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A private railroad car is not an acquired taste. One takes
to it immediately.
Eleanor Robson
Belmont 1915-1983
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I'm a ragged individualist.
Jane Sherwood Ac1897-1974
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Always keep a song in your heart - it's like karaoke for
the voices in your head
Robert Fulton Abernethy
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Life is like a taxi. The meter just keeps a-ticking
whether you are getting somewhere or just standing still.
Lou Erickson
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Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.
Calvin Coolidge
1872-1933
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If one hears bad music it is one's duty to drown it by
one's conversation
Oscar Wilde 1854-1900
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Win or lose, we go shopping after the election.
Imelda Marcos
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Thus we play the fool with the time and the spirits of the wise sit in the
clouds and mock us.
William Shakespeare 1564-1616
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Anytime you see a turtle up on top of a fence post, you know he had some help
Alex Haley
1921-1992
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If your life changes, we can change the world, too.
Yoko Ono
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Hypocrisy can afford to be magnificent in its promises,
for never intending to go beyond promise, it costs nothing.
Edmund Burke1729-1797
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It ain't the heat; it's the humility.
Yogi Berra
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Things do not change; we change.
Henry David
Thoreau 1817-1862
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Ten soldiers wisely led will beat a hundred without a
head.
Euripides c. 480-406 BC
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Luck is believing you're lucky.
Tennessee Williams
1911-1983
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Everyone wants to understand painting. Why is there no
attempt to understand the song of the birds?
Pablo Picasso
1881-1973
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Penicillin cures, but your wine makes people happy.
Sir Alexander
Fleming 1881 - 1955
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It's the heart afraid of breaking that never learns to
dance. It is the dream afraid of waking that never takes the chance. It is the
one who won't be taken who cannot seem to give. And the soul afraid of dying
that never learns to live.
Bette Midler
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The soul is born old but grows young. That is the comedy
of life. And the body is born young and grows old. That is life's tragedy.
Oscar Wilde1854-1900
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The only reason for time is so that everything doesn't
happen at once.
Albert Einstein 1879-1955
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Run hard, be strong, think big!
Percy Cerutty
1895 - 1975
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I am sometimes a fox and sometimes a lion. The whole
secret of government lies in knowing when to be the one or the other.
Napoleon Bonaparte 1769-1821
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By perseverance the snail reached the ark.
Charles H. Spurgeon
1834-1892
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Go out on a limb. That’s where the fruit is.
Jimmy Carter
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Prediction is very difficult, especially if it’s about the
future.
Niels Bohr 1885 - 1962
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The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine
that age brings wisdom.
H. L. Mencken 1880 -
1956
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Don't wait. The time will never be just right.
Napoleon Hill 1883-1970
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The reason why so little is done, is generally because so
little is attempted.
Samuel Smiles1812 - 1904
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The road to success is always under construction
Lily Tomlin
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We need to see the connection between global warring and
global warming, and it's oil. Sustainability is the path to peace.
Dennis Kucinith
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The painting has a life of its own. I try to let it come
through.
Jackson Pollock
1912 - 1956
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Victory is sweetest when you've known defeat.
Malcolm Forbes 1919 -
1990
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Sorry
Brendan Nelson
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Sorry
Kevin Rudd
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There are no rules of architecture for a castle in the
clouds.
G. K. Chesterton
1874-1936
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I love humans. Always seeing patterns in things that
aren't there.
Dr Who
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Happiness: a good bank account, a good cook and a good
digestion.
Jean Jacques
Rousseau 1712-1778
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May all your troubles last as long as your New Year's
resolutions.
Joey Adams
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Babies have big heads and big eyes, and tiny little bodies
with tiny little arms and legs. So did the aliens at Roswell! I rest my case.
William Shatner
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I used to have Mad Cow's disease, but I'm alright Nooooooooow.
Billy Connolly
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Let's have some new cliches.
Samuel Goldwyn 1882 -
1974
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Australia will not be the same if we elect a government.
John Howard
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So if you want to see a well managed, national economy -
friends - put a Queenslander in charge.
Kevin
Rudd
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There will not be a rate rise in November, take it from
me.
Peter
Costello
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I sincerely apologise
Tony Abbott
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"Is it me?"
John Howard
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"6.25 per cent."
