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-- Gloria Steinem People, like nails, lose their effectiveness when they lose direction and begin to bend.
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-- Oscar Wilde Life is not an easy matter.... You cannot live through it without falling into frustration and cynicism
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-- Lyn Karol Recreation and Sports
"It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure on the world." (John Steinbeck When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I only think about how to solve the
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- Buckminster Love is stronger than justice.
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The best way to get husbands to do something is to suggest that perhaps they are too old to do it.
-- Shirley MacLaine "Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain -- and most fools do." (Dale Carnegie) Martyrdom... is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability. George Bernard
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-- Albert Camus Recreation and Sports
Gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling in love.
-- Albert Einstein Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you walk into an open sewer and die.
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-- Nelson Mandela, A Long Walk to Freedom "Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience." (George Bernard Shaw) Recreation and Sports
However, never daunted, I will cope with adversity in my usual manner...sulking and nausea.
-- Tom K. Ryan Seeing a murder on television can help work off one's antagonisms. And if you haven't any
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-- Alfred Hitchcock CAPITAL, n. The seat of misgovernment. That which provides the fire, the pot, the dinner, the
table and the knife and fork for the anarchist; the part of the repast that himself supplies is the
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- George Washington Carver Recreation and Sports Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.
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-- Adlai Stevenson Recreation and Sports
A small family is soon provided for.
-- English Proverb 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 A memorandum is written not to inform the reader but to protect the writer.
-- Dean Acheson The theory used to be you marry an older man because they are more mature. The new theory is that men don't mature. So you might as well marry a younger one. "Ninety percent of my salary I spent on booze and women ... and the other ten percent I wasted." (Tug McGraw, Major League Baseball pitcher) Recreation and Sports The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.
-- Paul Valery Destiny is not a matter of chance; but a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, It is a
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-- William Jennings Bryant "I have no special gift; I am only passionately curious." (Albert Einstein) Recreation and Sports
You have to kiss a lot of toads before you find a handsome prince.
-- American Proverb A really busy person never knows how much he weighs.
-- Ed Howe Many a man owes his success to his first wife and his second wife to his success.
-- Jim Backus There are some things which cannot be learned quickly, and time, which is all we have, must be
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-- Peter Ustinov Recreation and Sports The more faithfully you listen to the voices within you, the better you will hear what is sounding
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-- Dag Hammarskjold Women want mediocre men, and men are working hard to become as mediocre as possible.
-- Margaret Mead Despite the high cost of living it remains a popular item.
-- Anonymous Recreation and Sports
Always behave like a duck--keep calm and unruffled on the surface but paddle like the devil
underneath.
-- Jacob Braude It is most unwise for people in love to marry.
-- George Bernard Shaw The cynics are right nine times out of ten.
- Henry Louis Mencken We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next door neighbour.
-- G. K. Chesterton An economic forecaster is like a cross-eyed javelin thrower: they don't win many accuracy
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-- Anonymous Recreation and Sports Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.
-- Samuel Johnson "I have no special gift; I am only passionately curious." (Albert Einstein) If ever two were one, then surely we.
If ever man were loved by wife, then thee.
-- Anne Bradstreet Recreation and Sports
Familiarity breeds contempt -- and children.
-- Mark Twain Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.
-- Louise Hay Remember your dreams.
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-- Oscar Wilde Recreation and Sports
How could they tell?
-- Dorothy Parker, upon hearing that President Coolidge had died "I think people resist freedom because they're afraid of the unknown. But it's ironic....That unknown was once very well known. It's where are souls belong....The only solution is to confront them--co In a novel, the hero can lay ten girls and marry a virgin for the finish. In a movie, that is not
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-- Groucho Marx If you cannot be the master of your language, you must be its slave. If you cannot examine your
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-- Richard Mitchell, from Recreation and Sports Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.
-- Sigmund Freud Nobody ever died of laughter.
-- Max Beerbohm Children should be like waffles--you should be able to throw the first one away.
-- Mary Alice Messenger Recreation and Sports
Women and Cats will do as they please. Men and dogs had better get used to it.
-- Robert Heinlein, Time Enough for Love, Lazarus Long We trained hard - but it seemed that every time we were beginning to form up into teams we were
reorganized. I was to learn later in life that we tend to meet any new situation by reorganizing,
and You can't say civilization isn't advancing: in every war they kill you in a new way.
-- Will Rogers A person should never be ashamed to own that he is wrong, which is but saying in other words
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-- Alexander Pope Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.
-- Erica Jong Recreation and Sports Did you ever notice when you blow in a dog's face he gets mad at you? But when you take him in
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