It looked like a Taco Bell after an earthquake. Describing Air Force One after hitting severe air turbulence while serving Mexican food, 1996
· Karen Breslau
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God's first creature, which was light.
· Francis Bacon
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The universe will reward you for taking risks on its behalf.
· Shakti Gawain
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Above all challenge yourself. You may well surprise yourself at what strengths you have, what you can accomplish.
· Cecile M. Springer
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March'll search ye, April try ye; May'll tell, whether live or die ye.
· Proverb
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Men are we, and must grieve when even the shade Of that which once was great is passed away.
· William Wordsworth
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Religion is the possibility of the removal of every ground of confidence except confidence in God alone.
· Karl Barth
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A person who loves his or her work Is like a plant in the right spot: There growth is maximized And the yield is greatest.
· Jeff Cox
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The real measure of wealth is how much youd be worth if you lost all your money.
· Unknown
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As there is a use in medicine for poisons, so the world cannot move without rogues.
· Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Truth will be uppermost one time or another, like cork, though kept down in the water.
· Sir William Temple
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Amendment VIII Excessive bail shall not be required, nor excessive fines imposed, nor cruel and unusual punishments inflicted.
· U.S. Constitution
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Boys should abstain from all use of wine until their eighteenth year, for it is wrong to add fire to fire.
· Aristotle
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A formal manipulator in mathematics often experiences the discomforting feeling that his pencil surpasses him in intelligence.
· Howard W. Eves
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It is the glory and merit of some men to write well and of others not to write at all.
· Jean de La Bruyre
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All pain is one malady with many names.
· Antiphanes
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There are times when silence has the loudest voice.
· Leroy Brownlow
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As William Dean Howells and Mark Twain were coming out of church one morning, it commenced to rain heavily. 'Do you think it will ever stop?' asked Howells. 'It always has,' answered Twain.
· James Keller
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It would seem that men always need some idiotic fiction in the name of which they can hate one another. Once it was religion. Now it is the State.
· Albert Einstein
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Married women are kept women, and they are beginning to find out.
· Logan Pearsall Smith
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Grant me an old man's frenzy, Myself must I remake Till I am Timon and Lear Or that William Blake Who beat upon the wall Till Truth obeyed his call.
· William Butler Yeats
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The conquerors are kings; the defeated are bandits.
· Proverb
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A desire to resist oppression is implanted in the nature of man.
· Publius Cornelius Tacit
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The computer programmer is a creator of universes for which he alone is responsible. Universes of virtually unlimited complexity can be created in the form of computer programs.
· Joseph Weizenbaum
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No man can be happy without a friend, nor be sure of his friend until he is unhappy.
· Thomas Fuller
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The one thing you can do is to do nothing. Wait ... You will find that you survive humiliation and that's an experience of incalculable value.
· Thomas Stearns Eliot
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Under the storm and the cloud today, And today the hard peril and pain - tomorrow the stone shall be rolled away, for the sunshine shall follow the rain.
· Joaquin Miller
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What tender force, what dignity divine, what virtue consecrating every feature; around that neck what dross are gold and pearl!
· Edward Young
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Those whom God wishes to destroy, he first makes mad.
· Euripides
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Religious ideas have sprung from the same need as all the other achievements of culture: from the necessity for defending itself against the crushing supremacy of nature.
· Sigmund Freud
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Silence is as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unhewn marble of a great sculpture.
· Aldous Huxley
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One hour's meditation on the work of the Creator is better than seventy years of prayer.
· Prophet Muhammad
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Here are cool mosses deep, And thro' the moss the ivies creep, And in the stream the long-leaved flowers weep, And from the craggy ledge the poppy hangs in sleep.
· Lord Alfred Tennyson
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Through life's road, so dim and dirty, I have dragged to three and thirty; What have these years left to me? Nothing, except thirty-three.
· Lord George Gordon Byr
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Another person's secret is like another person's money: you are not as careful with it as you are with your own.
· Edgar Watson 'Ed&a
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Women complain about premenstrual syndrome, but I think of it as the only time of the month I can be myself.
· Roseanne Barr
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Everywhere is nowhere. When a person spends all his time in foreign travel, he ends by having many acquaintances, but no friends.
· Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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The man with the best job in the country is the Vice President. All he has to do is get up every morning and say, How's the President?
· Will Rogers
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