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A friend is someone who knows the song in your heart and can sing it back to you when you have forgotten the words.


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We know exactly where one cow with Mad-cow-disease is located among the millions and millions of cows in America but we haven't got a clue as to where thousands of illegal immigrants and terrorists are located. Maybe we should put the Department of Agriculture in charge of immigration.


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Nothing is guaranteed to end a friendship faster than lending money.

Nancy Reagan,quoted in Real Simple


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"Friendship is the only cement that will ever hold the world together."

--Woodrow Wilson
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Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or self-confidence.


Robert Frost,quoted in the Lowell.Mass.,Sun


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"It is better to be defeated on principle than to win on lies."
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A mind enclosed in language is in prison.

Simone Weil,quoted in the London Independent


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Bored people,unless they sleep a lot,are cruel.

Author Renata Alder,quoted in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette


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"The pure and simple truth is rarely pure and never simple."


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Competition brings out the best in products and the worst in people.

David Sarnoff,American broadcasting pioneer,quoted in the Columbus,Ohio,Dispatch


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One of the sources of pride in being a human being is the ability to bear present frustrations in the interests of longer purposes.

Sociologist Helen Merrell


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"Always tell the truth. That way, you don't have to remember what you said."


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Jethro wrote:"Always tell the truth. That way, you don't have to remember what you said."


That is what my dad always told me Jethro.


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The true art of memory is the art of attention.

Samual Johnson,quoted in the Houston Chronicle


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"The truth is more important than the facts."


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Suburbia is where the developer bulldozes out the trees,then names the streets after them.

Writer Bill Vaughan,quoted in the Montreal Gazette


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"A friend is someone who knows all about you and still likes you."


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A bicycle can't stand alone; it is two tired.....


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Leisure is the mother of philosophy.

Thomas Hobbes quoted in the London Independent


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