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-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Travel and Tourism
Only positive consequences encourage good future performances.
-- Kenneth H. Blanchard A person starts to live when he can live outside himself.
-- Albert Einstein "Ideas are far more powerful than guns. We don't allow our enemies to have guns, why should we allow them to have ideas?" (Josef Stalin) Die? I should say not, dear fellow. No Barrymore would allow such a conventional thing to
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-- Anonymous I'm at the age where food has taken the place of sex in my life. In fact, I've just had a mirror put
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Blessed are the young for they shall inherit the national debt.
-- Herbert Hoover "Better is the enemy of good." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) Always behave like a duck--keep calm and unruffled on the surface but paddle like the devil
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-- Mae West Truth can be a dangerous thing. It is quite patient and relentless.
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-- Mother Teresa Travel and Tourism
He who laughs last is generally the last to get the joke.
-- Terry Cohen There are three types of people in this world: Those who can count, and those who can't.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker 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 If all these sweet young things were laid end to end, I wouldn't be the slightest bit surprised.
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The worth of the state, in the long run, is the worth of the individuals composing it.
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-- William Blake We can do no great things; only small things with great love.
-- Mother Teresa Travel and Tourism "Mistakes are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) The whole problem can be stated quite simply by asking, "Is there a meaning to music?" My
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-- Simeon Strunsky Travel and Tourism
A good marriage is like a casserole, only those responsible for it really know what goes in it.
-- Anonymous This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold
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-- Will Rogers Music makes one feel so romantic - at least it always gets on one's nerves - which is the same
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-- Oscar Wilde Luck is the residue of design.
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-- Pearl Williams Problems worthy of attack prove their worth by fighting back.
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One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture and, if
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-- George H. Mead Travel and Tourism
My good intentions are completely lethal.
-- Margaret Atwood Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the
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-- John Kenneth Galbraith Better to have loved a short man than never to have loved a tall.
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-- Montesquieu Travel and Tourism Is there life before death?
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-- D.H. Lawrence Travel and Tourism
"Life is a great surprise. I don't see why death should not be an even greater one." (Vladimir Nabokov) Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day.
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-- Oscar Wilde Travel and Tourism
"Feeding is a very important ritual for me. I don't trust people who don't like to eat." (Gina Gershon) We haven't the money, so we've got to think.
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-- Charlie Chaplin Travel and Tourism Only the little people pay taxes.
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