"The evil that is in the world almost always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence if they lack understanding." (Albert Camus) Love is not blind - it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.
Rabbi Julius Gordon the social sciences were for all those who had not yet decided what to do with their lives, and for
all those whose premature frustrations led them into the sterile alleys of confrontation.
-- Peter Sign in a marriage counselor's window: "Out to lunch - Think it over." 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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-- Anonymous The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.
-- ee cummings He who receives an idea from me receives instruction for himself without lessening mine; as he
who lights his taper at mine receives light without darkening me.
-- Thomas Jefferson Computers and Internet
I drink no more than a sponge.
-- Francis Rabelais, Works. Book i. Chap. v. May the road rise to meet you. May the wind always be at your back. May the sun shine warm
upon your face, the rains fall soft upon your fields and, until we meet again, may God hold you in
the palm The second half of a man's life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the
first half.
Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821 - 1881) There's many a bestseller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.
-- Flannery O'Connor "My wallpaper and I are fighting a duel to the death. One or the other of us has to go." (Oscar Wilde, his last recorded words) Computers and Internet History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.
-- Winston Churchill "If a man has good corn, or wood, or boards, or pigs to sell, or can make better chairs or knives, crucibles, or church organs, than anybody else, you will find a broad, hard-beaten road to his house, Education is an admirable thing, but nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
-- Oscar Wilde Computers and Internet
A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.
- Lao-Tzu 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 I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude. we are for the most part
more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers.
-- Thoreau Losing a wife can be hard. In my case, it was almost impossible. History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte Computers and Internet It's not the men in my life that count, it's the life in my men.
-- Mae West Multimedia? As far as I'm concerned, it's reading with the radio on!
-- Rory Bremner A university professor set an examination question in which he asked what is the difference
between ignorance and apathy. The professor had to give an A+ to a student who answered: I
don't know and Computers and Internet
I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about 'short' and 'cheap'? -- Phyllis Diller "I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is." (Alan Watts) Curiosity will conquer fear even more than bravery will.
-- James Stephens Everywhere I go, I'm asked if the universities stifle writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle
enough of them.
-- Flannery O'Connor Some birds aren't meant to be caged, their feathers are just too bright. And when they fly away,
the part of you that knows it was a sin to lock them up, does rejoice. I guess I just miss my friend. Computers and Internet "How can we know the dancer from the dance?" (William Butler Yeats) 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 Sex is like bridge: If you don't have a good partner, you better have a good hand.
-- Charles Pierce Computers and Internet
We trained hard - but it seemed that every time we were beginning to form up into teams we were
reorganized. I was to learn later in life that we tend to meet any new situation by reorganizing,
and >From error to error one discovers the entire truth.
-- Sigmund Freud Establishing yourself, furnishing a house, building up a comfortable existence, and having that menace hanging over your head all the time - no, I prefer to live in hotels, cafés, just passing through "The greater the artist, the greater the doubt. Perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize." (Robert Hughes) The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
-- Lucille S. Harper Computers and Internet 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
human >From the Far East I send you one single thought, one sole idea--written in red on every
beachhead form Australia to Tokyo--There is no substitute for victory!
-- General Douglas MacArthur Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
-- George Bernard Shaw Computers and Internet
I feel that if a person has problems communicating the very least he can do is to shut up.
-- Tom Lehrer No woman marries for money; they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in
love with him first.
-- Cesare Pavese Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous; it is nothing if it is not ridiculous.
-- Thornton Wilder "The only man who behaved sensibly was my tailor; he took my measurement anew every time he saw me, while all the rest went on with their old measurements and expected them to fit me." (George Bernar I am returning this otherwise good typing paper to you because someone has printed gibberish all
over it and put your name at the top.
-- English Professor, Ohio University Computers and Internet I skate to where the puck is going to be, not to where it has been.
-- Wayne Gretzky Guide to understanding a net.addict's day:
Slow day: didn't have much to do, so spent three hours on usenet.
