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-- G. K. Chesterton Personal Pages
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-- Mike Binder Abstract art: a product of the untalented sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.
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-- Thomas Dekker Personal Pages
A White House well filled, a little peanut field well tilled, and a wife who will go to the Bronx are
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-- Poor Jimmy's Almanac One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.
-- Virginia Woolf The cynics are right nine times out of ten.
- Henry Louis Mencken What is the answer? In that case, what is the question?
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-- Anonymous Marriage is the one subject on which all women agree and all men disagree.
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As always, victory finds a hundred fathers but defeat is an orphan.
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-- Edgar Allan Poe Personal Pages
"Expecting the world to treat you fairly because you are a good person is like expecting a bull not to attack you because you are a vegetarian." (Dennis Wholey) When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives mean the most to us, we often find
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-- George Santayana Opportunities multiply as they are seized.
-- Sun Tzu To teach is to learn twice.
-- Joseph Joubert Personal Pages A friend is a gift you give yourself.
-- Robert Louis Stevenson They were doing a full back shot of me in a swimsuit and I thought, Oh my God, I have to be so
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-- William Wordsworth Marriage is like a box of chocolates. You have to squeeze a few bottoms to make sure you like
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-- Anonymous In the blithe days of honeymoon,
With Kate's allurements smitten,
I lov'd her late, I lov'd her soon,
And call'd her dearest kitten.
But now my kitten's grown a cat,
And cross like other wives.
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Genius is 99 percent perspiration and 1 percent inspiration.
-- Thomas Edison "The great aim of education is not knowledge but action." (Herbert Spencer) Time is at once the most valuable and most perishable of all our possessions.
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-- Steven Wright Personal Pages There's too much blood in my caffeine system.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Matters of religion should never be matters of controversy. We neither argue with a lover about
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-- George Santayana If we let people see that kind of thing, there would never again be any war.
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I do not see the EEC as a great love affair. It is more like nine desperate middle-ages couples with failing marriages meeting at a Brussels hotel for a group grope. -- Tynan "He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever." (Chinese Proverb) When we treat man as he is, we make him worse than he is; when we treat him as if he already
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-- Albert Einstein Personal Pages
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was alive.
-- G. K. Chesterton Personal Pages
