Success is peace of mind which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you did your best
to become the best you are capable of becoming.
-- John R. Wooden, Practical Modern Basketball Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well.
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-- John B. Sedgwick, general, dying words, 1864 "If all men knew what others say of them, there would not be four friends in the world." (Blaise Pascal) Multimedia? As far as I'm concerned, it's reading with the radio on!
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-- Oliver Wendell Holmes Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it. As always, victory finds a hundred fathers but defeat is an orphan.
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Life is the flower for which love is the honey.
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"Hello Kitty is an icon that doesn't stand for a "To make the individual uncomfortable, that is my task." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave." (Calvin Coolidge) You cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.
-- Mark Twain Arts and Entertainment Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife.
-- P. J. O'Rourke Its failings notwithstanding, there is much to be said in favor of journalism in that by giving us the
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-- Oscar W To love another person is to see the face of God.
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The best reason I can think of for not running for President of the United States is that you have
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-- Button from the Computer Museum, Boston, MA Most people are more comfortable with old problems than with new solutions.
-- Anonymous Arts and Entertainment Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of
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-- John Adams He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose
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-- Woodrow Wyatt Arts and Entertainment
If you are all wrapped up in yourself, you are overdressed
-- Kate Halverson "Mothers spend a lifetime excising from their sons the influence of their fathers." (Arthur Lotti) "It is far better to be alone, than to be in bad company." (George Washington) Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more
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-- Niccolo Machiavelli I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.
- Francois-Auguste Rodin (1840-1917), when asked how he managed to make his remarkable
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Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
-- George Bernard Shaw "Once spirit was God, then it became man, and now it is even becoming mob." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Republican boys date Democratic girls. They plan to marry Republican girls, but feel they're entitled to a little fun first. Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald It destroys one's nerves to be amiable everyday to the same human being.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Arts and Entertainment "My wallpaper and I are fighting a duel to the death. One or the other of us has to go." (Oscar Wilde, his last recorded words) Generations to come will find it difficult to believe that a man such as Gandhi ever walked the
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"If I work toward an end, meantime I am confined to a process. The rainbow is more beautiful than the pot at the end of it, because the rainbow is now. And the pot never turns out to be quite what I e "Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking." (H. Jackson Brown (Jr.) Thank God - every morning when you get up - that you have something to do which must be
done, whether you like it or not. Being forced to work, and forced to do your best, will breed in you
a hundre I base my fashion sense on what doesn't itch.
-- Gilda Radner I must follow the people. Am I not their leader?
-- Benjamin Disraeli Arts and Entertainment There is nothing better for the spirit or the body than a love affair. It elevates the thoughts and
flattens the stomachs.
-- Barbara Howar The grass may be greener on the other side of the fence, but you still have to mow it.
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"Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past." (George Orwell) You've no idea of what a poor opinion I have of myself, and how little I deserve it.
-- W.S. Gilbert Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
-- Harriet Beecher Stowe Life is like a dogsled team. If you ain't the lead dog, the scenery never changes.
-- Lewis Grizzard In endowing us with memory, nature has revealed to us a truth utterly unimaginable to the
unreflective creation, the truth of immortality....The most ideal human passion is love, which is
also the m Arts and Entertainment All science is concerned with the relationship of cause and effect. Each scientific discovery
increases man's ability to predict the consequences of his actions and thus his ability to control
futur "Great spirits have always faced voilent protest from mediocre minds." (Albert Einstein) In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that
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-- Paul Dirac Arts and Entertainment
NEIGHBOR, n. One whom we are commanded to love as ourselves, and who does all he knows
how to make us disobedient.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 "Humans beings can always be relied upon to assert, with vigor, their god-given right to be stupid." (Dean Koontz, Seize the Night) 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 The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit.
-- W. Somerset Maugham In marriage, as in war, it is permitted to take every advantage of the enemy. Arts and Entertainment blah "Ideas are like stars, you will not succeed in touching them with your hands, but like the seafaring man on the desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and, following them, you reach yo "Fear is a darkroom where negatives develop." (Usman Asif) You must first have a lot of patience to learn to have patience.
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A good time to keep your mouth shut is when you're in deep water.
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- Gail Godwin Many a man owes his success to his first wife and his second wife to his success.
-- Jim Backus Most convicted felons are just people who were not taken to museums or Broadway musicals as
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-- Mark Russell "I love to doubt as well as know." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) We have a habit in writing articles published in scientific journals to make the work as finished as
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The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may
well be another profound truth.
-- Niels Bohr Organic chemistry is the chemistry of carbon compounds. Biochemistry is the study of carbon
compounds that crawl.
-- Mike Adams I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think.
-- Socrates I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to.
-- Elvis Presley I envy people who drink -- at least they know what to blame everything on.
-- Oscar Levant Arts and Entertainment Thank God - every morning when you get up - that you have something to do which must be
done, whether you like it or not. Being forced to work, and forced to do your best, will breed in you
a hundre "Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) May your wife be a witch who takes after her mother, and may you all live together in a one-room house. Arts and Entertainment
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 "We already have the statistics for the future: the growth percentages of pollution, overpopulation, desertification. The future is already in place." (Günther Grass, Winner of the Nobel Prize for Li If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts.
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- Mahatma Gandhi Arts and Entertainment Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.
- Albert Einstein Love is only the game that is not called on account of darkness.
-- M. Hirschfield The marriage of Marxism and feminism has been like the marriage of husband and wife depicted in English common law: Marxism and feminism are one, and that one is Marxism. --Heidi Hartmann [The Unhappy Arts and Entertainment
