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As for courage and will - we cannot measure how much of each lies within us, we can only trust
there will be sufficient to carry through trials which may lie ahead.
-- Andre Norton "Nobody minds having what is too good for them." (Jane Austen) "I had discovered that a person does not have to be this or be that or be anything, not even oneself. One is free." (Walker Percy, The Moviegoer) "Humans beings can always be relied upon to assert, with vigor, their god-given right to be stupid." (Dean Koontz, Seize the Night) It is important that students bring a certain ragamuffin, barefoot, irreverence to their studies; they
are not here to worship what is known, but to question it.
-- J. Bronowski, The Ascent of Man Organizations Death does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when it does
come, we no longer exist.
-- Epicurus Radio news is bearable. This is due to the fact that while the news is being broadcast the disc
jockey is not allowed to talk.
-- Fran Lebowitz Give me chastity and continence, but not yet.
- Saint Augustine Organizations
Launch out into the deep. One discovers by living in scorn of consequence.
-- Essie Summers Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteeen.
-- Albert Einstein "The devil's agents may be of flesh and blood, may they not?" (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of the Baskervilles) "We have to be able to criticise what we love, to say what we have to say 'cause if your not trying to make something better, than as far as I can tell, you are just in the way." (Ani Difranco) He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose
-- Jim Elliott Organizations "Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom." (Raymonde Uy) To decide, to be at the level of choice, is to take responsibility for your life and to be in control of
your life.
-- Abbie M. Dale Most convicted felons are just people who were not taken to museums or Broadway musicals as
children.
-- Libby Gelman-Waxner Organizations
A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.
-- Edward Abbey Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you
have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not.
-- Aldous Huxley If you want to sing out, sing out, and if you want to be free, be free, 'cause there's a million ways
to be, you know that there are...
-- Cat Stevens, from a song lyric You have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth
without producing it.
-- George Bernard Shaw Live TV died in the late 1950s, electronic bulletin boards came along in the mid-1980s, meaning
there was about a 25-year gap when it was difficult to put your foot in your mouth and have
people all Organizations It is because modern education is so seldom inspired by a great hope that it so seldom achieves
great results. The wish to preserve the past rather that the hope of creating the future dominates
the He who laughs last didn't get it.
-- Helen Giangregorio "Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience." (George Bernard Shaw) Organizations
"I think people resist freedom because they're afraid of the unknown. But it's ironic....That unknown was once very well known. It's where are souls belong....The only solution is to confront them--co "Education is a vacine for violence." (Edward James Olmos) Men have a much better time of it than women; for one thing, they marry later; for another thing, they die earlier. --H.L. Mencken Beware you be not swallowed up in books! An ounce of love is worth a pound of knowledge.
-- John Wesley "Is life not a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Organizations "In married life three is company and two is none." (Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest) I can write better than anybody who can write faster, and I can write faster than anybody who can
write better.
- A. J. Liebling The louder he talked of his honour, the faster we counted our spoons.
-- Emerson, Ralph Waldo Organizations
Do not let yourselves be discouraged or embittered by the smallness of the success you are likely
to achieve in trying to make life better. You certainly would not be able, in a single generation, to Watching the debate this afternoon it was apparent they loved term limits in the House -- as
Brutus loved Caesar.
-- Bill Moyers 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 "I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter." (Blaise Pascal) Suicide is belated acquiescence in the opinion of one's wife's relatives. Organizations "Whether it is a black cat or a white cat, as long as it can catch the rat, it is a good cat." (Deng Xiao Ping) Man's mind stretched to a new idea never goes back to its original dimensions.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes I don't know why we are here, but I'm pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves.
- Ludwig Wittgenstein Organizations
"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) My good intentions are completely lethal.
-- Margaret Atwood 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 Men. You can't live with them. You don't have to.
-- Seen on a t-shirt The whole problem can be stated quite simply by asking, "Is there a meaning to music?" My
answer would be, "Yes." And "Can you state in so many words what the meaning is?" My answer
to that would be Organizations No man in the world has more courage than the man who can stop after eating one peanut.
-- Channing Pollack "It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open one's mouth and remove all doubt." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) "What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Organizations
There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you
yourself have altered.
-- Nelson Mandela, A Long Walk to Freedom We have art to save ourselves from the truth.
- Friedrich Nietzsche She felt in italics and thought in capitals.
-- Henry James Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-
proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe
is "In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends." (Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.) Organizations The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit.
-- W. Somerset Maugham The first half of our life is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
-- Clarence Darrow Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
- Napoleon Bonaparte Organizations
In the past decade or so, the women's magazines have taken to running home-handyperson
articles suggesting that women can learn to fix things just as well as men. These articles are
apparently based The great thing in this world is not so much where we stand as in what direction we are going.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good
reputation.
-- Oscar Wilde "I knew I was an unwanted baby when I saw my bath toys were a toaster and a radio." (Joan Rivers) The streets are safe in Philadelphia. It's only the people who make them unsafe.
-- Frank Rizzo, ex-police chief and mayor of Philadelphia Organizations Do or do not. There is no try.
-- Yoda, character in the movie The Empire Strikes Back The Democrats are the party that says government will make you smarter, taller, richer, and
remove the crabgrass on your lawn. The Republicans are the party that says government doesn't
work and the I do not consider it an insult, but rather a compliment to be called an agnostic. I do not pretend to
know where many ignorant men are sure -- that is all that agnosticism means.
- Clarence Darrow, Organizations
"Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former." (Albert Einstein) The only way to entertain some folks is to listen to them.
-- Kin Hubbard "A man must dream a long time in order to act with grandeur, and dreaming is nursed in darkness." (Jean Genet) Beware you be not swallowed up in books! An ounce of love is worth a pound of knowledge.
-- John Wesley A friend is a gift you give yourself.
-- Robert Louis Stevenson Organizations Trust, but verify.
-- Ronald Reagan "Education must have an end in view, for it is not an end in itself." (Sybil Marshall) He had occasional flashes of silence that made his conversation perfectly delightful.
-- Sydney Smith, referring to Macaulay Organizations
Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous; it is nothing if it is not ridiculous.
-- Thornton Wilder There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld A woman seldom asks advice before she has bought her wedding clothes.
-- Joseph Addison Art and science have their meeting point in method.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton Men have a much better time of it than women: for one thing they marry later, for another thing
they die earlier.
-- H. L. Mencken Organizations 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 Victory belongs to the most persevering.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte I belong to Bridegrooms Anonymous. Whenever I feel like getting married, they send over a lady in a housecoat and hair curlers to burn my toast for me. -- Dick Martin Organizations
The only thing you will ever be able to say in the so-called 'social' sciences is: "some do, some
don't."
-- Ernest Rutherford "Eschew the ordinary, disdain the commonplace. If you have a single-minded need for something, let it be the unusual, the esoteric, the bizarre, the unexpected..." (Chuck Jones) People say "I want peace." If you remove I {ego}, and your want {desire}, you are left with peace.
-- Satya Sai Baba Democracy is a process by which the people are free to choose the man who will get the blame.
-- Laurence J. Peter 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
comple Organizations "The depth and strength of a human character are defined by its moral reserves. People reveal themselves completely only when they are thrown out of the customary conditions of their life, for only th Creativity is piercing the mundane to find the marvelous.
-- Bill Moyers The first half of our life is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
-- Clarence Darrow Organizations
