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-- Robert Browning Opportunities multiply as they are seized.
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-- Lenny Bruce Recreation and Sports
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-- James Joyce Recreation and Sports
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The real test of friendship is: Can you literally do nothing with the other person? Can you enjoy
together those moments of life that are utterly simple? They are the moments people looks back
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- Oscar Wilde There are two means of refuge from the misery of life - music and cats.
-- Albert Schweitzer Thank God - every morning when you get up - that you have something to do which must be
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Substitute "damn" every time you're inclined to write "very"; your editor will delete it and the
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-- Mark Twain Reason can answer questions, but imagination has to ask them.
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-- Virginia Woolf Recreation and Sports
War is a profession by which a man cannot live honorably; an employment by which the soldier, if
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-- Niccolo Machiavelli Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech.
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-- George de Benneville "When marrying, ask yourself this question: Do you believe that you will be able to converse well with this person into your old age? Everything else in marriage is transitory." (Friedrich Wilhelm Ni Recreation and Sports
The average, healthy, well-adjusted adult gets up at seven-thirty in the morning feeling just plain
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-- Jean Kerr Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount.
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-- Anonymous If all men were brothers, would you let one marry your sister? A multiple personality is in a certain sense normal.
-- George H. Mead Recreation and Sports When you do the common things in life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of
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If someone had told me I would be Pope one day, I would have studied harder.
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-- Groucho Marx That government is best which governs least.
-- Henry David Thoreau, Civil Disobedience, 1849 If pleasures are greatest in anticipation, just remember that this is also true of trouble.
-- Elbert Hubbard Marriage is a thing which puts a ring on a woman's finger and two under the man's eyes. Recreation and Sports Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche "No one ever owns his youth or the women he loves." (Pedro Almodóvar, Live Flesh) Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
-- George Bernard Shaw Recreation and Sports
"The overman ... Who has organized the chaos of his passions, given style to his character, and become creative. Aware of life's terrors, he affirms life without resentment." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietz A little girl at the wedding afterwards asked her mother why the bride changed her mind. "What
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-- Smith & Jones If it weren't for marriage, men would spend their lives thinking they had no faults at all.
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- Henry David Thoreau What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is
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Acting is the most minor of gifts and not a very high-class way to earn a living. After all, Shirley
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-- Katharine Hepburn Harpo, she's a lovely person. She deserves a good husband. Marry her before she finds one.
-- Oscar Levant, to Harpo Marx upon meeting Harpo's fiancee Life is like a dogsled team. If you ain't the lead dog, the scenery never changes.
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-- Oscar Wilde America's one of the finest countries anyone ever stole.
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