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Boredom is the feeling that everything is a waste of time; serenity, that nothing is.
-- Thomas Szasz "In large states public education will always be mediocre, for the same reason that in large kitchens the cooking is usually bad." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Considering the flames and intolerance, shouldn't USENET be spelled ABUSENET?
-- Michael Meissner 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 I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
- e e cummings News and Media "It seems to me that there are two kinds of trickery: the 'fronts' people assume before one another's eyes, and the 'front' a writer puts on the face of reality." (Francois Sagan) You can always amend a big plan, but you can never expand a little one. I don't believe in little
plans. I believe in plans big enough to meet a situation which we can't possibly foresee now.
-- Ha "For better or for worse, our company (The News Corporation Ltd.) is a reflection of my thinking, my character, my values." (Keith Rupert Murdoch, media mogul, 1931-) News and Media
Go on, get out. Last words are for fools who haven't said enough.
-- Karl Marx, dying words to his housekeeper 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 Per cubic inch, your current TV set is perhaps the dumbest appliance in your home (and I'm not
even talking about the programs).
-- Nicholas Negroponte "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 I was nauseous and tingly all over... I was either in love or I had smallpox.
-- Woody Allen News and Media Usenet is like Tetris for people who still remember how to read.
-- Button from the Computer Museum, Boston, MA Where there is marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.
-- Benjamin Franklin Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for
him.
-- Rich Little News and Media
"Majority rule only works if you're also considering individual rights. Because you can't have five wolves and one sheep voting on what to have for supper." (Larry Flynt) What do you take me for, an idiot?
- General Charles de Gaulle (1890-1970), when a journalist asked him if he was happy With this ring I thee wed, with my body I thee worship, and with all my worldly good I thee endow.
-- Wedding Vow, Book of Common Prayer Love is what happens to men and women who don't know each other.
-- W. Somerset Maugham There are no days in life so memorable as those which vibrated to some stroke of the
imagination.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson News and Media "If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way." (Mark Twain) I think of my wife and I think of Lot, and I think of the lucky break he got. Experience is not what happens to you; it's what you do with what happens to you.
-- Aldous Huxley News and Media
The majority of husbands remind me of an orangutan trying to play the violin.
-- Honore de Balzac Multimedia? As far as I'm concerned, it's reading with the radio on!
-- Rory Bremner They had a dispute about a night out with the boys. But he finally decided to let her go.
-- Anonymous Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.
-- Virginia Woolf blah "Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the government of himself. Can he, then be trusted with the government of others? Or have we found angels in the form of kings to govern him? News and Media You must first have a lot of patience to learn to have patience.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec A man can't get rich if he takes proper care of his family.
-- Navaho saying It is most unwise for people in love to marry.
-- George Bernard Shaw News and Media
I'm for abolishing and doing away with redundancy.
-- J. Curtis McKay, Wisconsin State Elections Board "That government is best which governs the least, because its people discipline themselves." (Thomas Jefferson) The first half of our life is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
-- Clarence Darrow More than kisses, letters mingle souls.
-- John Donne Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. News and Media I'm like old wine. They don't bring me out very often, but I'm well preserved.
-- Rose Kennedy, (1890-1995) family matriarch, on her 100th birthday, 1991 I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.
- Thomas Jefferson I am beginning to suspect all elaborate and special systems of education. They seem to me to be
built upon the supposition that every child is a kind of idiot who must be taught to think.
-- Anne S News and Media
My good intentions are completely lethal.
-- Margaret Atwood Grove giveth and Gates taketh away.
- Bob Metcalfe (inventor of Ethernet) on the trend of hardware speedups not being able to keep
up with software demands Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though it is hard to
realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and
grie Everywhere I go, I'm asked if the universities stifle writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle
enough of them.
-- Flannery O'Connor The backbone of surprise is fusing speed with secrecy.
- Von Clausewitz News and Media "I hear, I know. I see, I remember. I do, I understand." (Confucius, 551 BC-479) The cynics are right nine times out of ten.
- Henry Louis Mencken You can pay attention to the fact, in which case you'll probably become a mathematician, or you
can ignore it, in which case you'll probably become a physicist.
-- Len Evans, professor, Northwestern News and Media
"Furious activity is no substitute for understanding." (H. H. Williams) He who knows only his own side of the case, knows little of that.
-- John Stuart Mill The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow
extinction from apathy, indifference, and undernourishment.
-- Robert Hutchins, Great Books, 1954 Conceit causes more conversation than wit.
-- LaRouchefoucauld "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) News and Media A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.
- Frank Lloyd Wright "Death is only a launching into the region of the strange Untried; it is but the first salutation to the possibilities of the immense Remote, the Wild, the Watery, the Unshored..." (Herman Melville, Work is the refuge of people who have nothing better to do.
-- Oscar Wilde News and Media
If the government wants people to respect the law, it should set a better example.
-- Anon. More than kisses, letters mingle souls.
-- John Donne "No man is clever enough to know all the evil he does." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) The gods gave man fire and he invented fire engines. They gave him love and he invented marriage. Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. News and Media "Give me liberty or give me death." (Patrick Henry) "To introduce something altogether new would mean to begin all over, to become ignorant again, and to run the old, old risk of failing to learn." (Isaac Asimov) Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are conservatives.
-- John Stuart Mill News and Media
Argue for your limitations, and sure enough they're yours.
- Richard Bach If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt "Dying is the most embarrassing thing that can ever happen to you, because someone's got to take care of all your details." (Andy Warhol, America, 1985) The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
- Mark Twain A great deal of talent is lost to the world for want of a little courage. Every day sends to their
graves obscure men whom timidity prevented from making a first effort.
-- Sydney Smith News and Media "If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way." (Mark Twain) The less a man thinks or knows about his virtues, the better we like him.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson It is a known fact that men are practical, hardheaded realists, in contrast to women, who are
romantic dreamers and actually believe that estrogenic skin cream must do something or they
couldn't cha News and Media
If someone had told me I would be Pope one day, I would have studied harder.
-- Pope John Paul I If it weren't for marriage, men would spend their lives thinking they had no faults at all.
-- Anonymous I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell this to my children they just about throw up.
-- Barbara Bush, first lady, 1989 Mary had a little lamb and the doctor fainted.
-- Anonymous Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.
-- Albert Einstein News and Media "The feminists used to say that chivalry and ladyhood were ways of keeping women down and preventing them from standing toe to toe with the guys. Now you've got a lot of women saying that if a guy is "Not only is there no guarantee of the temporal immortality of the human soul, that is to say of its eternal survival after death; but, in any case, this assumption completely fails to accomplish the We love because it's the only true adventure.
-- Nikki Giovanni News and Media
When marriage is outlawed, only outlaws will have inlaws. We seek the comfort of another. Someone to share and share the life we choose. Someone to
help us through the neverending attempt to understand ourselves. And in the end, someone to
comfort us along A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in students.
-- John Ciardi You have to stay in shape. My grandmother, she started walking five miles a day when she was
60. She's 97 today and we don't know where the hell she is.
-- Ellen DeGeneres What if it was cats who invented technology... would they have tv shows starring rubber sqeak
toys?
-- Douglas Coupland News and Media Wind is to fire like distance is to love; it extinguishes the small and enflames the great.
-- Anonymous Substitute "damn" every time you're inclined to write "very"; your editor will delete it and the
writing will be just as it should be.
-- Mark Twain Early to rise and early to bed.
Makes a male healthy, wealthy and dead.
-- James Thurber News and Media
