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"You see things and you say 'Why?' I dream things that never were and say 'Why not?'" - George Bernard Shaw "An army of deer led by a lion is more to be feared than a army of lions led by a deer." - Chabrias, 410-375 BC "I took a course in speed reading and was able to read War and Peace in 20 minutes. It's about Russia." - Woody Allen "New York now leads the world's great cities in the number of people around whom you shouldn't make a sudden move." - David Letterman "O Lord, help me to be pure, but not yet." - St. Augustine "Man is the best computer we can put aboard a spacecraft . . . and the only one that can be mass produced with unskilled labor." - Wernher von Braun "Oh, come on. If you can't laugh at the walking dead, who can you laugh at?" - Dan Fielding "One cat just leads to another." - Ernest Hemingway "One man's folly is another man's wife." - Helen Rowland "When the appetites relax and cease to importune us... we escape from many mad masters." - Plato, The Republic "Women should not have children after 35 - 35 children are enough." "Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men." - Martin Luther King, Jr. "Whenever books are burned men also, in the end, are burned." - Heinrich Heine "People are more violently opposed to fur than leather because it's safer to harass rich women than motorcycle gangs." "Henceforth, every nation's foreign policy must be judged at every point by one consideration: does it lead us to a world of law and order or back to anarchy and death?" - Albert Einstein "All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident." - Arthur Schopenhauer "Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society." - Mark Twain "When I feel like exercising I just lie down until the feeling goes away." - Robert M. Hutchins "Ninety percent of everything is crap." -Theodore Sturgeon "The tragedy of being unready is easy to find, for more often than not, success or failure turn upon just that one thing." - Laura Ingalls Wilder "An expert is a person who avoids small error as he sweeps on to the grand fallacy." -Benjamin Stolberg "One of the keys to happiness is a bad memory." - Rita Mae Brown "Failure is the opportunity to begin again more intelligently." - Henry Ford "Suppose you were an idiot and suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself." - Mark Twain "Time is an illusion; lunchtime, doubly so." - Douglas Adams "There's no trick to being a humorist when you have the whole government working for you." - Will Rogers "Vote early and vote often." - Al Capone "Life is a long lesson in humility." - James M. Barrie "You can observe a lot by just watching." - Berra's Law "I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence, or insanity to anyone, but they've always worked for me." - Hunter S. Thompson "I was gratified to be able to answer promptly. I said I don't know." - Mark Twain "I don't make jokes. I just watch the government and report the facts." - Will Rogers "Imagination is more important than knowledge..." - Albert Einstein "The word "politics" is derived from the word "poly", meaning 'many', and the word 'ticks', meaning 'blood sucking parasites'." - Larry Hardiman "If we were now in the enjoyment of the true and perfect happiness that lies before us, we should not be subject to any deception through any sense, whether of body or of mind." - St. Augustine "...the reason he has been deceived is that he himself can't distinguish between knowledge, ignorance, and imitation." - Plato, The Republic "The things that people do would look so different to us if we only understood their reasons for their actions... Even their sins might not look so hideous if we could feel what pressure and perhaps suffering had caused them." - Laura Ingalls Wilder "I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by." - Douglas Adams "Thus the metric system did not really catch on in the States, unless you count the increasing popularity of the nine-millimeter bullet." - Dave Barry "Beware when the great God lets loose a thinker on this planet. Then all things are at risk. It is as when a conflagration has broken out in a great city, and no man knows what is safe, or where it will end." - Ralph Waldo Emerson, Circles "Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired." - Robert Frost "I have spread my dreams under your feet; Tread softly because you tread on my dreams." - William Butler Yeats "If thou must love me, let it be for naught except for love's sake only." - Elizabeth Barret Browning "That Love is all there is, is all we know of Love." - Emily Dickinson "Love is not a matter of counting the years - but making the years count." - Michelle St. Amand "Love comforteth like sunshine after rain." - William Shakespeare "Where there is love, there is life." - Mahatma Gandhi "When a man sits with a pretty girl for an hour, it seems like a minute. But let him sit on a hot stove for a minute and it's longer than any hour. That's relativity." - Albert Einstein "If instead of a gem, or even a flower, we should cast the gift of a loving thought into the heart of a friend, that would be as the angels give." - George MacDonald "To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven." - Karen Sunde "For all the sad words of tongue or pen, the saddest of these: 'It might have been.' " - Maud Muller Whittier |
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