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No one finds life worth living; he must make it worth living.
-- Anon. "Nobody minds having what is too good for them." (Jane Austen) Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
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-- Sidney Goff I dislike arguments of any kind. They are always vulgar, and often convincing.
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does need additional interpretation by someone other than the creator, then I question whether it
ha "Failure is not an option!" (Ed Harris, as Gene Kranz, Apollo 13) If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man
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-- Henry Ford Mountain Biking
The course of true love never did run smooth.
-- William Shakespeare Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country.
-- Typewriting exercise Marry not a tennis player. For love means nothing to them. Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive.
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"Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parents, gobble their food, and tyrannize their teachers." (Socrates) Courage is the price that Love exacts for granting peace.
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Robert Frost (1874-1963) "Who is more foolish? The fool or the fool that follows it?" (Alec Guinness) A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
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>From error to error one discovers the entire truth.
-- Sigmund Freud A man is incomplete until he is married. After that, he is finished.
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-- Roger Babson One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: that word is love.
-- Sophocles Mountain Biking
Men have a much better time of it than women: for one thing they marry later, for another thing
they die earlier.
-- H. L. Mencken "Pay no attention to what the critics say; there has never been set up a statue in honor of a critic." (Jean Sibelius) If it weren't for electricity we'd all be watching television by candlelight.
-- George Gobel "Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance, or a stranger." (Franklin P. Jones) My grandfather once told me that there are two kinds of people: those who work and those who
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-- INDIRA Mountain Biking "The man who never made a mistake never made anything." (Derek Longdon, Tongariro Power Development, Turangi, New Zealand) Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.
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You can get more with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone.
-- Al Capone We must become the change we want to see.
-- Gandhi Researchers have discovered that chocolate produces some of the same reactions in the brain
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remember what We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next door neighbour.
-- G. K. Chesterton I will try to follow the advice that a university president once gave a prospective commencement
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th Mountain Biking The story of a love is not important - what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps
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"Bread feeds the body, indeed, but flowers feed also the soul." (The Prophet Mohammad) Why yes -- a bulletproof vest.
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-- General Douglas MacArthur Prejudice is the child of ignorance.
-- William Hazlitt Mountain Biking It is always right that a man should be able to render a reason for the faith that is within him.
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-- William Shakespeare, Henry IV Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.
-- Roger Babson Mountain Biking Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of
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-- John Adams "Not only is there no guarantee of the temporal immortality of the human soul, that is to say of its eternal survival after death; but, in any case, this assumption completely fails to accomplish the I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with
typewriters.
- Frank Lloyd Wright Mountain Biking
A dollar saved is a quarter earned.
-- John Ciardi Music is the art of thinking with sounds.
-- Jules Combarieu "The depth and strength of a human character are defined by its moral reserves. People reveal themselves completely only when they are thrown out of the customary conditions of their life, for only th "Kill a man, and you are a murderer. Kill millions of men, and you are a conquerer. Kill everyone, and you are a god." (Jean Rostand) I think, therefore I'm single.
-- Female philosopher Mountain Biking Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
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-- John Von Neuman It's never too late to have a happy childhood.
-- Tom Robbins, Still Life With Woodpecker Mountain Biking
The only thing that holds a marriage together is the husband bein' big enough to keep his mouth
shut, to step back and see where his wife is wrong.
-- Archie Bunker, character on "All in the Family, The first clergyman was the first rascal who met the first fool.
-- Voltaire In endowing us with memory, nature has revealed to us a truth utterly unimaginable to the
unreflective creation, the truth of immortality....The most ideal human passion is love, which is
also the m I still believe in liberalism today as much as I ever did, but, oh, there was a happy time when I
believed in liberals...
-- G. K. Chesterton We love because it's the only true adventure.
-- Nikki Giovanni Mountain Biking My Alma mater was books, a good library . . . . I could spend the rest of my life reading, just
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--Malcolm X Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte When marriage is outlawed, only outlaws will have inlaws. Mountain Biking
I was under medication when I made the decision not to burn the tapes.
-- Richard Nixon, U.S. President "When thou art at Rome, do as they do at Rome." (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1547-1616) Reason can answer questions, but imagination has to ask them.
-- Ralph N. Gerard Love is the delusion that one man or woman differs from another.
-- H. L. Mencken Marriage is like a box of chocolates. You have to squeeze a few bottoms to make sure you like
what you are getting.
-- Anonymous Mountain Biking A man can do what he wants, but not want what he wants.
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