We can lick gravity, but sometimes the paperwork is overwhelming.
-- Wehrner von Braun The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.
-- Thomas Jefferson I must follow the people. Am I not their leader?
-- Benjamin Disraeli The best theology would need no advocates; it would prove itself.
-- Karl Barth When making public policy decisions about new technologies for the Government, I think one
should ask oneself which technologies would best strengthen the hand of a police state. Then, do
not allow Slavonski Brod and Posavina For centuries, theologians have been explaining the unknowable in terms of the-not-worth-
knowing.
- Henry Louis Mencken I would have made a good Pope.
-- Richard Nixon, U.S. President If addiction is judged by how long a dumb animal will sit pressing a lever to get a 'fix' of
something, to its own detriment, then I would conclude that netnews is far more addictive than
cocaine.
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There are two means of refuge from the misery of life - music and cats.
-- Albert Schweitzer "Commit yourself to quality from day one ... it's better to do nothing at all than to do something badly." (Mark McCormack) It is a known fact that men are practical, hardheaded realists, in contrast to women, who are
romantic dreamers and actually believe that estrogenic skin cream must do something or they
couldn't cha All virtue is summed up in dealing justly.
-- Aristotle It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.
-- Abraham Lincoln Slavonski Brod and Posavina To realize that you do not understand is a virtue;
Not to realize that you do not understand is a defect.
--Lao-Tzu, "Tao Teh Ching" I am become death, shatterer of worlds.
-- Robert J. Oppenheimer, citing from the Bhagavadgita, after witnessing the world's first nuclear
explosion "The man who never made a mistake never made anything." (Derek Longdon, Tongariro Power Development, Turangi, New Zealand) Slavonski Brod and Posavina
I prefer the wicked rather than the foolish. The wicked sometimes rest.
-- Alexandre Dumas pere Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.
-- George Bernard Shaw Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked
where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.
-- D. H. Lawrence A great deal of talent is lost to the world for want of a little courage. Every day sends to their
graves obscure men whom timidity prevented from making a first effort.
-- Sydney Smith The Middle Eastern states aren't nations; they're quarrels with borders.
-- P. J. O'Rourke Slavonski Brod and Posavina A theory is something nobody believes, except the person who made it. An experiment is
something everybody believes, except the person who made it.
-- Albert Einstein, attributed "If a million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing." (Anatole France) That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the
lessons that history has to teach.
-- Aldous Huxley Slavonski Brod and Posavina
A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.
- Frank Lloyd Wright Wives are people who feel they don't dance enough.
-- Groucho Marx Experience teaches only the teachable.
-- Aldous Huxley Nothing has really happened until it has been recorded.
-- Virginia Woolf Hell is a half-filled auditorium.
- Robert Frost Slavonski Brod and Posavina Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world.
-- George Bernard Shaw I am about to--or I am going to--die; either expression is used.
-- Dominique Bouhours, French grammarian, dying words "This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) Slavonski Brod and Posavina
We're our own dragons as well as our own heroes, and we have to rescue ourselves from
ourselves.
-- Tom Robbins The difference between pornography and erotica is lighting.
-- Gloria Leonard Reason can answer questions, but imagination has to ask them.
-- Ralph N. Gerard "Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country." (Marquis de Lafayette) The great thing in this world is not so much where we stand as in what direction we are going.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes Slavonski Brod and Posavina There are three types of people in this world: Those who can count, and those who can't.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker "I love Los Angeles. I love Hollywood. They're beautiful. Everybody's plastic, but I love plastic. I want to be plastic." (Andy Warhol, Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up) Whoever called it necking was a poor judge of anatomy.
-- Groucho Marx Slavonski Brod and Posavina
Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried.
-- G. K. Chesterton 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 Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.
- H. G. Wells There are times when parenthood seems nothing but feeding the mouth that bites you.
-- Peter De Vries Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.
-- Samuel Butler Slavonski Brod and Posavina I stopped believing in Santa Claus when I was six. Mother took me to see him in a department
store and he asked for my autograph.
