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-- Mark Twain Epperson's law:
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He who laughs, lasts.
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- e e cummings Web Rings
Democracy is a government where you can say what you think even if you don't think.
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I am in total control, but don't tell my wife. The course of true love never did run smooth.
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Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future.
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And now, in keeping with Channel 40's policy of always bringing you the latest in blood and guts,
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-- Virginia Woolf Destiny is but a phrase of the weak human heart - the dark apology for every error. The strong
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-- Anonymous Web Rings "I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter." (Blaise Pascal) There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of
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- Sir Winston Churchill Web Rings
Facts are the enemy of truth.
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-- Anonymous Web Rings
My father was a minister. I had to make up for the lack of sin.
-- Milwuakee mayor, on why he became a politician The gods too are fond of a joke.
- Aristotle "Death is only a launching into the region of the strange Untried; it is but the first salutation to the possibilities of the immense Remote, the Wild, the Watery, the Unshored..." (Herman Melville, The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.
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-- Elsa Schiapirelli Web Rings
When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.
-- Hunter S. Thompson Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing.
-- Oscar Wilde "I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter." (Blaise Pascal) In the past decade or so, the women's magazines have taken to running home-handyperson
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-- Buddy Hackett Web Rings Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is enemy action.
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The person who is slowest in making a promise is most faithful in its performance.
-- Jean-Jacques Rousseau If the headache would only precede the intoxication, alcoholism would be a virtue.
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