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How do you tell a communist? Well, it's someone who reads Marx and Lenin. And how do you tell an anti-Communist? It's someone who understands Marx and Lenin.: Ronald Reagan (1911 - 2004)
To me, boxing is like a ballet, except there's no music, no choreography, and the dancers hit each other.: Jack Handey (1949 - )
Perhaps the feelings that we experience when we are in love represent a normal state. Being in love shows a person who he should be.: Anton Chekhov (1860 - 1904)
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Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.: Leo Tolstoy (1828 - 1910), Anna Karenina, Chapter 1, first line
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If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate.: Henry J. Tillman
If God had wanted us to vote, he would have given us candidates.: Jay Leno (1950 - )
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We owe something to extravagance, for thrift and adventure seldom go hand in hand.: Jennie Jerome Churchill (1854 - 1921)
Comedy is simply a funny way of being serious.: Peter Ustinov (1921 - 2004)
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I phoned my dad to tell him I had stopped smoking. He called me a quitter.: Steven Pearl
When I woke up this morning my girlfriend asked me, 'Did you sleep good?' I said 'No, I made a few mistakes.': Steven Wright (1955 - )
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I don't think of the past. The only thing that matters is the everlasting present.: W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965), The Moon and Sixpence
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The incompetent with nothing to do can still make a mess of it.: Laurence J. Peter (1919 - 1988)
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Be a good listener. Your ears will never get you in trouble.: Frank Tyger
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During [these] periods of relaxation after concentrated intellectual activity, the intuitive mind seems to take over and can produce the sudden clarifying insights which give so much joy and delight.: Fritjof Capra, physicist
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When any two young people take it into their heads to marry, they are pretty sure by perseverance to carry their point, be they ever so poor, or ever so imprudent, or ever so little likely to be necessary to each other's ultimate comfort.: Jane Austen (1775 - 1817), Persuasion, 1818
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You don't pay back your parents. You can't. The debt you owe them gets collected by your children, who hand it down in turn. It's a sort of entailment. Or if you don't have children of the body, it's left as a debt to your common humanity. Or to your God, if you possess or are possessed by one.: Lois McMaster Bujold, A Civil Campaign, 1999
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I shall never be ashamed of citing a bad author if the line is good.: Seneca (5 BC - 65 AD)
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When a distinguished but elderly scientist states that something is possible, he is almost certainly right. When he states that something is impossible, he is very probably wrong.: Arthur C. Clarke (1917 - ), Clarke's first law
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When you go to buy, use your eyes, not your ears.: Czech Proverb
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A human being has a natural desire to have more of a good thing than he needs.: Mark Twain (1835 - 1910), Following the Equator
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