Quote of the day

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3 Z( ]7 f: t8 _9 wAsk yourself whether you are happy and you cease to be so.
-- John Stuart Mill English economist & philosopher (1806 - 1873)

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I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly.
& a! G; M2 Z" S9 X; ]. p% w7 \; x; W-- Michel de Montaigne (1533 - 1592)

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Happiness isn't something you experience; it's something you remember.
' N2 ^! ~  A/ d. ^8 H! I% v  j-- Oscar Levant (1906 - 1972)

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Women who seek to be equal with men lack ambition.
-- Timothy Leary (1920 - 1996)

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I hate women because they always know where things are.
. Y3 ~7 k, J4 M) |- a-- James Thurber (1894 - 1961) American author, cartoonist and celebrated wit

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It is said that power corrupts, but actually it's more true that power attracts the corruptible. The sane are usually attracted by other things than power.
-- David Brin (1950 - )

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There are 10^11 stars in the galaxy. That used to be a huge number. But it's only a hundred billion. It's less than the national deficit! We used to call them astronomical numbers. Now we should call them economical numbers.
& _- D' o% k! y, B/ _-- Richard Feynman (1918 - 1988)

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The easiest way for your children to learn about money is for you not to have any.
-- Katharine Whitehorn

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Rules are just helpful guidelines for stupid people who can't make up their own minds.
  `9 N1 L8 O2 i. K-- Seth Hoffman, House M.D., 2010

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It is only an auctioneer who can equally and impartially admire all schools of art.
-- Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900), The Critic as Artist, 1891

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America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between.
-- Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900), The Critic as Artist, 1891

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Health food makes me sick.
) r: H1 H2 Y" n% C-- Calvin Trillin (1935 - )  

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A painting in a museum hears more ridiculous opinions than anything else in the world.
# I, q3 l1 X$ n: O5 w- B－－ Edmond de Goncourt (1822 - 1896)

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It is even harder for the average ape to believe that he has descended from man.
: n& U: z4 y" s* Q" h7 \  V-- H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)

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People who have what they want are fond of telling people who haven't what they want that they really don't want it.
6 a2 M, w1 \" Z7 G- W# u' R-- Ogden Nash (1902 - 1971)