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-- Ronald Reagan Politics is for people who have a passion for changing life but lack a passion for living it.
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-- Oscar Wilde I'm not a member of any organized political party, I'm a Democrat!
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"We must view young people not as empty bottles to be filled but as candles to be lit." (Robert Shaffer) The theory used to be you marry an older man because they are more mature. The new theory is that men don't mature. So you might as well marry a younger one. Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it.
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Many a man owes his success to his first wife and his second wife to his success.
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-- Anon Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
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-- Tryon Edwards Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
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This isn't right, this isn't even wrong.
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-- Thomas Jefferson Abstract art: a product of the untalented sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.
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-- H. L. Mencken I shall return.
-- General Douglas MacArthur In the blithe days of honeymoon,
With Kate's allurements smitten,
I lov'd her late, I lov'd her soon,
And call'd her dearest kitten.
But now my kitten's grown a cat,
And cross like other wives.
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