40th Anniversary Quotes

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  Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.

  Marcel Proust

  Friendship, Happiness, Happy

  Marcel Proust (1957). “Pleasures and days: and other writings”

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  Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Love, Life, Positive

  Robert A. Heinlein (1987). “Stranger in a Strange Land”, p.340, Penguin

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• The secret to having a good marriage is to understand that marriage must
  be total, it must be permanent, and it must be equal.

  Frank Pittman

  Anniversary, Marriage, Wedding

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• May every memory that you share
  Of dreams you've seen come true,
  Help make this special anniversary day
  A happy one, for the two of you

  John Walter Bratton

  Anniversary, Dream, Memories

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• Let us be grateful to people who make us happy.

  Marcel Proust

  Thank You, Thankful, Appreciation

  Marcel Proust (1957). “Pleasures and days: and other writings”

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  There is no more lovely, friendly and charming relationship, communion or company than a good marriage.

  Martin Luther

  Love, Friendship, Relationship

  "Table Talk" by Martin Luther, (p. 292), 1569.

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• The secret of a happy marriage remains a secret.

  Henny Youngman

  Love, Anniversary, Marriage

  Forbes Magazine, Volume 166 (p. 156), 2000.

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• Love is eternal, the aspect may change, but not the essence. 


  Vincent Van Gogh

  Love, Sympathy, Wedding Anniversary

  Vincent van Gogh (1958). “Complete letters: with reproductions of all the drawings in the correspondence”

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• Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.

  Laozi

  Love, Inspirational, Life

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• Two minds with but a single thought, two hearts that beat as one.

  Jasper Fforde

  Love, Romantic, Anniversary

  Jasper Fforde (2007). “Thursday Next: First Among Sequels: A Thursday Next Novel”, p.36, Penguin

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• You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.

  Dr. Seuss

  Love, Life, Relationship

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• If I had a flower for every time I thought of you...I could walk through my garden forever.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Love, Friendship, Romantic

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• To commemorate the 40th anniversary of the moon landing, the three astronauts from Apollo 11 visited the White House. Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin were allowed to set foot inside the White House, while Michael Collins was forced to drive around in circles outside.

  Conan O'Brien

  Moon, Circles, White

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• Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

  Aristotle

  Love, Life, Positive

  Attributed to Aristotle in Diogenes Laertius "The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers" translated by C. D. Yonge and Henry G. Bohn (p. 188), 1853.

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• Let us celebrate the occasion with wine and sweet words.

  Plautus

  Happy Birthday, Anniversary, Wedding

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• Disneyland celebrated its 40th anniversary by burying a time capsule. They say it will be dug up in 50 years - or when the last person in line at Space Mountain gets to the front, whichever comes first.

  Jay Leno

  Space, Years, Mountain

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• You know you're in love when you stop comparing.

  Mason Cooley

  Love, Romantic, Wedding

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• First Lady Michelle Obama appears on 'Sesame Street' to celebrate the show's 40th anniversary. It's going to be a big episode. Yes, sources say the episode gets a little tense when Ernie and Bert ask the first lady why her husband's dragging his feet on gay marriage.

  Conan O'Brien

  Husband, Gay, Feet

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• There were over 40,000 pages of FBI documents of which only about half are currently available to scholars and researchers. I think that this 40th anniversary of the assassination is a good opportunity for us to say that now is the time to declassify all FBI material on Malcolm X. There really is a need for us to challenge the US government for its refusal to open up its own archives 40 years after the death of Malcolm.

  Manning Marable

  Opportunity, Thinking, Government

  Source: historynewsnetwork.org

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• 'Summer of Love: Art of the Psychedelic Era,' the Whitney Museum's 40th-anniversary trip down counterculture memory lane, provides moments of buzzy fun, but it'll leave you only comfortably numb. For starters, it may be the whitest, straightest, most conservative show seen in a New York museum since psychedelia was new.

  Jerry Saltz

  Summer, Art, New York

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• The chances of a reunion now are less likely. I was thinking of having a 40th anniversary of the band, but now they are really another band, so it's all a bit weird.

  Alvin Lee

  Anniversary, Thinking, Band

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