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Change is not merely necessary to life, it is life.
-- Alvin Toffler It is the final proof of God's omnipotence that he need not exist in order to save us.
-- Peter De Vries Love begins with a smile, grows with a kiss, and ends with a teardrop.
-- Anonymous Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of
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-- George Bernard Shaw To achieve the impossible, it is precisely the unthinkable that must be thought.
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-- Lauren Bacall "Teacher played hooky. Sent message: 'Receiving instruction. Enjoying myself thoroughly. See you next week.'" (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame.
-- G. K. Chesterton Home Exchanges
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 Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the
really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.
-- Mark Twain "Fear is a darkroom where negatives develop." (Usman Asif) This delivery driver carries no money. His wife has it all. When the mouse laughs at the cat, there is a hole nearby.
-- Nigerian Proverb Home Exchanges The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because
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-- G. K. Chesterton "I had discovered that a person does not have to be this or be that or be anything, not even oneself. One is free." (Walker Percy, The Moviegoer) Good judgement comes from experience, and experience--well, that comes from poor judgement.
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The sun never sets on the British empire because Britain is in the east and the sun sets in the
west.
-- Unknown history student "Work like you don't need the money. Love like you've never been hurt. Dance like nobody's watching." (Satchel Paige) A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems.
- Paul Erdos Life is like music; it must be composed by ear, feeling, and instinct, not by rule.
-- Samuel Butler The reason most people play golf is to wear clothes they would not be caught dead in otherwise.
-- Roger Simon Home Exchanges Whether you think that you can, or that you can't, you are usually right.
-- Henry Ford Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure.
-- George E. Woodberry Health food makes me sick.
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Where there is love there is life.
-- Gandhi The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything.
-- Oscar Wilde Have you ever noticed? Anybody going slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than
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-- George Carlin "A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools." (Douglas Adams) Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it
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-- H. L. Mencken "Let no one be discouraged by the belief there is nothing one person can do against the enormous array of the world's ills, misery, ignorance, and violence. Few will have the greatness to bend history The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain.
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"I don't care to belong to a club that accepts people like me as members." (Groucho Marx) "Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh." (George Bernard Shaw) The trouble with children is that they are not returnable.
-- Quentin Crisp "The only man who behaved sensibly was my tailor; he took my measurement anew every time he saw me, while all the rest went on with their old measurements and expected them to fit me." (George Bernar His ignorance is encyclopedic
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-- Calvin Coolidge "People have to talk about something just to keep their voice boxes in working order so they'll have good voice boxes in case there's ever anything really meaningful to say." (Kurt Vonnegut) There is no course of life so weak and sottish as that which is managed by order, method, and
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The society of women is the element of good manners.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Choose a wife by your ear than your eye.
-- Thomas Fuller, 1732 "It serves me right for putting all my eggs in one bastard." (Dorothy Parker, 1893-1967, US writer) I'm not dumb, I just have a command of thoroughly useless information.
-- Calvin The grand aim of all science is to cover the greatest number of empirical facts by logical
deduction from the smallest number of hypotheses or axioms.
-- Albert Einstein Home Exchanges It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are
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-- Seneca Marriage is the only war in which you sleep with the enemy.
-- Anonymous Love is only the game that is not called on account of darkness.
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A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.
- Sir Winston Churchill Sure, it's going to kill a lot of people, but they may be dying of something else anyway.
-- Othal Brand, member of a Texas pesticide review board Experience is not what happens to you; it's what you do with what happens to you.
-- Aldous Huxley Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that he sometimes has to eat them.
-- Adlai Stevenson The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious.
-- Albert Einstein Home Exchanges It is well, when judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and
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-- Arnold Bennett "Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them." (Samuel Butler) The wise see knowledge and action as one; they see truly.
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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 "Everything in my life has been determined by mistakes." (Gene Wilder) The second day of a diet is always easier than the first. By the second day you're off it.
-- Jackie Gleason A life spent in making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent doing
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-- George Benard Shaw Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
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- Henry David Thoreau Love is blind and marriage is the institution for the blind.
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"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 Silence is argument carried out by other means.
-- Ernesto "Che" Guevara Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by
definition, is unassailable.
-- James Baldwin, Nobody Knows My Name, 1961 "The White Rabbit put on his spectacles. 'Where shall I begin, please your Majesty?' he asked. 'Begin at the beginning,' the King said gravely, 'and go on till you come to the end: then stop.'" (Lewi Ambition is not a vice of little people.
-- Michel de Montaigne Home Exchanges Neither fire nor wind, birth nor death can erase our good deeds.
-- Buddha I like two kinds of men: domestic and foreign.
-- Mae West A man's feet should be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world.
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"What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to.
-- Elvis Presley At the bottom no one in life can help anyone else in life; this one experiences over and over in
every conflict and every perplexity: that one is alone. That isn't as bad as it may first appear; and "I couldn't find the sports car of my dreams, so I built it myself." (Dr. Ferdinand Porsche) The difference between sex and death is that with death you can do it alone and no one is going
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-- Woody Allen Home Exchanges "Our lives are repetitious shams--every single day a simulacrum of the previous day. So for Man, he is out to pepper his daily activities with different things--he's fighting against boredom." (Matth "Frank and explicit; that is the right line to take when you wish to conceal your own mind and to confuse the minds of others." (Benjamin Disraeli, Sybil) I can write better than anybody who can write faster, and I can write faster than anybody who can
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It is because modern education is so seldom inspired by a great hope that it so seldom achieves
great results. The wish to preserve the past rather that the hope of creating the future dominates
the Don't anthropomorphize computers -- they hate it.
-- Anonymous You've achieved success in your field when you don't know whether what you're doing is work or
play.
-- WARREN BEATTY Curiosity will conquer fear even more than bravery will.
-- James Stephens Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you help them to become what they are
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-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Home Exchanges "If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, sir, should keep his friendship in a constant repair." (Samuel Johnson) It is a product of Einstein's genius -- taking a commonplace observation, combining it with some
simple imaginary experiments, and arriving at a revolutionary conclusion.
-- Clifford M. Wills, 1986 Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork
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