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Children are the true connoisseurs. What's precious to them has no price - only value.



- Bel Kaufman

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Bad times have a scientific value. These are occasions a good learner would not miss.


Ralph Waldo Emerson

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“Such is the human race, often it seems a pity that Noah... didn't miss the boat.”



Mark Twain

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“My Mom said she learned how to swim when someone took her out in the lake and threw her off the boat. I said, "Mom, they weren't trying to teach you how to swim."

Paula Poundstone

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“We have learned to fly the air like birds and swim the sea like fish, but we have not yet learned the simple art of living together as brothers.”


Martin Luther King, Jr.

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But the fact that some geniuses were laughed at does not imply that all who are laughed at are geniuses. They laughed at Columbus, they laughed at Fulton, they laughed at the Wright Brothers. But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown.


Carl Sagan

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“I think of myself as an intelligent, sensitive human being with the soul of a clown which always forces me to blow it at the most important moments.”


Jim Morrison quotes

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Poetry is the record of the best and happiest moments of the happiest and best minds.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

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“Minds are like parachutes; they work best when open.”


Thomas Dewar

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A diplomat is a man who says you have an open mind, instead of telling you that you have a hole in the head.

Unknown

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“Morals were too essential to the happiness of man, to be risked on the uncertain combinations of the head. Nature laid their foundation, therefore, in sentiment, not in science.”



Thomas Jefferson

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The great tragedy of Science - the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact.

Thomas H. Huxley

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“My life is a simple thing that would interest no one. It is a known fact that I was born and that is all that is necessary.”


Albert Einstein

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“For those who believe, no proof is necessary. For those who don't believe, no proof is possible.”


Stuart Chase

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It should be possible to explain the laws of physics to a barmaid.


Albert Einstein :lol9:

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Conscience was the barmaid of the Victorian soul

CEM Joad

(that was a hard one!):devil:

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'Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.'

Henry Ward Beecher

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All the pictures that hung in my memory before I knew you have faded and given place to our radiant moments together

Sarah Bernhardt

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“I think we dream so we don't have to be apart so long. If we're in each other's dreams, we can be together all the time.”


Calvin & Hobbes

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"The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is its natural manure."

Thomas Jefferson

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You got to have smelt a lot of mule manure before you can sing like a hillbilly.


Hank Williams

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I get along with all the women singers, but especially Dolly Parton. We talk the same hillbilly language.


Loretta Lynn

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“I speak two languages, Body and English.”


Mae West :biggrin:

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“The English think incompetence is the same thing as sincerity”


Quentin Crisp

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Sincerity is the way to heaven.


Mencius

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“Go to Heaven for the climate, Hell for the company.”


Mark Twain

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I think it's wrong that only one company makes the game Monopoly.


Steven Wright :thinking:

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:lol9:

'Anyone who thinks they have a monopoly on truth, and there is only one way to see the world, always gets us into trouble.'

Charles Schumer

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“If there must be trouble, let it be in my day, that my child may have peace”



Thomas Paine

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'There is no way to peace, peace is the way.'

A. J. Muste

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The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently.



Friedrich Nietzsche

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'A vacuum of ideas affects people differently than a vacuum of air, otherwise readers of books would be constantly collapsing.'

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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“President Bush said it's now time for a change in Iraq and he wants them to have a Western-style democracy like ours. So right now in Iraq, the economy is collapsing, businessmen are corrupt, and Hussein wants his son to take over as president. Sounds like mission accomplished.”


Jay Leno

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'There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something.'

Henry Ford

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“When something is thought of.. it can then be desired.”


Rig Veda

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“What Women Want: To be loved, to be listened to, to be desired, to be respected, to be needed, to be trusted, and sometimes, just to be held. What Men Want: Tickets for the world series.”


Dave Barry

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Every man sees in his relatives, and especially in his cousins, a series of grotesque caricatures of himself.


H. L. Mencken

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Let not him who is houseless pull down the house of another, but let him work diligently and build one for himself, thus by example assuring that his own shall be safe from violence when built.
~ Abraham Lincoln ~

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No stream rises higher than its source. What ever man might build could never express or reflect more than he was. He could record neither more nor less than he had learned of life when the buildings were built.


Frank Lloyd Wright

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If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.

~Henry David Thoreau~

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I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.


Maya Angelou