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Avoid making irrevocable decisions when tired or hungry.


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PAMELA DEAN TANSTAAFL: There ain't no such thing as a free lunch.
PIERRE DOS UTT Impelled by a state of mind which is destined not to last, we make our irrevocable decisions.
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EDDIE CARTER It is only our bad temper that we put down to being tired or worried or hungry; we put our good te...
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C.S. LEWIS Women should be obscene and not heard.
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COLM TóIBíN I enjoy making the decisions.
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JOE THORNTON I am tired yet cannot sleep I am hungry but cant eat I am dreaming whilst still awake I am nothing w...
FEMALE IMAGINATION We are tired out in making complaints and getting no redress.
JOSEPH BRANT Making good decisions is a crucial skill at every level.
PETER DRUCKER Ignorance of your values prevents us from making correct decisions
SUNDAY ADELAJA We're really playing error-free ball. We're making good decisions.
FRED TRENKLE Love is when he is hungry and you feed him. Love is knowing when he is hungry.
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IVAN GONCHAROV It is a trick among the dishonest to offer sacrifices that are not needed, or not possible, to avo...
IVAN GONCHAROV It is a trick among the dishonest to offer sacrifices that are not needed, or not possible, to avoid...
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and how big nothingness.
The sky, tired of light,
has given ev...
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ROBERT A. HEINLEIN Anyone who considers protocol unimportant has never dealt with a cat.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN I was there to see beautiful naked women. So was everybody else. It's a common failing.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN The trouble with conspiracies is that they rot internally.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN Theology is never any help; it is searching in a dark cellar at midnight for a black cat that isn...
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN Butterflies are not insects,' Captain John Sterling said soberly. 'They are self-propelled flowers.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN Butterflies are self propelled flowers.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN The Universe was a damned silly place at best . . . but the least likely explanation for its existen...
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own... Jealousy...
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN An armed society is a polite society. Manners are good when one may have to back up his acts with hi...
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN One could write a history of science in reverse by assembling the solemn pronouncements of highest a...
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN Political tags - such as royalist, communist, democrat, populist, fascist, liberal, conservative, an...
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN Goodness without wisdom always accomplishes evil.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN The most preposterous notion that Homo sapiens has ever dreamed up is that the Lord God of Creation,...
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN For me, politeness is a sine qua non of civilization.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN It is a truism that almost any sect, cult, or religion will legislate its creed into law if it acqui...
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN The supreme irony of life is that hardly anyone gets out of it alive.
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