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Old soldiers never die, they just fade away.
-- General Douglas MacArthur Your goals, minus your doubts, equal your reality.
-- Ralph Marston "To pretend, I actually do the thing: I have therefore only pretended to pretend." (Jacques Derrida, French 'deconstructionist') "Fools rush in where angels fear to tread." (Alexander Pope) You can take all the sincerity in Hollywood, place it in the navel of a firefly and still have room
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-- Fred Allen Music "The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances." (Viktor E. Frankl) Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
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"The brighter you are, the more you have to learn." (Don Herold) "Fear is a darkroom where negatives develop." (Usman Asif) "The depth and strength of a human character are defined by its moral reserves. People reveal themselves completely only when they are thrown out of the customary conditions of their life, for only th "Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave, and impossible to forget." (G. Randolf) This is a test. It is only a test. Had it been an actual job, you would have received raises,
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-- Anonymous Music A theory is something nobody believes, except the person who made it. An experiment is
something everybody believes, except the person who made it.
-- Albert Einstein, attributed The course of true love never did run smooth.
-- William Shakespeare Marriage means commitment. Of course, so does insanity. Music
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-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Imitation is the sincerest form of television.
-- Fred Allen How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it.
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-- Libby Gelman-Waxner The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other
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-- Henry David Thoreau Many a man that could rule a hundherd millyon sthrangers with an ir'n hand is careful to take off
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I've never had major knee surgery on any other part of my body.
-- Winston Bennett, University of Kentucky basketball forward Some men are born with cold feet; some acquire cold feet; and some have cold feet thrust upon
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-- Anonymous It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely uneducated.
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commonsensical reply that we don't have as much money. That was a true but incomplete
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-- Barbara Bush, first lady, 1989 Music
Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes
unpunished.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars." (Oscar Wilde) "Be the change that you want to see in the world." (Mohandas Gandhi) "The rules for parents are but three... Love, Limit, and Let them be." (Elaine M. Ward) Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche Music "People have to talk about something just to keep their voice boxes in working order so they'll have good voice boxes in case there's ever anything really meaningful to say." (Kurt Vonnegut) Ninety percent of everything is crap.
-- Theodore Sturgeon Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way
around the laws.
- Plato Music
We all agree that your theory is crazy, but is it crazy enough?
- Niels Bohr Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by the traffic from
both sides.
-- Margaret Thatcher "Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing." (Oscar Wilde) Every normal man must be tempted at times to spit upon his hands, hoist the black flag, and
begin slitting throats.
- Henry Louis Mencken We didn't lose the game; we just ran out of time.
- Vince Lombardi Music A good marriage is at least 80 percent good luck in finding the right person at the right time. The
rest is trust.
-- Nanette Newman, British actress My wife ran off with my best friend last week. I miss him! Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of
the other person.
-- Mark Twain Music
I have spread my dreams under your feet;
Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.
-- William Butler Yeats, from "He wishes for the cloths of heaven" We have drugs to make women speak, but none to keep them silent.
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-- P. J. O'Rourke Music True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.
-- Henry David Thoreau "That government is best which governs the least, because its people discipline themselves." (Thomas Jefferson) "The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do." (Anonymous) Music
If something is boring after two minutes, try it for four. If still boring, then eight. Then sixteen. Then thirty-two. Eventually one discovers that it is not boring at all." (John Cage) Children are a poor man's riches.
-- English proverb 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 Love makes the time pass. Time makes love pass.
-- French Proverb Anyone can be passionate, but it takes real lovers to be silly.
-- Rose Franken Music Marriage has many pains, but celibacy has no pleasures.
-- Samuel Johnson If all these sweet young things were laid end to end, I wouldn't be the slightest bit surprised.
-- Dorothy Parker "Boredom is a vital problem for the moralist, since at least half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Music
The true spirit of conversation consists in building on another man's observation, not overturning
it.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton Great ability develops and reveals itself increasingly with every new assignment. Baltasar
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family does too.
-- Anonymous Love is temporary insanity curable by marriage.
-- Ambrose Bierce Democracy encourages the majority to decide things about which the majority is blissfully
ignorant.
--John Simon Music Never be possessive. If a female friend lets on that she is going out with another man, be kind
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there, I go to work.
- Robert Orben Music
"Men act and women appear. Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at." (John Berger) "... What good are dreams if they come true?" (Frederick Exley, A Fan's Notes) Chase after the truth like all hell and you'll free yourself, even though you never touch its
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-- Rich Little Music 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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-- Rodney Dangerfield "If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, sir, should keep his friendship in a constant repair." (Samuel Johnson) I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones.
-- John Cage Music
Nothing says lovin' like marrying your cousin!
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Dogma is the sacrifice of wisdom to consistency.
- Lewis Perelman Guys are lucky because they get to grow mustaches. I wish I could. It's like having a little pet for
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-- Anita Wise I think we are drawn to dogs because they are the uninhibited creatures we might be if we weren't
certain we knew better.
-- George Bird Evans The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt Music "Some look at things that are, and ask why. I dream of things that never were and ask why not?" (George Bernard Shaw) Children are the only form of immortality that we can be sure of.
-- Peter Ustinov "Murder is the very bed-rock of our social institutions." (Octave Mirbeau, The Torture Garden) Music