-- Shirley Temple Black There is no future in any job. The future lies in the man who holds the job.
-- George Crane Marriage is a trip between Niagara Falls and Reno. Slavonski Brod and Posavina
"When even one American--who has done nothing wrong--is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth--then all Americans are in peril." (Harry S. Truman) The world has suffered more from the ravages of ill-advised marriages than from virginity.
-- Ambrose Bierce You have a cough? Go home tonight, eat a whole box of Ex-Lax--tomorrow you'll be afraid to
cough.
-- Pearl Williams A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.
-- Fr. Jerome Cummings The mathematician lives long and lives young; the wings of his soul do not early drop off, nor do
its pores become clogged with the earthy particles blown from the dusty highways of vulgar life.
-- Slavonski Brod and Posavina Whatever you are from nature, keep to it; never desert your own line of talent. Be what nature
intended you for, and you will succeed; be anything else, and you will be ten thousands times
worse tha It destroys one's nerves to be amiable everyday to the same human being.
-- Benjamin Disraeli There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world; and that is an idea whose time has
come.
-- Victor Hugo Slavonski Brod and Posavina
"You are rewarding a teacher poorly if you remain always a pupil." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) If I were a girl, I'd despair. The supply of good women far exceeds that of the men who deserve
them.
-- Robert Graves The difference between a man who faces death for the sake of an idea and an imitator who goes
in search of martyrdom is that the former expresses his idea most fully in death while the latter
really It makes no difference who you vote for - the two parties are really one party representing four
percent of the people.
-- Gore Vidal Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you.
- Carl Gustav Jung Slavonski Brod and Posavina Most of our obstacles would melt away if, instead of cowering before them, we should make up
our minds to walk boldly through them.
-- Orison Swett Marden The right to swing my fist ends where the other man's nose begins.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes Luck is the residue of design.
- Branch Rickey - former owner of the Brooklyn Dodger Baseball Team Slavonski Brod and Posavina
"Small minds discuss people, average minds discuss events, great minds discuss ideas." (Anonymous) We see the brightness of a new page where everything yet can happen.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke, Book of Hours I don't want everyone to like me; I should think less of myself if some people did.
-- Henry James There's a saying among prospectors: "Go out looking for one thing, and that's all you'll ever find."
-- Robert Flaherty "Great spirits have always faced voilent protest from mediocre minds." (Albert Einstein) Slavonski Brod and Posavina "Eagles may soar, but weasels don't get sucked into jet engines." (John Benfield) The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without
the sympathy of the community.
-- William James A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take her off his hands. -- Guitry Slavonski Brod and Posavina
"Expecting the world to treat you fairly because you are a good person is like expecting a bull not to attack you because you are a vegetarian." (Dennis Wholey) "Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains." (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, The Social Contract) There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house
as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends.
-- Homer, Odyssey, ninth century Where there is love there is life.
-- Gandhi When you are right, you cannot be too radical; When you are wrong, you cannot be too
conservative.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Slavonski Brod and Posavina A problem is a chance for you to do your best.
-- Buke Ellington And now, in keeping with Channel 40's policy of always bringing you the latest in blood and guts,
in living color, you're about to see another first -- an attempted suicide.
-- Chris Hubbock, who sh None but a good man is really a living man, and the more good any man does, the more he really
lives. All the rest is death, or belongs to it.
-- Herman Melville Slavonski Brod and Posavina
If all these sweet young things were laid end to end, I wouldn't be the slightest bit surprised.
-- Dorothy Parker We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind her stands his wife. -- Groucho Marx What if it was cats who invented technology... would they have tv shows starring rubber sqeak
toys?
-- Douglas Coupland We can lick gravity, but sometimes the paperwork is overwhelming.
-- Wehrner von Braun Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future.
-- Paul Boese Slavonski Brod and Posavina "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 Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and around the hands and feet of the man. The mathematician lives long and lives young; the wings of his soul do not early drop off, nor do
its pores become clogged with the earthy particles blown from the dusty highways of vulgar life.
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