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A man can sleep around, no questions asked, but if a woman makes nineteen or twenty mistakes she's a tramp.: Joan Rivers (1935 - )
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We've heard that a million monkeys at a million keyboards could produce the complete works of Shakespeare; now, thanks to the Internet, we know that is not true.: Robert Wilensky, speech at a 1996 conference
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We bear the world and we make it... There was never a great man who had not a great mother - it is hardly an exaggeration.: Olive Schreiner (1855 - 1920)
[The television is] an invention that permits you to be entertained in your living room by people you wouldn't have in your home.: David Frost
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I have come to believe that giving and receiving are really the same. Giving and receiving - not giving and taking.: Joyce Grenfell
Our great democracies still tend to think that a stupid man is more likely to be honest than a clever man.: Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970)
We certainly do not forget you as soon as you forget us. It is, perhaps, our fate rather than our merit. We cannot help ourselves. We live at home, quiet, confined, and our feelings prey upon us. You are forced on exertion. You have always a profession, pursuits, business of some sort or other, to take you back into the world immediately, and continual occupation and change soon weaken impressions. All the privilege I claim for my own sex (it is not a very enviable one; you need not covet it), is that of loving longest, when existence or when hope is gone.: Jane Austen (1775 - 1817), Persuasion, 1818
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The best way to teach your kids about taxes is by eating 30% of their ice cream.: Bill Murray (1950 - )
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If you wish your merit to be known, acknowledge that of other people.: Oriental Proverb
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One of the few good things about modern times: If you die horribly on television, you will not have died in vain. You will have entertained us.: Kurt Vonnegut (1922 - 2007), "Cold Turkey", In These Times, May 10, 2004
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I went to a fight the other night, and a hockey game broke out.: Rodney Dangerfield (1921 - 2004)
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If you want to catch something, running after it isn't always the best way.: Lois McMaster Bujold, "Borders of Infinity", 1989
He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.: Sir Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965)
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Democracy is a process by which the people are free to choose the man who will get the blame.: Laurence J. Peter (1919 - 1988)
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After all it is those who have a deep and real inner life who are best able to deal with the irritating details of outer life.: Evelyn Underhill
I go to movies expecting to have a whole experience. If I want a movie that doesn't end, I'll go to a French movie. A movie has to be complete within itself; it can't just build off the first one or play variations.: Joss Whedon, Entertainment Weekly, 08-30-13
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It doesn't make a difference what temperature a room is, it's always room temperature.: Steven Wright (1955 - )
Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away.: Anonymous
Good company requires only birth, education, and manners, and with regard to education is not very nice. Birth and good manners are essential; but a little learning is by no means a dangerous thing in good company; on the contrary, it will do very well.: Jane Austen (1775 - 1817), Persuasion, 1818
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He that will not sail until all dangers are over, will never put to sea.: Thomas Fuller (1608 - 1661)
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