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 "In fact, most deaths are not tragic. Few people die because of a flaw in character, which is the essential element of tragedy. They just die." (John Chancellor, The News Business) There are only two things a child will share willingly communicable diseases and his mother's
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-- Modern Maturity I am going to put myself to sleep now for a bit longer than usual. Call the time Eternity." (Jerzy Kosinski, Polish novelist, from his suicide note) Have you ever noticed? Anybody going slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than
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-- George Carlin Real Estate The first rule of intelligent tinkering is to save all the parts.
-- Paul Ehrlich Value your words. Each one may be the last.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec "A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward." (Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1882 - 1945, 32nd U.S. President) Real Estate
Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife. -- PJ O'Rourke Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it
- Henry David Thoreau "Crime like death is not confined to the old and withered alone. The youngest and fairest are too often its chosen victims." (Charles Dickens, 1812-70, Oliver Twist) When you gaze long into the abyss, the abyss also gazes into you.
- Friedrich Nietzsche The bottom line is that (a) people are never perfect, but love can be, (b) that is the one and only
way that the mediocre and vile can be transformed, and (c) doing that makes it that. We waste
time Real Estate "If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way." (Mark Twain) Use your own best judgment at all times.
-- The entire Nordstrom's Department Stores policy manual We live at a time when man believes himself fabulously capable of creation, but he does not
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-- Jose Ortega y Gasset Real Estate
You can't say civilization isn't advancing: in every war they kill you in a new way.
-- Will Rogers When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her. -- Guitry I figure you have the same chance of winning the lottery whether you play or not.
-- Fran Lebowitz Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow.
-- Helen Keller In view of all the deadly computer viruses that have been spreading lately, Weekend Update
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When a man says it's a silly, childish game, it's probably something his wife can beat him at. Blessed is he who has learned to laugh at himself, for he shall never cease to be entertained.
-- John Powell The secret of success is to know something nobody else knows.
- Aristotle Onassis Real Estate
Executive ability is deciding quickly and getting someone else to do the work.
-- John G. Pollard What sets worlds in motion is the interplay of differences, their attractions and repulsions; life is
plurality, death is uniformity.
-- Octavio Paz To the ass, or the sow, their own offspring appears the fairest in creation.
-- Latin Proverb America is the only nation in history which miraculously has gone directly from barbarism to
degeneration without the usual intervention of civilization.
-- George Clemenceau All over Washington today, the politicians and the power brokers are happy. In fact, if you listen
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-- Paul Jacob, Term Limits Executive Di Real Estate The person who is slowest in making a promise is most faithful in its performance.
-- Jean-Jacques Rousseau "Every great institution is the lengthened shadow of a single man. His character determines the character of the organization." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) "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 Real Estate
We got to roll with the punches, play all of our hunches, make the best of whatever comes your
way. Forget that blind ambition, learn to trust your intuition -- plowing straight ahead, come what
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-- John F. Kennedy Real Estate "Fear is a darkroom where negatives develop." (Usman Asif) Learn to laugh at your troubles and you'll never run out of things to laugh at.
-- Lyn Karol 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 Real Estate
The important thing is not to stop questioning.
-- Albert Einstein "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 Look at life through the windshield, not the rear-view mirror.
-- Byrd Baggett It is a product of Einstein's genius -- taking a commonplace observation, combining it with some
simple imaginary experiments, and arriving at a revolutionary conclusion.
-- Clifford M. Wills, 1986 We don't like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out.
-- Decca Recording Company, rejecting the Beatles, 1962 Real Estate "What dies if freedom lives? What lives if freedom dies?" (Lindsay Anderson, British filmmaker, from if.... (1968) Virtue is not left to stand alone. He who practices it will have neighbors.
-- Confucius "Inside of a ring or out, ain't nothing wrong with going down. It's staying down that's wrong." (Muhammad Ali) Real Estate
The difference between false memories and true ones is the same as for jewels: it is always the
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-- Salvador Dali "If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost." (Aristotle) The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat.
-- Lily Tomlin "Friends can help each other. A true friend is someone who lets you have total freedom to be yourself--and especially to feel. Or, not feel. Whatever you happen to be feeling at the moment is fine wit Wit is educated insolence.
- Aristotle Real Estate "In large states public education will always be mediocre, for the same reason that in large kitchens the cooking is usually bad." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) All virtue is summed up in dealing justly.
-- Aristotle "I'm basically an optimist in life but this doesn't prevent me from deducing as a scientist that we are probably doomed." (Vladimir Chaloupka, physicist, University of Washington, regarding mankind's Real Estate
"I don't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones." (John Cage) We think caged birds sing, when indeed they cry.
-- John Webster Character may be manifested in the great moments, but it is made in the small ones.
-- Phillip Brooks How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg? Four. Calling a tail a leg doesn't make it
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-- Abraham Lincoln A straight line is the shortest in morals as in mathematics.
-- Maria Edgeworth Real Estate You have a cough? Go home tonight, eat a whole box of Ex-Lax--tomorrow you'll be afraid to
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-- Pearl Williams "I consider it the highest compliment when my employees go out and start their own companies in competition with me. I always send them a plant to wish them well. Of course, it's a cactus." (Norman B No man in the world has more courage than the man who can stop after eating one peanut.
-- Channing Pollack Real Estate
Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.
-- G. K. Chesterton What kills a skunk is the publicity it gives itself.
-- Abraham Lincoln Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.
-- George Bernard Shaw Marry in haste, repent in leisure.
-- Tilney I once asked my history teacher how we were expected to learn anything useful from his subject,
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scumbags dev Real Estate The democratic theory is that if you accumulate enough ignorance at the polls, you produce
intelligence.
-- Philo Vance As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he.
-- Proverbs 23:7 Whatever you are, be a good one.
-- Abraham Lincoln Real Estate
"One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) A really busy person never knows how much he weighs.
-- Ed Howe Every flower must grow through dirt.
-- Anonymous Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by heart and his friends can
only read the title.
-- Virginia Woolf Democracy is a process by which the people are free to choose the man who will get the blame.
-- Laurence J. Peter Real Estate While we are postponing, life speeds by.
- Seneca (3BC - 65AD) The theory used to be you marry an older man because they are more mature. The new theory is that men don't mature. So you might as well marry a younger one. Wagner's music is better than it sounds.
- Mark Twain Real Estate
Love is the dawn of marriage, and marriage is the sunset of love.
-- French saying Value your words. Each one may be the last.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec Sex is God's joke on human beings.
-- Bette Davis "I am a part of all that I have met." (Alfred Lord Tennyson, 1809-1892, English poet) Coffee is a beverage that puts one to sleep when not drank.
-- Alphonse Allais Real Estate The highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to make money do more for the
betterment of life.
-- Henry Ford The principle of give and take is the principle of diplomacy - give one and take ten.
-- Mark Twain Goodbye, Everybody!
-- Hart Crane, poet, who committed suicide by jumping overboard during a steamship voyage. Real Estate
