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Miami Palmetto Senior High

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"You got to be careful if you don't know where you're going, because you might not get there." -Yogi Berra        "Vote early and vote often." -Al Capone        "Ask not what your country can do for you, but what you can do for your country" -John F. Kennedy        "A house divided can not stand" - Abraham Lincoln        "I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with typewriters."  -Frank Lloyd Wright              "The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them."  -Albert Einstein         "Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens." -Jimi Hendrix          "Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal."  -Henry Ford         "Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it"  -Henry David Thoreau         "Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you walk into an open sewer and die."  -Mel Brooks         "It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity."  -Albert Einstein         "Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has not heart; and any man who is over 30, and is not a conservative, has no brains."  -Winston Churchill          "I would have made a good Pope."  -Richard Nixon         "Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names."  -John F. Kennedy         "No one can earn a million dollars honestly." -William Jennings Bryan          "I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to."  -Elvis Presley      

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