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Having a family is like having a bowling alley installed in your brain.
-- Martin Mull Peculiar travel suggestions are dancing lessons from God.
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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 "The perception of beauty is a moral test." (Henry David Thoreau) Nothing has really happened until it has been recorded.
-- Virginia Woolf Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by heart and his friends can
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- Sir Winston Churchill Business and Economy
A White House well filled, a little peanut field well tilled, and a wife who will go to the Bronx are
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-- Poor Jimmy's Almanac We had a lot in common. I loved him and he loved him.
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-- Tom Robbins Ah, well, then I suppose I shall have to die beyond my means.
-- Oscar Wilde, dying words "Well begun is half done." (Aristotle) Business and Economy
Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the
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- Sherlock Holmes Die? I should say not, dear fellow. No Barrymore would allow such a conventional thing to
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-- John Barrymore - last words There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in his home.
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-- George Bernard Shaw Business and Economy
If other people are going to talk, conversation becomes impossible.
-- James McNeill Whistler Few things are harder to put up with than a good example.
- Mark Twain Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not
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-- Robert Orben Sir, I would rather be right than be President.
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-- Alphonse Allais Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.
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-- Frank Zappa Business and Economy Never try to teach a pig to sing. It wastes your time and annoys the pig.
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-- Jeff Raskin Business and Economy
Love is shown in your deeds, not in your words.
-- Fr. Jerome Cummings Men have a much better time of it than women; for one thing, they marry later; for another thing, they die earlier. --H.L. Mencken After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
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-- Ellen DeGeneres Not only is there no God, but try finding a plumber on Sunday.
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-- Gloria Steinem Business and Economy
There is a theory which states that if ever anybody discovers exactly what the Universe is for and
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