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- I believe that we parents must encourage our children to become educated, so they can get into a good college that we cannot afford.
- See, when the GOVERNMENT spends money, it creates jobs; whereas when the money is left in the hands of TAXPAYERS, God only knows what they…
- In my experience, you run into trouble when you ask a group of beer-drinking men to perform any task more complex than remembering not to…
- After the war, Prohibition was passed, and with liquor no longer legally available the nation plunged headlong into the Great Depression.
- One popular new plastic surgery technique is called lip grafting, or 'fat recycling,' wherein fat cells are removed from one part of your body that…
- Proper turkey preparation is critical. According to the U.S. Department of Agriculture, more Americans die every year from eating improperly cooked turkey than were killed…
- Do not put this product in a big vat and drop rats into it from a cat-walk.
- Why can't Americans do their own taxes? Because the federal Tax Code is out of control, that's why. It's gigantic and insanely complex, and it…
- During the warm season (August 8 and 9), Maine is a true vacation paradise, offering visitors a chance to jump into crystal-clear mountain lakes and…
- The obvious and fair solution to the housework problem is to let men do the housework for, say, the next six thousand years, to even…
- Most married couples, even though they love each other very much in theory, tend to view each other in practice as large teeming flaw colonies,…
- Dogs love to go for rides. A dog will happily get into any vehicle going anywhere.
- I shared this insight with some other boat owners, and they all agreed that, definitely, putting your boar into the water is asking for trouble.…
- Derangement is the only possible explanation for owning a cat, an animal whose preferred mode of communication is to sink its claws three-quarters of an…
- A critical function that we journalists perform at political conventions is to try to get into parties that we have not been invited to. There…
- Europeans, like some Americans, drive on the right side of the road, except in England, where they drive on both sides of the road; Italy,…
- It is a well- known fact that although the public is fine when taken individually, when it forms itself into large groups, it tends to…
- ... Once you're safely in the mall, you should tie your children to you with ropes so the other shoppers won't try to buy them.…
- Excellence is THE trend of the '80s. Walk into any shopping mall bookstore, go to the rack where they keep the best-sellers such as Garfield…
- Harry is heavily into camping, and every year in the late fall, he makes us all go to Assateague, which is an island on the…
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- Economic growth may one day turn out to be a curse rather than a good, and under no conditions can it either… — Hannah Arendt
- Boxing gave me the opportunities to grow into the person that I am today. — Alexis Arguello
- Republics decline into democracies and democracies degenerate into despotisms. — Aristotle
- The state comes into existence for the sake of life and continues to exist for the sake of good life. — Aristotle
- A sense is what has the power of receiving into itself the sensible forms of things without the matter, in the way… — Aristotle
- I was always interested in French poetry sort of as a sideline to my own work, I was translating contemporary French poets.… — Paul Auster
- To bring anything into your life, imagine that it's already there. — Richard Bach
- It's actually amazing because you go so far into another side of your brain when you're studying something completely different, and I… — Dido Armstrong