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-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe We are not retreating - we are advancing in another Direction.
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-- William James We have been friends together in sunshine and in shade.
-- Caroline Norton No woman marries for money; they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in
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-- Shakespeare, William The world has achieved brilliance without conscience. Ours is a world of nuclear giants and
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-- General Omar Bradley Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by heart and his friends can
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-- H. Jackson Brown In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.
-- Albert Einstein The older one grows, the more one likes indecency.
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-- G. K. Chesterton Chats and Forums I was under medication when I made the decision not to burn the tapes.
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The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with
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-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn; it can be stabbed to death by a joke
or worried to death by a frown on the right person's brow.
-- Charles Brower "Twelve magicians and two carnies have been shot dead doing the bullet catch. That's cool enough, but every night when we close our show with that trick and the loaded gun gets pointed in my face, it The less their ability, the more their conceit.
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-- George Bernard Shaw Chats and Forums There are many things worth living for, there are a few things worth dying for, but there is nothing
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-- Tom Robbins I don't know if God exists, but it would be better for His reputation if He didn't.
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