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The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism
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Many a man has finally succeeded only because he has failed after repeated efforts. If he had
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-- Jose Ortega y Gasset "Death where is thy sting? Love, where is thy glory?" (William Shakespeare) That's the nature of research--you don't know what in hell you're doing.
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-- David Letterman Travel and Tourism A man's reach should exeed his grasp, or else what's a heaven for?
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A poem is never finished, only abandoned.
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It is not necessary that whilst I live I live happily; but it is necessary that so long as I live I should
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-- Kant, Immanuel Each of us has a spark of life inside us, and our highest endeavor ought to be to set off that spark
in one another.
-- Kenny Ausubel The mathematician lives long and lives young; the wings of his soul do not early drop off, nor do
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-- Voltaire Travel and Tourism If law school is so hard to get through... how come there are so many lawyers?
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-- G. K. Chesterton Travel and Tourism
The male is a domestic animal which, if treated with firmness, can be trained to do most things.
-- Jilly Cooper "Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) If God created us in His image we have certainly returned the compliment.
-- Voltaire Now join your hands, and with your hands your hearts.
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-- Russell Baker I shall return.
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We always believe our first love is our last, and our last love our first.
-- Anonymous "I don't care to belong to a club that accepts people like me as members." (Groucho Marx) The most terrible poverty is loneliness and the feeling of being unloved.
-- Mother Teresa War is a profession by which a man cannot live honorably; an employment by which the soldier, if
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-- Tom K. Ryan The highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to make money do more for the
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The instinct of nearly all societies is to lock up anybody who is truly free. First, society begins by
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-- Albert Einstein Travel and Tourism blah bl "The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning, but without understanding." (Louis Brandeis) Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.
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-- W. C. Fields Travel and Tourism
"An able man shows his spirit by gentle words and resolute actions; he is neither hot nor timid." (Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield, 4th earl of) When Baby's cries grew hard to bear I popped him in the Frigidaire. I never would have done so if
I'd known that he'd be frozen stiff. My wife said, "George, I'm so unhappy! Our darling's now
comple Never marry for money. Ye'll borrow it cheaper.
-- Scottish Proverb Technology is a way of organizing the universe so that man doesn't have to experience it.
-- Max Frisch "A man who flies from his fear may find he has only taken a shortcut to meet it." (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) Travel and Tourism The IRS spends God knows how much of your tax money on these toll-free information hot lines
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Not only is there no God, but try finding a plumber on Sunday.
-- Woody Allen "No one wants a good education. Everyone wants a good degree." (Lee Rudolph) Statistics have shown that mortality increases perceptibly in the military during wartime.
-- Alphonse Allais To love another person is to see the face of God.
-- Lyric from Les Miserables Good Night, Good night! Parting is such sweet sorrow,
that I shall say good night till it be morrow.
-- Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare. Act II, Scene II, lines 220-221 Travel and Tourism "I'm so insane, I voted for Eisenhower."
"Oh yeah, well I'm so insane, I voted for Eisenhower TWICE!"
-- Ken Kesey from "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" "I was a total loner, not by self-design. I just didn't know what the hell to say to people. I was so shy. I used to stammer and lisp and dribble at the mouth." (Sir Anthony Hopkins, on his youth) "Dear World, I am leaving because I am bored. I feel I have lived long enough. I am leaving you with your worries in this sweet cesspool. Good luck." (George Sanders, suicide note) Travel and Tourism
"Give me liberty or give me death." (Patrick Henry) Too bad all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving cabs and cutting hair.
-- George Burns The best way to get husbands to do something is to suggest that perhaps they are too old to do it.
-- Shirley MacLaine My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music.
-- Vladimir Nabokov I recently read that love is entirely a matter of chemistry. That must be why my wife treats me like
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-- David Bissonette Travel and Tourism "Ideas are far more powerful than guns. We don't allow our enemies to have guns, why should we allow them to have ideas?" (Josef Stalin) "In literary criticism the critic has no choice but to make over the victim of his attention into something the size and shape of himself." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) Basically, I no longer work for anything but the sensation I have while working.
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