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-- Voltaire One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is
terribly important.
- Bertrand Russell
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The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
- Lucille S. Harper An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets the more interested
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-- Lawrence Summers, chief economist of the World Bank, explaining why we should export toxic
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-- Clarence Darrow Photographers
Great eaters and great sleepers are incapable of anything else that is great.
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- George Bernard Shaw In the end, everything is a gag.
-- Charlie Chaplin Photographers My mother's menu consisted of two choices: Take it or leave it.
-- Buddy Hackett If I have seen farther than others, it is because I was standing on the shoulders of giants.
-- Isaac Newton Argue for your limitations, and sure enough they're yours.
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It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid.
- George Bernard Shaw A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.
- Lao-Tzu Don't be afraid your life will end; be afraid that it will never begin.
-- Grace Hansen "You know that being an American is more than a matter of where your parents came from. It is a belief that all men are created free and equal and that everyone deserves an even break." (Harry S. Tru Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.
-- G. K. Chesterton Photographers Behind every great fortune there is a crime.
- Honore de Balzac One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is
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-- Bertrand Russell Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature.
-- Samuel Butler Photographers
The open-minded see the truth in different things: the narrow-minded see only the differences.
-- Author Unknown Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.
-- Oscar Wilde The good people sleep much better at night than the bad people. Of course, the bad people enjoy
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-- Woody Allen They had a dispute about a night out with the boys. But he finally decided to let her go.
-- Anonymous Live your questions now, and perhaps even without knowing it, you will live along some distant
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-- Rainer Maria Rilke Photographers "What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Shotgun wedding: a case of wife or death Each religion, by the help of more or less myth which it takes more or less seriously, proposes
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-- George Photographers
"To pretend, I actually do the thing: I have therefore only pretended to pretend." (Jacques Derrida, French 'deconstructionist') [You reporters] should have printed what he meant, not what he said.
-- Earl Bush, press aide to Richard Daley You can complain because roses have thorns, or you can rejoice because thorns have roses.
-- Ziggy, character in comic strip by Tom Wilson "I don't care to belong to a club that accepts people like me as members." (Groucho Marx) The wise see knowledge and action as one; they see truly.
-- Bhagava Gita Photographers I believe in getting into hot water; it keeps you clean.
-- G. K. Chesterton All you need is love.
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I have noticed that nothing I have never said ever did me any harm.
-- Calvin Coolidge Most married couples, even though they love each other very much in theory, tend to view each
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-- Elbert Hubbard Photographers Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you.
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There ought to be one day - just one - when there is open season on senators.
-- Will Rogers It is best to learn as we go, not go as we have learned.
-- Leslie Jeanne Sahler For most men life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed.
-- Clifton Fadiman Marital Freedom: The liberty that allows a husband to do exactly that which his wife pleases.
-- Anonymous "Genius without education is like silver in the mine." (Benjamin Franklin) Photographers Second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience. The brain is a wonderful organ. It starts working the moment you get up in the morning, and does
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-- Robert Frost Marriage is a thing which puts a ring on a woman's finger and two under the man's eyes. Photographers
Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.
-- Erica Jong I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.
- Francois-Auguste Rodin (1840-1917), when asked how he managed to make his remarkable
statues If you can't annoy somebody, there's little point in writing.
-- Kingsley Amis Distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes.
- Henry David Thoreau The Holocaust was an obscene period in our nation's history...this century's history.... We all lived
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-- Dan Quayle, then Indiana senator and Republic Photographers Parents often talk about the younger generations as if they didn't have anything to do with it. Be nice to people on your way up because you meet them on your way down.
- Jimmy Durante Not much meat on her, but what's there is choice.
-- Spencer Tracy, about Katharine Hepburn Photographers
"One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "You are rewarding a teacher poorly if you remain always a pupil." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we
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-- H. L. Mencken We can do no great things; only small things with great love.
-- Mother Teresa Actually, the only memory I have of being a Cub Scout was trying to get my hat back. That was all
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-- Jerry Seinfeld Photographers The first duty of a lecturer: to hand you after an hour's discourse a nugget of pure truth to wrap up
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-- Virginia Woolf To realize that you do not understand is a virtue;
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--Lao-Tzu, "Tao Teh Ching" I was going to change my shirt, but I changed my mind instead.
-- Winnie the Pooh Photographers
"Courage is doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared." (Eddie Rickenbacker) Guys are lucky because they get to grow mustaches. I wish I could. It's like having a little pet for
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-- Anita Wise Once all struggle is grasped, miracles are possible.
-- Mao Tse-tung The man who complains about the way the ball bounces is likely the one who dropped it.
-- Lou Holtz Whoever controls the media--the images--controls the culture.
-- Allen Ginsberg Photographers "If you're in a bad situation, don't worry it'll change. If you're in a good situation, don't worry it'll change." (John A. Simone Sr.) They gave me a book of checks. They didn't ask for any deposits.
-- Joe Early, Congressman (D-Mass), at a press conference to answer questions about the
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