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You can only flap your arms so much before gravity catches up to you.

Anon.


Pentiums melt in your PC, not in your hand.

CaddyShack


Carl Spackler IT'S IN THE HOLE.

William Shakespeare


Our life, exempt from public haunt, finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, sermons in stones, and good in everything.

C. S. Lewis


To love at all is to be vulnerable.

Rosario Castellanos


Laughter is the first evidence of freedom.

Seneca


No evil is without its compensation. The less money, the less trouble the less favor, the less envy. Even in those cases which put us out of wits, it is not the loss itself, but the estimate of the loss that troubles us.

W. B. Yeats


Being Irish, he had an abiding sense of tragedy which sustained him through temporary periods of joy.

H. L. Mencken


Misogynist: A man who hates women as much as women hate one another.

Colin Wilson


The mind has exactly the same power as the hands not merely to grasp the world, but to change it.

Voltaire


Appreciation is a wonderful thing It makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well.

Johnson


It is the great privilege of poverty to be happy and yet unenvied, to be healthy with physic, secure without a guard, and to obtain from the bounty of nature what the great and wealthy are compelled to procure by the help of art.

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With sixty staring me in the face, I have developed inflammation of the sentence structure and definite hardening of the paragraphs. - James Grover Thurber
The one whose judgment counts most in your life is the one staring back in the glass. - Unknown
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