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-- Benjamin Franklin Happiness, it is said, is seldom found by those who seek it, and never by those who seek it for
themselves.
-- F. Emerson Andrews Sex is God's joke on human beings.
-- Bette Davis You have to walk carefully in the beginning of love; the running across fields into your lover's
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Whenever you're wrong, admit it,
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-- Mae West Industries
I'm proud to be paying taxes in the United States. The only thing is - I could be just as proud for
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-- Arthur Godfrey "Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country." (Marquis de Lafayette) The best defense is a good offense.
-- Anonymous Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from
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-- George Bernard Shaw Never eat more than you can lift.
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Basically, I no longer work for anything but the sensation I have while working.
- Albert Giacometti (sculptor) Thank heaven. A bachelor's life is no life for a single man.
-- Samuel Goldwyn, immigrant-turned-famous-movie-producer, when told his son was getting
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-- Anonymous Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.
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-- Abraham Lincoln Industries
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Andre Gide Love me or hate me, but spare me your indifference.
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-- Napoleon Bonaparte He is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death.
- H. H. Munro (Saki) Industries "I offer images; I conjure memories of freedom that can still be reached ... But, we can only open the doors. We can't drag people through. I can't free them unless they want to be free--more than any The great man fights the elements in his time that hinder his own greatness, in other words his own freedom and sincerity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Death does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when it does
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-- Epicurus Industries
We would often be sorry if our wishes were gratified.
-- Aesop My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you'll be happy; if not, you'll become a
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- Socrates I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them.
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- Napoleon Bonaparte Industries
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de If God does not exist, then everything is permitted.
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-- Michel de Montaigne Industries
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 "No drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ignorance, g Sex is the mathematics urge sublimated.
-- M. C. Reed Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards.
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-- Barbara Bush, first lady, 1989 Age does not protect you from love but love to some extent protects you from age.
-- Jeanne Moreau When people go to work, they shouldn't have to leave their hearts at home.
-- Betty Bender Industries
And now here is my secret, a very simple secret; it is only with the heart that one can see rightly,
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- Aristotle Industries
The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains that I
have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time.
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Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution.
-- Mae West Second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience. Based on what you know about him in history books, what do you think Abraham Lincoln would
be doing if he were alive today?
1) Writing his memoirs of the Civil War.
2) Advising the President.
3) D Inanimate objects are classified scientifically into three categories-- those that don't work, those
that break down, and those that get lost.
-- Russell Baker Before you put on a frown, make absolutely sure there are no smiles available.
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