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-- Anonymous Old soldiers never die, they just fade away.
-- General Douglas MacArthur Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains or slavery? Forbid it,
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-- Schopenhauer Education Curiosity will conquer fear even more than bravery will.
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Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.
-- Oscar Wilde "Some look at things that are, and ask why. I dream of things that never were and ask why not?" (George Bernard Shaw) "Today was good. / Today was fun. / Tomorrow is another one." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. blah bla "I never think of the future. It comes soon enough." (Albert Einstein) Education The executive exists to make sensible exceptions to general rules.
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-- F. M. Knowles Education
In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: It goes on.
-- Robert Frost In a novel, the hero can lay ten girls and marry a virgin for the finish. In a movie, that is not
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-- Anon. The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that it has never tried to
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-- Abraham Lincoln, in a letter to Education
>From the Far East I send you one single thought, one sole idea--written in red on every
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-- Albert Einstein Education "When thou art at Rome, do as they do at Rome." (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1547-1616) Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.
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intellect has intended us to forgo their use.
- Galileo Galilei Education
"Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave, and impossible to forget." (G. Randolf) Everything is drive-through. In California, they even have a burial service called Jump-In-The-
Box.
-- Wil Shriner "I was a total loner, not by self-design. I just didn't know what the hell to say to people. I was so shy. I used to stammer and lisp and dribble at the mouth." (Sir Anthony Hopkins, on his youth) "Courage is doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared." (Eddie Rickenbacker) "It is not the answer that enlightens, but the question." (Eugene Ionesco) Education Live truth instead of professing it.
-- Elbert Hubbard The trouble with children is that they are not returnable.
-- Quentin Crisp "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) Education
I don't feel good.
-- Luther Burbank, dying words Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple, learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a
dozen.
-- John Steinbeck Love is the dawn of marriage, and marriage is the sunset of love.
-- French saying Most of our obstacles would melt away if, instead of cowering before them, we should make up
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-- Orison Swett Marden Marriage: the only sport in which the trapped animal has to buy the license. Education Jealousy is the only vice that gives no pleasure.
-- Anonymous "In every gathering of thirteen, expect one guest will turn out to be a Judas." (Aleister Crowley) Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the
unpalatable.
-- John Kenneth Galbraith Education
Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution.
-- Mae West Whoever is not a misanthrope at forty can never have loved mankind.
-- Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort He who kisses the joy is it flies lives in eternity's sunrise
-- William Blake Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusion is called a philosopher.
- Ambrose Bierce Education Football incorporates the two worst elements of American society: violence punctuated by
committee meetings.
-- George F. Will, journalist, political commentator, 1994 The two most common elements in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity. But not in that order.
-- Brian Pickrell You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try.
-- Beverly Sills Education
Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
- Henry Louis Mencken In the sciences, we are now uniquely privileged to sit side by side with the giants on whose
shoulders we stand.
-- Gerald Holton There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called marriage. -- James Holt McGavran After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
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that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our
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-- Libbie Fudim Education
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problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
- Buckminster Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.
-- Bertrand Russell What is politics, after all, but the compulsion to preside over property and make other peoples'
decisions for them?
-- Tom Robbins, Skinny Legs and All Every major horror of history was committed in the name of an altruistic motive.
-- Ayn Rand Education I dislike arguments of any kind. They are always vulgar, and often convincing.
-- Oscar Wilde Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother.
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Hell is a half-filled auditorium.
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-- Charles Schultz No other success can compensate for failure in the home.
-- David O. McKay, Encyclopedia of Mormonism, Advice to parents at General Conference of he
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- H. M. Warner, founder of Warner Brothers, in 1927 Education Opportunity may knock only once, but temptation leans on the doorbell.
-- Anonymous CAPITAL, n. The seat of misgovernment. That which provides the fire, the pot, the dinner, the
table and the knife and fork for the anarchist; the part of the repast that himself supplies is the
disg Be like a postage stamp. Stick to one thing until you get there.
-- Josh Billings Education
When you gaze long into the abyss, the abyss also gazes into you.
- Friedrich Nietzsche We didn't send you to Washington to make intelligent decisions. We sent you to represent us.
-- Kent York, Baptist minister to US Rep. Bill Sarpalius There is nothing more notable in Socrates than that he found time, when he was an old man, to
learn music and dancing, and thought it time well spent.
-- Michel de Montaigne When you see what some girls marry, you realize how they must hate to work for a living.
-- Helen Rowland A witty saying proves nothing.
- Voltaire Education Nothing average ever stood as a monument to progress. When progress is looking for a partner it
doesn't turn to those who believe they are only average. It turns instead to those who are forever
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-- George Eliot "Plato was a bore." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Education
