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Democracy is the worst form of

government except all others.

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-Winston Churchill

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A vacation is what you take when

you can no longer take what you've

been taking.

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-Earl Wilson

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Childhood is a short season.

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-Helen Hayes

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Help, Lord!

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-Psalm 12:1

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For a man to conquer himself is

the first and noblest of all victories.

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-Plato

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I was, of course, glad to return

to the bosom of my kindred.

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-Charlotte Bronte

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In the name of God, stop a moment,

cease your work, and look around you.

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-Leo Tolstoy

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Letters mingle souls.

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-John Donne

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It is pointless to attempt to

reason a man out of a thing

he was never reasoned into.

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-Jonathan Swift

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A women isn't complete without

a man. But where do you find a man,

a real man, these days?

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-Lauren Bacall

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We cannot have the cup

of God's fellowship without

Christ first drinking the cup

of God's wrath on our behalf.

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-Justin Taylor

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The belief that there are any other life

forms in the universe is a matter of faith.

There is not a single shred of evidence for

any other life forms, and in forty years of

searching, none has been discovered. There

is absolutely no evidentiary reason to maintain

this belief.

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-Michael Crichton

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As the family goes, so goes

the nation.

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-Ronald Reagan

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If computers ever get too

powerful, we can organize

them into a committee...

that should do them in.

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-Bradley's Bromide

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He who hesitates is not only lost,

but miles from the next exit.

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Humor is also a way of saying

something serious.

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-T. S. Eliot

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If you can't be funny

be interesting.

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-Harold Ross

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Behold, I am vile.

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-Job 40:4

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Though your sins be

as scarlet, they shall

be white as snow.

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-Isaiah 1:18

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Better than any argument is to rise

at dawn and pick dew-wet red berries

in a cup.

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-Wendell Berry

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Lookin' like a fool with

your pants on the ground.

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-Larry Platt

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All our words from

loose-using have lost

their edge.

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-Ernest Hemingway

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An aim in life is the only fortune

worth the finding.

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-Robert Louis Stevenson

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The more you eat, the less flavor;

the less you eat, the more flavor.

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-Chinese proverb

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You can't run away from trouble.

There ain't no place that far.

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-Uncle Remus

HT: Hannah Singer

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This world is the dressing room

for eternity.

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-Thomas Watson

HT: Jason Shelton

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I like to write when i

feel spiteful. It's like

having a good sneeze.

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-D. H. Lawrence

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Every baby born into the world

is finer than the last.

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-Charles Dickens

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It takes twenty years to build

a reputation and five minutes

to ruin it.

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-Warren Buffet

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I love taking pictures

because it's instant art.

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-Dave Davidson

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Be great in little things.

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-St. Francis Xavier