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-- Oscar Wilde When you're away, I'm restless, lonely
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-- Samuel Hoffenstein Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of
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-- Ralph Mars Personal Pages
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-- Will Rogers, to his niece on seeing the Venus de Milo Personal Pages
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If women didn't exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning.
-- Aristotle Onassis Usenet is like a herd of performing elephants with diarrhea -- massive, difficult to redirect, awe-
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-- John Hogan, Commonwealth Anyone can do any amount of work provided it isn't the work he's supposed to be doing at the
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-- Jean-Jacques Rousseau Personal Pages
If you never want to see a man again, say, "I love you, I want to marry you, I want to have children..." - they leave skid marks. -- Rita Rudner It is important that students bring a certain ragamuffin, barefoot, irreverence to their studies; they
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-- Abraham Lincoln Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure.
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-- Anonymous Personal Pages Fill the unforgiving minute with sixty seconds worth of distance run.
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-- Buddha Personal Pages
"I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." (James Madison) Never judge someone by who he's in love with; judge him by his friends. People fall in love with
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-- Will Rogers Personal Pages
Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana.
-- Groucho Marx "Education is a vacine for violence." (Edward James Olmos) It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
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-- Gandhi Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely
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-- Oscar Wilde Personal Pages
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people all Under capitalism man exploits man; under socialism the reverse is true.
-- Polish proverb It depends on your definition of asleep. They were not stretched out. They had their eyes closed.
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-- John Hogan, Commonwealth Personal Pages Truth must necessarily be stranger than fiction, for fiction is the creation of the human mind and
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