Blackadder
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All drugs of any interest to any moderately intelligent person in America are now illegal.
Thomas Szasz
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kathyv
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From now on, ending a sentence with a preposition is something up with which I will not put.
Sir Winston Churchill
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Blackadder
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Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons.
Bertrand Russell
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kathyv
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A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
Robert Frost
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Blackadder
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True friends stab you in the front
Oscar Wilde
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kathyv
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It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.
Albert Einstein
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Blackadder
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I am the lizard king. I can do anything.
Jim Morrison
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kathyv
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I am the eggman, they are the eggmen.
I am the walrus, goo goo g'joob g'goo goo g'joob.
Goo goo g'joob g'goo goo g'joob g'goo...
John Lennon
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Blackadder
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Those who write clearly have readers, those who write obscurely have commentators.
Abraham Lincoln
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kathyv
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Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.
Edgar Allan Poe
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Blackadder
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The quality of strength lined with tenderness is an unbeatable combination, as are intelligence and necessity when unblunted by formal education.
Maya Angelou
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Blackadder
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There are known knowns. These are things we know that we know. There are known unknowns. That is to say, there are things that we know we don't know. But there are also unknown unknowns. There are things we don't know we don't know.
Donald Rumsfeld
(fabulous quote once you understand it!) 
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kathyv
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yeah, he's a psycho babbler if I ever heard one!
No man is an Island, entire of itself; any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in Mankind.
John Donne (paraphrased)
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Blackadder
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Boredom is the root of all evil - the despairing refusal to be oneself.
Soren Kierkegaard
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kathyv
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Beer is proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy!
Ben Franklin
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Blackadder
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First you take a drink, then the drink takes a drink, then the drink takes you.
Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald
I feel sorry for people who don't drink. When they wake up in the morning, that's as good as they're going to feel all day.
Frank Sinatra
Everybody should believe in something; I believe I'll have another drink.
Author Unknown
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kathyv
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The advantage of a bad memory is that one enjoys several times the same good things for the first time.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Blackadder
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Falling in love is so hard on the knees.
Aerosmith
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kathyv
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 heeheehee
It's hard to take over the world when you sleep 20 hours a day.
Darby Conley in Get Fuzzy
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Blackadder
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"The truth is usually just an excuse for a lack of imagination."
Garak (Improbable Cause ST:DS9)
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kathyv
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Rich gifts wax poor when givers prove unkind.
William Shakespeare -Hamlet
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Blackadder
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Adversity is sometimes hard upon a man; but for one man who can stand prosperity, there are a hundred that will stand adversity.
Thomas Carlyle
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kathyv
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A good man is hard to find, a hard man is good to find.
Car's Bumper Sticker
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Blackadder
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People understand me so poorly that they don't even understand my complaint about them not understanding me.
Soren Kierkegaard
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Scott2006
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through his arrangement of the materials and emphasis,
the teacher's presentation of lectures on a discipline lets the student discern leading ideas appropriately.
Karl Weierstrass (in 1873) (1815-1897)
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Blackadder
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There is a great deal of pain in life and perhaps the only pain that can be avoided is the pain that comes from trying to avoid pain.”
R. D. Laing
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kathyv
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The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.
Martin Luther King Jr.
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Blackadder
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In every one of those little stucco boxes there's some poor b****rd who's never free except when he's fast asleep and dreaming that he's got the boss down the bottom of a well and is bunging lumps of coal at him.
George Orwell
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kathyv
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Frisbeetarianism is the belief that when you die, your soul goes up on the roof and gets stuck.
George Carlin
Possibly the funniest thing he ever said!
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Blackadder
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Sh*t, P*ss, F*ck, Cu*t, C*cks*cker, M*therf*cker, and T*ts. Those are the heavy seven. Those are the ones that'll curve your spine, warp your mind, and keep the country from winning the war.
George Carlin
(Have to agree. A very funny man!)
