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Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business.
-- Tom Robbins A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.
- Sir Winston Churchill The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other
is ready.
-- Henry David Thoreau "The most instructive experiences are those of everyday life." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.
- George Eliot Society and Culture "Education is a vacine for violence." (Edward James Olmos) "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 "Those that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." (Benjamin Franklin) Society and Culture
It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.
-- Albert Einstein Great Spirit, help me never to judge another until I have walked in his moccasins.
-- Sioux Indian Prayer The only reward of virtue is virtue.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson "Man is a strange animal. He generally cannot read the handwriting on the wall until his back is up against it." (Adlai Stevenson) If law school is so hard to get through... how come there are so many lawyers?
-- Calvin Trillin Society and Culture "There is only one success: to be able to spend your life in your own way, and not to give others absurd maddening claims upon it." (Christopher Darlington Morley) My other wife is beautiful. In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice
that I am not a Republican.
-- H. L. Mencken Society and Culture
"The want of logic annoys. Too much logic bores. Life eludes logic, and everything that logic alone constructs remains artificial and forced." (André Gide) 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 All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusion is called a philosopher.
- Ambrose Bierce I don't know anything about luck. I've never banked on it, and I'm afraid of people who do. Luck to
me is something else; hard work and realizing what is opportunity and what isn't.
-- Lucille Ball "Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame." (Erica Jong) Society and Culture "A conservative is a man who sits and thinks, mostly sits." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) When women go wrong, men go right after them.
-- Mae West There is more stupidity than hydrogen in the universe, and it has a longer shelf life.
- Frank Zappa Society and Culture
"Character is determined more by the lack of certain experiences than by those one has had." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Talk to a man about himself and he will listen for hours.
-- Benjamin Disraeli "Gifts must affect the receiver to the point of shock." (Walter Benjamin) "Education is a vacine for violence." (Edward James Olmos) When people have no other tyrant, their own public opinion becomes one.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton Society and Culture "A man who tells lies, like me, merely hides the truth. But a man who tells half-lies has forgotten where he put it." (Claude Rains, as Mr. Dryden, Lawrence of Arabia, 1962) In the spider-web of facts, many a truth is strangled.
-- Paul Eldridge An understanding heart is everything is a teacher, and cannot be esteemed highly enough. One
looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our
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The full use of your powers along lines of excellence.
- definition of happiness by John F. Kennedy Winning is a habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.
-- Vince Lombardi Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere.
-- Chinese Proverb "This is the first age that's paid much attention to the future, which is a little ironic since we may not have one." (Arthur C. Clarke) It's not the men in my life that count, it's the life in my men.
-- Mae West Society and Culture When I was a kid my favorite relative was Uncle Caveman. After school we'd all go play in his
cave, and every once in a while he would eat one of us. It wasn't until later that I found out that
Uncl "I do not suppose I shall be remembered for anything. But I don't think about my work in those terms. It is just as vulgar to work for the sake of posterity as to work for the sake of money." (George Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere.
-- Chinese Proverb Society and Culture
The great end of life is not knowledge, but action. What men need is as much knowledge as they
can organize for action; give them more and it may become injurious. Some men are heavy and
stupid from I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think.
-- Socrates "We always get bored with those whom we bore." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) "One may sometimes tell a lie, but the grimace that accompanies it tells the truth." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "When I was four years old they tried to test my IQ, they showed me this picture of three oranges and a pear. They asked me which one is different and does not belong, they taught me different was wro Society and Culture Go away...I'm alright.
-- H. G. Wells, dying words This book fills a much-needed gap.
- Moses Hadas in a review The majority of husbands remind me of an orangutan trying to play the violin.
-- Honore de Balzac Society and Culture
When you gaze long into the abyss, the abyss also gazes into you.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
-- Harriet Beecher Stowe We can say 'Peace on Earth,' we can sing about it, preach about it or pray about it, but if we have
not internalized the mythology to make it happen inside us, then it will not be.
-- Betty Shabazz "Self confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings." (Samuel Johnson) Friends may come and go, but enemies accumulate.
-- Thomas Jones Society and Culture The first half of our life is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
-- Clarence Darrow The weirder you're going to behave, the more normal you should look. It works in reverse, too.
When I see a kid with three or four rings in his nose, I know there is absolutely nothing
extraordinary You have to kiss a lot of toads before you find a handsome prince.
-- American Proverb Society and Culture
Ah Mozart! He was happily married - but his wife wasn't. -- Borge Never try to teach a pig to sing. It's a waste of your time and annoys the pig.
-- Anon. "Yes, I am a dreamer. For a dreamer is one who can find his way by moonlight, and see the dawn before the rest of the world." (Oscar Wilde) Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of
our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.
-- John Adams "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 Society and Culture May you grow so rich your widow's second husband never has to worry about a living, God forbid. Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech.
- Martin Fraquhar Tupper The health of the people is really the foundation upon which all their happiness and all their
powers as a State depend.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Society and Culture
If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe.
- Carl Sagan "Fake is as old as the Eden tree." (George Orson Welles) It is with true love as it is with ghosts; everyone talks about it, but few have seen it.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld In literature as in love, we are astonished at what is chosen by others.
-- André Maurois If there is any one proof of a man's incompetence, it is the stagnant mentality of a worker who,
doing some small routine job in a vast undertaking, does not care to look beyond the lever of a
machi Society and Culture A person starts to live when he can live outside himself.
-- Albert Einstein He who knows only his own side of the case, knows little of that.
-- John Stuart Mill "Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) Society and Culture
"Is man merely a mistake of God's? Or God merely a mistake of man's?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Computers can figure out all kinds of problems, except the things in the world that just don't add
up.
-- Anon LOVE, n. A temporary insanity curable by marriage or by removal of the patient from the
influences under which he incurred the disorder... It is sometimes fatal, but more frequently to the
physician The fantasy which serves as a support for the figure of the Stalinist Communist is therefore
exactly the same as the fantasy which is at work in the Tom and Jerry cartoons.
-- Slavoj Zizek Hell is paved with good samaritans.
-- William M. Holden Society and Culture Children are a poor man's riches.
-- English proverb Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.
-- Bertrand Russell "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) Society and Culture
Only positive consequences encourage good future performances.
-- Kenneth H. Blanchard If all these sweet young things were laid end to end, I wouldn't be the slightest bit surprised.
-- Dorothy Parker "I couldn't find the sports car of my dreams, so I built it myself." (Dr. Ferdinand Porsche) Whenever you eliminate the inedible, whatever remains, however unpalatable, must be food.
-- Anonymous That's the way things come clear. All of a sudden. And then you realize how obvious they've been
all along.
-- Madeleine L'Engle Society and Culture Thomas Jefferson--still surv...
-- John Adams, dying words "The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet." (Andy Warhol) The multitude is always in the wrong.
-- Wentworth Dillon, Earl of Roscommon, 1684 Society and Culture
