"The only thing we have to fear is fear itself." (Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1882 - 1945, 32nd U.S. President) "If you believe everything you read, you better not read." (Japanese Proverb) Motivation will almost always beat mere talent.
-- Norman R. Augustine "The purpose of Compulsory Education is to deprive the common people of their commonsense." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is
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- Bertrand Russell
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A little inaccuracy sometimes saves a ton Travel and Tourism I am ready at any time. Do not keep me waiting.
-- John Brown - last words "If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost." (Aristotle) "The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning, but without understanding." (Louis Brandeis) Travel and Tourism
They had a dispute about a night out with the boys. But he finally decided to let her go.
-- Anonymous Hark, the Herald Tribune sings,
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-- Tom Lehrer I regret that I have but one life to give for my country.
-- Nathan Hale I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible
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- Umberto Eco A husband is what's left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
-- Helen Rowland Travel and Tourism The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit.
-- W. Somerset Maugham Journalism consists largely in saying "Lord Jones died" to people who never knew Lord Jones
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-- G. K. Chesterton Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous
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-- Samuel Johnson Travel and Tourism
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 Politics is for people who have a passion for changing life but lack a passion for living it.
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- Mahatma Gandhi The open-minded see the truth in different things: the narrow-minded see only the differences.
-- Author Unknown Travel and Tourism The greatest homage to truth is to use it.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Vote early and vote often.
- Al Capone Some birds aren't meant to be caged, their feathers are just too bright. And when they fly away,
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Love is a snowmobile racing across the tundra and then suddenly it flips over, pinning you
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-- Matt Groening, Love is Hell It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is
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-- Woody Allen This is the fourth?
-- Thomas Jefferson, dying words Travel and Tourism The first rule of intelligent tinkering is to save all the parts.
-- Paul Ehrlich You'd be surprised how much it costs to look this cheap.
-- Dolly Parton I admire the serene assurance of those who have religious faith. It is wonderful to observe the
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-- Mark Twain Travel and Tourism
The principle of give and take is the principle of diplomacy - give one and take ten.
-- Mark Twain My wife submits and I obey; she always lets me have her way. You must first have a lot of patience to learn to have patience.
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You may love it when you get it home, but it doesn't always go with everything in the house.
-- Jean Ke "Careful?! Was my mother careful when she stabbed me in the heart with a coat hanger while I was still in the womb?" (Trey Parker) Travel and Tourism The weirder you're going to behave, the more normal you should look. It works in reverse, too.
When I see a kid with three or four rings in his nose, I know there is absolutely nothing
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-- Ambrose Bierce "If you believe everything you read, you better not read." (Japanese Proverb) Travel and Tourism
All television is children's television.
-- Richard P. Adler "Women might be able to fake orgasms. But men can fake whole relationships." (Sharon Stone) If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate.
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-- James Thurber Travel and Tourism There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written or badly written.
-- Oscar Wilde I could prove God statistically.
-- George Gallup What's another word for "Thesaurus?"
-- Steven Wright Travel and Tourism
The fantasy which serves as a support for the figure of the Stalinist Communist is therefore
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-- Slavoj Zizek I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity.
-- Albert Einstein The higher up you go, the more mistakes you are allowed. Right at the top, if you make enough of
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-- Fred Astaire If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt It depends on your definition of asleep. They were not stretched out. They had their eyes closed.
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-- John Hogan, Commonwealth Travel and Tourism "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) Actually, the only memory I have of being a Cub Scout was trying to get my hat back. That was all
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-- Jerry Seinfeld There's no problem so awful that you can't add some guilt to it and make it even worse!
-- Calvin Travel and Tourism
"Majority rule only works if you're also considering individual rights. Because you can't have five wolves and one sheep voting on what to have for supper." (Larry Flynt) "Being born is like being kidnapped. And then sold into slavery." (Andy Warhol) The difference between a man who faces death for the sake of an idea and an imitator who goes
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-- The Artist Formerly Known As Prince Travel and Tourism "I don't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones." (John Cage) There is no realizable power that man cannot, in time, fashion the tools to attain, nor any power
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-- Abraham Lincoln Travel and Tourism
...the fog is rising.
-- Emily Dickinson, dying words A beauty is a woman you notice; A charmer is one who notices you.
-- Adlai Stevenson Early to rise and early to bed.
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-- James Thurber I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same.
-- Oscar Wilde Travel and Tourism Politics is for people who have a passion for changing life but lack a passion for living it.
-- Tom Robbins Man is a natural polygamist. He always has one woman leading him by the nose and another
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-- H. L. Mencken When a friend is in trouble, don't annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up
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-- E. W. Howe Travel and Tourism
The society of women is the element of good manners.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Man is the best computer we can put aboard a spacecraft...and the only one that can be mass
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-- Wernher von Braun A man who marries a woman to educate her falls a victim to the same fallacy as the woman who
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-- Elbert Hubbard "We have so little presumption that we should like to be known in the world, even to those who come after when we are no more. We have so little vanity that the esteem of five people, say six, amuses Did you hear about the scientist whose wife had twins? He baptized one and kept the other as a control. Travel and Tourism He who has lost honor can lose nothing more.
-- Publilius Syrus Anyone who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without
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-- Mortimer J. Adler Travel and Tourism
blah "You shall find out how salt is the taste of another man's bread, and how hard is the way up and down another man's stairs." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) "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 Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose
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-- Aesop Travel and Tourism blah "Some of the worlds greatest feats were accomplished by people not smart enough to know they were impossible. unattributed" (Anonymous) Character may be manifested in the great moments, but it is made in the small ones.
-- Phillip Brooks Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.
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