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You are educated when you have the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your
temper or self-confidence.
-- Robert Frost The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds the most discoveries, is not
"Eureka!", but "That's funny..."
-- Isaac Asimov Hell is paved with good samaritans.
-- William M. Holden I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones.
-- John Cage Imagine if birds were tickled by feathers. You'd see a flock of birds come by, laughing hysterically!
-- Steven Wright Radio Every calling is great when greatly pursued.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes Sir, I would rather be right than be President.
-- Henry Clay, Speech, 1850, referring to the Compromise Measure Saying that men talk about baseball in order to avoid talking about their feelings is the same as
saying that women talk about their feelings in order to avoid talking about baseball.
-- Deborah Tan Radio
A teacher is one who makes himself progressively unnecessary.
-- Thomas Carruthers And in the end the love you take is equal to the love you make.
-- The Beatles, The last lyric of their last song A weed is no more than a flower in disguise.
-- James Lowell We don't like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out.
-- Decca Recording Company, rejecting the Beatles, 1962 "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world, indeed it is the only thing that ever has." (Margaret Mead, 1901-78) Radio Under capitalism man exploits man; under socialism the reverse is true.
-- Polish proverb "Your children are not your children. They are sons and daughters of life's longing for itself. They come through you but not from you. And though they are with you, they belong not to you. You may gi Of course, it is very important to be sober when you take an exam. Many worthwile careers in the
street-cleansing, fruit-picking and subway-guitar-playing industries have been founded on a lack
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And in the end it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
-- Abraham Lincoln Question: Ted Kennedy: "Where was George?"
Answer: Dry, sober, and at home with his wife When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her. -- Guitry "Fear is the dark room where the Devil develops his negatives." (Gary Busey) "Everyone is a bore to someone. That is unimportant. The thing to avoid is being a bore to oneself." (Gerald Brenan) Radio "If you light a man a fire, he will be warm for a day; if you light a man on fire, he will be warm for the rest of his life." (Anonymous) There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as
though everything is a miracle.
- Albert Einstein There are trivial truths, and there are great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false.
The opposite of a great truth is also true.
-- Neils Bohr Radio
"Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains." (Karl Marx) The two most common elements in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity. But not in that order.
-- Brian Pickrell "Furious activity is no substitute for understanding." (H. H. Williams) "If you assume that there's no hope, you guarantee that there will be no hope. If you assume that there is an instinct for freedom, there are opportunities to change things, there's a chance for you t Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are conservatives.
-- John Stuart Mill Radio You can complain because roses have thorns, or you can rejoice because thorns have roses.
-- Ziggy, character in comic strip by Tom Wilson There are some experiences in life which should not be demanded twice from any man, and one
of them is listening to the Brahms Requiem.
-- George Bernard Shaw In a novel, the hero can lay ten girls and marry a virgin for the finish. In a movie, that is not
allowed. The villain can lay anybody he wants, have as much fun and as he wants cheating,
stealing, Radio
We never live; we are always in the expectation of living.
-- Voltaire "Great spirits have always faced voilent protest from mediocre minds." (Albert Einstein) "Talent does what it can; genius does what it must." (Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton) This compact disc is made from analog masters recorded without noise reduction. Half the tracks,
in fact, were recorded in a dismal, cheap basement eight-track studio with puddles of water on
the fl "How wondrous familiar is a fool!" (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) Radio The more I know about people, the better I like my dog.
-- Mark Twain "I don't think it's the nature of any man to be monogamous. Men are propelled by genetically ordained impulses over which they have no control to distribute their seed." (Marlon Brando) Every major horror of history was committed in the name of an altruistic motive.
-- Ayn Rand Radio
You will marry into an Indian tribe and become one big Hopi family. "Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent." (Napoleon Bonaparte) There is no course of life so weak and sottish as that which is managed by order, method, and
discipline.
-- Michel de Montaigne Marriage is a rest period between romances. When in doubt, make a fool of yourself. There is a microscopically thin line between being
brilliantly creative and acting like the most gigantic idiot on earth. So what the hell, leap.
