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- Clarence Darrow, In the late 1600s the finest instruments originated from three rural families whose workshops
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No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman. -- Honore de Balzac 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 Experience is the name every one gives his mistakes.
-- Elbert Hubbard Never regard study as a duty, but as the enviable opportunity to learn to know the liberating
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Generations to come will find it difficult to believe that a man such as Gandhi ever walked the
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-- Albert Einstein The more we do, the more we can do; the more busy we are the more leisure we have.
-- William Hazlitt The difference between a man who faces death for the sake of an idea and an imitator who goes
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-- Anonymous Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in
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-- Oscar Wilde For centuries, theologians have been explaining the unknowable in terms of the-not-worth-
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-- Richard Allen, National Security Advisor to President Reagan, explaining the $1000 in cash and
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You never see a man walking down the street with a woman who has a little pot belly and a bald
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-- Elayne Boosler All you need is love.
-- The Beatles, song title The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn.
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-- Thornton Wilder Opportunity may knock only once, but temptation leans on the doorbell.
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I like two kinds of men: domestic and foreign.
-- Mae West I think there are only three things America will be known for 2,000 years from now when they
study this civilization: the Constitution, jazz music, and baseball.
-- Gerald Early, writer, baseball do I'm an excellent housekeeper. Every time I get a divorce, I keep the house.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end.
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Children are a poor man's riches.
-- English proverb In times of profound change, the learners inherit the earth, while the learned find themselves
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-- Thomas Jefferson, dying words It is well, when judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and
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-- Arnold Bennett Argue for your limitations, and sure enough they're yours.
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Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.
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What is politics, after all, but the compulsion to preside over property and make other peoples'
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-- Tom Robbins, Skinny Legs and All That government is best which governs least.
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-- Bob Inglis, 1995 There is nothing that can be said by mathematical symbols and relations which cannot also be
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