Favourite Quotes
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No one can put you down without your full cooperation.
A person is just about as big as the things that make them angry.
You'd better have your fun before it moves along...
Parkinson's Law: Work expands to fill the time alloted it.
The trouble with being punctual is that people think you have nothing more important to do.
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The average income of the modern teenager is about 2 a.m.
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Love at first sight is one of the greatest labor-saving devices the world has ever seen.
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In a forest a fox bumps into a little rabbit, and says, "Hi, junior, what are you up to?"
"I'm writing a dissertation on how rabbits eat foxes," said the rabbit.
"Come now, friend rabbit, you know that's impossible!"
"Well, follow me and I'll show you." They both go into the rabbit's dwelling and after a while the rabbit emerges with a satisfied expression on his face.
Comes along a wolf. "Hello, what are we doing these days?"
"I'm writing the second chapter of my thesis, on how rabbits devour wolves."
"Are you crazy? Where is your academic honesty?"
"Come with me and I'll show you." As before, the rabbit comes out with a satisfied look on his face and a diploma in his paw.
Finally, the camera pans into the rabbit's cave and, as everybody should have guessed by now, we see a mean-looking, huge lion sitting next to some bloody and furry remnants of the wolf and the fox.
The moral: It's not the contents of your thesis that are important -- it's your PhD advisor that really counts.
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A diplomat is someone who can tell you to go to hell in such a way that you will look forward to the trip.
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I was part of that strange race of people aptly described as spending their lives doing things they detest to make money they don't want to buy things they don't need to impress people they dislike.
-- Emile Henry Gauvreay
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Living your life is a task so difficult, it has never been attempted before.
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Experience is that marvelous thing that enables you recognize a mistake when you make it again.
-- F. P. Jones
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Like the ski resort of girls looking for husbands and husbands looking for girls, the situation is not as symmetrical as it might seem.
-- Alan McKay
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Oh, well, I guess this is just going to be one of those lifetimes.
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"I'm prepared for all emergencies but totally unprepared for everyday life."
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The problem with people who have no vices is that generally you can be pretty sure they're going to have some pretty annoying virtues.
-- Elizabeth Taylor
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It's easier to get forgiveness for being wrong than forgiveness for being right.
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If God didn't mean for us to juggle, tennis balls wouldn't come three to a can.
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Q: How many journalists does it take to screw in a lightbulb? A: Three. One to report it as an inspired government program to bring light to the people, one to report it as a diabolical government plot to deprive the poor of darkness, and one to win a pulitzer prize for reporting that Electric Company hired a lightbulb assassin to break the bulb in the first place.
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Most people wouldn't know music if it came up and bit them on the ass. -- Frank Zappa
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"I'm really enjoying not talking to you ... Let's not talk again REAL soon ..."
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