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"I offer images; I conjure memories of freedom that can still be reached ... But, we can only open the doors. We can't drag people through. I can't free them unless they want to be free--more than any blah bla "I never think of the future. It comes soon enough." (Albert Einstein) It's never too late to have a happy childhood.
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"Treat a man as he is, and he will remain as he is. Treat a man as he could be, and he will become what he should be." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Vote early and vote often.
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-- G. K. Chesterton Tauzin backs term limits -- But he thinks it's a bad idea.
-- Headline, story in the New Orleans Times-Picayune, Feb 20, 1995 The grass may be greener on the other side of the fence, but you still have to mow it.
-- Anonymous Travel and Tourism If variety is the spice of life, marriage is the big can of leftover Spam.
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-- Stephen Leacock Adolescence is a period of rapid changes. Between the ages of 12 and 17, for example, a parent
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I do not believe in an afterlife, although I am bringing a change of underwear.
-- Woody Allen Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.
-- George Bernard Shaw Try praising your wife, even if it does frighten her at first.
-- Billy Sunday If you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it's done.
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-- W. Somerset Maugham Travel and Tourism
Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.
-- George Bernard Shaw Realism is a corruption of reality.
-- Wallace Stevens "Nothing touches a work of art so little as words of criticism: they always result in more or less fortunate misunderstandings." (Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet) "I'm the artist formally known as Beck. I have a genius wig. When I put that wig on, then the true genius emerges. I don't have enough hair to be a genius. I think you have to have hair going everywhe Have you ever noticed? Anybody going slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than
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-- George Carlin Travel and Tourism The honest poor can sometimes forget poverty. The honest rich can never forget it.
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-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Travel and Tourism Friends may come and go, but enemies accumulate.
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-- Jonson, Ben Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in
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-- Oscar Wilde Travel and Tourism
"A dress makes no sense unless it inspires men to take it off of you." (Francois Sagan) The better part of one's life consists of his friendships.
-- Abraham Lincoln "Small minds discuss people, average minds discuss events, great minds discuss ideas." (Anonymous) Wedding is destiny, and hanging likewise.
-- John Heywood The story of a love is not important - what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps
the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.
-- Helen Hayes Travel and Tourism The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.
- Emile Zola Of course, it is very important to be sober when you take an exam. Many worthwile careers in the
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You can not apply mathematics as long as words still becloud reality.
-- Hermann Weyl Being in therapy is great. I spend an hour just talking about myself. It's kinda like being the guy on
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apparently based I am beginning to suspect all elaborate and special systems of education. They seem to me to be
built upon the supposition that every child is a kind of idiot who must be taught to think.
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I'm an excellent housekeeper. Every time I get a divorce, I keep the house.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor The most savage controversies are about those matters as to which there is no good evidence
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-- Bertrand Russell Love is an attempt to change a piece of the dream-world into reality.
-- Theodor Reik "Pleasant words are a honeycomb, Sweet to the soul and healing to the bones." (Bible, Proverbs 16:24) We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind her stands his wife. -- Groucho Marx Travel and Tourism It is much more comfortable to be mad and know it, than to be sane and have one's doubts.
- G. B. Burgin If it weren't for marriage, men would spend their lives thinking they had no faults at all.
-- Anonymous The streets are safe in Philadelphia. It's only the people who make them unsafe.
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Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
-- Abraham Lincoln Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than the arguments of its opposers.
-- William Penn It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
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-- Friedrich Nietzsche Travel and Tourism The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt In olden times sacrifices were made at the altar--a practice which is still continued.
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-- Henry David Thoreau Travel and Tourism
I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.
-- Francois-Auguste Rodin, when asked how he managed to make his remarkable statues The great tragedy of science, the slaying of a beautiful theory by an ugly fact.
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- Frank Zappa The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.
-- Franklin D. Roosevelt "I couldn't find the sports car of my dreams, so I built it myself." (Dr. Ferdinand Porsche) Travel and Tourism Everyone believes very easily whatever they fear or desire.
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Never be possessive. If a female friend lets on that she is going out with another man, be kind
and understanding. If she says she would like to go out with the Dallas Cowboys, including the
coachin "One of the great dangers in having a career is getting bored." (Itzhak Perlman) "There are no uninteresting things, only uninteresting people." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) "A conservative is a man who sits and thinks, mostly sits." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) "As is our confidence, so is our capacity." (William Hazlitt) Travel and Tourism With this ring I thee wed, with my body I thee worship, and with all my worldly good I thee endow.
-- Wedding Vow, Book of Common Prayer There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.
-- George Santayana Who the hell wants to hear actors talk?
- H. M. Warner, founder of Warner Brothers, in 1927 Travel and Tourism
