Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive.
-- Anaïs Nin I do not consider it an insult, but rather a compliment to be called an agnostic. I do not pretend to
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- Clarence Darrow, I've had a perfectly wonderful evening. But this wasn't it.
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-- Friedrich Nietzsche Computers and Internet "I know we're not saints or virgins or lunatics; we know all the lust and lavatory jokes, and most of the dirty people; we can catch buses and count our change and cross the roads and talk real senten Food, one assumes, provides nourishment; but Americans eat it fully aware that small amounts of
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-- John Cage I hope you have not been leading a double life, pretending to be wicked and being really good all
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-- Oscar Wilde Computers and Internet
"Murder is the very bed-rock of our social institutions." (Octave Mirbeau, The Torture Garden) "To live is to dream and to die is to awaken." (Anonymous) I was a pilot flying an airplane and it just so happened that where I was flying made what I was
doing spying.
-- Francis Gary Power, U-2 reconnaissance pilot held by the Soviets for spying, in an i I married beneath me. All women do.
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-- Anonymous Why is it that our memory is good enough to retain the least triviality that happens to us, and yet
not good enough to recollect how often we have told it to the same person?
-- François de La Rouch Why are women so much more interesting to men than men are to women?
-- Virginia Woolf Computers and Internet
Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it.
-- Baskins A man who marries a woman to educate her falls a victim to the same fallacy as the woman who
marries a man to reform him.
-- Elbert Hubbard The mathematician lives long and lives young; the wings of his soul do not early drop off, nor do
its pores become clogged with the earthy particles blown from the dusty highways of vulgar life.
-- I sometimes think that God, in creating man, overestimated His ability.
-- Oscar Wilde If people turn to look at you on the street, you are not well dressed.
-- Beau Brummel Computers and Internet Don't stay in bed, unless you can make money in bed.
- George Burns To the ass, or the sow, their own offspring appears the fairest in creation.
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Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
-- Gail Godwin We have to keep trying things we're not sure we can pull off. If we just do the things we know we
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-- Cybi I never miss a chance to have sex or appear on television.
-- Gore Vidal Going to church doesn't make you a Christian any more than going to a garage makes you an
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-- Billy Sunday The limits of my language means the limits of my world.
-- Ludwig Wittgenstein Computers and Internet The child is the father of the man.
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-- Anthony Burgess When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen.
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Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by the traffic from
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-- Margaret Thatcher The reason most people play golf is to wear clothes they would not be caught dead in otherwise.
-- Roger Simon Husbands are awkward things to deal with; even keeping them in hot water will not make them
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-- Mary Buckley Courage is the price that Love exacts for granting peace.
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-- Salvador Dali "No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous." (Henry B. Adams) Love is an attempt to change a piece of the dream-world into reality.
-- Theodor Reik Computers and Internet
I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
-- Mark Twain I have noticed that nothing I have never said ever did me any harm.
-- Calvin Coolidge There are not enough Indians in the world to defeat the Seventh Cavalry.
-- George Armstrong Custer Most of our obstacles would melt away if, instead of cowering before them, we should make up
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-- Orison Swett Marden God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.
-- Voltaire Computers and Internet "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) If there is any one proof of a man's incompetence, it is the stagnant mentality of a worker who,
doing some small routine job in a vast undertaking, does not care to look beyond the lever of a
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"Great spirits have always faced voilent protest from mediocre minds." (Albert Einstein) May you live happily ever after with a poor, ugly, shrewish wife. Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than
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-- William Faulkner We trained hard - but it seemed that every time we were beginning to form up into teams we were
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Sometimes a scream is better than a thesis.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Love is what we are born with. Fear is what we learn. The spiritual journey is the unlearning of
fear and prejudices and the acceptance of love back in our hearts. Love is the essential reality
and Soul meets soul on lovers lips.
-- Percy Bysshe Shelley Mistakes are the portals of discovery.
-- James Joyce A good time to keep your mouth shut is when you're in deep water.
-- Sidney Goff Computers and Internet Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes
unpunished.
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Love is like the measles. The older you get it, the worse the attack.
-- Mary Roberts Rhinehart Many a man in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl.
-- Stephen Leacock It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are
difficult.
-- Seneca Repentance is not so much remorse for what we have done as the fear of the consequences.
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-- Antonio Porchi Computers and Internet 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 Beginning in February 1976 your assistance benefits will be discontinued ... Reason: it has been
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If something is boring after two minutes, try it for four. If still boring, then eight. Then sixteen. Then thirty-two. Eventually one discovers that it is not boring at all." (John Cage) The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain.
-- Lord Byron Did you ever notice when you blow in a dog's face he gets mad at you? But when you take him in
a car he sticks his head out the window.
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"Whether it is a black cat or a white cat, as long as it can catch the rat, it is a good cat." (Deng Xiao Ping) When he first ran for office, he appealed to the voters: "I never stole anything in my life. All I ask
is a chance."
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-- William Shakespeare, King Henry the Sixth One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is
terribly important.
- Bertrand Russell
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A little inaccuracy sometimes saves a ton Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside
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