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Everything is funny as long as it is happening to Somebody Else.: Will Rogers (1879 - 1935), Illiterate Digest (1924), "Warning to Jokers: lay off the prince"
The human race is faced with a cruel choice: work or daytime television.: Unknown
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I read part of it all the way through.: Samuel Goldwyn (1882 - 1974)
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You get fifteen democrats in a room, and you get twenty opinions.: Senator Patrick Leahy (1940 - ), May 1990
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The most overlooked advantage to owning a computer is that if they foul up there's no law against wacking them around a little.: Joe Martin, Porterfield
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Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience.: James Boswell (1740 - 1795), Life of Samuel Johnson, 1791
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The road to hell is paved with adverbs.: Stephen King (1947 - )
The possession of unlimited power will make a despot of almost any man. There is a possible Nero in the gentlest human creature that walks.: Thomas Bailey, 'Leaves from a Notebook,' Ponkapog Papers, 1903
It was one of those perfect English autumnal days which occur more frequently in memory than in life.: P. D. James
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Either the United States will destroy ignorance or ignorance will destroy the United States.: W.E.B. Du Bois, Speech at Harpers Ferry, Virginia, August 1906
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If you would not step into the harlot's house, do not go by the harlot's door.: Thomas Secker
Never deprive someone of hope; it might be all they have.: H. Jackson Brown Jr.
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Every individual matters. Every individual has a role to play. Every individual makes a difference.: Jane Goodall (1934 - )
Honor does not have to be defended.: Robert J. Sawyer (1960 - ), "Calculating God", 2000
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Try to learn something about everything and everything about something.: Thomas H. Huxley (1825 - 1895)
If you look at life one way, there is always cause for alarm.: Elizabeth Bowen (1899 - 1973)
The trouble with America is that there are far too many wide-open spaces surrounded by teeth.: Charles Luckman
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If hunger makes you irritable, better eat and be pleasant.: Sefer Hasidim
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My mother buried three husbands, and two of them were just napping.: Rita Rudner
Never chase a lie. Let it alone, and it will run itself to death.: Lyman Beecher (1775 - 1863)