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-- George Bernard Shaw Arts and Entertainment
'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
-- ee cummings Logic is in the eye of the logician.
- Gloria Steinem Say goodbye to the oldies, but goodies, because the good old days weren't always good and
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-- Albert Einstein Arts and Entertainment
Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow in Australia.
-- Charles Schultz There are some experiences in life which should not be demanded twice from any man, and one
of them is listening to the Brahms Requiem.
-- George Bernard Shaw "If there is something to pardon in everything, there is also something to condemn." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, The Will to Power, 1888) "Those who hear not the music think the dancers mad." (Anonymous) A woman seldom asks advice before she has bought her wedding clothes.
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-- Tallulah Bankhead The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.
- Emile Zola Arts and Entertainment
Wherever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.
-- Harry S. Truman Man is a natural polygamist. He always has one woman leading him by the nose and another
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-- H. L. Mencken Not to anticipate is already to moan.
-- Leonardo da Vinci "I love Los Angeles. I love Hollywood. They're beautiful. Everybody's plastic, but I love plastic. I want to be plastic." (Andy Warhol, Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up) A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take her off his hands. -- Guitry Arts and Entertainment "Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains." (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, The Social Contract) Nothing is beneath you if it is in the direction of your life.
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-- excerpt from a letter, Illinois Depart The important thing is not to stop questioning.
-- Albert Einstein Honorable, adj. Afflicted with an impediment in one's reach. In legislative bodies, it is customary
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-- Ambrose Bierce Arts and Entertainment
I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood. If it
does need additional interpretation by someone other than the creator, then I question whether it
ha "When once you have tasted flight you will always walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward: for there you have been and there you will always be." (Henry Van Dyke) Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes
unpunished.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Each religion, by the help of more or less myth which it takes more or less seriously, proposes
some method of fortifying the human soul and enabline it to make its peace with its destiny.
-- George Whoever is not a misanthrope at forty can never have loved mankind.
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Men have a much better time of it than women; for one thing, they marry later; for another thing, they die earlier. --H.L. Mencken "Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." (George Bernard Shaw) The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
-- Winston Churchill The closer I'm bound in love to you, the closer I am to free.
-- Indigo Girls, song lyric With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die.
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Research is the act of going up alleys to see if they are blind.
-- Plutarch Never practice two vices at once.
-- Tallulah Bankhead Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you.
- Carl Gustav Jung Marriage: the only sport in which the trapped animal has to buy the license. Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of
the time.
-- E. B. White Arts and Entertainment See what will happen if you don't stop biting your fingernails?
-- Will Rogers, to his niece on seeing the Venus de Milo Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.
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When a friend is in trouble, don't annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up
something appropriate and do it.
-- E. W. Howe God help the man who won't marry until he finds a perfect woman, and God help him still more if
he finds her.
-- Benjamin Tillett Anyone who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without
feminine upheaval. Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex,
the ugl Correction: Instead of being arrested, as we stated, for kicking his wife down a flight of stairs and hurling a lighted kerosene lamp after her, the Rev. James P. Wellman died unmarried four years ago blah "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." (Thomas Jefferson) Arts and Entertainment Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end.
-- Semisonic, Closing Time Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it.
Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it.
Hatred darkens life; love illumines it.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. We had a lot in common. I loved him and he loved him.
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