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-- Groucho Marx "Great spirits have always faced voilent protest from mediocre minds." (Albert Einstein) Sir, I would rather be right than be President.
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- George Bernard Shaw All you need is love.
-- The Beatles, song title Travel and Tourism
Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.
-- James Matthew Barrie To love someone deeply gives you strength. Being loved by someone deeply gives you courage.
-- Lao Tzu "I am interested in anything about revolt, disorder , chaos--especially activity that seems to have no meaning. It seems to me to be the road toward freedom ... Rather than starting inside, I start ou At the bottom no one in life can help anyone else in life; this one experiences over and over in
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-- Bill Moyers Travel and Tourism The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech.
-- George Bernard Shaw University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
-- Henry Kissinger Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple, learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a
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-- John Steinbeck Travel and Tourism
There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.
-- Benjamin Disraeli I belong to Bridegrooms Anonymous. Whenever I feel like getting married, they send over a lady in a housecoat and hair curlers to burn my toast for me. -- Dick Martin "My wallpaper and I are fighting a duel to the death. One or the other of us has to go." (Oscar Wilde, his last recorded words) "I have learned that to be with those I like is enough." (Walt Whitman) "A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities." (Eda J. Le Shan) Travel and Tourism To love another person is to see the face of God.
-- Lyric from Les Miserables "Wise men learn more from fools, than fools from the wise." (Anonymous) I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.
- Thomas Watson, Chairman of IBM, 1943 Travel and Tourism
Giving birth is like taking your lower lip and forcing it over your head.
-- Carol Burnett Basic research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
-- Wernher Von Braun Grove giveth and Gates taketh away.
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terribly important.
- Bertrand Russell
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Truth can be a dangerous thing. It is quite patient and relentless.
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-- Barbara Bush, first lady, 1989 Travel and Tourism Genius is 99 percent perspiration and 1 percent inspiration.
-- Thomas Edison The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may
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-- Anonymous Travel and Tourism
Government is like a baby. An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of
responsibility at the other.
-- Ronald Reagan, Saturday Evening Post, 1965 Honor's a thing too subtle for wisdom; if honor lie in eating, he's right honorable.
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Better to have loved a short man than never to have loved a tall.
-- David Chambless Ridicule is generally made use of to laugh men out of virtue and good sense, by attacking
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-- Jim Scheibel, mayor, St. Paul MN Love is the answer, but while you're waiting for the answer, sex raises some pretty good
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-- Woody Allen Travel and Tourism
There are times when parenthood seems nothing but feeding the mouth that bites you.
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-- Rita Rudner Travel and Tourism He who has a 'why' to live, can bear with almost any 'how'.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Researchers have discovered that chocolate produces some of the same reactions in the brain
as marijuana...The researchers also discovered other similarities between the two, but can't
remember what Experience teaches only the teachable.
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As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he.
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-- E. W. Howe The grass may be greener on the other side of the fence, but you still have to mow it.
-- Anonymous Happiness, it is said, is seldom found by those who seek it, and never by those who seek it for
themselves.
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The wit of a graduate student is like champagne. Canadian champagne.
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- Golda Meir (1898-1978) to a visiting diplomat The gods gave man fire and he invented fire engines. They gave him love and he invented marriage. Travel and Tourism Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for him. -- Rich Little Consequences, schmonsequences, as long as I'm rich!
-- Chuck Jones-directed cartoon We look forward to the time when the power to love of will replace the love of power. Then will our
world know the blessings of peace.
-- William Gladstone Travel and Tourism
I think, therefore I'm single.
-- Female philosopher Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson The great advantage of being in a rut is that when one is in a rut, one knows exactly where one
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-- Francois Cavanna Travel and Tourism The real questions are the ones that obtrude upon your consciousness whether you like it or not,
the ones that make your mind start vibrating like a jackhammer, the ones that you 'come to terms
with Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked
where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.
-- D. H. Lawrence "I love Los Angeles. I love Hollywood. They're beautiful. Everybody's plastic, but I love plastic. I want to be plastic." (Andy Warhol, Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up) Travel and Tourism
