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I was under medication when I made the decision not to burn the tapes.
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-- Tom K. Ryan A little girl at the wedding afterwards asked her mother why the bride changed her mind. "What
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-- Slavoj Zizek Since Eve ate the apple, much depends on dinner.
-- Lord Byron Basic research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
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-- Sigmund Freud Recreation and Sports
Sex is like bridge: If you don't have a good partner, you better have a good hand.
-- Charles Pierce Marriage is a romance in which the heroine dies in the first chapter.
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-- Steven Wright Recreation and Sports If you haven't got anything nice to say about anybody, come sit next to me.
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-- John Brown - last words Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of
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-- Clive James Recreation and Sports
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-- Anonymous I recently read that love is entirely a matter of chemistry. That must be why my wife treats me like
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-- David Bissonette Marriage is a thing which puts a ring on a woman's finger and two under the man's eyes. Recreation and Sports The planting of trees is the least self-centered of all that we can do. It is a purer act of faith than
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-- Thornton Wilder Say goodbye to the oldies, but goodies, because the good old days weren't always good and
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-- Billy Joel There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.
-- George Santayana Recreation and Sports
People say "I want peace." If you remove I {ego}, and your want {desire}, you are left with peace.
-- Satya Sai Baba There are many things worth living for, there are a few things worth dying for, but there is nothing
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-- Tom Robbins The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.
- Emile Zola Compromise: An amiable arrangement between husband and wife whereby they agree to let her
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-- David Mamet Here's a toast to your new bride who has everything a girl could want in her life, except for good
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This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold
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-- Will Rogers "Boredom is a vital problem for the moralist, since at least half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
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-- Oscar Wilde There is more to life than increasing its speed.
-- Gandhi When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President; I'm beginning to believe it.
-- Clarence Darrow Recreation and Sports
We didn't lose the game; we just ran out of time.
- Vince Lombardi The mistakes are all waiting to be made.
- chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower (1887-1956) on the game's opening position If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.
-- Virginia Woolf Character may be manifested in the great moments, but it is made in the small ones.
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-- Albert Einstein Recreation and Sports
"Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent." (Napoleon Bonaparte) Great eaters and great sleepers are incapable of anything else that is great.
-- William Shakespeare, Henry IV In any organization there will always be one person who knows what is going on. This person
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"No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave." (Calvin Coolidge) "Not only is there no guarantee of the temporal immortality of the human soul, that is to say of its eternal survival after death; but, in any case, this assumption completely fails to accomplish the Success is peace of mind which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you did your best
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-- John R. Wooden, Practical Modern Basketball The love we give away is the only love we keep.
-- Elbert Hubbard Work is the curse of the drinking class.
-- Oscar Wilde Recreation and Sports God help the man who won't marry until he finds a perfect woman, and God help him still more if
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-- Benjamin Tillett >From the moment I picked your book up until I laid it down I was convulsed with laughter. Some
day I intend reading it.
-- Groucho Marx Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive.
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