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The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without
the sympathy of the community.
-- William James blah bl "The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning, but without understanding." (Louis Brandeis) Silence is as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unhewn marble of a great sculpture.
-- Aldous Huxley The closer I'm bound in love to you, the closer I am to free.
-- Indigo Girls, song lyric Silence is argument carried out by other means.
-- Ernesto "Che" Guevara Radio Why don't you write books people can read?
-- Nora Joyce, to her husband James Love matches are made by people who are content, for a month of honey, to condemn
themselves to a life of vinegar.
-- Countess of Blessington Each religion, by the help of more or less myth which it takes more or less seriously, proposes
some method of fortifying the human soul and enabline it to make its peace with its destiny.
-- George Radio
"All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) A man can do what he wants, but not want what he wants.
-- Arthur Schoperhauer I'm at the age where food has taken the place of sex in my life. In fact, I've just had a mirror put
over my kitchen table.
-- Rodney Dangerfield Whenever a husband and wife begin to discuss their marriage, they are giving evidence at an
inquest.
-- H. L. Mencken "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) Radio blah "The length of this document defends it well against the risk of its being read." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) Genius is 99 percent perspiration and 1 percent inspiration.
-- Thomas Edison blah "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." (Thomas Jefferson) Radio
Most married couples, even though they love each other very much in theory, tend to view each
other in practice as large teeming flaw colonies, the result being that they get on each other's
nerves Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business.
-- Tom Robbins Now join your hands, and with your hands your hearts.
-- William Shakespeare, King Henry the Sixth When people have no other tyrant, their own public opinion becomes one.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton And since the stench of death will always attract flies and vermin, the arrival of Geraldo was
perhaps inevitable.
-- Garry Trudeau Radio 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 Most of our obstacles would melt away if, instead of cowering before them, we should make up
our minds to walk boldly through them.
-- Orison Swett Marden Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
- Will Durant Radio
We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we
respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart.
-- H. L. Mencken 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 hate mankind, for I think myself to be one of them, and I know how bad I am.
-- Samuel Johnson blah "The best students always are flunking. Every good teacher knows that." (Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance) What if nothing exists and we're all in somebody's dream? Or what's worse, what if only that fat
guy in the third row exists?
-- Woody Allen Radio To realize that you do not understand is a virtue;
Not to realize that you do not understand is a defect.
--Lao-Tzu, "Tao Teh Ching" "Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise." (Alice Walker) The best theology would need no advocates; it would prove itself.
-- Karl Barth Radio
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 A baby is God's opinion that the world should go on.
-- Carl Sandburg Keep in mind that neither success nor failure is ever final.
-- Roger Babson Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you.
- Carl Gustav Jung I've never had major knee surgery on any other part of my body.
-- Winston Bennett, University of Kentucky basketball forward Radio The cynics are right nine times out of ten.
- Henry Louis Mencken Before marriage, a man will lie awake all night thinking about something you said; after marriage,
he'll fall asleep before you finish saying it.
-- Helen Roland Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance.
-- Oscar Wilde Radio
"I don't believe people die. They just go uptown. To Bloomingdales. They just take longer to get back." (Andy Warhol) True, we love life, not because we are used to living, but because we are used to loving. There is
always some madness in love, but there is also always some reason in madness.
-- Friedrich Nietzsch "I am the lizard king. I can do anything." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) "Babies are necessary to grown-ups. A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities. In a world that is cutting down its trees to build highways, losing its eart Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.
-- Roger Babson Radio I loathe people who keep dogs. They are cowards who haven't got the guts to bite people
themselves.
-- August Strindberg The honest poor can sometimes forget poverty. The honest rich can never forget it.
-- G. K. Chesterton Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do.
-- Dr. Benjamin Spock, American pediatrician, address to new parents Radio
It was just him and me. He fought with honor. If it weren't for his honor, he and the others would
have beaten me together. They might have killed me, then. His sense of honor saved my life. I
didn' 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.
-- Al Rogers, Global SchoolHouse Netw "The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet." (Andy Warhol) "Education is a vacine for violence." (Edward James Olmos) Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
- Henry Louis Mencken Radio 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 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 Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.
-- Francis Bacon Radio
With the catching end the pleasures of the chase.
-- Abraham Lincoln Marrying a man is like buying something you've been admiring for a long time in a shop window.
You may love it when you get it home, but it doesn't always go with everything in the house.
-- Jean Ke Even a band of angels can turn ugly and start looting if enough angels are unemployed and
hanging around the Pearly Gates convinced that all the succubi own all the liquor stores in
Heaven.
-- P. J What a difference there is between what we say and what we think.
-- Racine The average, healthy, well-adjusted adult gets up at seven-thirty in the morning feeling just plain
terrible.
-- Jean Kerr Radio "A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "I think it's about time we voted for senators with breasts. After all, we've been voting for boobs
long enough."
-- Arizona senatorial candidate Claire Sargent, on women candidates Radio
We live at a time when man believes himself fabulously capable of creation, but he does not
know what to create.
-- Jose Ortega y Gasset Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
-- T.S. Eliot We have only one person to blame, and that's each other.
-- Barry Beck, New York Ranger, on who started a fight furing a hockey game Marriage: the only sport in which the trapped animal has to buy the license. Not everything that can be counted counts; and not everything that counts can be counted.
-- Albert Einstein Radio To love someone deeply gives you strength. Being loved by someone deeply gives you courage.
-- Lao Tzu "The sickness of our times for me has been just this damn thing that everything has been getting smaller and smaller and less and less important, that the romantic spirit has dried up, that there is n Before I married, I had three theories about raising children and no children. Now, I have three
children and no theories.
-- John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester Radio
The average Ph.D thesis is nothing but the transference of bones from one graveyard to another.
-- Frank J. Dobie, A Texan in England, 1945 Gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling in love.
-- Albert Einstein My grandfather once told me that there are two kinds of people: those who work and those who
take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was less competition there.
-- INDIRA Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
-- Virginia Woolf, Bernard, in The Waves, 1931; repr. 1943, p. 189 Love cures people, both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.
-- Dr. Karl Menninger Radio A scar nobly got, or a noble scar, is a good livery of honour; so belike is that.
-- Shakespeare, William And in the end the love you take is equal to the love you make.
-- The Beatles, The last lyric of their last song "If you want a thing done well, do it yourself." (Napoleon Bonaparte) Radio
Love thy neighbor, but make sure her husband is away first. I hate women because they always know where things are.
-- James Thurber 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 Victory goes to the player who makes the next-to-last mistake.
- Chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower The hard part about being a bartender is figuring out who is drunk and who is just stupid.
-- Richard Braunstein Radio "To be great is to be misunderstood." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.
- Albert Einstein When Baby's cries grew hard to bear I popped him in the Frigidaire. I never would have done so if
I'd known that he'd be frozen stiff. My wife said, "George, I'm so unhappy! Our darling's now
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