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"I'm so insane, I voted for Eisenhower."
"Oh yeah, well I'm so insane, I voted for Eisenhower TWICE!"
-- Ken Kesey from "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" This search for what you want is like tracking something that doesn't want to be tracked. It takes
time to get a dance right, to create something memorable.
-- Fred Astaire He would make a lovely corpse.
- Charles Dickens "What is tolerance? -- it is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error; let us pardon reciprocally each other's folly -- that is the first law of nature." (Francois Marie Ar How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create
it herself.
- Anais Nin Education The brain is a wonderful organ. It starts working the moment you get up in the morning, and does
not stop until you get into the office.
-- Robert Frost "To err is human; to forgive, divine." (Alexander Pope) A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence
University education.
-- George Bernard Shaw Education
If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one.
-- Mother Teresa Politics doesn't make strange bedfellows, marriage does.
-- Groucho Marx I think, therefore I'm single.
-- Female philosopher The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains.The superior teacher demonstrates. The
great teacher inspires.
-- William Arthur Ward blah bl "The better the state is established, the fainter is humanity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Education If it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do not say it.
-- Marcus Aurelius America is the only nation in history which miraculously has gone directly from barbarism to
degeneration without the usual intervention of civilization.
-- George Clemenceau Lawyers are... operators of the toll bridge which anyone in search of justice must pass.
-- Jane Bryant Quinn Education
Imagine if every Thursday your shoes exploded if you tied them the usual way. This happens to
us all the time with computers, and nobody thinks of complaining.
-- Jeff Raskin Be willing to make decisions. That's the most important quality in a good leader. Don't fall victim
to what I call the 'ready-aim-aim-aim-aim syndrome.' You must be willing to fire.
-- Gen. George Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get
money from it.
-- Stephen Leacock Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.
-- Dietrich Bonhoeffer "Friends can help each other. A true friend is someone who lets you have total freedom to be yourself--and especially to feel. Or, not feel. Whatever you happen to be feeling at the moment is fine wit Education Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
-- Will Rogers Beware you be not swallowed up in books! An ounce of love is worth a pound of knowledge.
-- John Wesley "No drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ignorance, g Education
Oregon Democratic Senate candidate Tom Bruggere, in describing his support for
comprehensive health care during a candidates' forum, said he supported "erection-to-
resurrection" coverage. He later a I have an existential map; it has 'you are here' written all over it.
- Steven Wright It is with true love as it is with ghosts; everyone talks about it, but few have seen it.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about.
-- Oscar Wilde In view of all the deadly computer viruses that have been spreading lately, Weekend Update
would like to remind you: when you link up to another computer, you're linking up to every
computer that th Education "Against stupidity the very gods themselves contend in vain." (Johann Christian Friedrich von Schiller, 1759-1805, The Maid of Orleans. Act iii. Sc. 6.) "Teacher played hooky. Sent message: 'Receiving instruction. Enjoying myself thoroughly. See you next week.'" (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) Education is not filling a bucket, but lighting a fire.
-- William Yeats Education
Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried.
-- G. K. Chesterton "Life is measured by the rapidity of change, the succession of influences that modify the being." (George Eliot) We didn't lose the game; we just ran out of time.
- Vince Lombardi I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day.
-- Vincent Van Gogh A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents.
-- H. L. Mencken Education "... 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) The tragedy of life is not that man loses, but that he almost wins.
-- Heywood Brown Despite the high cost of living it remains a popular item.
-- Anonymous Education
Love is like the measles. The older you get it, the worse the attack.
-- Mary Roberts Rhinehart Nothing says lovin' like marrying your cousin!
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Compromise: An amiable arrangement between husband and wife whereby they agree to let her
have her own way.
-- Anonymous Most turkeys taste better the day after; my mother's tasted better the day before.
-- Rita Rudner "People demand freedom only when they have no power." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Education "I was lousy in school. Real screwed-up. A moron. I was antisocial and didn't bother with the other kids. A really bad student. I didn't have any brains. I didn't know what I was doing there. That's w Each of us has a spark of life inside us, and our highest endeavor ought to be to set off that spark
in one another.
-- Kenny Ausubel Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you.
-- John-Paul Sartre Education
I prefer the wicked rather than the foolish. The wicked sometimes rest.
-- Alexandre Dumas pere "The reward of a thing well done is having done it." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) "Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." (George Bernard Shaw) Tauzin backs term limits -- But he thinks it's a bad idea.
-- Headline, story in the New Orleans Times-Picayune, Feb 20, 1995 There is a coherent plan in the universe, though I don't know what it's a plan for.
-- Fred Hoyle Education Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
-- Albert Einstein Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to
take away.
- Antoine de Saint Exupery Where there is an unknowable there is a promise.
-- Thornton Wilder Education
No one finds life worth living; he must make it worth living.
-- Anon. Experience is not what happens to you; it's what you do with what happens to you.
-- Aldous Huxley For most of history, Anonymous was a woman.
-- Virginia Woolf Love is a perky elf dancing a merry little jig and then suddenly he turns on you with a miniature
machine gun.
-- Matt Groening, Love is Hell "Those who feel certainty are stupid and those with any imagination or understanding are filled with doubt and indecision." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Education Insurance is like marriage. You pay, pay, pay, and you never get anything back.
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Govern a family as you would cook a small fish - very gently.
-- Chinese Proverb Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of
the time.
-- E. B. White Education
"I'll tell you something: Luxury disgusts me." (Giorgio Armani) "Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom." (Raymonde Uy) A person should never be ashamed to own that he is wrong, which is but saying in other words
that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.
-- Alexander Pope Why is it that our memory is good enough to retain the least triviality that happens to us, and yet
not good enough to recollect how often we have told it to the same person?
-- François de La Rouch Our own heart, and not other men's opinions form our true honor.
-- Coleridge, Samuel Taylor Education "Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them." (Samuel Butler) Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
-- Oscar Wilde Never regard study as a duty, but as the enviable opportunity to learn to know the liberating
influence of beauty in the realm of the spirit for your own personal joy and to the profit of the
commun Education
It's important to be open-minded, but not SO open-minded that your brains fall out.
-- Rick Radebaugh I couldn't remember when I had been so disappointed. Except perhaps the time I found out that
M&Ms really do melt in your hand...
-- Peter Oakley Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it.
-- George Bernard Shaw "I run to see who has the most guts." (Steve Roland Prefontaine) Truth can be a dangerous thing. It is quite patient and relentless.
-- R. Scott Richards Education Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it.
-- George Bernard Shaw Two souls with but a single thought,
Two hearts that beat as one.
-- Fredrich Halm The story of a love is not important - what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps
the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.
-- Helen Hayes Education
"Friends are those people who know the words to the song in your heart and sing them back to you when you have forgotten the words." (Anonymous) "Kill a man, and you are a murderer. Kill millions of men, and you are a conquerer. Kill everyone, and you are a god." (Jean Rostand) Once all struggle is grasped, miracles are possible.
-- Mao Tse-tung "The reason why kids are crazy is because nobody can face the responsibility of bringing them up." (John Lennon) Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth. -- John Lyly Education There are only two things a child will share willingly communicable diseases and his mother's
age.
-- Modern Maturity A man has to live with himself, and he should see to it that he always has good company.
-- Charles Evans Hughes The wise see knowledge and action as one; they see truly.
-- Bhagava Gita Education
