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-- Henny Youngman In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that
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-- Will Rogers Live your questions now, and perhaps even without knowing it, you will live along some distant
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-- Rainer Maria Rilke Science and Environment
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-- Mary Buckley Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it. A government is the only known vessel that leaks from the top.
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We didn't send you to Washington to make intelligent decisions. We sent you to represent us.
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-- James Baldwin, Nobody Knows My Name, 1961 I tried a mail order bride, once, but she was damaged in the mail, and I had to return the unused part for my full refund. >From the Far East I send you one single thought, one sole idea--written in red on every
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-- Albert Einstein Science and Environment
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-- Gilda Radner Husbands are awkward things to deal with; even keeping them in hot water will not make them
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-- Mary Buckley "There is nothing more fearful than ignorance in action." (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1749-1832, Criticisms, Reflections and Maxims) NEIGHBOR, n. One whom we are commanded to love as ourselves, and who does all he knows
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-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 A government is the only known vessel that leaks from the top.
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-- Bertolt Brecht Science and Environment
"The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man." (George Bernard Shaw) "Treat a man as he is, and he will remain as he is. Treat a man as he could be, and he will become what he should be." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Do or do not. There is no try.
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-- Albert Einstein Science and Environment Gentlemen, it is better to have died a small boy than to fumble this football.
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-- Kate Halverson Science and Environment
One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good
reputation.
-- Oscar Wilde 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 We can say 'Peace on Earth,' we can sing about it, preach about it or pray about it, but if we have
not internalized the mythology to make it happen inside us, then it will not be.
-- Betty Shabazz What do you take me for, an idiot?
- General Charles de Gaulle (1890-1970), when a journalist asked him if he was happy It was the greatest of the imperfect ventriloquist acts: when his lips moved, her body sang.
-- Tom Robbins Science and Environment Be tolerant of the human race. Your whole family belongs to it -- and some of your spouse's
family does too.
-- Anonymous "If you light a man a fire, he will be warm for a day; if you light a man on fire, he will be warm for the rest of his life." (Anonymous) The wages of sin are death, but by the time taxes are taken out, it's just sort of a tired feeling.
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-- Abraham Lincoln I guess the only way to stop divorce is to stop marriage.
-- Will Rogers Do not assume that she who seeks to comfort you now, lives untroubled among the simple and
quiet words that sometimes do you good. Her life may also have much sadness and difficulty, that
remains fa Science and Environment If you want to sing out, sing out, and if you want to be free, be free, 'cause there's a million ways
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-- Cat Stevens, from a song lyric "Experience is the name that everyone gives to their mistakes." (Oscar Wilde) Marriage is the one subject on which all women agree and all men disagree.
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