Correction: Instead of being arrested, as we stated, for kicking his wife down a flight of stairs and hurling a lighted kerosene lamp after her, the Rev. James P. Wellman died unmarried four years ago Jealousy is the only vice that gives no pleasure.
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-- Giraudoux Recreation and Sports Well if this is the wrong number, why did you answer it?
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First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.
- Mahatma Gandhi Per cubic inch, your current TV set is perhaps the dumbest appliance in your home (and I'm not
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-- Nicholas Negroponte "Most people don't realize that large pieces of coral, which have been painted brown and attached to the skull by common wood screws, can make a child look like a deer." (Jack Handey) "A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities." (Eda J. Le Shan) What is the answer? In that case, what is the question?
-- Gertrude Stein, dying words Recreation and Sports There's a fine line between fishing and standing on the shore like an idiot.
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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 "To educate educators! But the first ones must educate themselves! And for these I write." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I am ready to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me
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The absolute yearning of one human body for another particular body and its indifference to
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-- Joe Early, Congressman (D-Mass), at a press conference to answer questions about the
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Lottery: A tax on people who are bad at math.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one.
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-- Mother Teresa Recreation and Sports Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.
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-- Bob Inglis, 1995 Recreation and Sports
The person who is slowest in making a promise is most faithful in its performance.
-- Jean-Jacques Rousseau Whining is not only graceless, but can be dangerous. It can alert a brute that a victim is in the
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-- Maya Angelou The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax.
-- Albert Einstein "I have no special gift; I am only passionately curious." (Albert Einstein) "Conscience and cowardice are really the same things. Conscience is the trade-name of the firm. That is all." (Oscar Wilde) Recreation and Sports My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you'll be happy; if not, you'll become a
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I owe the government $3400 in taxes. So I sent them two hammers and a toilet seat.
-- Michael McShane The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow
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-- Robert Hutchins, Great Books, 1954 Do or do not. There is no try.
-- Yoda, character in the movie The Empire Strikes Back Women are like tea bags; put them in hot water and they get stronger.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish.
-- Albert Einstein Recreation and Sports Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.
-- Oscar Wilde I'd wipe the machines off the face of the earth again, and end the industrial epoch absolutely, like
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-- D. H. Lawrence The most wasted day of all is that in which we have not laughed.
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He who conquers himself is the mightiest warrior.
-- Confucius When one find's oneself in a hole of one's own making, it is a good time to examine the quality of
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-- John Renmerde Some of us are becoming the men we wanted to marry.
-- Gloria Steinem A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.
-- Gloria Steinem I just need enough to tide me over until I need more.
-- Bill Hoest Recreation and Sports May you grow so rich your widow's second husband never has to worry about a living, God forbid. Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is.
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-- Nigerian Proverb Recreation and Sports
Whenever I'm caught between two evils, I take the one I've never tried.
-- Mae West Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it
- Henry David Thoreau Airplane travel is nature's way of making you look like your passport photo.
-- Al Gore, U.S. Vice President If ever two were one, then surely we.
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-- Anne Bradstreet "Character is determined more by the lack of certain experiences than by those one has had." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Recreation and Sports Jealousy is the only vice that gives no pleasure.
-- Anonymous One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good
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-- Oscar Wilde The executive exists to make sensible exceptions to general rules.
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-- Henry Kissinger "A man who tells lies, like me, merely hides the truth. But a man who tells half-lies has forgotten where he put it." (Claude Rains, as Mr. Dryden, Lawrence of Arabia, 1962) Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and
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-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Recreation and Sports "Education is the process of driving a set of prejudices down your throat." (Martin H. Fischer) He who laughs last didn't get it.
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