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"Hello Kitty is an icon that doesn't stand for a Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.
-- Salvador Dali A conference is a gathering of important people who singly can do nothing, but together can
decide that nothing can be done.
-- Fred Allen When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I only think about how to solve the
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- Buckminster "The concerned investment banker is the one who blows the horn on his Mercedes as he drives through a red light." (Anonymous) Recreation and Sports Vote early and vote often.
- Al Capone "In married life three is company and two is none." (Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest) "Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously u Recreation and Sports
To love another person is to help them love God.
-- Søren Kierkegaard An undefined problem has an infinite number of solutions.
-- Robert A. Humphrey Education is an admirable thing, but nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
-- Oscar Wilde If you are going through hell, keep going.
- Sir Winston Churchill "Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishments." (Anonymous) Recreation and Sports These people have served a longer sentence than some people who have committed murder.
-- Jeff Greenfield, news analyst, describing the jury in the OJ Simpson murder trial, 1995 Always bear in mind that your own resolution to success is more important than any other one
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-- Abraham Lincoln Whenever you eliminate the inedible, whatever remains, however unpalatable, must be food.
-- Anonymous Recreation and Sports
By working faithfully eight hours a day, you might eventually get to be a boss and work twelve
hours a day.
-- ROBERT FROST When a thing has been said and said well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it.
-- Anatole France May you never leave your marriage alive. Computers can figure out all kinds of problems, except the things in the world that just don't add
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-- Anon Honor lies in honest toil.
-- Grover Cleveland Recreation and Sports Seeing a murder on television can help work off one's antagonisms. And if you haven't any
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-- Alfred Hitchcock Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.
-- George Bernard Shaw When you do the common things in life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of
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- George Washington Carver Recreation and Sports
There are some experiences in life which should not be demanded twice from any man, and one
of them is listening to the Brahms Requiem.
-- George Bernard Shaw Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your position falls, your ego goes with
it.
-- Colin Powell There is nothing so wrong in this world that a sensible woman can't set it right in the course of an
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-- Giraudoux Let the refining and improving of your own life keep you so busy that you have little time to
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-- W. Somerset Maugham Recreation and Sports It is not good enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.
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"Every now and then say, 'What the fu(c)k.' 'What the fu(c)k' gives you freedom. Freedom brings opportunity. Opportunity makes your future." (Curtis Armstrong, Risky Business, 1983) Fill the unforgiving minute with sixty seconds worth of distance run.
- Rudyard Kipling I shall return.
-- General Douglas MacArthur Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.
- George Eliot Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love,
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-- Oscar Wilde Recreation and Sports There is nothing better for the spirit or the body than a love affair. It elevates the thoughts and
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-- John Cleese, Monty Python, British comedy television show Black holes are where God divided by zero.
- Steven Wright Recreation and Sports
There's no problem so awful that you can't add some guilt to it and make it even worse!
-- Calvin I skate to where the puck is going to be, not to where it has been.
-- Wayne Gretzky "It seems to me that almost all our sadnesses are moments of tension, which we feel as paralysis because we no longer hear our astonished emotions living." (Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poe If you never want to see a man again, say, "I love you, I want to marry you, I want to have children..." - they leave skid marks. -- Rita Rudner "I never learned from a man who agreed with me." (Robert A. Heinlein) Recreation and Sports When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President; I'm beginning to believe it.
-- Clarence Darrow You've no idea of what a poor opinion I have of myself, and how little I deserve it.
-- W.S. Gilbert Someday is not a day of the week.
-- Anon. Recreation and Sports
You can always amend a big plan, but you can never expand a little one. I don't believe in little
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-- Ha "He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever." (Chinese Proverb) "Children begin by loving their parents. After a time they judge them. Rarely, if ever, do they forgive them." (Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance) Character is what you are in the dark.
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-- Wernher von Braun Recreation and Sports Some birds aren't meant to be caged, their feathers are just too bright. And when they fly away,
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"It is a curious thing that God learned Greek when he wished to turn author--and that he did not learn it better." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Bachelors know more about women than married men; if they didn't, they'd be married too.
-- H. L. Mencken A person should never be ashamed to own that he is wrong, which is but saying in other words
that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.
-- Alexander Pope The IRS spends God knows how much of your tax money on these toll-free information hot lines
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-- Chuck Jones-directed cartoon Recreation and Sports "Education is a vacine for violence." (Edward James Olmos) We love because it's the only true adventure.
-- Nikki Giovanni "Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Recreation and Sports
Before you put on a frown, make absolutely sure there are no smiles available.
-- Jim Beggs I think every woman is entitled to a middle husband she can forget.
-- Adela Rogers St. John The mistakes are all waiting to be made.
- chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower (1887-1956) on the game's opening position They were doing a full back shot of me in a swimsuit and I thought, Oh my God, I have to be so
brave. See, every woman hates herself from behind.
-- Cindy Crawford, supermodel We think caged birds sing, when indeed they cry.
-- John Webster Recreation and Sports Always behave like a duck--keep calm and unruffled on the surface but paddle like the devil
underneath.
-- Jacob Braude I've always thought that underpopulated countries in Africa are vastly underpolluted.
-- Lawrence Summers, chief economist of the World Bank, explaining why we should export toxic
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"Fake is as old as the Eden tree." (George Orson Welles) Since Eve ate the apple, much depends on dinner.
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remember you heard the New Jersey Governor quote from 10,000 Maniacs.
-- Christine Todd, NJ Governor, Whea Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so you apologize for truth.
-- Benjamin Disraeli If ever two were one, then surely we.
If ever man were loved by wife, then thee.
-- Anne Bradstreet Recreation and Sports Opportunity may knock only once, but temptation leans on the doorbell.
-- Anonymous If it weren't for marriage, men and women would have to fight with total strangers.
-- Anonymous We haven't the money, so we've got to think.
-- Lord Rutherford Recreation and Sports
"The man who never made a mistake never made anything." (Derek Longdon, Tongariro Power Development, Turangi, New Zealand) When you gaze long into the abyss, the abyss also gazes into you.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Do or do not. There is no try.
-- Yoda, character in the movie The Empire Strikes Back To realize that you do not understand is a virtue;
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--Lao-Tzu, "Tao Teh Ching" Recreation and Sports I will try to follow the advice that a university president once gave a prospective commencement
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th In the end, everything is a gag.
-- Charlie Chaplin When a girl marries she exchanges the attention of many men for the inattention of one.
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