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-- Henry B. Adams The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind
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-- S. T. Coleridge "To avoid criticism: do nothing, say nothing, be nothing." (Elbert Hubbard, American author, 1856-1915) It is always right that a man should be able to render a reason for the faith that is within him.
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-- George Bernard Shaw Financial Services If pleasures are greatest in anticipation, just remember that this is also true of trouble.
-- Elbert Hubbard Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish.
-- Albert Einstein "I don't believe people die. They just go uptown. To Bloomingdales. They just take longer to get back." (Andy Warhol) Financial Services
Multimedia? As far as I'm concerned, it's reading with the radio on!
-- Rory Bremner Marital Freedom: The liberty that allows a husband to do exactly that which his wife pleases.
-- Anonymous Honor lies in honest toil.
-- Grover Cleveland "I either want less corruption, or more chance to participate in it." (Ashleigh Brilliant) A life spent in making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent doing
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-- George Benard Shaw Financial Services "By seeing the seed of failure in every success, we remain humble. By seeing the seed of success in every failure we remain hopeful." (Mel Ziegler, founder of Banana Republic) Statistics are like a bikini. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.
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- Henry Kissinger Financial Services
Did you hear about the scientist whose wife had twins? He baptized one and kept the other as a control. Thank heaven. A bachelor's life is no life for a single man.
-- Samuel Goldwyn, immigrant-turned-famous-movie-producer, when told his son was getting
married "If you do not know where you are going, any road will take you there." (Sterling Holloway, voice of Chesire Cat, Alice in Wonderland) I have often regretted my speech, never my silence.
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-- G. K. Chesterton I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell this to my children they just about throw up.
-- Barbara Bush, first lady, 1989 Financial Services
I think one of the reasons I'm popular again is because I'm wearing a tie. You have to be different.
-- Tony Bennett, 1995 Whining is not only graceless, but can be dangerous. It can alert a brute that a victim is in the
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-- Maya Angelou A man sits with a pretty girl for an hour, it seems like a minute. He sits on a hot stove for a
minute, it's longer than any hour. That is relativity.
-- Albert Einstein He who laughs last thinks slowest.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker "I learned more from the one restaurant that didn't work than from all the ones that were successes." (Wolfgang Puck, restauranteur) Financial Services Reality is nothing but a collective hunch.
-- Lily Tomlin cannot imagine any condition which would cause this ship to founder. Modern shipbuilding has
gone beyond that.
-- E. I. Smith, Captain of the Titanic You can't buy love, but you can pay heavily for it.
-- Henny Youngman Financial Services
All courage is a form of constancy. It is always himself that a coward abandons first. After this all
other betrayals come.
-- Cormac McCarthy What I have to say is far more important than how long my eyelashes are.
-- Alanis Morissette, singer, 1995 Computers will not be perfected until they can compute how much more than the estimate the job
will cost.
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-- Satya Sai Baba Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than
the wisest man can answer.
-- Charles Caleb Colton Now comes the mystery.
-- Henry Ward Beecher, dying words, March 8, 1887 Financial Services
Thank God - every morning when you get up - that you have something to do which must be
done, whether you like it or not. Being forced to work, and forced to do your best, will breed in you
a hundre This is a test. It is only a test. Had it been an actual job, you would have received raises,
promotions, and other signs of appreciation.
-- Anonymous Never try to teach a pig to sing. It wastes your time and annoys the pig.
-- Anonymous Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.
-- David Starr Jordan It ain't what we don't know that gives us trouble, it's what we know that ain't so.
-- Will Rogers Financial Services Vote for the man who promises least. He'll be the least disappointing.
-- Bernard Baruch To realize that you do not understand is a virtue;
Not to realize that you do not understand is a defect.
--Lao-Tzu, "Tao Teh Ching" "And on the seventh day, God stepped back and said 'There is my creation, perfect in every way ... oh, damn it, I left pot all over the place. Now they'll think I want them to smoke it. Now I have to Financial Services
A man in the house is worth two in the street.
-- Mae West "It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so." (Mark Twain) A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties; no
religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear
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-- Henny Youngman Financial Services "No one lies so boldly as the man who is indignant." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The only thing that holds a marriage together is the husband bein' big enough to keep his mouth
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-- Archie Bunker, character on "All in the Family, "When a hundred men stand together, each of them loses his mind and gets another one." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Financial Services
Work is the curse of the drinking class.
-- Oscar Wilde When one find's oneself in a hole of one's own making, it is a good time to examine the quality of
the workmanship.
-- John Renmerde It is much more comfortable to be mad and know it, than to be sane and have one's doubts.
- G. B. Burgin It's impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune.
-- Woody Allen Children should be like waffles--you should be able to throw the first one away.
-- Mary Alice Messenger Financial Services Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well.
-- Josh Billings My wife has a split personality, and I hate both of them. Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of
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-- Sydney Smith Financial Services
Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions - it only guarantees equality of opportunity.
- Irving Kristol "...when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth." (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes) Effort is only effort when it begins to hurt.
-- Jose Ortega y Gasset A multiple personality is in a certain sense normal.
-- George H. Mead "It is the nature of a man as he grows older, a small bridge in time, to protest against change, particularly change for the better." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) Financial Services Let go of your attachment to being right, and suddenly your mind is more open. You're able to
benefit from the unique viewpoints of others, without being crippled by your own judgment.
-- Ralph Mars To realize that you do not understand is a virtue;
Not to realize that you do not understand is a defect.
--Lao-Tzu, "Tao Teh Ching" "Murderers have been known to find that young girls give them more trouble than anybody else." (Jean Cocteau, Les Enfants Terribles) Financial Services
The surest way to make a monkey of a man is to quote him.
-- Robert Benchley Biography lends to death a new terror.
-- Oscar Wilde Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for him. -- Rich Little Love makes the time pass. Time makes love pass.
-- French Proverb You can pay attention to the fact, in which case you'll probably become a mathematician, or you
can ignore it, in which case you'll probably become a physicist.
-- Len Evans, professor, Northwestern Financial Services Always go to the bathroom when you have a chance.
-- King George V Having a family is like having a bowling alley installed in your brain.
-- Martin Mull Nuns: Women who marry God. If they divorce Him, do they get half the universe? Financial Services
True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.
-- Henry David Thoreau "Goodwill is the only asset that competition cannot undersell or destroy." (Mrshall Field, businessman and philanthropist) There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as
though everything is a miracle.
-- Albert Einstein "I expect nothing. I fear no one. I am free." (Nikos Kazantzakis) blah "This is the hardest of all: to close the open hand out of love, and keep modest as a giver." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Financial Services Our schools have been scientifically designed to prevent over-education from happening. [...] The
average American (should be) content with their humble role in life, because they're not tempted
to "The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet." (Andy Warhol) There is more to life than increasing its speed.
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