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-- Gamaliel Bradford Not to anticipate is already to moan.
-- Leonardo da Vinci The artist alone sees spirits. But after he has told of their appearing to him, everybody sees them.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe What if it was cats who invented technology... would they have tv shows starring rubber sqeak
toys?
-- Douglas Coupland There is a coherent plan in the universe, though I don't know what it's a plan for.
-- Fred Hoyle Novy Bydzov A man's feet should be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world.
-- George Santayana Marriage is an institution--but who wants to live in an institution? We are the echo of the future.
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"If you assume that there's no hope, you guarantee that there will be no hope. If you assume that there is an instinct for freedom, there are opportunities to change things, there's a chance for you t There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in his home.
-- Kenneth H. Olson, President of DEC, Convention of the World Future Society, 1977 "Children spell love...T-I-M-E." (Dr. Anthony P. Witham) Never tell. Not if you love your wife... In fact, if your old lady walks in on you, deny it. Yeah. Just
flat out and she'll believe it: "I'm tellin' ya. This chick came downstairs with a sign around Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three pillars of learning.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Novy Bydzov Morality consists in suspecting other people of not being legally married.
-- George Bernard Shaw Television: A medium. So called because it is neither rare nor well done.
-- Ernie Kovacs Everybody can be great... because anybody can serve. You don't have to have a college degree
to serve. You don't have to make your subject and verb agree to serve. you only need a heart full
of grac Novy Bydzov
Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when
people laugh.
-- George Bernard Shaw "It ends not with a bang, but a whimper." (Thomas Stearns Eliot, aka T. S. Eliot, The Hollow Man) And gain is gain, however small.
-- Robert Browning I think that I shall never see
A billboard lovely as a tree.
Indeed, unless the billboards fall,
I'll never see a tree at all.
-- Ogden Nash, Song of the Open Road, 1945 Cliches should be avoided like the plague.
-- Anon. Novy Bydzov "Courageous, untroubled, mocking and violent--that is what Wisdom wants us to be. Wisdom is a woman, and loves only a warrior." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "So little done, so much to do." (Cecil Rhodes) "Inside of a ring or out, ain't nothing wrong with going down. It's staying down that's wrong." (Muhammad Ali) Novy Bydzov
"A bore is a man who, when you ask him how he is, tells you." (Bert Leston Taylor) Every major horror of history was committed in the name of an altruistic motive.
-- Ayn Rand A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence
University education.
-- George Bernard Shaw We had a lot in common. I loved him and he loved him.
-- Shelley Winters To love another person is to help them love God.
-- Søren Kierkegaard Novy Bydzov Die? I should say not, dear fellow. No Barrymore would allow such a conventional thing to
happen to him.
-- John Barrymore - last words Work is the refuge of people who have nothing better to do.
-- Oscar Wilde 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 Novy Bydzov
"'Contrariwise,' continued Tweedledee, 'if it was so, it might be, and if it were so, it would be; but as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic!'" (Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking Glass) To achieve the impossible, it is precisely the unthinkable that must be thought.
-- Tom Robbins, Jitterbug Perfume When women go wrong, men go right after them.
-- Mae West "Liberty has never come from the government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of it. The history of liberty is a history of resistance. The history of liberty is a history of limitations of g Whenever you eliminate the inedible, whatever remains, however unpalatable, must be food.
-- Anonymous Novy Bydzov The only thing you take with you when you're gone is what you leave behind.
-- John Allston The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn.
-- Cicero UGLINESS, n. A gift of the gods to certain women, entailing virtue without humility.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 Novy Bydzov
Men marry because they are tired, women because they are curious; both are disappointed.
-- Oscar Wilde "Most people don't realize that large pieces of coral, which have been painted brown and attached to the skull by common wood screws, can make a child look like a deer." (Jack Handey) The great end of life is not knowledge, but action. What men need is as much knowledge as they
can organize for action; give them more and it may become injurious. Some men are heavy and
stupid from "If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) We can never be sure that the opinion we are endeavoring to stifle is a false opinion; and if we
were sure, stifling it would be an evil still.
-- John Stuart Mill Novy Bydzov I have a daughter who goes to SMU. She could've gone to UCLA here in California, but it's one
more letter she'd have to remember.
-- Shecky Greene Some people talk in their sleep. Lecturers talk while other people sleep.
-- Albert Camus The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit.
-- W. Somerset Maugham Novy Bydzov
There are two means of refuge from the misery of life - music and cats.
-- Albert Schweitzer "Do something for the joy of doing it and pray you won't be punished." (Sammy Cahn) Adolescence is a period of rapid changes. Between the ages of 12 and 17, for example, a parent
ages as much as 20 years.
-- Anonymous "I am not afraid of tomorrow, for i have seen yesterday and i love today!" (William Allen White) I never miss a chance to have sex or appear on television.
-- Gore Vidal Novy Bydzov "A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool." (William Shakespeare) My mother-in-law broke up my marriage. My wife came home from work one day and found me in
bed with her.
-- Lenny Bruce What if it was cats who invented technology... would they have tv shows starring rubber sqeak
toys?
-- Douglas Coupland Novy Bydzov
"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world, indeed it is the only thing that ever has." (Margaret Mead, 1901-78) "The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do." (Anonymous) The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it.
-- Anonymous "To live is to dream and to die is to awaken." (Anonymous) When he first ran for office, he appealed to the voters: "I never stole anything in my life. All I ask
is a chance."
-- Anon. Novy Bydzov Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business.
-- Tom Robbins The wages of sin are death, but by the time taxes are taken out, it's just sort of a tired feeling.
-- Paula Poundstone The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
-- Blaise Pascal, Pensées, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer Novy Bydzov
ARDOR, n. The quality that distinguishes love without knowledge.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.
-- George Bernard Shaw Art and science have their meeting point in method.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton Sex is like bridge: If you don't have a good partner, you better have a good hand.
-- Charles Pierce An understanding heart is everything is a teacher, and cannot be esteemed highly enough. One
looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our
human Novy Bydzov If love is the answer, could you rephrase the question?
-- Lily Tomlin If you would thoroughly know anything, teach it to others.
-- Tryon Edwards A friend is a gift you give yourself.
-- Robert Louis Stevenson Novy Bydzov
blah "The best students always are flunking. Every good teacher knows that." (Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance) Marriage was all a woman's idea and for man's acceptance of the pretty yoke, it becomes us to
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-- Phyllis McGinley We need a president who's fluent in at least one language.
-- Buck Henry Education is the state-controlled manufacture of echoes.
-- Norman Douglas We can do not great things - only small things with great love.
-- Mother Theresa Novy Bydzov "The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Free will is a golden thread running through the frozen matrix of fixed events.
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He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.
- Sir Winston Churchill You probably wouldn't worry about what people think of you if you could know how seldom they
do.
-- Olin Miller We can do no great things; only small things with great love.
-- Mother Teresa Do not assume that she who seeks to comfort you now, lives untroubled among the simple and
quiet words that sometimes do you good. Her life may also have much sadness and difficulty, that
remains fa One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is
terribly important.
- Bertrand Russell
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