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- Marriage is the alliance of two people, one of whom never remembers birthdays and the other never forgets them.
- Ogden Nash (1902 - 1971)
- A statesman is a politician who places himself at the service of the nation. A politician is a statesman who places the nation at his service.
- Georges Pomidou
- The mark of a good action is that it appears inevitable in retrospect.
- Robert Louis Stevenson (1850 - 1894)
- The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything. Except what is worth knowing. Journalism, conscious of this, and having tradesman-like habits, supplies their demands.
- Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900)
- I certainly wasn't happy. Happiness has to do with reason, and only reason earns it. What I was given was the thing you can't earn, and can't keep, and often don't even recognize at the time; I mean joy.
- Ursula K. LeGuin
- There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion.
- Sir Francis Bacon (1561 - 1626)
- We've gotten to the point where everybody's got a right and nobody's got a responsibility.
- Newton Minow, chairman of the FCC
- The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything.
- E. J. Phelps
- Conscience is the inner voice that warns us somebody may be looking.
- H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)
- Keep in mind that neither success nor failure is ever final.
- Roger Babson
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