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Whenever I date a guy, I think, is this the man I want my children to spend their weekends with?
-- Rita Rudner You can close your eyes to reality, but not to memories.
-- Stanislaw J. Lem Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.
- George Eliot I think 'Hail to the Chief' has a nice ring to it.
- John F. Kennedy when asked what is his favorite song It is dangerous for a national candidate to say things that people might remember.
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- William Jennings Bryan Coffee is a beverage that puts one to sleep when not drank.
-- Alphonse Allais Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country.
-- Typewriting exercise Roller Hockey
There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world; and that is an idea whose time has
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-- Victor Hugo Man and wife make one fool. "He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself." (Thomas Paine) I don't know which is more discouraging, literature or chickens.
-- E. B. White In great matters men show themselves as they wish to be seen; in small matters, as they are.
-- Gamaliel Bradford Roller Hockey Good friends are good for your health.
-- Irwin Sarason There is no sincerer love than the love of food.
-- George Bernard Shaw "There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) Roller Hockey
"All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream." (Edger Allen Poe) The soul is healed by being with children.
-- Fyodor Dostoyevski The power of accurate observation is frequently called cynicism by those who don't have it.
- George Bernard Shaw Be like a postage stamp. Stick to one thing until you get there.
-- Josh Billings Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried.
-- G. K. Chesterton Roller Hockey Good Night, Good night! Parting is such sweet sorrow,
that I shall say good night till it be morrow.
-- Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare. Act II, Scene II, lines 220-221 There are no days in life so memorable as those which vibrated to some stroke of the
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-- Ralph Waldo Emerson "We always get bored with those whom we bore." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) Roller Hockey
"Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise." (Alice Walker) Having children makes you no more a parent than having a piano makes you a pianist.
-- Michael Levine, Lessons at the Halfway Point When one is trying to do something beyond his known powers it is useless to seek the approval
of friends. Friends are at their best in moments of defeat.
-- Henry Miller The second half of a man's life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the
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Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821 - 1881) Nothing that was worthy in the past departs; no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or
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-- Thomas Carlyle Roller Hockey "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) Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is most important that you do it.
-- Gandhi There is nothing more notable in Socrates than that he found time, when he was an old man, to
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-- Michel de Montaigne Roller Hockey
When a friend is in trouble, don't annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up
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-- E. W. Howe Society is like a stew. If you don't stir it up every once in a while then a layer of scum floats to the
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-- Ed Abbey Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes
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-- WARREN BEATTY Roller Hockey Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.
-- Abraham Lincoln No one finds life worth living; he must make it worth living.
-- Anon. In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: It goes on.
-- Robert Frost Roller Hockey
"Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to know." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) The sun never sets on the British empire because Britain is in the east and the sun sets in the
west.
-- Unknown history student Even death is not to be feared by one who has lived wisely.
-- Buddha "I am a part of all that I have met." (Alfred Lord Tennyson, 1809-1892, English poet) We always believe our first love is our last, and our last love our first.
-- Anonymous Roller Hockey Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the
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-- G. K. Chesterton Roller Hockey
Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop
questioning.
-- Albert Einstein I believe God is managing affairs and that He doesn't need any advice from me. With God in
charge, I believe everything will work out for the best in the end. So what is there to worry about.
-- Hen I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity.
-- Albert Einstein Two souls with but a single thought,
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If a man is talking in the forest, and there is no woman there to hear him, is he still wrong?
-- Jenny Weber Thank God - every morning when you get up - that you have something to do which must be
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-- Jack Welch "Conforming is only acceptable when you conform with a nonconformist." (John A. Simone Jr.) Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you.
-- John-Paul Sartre Roller Hockey
The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
- Lucille S. Harper All science is concerned with the relationship of cause and effect. Each scientific discovery
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futur There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written or badly written.
-- Oscar Wilde "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) A husband is what is left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
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-- Cecilia Egan If excessive smoking actually plays a role in the production of lung cancer, it seems to be a minor
one.
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Marriage is bliss. Ignorance is bliss. Ergo...
-- Anonymous I like two kinds of men: domestic and foreign.
-- Mae West The multitude is always in the wrong.
-- Wentworth Dillon, Earl of Roscommon, 1684 Each religion, by the help of more or less myth which it takes more or less seriously, proposes
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-- Dominique Bouhours, French grammarian, dying words I think 'Hail to the Chief' has a nice ring to it.
- John F. Kennedy when asked what is his favorite song "These are days you'll remember." If you recall nothing else from your graduation ceremony,
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The sun never sets on the British empire because Britain is in the east and the sun sets in the
west.
-- Unknown history student The IRS spends God knows how much of your tax money on these toll-free information hot lines
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- Von Clausewitz Democracy is a government where you can say what you think even if you don't think.
-- Anon. Anything too stupid to be said, is sung.
-- Voltaire Roller Hockey The average Ph.D thesis is nothing but the transference of bones from one graveyard to another.
-- Frank J. Dobie, A Texan in England, 1945 "In some ways, I never outgrew my adolescence. I wake up in the morning and think, 'Oh my God, I'm late for a math test!' But then I say, 'Wait a minute. I'm 40.'" (Daniel Clowes) "Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance, or a stranger." (Franklin P. Jones) Roller Hockey
