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MTV is the lava lamp of the 1980's.
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Doug Ferrari
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Of all the pulpits from which human voice is ever sent forth, there is none from which it reaches so far as from the grave.
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John Ruskin (1819 - 1900), The Seven Lamps of Architecture, 1849
If you're not scared or angry at the thought of a human brain being controlled remotely, then it could be this prototype of mine is finally starting to work.
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John Alejandro King, My War On Terror!
Keep on going and the chances are you will stumble on something, perhaps when you are least expecting it. I have never heard of anyone stumbling on something sitting down.
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Charles F. Kettering (1876 - 1958)
Many men can make a fortune but very few can build a family.
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J. S. Bryan
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If you don't find it in the index, look very carefully through the entire catalogue.
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Unknown, Sears, Roebuck, and Co. Consumer's Guide, 1897
When defeat is inevitable, it is wisest to yield.
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Quintilian
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The moment we choose to love we begin to move towards freedom...
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Bell Hooks
Slight not what's near, while aiming at what's far.
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Euripides (484 BC - 406 BC), 'Rhesus'
[T]here's no bad day that can't be overcome by listening to a barbershop quartet; this is just truth, plain and simple.
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Chuck Sigars, The World According to Chuck weblog, September 30, 2003
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Either this man is dead or my watch has stopped.
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Groucho Marx (1890 - 1977)
All movements go too far.
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Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970)
The minute you settle for less than you deserve, you get even less than you settled for.
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Maureen Dowd, in 'New York Times'
There is no passion like that of a functionary for his function.
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Georges Clemenceau (1841 - 1929)
It is wise to apply the oil of refined politeness to the mechanisms of friendship.
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Colette (1873 - 1954), The Pure and the Impure, 1932
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I keep the subject of my inquiry constantly before me, and wait till the first dawning opens gradually, by little and little, into a full and clear light.
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Isaac Newton (1642 - 1727)
Beware of too much laughter, for it deadens the mind and produces oblivion.
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The Talmud
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We all have the extraordinary coded within us, waiting to be released.
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Jean Houston
I celebrate myself, and sing myself.
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Walt Whitman (1819 - 1892), Song of Myself, 1855
Good judgement comes from experience. Experience comes from bad judgement.
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Unknown, quoted by Jim Horning
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MM's Cynical Quotes LM's Motivational Quotes Classic Quotes
Cole's Quotables Rand Lindsly's Quotes Poor Man's College
alt.quotations Archives 20th Century Quotations Quotations by Women
The Devil's Dictionary Contributed Quotations

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