
-- Richard Allen, National Security Advisor to President Reagan, explaining the $1000 in cash and
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-- Londo Molari Live your questions now, and perhaps even without knowing it, you will live along some distant
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-- Rainer Maria Rilke It is the final proof of God's omnipotence that he need not exist in order to save us.
-- Peter De Vries Travel and Tourism
Marriage is a trip between Niagara Falls and Reno. I'm not a member of any organized political party, I'm a Democrat!
-- Will Rogers Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards.
-- Soren Kierkegaard The Democrats are the party that says government will make you smarter, taller, richer, and
remove the crabgrass on your lawn. The Republicans are the party that says government doesn't
work and the Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them
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-- H.L. Mencken Travel and Tourism Victory belongs to the most persevering.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte When in doubt, make a fool of yourself. There is a microscopically thin line between being
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