John Howard
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Railway termini are our gates
to the glorious and the unknown. Through them we pass out into
adventure and sunshine, to them, alas! we return.
Edward M.
Forster1879-1970
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We read to know we are not
alone.
C.S.
Lewis1898-1963
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Life is the art of drawing
without an eraser.
John W.
Gardner 1912-2002
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Some folks look at me and see
a certain swagger, which in Texas is called "walking."
George W. Bush
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Take time to deliberate; but
when the time for action arrives, stop thinking and go in.
Napoleon Bonaparte 1769 - 1821
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Nothing is built on stone; all
is built on sand, but we must build as if the sand were stone.
Jorge
Luis Borges 1899-1986
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I learned a lot from 'Elvis'
because it wasn't just the impersonator
I had to watch ..
Elvis Presley 1935 - 1977
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Love hurts, love scars, love
wounds, and mars.
Roy Orbison
1936 - 1988
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Success is the ability to go
from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm.
Winston Churchill 1874 - 1965
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Start every day off with a
smile and get it over with.
W. C. Fields 1880 - 1946
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It's all make believe, isn't
it?
Marilyn Munroe
1926 - 1962
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I am not sick. I am broken.
But I am happy as long as I can paint.
Frida Kahlo 6
July 1907 - 13 July 1954
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It will work. I am a marketing
genius.
Paris Hilton
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The trains roared by like
projectiles level on the darkness, fuming and burning, making the
valley clang with their passage. They were gone, and the lights of
the towns and villages glittered in silence.
D.H.
Lawrence 1885 - 1930
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It is wise to keep in mind
that neither success nor failure is ever final.
Roger Babson
1875 - 1967
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Money is not the most
important thing in the world. Love is. Fortunately, I love money.
Anon.
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They say that time changes
things, but you actually have to change them yourself.
Andy Warhol
1928 - 1987 |
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If life on planet Earth was
really supposed to be a picnic, we would all have been born
clutching gingham tablecloths.
Jonathan
Cainer |
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Anyone who can solve the
problems of water will be worthy of two Nobel prizes - one for peace
and one for science.
John F. Kennedy 1917 - 1963
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Our country is now geared to
an arms economy bred in an artificially induced psychosis of war
hysteria and an incessant propaganda of fear.
Douglas
MacArthur 1880 - 1964
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A cricket ground is a flat
piece of earth with some buildings around it.
Richie
Benaud |
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Give a person a fish and you
feed them for a day; teach that person to use the Internet and they
won't bother you for weeks
Anon |
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In times of change, learners
inherit the Earth, while the learned find themselves beautifully
equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists.
Eric Hoffer 1902
- 1983 |
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To the rational mind, nothing
is inexplicable; only unexplained.
The Doctor 1963
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Business opportunities are
like buses, there's always another one coming.
Richard Branson
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We're basically lighting up
the bellies of birds . .
It's energy waste.
Bob Gent
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Politics gives guys so much
power that they tend to behave badly around women. And I hope I
never get into that.
William J. Clinton |
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Cheers to a new year
and another chance for us to get it right.
Oprah Winfrey |
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There would be no
advantage to be gained by sowing a field of wheat if the harvest did not
return more than was sown.
Napoleon Hill
1883 - 1970 |
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Even if you are on
the right track, you will get run over if you just sit there.
John Ray
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The only way we can
win is to leave before the job is done.
George W. Bush |
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Let us keep the
dance of rain our fathers kept and tread our dreams beneath the jungle
sky.
Arna Bontemps |
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It's not just a
straight walk; you're exercising your brain as well.
Ewen McDonald |
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We're the phone
company. We don't care. We don't have to.
Lily Tomlin |
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The answer, my
friend, is blowin' in the wind, The answer is blowin' in the wind ..
Bob
Dylan |
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Fighting patents
one by one will never eliminate the danger of software patents, any
more than swatting mosquitoes will eliminate malaria.
Richard
Stallman
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Asking if
computers can think is like asking if submarines can swim.
Anon |
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Some people walk
in the rain, others just get wet.
Roger Miller |
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What seems clear
is that the next conservative government will be no replay of the
all talk no action' Fraser years. These guys mean business.
(1989) Mark Duffy and Michael Costa
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The rockets and
the satellites, spaceships that we're creating now, we're
pollinating the universe.
