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"Many people do not realize that the snowshoe can be used for a great many things besides walking on snow. For instance, it can be used to carry pancakes from the stove to the breakfast table. Also, it can be used to carry uneaten pancakes from the table to the garbage. Finally, it can be used as a kind of stainer, where you force pancakes through the strings to see if a piece of gold got in a pancake somehow." »Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
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"Marriage is not just spiritual communion, it is also remembering to take out the trash." »Dr. Joyce Brothers
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"There is a healthful hardiness about real dignity that never dreads contact and communion with others, however humble." »Washington Irving
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"There is no more lovely, friendly, and charming relationship, communion, or company than a good marriage." »David Ben-Gurion
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"Words were never invented to fully explain the peaceful aura that surrounds us when we are in communion with minds of the same thoughts." »Eddie Myers
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"Ideas are refined and multiplied in the commerce of minds. In their splendor, images effect a very simple communion of souls." »Gaston Bachelard
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"The billiard table is better than the doctor." »Mark Twain
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"Do not speak of repulsive matters at table." »Amy Vanderbilt
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"Who depends on another man's table often dines late." »Italian Proverb
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"Spread the table and contention will cease." »English Proverb
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"Remember how in that communion only, beholding beauty with the eye of the mind, he will be enabled to bring forth, not images of beauty, but realities (for he has hold not of an image but of a reality), and bringing forth and nourishing true virtue to become the friend of God and be immortal, if mortal man may.N.B. Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. See also Napoleon Bonaparte." »Plato
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"She was a woman who, between courses, could be graceful with her elbows on the table." »Henry James
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"I have a dream that one day ... the sons of former slave owners will be able to sit down together at the table of brotherhood." »Martin Luther King, Jr.
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"All great change in America begins at the dinner table." »Ronald Reagan
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"Evil is unspectacular and always human, and shores our bed and eats at our own table." »Herman Melville, Moby Dick
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"It is not enough to offer a smorgasbord of courses. We must insure that students are not just eating at one end of the table." »A Bartlett Giamatti
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"People who insist on telling their dreams are among the terrors of the breakfast table." »Max Beerbohm
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"Sit not down to the table before thy stomach is empty, and rise before thou hast filled it." »Arabic Proverb
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"Why you may take the most gallant sailor, the most intrepid airman, and th most audacious soldier, put them at a table together-and what do you get? The sum of their fears." »Winston Churchill
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"Why, you may take the most gallant sailor, the most intrepid airman or the most audacious soldier, put them at a table together- what do you get? The sum of all fears." »Winston Churchill, The Sum of All Fears by Tom Clancy
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"True luck consists not in holding the best of the cards at the table luckiest is he who knows just when to rise and go home." »John Hay
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"True luck consists not in holding the best of the cards at the table; luckiest is he who knows just when to rise and go home." »John Hay, Distichs, latter 19th century
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"A lawyer is never entirely comfortable with a friendly divorce, anymore than a good mortician wants to finish his job and then have the patient sit up on the table." »Jean Kerr
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"Opinions alter, manners change, creeds rise and fall, but the moral laws are written on the table of eternity." »Lord Acton
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"There is no leveler like Christianity, but it levels by lifting all who receive it to the lofty table-land of a true character and of undying hope both for this world and the next." »Johathan Edwards
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"There are three whose life is no life: he who lives at another?s table; he whose wife domineers over him; and he who suffers bodily affliction." »The Talmud
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"There's no pressure in baseball. Pressure is when the doctor is getting ready to cut you, take your heart out, and put it on a table." »Charlie Manuel
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"Damn it, Pierre, what do you want me to do We'll go sit with empty chairs to get those guys back to the table. (To Pierre Trudeau, prime minister of Canada)" »Ronald Reagan
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"Home is the wallpaper above the bed, the family dinner table, the church bells in the morning, the bruised shins of the playground, the small fears that come with dusk, the streets and squares and monuments and shops that constitute one's first universe." »Henry Anatole Grunwald
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"Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth. I sat at a table where were rich food and wine in abundance, and obsequious attendance, but sincerity and truth were not; and I went away hungry from the inhospitable board." »Henry David Thoreau, "Walden," the Conclusion
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