"Do you know how many Frenchmen it takes to defend Paris ? It's not known, it's never been tried."

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Source : "French Jokes Gain Wide Audiences" by Sharon Kehnemui, www.foxnews.com. February 21, 2003.

Roy Blunt

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“To accept the truth of who you really are takes nothing short of realization. You have to see the diamond for yourself.”

Source : Dennis Genpo Merzel (2005). “The Path of the Human Being: Zen Teachings on the Bodhisattva Way”, p.16, Shambhala Publications
“I'm in my 60s now, and just running almost 50 meters with explosives going on, it was kind of like, "Oh, my god! What am I doing here?"”
“I see the beauty in boxing. It teaches me strength physically, but mostly mentally. I had to learn my strength, because for so long I could have been tougher than I was.”
“If we get it right, there need not be losers.”
“Give recognition where it is due. Compliments stimulate more effort and desire to improve. Be generous with honest praising.”
“The minute that you bring a unicorn into a story, you know that it's a fairy tale or a fable, because unicorns don't exist as animals. They exist as fantasy creatures.”
“Youth, hope, and love: To build a new life on a ruined life, To make the future fairer than the past, And make the past appear a troubled dream.”
“When we're incomplete, we're always searching for somebody to complete us. When, after a few years or a few months of a relationship, we find that we're still unfulfilled, we blame our partners and take up with somebody more promising. This can go on and on--series polygamy--until we admit that while a partner can add sweet dimensions to our lives, we, each of us, are responsible for our own fulfillment. Nobody else can provide it for us, and to believe otherwise is to delude ourselves dangerously and to program for eventual failure every relationship we enter.”

Source : "Still Life with Woodpecker". Book by Tom Robbins, 1980.

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