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The perception of the higher order annoyance may be biological or cultural,
as not all musical instruments are made the same.


- a diyaudio forum member

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My only advantage as a reporter is that i am so physically small,
so temperamentally unobtrusive,
and so neurotically inarticulate that people tend to forget that my presence runs counter to their
best interest

- joan didion




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i should be frustrated but i can't seem to stop thinking about beautiful things .

- john mayer

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''Closest thing to dying that I know of,''
Ali said afterward.

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"Everyone was telling me to go to the hospital,
but I had waited so long for my driving test I was determined to do it...
I didn't dare tell the examiner in case he made me cancel the test."


"And one good thing about being in labour that day,
it really killed my pre-test nerves."

- Emma French

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Integrity is for us, as well.

"The greatest want of the world is the want of men —

men who will not be bought or sold,

men who in their inmost souls are true and honest,

men who do not fear to call sin by its right name,

men whose conscience is true to duty as the needle to the pole,

men who will stand for the right though the heavens fall.




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"I said something on TV about a movie star.
He's a movie star without a career but ...
I sort of made fun of some movies he made a long time ago.
I get a call from my husband: "What did you do?"
He said, "You should write an apology!"
I said, "Why?
Is he gonna be in a movie of yours anytime soon?
I don't think so."
He's like, "Well, when I run into his agent ..."

- Georgianne Levangie


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I love it when my husband gets in the car
and sez,
'This car smells like dogs'.
The hell you say.
Mine has the added aroma of wet swimsuits/towels and maybe wetsuits if it's summer.
Plus the bag of hot dog treats that somehow gets under the seat that I forget about until the smell.
Then there was that bag of poop I forgot about.


- Elayne - blogspot






The door is also my husband's favorite place to keep the keys.

March 21, 2008 9:19 AM

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"Back when Kim Jong-il was young,
I used to use hairspray,
but after he got old and started to lose hair,
I didn't have to do anything.''

- Kim Young-Shik





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"The Americans keep telling us how successful their system is.
Then they remind us not to stray too far from our hotel at night."


- An un-named EU trade representative
quoted during international trade talks in Denver, Colorado, 1997.

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It wasn't called an urban crisis then;
it was just two groups of people
trying to kill each other.
Finally the cops would come on horses
and in their clanging paddy wagons and break it up.
They were all Irish and they hated both sides,
so they'd crack Polish and Jewish heads equally.

The melting pot in action.

You don't have that hostility in Chicago anymore;
now Italians, Poles, Jews and Irish
have all joined up
and buried the hatchet -
in the blacks.
But in those days, every ethnic group
was at each other's throat.

-Saul Alinsky

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Anyway, when I were a lad, we used to 'ave to make capacitors from cardboard boxes,
and gravel we'd scraped from't road wi' tongue...

- RichardH