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There is nothing more notable in Socrates than that he found time, when he was an old man, to
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-- Ernest Rutherford Travel and Tourism Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of
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-- Ludwig von Beethoven, dying words Travel and Tourism
It is always right that a man should be able to render a reason for the faith that is within him.
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Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish.
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It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.
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I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think.
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-- Oscar Levant Travel and Tourism
Technology is a way of organizing the universe so that man doesn't have to experience it.
-- Max Frisch Age does not protect you from love but love to some extent protects you from age.
-- Jeanne Moreau Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you.
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-- Lucius Anneaus Seneca Courage is the price that Love exacts for granting peace.
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We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
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-- Will Rogers Travel and Tourism "Today was good. / Today was fun. / Tomorrow is another one." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) The Democrats are the party that says government will make you smarter, taller, richer, and
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Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.
-- Aristotle Silence is argument carried out by other means.
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Statistics are like a bikini. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.
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-- Charles Pierce What I look forward to is continued immaturity followed by death.
-- Dave Barry Travel and Tourism
