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-- Ovid The open-minded see the truth in different things: the narrow-minded see only the differences.
-- Author Unknown Some people talk in their sleep. Lecturers talk while other people sleep.
-- Albert Camus "Oh, the tiger will love you. There is no sincerer love than the love of food." (George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman) There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as
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If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.
-- Virginia Woolf When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I only think about how to solve the
problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
-- Buckminster Each of us has a spark of life inside us, and our highest endeavor ought to be to set off that spark
in one another.
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-- Charlie Chaplin There is nothing so wrong in this world that a sensible woman can't set it right in the course of an
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-- Henry James Arts and Entertainment
"Anyone who thinks they're important is usually just a pompous moron who can't deal with his or her own pathetic insignificance and the fact that what they do is meaningless and inconsequential..." ( It's not the men in my life that count, it's the life in my men.
-- Mae West Politics is for people who have a passion for changing life but lack a passion for living it.
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-- Anonymous The gods too are fond of a joke.
- Aristotle There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld Arts and Entertainment
As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he.
-- Proverbs 23:7 It is not good enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.
-- Rene Descartes The best time to hold your tongue is the time you feel you must say something or bust.
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-- Edward P. Tryon Arts and Entertainment I know I'm not in government anymore. In fact I'm out of work.
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-- Amy Bloom Arts and Entertainment
I hate women because they always know where things are.
-- James Thurber When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are
legislators.
-- P. J. O'Rourke There are many things worth living for, there are a few things worth dying for, but there is nothing
worth killing for.
-- Tom Robbins To realize that you do not understand is a virtue;
Not to realize that you do not understand is a defect.
--Lao-Tzu, "Tao Teh Ching" Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte Arts and Entertainment If ever two were one, then surely we.
If ever man were loved by wife, then thee.
-- Anne Bradstreet "To make the individual uncomfortable, that is my task." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The price of freedom is eternal vigilance.
-- Thomas Jefferson Arts and Entertainment
"You know that being an American is more than a matter of where your parents came from. It is a belief that all men are created free and equal and that everyone deserves an even break." (Harry S. Tru "One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) In endowing us with memory, nature has revealed to us a truth utterly unimaginable to the
unreflective creation, the truth of immortality....The most ideal human passion is love, which is
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- General George S. Patton Arts and Entertainment Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
- H. G. Wells Boredom is the feeling that everything is a waste of time; serenity, that nothing is.
-- Thomas Szasz God gave men both a penis and a brain, but unfortunately not enough blood supply to run both at
the same time.
- Robin Williams, commenting on the Clinton/Lewinsky affair Arts and Entertainment
Biography lends to death a new terror.
-- Oscar Wilde We are not in a position in which we have nothing to work with. We already have capacities,
talents, direction, missions, callings.
-- Abraham Maslow I've just learned about his illness. Let's hope it's nothing trivial.
- Irvin S. Cobb Happiness, it is said, is seldom found by those who seek it, and never by those who seek it for
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-- F. Emerson Andrews We know the truth, not only by the reason, but also by the heart.
-- Blaise Pascal, Thoughts, Chap. x. 1., Translated by O. W. Wight Arts and Entertainment "Everywhere one seeks to produce meaning, to make the world signify, to render it visible. We are not, however, in danger of lacking meaning; quite the contrary, we are gorged with meaning and it is k One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: that word is love.
-- Sophocles In medieval times, people thought that evil spirits could enter a person through an open mouth.
These days they more often leave that way.
-- David Deckert Arts and Entertainment
Love is the same as like except you feel sexier.
-- Judith Viorst "The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing." (John Powell) Football incorporates the two worst elements of American society: violence punctuated by
committee meetings.
-- George F. Will, journalist, political commentator, 1994 Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for him. -- Rich Little Does anal retentive have a hyphen?
-- Seen on a t-shirt Arts and Entertainment "What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage." The difference between sex and death is that with death you can do it alone and no one is going
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-- Woody Allen "Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past." (George Orwell) Arts and Entertainment
Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
-- Henry Ford If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.
-- Voltaire In the end, everything is a gag.
-- Charlie Chaplin The person who is slowest in making a promise is most faithful in its performance.
-- Jean-Jacques Rousseau If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt Arts and Entertainment Epperson's law:
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-- Mark Twain Sir, I would rather be right than be President.
-- Henry Clay, Speech, 1850, referring to the Compromise Measure Arts and Entertainment
"Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishments." (Anonymous) Such is life.
-- Ned Kelly, Last words, before being hung at Old Melbourne Gaol When I give a lecture, I accept that people look at their watches, but what I do not tolerate is
when they look at it and raise it to their ear to find out if it stopped.
-- Marcel Achard Love is temporary insanity curable by marriage.
-- Ambrose Bierce To love another person is to help them love God.
-- Søren Kierkegaard Arts and Entertainment "See - one side of my face is gentle and kind, incapable of anything but love of my fellow man. The other side, the other profile, is cruel and predatory and evil, incapable of anything but lusts and "The order of the world is always right - such is the judgment of God. For God has departed, but he has left his judgment behind, the way the Cheshire Cat left his grin." (Jean Baudrillard) You have a cough? Go home tonight, eat a whole box of Ex-Lax--tomorrow you'll be afraid to
cough.
-- Pearl Williams Arts and Entertainment
You can not apply mathematics as long as words still becloud reality.
-- Hermann Weyl "Good taste is the first refuge of the non-creative. It is the last-ditch stand of the artist." (Marshall McLuhan) "If I work toward an end, meantime I am confined to a process. The rainbow is more beautiful than the pot at the end of it, because the rainbow is now. And the pot never turns out to be quite what I e "Where there's a marriage without love there will be love without marriage." (Benjamin Franklin) Use your own best judgment at all times.
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