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-- Mark Twain Realism is a corruption of reality.
-- Wallace Stevens Why doesn't she like me? Is it my hair, my overbite, the fact that I've worn the same shirt and
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Where there is marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.
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University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
-- Henry Kissinger Sir Francis Drake circumsized the world with a 100-foot clipper.
-- Unknown history student It's important to be open-minded, but not SO open-minded that your brains fall out.
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If you can count your money, you don't have a billion dollars.
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-- Buddha If we knew what we were doing, it wouldn't be called research, would it?
-- Albert Einstein Newcastle Emlyn
If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one.
-- Mother Teresa We are not retreating - we are advancing in another Direction.
- General Douglas MacArthur 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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Asking politicians to vote themselves out of power is like asking rabbits not to multiply, it ain't
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I hate mankind, for I think myself to be one of them, and I know how bad I am.
-- Samuel Johnson There is nothing that can be said by mathematical symbols and relations which cannot also be
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-- George Bernard Shaw Newcastle Emlyn
Never practice two vices at once.
-- Tallulah Bankhead Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it.
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