blah "Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure." (Thomas Alva Edison) blah bl "The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning, but without understanding." (Louis Brandeis) Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go.
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-- Anonymous Society and Culture
If you can count your money, you don't have a billion dollars.
- J. Paul Getty No one can earn a million dollars honestly.
- William Jennings Bryan What is the answer? In that case, what is the question?
-- Gertrude Stein, dying words What is the answer? In that case, what is the question?
-- Gertrude Stein, dying words Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive.
-- Anaïs Nin Society and Culture If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get
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-- Katharine Hepburn Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteeen.
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he finds her.
-- Benjamin Tillett 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 Before I married, I had three theories about raising children and no children. Now, I have three
children and no theories.
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- Oscar Wilde Not only is the universe stranger than we imagine, it is stranger than we can imagine.
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terribly important.
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Trust everybody, but cut the cards.
-- Finley Peter Dunne A theory is something nobody believes, except the person who made it. An experiment is
something everybody believes, except the person who made it.
-- Albert Einstein, attributed Until the day of his death, no man can be sure of his courage.
-- Jean Anouilh If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself, tell yourself that you are not a poet
enough to call forth its riches; for to the creator there is no poverty and no poor indifferent p Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.
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To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest.
-- Ghandi The highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to make money do more for the
betterment of life.
-- Henry Ford Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
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-- Thomas Dewar Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day.
-- Thornton Wilder Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way
around the laws.
- Plato Society and Culture
Statistics are like a bikini. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.
-- Aaron Levenstein "We're all proud of making little mistakes. It gives us the feeling we don't make any big ones." (Andrew A. Rooney) Happiness, it is said, is seldom found by those who seek it, and never by those who seek it for
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-- F. Emerson Andrews You can close your eyes to reality, but not to memories.
-- Stanislaw J. Lem Don't look back -- something might be gaining on you.
-- Satchel Paige Society and Culture "I was a total loner, not by self-design. I just didn't know what the hell to say to people. I was so shy. I used to stammer and lisp and dribble at the mouth." (Sir Anthony Hopkins, on his youth) When a friend is in trouble, don't annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up
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It takes two to speak truth --One to speak, and another to hear.
-- Henry David Thoreau There's too much blood in my caffeine system.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker "If all men knew what others say of them, there would not be four friends in the world." (Blaise Pascal) The mathematician lives long and lives young; the wings of his soul do not early drop off, nor do
its pores become clogged with the earthy particles blown from the dusty highways of vulgar life.
-- Conscience is the inner voice which warns us that someone may be looking.
-- H. L. Mencken Society and Culture Someday is not a day of the week.
-- Anon. The fantasy which serves as a support for the figure of the Stalinist Communist is therefore
exactly the same as the fantasy which is at work in the Tom and Jerry cartoons.
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-- Anita Wise Society and Culture
Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
-- Virginia Woolf The gods gave man fire and he invented fire engines. They gave him love and he invented marriage. The grass may be greener on the other side of the fence, but you still have to mow it.
-- Anonymous We would often be sorry if our wishes were gratified.
-- Aesop "Man is a strange animal. He generally cannot read the handwriting on the wall until his back is up against it." (Adlai Stevenson) Society and Culture "In the future everyone will be famous for fifteen minutes." (Andy Warhol) In the spider-web of facts, many a truth is strangled.
-- Paul Eldridge I know nothing about sex, because I was always married.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Society and Culture
An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field.
-- Niels Bohr You can close your eyes to reality, but not to memories.
-- Stanislaw J. Lem 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
of u 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) Old soldiers never die, they just fade away.
-- General Douglas MacArthur Society and Culture Soul meets soul on lovers lips.
-- Percy Bysshe Shelley How could they tell?
-- Dorothy Parker, upon hearing that President Coolidge had died Great ability develops and reveals itself increasingly with every new assignment. Baltasar
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mental illness. Think of your three best friends. If they're okay, then it's you.
-- Rita Mae Brown First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.
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slaves, making in all, two.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 A narcissist is someone better-looking than you are.
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"Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishments." (Anonymous) It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.
-- Gore Vidal A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.
-- Walter Winchell My initial response was to sue her for defamation of character, but then I realized that I had no
character.
-- Charles Barkley, on hearing Tonya Harding proclaim herself "the Charles Barkley of fig I want to die in my sleep like my friend.... Not screaming and yelling like the passengers in his
car.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Society and Culture I'm not dumb, I just have a command of thoroughly useless information.
-- Calvin In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice
that I am not a Republican.
-- H. L. Mencken There are three great friends: an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.
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