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-- Aristotle Live truth instead of professing it.
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-- Albert Einstein No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman.
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-- Kant, Immanuel A coward is a hero with a wife, kids, and a mortgage.
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-- Oscar Wilde Recreation and Sports
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-- G. K. Chesterton Victory goes to the player who makes the next-to-last mistake.
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- Socrates Success is peace of mind which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you did your best
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-- Abraham Lincoln Recreation and Sports Whenever I'm caught between two evils, I take the one I've never tried.
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Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.
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He is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death.
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I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell this to my children they just about throw up.
-- Barbara Bush, first lady, 1989 Love is an attempt to change a piece of the dream-world into reality.
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