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kathyv
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Little by little, one travels far.
J. R. R. Tolkien
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Blackadder
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"The truth is usually just an excuse for a lack of imagination."
Garak (Ster Trek DS9 - "Improbable Cause")
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kathyv
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The dance is a poem of which each movement is a word.
Mata Hari
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Blackadder
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Once, during Prohibition, I was forced to live for days on nothing but food and water.
W. C. Fields
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kathyv
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You have my permission to withdraw.
~Audry Hepburn during a press interview after the releas of 'Roman Holiday'
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Blackadder
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"I could dance with you till the cows come home ... On second thought, I'd rather dance with the cows when you came home."
Duck Soup 1933
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kathyv
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Once is a mistake, twice is a habit.
Charles Dowd, Percussion instructor, University of Oregon
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Blackadder
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Eaten any good books lately?
Q (to Worf) (STTNG - Deja-Q)
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kathyv
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To the heavens we all shout, "Get well quick!" to our favorite Kraut. From Stalag 13
(Get well wish penned by Carter to Klink.)
Hogan's Heros episode "Is there a DR. in the house?
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Blackadder
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What is hateful to thyself do not do to another. That is the whole Law, the rest is Commentary.
Hillel
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Blackadder
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"And how did you all meet?"
Donna Air - interviewing sibling group "The Corrs". 
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Blackadder
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It's not true I had nothing on ... I had the radio on.
Marilyn Monroe
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mairead
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Chanel, of course.
Marlyn Monroe when asked what she wore in bed.
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Blackadder
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Ever notice that what the hell is always the right decision?
Marilyn Monroe
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mairead
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When we have not what we love,
we must love what we have
anon
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Blackadder
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Cultivated leisure is the aim of man.
Oscar Wilde
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mairead
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That's no lady Sir, that's my wife. can't remember who said it though.
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mairead
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England is merely an island of beef flesh swimming in a warm gulfstream of gravy Katherine Mansefield (The Modern Soul)
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mairead
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I wasna fu, but just had plenty.. ... Burns. (Death and Dr Hornbrook)
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Blackadder
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The truly religious man does not embrace a religion; and he who embraces one has no religion.
Kahlil Gibran
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mairead
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An expert is one who knows more and more about less and less.....
Nicholas Murray Butler.
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Blackadder
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You can learn many things from children. How much patience you have, for instance.
Franklin P. Jones
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mairead
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Now there's an end of ane old sang. James Oglivie, Earl of Seafield, on signing the act of union 1707
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Blackadder
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"We don't like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out."
Decca Recording Company rejecting the Beatles, 1962
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mairead
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Whom the Gods wish to destroy, they first call promising.... Cyril Connolly (Enemies of Promise)
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Blackadder
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Business, you know, may bring money, but friendship hardly ever does.
- Jane Austen
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mairead
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Learning without thought is labour lost
Thought without learning is perilous
Confucius
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Blackadder
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A {tax loophole is} something that benefits the other guy. If it benefits you, it is tax reform.
Russell B. Long
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mairead
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We triumph without glory when we conquer without danger
Pierre Corneille
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Blackadder
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A reporter interviewing A.J. Muste, who during the Vietnam War stood in front of the White House night after night with a candle, one rainy night asked, "Mr. Muste, do you really think you are going to change the policies of this country by standing out here alone at night with a candle?"
Muste replied, "Oh, I don't do it to change the country, I do it so the country won't change me."
Andrea Ayvazian
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mairead
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Comedies of manners swiftly become obsolete when there are no longer any manners.... Sir Noel Coward
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Blackadder
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Men and women, women and men; it will never work.
Erica Jong
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mairead
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The old believe everything,
The middle aged suspect everything
The young know everything
Oscar Wilde.
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Blackadder
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Q: What would it take to get the Monty Python team back together?
A: Since Graham Chapman is dead, a few bullets each would do the trick.
