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Death does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when it does
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-- Mother Teresa Arts and Entertainment
"In literary criticism the critic has no choice but to make over the victim of his attention into something the size and shape of himself." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) "Some look at things that are, and ask why. I dream of things that never were and ask why not?" (George Bernard Shaw) 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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- Socrates Idealism increases in direct proportion to one's distance from the problem.
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Husbands are awkward things to deal with; even keeping them in hot water will not make them
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-- Mary Buckley Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after.
-- Anne Morrow Lindbergh Having a family is like having a bowling alley installed in your brain.
-- Martin Mull The older one grows, the more one likes indecency.
-- Virginia Woolf Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.
-- Francis Bacon Arts and Entertainment The graveyards are full of indispensable men.
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Whatever you are, be a good one.
-- Abraham Lincoln Fine art and pizza delivery: what we do falls neatly in between.
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If women didn't exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning.
-- Aristotle Onassis Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.
-- G. K. Chesterton Everything has been figured out, except how to live.
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Man is the best computer we can put aboard a spacecraft...and the only one that can be mass
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-- George Gallup Great ability develops and reveals itself increasingly with every new assignment. Baltasar
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-- George Orwell True, we love life, not because we are used to living, but because we are used to loving. There is
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He can compress the most words into the smallest idea of any man I know.
- Abraham Lincoln It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is
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-- Gerald Early, writer, baseball do My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music.
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To marry is to halve your rights and double your duties.
-- Arthur Schopenhauer There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations.
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We seek the comfort of another. Someone to share and share the life we choose. Someone to
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-- Bill Moyers Whenever I'm caught between two evils, I take the one I've never tried.
-- Mae West I like nonsense -- it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living. It's a way
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-- Albert Einstein .. I am indebted to the cat for a particular kind of honorable deceit, for a greater control over
myself, for a characteristic aversion to brutal sounds, and for the need to keep silent for long
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the fl Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it. Arts and Entertainment blah "Ideas are like stars, you will not succeed in touching them with your hands, but like the seafaring man on the desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and, following them, you reach yo "A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward." (Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1882 - 1945, 32nd U.S. President) There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you
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