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a statement worth pondering...

All things that are,
Are with more spirit chased than enjoy'd.
How like a younker or a prodigal
The scarfed bark puts from her native bay,
Hugg'd and embraced by the strumpet wind!
How like the prodigal doth she return,
With over-weather'd ribs and ragged sails,
Lean, rent, and beggar'd by the strumpet wind!

-William Shakespeare,
The Merchant of Venice

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Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself, but talent instantly recognizes genius. - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

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Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.
- Edgar Allan Poe

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Try to learn something about everything and everything about something.
- Thomas H. Huxley

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For a true writer each book should be a new beginning where he tries again for something that is beyond attainment. He should always try for something that has never been done or that others have tried and failed. Then sometimes, with great luck, he will succeed.

-Ernest Hemingway (1899 - 1961), in his Nobel Prize acceptance speech

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"It is a paradoxical but profoundly true and important principle of life that the most likely way to reach a goal is to be aiming not at that goal itself but at some more ambitious goal beyond it."

  - Arnold Toynbee

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Stuffed deer heads on walls are bad enough, but it's worse when they are wearing dark glasses and have streamers in their antlers because then you know they were enjoying themselves at a party when they were shot.
  - Ellen DeGeneres

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If a man is offered a fact which goes against his instincts, he will scrutinize it closely, and unless the evidence is overwhelming, he will refuse to believe it. If, on the other hand, he is offered something which affords a reason for acting in accordance to his instincts, he will accept it even on the slightest evidence. The origin of myths is explained in this way.
  - Bertrand Russell

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Prediction is very difficult, especially about the future.
  - Niels Bohr

The Other Side of the Coin?!

Is it just me, or does this 'funny' line seem a bit discounting.

"What's the difference between a boyfriend and a husband? About 30 pounds."
  - Cindy Gardner

What if i were to say, "What's the difference between a girlfriend and a wife? About 30 pounds."

How many women would be on my case about my abusive humor? So, why is it that we are more accepting of this towards men. This quote appeared on "The Quotations Page" and was populated to my iGoogle home page. 

I feel so used...