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Anyone can do any amount of work provided it isn't the work he's supposed to be doing at the
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-- Robert Bolt from A Man For All Seas Love one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that.
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-- Leonardo da Vinci People, like nails, lose their effectiveness when they lose direction and begin to bend.
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-- Molly Ivins Travel and Tourism Although the course may change sometimes, rivers always reach the sea.
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-- Will Rogers Travel and Tourism
Your every voter, as surely as your chief magistrate, exercises a public trust.
-- Grover Cleveland Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the
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-- Herbert Spencer Friends applaud, the Comedy is over.
-- Ludwig von Beethoven, dying words During the first period of a man's life the greatest danger is not to take the risk.
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-- Pierre Augustin de Beaumarchais Travel and Tourism Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for
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Insurance is like marriage. You pay, pay, pay, and you never get anything back.
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show "Every act of violence increases the recruitment of terrorists. Iraq has been turned into a base of terror." (Noam Chomsky, from The Toronto Star, March 23, 2004) Laundry increases exponentially in the number of children.
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-- Norman Douglas Travel and Tourism Some people talk in their sleep. Lecturers talk while other people sleep.
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If God wanted women to understand men, football would never have been created.
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-- Anonymous The fantasy which serves as a support for the figure of the Stalinist Communist is therefore
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-- William Butler Yeats, from "He wishes for the cloths of heaven" Travel and Tourism
Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
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-- Christopher Morley Travel and Tourism
Per cubic inch, your current TV set is perhaps the dumbest appliance in your home (and I'm not
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-- Nicholas Negroponte What is politics, after all, but the compulsion to preside over property and make other peoples'
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- Aristotle Any sufficiently advanced bureaucracy is indistinguishable from molasses.
-- Anon. The only thing worse than a man you can't control is a man you can.
-- Margo Kaufman Travel and Tourism
When marriage is outlawed, only outlaws will have inlaws. "As is our confidence, so is our capacity." (William Hazlitt) A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
-- Robert Frost "Men act and women appear. Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at." (John Berger) If you can't get rid of the skeleton in your closet, you'd best teach it to dance.
- George Bernard Shaw Travel and Tourism When a person can no longer laugh at himself, it is time for others to laugh at him.
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-- Mark Twain Travel and Tourism
If I had been around when Rubens was painting, I would have been revered as a fabulous model.
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-- Guy Almes Travel and Tourism Our schools have been scientifically designed to prevent over-education from happening. [...] The
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-- Richard Bach Good friends are good for your health.
-- Irwin Sarason Travel and Tourism
This world is a comedy for those who think and a tragedy for those who feel.
-- Horace Walpole Men have a much better time of it than women; for one thing, they marry later; for another thing, they die earlier. --H.L. Mencken You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.
-- Albert Camus "Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily." (Napoleon Bonaparte) He didn't say that. He was reading what was given to him in a speech.
-- Richard Darman, director of OMB, explaining why President Bush wasn't following up on his
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-- Martin Luther King, Jr. 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 Travel and Tourism
