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I was one of Them: the Strange Ones. The Funny People. The Odd Tribes of autograph collectors and photographers. The Ones who waited through long days and nights, who used other people's dreams for their lives.

Ray Bradbury

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Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.

Oscar Wilde

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Poor kid :(

"I sign every autograph I can for kids because I remember myself at that age. I think it's ridiculous that some guys won't sign for a kid."

Jim Thome

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When I was a kid my parents moved a lot, but I always found them.

Rodney Dangerfield

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Sorry for skipping some quotes, I don't know why I didn't see them! :thinking:

"Give me the children until they are seven and anyone may have them afterwards."

Francis Xavier

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To kill a relative of whom you are tired is something. But to inherit his property afterwards, that is genuine pleasure.
Honoré de Balzac

Oh, how evil :badgrin:

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"Pleasure only starts once the worm has got into the fruit, to become delightful happiness must be tainted with poison."

Georges Bataille

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"In every tyrant's heart there springs in the end this poison, that he cannot trust a friend."

Aeschylus

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"I was angry with my friend: I told my wrath, my wrath did end. I was angry with my foe: I told it not, my wrath did grow."

William Blake

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"Democracy means that anyone can grow up to be president, and anyone who doesn't grow up can be vice president." :rotfl:

Johnny Carson

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"A President cannot always be popular."

Harry S. Truman

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It is a general popular error to suppose the loudest complainers for the public to be the most anxious for its welfare.
Edmund Burke

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"A fourth element of the one world in which we more and more consciously live is a growing humaneness, a revolt against all avoidable suffering, a new concern for social welfare in all its aspects."

Emily G. Balch

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"If by actions they realize you're the old man and dedicated to taking care of them, it takes on the aspects of a paternal relationship. "

William Westmoreland

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You don't want to have to be the man and the woman in the relationship. I always say you want a man who can fix the toilet. :badgrin:
Pamela Anderson

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"You know an odd feeling? Sitting on the toilet eating a chocolate candy bar."

George Carlin

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The need to be right all the time is the biggest bar to new ideas.
Edward de Bono

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"It is not once nor twice but times without number that the same ideas make their appearance in the world."

Aristotle

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It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.
Mark Twain

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"Real love is a pilgrimage. It happens when there is no strategy, but it is very rare because most people are strategists.

Anita Brookner

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"You and I may not be brilliant strategists, but we should all know that the best defense is a good offense."

Nguyen Cao Ky

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"Our offense is like the pythagorean theorem: There is no answer!"

Shaquille O'Neal

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"His answer trickled through my head like water through a sieve."

Lewis Carroll

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The world is full of abundance and opportunity, but far too many people come to the fountain of life with a sieve instead of a tank car... a teaspoon instead of a steam shovel. They expect little and as a result they get little.

Ben Sweetland

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"The world cares very little about what a man or woman knows; it is what a man or woman is able to do that counts."

Virgil

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What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight - it's the size of the fight in the dog.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

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"A dog is not considered a good dog because he is a good barker. A man is not considered a good man because he is a good talker."

Buddha

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My father was like a secret intellectual, a bookreader, a talker, and a thinker. He was very important to me, because he made me think.

Janis Joplin

oh, same goes for my dad ;)

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"Young people think that nothing bad will ever happen to them."

Loni Anderson

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I don't like doing most things unless I can do them quite well.

Oliver Reed

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Crime does not pay ... as well as politics.

Alfred E. Newman

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"I've been in politics for too long, and in Africa things can just turn the other way, even after you've drawn the scenario."

Mangosuthu Buthelezi

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"The worst-case scenario I see is a major nuclear arms race unfolding in the Pacific. That's not a forecast, that's a logical train of events."

William J. Perry

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"Time is a sort of river of passing events, and strong is its current; no sooner is a thing brought to sight than it is swept by and another takes its place, and this too will be swept away."

Marcus Aurelius

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"He who cannot give anything away cannot feel anything either."

Friedrich Nietzsche

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"It is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either of them."

Mark Twain

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"I do not believe in a fate that falls on men however they act; but I do believe in a fate that falls on them unless they act."

Buddha

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"Think before you act and act on what you believe."

Bo Bennett

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The public will believe anything, so long as it is not founded on truth.

Edith Sitwell

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"Half a truth is often a great lie."

Benjamin Franklin

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"The secret of staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly, and lie about your age."

Lucille Ball