February 2012
23 posts
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“To live in Australia permanently is rather like going to a party and dancing all...”
– Barry Humphries, comedian
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“Beer is the Danish national drink and the Danish national weakness is another...”
– Clementine Paddleford, British writer
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“A Russian can be cheated only by a Gypsy, a Gypsy by Jew, a Jew by a Greek and a...”
– Greek saying
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“Three Turks and Three Greeks make six heathens.”
– Serbian saying
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“One thing I know, that I know nothing. This is the source of my wisdom.”
– Socrates, philosopher, 5th century BC
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“We did not treat the Americans badly. They left Iran in a relaxed mood. The...”
– Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, former president of Iran
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“I think we should take Iraq and Iran and combine them into one country and call...”
– Denis Leary, comedian
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“Los Angeles without the sun or grass.”
– Lillian Hellman, on Russia
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“We should really love each other in peace and harmony, instead we’re...”
– Bob Marley
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“A man is only as faithful as his options.”
– Chris Rock
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“Love is a trap. When it appears, we see only its light, not its shadows.”
– Paulo Coelho
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“When I’m alone in my room sometimes I stare at the wall
and in the back of my...”
– LL Cool J, ‘I need love’
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“Don’t do drugs, don’t have unprotected sex, don’t be violent. Leave that to me.”
– Eminem
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“I have found men who didn’t know how to kiss. I’ve always found time...”
– Mae West
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“My most brilliant achievement was my ability to be able to persuade my wife to...”
– Winston Churchill
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“All you need is love”
– John Lennon
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“I love New York City; I’ve got a gun.”
– Charles Barkley, basketball player
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“Until we’re educating every kid in a fantastic way, until every inner city...”
– Bill Gates
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“Loneliness is the most terrible poverty.”
– Mother Teresa
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“ We’re born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Only through our love and...”
– Orson Welles
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“Take my advice… I’m not using it.”
– Unknown
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“We read to know we are not alone.”
– C.S.Lewis, author
January 2012
25 posts
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“I wasn’t kissing her, I was whispering in her mouth.”
– Chico Marx, American actor and comedian
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“Dream as if you’ll live forever, live as if you’ll die today.”
– James Dean
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“I was recently on a tour of Latin America, and the only regret I have was that I...”
– Dan Quayle, US politician
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“He can’t help it. He was born with a silver foot in his mouth.”
– Former Texas Gov. Ann Richards on misstatements made by George Bush, Sr.
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“What right does Congress have to go around making laws just because they deem it...”
– Marion Barry, US politician
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“Won’t bow. Don’t. Know. How.”
– Big Chief Albert Lambreaux, character from HBO’s Treme, which focuses on The aftermath of Hurricane Katrina
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“You will not be able to stay home, brother.
You will not be able to plug in,...”
– ― Gil Scott-Heron
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“Float like a butterfly sting like a bee - his hands can’t hit what his...”
– Ali, ahead of the George Foreman Rumble in the Jungle, 1974
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“Get up sucker and fight. Get up and fight.”
– Ali to Liston during their second fight in 1965
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“We can’t plan for life, all we can do is be available for it.”
– Lauryn Hill, singer, musician
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“The World Is Yours”
– Nas, rapper and musician
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“Health nuts are going to feel stupid someday, lying in hospitals dying of...”
– Redd Foxx, comedian
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“Of course I’ve got lawyers. They are like nuclear weapons, I’ve got...”
– Danny DeVito
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“Remember, sex is like a Chinese dinner. It ain’t over ‘til you both...”
– Alec Baldwin, actor
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“I wouldn’t live in California. All that sun makes you sterile.”
– Alan Alda, actor
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“There’s a lot more hypocrisy than before. Racism has gone back...”
– Richard Pryor, comedian
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“I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is...”
– James Baldwin, author
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“Silence is not only golden; it is seldom misquoted.”
– Bob Monkhouse, British comedian
thought-provoking-url asked: James Powell wrote the newsletter you are quoting. Ron Paul did not write it.
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“In every society, the definition of marriage has not ever to my knowledge...”
– Rick Santorum, US politician and presidential hopeful on same sex marriage in 2003
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“Which Is Creepier: President Santorum or President Paul?”
– A headline in The New Republic, http://www.tnr.com/article/politics/99234/survey-creepiest-paul-santorum-tnr
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“He just annoys me, I don’t really hate anyone in life.
“But I’m very bad, in...”
– The Telegraph interviewed Prime Minister David Cameron who ahd harsh words for opposition politician, Ed Balls
“White people love playing divide and rule. We should not play their game.”
– British Pilitician, Diane Abbott was responding to a commentator who said she disliked the “lazy” and “monolithic” use of the term “black community” during coverage of the Stephen Lawrence murder trial. Two men have recently been convicted of the murder,19 years after the event.
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“All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does....”
– Oscar Wilde
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“History, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived, but if faced with...”
– Maya Angelou
December 2011
18 posts
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“I stopped believing in Santa Claus when I was six. Mother took me to see him in...”
– Shirley Temple
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“The Supreme Court has ruled that they cannot have a nativity scene in...”
– Jay Leno