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Yogi Berra


You guys over there, pair up into groups of three.

Jack Handey Deep Thoughts


Despair is like a cable that is buried just under the surface of the ground. You pull it up and pull it up, but that cable just keeps right on going, clear across a field, until you come to a bunch of guys who are burying the cable. Then just walk up to them and go, 'Hey, have you seen Fred' And they'll say, 'Fred who' And you say, 'Fred of snakes' Then cover your ears, because big laughs are coming.

John Steinbeck


The fields were fruitful and starving men moved on the roads. The granaries were full and the children of the poor grew up rachitic.

Vince Lombardi


Nobody is hurt. Hurt is in the mind. If you can walk, you can run.

George Orwell


Every generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it.

Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire


It is said that God is always on the side of the heaviest battalions.

Austin Elliot


Whoever said Marriage is a 5-5 proposition laid the foundation for more divorce fees than any other short sentence in our language.

Henry M. Wriston


A guidance counselor who has made a fetish of security, or who has unwittingly surrendered his thinking to economic determinism, may steer a youth away from his dream of becoming a poet, an artist, a musician or any other of thousands of things, because it offers no security, it does not pay well, there are no vacancies, it has no future.

A. E. Housman


And malt does more than Milton can To justify God's ways to man.

Samuel Johnson


Pleasure is very seldom found where it is sought our brightest blazes of gladness are commonly kindled by unexpected sparks.

Tao Le Ching


The more you know, the less you understand.

Lionel Trilling


We who are liberal and progressive know that the poor are our equals in every sense except that of being equal to us.

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