Neil Young
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I am having an
out of money experience.
Anon. |
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Teach a parrot
the terms "supply and demand" and you've got an economist.
Thomas Carlyle 1795 - 1891 |
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Smoking kills. If you're killed, you've lost a very important part of your life.
Brooke Shields |
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An ant may well
destroy a whole dam.
Chinese Proverb |
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A reporter
questioned the reaction anticipated from the introduction of the GST,
Prime Minister Howard said in reply '... you must remember that the
Australian voter has a short memory span... less than 14 days in most
cases!'
Prime Minister, John Howard (1999) |
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It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses we must plant more trees.
George Eliot Pseudonym of Mary Ann Evans, 1819-1880 |
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Nothing is more
destructive of respect for the government and the law of the land than
passing laws which cannot be enforced.
Albert Einstein 1879-1955 |
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Never base your
budget requests on realistic assumptions, as this could lead to a
decrease in your funding.
Scott Adams |
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Today, it takes more brains and effort to make out the income-tax form than it does to make the income.
Alfred E. Neuman |
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We can never solve our significant problems from the same level of thinking we were at when we created the problems.
Albert Einstein 1879-1955 |
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And when it rains on your parade, look up rather than down. Without the rain, there would be no rainbow.
G. K. Chesterton 1874-1936 |
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There will be a rain dance Friday night, weather permitting.
George Carlin |
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I'm not a banner. I
am an encourager and a persuader and an advocate.
John Howard |
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By 1955 we will have more meat, sugar, milk, etc., per capita than we did in 1936. The same will be true of many other important goods.
Walter Ulbricht |
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It is said that power corrupts, but actually it's more true that power
attracts the corruptible. The sane are usually attracted by other things
than power
David Brin |
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Another night, I dreamed I saw my father sweeping out the barn floor clean, and would not suffer the wheat to be brought in the barn. He appeared to me to be in anger.
Joanna
Southcott 1750-1814 |
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Space is big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the road to the drug store, but that's just peanuts to space.
Douglas Adams 1952-2001 |
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May all your troubles last as long as your New Year's resolutions.
Joey Adams |
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I'm an egotistical
bastard, so I name all my projects after myself. First Linux, now git.
Linus Torvalds |
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Remember
This December,
That love weighs more than gold!
Josephine Dodge Daskam Bacon |
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I stopped believing
in Santa Claus when I was six. Mother took
me to see him in a department store and he asked for my autograph.
Shirley Temple |
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How beautiful it is to do nothing, and then rest afterwards.
R. Stout |
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Other countries have
their history. Uruguay has its football.
Ondino Viera |
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There is nothing so far removed from us to be beyond our reach, or so far hidden that we cannot discover it.
Rene Descartes 1596-1650 |
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"Endless Loop: n.,
see Loop, Endless.
Loop, Endless: n., see Endless Loop."
Definitions, Random Shack Data Processing Dictionary |
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Short people have long faces, and long people have short
faces. Big people have little humor, and little people have no
humor at all.
Cosmo Brown "Singing in the Rain" 1952 |
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Everyone's quick to blame the alien.
Aeschylus, 525-456 BC
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There is a sobering finality in the construction of a river basin development; and it behooves us to be sure we are right before we go ahead.
Gilbert F White 1911 -
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Until three years ago, we'd receive reports of two new ghosts every week. But with the introduction of mobile phones 15 years ago, ghost sightings began to decline to the point where we are receiving none.
Tony Cornell, Society for Psychical Research,
quoted in the Sunday Express Oct 14, 2001.
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I don't know jokes. I just watch the government and report the
facts.
Will Rogers 1879-1935
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I heard that if you locked William Shakespeare in a room with a typewriter for long enough, he'd eventually write all the songs by the Monkeys
Anon. |
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There is only one satisfying way to boot a computer.
J. H. Goldfuss
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That intelligent creatures exist in
outer space is proven by the fact that they have not contacted us...
Unknown
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A man said to the
universe:
'Sir, I exist:'
'However,' replied the universe,
'The fact has not created in me
A sense of obligation'
Stephen Crane 1871-1900 |
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If you have both feet planted on level ground, then the university has failed you.
