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Infatuation is when you think that he's as sexy as Robert Redford, as smart as Henry Kissinger,
as noble as Ralph Nader, as funny as Woody Allen, and as athletic as Jimmy Conners. Love is
when you r Everything has been figured out, except how to live.
- Jean-Paul Sartre The good people sleep much better at night than the bad people. Of course, the bad people enjoy
the waking hours much more.
-- Woody Allen When people go to work, they shouldn't have to leave their hearts at home.
-- Betty Bender Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world.
-- George Bernard Shaw Organizations The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
- Mark Twain If you were plowing a field, which would you rather use? Two strong oxen or 1024 chickens?
- Seymour Cray (1925-1996), father of supercomputing 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) Organizations
"Learn from the mistakes of others--you can never live long enough to make them all yourself." (John Luther) I didn't have time to write a short letter, so I wrote a long one instead.
-- Mark Twain Under capitalism man exploits man; under socialism the reverse is true.
-- Polish proverb To expect defeat is nine-tenths of defeat itself.
-- Francis Crawford Women see better than men. Men see lazily, if they do not expect to act. Women see quite
without any wish to act.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Organizations "The great aim of education is not knowledge but action." (Herbert Spencer) How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it.
-- Alexandre Dumas fils Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and around the hands and feet of the man. Organizations
There is a theory which states that if ever anybody discovers exactly what the Universe is for and
why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and
inex Look not mournfully into the Past. It comes not back again. Wisely improve the Present. It is
thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy Future, without fear, and with a manly heart.
-- Henry Wadsworth Lo "In order to attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd." (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1547-1616) "Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect every one who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are ine "I want my food dead. Not sick, not dying, dead." (Oscar Wilde) Organizations I don't know exactly what democracy is. But we need more of it.
-- Anonymous Chinese Student, during protests in Tianamen Square, Beijing, 1989 Value your words. Each one may be the last.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec One may have a blazing hearth in one's soul and yet no one ever comes to sit by it. Passersby
see only a wisp of smoke rising from the chimney and continue on their way.
-- Vincent Van Gogh Organizations
"One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) There are many things worth living for, there are a few things worth dying for, but there is nothing
worth killing for.
-- Tom Robbins Marriage is like a violin. After the music is over, you still have the strings.
-- Anonymous 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 Effort is only effort when it begins to hurt.
-- Jose Ortega y Gasset Organizations I couldn't remember when I had been so disappointed. Except perhaps the time I found out that
M&Ms really do melt in your hand...
-- Peter Oakley Wife: The perfect acquisition for any gentleman feeling himself to have excessive control over his personal affairs. Someone once asked me why women don't gamble as much as men do and I gave the
commonsensical reply that we don't have as much money. That was a true but incomplete
answer. In fact, women's total ins Organizations
I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them.
- Ian L. Fleming Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot.
-- Anonymous "There is no such thing as a person that nothing has happened to, and each person's story is as different as his fingertips." (Elsa Lanchester) If something is boring after two minutes, try it for four. If still boring, then eight. Then sixteen. Then thirty-two. Eventually one discovers that it is not boring at all." (John Cage) If you can count your money, you don't have a billion dollars.
- J. Paul Getty Organizations A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.
-- G. K. Chesterton "The proper office of a friend is to side with you when you are wrong. Nearly anybody will side with you when you are right." (Mark Twain) Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can
never tell.
-- Joan Crawford Organizations
You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it come true.
-- Richard Bach Honorable, adj. Afflicted with an impediment in one's reach. In legislative bodies, it is customary
to mention all members as honorable; as, ``the honorable gentleman is a scurvy cur.'
-- Bierce, A Logic is in the eye of the logician.
- Gloria Steinem No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent.
-- Abraham Lincoln I believe in getting into hot water; it keeps you clean.
-- G. K. Chesterton Organizations The church is the great lost and found department.
-- Robert Short Sure, it's going to kill a lot of people, but they may be dying of something else anyway.
-- Othal Brand, member of a Texas pesticide review board "I was born lost and take no pleasure in being found..." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) Organizations
Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them
down people's throats.
-- Howard Aiken "Every act of creation is first an act of destruction." (Pablo Picasso) If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts.
-- Albert Einstein "He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches." (George Bernard Shaw) A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.
-- Walter Winchell Organizations We would often be sorry if our wishes were gratified.
-- Aesop After all, all he did was string together a lot of old, well-known quotations.
-- H. L. Mencken, on Shakespeare Just buy a box of popcorn and a Coca-Cola and sit back and watch.
-- James Carville, Clinton advisor, offering advice for Democrats on the term-limits vote in the
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"When we are born we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools." (William Shakespeare) "Some people wear their heart up on their sleeve. I wear mine underneath my right pant leg, strapped to my boot." (Ani Difranco) 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 Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.
-- Mother Teresa "The only way to have friends is to be one." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Organizations If you would thoroughly know anything, teach it to others.
-- Tryon Edwards Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education
without natural ability.
Cicero (106 BC - 43 BC) "I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him." (Galileo Galilei) Organizations
Creativity is allowing oneself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.
-- Scott Adams, The Dilbert Principle "I'll endorse with my name any of the following; clothing AC-DC, cigarettes, small tapes, sound equipment, ROCK N' ROLL RECORDS, anything, film, and film equipment, Food, Helium, Whips, MONEY!!" (And My darling wife was always glum. I drowned her in a cask of rum, And so made sure that she would stay, In better spirits night and day. When you've spent half your political life dealing with humdrum issues like the environment... it's
exciting to have a real crisis on your hands.
-- Margaret Thatcher, on the Falklands Conflict It depends on your definition of asleep. They were not stretched out. They had their eyes closed.
They were seated at their desks with their heads in a nodding position.
-- John Hogan, Commonwealth Organizations Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances
continue to exist, a wonderful living side by side can grow up, if they succeed in loving the
distance Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow.
-- Helen Keller When in doubt, make a fool of yourself. There is a microscopically thin line between being
brilliantly creative and acting like the most gigantic idiot on earth. So what the hell, leap.
-- Cynthia H Organizations
"The things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisi Nothing shows a man's character more than what he laughs at.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe The first duty of love is to listen.
-- Paul Tillich Television: A medium. So called because it is neither rare nor well done.
-- Ernie Kovacs I don't want to achieve immortality through my work... I want to achieve it by not dying!
-- Woody Allen Organizations "People demand freedom only when they have no power." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I'm an excellent housekeeper. Every time I get a divorce, I keep the house.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Great eaters and great sleepers are incapable of anything else that is great.
-- William Shakespeare, Henry IV Organizations
We have a habit in writing articles published in scientific journals to make the work as finished as
possible, to cover up all the tracks, to not worry about the blind alleys or describe how you had He is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death.
- H. H. Munro (Saki) Whatever you are, be a good one.
-- Abraham Lincoln "Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll Organizations "Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future." (Paul Boese) "The one charm about marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties." (Oscar Wilde) "He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself." (Thomas Paine) Organizations
