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- The chief objection of playing wind instruments is that it prolongs the life of the player.
- George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)
- Higher emotions are what separate us from the lower orders of life...
Higher emotions, and table manners. - Deanna Troi, _Imzadi_, Star Trek - The Next Generation
- It was not their irritating assumption of equality that annoyed Nicholai so much as their cultural confusions. The Americans seemed to confuse standard of living with quality of life, equal opportunity with institutionalized mediocrity, bravery with courage, machismo with manhood, liberty with freedom, wordiness with articulation, fun with pleasure - in short, all of the misconceptions common to those who assume that justice implies equality for all, rather than equality for equals.
- Trevanian from the novel "Shibumi"
- There are three intolerable things in life - cold coffee, lukewarm champagne, and overexcited women.
- Orson Welles (1915 - 1985)
- After a year in therapy, my psychiatrist said to me, "Maybe life isn't for everyone."
- Larry Brown
- If life were fair, Dan Quayle would be making a living asking 'Do you want fries with that?'
- John Cleese (1939 - )
- Oh, life is a glorious cycle of song,
A medley of extemporanea; And love is thing that can never go wrong; And I am Marie of Romania. - Dorothy Parker (1893 - 1967)
- What profits a man if he keeps his eternal soul when he could have lived life to the full and been forgiven at the end of it all anyway?
- David Merritt, a.k.a. THE RED SHARK
- Life changed after that jump...I'd suddenly stepped to the highest level of daring, a level above even that which airplane pilots could attain.
- Charles Lindbergh (1902 - 1974), describing his first skydive
- Try to live your life so that you wouldn't be afraid to sell the family parrot to the town gossip.
- Will Rogers (1879 - 1935)
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