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    Behind every successful man is a woman, behind her is his wife.
    Groucho Marx
     
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    "Nations get the governments they deserve"
    Sarmiento
     
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    When you want to fool the world, tell the truth.
    Otto von Bismarck
     
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    Grief has limits, whereas apprehension has none. For we grieve only for what we know has happened, but we fear all that possibly may happen.
    Pliny the Elder
     
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    " A waste is a terrible thing to mind" Al Gore

    "I'd Rather have a Bottle in front of me than a Frontal Lobodomey" Willie Nelson

    "Never write what you can say, Never say what you can nod" Whitey Buldger
     
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    I've been trying to ignore that one....
     
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    Nature doesn't care if you're having fun.
    Larry Niven.
     
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    A state is better governed which has few laws, and those laws strictly observed.
    Rene Descartes
     
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    One from my dad: Don't ever confuse a church with religion, and don't ever confuse a religion with God.

    And another: a degree is not the same thing as education, and an education is not the same thing as intelligence.

    He said a lot of sensible things over the years. I've seriously considered collecting the ones I can remember and putting them down on paper, to pass on to my own sons.
     
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    Sex appeal is fifty percent what you've got and fifty percent what people think you've got.

    Sophia Loren
     
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    Love is the answer, but while you are waiting for the answer sex raises some pretty good questions

    Woody Allen
     
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    Like a bird on the wire
    Like a drunk in a midnight choir
    I have tried in my way to be free.

    -Leonard Cohen

    Kris Kristofferson has said he'd like to have that one on his tombstone.
     
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    I hope he get's it.
     
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    “I love you, and because I love you, I would sooner have you hate me for telling you the truth than adore me for telling you lies.”

    Pietro Aretino
     

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