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If all these sweet young things were laid end to end, I wouldn't be the slightest bit surprised.
-- Dorothy Parker blah "A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) "I owe much to my friends; but, all things considered, it strikes me that I owe even more to my enemies. The real person springs life under a sting even better than under a caress." (André Gide) Propel, propel, propel your craft softly down liquid solution. Ecstatically, ecstatically, ecstatically,
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-- Fred Rogers, parody of "Row, row, row your boa Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of
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-- George Bernard Shaw National Trails "The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom." (William Blake) War is a profession by which a man cannot live honorably; an employment by which the soldier, if
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I could prove God statistically.
-- George Gallup There is more to life than increasing its speed.
-- Gandhi "A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men." (Roald Dahl) To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.
-- Karen Sunde Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature.
-- Samuel Butler National Trails It is important that students bring a certain ragamuffin, barefoot, irreverence to their studies; they
are not here to worship what is known, but to question it.
-- J. Bronowski, The Ascent of Man Ninety percent of the game is half mental.
-- Yogi Berra Nothing average ever stood as a monument to progress. When progress is looking for a partner it
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In the past decade or so, the women's magazines have taken to running home-handyperson
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play.
-- WARREN BEATTY I've had a perfectly wonderful evening. But this wasn't it.
-- Groucho Marx "The things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisi cannot imagine any condition which would cause this ship to founder. Modern shipbuilding has
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-- John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester Don't be afraid your life will end; be afraid that it will never begin.
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"He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches." (George Bernard Shaw) These people have served a longer sentence than some people who have committed murder.
-- Jeff Greenfield, news analyst, describing the jury in the OJ Simpson murder trial, 1995 I think of my wife and I think of Lot, and I think of the lucky break he got. Women see better than men. Men see lazily, if they do not expect to act. Women see quite
without any wish to act.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson What do you take me for, an idiot?
- General Charles de Gaulle (1890-1970), when a journalist asked him if he was happy National Trails Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and
retaliation. the foundation of such a method is love.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. "The concerned investment banker is the one who blows the horn on his Mercedes as he drives through a red light." (Anonymous) We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind
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-- Groucho Marx National Trails
The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
-- General George Patton The whole problem can be stated quite simply by asking, "Is there a meaning to music?" My
answer would be, "Yes." And "Can you state in so many words what the meaning is?" My answer
to that would be The Democrats are the party that says government will make you smarter, taller, richer, and
remove the crabgrass on your lawn. The Republicans are the party that says government doesn't
work and the "It is the nature of a man as he grows older, a small bridge in time, to protest against change, particularly change for the better." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) I'm not dumb, I just have a command of thoroughly useless information.
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-- G. K. Chesterton Try praising your wife, even if it does frighten her at first.
-- Billy Sunday If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get
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-- Katharine Hepburn National Trails
Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
-- George Bernard Shaw "The easiest kind of relationship is with ten thousand people, the hardest is with one." (Joan Baez) "An imbalance between rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics." (Plutarch) If you cannot be the master of your language, you must be its slave. If you cannot examine your
thoughts, you have no choice but to think them, however silly they may be.
-- Richard Mitchell, from I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
-- Mark Twain National Trails What I have to say is far more important than how long my eyelashes are.
-- Alanis Morissette, singer, 1995 I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts, then there is no hurt, but only more love.
-- Mother Teresa Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is.
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It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid.
- George Bernard Shaw Thomas Jefferson--still surv...
-- John Adams, dying words 'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
-- ee cummings Anyone who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without
feminine upheaval. Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex,
the ugl The child is the father of the man.
-- William Wordsworth National Trails Tear open packet, unfold and use.
-- Directions on moist towelette package Most married couples, even though they love each other very much in theory, tend to view each
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If someone had told me I would be Pope one day, I would have studied harder.
-- Pope John Paul I "The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do." (Anonymous) Prayer gives a man the opportunity of getting to know a gentleman he hardly ever meets. I do not
mean his maker, but himself.
-- Dean Inge What does not kill me makes me stronger.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "If all men knew what others say of them, there would not be four friends in the world." (Blaise Pascal) National Trails I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible
by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.
- Umberto Eco For best results: wash in cold water separately, hang dry and iron with warm iron. For not so good
results: drag behind car through puddles, blow-dry on roofrack.
-- Laundry instructions on a shirt "We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then is not an act but a habit." (Aristotle) National Trails
To keep your marriage brimming
With love in the marriage cup,
Whenever you're wrong, admit it,
Whenever you're right, shut up. -- Nash A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties; no
religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear
of Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.
-- B.F. Skinner I didn't have time to write a short letter, so I wrote a long one instead.
-- Mark Twain Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it.
-- George Bernard Shaw National Trails Ah, well, then I suppose I shall have to die beyond my means.
-- Oscar Wilde, dying words The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the
purpose of satisfying it afterwards.
-- Anatole France Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive.
-- Anaïs Nin National Trails
Experience is the worst teacher; it gives the test before presenting the lesson.
-- Vernon Law "The order of the world is always right - such is the judgment of God. For God has departed, but he has left his judgment behind, the way the Cheshire Cat left his grin." (Jean Baudrillard) blah "The best students always are flunking. Every good teacher knows that." (Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance) "Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something." (Plato, 427 BC-348) Everyone believes very easily whatever they fear or desire.
-- Jean de La Fontaine National Trails blah "Ideas are like stars, you will not succeed in touching them with your hands, but like the seafaring man on the desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and, following them, you reach yo Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of
the other person.
-- Mark Twain Women see better than men. Men see lazily, if they do not expect to act. Women see quite
without any wish to act.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson National Trails
I owe the government $3400 in taxes. So I sent them two hammers and a toilet seat.
-- Michael McShane ARDOR, n. The quality that distinguishes love without knowledge.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 No one can earn a million dollars honestly.
- William Jennings Bryan Hell hath no fury like a bureaucrat scorned.
-- Milton Friedman I dislike arguments of any kind. They are always vulgar, and often convincing.
-- Oscar Wilde National Trails We have drugs to make women speak, but none to keep them silent.
-- Anatole France Marriage is a mutual relationship if both parties know when to be mute. Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get
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-- Stephen Leacock National Trails
