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I am become death, shatterer of worlds.
-- Robert J. Oppenheimer, citing from the Bhagavadgita, after witnessing the world's first nuclear
explosion "The purpose of Compulsory Education is to deprive the common people of their commonsense." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) Idealism increases in direct proportion to one's distance from the problem.
-- John Galsworthy blah bl "The better the state is established, the fainter is humanity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn; my God, do you learn!" (Clive Staples Lewis) Music To love another person is to see the face of God.
-- Lyric from Les Miserables Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.
-- Mother Teresa For of all sad words of tongue or pen,
The saddest are these: "It might have been!"
-- John Greenleaf Whittier Music
And in the end the love you take is equal to the love you make.
-- The Beatles, The last lyric of their last song "I have an unfortunate personality." (George Orson Welles) Experience is the name every one gives his mistakes.
-- Elbert Hubbard And life is what we make it. Always has been, always will be.
-- Grandma Moses Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing.
-- Oscar Wilde Music The power of accurate observation is frequently called cynicism by those who don't have it.
- George Bernard Shaw It's no credit to anyone to work to hard.
-- Ed Howe In matrimony, to hesitate is sometimes to be saved.
-- Samuel Butler Music
Love thy neighbor, but make sure her husband is away first. "Paper should be edible, nutritious. Inks used for printing or writing should have delicious flavors. Magazines or newspapers read at breakfast should be eaten for lunch. Instead of throwing one's mai Don't stay in bed, unless you can make money in bed.
- George Burns If one advances confidently in the direction of one's dreams, and endeavours to live the life which
one has imagined, one will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
-- Henry David Thoreau Stung by the splendour of a sudden thought.
-- Robert Browning Music The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this
is true.
-- James Branch Cabell, The Silver Stallion Now, now my good man, this is no time for making enemies.
- Voltaire (1694-1778) on his deathbed in response to a priest asking that he renounce Satan. A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn; it can be stabbed to death by a joke
or worried to death by a frown on the right person's brow.
-- Charles Brower Music
It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
-- Oscar Wilde 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. Chase after the truth like all hell and you'll free yourself, even though you never touch its
coattails.
-- Clarence Darrow Statistics have shown that mortality increases perceptibly in the military during wartime.
-- Alphonse Allais If we don't change the direction we are going,
We are likely to end up where we are heading.
-- Chinese saying Music The Middle Eastern states aren't nations; they're quarrels with borders.
-- P. J. O'Rourke blah "Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure." (Thomas Alva Edison) "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world, indeed it is the only thing that ever has." (Margaret Mead, 1901-78) Music
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 When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.
-- Hunter S. Thompson I don't feel good.
-- Luther Burbank, dying words The philosophy exam was a piece of cake -- which was a bit of a surprise, actually, because I
was expecting some questions on a sheet of paper.
-- Smith & Jones "Thanks to my solid academic training, today I can write hundreds of words on virtually any topic without possessing a shred of information, which is how I got a good job in journalism." (Dave Barry) Music Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think.
-- Niels Bohr If it were weren't for pickpockets, I'd have no sex life at all.
-- Rodney Dangerfield "To forget one's purpose is the commonest form of stupidity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Music
The great thing in this world is not so much where we stand as in what direction we are going.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music.
-- Vladimir Nabokov Watching the debate this afternoon it was apparent they loved term limits in the House -- as
Brutus loved Caesar.
-- Bill Moyers Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche Peculiar travel suggestions are dancing lessons from God.
-- Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., Cat's Cradle Music 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 Wit is educated insolence.
- Aristotle It is no use walking anywhere to preach unless our walking is our preaching.
-- St. Francis of Assisi Music
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 Nothing average ever stood as a monument to progress. When progress is looking for a partner it
doesn't turn to those who believe they are only average. It turns instead to those who are forever
sea I loathe people who keep dogs. They are cowards who haven't got the guts to bite people
themselves.
-- August Strindberg He who has lost honor can lose nothing more.
-- Publilius Syrus All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.
-- Edgar Allan Poe Music Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
-- Aldous Huxley Be willing to make decisions. That's the most important quality in a good leader. Don't fall victim
to what I call the 'ready-aim-aim-aim-aim syndrome.' You must be willing to fire.
-- Gen. George He who has lost honor can lose nothing more.
-- Publilius Syrus Music
"Most people don't realize that large pieces of coral, which have been painted brown and attached to the skull by common wood screws, can make a child look like a deer." (Jack Handey) "You exist only in what you do." (Federico Fellini) There are many things worth living for, there are a few things worth dying for, but there is nothing
worth killing for.
-- Tom Robbins The possibility that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause
we believe to be just.
-- Abraham Lincoln Remember your dreams.
-- Maryanne Radmacher-Herhey Music The first duty of a lecturer: to hand you after an hour's discourse a nugget of pure truth to wrap up
between the pages of your notebooks, and keep on the mantlepiece forever.
-- Virginia Woolf "Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil) Women are like tea bags; put them in hot water and they get stronger.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt Music
They have come up with a perfect understanding. He won't try to run her life, and he won't try to
run his, either.
-- Anonymous Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
-- Albert Einstein "Murder is the very bed-rock of our social institutions." (Octave Mirbeau, The Torture Garden) If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be
closed for any other business.
-- Abraham Lincoln Better to die ten thousand deaths than wound my honor.
-- Joseph Addison Music He who laughs last didn't get it.
-- Helen Giangregorio We haven't the money, so we've got to think.
-- Lord Rutherford I have come to the conclusion never again to think of marrying, and for this reason, I can never
be satisfied with anyone who would be blockhead enough to have me.
-- Abraham Lincoln, in a letter to Music
A man sits with a pretty girl for an hour, it seems like a minute. He sits on a hot stove for a
minute, it's longer than any hour. That is relativity.
-- Albert Einstein "Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily." (Napoleon Bonaparte) If we may believe our logicians, man is distinguished from all other creatures by the
faculty of laughter.
-- Joseph Addison I never hated a man enough to give him his diamonds back.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor I'm like old wine. They don't bring me out very often, but I'm well preserved.
-- Rose Kennedy, (1890-1995) family matriarch, on her 100th birthday, 1991 Music "Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Walk beside me and just be my friend." (Albert Camus) I have a great diet. You're allowed to eat anything you want, but you must eat it with naked fat
people.
-- Ed Bluestone "Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) Music
"Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) blah "The length of this document defends it well against the risk of its being read." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) "Everybody knows that if you are too careful, you become so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something." (Gertrude Stein) Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love,
but no friendship.
-- Oscar Wilde "Life is a great surprise. I don't see why death should not be an even greater one." (Vladimir Nabokov) Music With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die.
-- Abraham Lincoln "Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave, and impossible to forget." (G. Randolf) "Deep down, no one really believes they have a right to live. But this death sentence generally stays tucked away, hidden beneath the difficulty of living. If that difficulty is removed from time to t Music
