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Message 906004 - Posted: 10 Jun 2009, 23:43:03 UTC

A cynic is not merely one who reads bitter lessons from the past, he is one who is prematurely disappointed in the future.
- Sidney J. Harris
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Message 906016 - Posted: 11 Jun 2009, 0:08:31 UTC

"The man who insists upon seeing with perfect clearness before he decides, never decides. Accept life, and you must accept regret." - Henri-Frederic Amiel

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Message 906116 - Posted: 11 Jun 2009, 9:18:26 UTC

"The intelligent man finds almost everything ridiculous, the sensible man hardly anything." - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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Message 907288 - Posted: 13 Jun 2009, 15:15:28 UTC

A man thinks that by mouthing hard words he understands hard things

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Message 907344 - Posted: 13 Jun 2009, 18:24:32 UTC

"The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook." - William James

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Message 907727 - Posted: 15 Jun 2009, 0:12:28 UTC

Always and never are two words you should always remember never to use.
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Message 907901 - Posted: 15 Jun 2009, 17:55:35 UTC

"Life is like a bowl of kibble....you never know what you'll get."
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"Freedom is just Chaos, with better lighting." Alan Dean Foster

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Message 908044 - Posted: 16 Jun 2009, 2:40:48 UTC

"Man is what he believes." - Anton Chekhov

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Message 908550 - Posted: 17 Jun 2009, 22:50:27 UTC

This life is a test...
If this had been an actual life...
You would have been instructed on...
Where to go and what to say.
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Message 908700 - Posted: 18 Jun 2009, 11:40:15 UTC

In life there are many ways of doing things.
The Rignt Way!
The Wrong Way!
The Navy Way!

Obviously I chose NONE OF THE ABOVE!

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Message 908706 - Posted: 18 Jun 2009, 12:19:27 UTC

In any subject, an Expert is one who has made all of the conceivable mistakes . . .

and now is working on the inconceivable mistakes.
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Message 909009 - Posted: 19 Jun 2009, 1:11:58 UTC

Psychiatry enables us to correct our faults by confessing our parents' shortcomings.
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Message 909076 - Posted: 19 Jun 2009, 7:51:10 UTC

If there were in the world today any large number of people who desired their own happiness more than they desired the unhappiness of others, we could have paradise in a few years.
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Message 909106 - Posted: 19 Jun 2009, 10:38:24 UTC

An expert learns more and more about less and less ....
.... Until he knows everything about nothing.
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Message 909146 - Posted: 19 Jun 2009, 13:39:31 UTC

"To want to forget something is to think of it."

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Message 909416 - Posted: 20 Jun 2009, 5:51:49 UTC

I've gone into hundreds of [fortune-teller's parlors], and have been told thousands of things, but nobody ever told me I was a policewoman getting ready to arrest her.
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Message 909553 - Posted: 20 Jun 2009, 15:46:51 UTC - in response to Message 909416.  

I've gone into hundreds of [fortune-teller's parlors], and have been told thousands of things, but nobody ever told me I was a policewoman getting ready to arrest her.
New York City detective


Hee hee heh ...

You know the fortune-teller is a good one when as soon as you walk in, she doesn't ask you any questions, she just tells you to leave because you don't want to know what she has already learned about you.
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Message 909606 - Posted: 20 Jun 2009, 17:53:38 UTC

"There are two sides to every question: my side and the wrong side." - Oscar Levant

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Message 909714 - Posted: 20 Jun 2009, 23:03:28 UTC

He who asks questions cannot avoid the answers.


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Message 909858 - Posted: 21 Jun 2009, 14:58:31 UTC

"It is a wise child that knows its own father, and an unusual one that unreservedly approves of him." - Mark Twain

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