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-- Winston Churchill Not only is the universe stranger than we imagine, it is stranger than we can imagine.
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There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.
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The opposite of a great truth is also true.
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"God is Man's stupidest idea." (Marcel Duchamp, French Dadaist) Meetings are an addictive, highly self-indulgent activity that corporations and other large
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-- Dave Barry "Is man merely a mistake of God's? Or God merely a mistake of man's?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.
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-- Helen Rowland Rugby
The mathematician lives long and lives young; the wings of his soul do not early drop off, nor do
its pores become clogged with the earthy particles blown from the dusty highways of vulgar life.
-- There is a theory which states that if ever anybody discovers exactly what the Universe is for and
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inex Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
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-- Soren Kierkegaard Rugby "True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost." (Charles Caleb Colton) When you've spent half your political life dealing with humdrum issues like the environment... it's
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A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
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-- John Heisman Rugby Books, like friends, should be few and well chosen.
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- Vince Lombardi Rugby
"A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities." (Eda J. Le Shan) Hark, the Herald Tribune sings,
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-- Andrew Brown Rugby No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman.
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- Alice Roosevelt Longworth Rugby
"A dress makes no sense unless it inspires men to take it off of you." (Francois Sagan) "Children begin by loving their parents. After a time they judge them. Rarely, if ever, do they forgive them." (Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance) Never be possessive. If a female friend lets on that she is going out with another man, be kind
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-- Jim Backus Victory goes to the player who makes the next-to-last mistake.
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-- Abraham Lincoln Rugby
I've always thought that underpopulated countries in Africa are vastly underpolluted.
-- Lawrence Summers, chief economist of the World Bank, explaining why we should export toxic
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-- William Gladstone Youth is wasted on the young.
-- George Bernard Shaw The bottom line is that (a) people are never perfect, but love can be, (b) that is the one and only
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A successful man is one who makes more money than his wife can spend. A successful woman
is one who can find such a man.
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-- John Harrigan Rugby
To teach is to learn twice.
-- Joseph Joubert If stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out?
- Will Rogers "Nothing is permanent but change." (Heraclitus) The marriage of Marxism and feminism has been like the marriage of husband and wife depicted
in English common law: Marxism and feminism are one, and that one is Marxism.
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- Sir Winston Churchill I support efforts to limit the terms of members of Congress, especially members of the House and
members of the Senate.
-- Dan Quayle, Former Vice-President I believe God is managing affairs and that He doesn't need any advice from me. With God in
charge, I believe everything will work out for the best in the end. So what is there to worry about.
-- Hen Rugby