Busy day: managed to work in three hours of usenet.
Bad day: barely squeezed in three ho Under capitalism man exploits man; under socialism the reverse is true.
-- Polish proverb Computers and Internet
If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?
-- Abraham Lincoln "Children begin by loving their parents. After a time they judge them. Rarely, if ever, do they forgive them." (Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance) MARRIAGE, n. The state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress and two
slaves, making in all, two.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 "I like boring things." (Andy Warhol, Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up) "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) Computers and Internet May the road rise to meet you. May the wind always be at your back. May the sun shine warm
upon your face, the rains fall soft upon your fields and, until we meet again, may God hold you in
the palm The best way to get husbands to do something is to suggest that perhaps they are too old to do it.
-- Shirley MacLaine "You know what charm is: a way of getting the answer yes without having asked any clear question." (Albert Camus, The Fall) Computers and Internet
All over Washington today, the politicians and the power brokers are happy. In fact, if you listen
closely, you can hear the sound of champagne corks popping.
-- Paul Jacob, Term Limits Executive Di "In order to preserve your self-respect, it is sometimes necessary to lie and cheat." (Robert Byrne) To take what there "is", and use it, without waiting forever in vain for the preconceived - to dig
deep into the actual and get something out of that - this doubtless is the right way to live.
-- H In a cat's eyes, all things belong to cats.
-- English Proverb "People drag their progeny around with them like a ball and chain, like some terrible deadweight that hinders their every move - and that, as often as not, effectively winds up killing them." (Michel Computers and Internet Those parts of the system that you can hit with a hammer (not advised) are called hardware;
those program instructions that you can only curse at are called software.
-- Unknown author, Levitating T "Fear is the dark room where the Devil develops his negatives." (Gary Busey) Good judgement comes from experience, and experience--well, that comes from poor judgement.
-- Cousin Woodman Computers and Internet
I feel that if a person has problems communicating the very least he can do is to shut up.
-- Tom Lehrer The better part of valor is discretion.
-- William Shakespeare 1564-1616 from King Henry the Fourth, Part I Immature love says: "I love you because I need you." Mature love says: "I need you because I
love you."
-- Erich Fromm There is no realizable power that man cannot, in time, fashion the tools to attain, nor any power so secure that the naked ape will not abuse it. So it is written in the genetic cards - only physics a Courage: doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared.
-- Eddie Rickenbacker Computers and Internet The closer I'm bound in love to you, the closer I am to free.
-- Indigo Girls, song lyric I don't know why we are here, but I'm pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves.
- Ludwig Wittgenstein then the world 's mine oyster
-- William Shakespeare, The Merry Wives of Windsor Computers and Internet
Cricket is best described as organised loafing.
-- Anonymous British Radio Broadcaster, 1996 I prefer the wicked rather than the foolish. The wicked sometimes rest.
-- Alexandre Dumas pere If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.
-- Voltaire 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 Duct tape is like the Force. It has a light side, a dark side, and it holds the universe together....
-- Carl Zwanzig Computers and Internet There is no future in any job. The future lies in the man who holds the job.
-- George Crane There is a coherent plan in the universe, though I don't know what it's a plan for.
-- Fred Hoyle Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.
-- Virginia Woolf Computers and Internet
"You can get help from teachers, but you are going to have to learn a lot by yourself, sitting alone in a room." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, On becoming a writer, NY Times 21 There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of
bread.
- Mahatma Gandhi "I know that God won't give me more trouble than I can handle ... but sometimes I wish he wouldn't trust me so much." (Mother Teresa) "It is far better to be alone, than to be in bad company." (George Washington) I must follow the people. Am I not their leader?
-- Benjamin Disraeli Computers and Internet "No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous." (Henry B. Adams) "We always get bored with those whom we bore." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) May you be blessed with a wife so healthy and strong, she can pull the plow when your horse drops dead. Computers and Internet
