"People demand freedom only when they have no power." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "In order to preserve your self-respect, it is sometimes necessary to lie and cheat." (Robert Byrne) Eternal boyhood is the dream of a depressing percentage of American males, and the locker
room is the temple where they worship arrested development.
-- Russell Baker When you gaze long into the abyss, the abyss also gazes into you.
- Friedrich Nietzsche We must believe in free will, we have no choice.
-- Isaac B. Singer Business and Economy Tear open packet, unfold and use.
-- Directions on moist towelette package Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than
yourself.
-- William Faulkner Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after.
-- Anne Morrow Lindbergh Business and Economy
Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you
have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not.
-- Aldous Huxley "The evil that men do lives after them; The good is oft interred with their bones." (William Shakespeare, Julius Cæsar. Act iii. Sc. 2.) I would have made a good Pope.
-- Richard Nixon, U.S. President "Being born is like being kidnapped. And then sold into slavery." (Andy Warhol) "In order to preserve your self-respect, it is sometimes necessary to lie and cheat." (Robert Byrne) Business and Economy Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the
gentleman.
-- Herbert Spencer I'm at the age where food has taken the place of sex in my life. In fact, I've just had a mirror put
over my kitchen table.
-- Rodney Dangerfield May you be blessed with a wife so healthy and strong, she can pull the plow when your horse drops dead. Business and Economy
To teach is to learn twice.
-- Joseph Joubert Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.
-- G. K. Chesterton 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 Stung by the splendour of a sudden thought.
-- Robert Browning "In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends." (Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.) Business and Economy And in the end it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
-- Abraham Lincoln There are three kinds of death in this world. There's heart death, there's brain death, and there's
being off the network.
-- Guy Almes "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) Business and Economy
"Now that we have everything we need, we discover that there is almost nothing that we have that we want." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) Multimedia? As far as I'm concerned, it's reading with the radio on!
-- Rory Bremner The days just before marriage are like a snappy introduction to a tedious book. "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." (Thomas Jefferson) "Failure is not an option!" (Ed Harris, as Gene Kranz, Apollo 13) Business and Economy The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.
-- Nicholas Murray Butler There is a coherent plan in the universe, though I don't know what it's a plan for.
-- Fred Hoyle "The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) Business and Economy
Whenever you eliminate the inedible, whatever remains, however unpalatable, must be food.
-- Anonymous Life is ours to be spent, not to be saved.
-- D.H. Lawrence "If you light a man a fire, he will be warm for a day; if you light a man on fire, he will be warm for the rest of his life." (Anonymous) Love is blind -- marriage is the eye-opener.
-- Pauline Thomason Silence is argument carried out by other means.
- ErnestoCheGuevara Business and Economy When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her. -- Guitry There are two major products that come out of Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to
be a coincidence.
-- Jeremy S. Anderson We need the iron qualities that go with true manhood. We need the positive virtues of resolution,
of courage, of indomitable will, of power to do without shrinking the rough work that must always
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Our own heart, and not other men's opinions form our true honor.
-- Coleridge, Samuel Taylor Life isn't a matter of milestones, but of moments.
-- Rose Kennedy Imagination is the highest kite one can fly.
-- Lauren Bacall 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 Go on, get out. Last words are for fools who haven't said enough.
-- Karl Marx, dying words to his housekeeper Business and Economy 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 Going to church doesn't make you a Christian any more than going to a garage makes you an
automobile.
-- Billy Sunday "Better is the enemy of good." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) Business and Economy
Even death is not to be feared by one who has lived wisely.
-- Buddha If you are afraid of loneliness, don't marry.
-- Chekhov Prejudice is the child of ignorance.
-- William Hazlitt "What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to a human soul." (Joseph Addison) "An able man shows his spirit by gentle words and resolute actions; he is neither hot nor timid." (Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield, 4th earl of) Business and Economy If you talk to God, you are praying; if God talks to you, you have schizophrenia.
-- Thomas Szasz Never regard study as a duty, but as the enviable opportunity to learn to know the liberating
influence of beauty in the realm of the spirit for your own personal joy and to the profit of the
commun I think 'Hail to the Chief' has a nice ring to it.
- John F. Kennedy when asked what is his favorite song Business and Economy
This is the miracle that happens every time to those who really love; the more they give, the more
they possess.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.
- Lao-Tzu The backbone of surprise is fusing speed with secrecy.
- Von Clausewitz Although the course may change sometimes, rivers always reach the sea.
-- Led Zeppelin, Ten Years Gone Prayer gives a man the opportunity of getting to know a gentleman he hardly ever meets. I do not
mean his maker, but himself.
-- Dean Inge Business and Economy These people have served a longer sentence than some people who have committed murder.
-- Jeff Greenfield, news analyst, describing the jury in the OJ Simpson murder trial, 1995 Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.
-- Francis Bacon Chance is always powerful. - Let your hook be always cast; in the pool where you least expect it,
there will be a fish.
-- Ovid Business and Economy
"It is a curious thing that God learned Greek when he wished to turn author--and that he did not learn it better." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) He who dies a thousand deaths meets the final hour with the calmness of one who approaches a
well remembered door.
-- Heywood Brown Love is an emotion that is based on an opinion of women that is impossible for those who have
had any experience with them.
-- H. L. Mencken "Wise men learn more from fools, than fools from the wise." (Anonymous) I am ready to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me
is another matter.
- Sir Winston Churchill Business and Economy "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) Why are women so much more interesting to men than men are to women?
-- Virginia Woolf Ridicule is generally made use of to laugh men out of virtue and good sense, by attacking
everything praiseworthy in human life.
-- Joseph Addison Business and Economy
Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.
-- Carl Gustav Jung Love is stronger than justice.
-- Sting A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend upon the support of Paul.
-- George Bernard Shaw You got to be careful if you don't know where you're going, because you might not get there.
-- Yogi Berra Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for
appointment by the corrupt few.
-- George bernard Shaw Business and Economy To marry is to halve your rights and double your duties.
-- Arthur Schopenhauer The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One
cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the
marvelous str "In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends." (Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.) Business and Economy
Whoever controls the media--the images--controls the culture.
-- Allen Ginsberg Sure, it's going to kill a lot of people, but they may be dying of something else anyway.
-- Othal Brand, member of a Texas pesticide review board Church is only society on earth that exists for the benefit of non-members.
-- William Temple The optimist sees opportunity in every danger; the pessimist sees danger in every opportunity.
-- Winston Churchill "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." (Albert Einstein) Business and Economy Hardly a year passes that fails to find a new, oft-times exotic, research method or technique
added to the armamentarium of political inquiry. Anyone who cannot negotiate Chi squares,
assess randomi "It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open one's mouth and remove all doubt." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) "Ideas are far more powerful than guns. We don't allow our enemies to have guns, why should we allow them to have ideas?" (Josef Stalin) Business and Economy
