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I like nonsense -- it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living. It's a way
of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope...and that enables you to laugh at all Now join your hands, and with your hands your hearts.
-- William Shakespeare, King Henry the Sixth A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.
-- Edward Abbey The difference between a man who faces death for the sake of an idea and an imitator who goes
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-- Steven Wright Gay, Lesbian and Bisexual Some birds aren't meant to be caged, their feathers are just too bright. And when they fly away,
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- Sir Winston Churchill Basically, I no longer work for anything but the sensation I have while working.
- Albert Giacometti (sculptor) Gay, Lesbian and Bisexual
What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is
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-- Crow I love cats because I love my home and after a while they become its visible soul.
-- Jean Cocteau A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take
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-- Sacha Guitry He had occasional flashes of silence that made his conversation perfectly delightful.
-- Sydney Smith, referring to Macaulay It was the greatest of the imperfect ventriloquist acts: when his lips moved, her body sang.
-- Tom Robbins Gay, Lesbian and Bisexual If you talk to God, you are praying; if God talks to you, you have schizophrenia.
-- Thomas Szasz Argue for your limitations, and sure enough they're yours.
- Richard Bach Facts are the enemy of truth.
- Don Quixote - Man of La Mancha Gay, Lesbian and Bisexual
Researchers have discovered that chocolate produces some of the same reactions in the brain
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-- Henry David Thoreau, Walden (1854) To take what there "is", and use it, without waiting forever in vain for the preconceived - to dig
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They have come up with a perfect understanding. He won't try to run her life, and he won't try to
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-- Molly Ivins Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same
direction.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry NEIGHBOR, n. One whom we are commanded to love as ourselves, and who does all he knows
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-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
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-- Thomas Szasz "The easiest kind of relationship is with ten thousand people, the hardest is with one." (Joan Baez) Gay, Lesbian and Bisexual
No one finds life worth living; he must make it worth living.
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-- Groucho Marx "A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) You have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth
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-- George Bernard Shaw Gay, Lesbian and Bisexual "I put on an act sometimes, and people think I'm insensitive. Really, it's like a kind of armor because I'm too sensitive. If there are two hundred people in a room and one of them doesn't like me, I' Opportunity may knock only once, but temptation leans on the doorbell.
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-- P. J. O'Rourke "Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) "Genius without education is like silver in the mine." (Benjamin Franklin) I have read your book and much like it.
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-- Thornton Wilder Radio news is bearable. This is due to the fact that while the news is being broadcast the disc
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-- Fran Lebowitz Gay, Lesbian and Bisexual
There is no sincerer love than the love of food.
-- George Bernard Shaw Men are strong only so long as they represent a strong idea. They become powerless when they
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-- Sigmund Freud Curiosity will conquer fear even more than bravery will.
-- James Stephens In any organization there will always be one person who knows what is going on. This person
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-- Conway's Law In olden times, sacrifices were made at the altar, a practice which is still very much practiced.
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-- William Jennings Bryant The fate of love is that it always seems too little or too much.
-- Anonymous Gay, Lesbian and Bisexual
The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without
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-- William James Don't be so humble - you are not that great.
- Golda Meir (1898-1978) to a visiting diplomat Sign in a marriage counselor's window: "Out to lunch - Think it over." "Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country." (Marquis de Lafayette) Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting.
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-- Abraham Lincoln I've never had major knee surgery on any other part of my body.
-- Winston Bennett, University of Kentucky basketball forward "An able man shows his spirit by gentle words and resolute actions; he is neither hot nor timid." (Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield, 4th earl of) Gay, Lesbian and Bisexual
Don't look back -- something might be gaining on you.
-- Satchel Paige If pleasures are greatest in anticipation, just remember that this is also true of trouble.
-- Elbert Hubbard One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: that word is love.
-- Sophocles Better watch out that you won't become a television set in your next life.
--Loesje Better to die ten thousand deaths than wound my honor.
-- Joseph Addison Gay, Lesbian and Bisexual Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
-- George Bernard Shaw Man is the best computer we can put aboard a spacecraft...and the only one that can be mass
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-- Wernher von Braun "I have no special gift; I am only passionately curious." (Albert Einstein) Gay, Lesbian and Bisexual
The better part of valor is discretion.
-- William Shakespeare 1564-1616 from King Henry the Fourth, Part I I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
-- Thomas Edison Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.
-- Dietrich Bonhoeffer "Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) Insurance is like marriage. You pay, pay, pay, and you never get anything back.
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-- Rich Little Gay, Lesbian and Bisexual
Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the
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-- Oscar Wilde May your wife be a witch who takes after her mother, and may you all live together in a one-room house. "No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous." (Henry B. Adams) Gay, Lesbian and Bisexual I'm not a member of any organized political party, I'm a Democrat!
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-- Ralph Marston The question is not whether we will die, but how we will live.
-- Joan Borysenko Gay, Lesbian and Bisexual
