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All science is concerned with the relationship of cause and effect. Each scientific discovery
increases man's ability to predict the consequences of his actions and thus his ability to control
futur All virtue is summed up in dealing justly.
-- Aristotle An undefined problem has an infinite number of solutions.
-- Robert A. Humphrey I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity.
-- Albert Einstein Marriage is the one subject on which all women agree and all men disagree.
-- Oscar Wilde Government "Gifts must affect the receiver to the point of shock." (Walter Benjamin) Nobody ever died of laughter.
-- Max Beerbohm Many a man that could rule a hundherd millyon sthrangers with an ir'n hand is careful to take off
his shoes in the front hallway whin he comes home late at night.
-- Finley Peter Dunne, Mr. Dooley O Government
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 Marriage resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated; often moving in
opposite directions, yet always punishing any one who comes between them.
-- Sydney Smith An act of love that fails is just as much a part of the divine life as an act of love that succeeds, for
love is measured by fullness, not by reception.
-- Harold Loukes Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
-- Oscar Wilde Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can
never tell.
-- Joan Crawford Government I don't know why I did it, I don't know why I enjoyed it, and I don't know why I'll do it again.
-- Bart Simpson, young character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated television show My Alma mater was books, a good library . . . . I could spend the rest of my life reading, just
satisfying my curiosity.
--Malcolm X "A critic is a man who knows the way but can't drive the car." (Kenneth Tynan) Government
Obstacles cannot crush me. Every obstacle yields to stern resolve. He who is fixed to a star does
not change his mind.
-- Leonardo da Vinci, Notebooks Life is ours to be spent, not to be saved.
-- D.H. Lawrence Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
-- Albert Einstein Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish.
-- Albert Einstein Guide to understanding a net.addict's day:
Slow day: didn't have much to do, so spent three hours on usenet.
Busy day: managed to work in three hours of usenet.
Bad day: barely squeezed in three ho Government Watching the debate this afternoon it was apparent they loved term limits in the House -- as
Brutus loved Caesar.
-- Bill Moyers 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 "By seeing the seed of failure in every success, we remain humble. By seeing the seed of success in every failure we remain hopeful." (Mel Ziegler, founder of Banana Republic) Government
"Frank and explicit; that is the right line to take when you wish to conceal your own mind and to confuse the minds of others." (Benjamin Disraeli, Sybil) People say "I want peace." If you remove I {ego}, and your want {desire}, you are left with peace.
-- Satya Sai Baba Every flower must grow through dirt.
-- Anonymous I loathe people who keep dogs. They are cowards who haven't got the guts to bite people
themselves.
-- August Strindberg The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.
-- George Bernard Shaw Government Tear open packet, unfold and use.
-- Directions on moist towelette package "Now that we have everything we need, we discover that there is almost nothing that we have that we want." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other
is ready.
-- Henry David Thoreau Government
"I met someone on the street who said wasn't it great that we're going to have a movie star for president, that it was so Pop, and (laughs) when you think about it like that, it is great, it's so Amer Marriage is a mutual relationship if both parties know when to be mute. No, that is the great fallacy; the wisdom of old men. They do not grow wise. They grow careful." (Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell To Arms) My wife ran off with my best friend last week. I miss him! Books, like friends, should be few and well chosen.
-- Samuel Paterson Government The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism
is the equal sharing of miseries.
-- Winston Churchill Be nice to people on your way up because you meet them on your way down.
- Jimmy Durante Where there is an unknowable there is a promise.
-- Thornton Wilder Government
Give her two red roses, each with a note. The first note says "For the woman I love" and the
second, "For my best friend."
-- Anonymous Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering. Is there life before death?
-- Belfast Graffito "College professors are the people who can't hack it in the real world." (William Thomas) I will try to follow the advice that a university president once gave a prospective commencement
speaker. "Think of yourself as the body at an Irish wake" he said. "They need you in order to have
th Government Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame.
-- G. K. Chesterton Mistakes are the portals of discovery.
-- James Joyce I believe that mink are raised for being turned into fur coats and if we didn't wear fur coats those
little animals would never have been born. So is it better not to have been born or to have lived Government
The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism
is the equal sharing of miseries.
-- Winston Churchill How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg? Four. Calling a tail a leg doesn't make it
a leg.
-- Abraham Lincoln Conceit causes more conversation than wit.
-- LaRouchefoucauld The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman. -- S. T. Coleridge I require three things in a man: He must be handsome, ruthless, and stupid.
-- Dorothy Parker Government 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 Whenever I dwell for any length of time on my own shortcomings, they gradually begin to seem
mild harmless, rather engaging little things, not at all like the staring defects in other people's
chara Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
- Henry Ford Government
Correction: Instead of being arrested, as we stated, for kicking his wife down a flight of stairs and hurling a lighted kerosene lamp after her, the Rev. James P. Wellman died unmarried four years ago Die? I should say not, dear fellow. No Barrymore would allow such a conventional thing to
happen to him.
-- John Barrymore - last words Jake liked his women the way he liked his kiwi fruit: sweet yet tart, firm-fleshed yet yielding to the
touch, and covered with short brown fuzzy hair.
-- Jonathan S. Haas "I hear, I know. I see, I remember. I do, I understand." (Confucius, 551 BC-479) A man sits with a pretty girl for an hour, it seems like a minute. He sits on a hot stove for a
minute, it's longer than any hour. That is relativity.
-- Albert Einstein Government "Some look at things that are, and ask why. I dream of things that never were and ask why not?" (George Bernard Shaw) Give the people not hell, but hope and courage.
-- John Murray The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
- General George Patton Government
It makes no difference who you vote for - the two parties are really one party representing four
percent of the people.
-- Gore Vidal There is only one nature - the division into science and engineering is a human imposition, not a
natural one. Indeed, the division is a human failure; it reflects our limited capacity to comprehend Parents often talk about the younger generations as if they didn't have anything to do with it. "A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward." (Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1882 - 1945, 32nd U.S. President) The absolute yearning of one human body for another particular body and its indifference to
substitutes is one of life's major mysteries.
-- Iris Murdoch Government They gave me a book of checks. They didn't ask for any deposits.
-- Joe Early, Congressman (D-Mass), at a press conference to answer questions about the
House Bank scandal Wedding is destiny, and hanging likewise.
-- John Heywood "Everywhere one seeks to produce meaning, to make the world signify, to render it visible. We are not, however, in danger of lacking meaning; quite the contrary, we are gorged with meaning and it is k Government
In the end, everything is a gag.
- Charlie Chaplin 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.
- Sir Winston Churchill "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 ... it is certain that the real function of art is to increase our self-consciousness; to make us more
aware of what we are, and therefore of what the universe in which we live really is. And since
If it weren't for marriage, men and women would have to fight with total strangers.
-- Anonymous Government The church is the great lost and found department.
-- Robert Short No man in the world has more courage than the man who can stop after eating one peanut.
-- Channing Pollack The artist alone sees spirits. But after he has told of their appearing to him, everybody sees them.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Government
He can compress the most words into the smallest idea of any man I know.
- Abraham Lincoln Try praising your wife, even if it does frighten her at first.
-- Billy Sunday History repeats itself; that's one of the things that's wrong with history.
-- Clarence Darrow A beauty is a woman you notice; A charmer is one who notices you.
-- Adlai Stevenson Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount.
-- Clare Boothe Luce Government The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds the most discoveries, is not
"Eureka!", but "That's funny..."
-- Isaac Asimov Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world.
-- George Bernard Shaw In times of profound change, the learners inherit the earth, while the learned find themselves
beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists.
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