Lord Edmund Blackadder (2008)
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mairead
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You only have power over people so long as you don't take everything away from them, but when you have robbed a man of everything, he is no longer in your power.
Alexander Solzhenitsyn.
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Blackadder
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If you're in a bad situation, don't worry it'll change. If you're in a good situation, don't worry it'll change.
John A. Simone, Sr
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mairead
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Liberty means responsibility, That is why most men dread it.
George Bernard Shaw
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Blackadder
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It doesn't work to leap a twenty-foot chasm in two ten-foot jumps.
American proverb
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mairead
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All animals are equal, but some are more equal than others.
George Orwell,..... Animal Farm
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Blackadder
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"Most of us go to our graves with our music still inside of us."
Unknown
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mairead
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Better to remain silent and be thought a fool, than to speak out and remove all doubt..... Abraham Lincoln
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Blackadder
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Take away paradox from the thinker and you have a professor.
Soren Kierkegaard
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mairead
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It is not good, a sleeping hound to wake
Chaucer
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Blackadder
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"Americans have different ways of saying things. They say "elevator", we say "lift" ... they say "President", we say "stupid psychopathic git."
Alexai Sayle.
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mairead
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We all labour against our own cure, for death is the greatrest cure of all.
Sir Thomas Browne.
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Blackadder
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"An incompetent lawyer can delay a trial for months or years. A competent lawyer can delay one even longer."
Evelle Younger.
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mairead
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"Because it is there"
Reply from George Leigh Mallory when asked why he wanted to climb Everest
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Blackadder
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"Not only is life a bitch, it has puppies."
Adrienne Gusoff.
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mairead
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Peace is indivisible......Maxim Litvinoff in a speech to the League of Nations in 1936
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Blackadder
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"I have had a perfectly wonderful evening, but this wasn't it."
Groucho Marx
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mairead
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A Highbrow is the kind of person who looks at a sausage and thinks of Picasso. Sir A.P. Herbert
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Blackadder
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"I have nothing to declare except my genuis."
Oscar Wilde
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mairead
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All things flow, nothing abides ....Heraelitus. (quoted by Plato)
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Blackadder
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"My wife has a slight impediment in her speech. Every now and then she stops to breathe."
Jimmy Durante.
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mairead
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Cognito ergo sum, ....I think, therefore I am.....
Rene Descartes ( Discours de la Methode.)
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Blackadder
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You got that wrong, Mairead.
It's 'Cogito Ergo Sum'. 'Cogito' is Latin for understanding, or the thinking process.
Cognito Ego Ergo Sum is Latin for "I have assumed permission."
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mairead
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whoops, my languages again. need to watch that.
what is your next quotation then?
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Blackadder
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Where was yours???
"The Labour Party's election manifesto is the longest suicide note in history."
Greg Knight.
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mairead
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Confound their politics....... Henry Carey
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Blackadder
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"A James Cagney love scene is one where he lets the other guy live."
Bob Hope.
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mairead
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There are three sexes, men, women and Clergy.,.... Sydney Smith
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Blackadder
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"Totally mad. Utter nonsense. But we'll do it because it's brilliant nonsense."
Douglas Adams
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mairead
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Sounds a bit like this forum then Eh What!.
I am just going outside, and may be sometime.
Last words quoted in Captain Scott's diary
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Blackadder
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"Honolulu, it's got everything. Sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother."
Ken Dodd
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mairead
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if you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face....forever
George Orwell
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Blackadder
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"Turn on, tune in and drop out."
Timothy Leary
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mairead
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No praying, it spoils business.... Thomas Otway
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Blackadder
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"Adventure is worthwhile in itself."
Amelia Earhart. (before she plummeted into the Pacific, I gather!)
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mairead
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Mad is he? Then I hope he will bite some of my other generals.
George 11 on General Wolfe
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mairead
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Hey Blackadder. If we go on like this we will soon be able to write a book of quotations between us.
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