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-- Samuel Butler Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same
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-- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry Children are the only form of immortality that we can be sure of.
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-- George Santayana The mathematician lives long and lives young; the wings of his soul do not early drop off, nor do
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-- Claudette Colbert If you want anything done well, do it yourself. This is why most people laugh at their own jokes.
-- Bob Edwards I'll sleep when I'm dead.
- Warren Zevon Arts and Entertainment Dear Mrs, Mr, Miss, or Mr and Mrs Daneeka: Words cannot express the deep personal grief I experienced when your husband, son, father or brother was killed, wounded, or reported missing in action. -- C Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.
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-- Kant, Immanuel Arts and Entertainment
The covers of this book are too far apart.
-- Ambrose Bierce "I'm basically an optimist in life but this doesn't prevent me from deducing as a scientist that we are probably doomed." (Vladimir Chaloupka, physicist, University of Washington, regarding mankind's Man's mind stretched to a new idea never goes back to its original dimensions.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes If I tell a lie it's only because I think I'm telling the truth.
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-- Lyn Karol Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards.
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"The act of policing is, in order to punish less often, to punish more severely." (Napoleon Bonaparte) "Do not go gentle into that good night. Old age should burn and rave at close of day. Rage, rage against the dying of the light." (Dylan Thomas) Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labour in
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-- Albert Einstein The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.
-- Paul Valery Spinster: A bachelor's wife. Arts and Entertainment UGLINESS, n. A gift of the gods to certain women, entailing virtue without humility.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 "It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend." (William Blake) "The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none." (Thomas Carlyle, 1795-1881) Arts and Entertainment
Half of the American people never read a newspaper.
Half never voted for President.
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-- Gore Vidal blah "Ideas are like stars, you will not succeed in touching them with your hands, but like the seafaring man on the desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and, following them, you reach yo "One often contradicts an opinion when what is uncongenial is really the tone in which it was conveyed." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince A man's feet should be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world.
-- George Santayana Arts and Entertainment The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.
-- Nicholas Murray Butler If pleasures are greatest in anticipation, just remember that this is also true of trouble.
-- Elbert Hubbard UGLINESS, n. A gift of the gods to certain women, entailing virtue without humility.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 Arts and Entertainment
Bachelor: the only man who has never told his wife a lie. Trust, but verify.
-- Ronald Reagan It is the final proof of God's omnipotence that he need not exist in order to save us.
-- Peter De Vries Lawyers are... operators of the toll bridge which anyone in search of justice must pass.
-- Jane Bryant Quinn Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the
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-- John Kenneth Galbraith Arts and Entertainment .. I am indebted to the cat for a particular kind of honorable deceit, for a greater control over
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per "Most people would rather die than think; in fact, they do so." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax.
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Democracy is a government where you can say what you think even if you don't think.
-- Anon. You can always amend a big plan, but you can never expand a little one. I don't believe in little
plans. I believe in plans big enough to meet a situation which we can't possibly foresee now.
-- Ha .. I am indebted to the cat for a particular kind of honorable deceit, for a greater control over
myself, for a characteristic aversion to brutal sounds, and for the need to keep silent for long
per It is a known fact that men are practical, hardheaded realists, in contrast to women, who are
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-- John Von Neuman Arts and Entertainment There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations.
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-- Charles Evans Hughes "Not by wrath does one kill, but by laughter." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Arts and Entertainment
By all means marry. If you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher. -- Socrates Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.
- Napoleon Bonaparte When I can no longer bear to think of the victims of broken homes, I begin to think of the victims
of intact ones.
-- Peter DeVries "Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience." (George Bernard Shaw) Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it, misdiagnosing it, and then misapplying the
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-- Groucho Marx Arts and Entertainment Many a man that could rule a hundherd millyon sthrangers with an ir'n hand is careful to take off
his shoes in the front hallway whin he comes home late at night.
-- Finley Peter Dunne, Mr. Dooley O Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
-- George Bernard Shaw Not only is there no God, but try finding a plumber on Sunday.
-- Woody Allen Arts and Entertainment
"One of the great dangers in having a career is getting bored." (Itzhak Perlman) "If a man has good corn, or wood, or boards, or pigs to sell, or can make better chairs or knives, crucibles, or church organs, than anybody else, you will find a broad, hard-beaten road to his house, "I have an unfortunate personality." (George Orson Welles) When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of many men for the inattention of one.
-- Helen Rowland The great man fights the elements in his time that hinder his own greatness, in other words his own freedom and sincerity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Arts and Entertainment Not only is the universe stranger than we imagine, it is stranger than we can imagine.
Sir Arthur Eddington (1882 - 1944) Not much meat on her, but what's there is choice.
-- Spencer Tracy, about Katharine Hepburn Thank God - every morning when you get up - that you have something to do which must be
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One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: that word is love.
-- Sophocles We have a habit in writing articles published in scientific journals to make the work as finished as
possible, to cover up all the tracks, to not worry about the blind alleys or describe how you had I told my wife that a husband is like a fine wine; he gets better with age. The next day, she locked
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-- Anonymous Research is the act of going up alleys to see if they are blind.
-- Plutarch There's a fine line between fishing and standing on the shore like an idiot.
-- Steven Wright Arts and Entertainment The Church is an organism that grows best in an alien society.
-- C. Stacey Woods Happy are those who dream dreams and are willing to pay the price to make them come true.
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"You believe that flag burning shows disrespect towards those who have fought to preserve our freedoms. Punishing protestors shows an even more profound disrespect for the ideals that these people die Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them
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-- H.L. Mencken "Murder is the very bed-rock of our social institutions." (Octave Mirbeau, The Torture Garden) Honor's a thing too subtle for wisdom; if honor lie in eating, he's right honorable.
-- Beaumont, Francis "For how can one know color in perpetual green, and what good is warmth without cold to give it sweetness?" (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) Arts and Entertainment Don't let it end like this. Tell them I said something.
-- Pancho Villa, dying words Love is a perky elf dancing a merry little jig and then suddenly he turns on you with a miniature
machine gun.
-- Matt Groening, Love is Hell Immature love says: "I love you because I need you." Mature love says: "I need you because I
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