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-- James Carville, Clinton advisor, offering advice for Democrats on the term-limits vote in the
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-- T. S. Eliot "The order of the world is always right - such is the judgment of God. For God has departed, but he has left his judgment behind, the way the Cheshire Cat left his grin." (Jean Baudrillard) I don't worry about terrorism. I was married for two years.
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-- Oliver Wendell Holmes I require three things in a man: He must be handsome, ruthless, and stupid.
-- Dorothy Parker Employment
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-- George Bernard Shaw We have been friends together in sunshine and in shade.
-- Caroline Norton Now is the time for all good men to come to.
-- Walt Kelly The first half of our life is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
-- Clarence Darrow Employment For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of our tasks; the ultimate,
the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.
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believing you've witnessed the second coming.
-- Guy Kawasaki Of the seven dwarves, only Dopey had a shaven face. This should tell us something about the
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-- Tom Robbins, Skinny Legs and All Employment
I think, therefore I'm single.
-- Female philosopher God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.
-- Voltaire Democracy is a process by which the people are free to choose the man who will get the blame.
-- Laurence J. Peter Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.
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-- Mae West They're almost inseparable. Sometimes it takes ten people to separate them.
-- Anonymous Employment
And since the stench of death will always attract flies and vermin, the arrival of Geraldo was
perhaps inevitable.
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-- Oscar Wilde The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with
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that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.
-- Alexander Pope Employment
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-- William Yeats Women see better than men. Men see lazily, if they do not expect to act. Women see quite
without any wish to act.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Employment Your every voter, as surely as your chief magistrate, exercises a public trust.
-- Grover Cleveland "How is it that we never have time to do a job right, but we always have time to do it over?" (Anonymous) "I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it." (Thomas Jefferson, to Archibald Stuart, 1791) Employment
Happy are those who dream dreams and are willing to pay the price to make them come true.
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-- Emily Dickinson, dying words "By seeing the seed of failure in every success, we remain humble. By seeing the seed of success in every failure we remain hopeful." (Mel Ziegler, founder of Banana Republic) Education is not filling a bucket, but lighting a fire.
-- William Yeats Employment
First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.
- Mahatma Gandhi Be tolerant of the human race. Your whole family belongs to it -- and some of your spouse's
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-- Theodore Roosevelt The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it.
-- Anonymous You are educated when you have the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your
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-- Robert Frost Employment If you can't get rid of the skeleton in your closet, you'd best teach it to dance.
- George Bernard Shaw I know I'm not in government anymore. In fact I'm out of work.
-- Ronald Reagan, Former U.S. President, on a speaking tour of Japan, 1989 First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.
- Mahatma Gandhi Employment
Even overweight cats instinctively know the cardinal rule: when fat, arrange yourself in slim
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-- John Weitz, American Designer Look at life through the windshield, not the rear-view mirror.
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My darling wife was always glum. I drowned her in a cask of rum, And so made sure that she would stay, In better spirits night and day. Marriage is bliss. Ignorance is bliss. Ergo...
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-- George Bernard Shaw Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
-- Oscar Wilde I don't know which is more discouraging, literature or chickens.
-- E. B. White Employment
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-- Robert J. Oppenheimer, citing from the Bhagavadgita, after witnessing the world's first nuclear
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-- Humphrey Bogart to Lauren Bacall, in "The Big Sleep" Employment
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don't know and Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in
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-- Oscar Wilde, dying words Employment
