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-- Sigmund Freud Whatever women do they must do it twice as well as men to be thought half as good. Luckily this
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-- Charlotte Whitton I believe in getting into hot water; it keeps you clean.
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-- Diane Ackerman I am in total control, but don't tell my wife. "I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter." (Blaise Pascal) Maritime Training
Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions - it only guarantees equality of opportunity.
- Irving Kristol Before marriage, a man will lie awake all night thinking about something you said; after marriage,
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-- Helen Roland "If you light a man a fire, he will be warm for a day; if you light a man on fire, he will be warm for the rest of his life." (Anonymous) Did you hear about the scientist whose wife had twins? He baptized one and kept the other as a control. The possibility that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause
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-- H. L. Mencken Maritime Training
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-- Michael Meissner "Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parents, gobble their food, and tyrannize their teachers." (Socrates) UGLINESS, n. A gift of the gods to certain women, entailing virtue without humility.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 The more faithfully you listen to the voices within you, the better you will hear what is sounding
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-- Dag Hammarskjold Let go of your attachment to being right, and suddenly your mind is more open. You're able to
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-- Ralph Mars Maritime Training Those parts of the system that you can hit with a hammer (not advised) are called hardware;
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-- Unknown author, Levitating T If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.
-- Virginia Woolf The surest way to make a monkey of a man is to quote him.
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-- Herman Melville Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances
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-- T. S. Eliot My good intentions are completely lethal.
-- Margaret Atwood Maritime Training
Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business.
-- Tom Robbins Imitation is the sincerest form of television.
-- Fred Allen Democracy is a government where you can say what you think even if you don't think.
-- Anon. Thomas Jefferson--still surv...
-- John Adams, dying words Vote early and vote often.
- Al Capone Maritime Training The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow
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-- Robert Hutchins, Great Books, 1954 Opera in English is, in the main, about as sensible as baseball in Italian.
-- H. L. Mencken "Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Maritime Training
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Everyone is a genius at least once a year; a real genius has his original ideas closer together.
- Georg Lichtenberg I'm worried that the universe will soon need replacing. It's not holding a charge.
-- Edward Chilton As life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action
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-- George Bernard Shaw I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them.
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-- Crow Trouble is a part of your life, and if you don't share it, you don't give the person that loves you
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-- Aldous Huxley We can never be sure that the opinion we are endeavoring to stifle is a false opinion; and if we
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-- Anonymous Maritime Training Usenet is like Tetris for people who still remember how to read.
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When a person can no longer laugh at himself, it is time for others to laugh at him.
-- Thomas Szasz, The Second Sin, 1973 The better part of valor is discretion.
-- William Shakespeare 1564-1616 from King Henry the Fourth, Part I "The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do." (Anonymous) Honorable, adj. Afflicted with an impediment in one's reach. In legislative bodies, it is customary
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- Paul Erdos What I look forward to is continued immaturity followed by death.
-- Dave Barry Maritime Training
A clever man commits no minor blunders.
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-- E. W. Howe The only thing you take with you when you're gone is what you leave behind.
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-- James Baldwin, Nobody Knows My Name, 1961 Maritime Training
