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can't read.
-- Frank Zappa Study men, not historians.
-- Harry Truman The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed
desperation.
-- Henry David Thoreau, Walden (1854) Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.
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-- Abraham Lincoln Travel and Tourism Women want mediocre men, and men are working hard to become as mediocre as possible.
-- Margaret Mead As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; and as far as they are
certain, they do not refer to reality.
-- Albert Einstein As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.
-- Abraham Lincoln Travel and Tourism
I'm like old wine. They don't bring me out very often, but I'm well preserved.
-- Rose Kennedy, (1890-1995) family matriarch, on her 100th birthday, 1991 Imagination is the highest kite one can fly.
-- Lauren Bacall Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards.
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-- Margo Kaufman If I tell a lie it's only because I think I'm telling the truth.
-- Phil Gaglardi, Minister of Highways, British Columbia, Canada Politics is for people who have a passion for changing life but lack a passion for living it.
-- Tom Robbins Travel and Tourism
God gave men both a penis and a brain, but unfortunately not enough blood supply to run both at
the same time.
- Robin Williams, commenting on the Clinton/Lewinsky affair "A man is only as faithful as his opportunity." (Chris Rock) Anyone who considers arithmetical methods of producing random digits is, of course, in a state of
sin.
-- John Von Neuman Nothing average ever stood as a monument to progress. When progress is looking for a partner it
doesn't turn to those who believe they are only average. It turns instead to those who are forever
sea The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow
extinction from apathy, indifference, and undernourishment.
-- Robert Hutchins, Great Books, 1954 Travel and Tourism The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains that I
have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time.
- George Bernard Shaw "Is man merely a mistake of God's? Or God merely a mistake of man's?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Does anal retentive have a hyphen?
-- Seen on a t-shirt Travel and Tourism
"Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh." (George Bernard Shaw) "When even one American--who has done nothing wrong--is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth--then all Americans are in peril." (Harry S. Truman) Experience is not what happens to you; it's what you do with what happens to you.
-- Aldous Huxley What we anticipate seldom occurs: but what we least expect generally happens.
-- Benjamin Disraeli That is the best -- to laugh with someone because you think the same things are funny.
-- Gloria Vanderbilt Travel and Tourism "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." (Thomas Jefferson) It is not good enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.
-- Rene Descartes Radio news is bearable. This is due to the fact that while the news is being broadcast the disc
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-- Fran Lebowitz Travel and Tourism
Nobody ever died of laughter.
-- Max Beerbohm Love is what we are born with. Fear is what we learn. The spiritual journey is the unlearning of
fear and prejudices and the acceptance of love back in our hearts. Love is the essential reality
and Even overweight cats instinctively know the cardinal rule: when fat, arrange yourself in slim
poses.
-- John Weitz, American Designer The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other
is ready.
-- Henry David Thoreau Whenever I date a guy, I think, is this the man I want my children to spend their weekends with?
-- Rita Rudner Travel and Tourism Thomas Jefferson--still surv...
-- John Adams, dying words The executive exists to make sensible exceptions to general rules.
-- Elting E. Morison "Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Travel and Tourism
Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than
yourself.
-- William Faulkner "In the future everyone will be famous for fifteen minutes." (Andy Warhol) "Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) What if it was cats who invented technology... would they have tv shows starring rubber sqeak
toys?
-- Douglas Coupland If you put garbage in a computer nothing comes out but garbage. But this garbage, having
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-- Anonymous Travel and Tourism A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
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Epperson's law:
When a man says it's a silly, childish game, it's probably something his wife can beat him at. What's another word for "Thesaurus?"
-- Steven Wright "Someday there will be girls and women whose name will no longer mean the mere opposite of the male, but something in itself, something that makes one think not of any compliment and limit, but only o The Church is an organism that grows best in an alien society.
-- C. Stacey Woods Let the refining and improving of your own life keep you so busy that you have little time to
criticize others.
-- H. Jackson Brown Travel and Tourism "The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves." (William Hazlitt) The streets are safe in Philadelphia. It's only the people who make them unsafe.
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-- Aristotle Travel and Tourism
To teach is to learn twice.
-- Joseph Joubert "Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to know." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) Now, now my good man, this is no time for making enemies.
- Voltaire (1694-1778) on his deathbed in response to a priest asking that he renounce Satan. The story of a love is not important - what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps
the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.
-- Helen Hayes My opinions are my wife's, and she says I'm lucky to have them. Travel and Tourism A problem is a chance for you to do your best.
-- Buke Ellington You have to stay in shape. My grandmother, she started walking five miles a day when she was
60. She's 97 today and we don't know where the hell she is.
-- Ellen DeGeneres A person should never be ashamed to own that he is wrong, which is but saying in other words
that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.
-- Alexander Pope Travel and Tourism
It is always right that a man should be able to render a reason for the faith that is within him.
-- Sydney Smith If it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do not say it.
-- Marcus Aurelius All television is children's television.
-- Richard P. Adler Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
-- Oscar Wilde There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called
marriage.
-- James Holt McGavran Travel and Tourism The older one grows, the more one likes indecency.
-- Virginia Woolf A man who has never made a woman angry is a failure in life.
-- Christopher Morley "If I could drop dead right now, I'd be the happiest man alive." (Samuel Goldwyn) Travel and Tourism
"No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave." (Calvin Coolidge) "Man is a strange animal. He generally cannot read the handwriting on the wall until his back is up against it." (Adlai Stevenson) A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.
-- G. K. Chesterton "The monster a child knows best and is most concerned with [is] the monster he feels or fears himself to be. " (Bruno Bettelheim, child psychologist) Is fuel efficiency really what we need most desperately? I say what we really need is a car that
can be shot when it breaks down.
-- Russell Baker Travel and Tourism I'll sleep when I'm dead.
- Warren Zevon There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld The best theology would need no advocates; it would prove itself.
-- Karl Barth Travel and Tourism
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expect i Good judgement comes from experience, and experience--well, that comes from poor judgement.
-- Cousin Woodman Anyone nit-picking enough to write a letter of correction to an editor doubtless deserves the error
that provoked it.
-- Alvin Toffler "Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known." (Blaise Pascal) Travel and Tourism Discovery consists of looking at the same thing as everyone else does and thinking something
different.
-- Albert Szent-Gyorgyi, 1937 Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine Sometimes a scream is better than a thesis.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Musical people always want one to be perfectly dumb at the very moment when one is longing to
be perfectly deaf.
-- Oscar Wilde Travel and Tourism
