Nothing is beneath you if it is in the direction of your life.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.
-- Edward Abbey When people have no other tyrant, their own public opinion becomes one.
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-- Dominique Bouhours, French grammarian, dying words Financial
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-- Mark Twain "Is life not a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Democracy is a process by which the people are free to choose the man who will get the blame.
-- Laurence J. Peter When I give a lecture, I accept that people look at their watches, but what I do not tolerate is
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day into your answers.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke Financial Curiosity killed the cat, but for a while I was a suspect.
-- Steven Wright I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
-- Mark Twain If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?
-- Abraham Lincoln Financial
The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
- Mark Twain He who laughs last thinks slowest.
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-- Helen Hayes Financial What do I dislike about death? Must be the hours.
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-- Vince Lombardi Financial
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in this century. I didn't live in this century.
-- Dan Quayle, then Indiana senator and Republic The male is a domestic animal which, if treated with firmness, can be trained to do most things.
-- Jilly Cooper Financial For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of our tasks; the ultimate,
the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.
-- Rainer Maria Ril Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche "One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Financial
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but no friendship.
-- Oscar Wilde A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.
-- Walter Winchell Financial
It is well, when judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and
superior impartiality.
-- Arnold Bennett Anyone who considers arithmetical methods of producing random digits is, of course, in a state of
sin.
-- John Von Neuman "No one ever owns his youth or the women he loves." (Pedro Almodóvar, Live Flesh) MARRIAGE, n. The state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress and two
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-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and
retaliation. the foundation of such a method is love.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Financial The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn.
-- Cicero A wasted youth is better by far than a wise and productive old age.
-- Meat Loaf, from the song "Wasted Youth" on the album Bat Out of Hell II Mathematics transfigures the fortuitous concourse of atoms into the tracery of the finger of God.
-- Herbert Westren Turnbull Financial
"Life is a great surprise. I don't see why death should not be an even greater one." (Vladimir Nabokov) 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 If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolute powerlessness make you pure?
-- Harry Shearer Paradoxically though it may seem, it is none the less true that life imitates art far more than art
imitates life.
-- Oscar Wilde I admire the serene assurance of those who have religious faith. It is wonderful to observe the
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-- Mark Twain Financial "So little done, so much to do." (Cecil Rhodes) All marriages are happy--it's the living together afterward that causes all the problems. Being in therapy is great. I spend an hour just talking about myself. It's kinda like being the guy on
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-- Caroline Rhea Financial
"Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them." (Samuel Butler) 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 "There are no uninteresting things, only uninteresting people." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) A human being is a part of the whole, called by us Universe, a part limited in time and space. He
experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest--a kind of
optic Age does not make us childish, as some say; it finds us true children.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Financial "If you're in a bad situation, don't worry it'll change. If you're in a good situation, don't worry it'll change." (John A. Simone Sr.) All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That is his.
-- Oscar Wilde "The perception of beauty is a moral test." (Henry David Thoreau) Financial
Saying that Windows95 is equal to Macintosh is like finding a potato that looks like Jesus and
believing you've witnessed the second coming.
-- Guy Kawasaki "Some people must go to extremes to get the world in balance for themselves. Some can't bear bright lights, so wherever they go they search for the dark; they turn the lights down, anything to sustain "These are days you'll remember." If you recall nothing else from your graduation ceremony,
remember you heard the New Jersey Governor quote from 10,000 Maniacs.
-- Christine Todd, NJ Governor, Whea The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
-- Winston Churchill But at my back I always hear Time's winged chariot hurrying near.
- Andrew Marvell Financial "As a child, I thought I hated everybody, but when I grew up I realized it was just children I didn't like." (Philip Larkin) No woman marries for money; they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in
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A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.
-- Gloria Steinem "When we are born we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools." (William Shakespeare) Genius has somewhat of the infantine; But of the childish not a touch or taint.
-- Robert Browning "Today was good. / Today was fun. / Tomorrow is another one." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) "Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) Financial You can not apply mathematics as long as words still becloud reality.
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-- John Harrigan Financial
My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me!
-- Henry Ford Hardly a year passes that fails to find a new, oft-times exotic, research method or technique
added to the armamentarium of political inquiry. Anyone who cannot negotiate Chi squares,
assess randomi The most savage controversies are about those matters as to which there is no good evidence
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-- Bertrand Russell Always do right; this will gratify some people and astonish the rest.
-- Mark Twain There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Financial "We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) "To err is human; to forgive, divine." (Alexander Pope) I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood. If it
does need additional interpretation by someone other than the creator, then I question whether it
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