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"If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they don't want to hear." (George Orwell) I've just learned about his illness. Let's hope it's nothing trivial.
- Irvin S. Cobb "Women might be able to fake orgasms. But men can fake whole relationships." (Sharon Stone) Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and
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We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
-- Aristotle I skate to where the puck is going to be, not to where it has been.
-- Wayne Gretzky When women go wrong, men go right after them.
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We all agree that your theory is crazy, but is it crazy enough?
- Niels Bohr A teacher is one who makes himself progressively unnecessary.
-- Thomas Carruthers The hard part about being a bartender is figuring out who is drunk and who is just stupid.
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-- Gabriel Garcia Marquez If the French were really intelligent, they'd speak English.
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-- Benjamin Disraeli Resources
Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside
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-- Michel de Montaigne All marriages are happy--it's the living together afterward that causes all the problems. I feel like Zsa Zsa Gabor's sixth husband. I know what I'm supposed to do, but I don't know how
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-- Fred Astaire Resources
Martyrdom... is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability. George Bernard
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-- Oscar Wilde Resources
The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because
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-- G. K. Chesterton Author: A fool, who, not content with having bored those who have lived with him, insists on
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-- Montesquieu "Self-confidence is the first requisite for achieving great things." (Samuel Johnson) Tauzin backs term limits -- But he thinks it's a bad idea.
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-- Nicholas Negroponte Resources
Every normal man must be tempted at times to spit upon his hands, hoist the black flag, and
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- Henry Louis Mencken Well if this is the wrong number, why did you answer it?
-- James Thurber It ain't what we don't know that gives us trouble, it's what we know that ain't so.
-- Will Rogers When nations grow old, the arts grow cold and commerce settles on every tree.
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-- Oscar Wilde Resources Have you ever noticed? Anybody going slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than
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-- Mark Twain Resources
Knowledge is the intellectual manipulation of carefully verified observations.
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-- Anonymous Resources
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-- Rita Rudner There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called
marriage.
-- James Holt McGavran Men are strong only so long as they represent a strong idea. They become powerless when they
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-- Oscar Wilde Resources
I want to die in my sleep like my friend.... Not screaming and yelling like the passengers in his
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-- Seen on a bumper sticker "Great work is done by people who are not afraid to be great." (Fernando Flores) What do you take me for, an idiot?
- General Charles de Gaulle (1890-1970), when a journalist asked him if he was happy "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 Marriage is a lottery, but you can't tear up your ticket if you lose.
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Distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes.
- Henry David Thoreau Not knowing when the dawn will come, I open every door.
-- Emily Dickinson Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education
without natural ability.
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-- PARKINSON'S LAW Success is just a matter of attitude.
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