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-- Joseph Addison Until the day of his death, no man can be sure of his courage.
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-- Bertolt Brecht Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.
-- Erica Jong Hell is a half-filled auditorium.
-- Robert Frost Recreation and Sports
Marriage still confers one very special privilege - only a married person can get divorced. Cliches should be avoided like the plague.
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-- Fred Hoyle One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is
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- Bertrand Russell
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He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.
- Sir Winston Churchill We come to love not by finding a perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person
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-- Anonymous Genius is 99 percent perspiration and 1 percent inspiration.
-- Thomas Edison Wedding is destiny, and hanging likewise.
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- Henry David Thoreau Recreation and Sports Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
- Will Durant A conference is a gathering of important people who singly can do nothing, but together can
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Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.
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-- Oscar Wilde Recreation and Sports "If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) I heard someone tried the monkeys-on-typewriters bit trying for the plays of W. Shakespeare, but
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- Bill Hirst God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.
-- Voltaire Recreation and Sports
Hell is a half-filled auditorium.
-- Robert Frost Don't stay in bed, unless you can make money in bed.
- George Burns "Women might be able to fake orgasms. But men can fake whole relationships." (Sharon Stone) The male is a domestic animal which, if treated with firmness, can be trained to do most things.
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You've no idea of what a poor opinion I have of myself, and how little I deserve it.
-- W.S. Gilbert I hate work. That's why I got married.
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-- Dawn French Recreation and Sports When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President; I'm beginning to believe it.
-- Clarence Darrow Marry not a tennis player. For love means nothing to them. No wonder nobody comes here--it's too crowded.
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The President has kept all of the promises he intended to keep.
- Clinton aide George Stephanopolous speaking on Larry King Live The voice of the intellect is a soft one, but it does not rest till it has gained a hearing.
-- Sigmund Freud If all these sweet young things were laid end to end, I wouldn't be the slightest bit surprised.
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"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) Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the
consequences.
-- Isadora Duncan Parenthetical remarks (however relevant) are unnecessary.
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He who knows only his own side of the case, knows little of that.
-- John Stuart Mill Based on what you know about him in history books, what do you think Abraham Lincoln would
be doing if he were alive today?
1) Writing his memoirs of the Civil War.
2) Advising the President.
3) D Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you.
- Carl Gustav Jung Musical people always want one to be perfectly dumb at the very moment when one is longing to
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-- Oscar Wilde Meetings are an addictive, highly self-indulgent activity that corporations and other large
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- Father Larry Lorenzoni The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
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Thomas Jefferson--still surv...
-- John Adams, dying words It is with true love as it is with ghosts; everyone talks about it, but few have seen it.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld Remember your dreams.
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-- Johann Sebastian Bach Recreation and Sports In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice
that I am not a Republican.
-- H. L. Mencken I hate women because they always know where things are.
-- James Thurber "I want my food dead. Not sick, not dying, dead." (Oscar Wilde) Recreation and Sports
