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All human situations have their inconveniences. We feel those of the present but neither see nor feel those of the future; and hence we often make troublesome changes without amendment, and frequently for the worse.: Benjamin Franklin (1706 - 1790)
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Eighty percent of married men cheat in America. The rest cheat in Europe.: Jackie Mason (1934 - )
Be a good listener. Your ears will never get you in trouble.: Frank Tyger
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To resist the frigidity of old age one must combine the body, the mind and the heart - and to keep them in parallel vigor one must exercise, study and love.: Karl von Bonstetten
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She had learned the self-deprecating ways of the woman who does not want to be thought hard and grasping, but her artifices could not always cover the nakedness of her need to excel.: Faith Sullivan, The Cape Ann, 1988
I suppose that I shall have to die beyond my means.: Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900), upon being told the cost of an operation
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I don't own a cell phone or a pager. I just hang around everyone I know, all the time. If someone wants to get a hold of me, they just say 'Mitch,' and I say 'what?' and turn my head slightly.: Mitch Hedberg (1968 - 2005)
If you shoot at mimes, should you use a silencer?: Steven Wright (1955 - )
Arguments are to be avoided; they are always vulgar and often convincing.: Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900)
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When you encounter difficulties and contradictions, do not try to break them, but bend them with gentleness and time.: Saint Francis de Sales (1567 - 1622)
Hindsight is always twenty-twenty.: Billy Wilder (1906 - 2002)
[Television is] the triumph of machine over people.: Fred Allen (1894 - 1956)
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Music is the only language in which you cannot say a mean or sarcastic thing.: John Erskine (1879 - 1951)
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If we couldn't laugh, we would all go insane.: Jimmy Buffett
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We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life, when all that we need to make us happy is something to be enthusiastic about.: Charles Kingsley (1819 - 1875)
Children will adapt to nearly any rule or routine as long as it is consistently enforced within that particular household.: Julie A., M.A. Ross and Judy Corcoran, Joint Custody with a Jerk: Raising a Child with an Uncooperative Ex, 2011
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The camera doesn't make a bit of difference. All of them can record what you are seeing. But, you have to SEE.: Ernst Haas, Comment in workshop, 1985
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Speak the truth, but leave immediately after.: Slovenian Proverb
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In many cases, the more you try to compete, the less competitive you actually are.: Kathy Sierra, Creating Passionate Users, 07-22-06
A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both.: Dwight D. Eisenhower (1890 - 1969), Inaugural Address, January 20, 1953
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