-- Cynthia H Radio "If you want a thing done well, do it yourself." (Napoleon Bonaparte) "I have learned that to be with those I like is enough." (Walt Whitman) No other success can compensate for failure in the home.
-- David O. McKay, Encyclopedia of Mormonism, Advice to parents at General Conference of he
LDS Church, April, 1964 Radio
Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to
take away.
- Antoine de Saint Exupery Once a boy becomes a man, he's a man all his life, but a woman is only sexy until she becomes
your wife.
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Reason can answer questions, but imagination has to ask them.
-- Ralph N. Gerard >From the moment I picked your book up until I laid it down I was convulsed with laughter. Some
day I intend reading it.
-- Groucho Marx If a man is considered guilty for what goes on in his mind, give me the electric chair for all my
future crimes.
-- Prince Radio There is no realizable power that man cannot, in time, fashion the tools to attain, nor any power so secure that the naked ape will not abuse it. So it is written in the genetic cards - only physics a Whoever called it necking was a poor judge of anatomy.
-- Groucho Marx "I am convinced that it is not the fear of death, of our lives ending that haunts our sleep so much as the fear ... that as far as the world is concerned, we might as well never have lived." (Rabbi H Radio
Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which is never advisable. -- Oscar Wilde Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for
him.
-- Rich Little "In my opinion, the greatest single failure of American education is that students come away unable to distinguish between a symbol and the thing the symbol stands for." (Paul Lutus) Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.
-- Francis Bacon When a person can no longer laugh at himself, it is time for others to laugh at him.
-- Thomas Szasz, The Second Sin, 1973 Radio "Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." (George Bernard Shaw) Love makes the time pass. Time makes love pass.
-- French Proverb I have read your book and much like it.
-- Moses Hadas, book reviewer Radio
Ambition is not a vice of little people.
-- Michel de Montaigne Curiosity will conquer fear even more than bravery will.
-- James Stephens I shall return.
-- General Douglas MacArthur In a cat's eyes, all things belong to cats.
-- English Proverb "The White Rabbit put on his spectacles. 'Where shall I begin, please your Majesty?' he asked. 'Begin at the beginning,' the King said gravely, 'and go on till you come to the end: then stop.'" (Lewi Radio When a man takes an oath, Meg, he's holding his ownself in his own hands. Like water. And if he
opens his fingers then- he needn't hope to find himself again.
-- Robert Bolt from A Man For All Seas "Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom." (Raymonde Uy) Love me or hate me, but spare me your indifference.
-- Libbie Fudim Radio
Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana.
-- Groucho Marx The better part of one's life consists of his friendships.
-- Abraham Lincoln I have been attacked by Rush Limbaugh on the air, an experience somewhat akin to being
gummed by a newt. It doesn't actually hurt, but it leaves you with slimy stuff on your ankle.
-- Molly Ivins Since Eve ate the apple, much depends on dinner.
-- Lord Byron "The overman ... Who has organized the chaos of his passions, given style to his character, and become creative. Aware of life's terrors, he affirms life without resentment." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietz Radio "Be not afraid of greatness. Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon 'em." (William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night, II:5) You have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth
without producing it.
-- George Bernard Shaw Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get
money from it.
-- Stephen Leacock Radio
The bottom line is that (a) people are never perfect, but love can be, (b) that is the one and only
way that the mediocre and vile can be transformed, and (c) doing that makes it that. We waste
time "There is only one success: to be able to spend your life in your own way, and not to give others absurd maddening claims upon it." (Christopher Darlington Morley) Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche "Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishments." (Anonymous) If you can't convince them, confuse them.
-- Harry S. Truman Radio If you are afraid of loneliness, do not marry. -- Chekhov There are some things which cannot be learned quickly, and time, which is all we have, must be
paid heavily for their acquiring. They are the very simplest things and, because it takes a man's
life "I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is." (Alan Watts) Radio
