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-- D. H. Lawrence Travel and Tourism Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
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-- Will Rogers Travel and Tourism
My mother's menu consisted of two choices: Take it or leave it.
-- Buddy Hackett There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.
-- Benjamin Disraeli "Do not do unto others as you expect they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same." (George Bernard Shaw) You have a cough? Go home tonight, eat a whole box of Ex-Lax--tomorrow you'll be afraid to
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-- Pearl Williams "What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage." Travel and Tourism Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same.
-- Oscar Wilde He didn't say that. He was reading what was given to him in a speech.
-- Richard Darman, director of OMB, explaining why President Bush wasn't following up on his
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-- Cormac McCarthy Travel and Tourism
The difference between false memories and true ones is the same as for jewels: it is always the
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-- Salvador Dali I begin by taking. I shall find scholars later to demonstrate my perfect right.
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-- Schopenhauer The remarkable thing about television is that it permits several million people to laugh at the same
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-- T. S. Eliot Travel and Tourism
You can pay attention to the fact, in which case you'll probably become a mathematician, or you
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-- Anita Wise Travel and Tourism "Anyone who thinks they're important is usually just a pompous moron who can't deal with his or her own pathetic insignificance and the fact that what they do is meaningless and inconsequential..." ( "That's the true sign. If the lover has not yet achieved his prize, his eyes will follow the woman, while she appears indifferent. But once he's gained his goal, it's the woman's eyes that follow him, Men marry because they are tired, women because they are curious; both are disappointed.
-- Oscar Wilde Travel and Tourism
"I'll endorse with my name any of the following; clothing AC-DC, cigarettes, small tapes, sound equipment, ROCK N' ROLL RECORDS, anything, film, and film equipment, Food, Helium, Whips, MONEY!!" (And The bottom line is that (a) people are never perfect, but love can be, (b) that is the one and only
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-- Fred Hoyle Travel and Tourism
The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
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-- Oscar Wilde Travel and Tourism The bottom line is that (a) people are never perfect, but love can be, (b) that is the one and only
way that the mediocre and vile can be transformed, and (c) doing that makes it that. We waste
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beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists.
-- Al Rogers, Global SchoolHouse Netw Marriage is not just a having a wife, but also worries inherited forever. Travel and Tourism
Sign in a marriage counselor's window: "Out to lunch - Think it over." The better part of one's life consists of his friendships.
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-- Beau Brummel Travel and Tourism
Is there life before death?
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What a difference there is between what we say and what we think.
-- Racine I require three things in a man: He must be handsome, ruthless, and stupid.
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-- Heywood Brown My opinions are my wife's, and she says I'm lucky to have them. Travel and Tourism More light!
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, dying words Well if this is the wrong number, why did you answer it?
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-- Madeleine L'Engle Travel and Tourism
"Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave, and impossible to forget." (G. Randolf) Love is not blind - it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.
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-- Fred Allen Travel and Tourism
I had some words with my wife, and she had some paragraphs with me. There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world; and that is an idea whose time has
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-- Victor Hugo 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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--Loesje One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is
terribly important.
- Bertrand Russell
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A little inaccuracy sometimes saves a ton Travel and Tourism A woman's always younger than a man of equal years.
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-- Aldous Huxley The better part of one's life consists of his friendships.
-- Abraham Lincoln Travel and Tourism
