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If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe.
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My wife ran off with my best friend last week. I miss him! It is important that students bring a certain ragamuffin, barefoot, irreverence to their studies; they
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The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech.
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Well if this is the wrong number, why did you answer it?
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Ninety percent of the game is half mental.
-- Yogi Berra Better to die ten thousand deaths than wound my honor.
-- Joseph Addison In literature as in love, we are astonished at what is chosen by others.
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-- Helen Keller If you can't annoy somebody, there's little point in writing.
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comer: there is nobility in preserving it coolly and proudly through long youth, until at last "Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) Honolulu, it's got everything. Sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother.
-- Ken Dodd Computers and Internet "When once you have tasted flight you will always walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward: for there you have been and there you will always be." (Henry Van Dyke) We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind
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