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- The squeaking wheel doesn't always get the grease. Sometimes it gets replaced.
- Vic Gold
- Sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.
- Lewis Carroll (1832 - 1898), Alice in Wonderland
- The Romans would never have found time to conquer the world if they had been obliged first to learn Latin.
- Heinrich Heine (1797 - 1856)
- I write down everything I want to remember. That way, instead of spending a lot of time trying to remember what it is I wrote down, I spend the time looking for the paper I wrote it down on.
- Beryl Pfizer
- The advantage of a bad memory is that one enjoys several times the same good things for the first time.
- Friedrich Nietzsche (1844 - 1900)
- Never try to tell everything you know. It may take too short a time.
- Norman Ford
- An intelligence test sometimes shows a man how smart he would have been not to have taken it.
- Laurence J. Peter (1919 - 1988)
- I hope that while so many people are out smelling the flowers, someone is taking the time to plant some.
- Herbert Rappaport
- A healthy male adult bore consumes each year one and a half times his own weight in other people's patience.
- John Updike (1932 - ), Assorted Prose (1965)
- America is a large, friendly dog in a very small room. Every time it wags its tail, it knocks over a chair.
- Arnold Toynbee (1889 - 1975)
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