"Death solves all problems--no man, no problem." (Josef Stalin) "The brighter you are, the more you have to learn." (Don Herold) "What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage." I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is; I only know that people call
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It takes two to speak truth --One to speak, and another to hear.
-- Henry David Thoreau "Hold a true friend with both your hands." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Hold the fort! I am coming!" (General William Tecumseh Sherman) "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 "Life is a great surprise. I don't see why death should not be an even greater one." (Vladimir Nabokov) Personal Pages We see the brightness of a new page where everything yet can happen.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke, Book of Hours I don't know why I did it, I don't know why I enjoyed it, and I don't know why I'll do it again.
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-- N. D. Stice Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the
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-- John Kenneth Galbraith Now join your hands, and with your hands your hearts.
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-- Victor Hugo There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as
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I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude. we are for the most part
more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers.
-- Thoreau "Nobody minds having what is too good for them." (Jane Austen) Once a boy becomes a man, he's a man all his life, but a woman is only sexy until she becomes
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-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show I think that I shall never see
A billboard lovely as a tree.
Indeed, unless the billboards fall,
I'll never see a tree at all.
-- Ogden Nash, Song of the Open Road, 1945 A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
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-- Oscar Wilde Personal Pages
Music is the art of thinking with sounds.
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-- Albert Einstein Once a boy becomes a man, he's a man all his life, but a woman is only sexy until she becomes
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-- Gandhi Personal Pages
The time is always right to do what is right.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. "People expect a certain reaction from a business, and when you pleasantly exceed those expectations, you've somehow passed an important psychological threshold." (Richard Thalheimer, president, The "No one wants a good education. Everyone wants a good degree." (Lee Rudolph) It is no use walking anywhere to preach unless our walking is our preaching.
-- St. Francis of Assisi To achieve the impossible, it is precisely the unthinkable that must be thought.
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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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A little inaccuracy sometimes saves a ton Love cures people, both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.
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dozen.
-- John Steinbeck "That's the true sign. If the lover has not yet achieved his prize, his eyes will follow the woman, while she appears indifferent. But once he's gained his goal, it's the woman's eyes that follow him, A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel.
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Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana.
-- Groucho Marx Nothing is wrong with California that a rise in the ocean level wouldn't cure.
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The less their ability, the more their conceit.
Ahad HaAm My initial response was to sue her for defamation of character, but then I realized that I had no
character.
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-- Shane Leslie Personal Pages "All our best men are laughed at in this nightmare land." (Jack Keroac) When you are right, you cannot be too radical; When you are wrong, you cannot be too
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-- Martin Luther King, Jr. "Life is a great surprise. I don't see why death should not be an even greater one." (Vladimir Nabokov) Personal Pages
You can take all the sincerity in Hollywood, place it in the navel of a firefly and still have room
enough for three caraway seeds and a producer's heart.
-- Fred Allen Say goodbye to the oldies, but goodies, because the good old days weren't always good and
tomorrow aint as bad as it seems.
-- Billy Joel If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.
-- Voltaire Choose a wife by your ear than your eye.
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-- Benjamin Disraeli There are those who look at things the way they are, and ask why... I dream of things that never
were, and ask why not?
-- Robert Francis Kennedy A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.
- Frank Lloyd Wright Personal Pages
Anything is possible, but only a few things actually happen.
-- Richard Rosen You can take all the sincerity in Hollywood, place it in the navel of a firefly and still have room
enough for three caraway seeds and a producer's heart.
-- Fred Allen Giving birth is like taking your lower lip and forcing it over your head.
-- Carol Burnett He who awaits much can expect little.
-- Gabriel Garcia Marquez "What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Personal Pages When I give a lecture, I accept that people look at their watches, but what I do not tolerate is
when they look at it and raise it to their ear to find out if it stopped.
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