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The second half of a man's life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the
first half.
Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821 - 1881) I begin by taking. I shall find scholars later to demonstrate my perfect right.
- Frederick (II) the Great If ever I get married again it would have to be under an anaesthetic.
-- Marie Tonkin Why did Nature create man? Was it to show that she is big enough to make mistakes, or was it
pure ignorance?
-- Holbrook Jackson blah "Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together." (Vincent van Gogh) Science and Technology Knowledge is the intellectual manipulation of carefully verified observations.
-- Sigmund Freud Work is the curse of the drinking class.
-- Oscar Wilde Universities incline wits to sophistry and affectation.
-- Francis Bacon Science and Technology
Dishonor will not trouble me, once I am dead.
-- Euripides I recently read that love is entirely a matter of chemistry. That must be why my wife treats me like
toxic waste.
-- David Bissonette Do you not know, my son, with what little understanding the world is ruled?
-- Pope Julius III I've just learned about his illness. Let's hope it's nothing trivial.
- Irvin S. Cobb "Ask five economists and you'll get five different answers (six if one went to Harvard)." (Edgar R. Fiedler) Science and Technology Democracy is a process by which the people are free to choose the man who will get the blame.
-- Laurence J. Peter A clever man commits no minor blunders.
- Goethe Wise men make proverbs, but fools repeat them.
- Samuel Palmer Science and Technology
"Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known." (Blaise Pascal) When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.
-- Hunter S. Thompson Love is an ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.
-- Lord Dewar Infatuation is when you think that he's as sexy as Robert Redford, as smart as Henry Kissinger,
as noble as Ralph Nader, as funny as Woody Allen, and as athletic as Jimmy Conners. Love is
when you r "... adults are just obsolete children and the hell with them." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, quoted in his obituary, Time) Science and Technology Marriage is not just a having a wife, but also worries inherited forever. Things are more like they are now than they ever were before.
-- Dwight D. Eisenhower, U.S. President The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it.
-- Anonymous Science and Technology
I am returning this otherwise good typing paper to you because someone has printed gibberish all
over it and put your name at the top.
-- English Professor, Ohio University He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.
- Sir Winston Churchill When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of many men for the inattention of one.
-- Helen Rowland When you are right, you cannot be too radical; When you are wrong, you cannot be too
conservative.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. The Democrats are the party that says government will make you smarter, taller, richer, and
remove the crabgrass on your lawn. The Republicans are the party that says government doesn't
work and the Science and Technology An ideal wife is one who remains faithful to you but tries to be just as charming as if she weren't.
-- Sacha Guitry There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.
-- Oscar Wilde "I hear, I know. I see, I remember. I do, I understand." (Confucius, 551 BC-479) Science and Technology
Experience is the worst teacher; it gives the test before presenting the lesson.
-- Vernon Law Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.
-- Dietrich Bonhoeffer If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.
-- Voltaire "A friendship that exacts oneness of opinion and conduct is not worth much." (Mohandas Gandhi, In Search of the Supreme) If addiction is judged by how long a dumb animal will sit pressing a lever to get a 'fix' of
something, to its own detriment, then I would conclude that netnews is far more addictive than
cocaine.
Science and Technology As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; and as far as they are
certain, they do not refer to reality.
-- Albert Einstein My religion consists of a humble admiration of the unlimitable superior who reveals Himself in the
slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble minds. That deeply emotional
convi For most of history, Anonymous was a woman.
-- Virginia Woolf Science and Technology
"How is it that we never have time to do a job right, but we always have time to do it over?" (Anonymous) When women go wrong, men go right after them.
-- Mae West Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech.
- Martin Fraquhar Tupper "I should reproach him for not giving us enough evidence." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970, what he would say to God if they 'met') Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
-- T.S. Eliot Science and Technology Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them
down people's throats.
-- Howard Aiken There is no course of life so weak and sottish as that which is managed by order, method, and
discipline.
-- Michel de Montaigne People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid.
- Soren Aabye Kierkegaard Science and Technology
Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of
opportunity.
-- George Bernard Shaw "Someday there will be girls and women whose name will no longer mean the mere opposite of the male, but something in itself, something that makes one think not of any compliment and limit, but only o "I heard the old, old, men say 'all that's beautiful drifts away, like the waters.'" (William Butler Yeats) Research is the act of going up alleys to see if they are blind.
-- Plutarch "Who is more foolish? The fool or the fool that follows it?" (Alec Guinness) Science and Technology As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; and as far as they are
certain, they do not refer to reality.
-- Albert Einstein What a difference there is between what we say and what we think.
-- Racine Does anal retentive have a hyphen?
-- Seen on a t-shirt Science and Technology
The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
-- B. F. Skinner "In every gathering of thirteen, expect one guest will turn out to be a Judas." (Aleister Crowley) I think that I shall never see
A billboard lovely as a tree.
Indeed, unless the billboards fall,
I'll never see a tree at all.
-- Ogden Nash, Song of the Open Road, 1945 "We have so little presumption that we should like to be known in the world, even to those who come after when we are no more. We have so little vanity that the esteem of five people, say six, amuses blah "The best students always are flunking. Every good teacher knows that." (Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance) Science and Technology The marriage of Marxism and feminism has been like the marriage of husband and wife depicted
in English common law: Marxism and feminism are one, and that one is Marxism.
-- Heidi Hartmann, The Unha "Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known." (Blaise Pascal) "May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house." (George Carlin) Science and Technology
"To make a living, craftiness is better than learnedness." (Pierre-Augustin de Beaumarchais) Hell is a half-filled auditorium.
- Robert Frost "This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) Having children makes you no more a parent than having a piano makes you a pianist.
-- Michael Levine, Lessons at the Halfway Point The IRS spends God knows how much of your tax money on these toll-free information hot lines
staffed by IRS employees, whose idea of a dynamite tax tip is that you should print neatly. If you
ask th Science and Technology For the majority of People, smoking has a beneficial effect.
-- Dr. Ian G. Macdonald, Los Angeles surgeon, quoted in Newsweek , Nov.18th 1963. "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) Marriage is an institution in which a man loses his Bachelor's Degree and the woman gets her Masters. Science and Technology
"Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country." (Marquis de Lafayette) "Even death is unreliable. Instead of zero it may be some ghastly hallucination, such as the square root of minus one." (Samuel Beckett) Reading computer manuals without the hardware is a frustrating as reading sex manuals without
the software.
-- Arthur C. Clarke Familiarity breeds contempt -- and children.
-- Mark Twain May the road rise to meet you. May the wind always be at your back. May the sun shine warm
upon your face, the rains fall soft upon your fields and, until we meet again, may God hold you in
the palm Science and Technology When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives mean the most to us, we often find
that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our
pain "I love to doubt as well as know." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is
the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be
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In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: It goes on.
-- Robert Frost I'm proud to be paying taxes in the United States. The only thing is - I could be just as proud for
half the money.
-- Arthur Godfrey Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do.
-- Dr. Benjamin Spock, American pediatrician, address to new parents If I have not seen as far as others, it is because giants were standing on my shoulders.
-- Hal Abelson The cynics are right nine times out of ten.
- Henry Louis Mencken Science and Technology The best time to hold your tongue is the time you feel you must say something or bust.
-- Josh Billings Do not assume that she who seeks to comfort you now, lives untroubled among the simple and
quiet words that sometimes do you good. Her life may also have much sadness and difficulty, that
remains fa "A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) Science and Technology
