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    I don't care who does the electing, so long as I get to do the nominating.

    Boss Tweed.
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    No matter how many men you kill you can't kill your successor-Emperor Nero

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    “Isn't it nice to think that tomorrow is a new day with no mistakes in it yet?”
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    Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius and it's better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring ― Marilyn Monroe

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    "Ignore the ignorant, or argue with a fool. Perhaps I can find some middle ground, and become an ignorant fool."
    -- ? Swear I heard it somewhere..
    “You must unlearn what you have learned.”
    – Yoda

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    " Ignorance is bliss...for the person that has it."
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    Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.
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    "...you need to realize that most people can only accept and use information that fits their perception of reality....

    Character in an LE Modesitt jr book.
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    “Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.”
    ― George Orwell, 1984
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    Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius and it's better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring ― Marilyn Monroe

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    Quote Originally Posted by MikeT View Post
    "Better a witty fool than a foolish wit."
    --William Shakespeare
    **Possibly Sir Francis Bacon
    Mark Twain made the definitive remark about that question.. "All those plays were not written by William Shakespeare, they were actually written by another fellow of the same name."
    I have great faith in fools - self confidence my friends call it.

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    "Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn't."
    --Mark Twain
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    As long a we are on a Twain binge..

    "Last week I stated this woman was the ugliest woman I had ever seen.  I have since been visited by her sister and now wish to withdraw that statement."   --Mark Twain
    I have great faith in fools - self confidence my friends call it.

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    “Always do what you are afraid to do.”
    ― Ralph Waldo Emerson
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    Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius and it's better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring ― Marilyn Monroe

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