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-- Buddha Recreation and Sports
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- George Bernard Shaw Recreation and Sports UGLINESS, n. A gift of the gods to certain women, entailing virtue without humility.
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This is the miracle that happens every time to those who really love; the more they give, the more
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Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
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-- Friedrich Nietzsche Recreation and Sports
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-- August Strindberg Recreation and Sports If ever two were one, then surely we.
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-- Anne Bradstreet You can pay attention to the fact, in which case you'll probably become a mathematician, or you
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-- Mark Twain Recreation and Sports
Work expands to fill the time available.
-- PARKINSON'S LAW A man who marries a woman to educate her falls a victim to the same fallacy as the woman who
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-- Beverly Sills Recreation and Sports
"The evil that is in the world almost always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence if they lack understanding." (Albert Camus) Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them
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-- Stephen Leacock Recreation and Sports The fate of love is that it always seems too little or too much.
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-- M. Hirschfield I don't know as much as God, but I know more than He did at my age.
-- Henry Kissinger Recreation and Sports
Friends applaud, the Comedy is over.
-- Ludwig von Beethoven, dying words The question is not whether we will die, but how we will live.
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-- James Thurber If you can't convince them, confuse them.
-- Harry S. Truman Recreation and Sports
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-- H. L. Mencken Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous
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-- Samuel Johnson My good intentions are completely lethal.
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