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From: Elizabeth S Boese
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 21:10
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 21:10
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"Life is short
Stop the hate"
-TV commercial
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"In 1492, Columbus didn't know where he was going,
had a mutinous crew and was entirely dependent
on borrowed money. Today he'd be a political candidate."
-Orben's Current Coemedy
"Oh was there a man (but where shall I find
Good sense and good nautre so equally joined?)"
-Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
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"Ah, the life of a frog; that's the life for me."
-Bart Simpson in "Crepes of Wrath"
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"Art is either plagiarism or revolution."
-Paul Gauguin
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"Every reader finds himself. The writer's work is merely
a kind of optical instrument that makes it possible for the
reader to discern what, without this book, he would perhaps
never have seen in himself."
-Marcel Proust
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"The optimist thinks this is the best of all possible worlds,
The pessimist fears it is true."
-Robert Oppenheimer
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"A little philosophy inclineth man's mind to atheism,
But depth in philosophy bringeth men's minds about to relitgion.
-Francis Bacon
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"All power corrupts, but we need electricity."
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"There is but one flag, the white flag."
-U2
"
"Life is like an onion: you peel off layer after layer,
then you find there is nothing in it."
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"If you don't understand my silence,
You will not understand my words."
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-ESB107@psuvm.psu.edu
-boese@crayola.cs.psu.edu
-a.k.a. da KeyMaster
(seeker of butterflies)
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