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-- Anonymous After finding no qualified candidates for the position of principal, the school board is extremely
pleased to announce the appointment of David Steele to the post.
-- Philip Streifer, Superintendent "Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Like as the waves make towards the pebbl'd shore, so do our minutes, hasten to their end." (William Shakespeare) Viewed from the summit of reason, all life looks like a malignant disease and the world like a
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"The meeting of two personalites is like the contact of two chemical substances. If there is any reaction, both are transformed." (Carl Gustav Jung) They're almost inseparable. Sometimes it takes ten people to separate them.
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-- William Butler Yeats, from "He wishes for the cloths of heaven" I'd wipe the machines off the face of the earth again, and end the industrial epoch absolutely, like
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-- D. H. Lawrence Web Rings Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go.
- Oscar Wilde Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
- H. G. Wells I'm not into working out. My philosophy: No pain, no pain.
-- Carol Leifer Web Rings
"One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Everything has been figured out, except how to live.
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-- Gore Vidal I believe in getting into hot water; it keeps you clean.
-- G. K. Chesterton Web Rings "Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) If you cannot be the master of your language, you must be its slave. If you cannot examine your
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-- Richard Mitchell, from Cliches should be avoided like the plague.
-- Anon. Web Rings
Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.
-- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz The course of true love never did run smooth.
-- William Shakespeare When a thing has been said and said well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it.
-- Anatole France She felt in italics and thought in capitals.
-- Henry James Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked
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-- D. H. Lawrence Web Rings God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.
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I know I'm not in government anymore. In fact I'm out of work.
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-- Winston Bennett, University of Kentucky basketball forward Do you not know, my son, with what little understanding the world is ruled?
-- Pope Julius III Web Rings Ask her to wait a moment - I am almost done.
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Love is friendship set on fire.
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-- Albert Einstein Hell is paved with good samaritans.
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-- John Allston A witty saying proves nothing.
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-- Harold Loukes Web Rings
Do not assume that she who seeks to comfort you now, lives untroubled among the simple and
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-- Will Rogers "Club Secretary: I say, Lawrence. You are a clown!
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A leader in the Democratic Party is a boss, in the Republican Party he is a leader.
Harry S. Truman Being a woman is of special interest only to aspiring male transsexuals. To actual women it is
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-- Fran Lebowitz There is nothing that can be said by mathematical symbols and relations which cannot also be
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-- Adlai Stevenson "Being born is like being kidnapped. And then sold into slavery." (Andy Warhol) Anything too stupid to be said, is sung.
-- Voltaire "In literary criticism the critic has no choice but to make over the victim of his attention into something the size and shape of himself." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) Web Rings Do you not know, my son, with what little understanding the world is ruled?
-- Pope Julius III When a cat is dropped, it always lands on its feet, and when toast is dropped, it always lands with
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To look backward for a while is to refresh the eye, to restore it, and to render it more fit for its
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- ErnestoCheGuevara If you can't get rid of the skeleton in your closet, you'd best teach it to dance.
- George Bernard Shaw "Now that we have everything we need, we discover that there is almost nothing that we have that we want." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) Web Rings Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
-- Will Rogers First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.
- Mahatma Gandhi Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
-- Gail Godwin Web Rings
I believe in getting into hot water; it keeps you clean.
-- G. K. Chesterton If I had only known, I would have been a locksmith.
-- Albert Einstein Multimedia? As far as I'm concerned, it's reading with the radio on!
-- Rory Bremner The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing that you will make one.
-- Ellen Hubbard May you be blessed with a wife so healthy and strong, she can pull the plow when your horse drops dead. Web Rings Time is at once the most valuable and most perishable of all our possessions.
-- John Randolph Obedience is the gateway through which knowledge, yes, and love, too, enter the mind of the
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-- Anne Sullivan Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.
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