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| Bisexuality
Bisexuality immediately doubles your chances for a date on Saturday night.
-- Woody Allen
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| Bad News
The government's view is that the best time to announce bad news, news that it doesn't want the public to dwell on is late on a Friday, when it will wind up in the Saturday papers, which if you were readers, then the week day editions. A holiday weekend is ...
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| Loving and Being Loved
Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.
-- Lao Tzu
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| Without Love
Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.
-- Oscar Wilde
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| WW IV
I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.
-- Albert Einstein
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| War is Hell
I am tired and sick of war. Its glory is all moonshine. It is only those who have neither fired a shot nor heard the shrieks and groans of the wounded who cry aloud for blood, for vengeance, for desolation. War is hell.
-- William Tecumseh Sherman
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| Duty
Battle is the most magnificent competition in which a human being can indulge. It brings out all that is best; it removes all that is base. All men are afraid in battle. The coward is the one who lets his fear overcome his sense of duty. Duty is the essence ...
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| Humor the Antidote
Good humor is a tonic for mind and body. It is the best antidote for anxiety and depression. It is a business asset. It attracts and keeps friends. It lightens human burdens. It is the direct route to serenity and contentment.
-- Grenville Kleiser
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| Kind Humor
Most comedy is based on getting a laugh at somebody else's expense. And I find that that's just a form of bullying in a major way. So I want to be an example that you can be funny and be kind, and make people laugh without hurting somebody else's feelings.
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| Storing Value
In the absence of the gold standard, there is no way to protect savings from confiscation through inflation. There is no safe store of value.
-- Alan Greenspan
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| Beauty as Currency
Beauty is a currency system like the gold standard. Like any economy, it is determined by politics, and in the modern age in the West is is the last, best belief system that keeps male dominance intact.
-- Naomi Wolf
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| Barren Winter
The winter solstice has always been special to me as a barren darkness that gives birth to a verdant future beyond imagination, a time of pain and withdrawal that produces something joyfully inconceivable, like a monarch butterfly masterfully extracting itself ...
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| November
I have come to regard November as the older, harder man's October. I appreciate the early darkness and cooler temperatures. It puts my mind in a different place than October. It is a month for a quieter, slightly more subdued celebration of summer's death ...
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| Laughter
Laughter is the sun that drives winter from the human face.
-- Victor Hugo
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| A Word to the Wise
A word to the wise ain't necessary - it's the stupid ones that need the advice.
-- Bill Cosby
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| Two Wrongs
Two wrongs don't make a right, but they make a good excuse.
-- Thomas Szasz
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| Great Men
Behind every great man is a woman rolling her eyes.
-- Jim Carrey
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| Successful People
A successful man is one who makes more money than his wife can spend. A successful woman is one who can find such a man.
-- Lana Turner
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| Relativity
When you are courting a nice girl an hour seems like a second. When you sit on a red-hot cinder a second seems like an hour. That's relativity.
-- Albert Einstein
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| Hope in God
Many believe - and I believe - that I have been designated for this work by God. In spite of my old age, I do not want to give it up; I work out of love for God and I put all my hope in Him.
-- Michelangelo
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| Pursuit of Principles
I love those who can smile in trouble, who can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. 'Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but they whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves their conduct, will pursue their principles ...
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| Find Another Way
Never let your head hang down. Never give up and sit down and grieve. Find another way. And don't pray when it rains if you don't pray when the sun shines.
-- Richard M. Nixon
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| Our Thoughts
We are what our thoughts have made us; so take care about what you think. Words are secondary. Thoughts live; they travel far.
-- Swami Vivekananda
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| Wind Resistance
The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the realist adjusts the sails.
-- William Arthur Ward
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| Overcome Obstacles
If you're trying to achieve, there will be roadblocks. I've had them; everybody has had them. But obstacles don't have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don't turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it.
-- Michael ...
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