Robert F. Goheen |
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Science is for those who learn; poetry, for those that know.
Joseph Roux 1834-86 |
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Life would be much easier if I had the source code.
Anon. |
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I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use.
Galileo Galilei 1564-1642 |
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We all have mental problems, it's just that some of us choose to show
them.
Nathanael Huddleson |
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Through prolonged and close contact and friction with the objects of their study, the minds of experts finally acquire a pictorial, moth-like, fiddling perfection.
Laurence Sterne 1713-1768 |
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In retrospect it becomes clear that hindsight is definitely overrated!
Alfred E. Neuman |
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Get with the paradigm, loser.
Adam Gardner |
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Once something has
been approved by the government it is no
longer immoral
Reverend Love Joy, The Simpsons |
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The reason why truth is so much stranger than fiction is that
there is no requirement for it to be consistent.
Mark Twain 1835 - 1910 |
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Getting an education was a bit like a communicable sexual disease. It
made you unsuitable for a lot of jobs, and then you had the urge to pass
it on.
Terry Pratchett 1948
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I haven't washed my hands since I became a psychiatrist.
Dr. Sidney Freedman
MASH 4077 |
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When choosing between two evils, I always like to try the one I've never tried before.
Mae West (1892-1980) |
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Doctors think a lot
of patients are cured who have simply quit in disgust.
Don Herold 1889-1966 |
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Mars is essentially
in the same orbit...Mars is somewhat the same distance from the Sun,
which is very important. We have seen pictures where there are canals,
we believe, and water. If there is water, that means there is oxygen. If
oxygen, that means we can breathe.
George W Bush President |
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Laughter and tears are meant to turn the wheels of the same machinery
of sensibility; one is wind-power, and the other water-power; that is
all
Oliver Wendell
Holmes 1809-1894 |
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The difference between 'involvement' and 'commitment' is like an
egg-and-bacon breakfast: the chicken was 'involved' - the pig was
'committed'.
Author unknown |
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A bald head is soon shaven.
English Proverb. |
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Life is like a
boomerang, you get back what you throw ...
Anon
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"I'll moider da
bum."
- Heavyweight boxer Tony Galento, when asked what he thought of William
Shakespeare
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When I was young I used to think that wealth and power would bring me
happiness. I was right.
Gahan Wilson 1930 - |
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Adam and Eve had many advantages, but the principal one was that they
escaped teething.
Mark Twain 1835-1910 |
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One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly important.
Bertrand Russell
1872-1970 |
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We travel together, passengers in a little space-ship, dependent on
its
vulnerable supplies of air and soil.
Adlai E Stevenson 1900-1965 |
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" John Belbeck, of Inverell, patriotically bought an Australian flag and pole from a discount shop. The flag, made in China, came with instructions when to fly it - on American holiday dates. "
Column 8, The Sydney Morning Herald, 27 February 2003. |
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Both erudition and agriculture ought to be encouraged by government; wit and manufactures will come of themselves.
Charles-Maurice De Talleyrand 1745-1838 |
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To be or not to be,
To be is to do
To do is to be
Doobie, Doobie, Doobie, Do
Anon. 1988 |
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Big stools, small hospitals.
Small stools, big hospitals.
Dennis Burkitt 1911-1993 |
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The child of a frog
is a frog.
Japanese proverb
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Wind is caused by the trees waving their branches.
Ogden Nash 1902-1971 |
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Mediocrity is climbing molehills without sweating.
Icelandic proverb |
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The brain is the organ of longevity.
George Alban Sacher 1917-1981
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Give me fruitful error any time, full of seeds, bursting with its own corrections. You can keep your sterile truth for yourself.
Vilfredo Pareto 1848-1923 |
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Once you can accept
the universe as matter expanding into nothing that is something, wearing
stripes with plaid comes easy.
Albert Einstein 1879-1955 |
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I have seen what a laugh can do.
It can transform almost unbearable tears into something bearable, even hopeful.
Bob Hope 1903 - 2003 |
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Where there is dirt there
is system.
Dirt is the by product of a systematic ordering and
classification of matter.
Mary Douglas 1913-1996 |
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The nuclear world, with all its perils, is the scientists' creation;
it is certainly not a world that came about in response to any external demand.
Solly Zuckerman 1904-1993 |
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