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Yassine Aumerally

Yassine Aumerally

women life is very hard,

women life is very hard, morning wash cloths, noon dry cloths, evening iron clothes, night remove cloths, late mid night search clothes..
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Harold Walker

Harold Walker

When you read history it

When you read history it is quite astonishing to discover that there never was a day when men thought times were really good. Every generation in history has been haunted by the feeling of crisis.
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Friedrich Nietzsche

Friedrich Nietzsche

I cannot believe in a

I cannot believe in a God who wants to be praised all the time.
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Rev. Ivan Stang - High Weirdness By Mail

Rev. Ivan Stang - High Weirdness By Mail

If you sincerely desire a

If you sincerely desire a _truly_ well-rounded education, you must study the extremists, the obscure and "nutty". You need the balance! Your poor brain is already being impregnated with middle-of-the-road crap, twenty-four hours a day, _no matter what_. Network TV, newspapers, radio, magazines at the supermarket... even if you never watch, read, listen, or leave your house, even if you are deaf and blind, the _telepathic pressure alone_ of the uncountable normals surrounding you will insure that you are automatically well- grounded in consensus reality.
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Lewis Lew Wallace

Lewis Lew Wallace

One is never more on

One is never more on trial than in the moment of excessive good fortune.
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Yassine Aumerally

Yassine Aumerally

I dont know how Beautiful

I dont know how Beautiful you are... 'coz my eyes haven't moved from ur eyes....
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George Orwell

George Orwell

Liberal: a power worshipper without

Liberal: a power worshipper without power.
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Arnold Edinborough

Arnold Edinborough

Curiosity is the very basis

Curiosity is the very basis of education and if you tell me that curiosity killed the cat, I say only the cat died nobly.
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Yassine Aumerally

Yassine Aumerally

Lie is the biggest poison

Lie is the biggest poison for Love
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Lewis Lew Wallace

Lewis Lew Wallace

Would you hurt a man

Would you hurt a man keenest, strike at his self-love.
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Sinclair Lewis

Sinclair Lewis

Our American professors like their

Our American professors like their literature clear, cold, pure and very dead.
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Peter De Vries

Peter De Vries

We all learn by experience

We all learn by experience but some of us have to go to summer school.
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J. Mark Wallace

J. Mark Wallace

Life is a continual upgrade.

Life is a continual upgrade.
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Yassine Aumerally

Yassine Aumerally

All that glitters is not

All that glitters is not gold, and things that look warm are often cold!
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Gore Vidal

Gore Vidal

Every time a friend succeeds,

Every time a friend succeeds, I die a little.
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Harlan Ellison

Harlan Ellison

The two most abundant things

The two most abundant things in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity.
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George Wallace

George Wallace

Why does the Air Force

Why does the Air Force need expensive new bombers Have the people we've been bombing over the years been complaining
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Yassine Aumerally

Yassine Aumerally

Love is Trust

Love is Trust
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Baron Henry Peter Brougham

Baron Henry Peter Brougham

Education makes a people easy

Education makes a people easy to lead, but difficult to drive; easy to govern but impossible to enslave.
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Oscar Wilde

Oscar Wilde

The only possible form of

The only possible form of exercise is to talk, not to walk.
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Addison Walker

Addison Walker

It's not true that nice

It's not true that nice guys finish last. Nice guys are winners before the game even starts.
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Yassine Aumerally

Yassine Aumerally

Friendship without self-interest is one

Friendship without self-interest is one of the rare and beautiful things of life
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Hanna Gray

Hanna Gray

Knowledge is expensive.

Knowledge is expensive.
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VII Putnam

VII Putnam

The entire sum of existence

The entire sum of existence is the magic of being needed by just one person.
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