"The first question I ask myself when something doesn't seem to be beautiful is why do I think it's not beautiful. And very shortly you discover that there is no reason." (John Cage) Well, I think that it's a- it's had some difficult times but I think we have- we, I think, have been able
to make some very good progress and it's- I would say that it's- it's- it's delightful that w The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
- Samuel Johnson blah "Some of the worlds greatest feats were accomplished by people not smart enough to know they were impossible. unattributed" (Anonymous) Marriage certificate is just another word for a work permit. Society and Culture 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 Man and wife make one fool. Each religion, by the help of more or less myth which it takes more or less seriously, proposes
some method of fortifying the human soul and enabline it to make its peace with its destiny.
-- George Society and Culture
Love is the same as like except you feel sexier.
-- Judith Viorst When we treat man as he is, we make him worse than he is; when we treat him as if he already
were what he potentially could be, we make him what he should be.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Conversation, fastidious Goddess, loves blood better than brick, and feasts most subtly on the
human will.
-- Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
-- Aristotle "A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) Society and Culture Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
-- Bob Perelman What's another word for "Thesaurus?"
-- Steven Wright Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.
-- George Bernard Shaw Society and Culture
Old soldiers never die, they just fade away.
-- General Douglas MacArthur It is much more comfortable to be mad and know it, than to be sane and have one's doubts.
- G. B. Burgin "... adults are just obsolete children and the hell with them." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, quoted in his obituary, Time) When you do the common things in life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of
the world.
- George Washington Carver What we anticipate seldom occurs: but what we least expect generally happens.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Society and Culture Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for
him.
-- Rich Little "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 Anything is possible, but only a few things actually happen.
-- Richard Rosen Society and Culture
"Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former." (Albert Einstein) "To forget one's purpose is the commonest form of stupidity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.
-- Karen Sunde If God wanted women to understand men, football would never have been created.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker "All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) Society and Culture Never try to teach a pig to sing. It wastes your time and annoys the pig.
-- Anonymous Question: If you could live forever, would you and why? Answer: I would not live forever, because
we should not live forever, because if we were supposed to live forever, then we would live
forever, If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?
-- Abraham Lincoln Society and Culture
Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife. -- PJ O'Rourke Sex is God's joke on human beings.
-- Bette Davis Dogma is the sacrifice of wisdom to consistency.
- Lewis Perelman "Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." (George Bernard Shaw) "Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent." (Napoleon Bonaparte) Society and Culture The worth of the state, in the long run, is the worth of the individuals composing it.
-- John Stuart Mill I can write better than anybody who can write faster, and I can write faster than anybody who can
write better.
- A. J. Liebling The church must be the critic and guide of the state, and never its tool.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Society and Culture
In the book of life, the answers aren't in the back.
-- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz In a novel, the hero can lay ten girls and marry a virgin for the finish. In a movie, that is not
allowed. The villain can lay anybody he wants, have as much fun and as he wants cheating,
stealing, I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than
knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.
-- Albert Einstein What is politics, after all, but the compulsion to preside over property and make other peoples'
decisions for them?
-- Tom Robbins, Skinny Legs and All Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.
- Albert Einstein Society and Culture The reason most people play golf is to wear clothes they would not be caught dead in otherwise.
-- Roger Simon "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) "Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past." (George Orwell) Society and Culture
If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate.
-- Steven Wright I don't know why I did it, I don't know why I enjoyed it, and I don't know why I'll do it again.
-- Bart Simpson, young character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated television show No other success can compensate for failure in the home.
-- David O. McKay, Encyclopedia of Mormonism, Advice to parents at General Conference of he
LDS Church, April, 1964 They gave me a book of checks. They didn't ask for any deposits.
-- Joe Early, Congressman (D-Mass), at a press conference to answer questions about the
House Bank scandal "Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Society and Culture Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress.
-- Gandhi I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.
-- Francois-Auguste Rodin, when asked how he managed to make his remarkable statues You can pay attention to the fact, in which case you'll probably become a mathematician, or you
can ignore it, in which case you'll probably become a physicist.
-- Len Evans, professor, Northwestern Society and Culture
"Do you know that places only yield up their secrets, their most profound mysteries, to those who are just passing through?" (Salman Rushdie, The Moor's Last Sigh) Computers can figure out all kinds of problems, except the things in the world that just don't add
up.
-- Anon It's true that I did get the girl, but then my grandfather always said, "Even a blind chicken finds a
few grains of corn now and then."
-- Lyle Lovett, musician, upon marying actress Julia Roberts, Honolulu - it's got everything. Sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother. -- Ken Dodd "Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience." (George Bernard Shaw) Society and Culture There are some experiences in life which should not be demanded twice from any man, and one
of them is listening to the Brahms Requiem.
-- George Bernard Shaw Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot.
-- Anonymous "My daughter has never forgiven me. for what, I don't know, because for years, she won't speak to me. She blackens my name in the press and makes me think abortion is an excellent idea." (Klaus Kinsk Society and Culture
Church is only society on earth that exists for the benefit of non-members.
-- William Temple Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more
experiments you make the better. What if they are a little course, and you may get your coat
soiled or torn? It is not because it is difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that things are
difficult.
-- Lucius Anneaus Seneca "I am interested in anything about revolt, disorder , chaos--especially activity that seems to have no meaning. It seems to me to be the road toward freedom ... Rather than starting inside, I start ou Honor's a good brooch to wear in a man's hat at all times.
-- Jonson, Ben Society and Culture "For others do I wait ... for higher ones, stronger ones, more triumphant ones, merrier ones, for such as are built squarely in body and soul: laughing lions must come." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "If all men knew what others say of them, there would not be four friends in the world." (Blaise Pascal) The only thing you will ever be able to say in the so-called 'social' sciences is: "some do, some
don't."
-- Ernest Rutherford Society and Culture
Ridicule is generally made use of to laugh men out of virtue and good sense, by attacking
everything praiseworthy in human life.
-- Joseph Addison "Character is determined more by the lack of certain experiences than by those one has had." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) One of the greatest discoveries a man makes, one of his great surprises, is to find he can do
what he was afraid he couldn't do.
-- Henry Ford "One of the things about acting is it allows you to live other people's lives without having to pay the price. I've never been one of those actors who has touted myself as a fascinating human being. I Say goodbye to the oldies, but goodies, because the good old days weren't always good and
tomorrow aint as bad as it seems.
-- Billy Joel Society and Culture What would you attempt if you knew you could not fail?
-- Robert Schuller I was a pilot flying an airplane and it just so happened that where I was flying made what I was
doing spying.
-- Francis Gary Power, U-2 reconnaissance pilot held by the Soviets for spying, in an i Die? I should say not, dear fellow. No Barrymore would allow such a conventional thing to
happen to him.
-- John Barrymore - last words Society and Culture
"Great work is done by people who are not afraid to be great." (Fernando Flores) However, never daunted, I will cope with adversity in my usual manner...sulking and nausea.
-- Tom K. Ryan "I feel I have to protect myself against things. So I'm pretty careful to lose most of them." (George Orson Welles) Every St. Patrick's Day every Irishman goes out to find another Irishman to make a speech to.
-- Shane Leslie The only Zen you find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there.
-- Robert M. Pirsig Society and Culture I'm not into working out. My philosophy: No pain, no pain.
-- Carol Leifer If you can't sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there and worrying. It's the worry
that gets you, not the loss of sleep.
-- Dale Carnegie Never eat more than you can lift.
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