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-- George Marriage is a matter of give and take, but so far I haven't been able to find anybody who'll take
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-- Judith Viorst Books
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-- H. G. Wells, dying words A real leader faces the music, even when he doesn't like the tune.
-- Anonymous The lover knows much more about absolute good and universal beauty than any logician or
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-- George Santayana I'm not indecisive. Am I indecisive?
-- Jim Scheibel, mayor, St. Paul MN Books The true spirit of conversation consists in building on another man's observation, not overturning
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-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton Ninety percent of the game is half mental.
-- Yogi Berra My good intentions are completely lethal.
-- Margaret Atwood Books
I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible
by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.
- Umberto Eco "Experience is not what happens to a man. It is what a man does with what happens to him." (Aldous Huxley) You can observe a lot by watching.
-- Yogi Berra The surest way to make a monkey of a man is to quote him.
-- Robert Benchley The only Zen you find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there.
-- Robert M. Pirsig Books Minds are like parachutes - they only function when open.
-- Thomas Dewar Change is not merely necessary to life, it is life.
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-- Oscar Wilde There are those who look at things the way they are, and ask why... I dream of things that never
were, and ask why not?
-- Robert Francis Kennedy A small family is soon provided for.
-- English Proverb I am not young enough to know everything.
-- Oscar Wilde Books A man who marries a woman to educate her falls a victim to the same fallacy as the woman who
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-- Woodrow Wilson "These are days you'll remember." If you recall nothing else from your graduation ceremony,
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-- Amy Bloom If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one.
-- Mother Teresa It is important that students bring a certain ragamuffin, barefoot, irreverence to their studies; they
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-- J. Bronowski, The Ascent of Man Books We haven't the money, so we've got to think.
-- Lord Rutherford Miracles occur naturally as expressions of love. The real miracle is the love that inspires them. In
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-- Lily Tomlin Books
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-- Antonio Porchi Books
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-- Roger Babson Books
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-- Sigmund Freud Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell 'em, "Certainly, I can!" Then get busy and find
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-- Theodore Roosevelt Books
The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains that I
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- George Bernard Shaw Thank God - every morning when you get up - that you have something to do which must be
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a hundre Knowledge is the intellectual manipulation of carefully verified observations.
-- Sigmund Freud It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are
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-- Seneca I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers.
-- Gandhi Books Generations to come will find it difficult to believe that a man such as Gandhi ever walked the
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-- Albert Einstein Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education
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-- Allen Ginsberg Books
Work is the refuge of people who have nothing better to do.
-- Oscar Wilde There are only two things a child will share willingly communicable diseases and his mother's
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-- Bhagava Gita The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four Americans is suffering from some form of
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-- Rita Mae Brown Books The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything.
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Generations to come will find it difficult to believe that a man such as Gandhi ever walked the
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-- Albert Einstein I've never had major knee surgery on any other part of my body.
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-- Albert Einstein, attributed Character may be manifested in the great moments, but it is made in the small ones.
-- Phillip Brooks The theory used to be you marry an older man because they are more mature. The new theory is
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-- Anonymous Books English Law prohibits a man from marrying his mother-in-law. This is our idea of useless legislation. Do or do not. There is no try.
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