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Receptionist: How do you write women so well?Melvin Udall: I think of men, then I take away reason and accountability.- Jack Nicholson in “As good as it gets”
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The world is full of people whose notion of a satisfactory future is, in fact a return to the idealized past.- Robertson Davies
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Moderation is a virtue only in those who are thought to have an alternative.- Henry Kissinger
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“Well, would you like to know what you’d be without us, the good ol’ U.S. of A. to protect you? I’ll tell you. The smallest fucking province in the Russian Empire, that’s what. So don’t call me stupid, lady. Just [...]
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There is a time for departure even when there’s no certain place to go.- Tennessee Williams
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There is a fine line between fishing and just standing on the shore like an idiot. Steven Wright
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We don’t devote enough scientific research to finding a cure for jerks.- Bill Watterson, American cartoonist “Calvin and Hobbes”
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We should behave to our friends, as we would wish our friends to behave to us.- Aristotle
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Blushing is the color of virtue.- Diogenes
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If something is so complicated that you can’t explain it in 10 seconds, then it’s probably not worth knowing anyway.- Bill Watterson, American cartoonist “Calvin and Hobbes”
Horseshoe Bend
My first adventure on Sunday nearly became my last altogether. I was adamant to go see the famous Horseshoe Bend, in northern Arizona. What I had not counted on was the deadly heat. A short 1.5 mile hike became a [...]
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There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that’s your own self.- Aldous Huxley
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Christianity is the most perverted system that ever shone on man.- Thomas Jefferson
Walk of Fame
After the Tar Pits, I had a quick lunch at a place called something like the Black Dog Cafe. I had my mind and stomach set on an IHOP just up the street from La Brea, but just before the [...]
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Receptionist: How do you write women so well?Melvin Udall: I think of men, then I take away reason and accountability.- Jack Nicholson in “As good as it gets”
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We should behave to our friends, as we would wish our friends to behave to us.- Aristotle
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Moderation is a virtue only in those who are thought to have an alternative.- Henry Kissinger
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The world is full of people whose notion of a satisfactory future is, in fact a return to the idealized past.- Robertson Davies
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Large increases in cost with questionable increases in performance can be tolerated only in race horses and women.- Lord Kelvin
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No one can be caught in places he doesn’t visit.- Danish Proverb
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When men yield up the privilege of thinking, the last shadow of liberty quits the horizon.- Thomas Paine
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Government is like a baby. An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of responsibility at the other.- Ronald Reagan
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There are two things to aim at in life: First to get what you want and after you have it, to enjoy it. Only the wisest of mankind achieve the second.- Logan Pearsall Smith
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Leadership is the capacity to translate vision into reality.- Warren G. Bennis
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Men must be taught as if you taught them notAnd things unknown proposed as things forgot.- Alexander Pope
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While you’re saving your face, you’re losing your ass.- Lyndon B. Johnson
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The greatest of all faults is to be conscious of none.- Thomas Carlyle
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Man’s most valuable trait is a judicious sense of what not to believe.- Euripides
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The first half of our lives is ruined by our parents, and the second half by our children.- Clarence Darrow