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reall Whenever I dwell for any length of time on my own shortcomings, they gradually begin to seem
mild harmless, rather engaging little things, not at all like the staring defects in other people's
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little animals would never have been born. So is it better not to have been born or to have lived I believe that mink are raised for being turned into fur coats and if we didn't wear fur coats those
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"We have so little presumption that we should like to be known in the world, even to those who come after when we are no more. We have so little vanity that the esteem of five people, say six, amuses I don't know which is more discouraging, literature or chickens.
-- E. B. White Vote early and vote often.
- Al Capone "We have been the cowards lobbing cruise missiles from 2,000 miles away. That's cowardly. Staying in the airplane when it hits the building, say what you want about it, it's not cowardly." (Bill Mahe Conscience is the inner voice which warns us that someone may be looking.
-- H. L. Mencken Arts and Entertainment If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be
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-- Abraham Lincoln Give the people not hell, but hope and courage.
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-- Chinese Proverb Arts and Entertainment
I hate mankind, for I think myself to be one of them, and I know how bad I am.
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-- Robert Graves Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot. Arts and Entertainment Joy is but the sign that creative emotion is fulfilling its purpose.
-- Charles Du Bos By all means marry. If you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher. -- Socrates The absolute yearning of one human body for another particular body and its indifference to
substitutes is one of life's major mysteries.
-- Iris Murdoch Arts and Entertainment
"Small minds discuss people, average minds discuss events, great minds discuss ideas." (Anonymous) "The easiest kind of relationship is with ten thousand people, the hardest is with one." (Joan Baez) In a cat's eyes, all things belong to cats.
-- English Proverb "By seeing the seed of failure in every success, we remain humble. By seeing the seed of success in every failure we remain hopeful." (Mel Ziegler, founder of Banana Republic) If you can't sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there and worrying. It's the worry
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-- Dale Carnegie Arts and Entertainment Minds are like parachutes - they only function when open.
-- Thomas Dewar I will try to follow the advice that a university president once gave a prospective commencement
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When a man says it's a silly, childish game, it's probably something his wife can beat him at. Arts and Entertainment
"To live is to dream and to die is to awaken." (Anonymous) It is the final proof of God's omnipotence that he need not exist in order to save us.
-- Peter De Vries The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same
time, and still retain the ability to function.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald If God had meant us to vote, He would have given us candidates.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.
-- Oscar Wilde Arts and Entertainment "Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Nothing average ever stood as a monument to progress. When progress is looking for a partner it
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Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has not heart; and any man who is over 30, and is
not a conservative, has no brains.
-- Winston Churchill "No drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ignorance, g This search for what you want is like tracking something that doesn't want to be tracked. It takes
time to get a dance right, to create something memorable.
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-- Anaïs Nin Arts and Entertainment "Is life not a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "In some ways, I never outgrew my adolescence. I wake up in the morning and think, 'Oh my God, I'm late for a math test!' But then I say, 'Wait a minute. I'm 40.'" (Daniel Clowes) Children are a poor man's riches.
-- English proverb Arts and Entertainment
What a difference there is between what we say and what we think.
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In the early sixties, we were strong, we were virulent...
-- John Connally, Secretary of Treasury under Richard Nixon, in an early 70s speech, as reported
in a contemporary "American Scholar" If I have seen farther than others, it is because I was standing on the shoulders of giants.
-- Isaac Newton Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for
appointment by the corrupt few.
-- George bernard Shaw It is amazing at how small a price may the wedding ring be placed upon a worthless hand; but, by
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-- Douglas Jerold, 1858 Marriage is bliss. Ignorance is bliss. Ergo... Arts and Entertainment As for the virtuous poor, one can pity them, of course, but one cannot possibly admire them.
-- Oscar Wilde Friends applaud, the Comedy is over.
-- Ludwig von Beethoven, dying words "The first question I ask myself when something doesn't seem to be beautiful is why do I think it's not beautiful. And very shortly you discover that there is no reason." (John Cage) Arts and Entertainment
History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.
-- Winston Churchill Unfortunately, the media have trouble distinguishing between real science and propaganda
cross-dressed as science.
-- Linda Bowles, political columnist You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.
-- Albert Camus No one finds life worth living; he must make it worth living.
-- Anon. I support efforts to limit the terms of members of Congress, especially members of the House and
members of the Senate.
-- Dan Quayle, Former Vice-President Arts and Entertainment The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains that I
have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time.
- George Bernard Shaw Some people talk in their sleep. Lecturers talk while other people sleep.
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-- Robert Orben Arts and Entertainment
When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.
-- Hunter S. Thompson It was a day like this Marco Polo left for China. What are your plans for today?
--Loesje Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering.
-- Anonymous blah bla "I never think of the future. It comes soon enough." (Albert Einstein) Too bad all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving cabs and cutting hair.
-- George Burns Arts and Entertainment If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get
married.
-- Katharine Hepburn The perfect love affair is one which is conducted entirely by post.
-- George Bernard Shaw When marriage is outlawed, only outlaws will have inlaws. Arts and Entertainment
The cynics are right nine times out of ten.
- Henry Louis Mencken Before I married, I had three theories about raising children and no children. Now, I have three
children and no theories.
-- John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester Love is an emotion that is based on an opinion of women that is impossible for those who have
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-- H. L. Mencken Usenet is like a herd of performing elephants with diarrhea -- massive, difficult to redirect, awe-
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-- English Proverb Arts and Entertainment "How is it that we never have time to do a job right, but we always have time to do it over?" (Anonymous) One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is
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- Bertrand Russell
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A little inaccuracy sometimes saves a ton Asking an incumbent member of Congress to vote for term limits is a bit like asking a chicken to
vote for Colonel Sanders.
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