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"Use what talents you possess; The woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best." (William Blake) To love another person is to help them love God.
-- Søren Kierkegaard 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
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-- English proverb In times of profound change, the learners inherit the earth, while the learned find themselves
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"Ninety percent of my salary I spent on booze and women ... and the other ten percent I wasted." (Tug McGraw, Major League Baseball pitcher) "Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future." (Paul Boese) 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 It was just him and me. He fought with honor. If it weren't for his honor, he and the others would
have beaten me together. They might have killed me, then. His sense of honor saved my life. I
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Meetings are an addictive, highly self-indulgent activity that corporations and other large
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"Ninety percent of my salary I spent on booze and women ... and the other ten percent I wasted." (Tug McGraw, Major League Baseball pitcher) If Satan ever loses his hair, there'll be hell toupee.
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-- Samuel Johnson Education is not filling a bucket, but lighting a fire.
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Love is like pi - natural, irrational, and very important.
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When you're experimenting you have to try so many things before you choose what you want,
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-- Fred Astaire If you want to sing out, sing out, and if you want to be free, be free, 'cause there's a million ways
to be, you know that there are...
-- Cat Stevens, from a song lyric Nature gave men two ends - one to sit on and one to think with. Ever since then man's success or
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-- George R. Kirkpatrick Things are more like they are now than they ever were before.
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-- Anonymous Leagues Youth is wasted on the young.
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The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their
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There is no future in any job. The future lies in the man who holds the job.
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-- Woody Allen The Churches must learn humility as well as teach it.
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"Character is determined more by the lack of certain experiences than by those one has had." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Maybe this world is another planet's hell.
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-- Robert Francis Kennedy Marriage is like a bank account. You put it in, you take it out, you lose interest.
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A woman's always younger than a man of equal years.
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-- Ambrose Bierce The paradox is really the pathos of intellectual life and just as only great souls are exposed to
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-- Jean de La Fontaine Love: An obsessive delusion that is cured by marriage. Leagues
It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.
-- Andre Gide Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance.
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