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I love deadlines. I especially like the whooshing sound they make as they go flying by.
-- Douglas Adams Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after.
-- Anne Morrow Lindbergh There are many things worth living for, there are a few things worth dying for, but there is nothing
worth killing for.
-- Tom Robbins In the book of life, the answers aren't in the back.
-- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz If I have seen farther than others, it is because I was standing on the shoulders of giants.
-- Isaac Newton Cesky Krumlov In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
- Martin Luther King Jr. Every St. Patrick's Day every Irishman goes out to find another Irishman to make a speech to.
-- Shane Leslie Most rock journalism is people who can't write interviewing people who can't talk for people who
can't read.
-- Frank Zappa Cesky Krumlov
"Death is always and under all circumstances a tragedy, for if it is not, then it means that life itself has become one." (Theodore Roosevelt) It is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions.
-- Aldous Huxley The Holocaust was an obscene period in our nation's history...this century's history.... We all lived
in this century. I didn't live in this century.
-- Dan Quayle, then Indiana senator and Republic If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one.
-- Mother Teresa When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I only think about how to solve the
problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
-- Buckminster Cesky Krumlov I sometimes think that God, in creating man, overestimated His ability.
-- Oscar Wilde "I have the terrible feeling that, because I am wearing a white beard and am sitting in the back of the theatre, you expect me to tell you the truth about something. These are the cheap seats, not Mou "If a man has good corn, or wood, or boards, or pigs to sell, or can make better chairs or knives, crucibles, or church organs, than anybody else, you will find a broad, hard-beaten road to his house, Cesky Krumlov
"To forget one's purpose is the commonest form of stupidity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) All human actions are equivalent... and... all are on principle doomed...
-- Jean-Paul Sartre, "Being and Nothingness" "The act of policing is, in order to punish less often, to punish more severely." (Napoleon Bonaparte) Go on, get out. Last words are for fools who haven't said enough.
-- Karl Marx, dying words to his housekeeper Nuns: Women who marry God. If they divorce Him, do they get half the universe? Cesky Krumlov Great Spirit, help me never to judge another until I have walked in his moccasins.
-- Sioux Indian Prayer We must believe in free will, we have no choice.
-- Isaac B. Singer A great deal of talent is lost to the world for want of a little courage. Every day sends to their
graves obscure men whom timidity prevented from making a first effort.
-- Sydney Smith Cesky Krumlov
Whenever I climb I am followed by a dog called 'Ego'.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Virtue is not left to stand alone. He who practices it will have neighbors.
-- Confucius "The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet." (Andy Warhol) Character is what you are in the dark.
-- Dwight L. Moody 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 Cesky Krumlov "Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to know." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) "The biggest argument against democracy is a five minute discussion with the average voter." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) In a hierarchy, every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence. Therefore:
? In time, every post tends to be occupied by an employee who is incompetent to carry out its
duties.
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A sweetheart is a bottle of wine, a wife is a wine bottle.
-- Baudelaire "How wondrous familiar is a fool!" (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) The wages of sin are death, but by the time taxes are taken out, it's just sort of a tired feeling.
-- Paula Poundstone You have a cough? Go home tonight, eat a whole box of Ex-Lax--tomorrow you'll be afraid to
cough.
-- Pearl Williams "You believe that flag burning shows disrespect towards those who have fought to preserve our freedoms. Punishing protestors shows an even more profound disrespect for the ideals that these people die Cesky Krumlov "A dress makes no sense unless it inspires men to take it off of you." (Francois Sagan) "If there is something to pardon in everything, there is also something to condemn." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, The Will to Power, 1888) The difference between sex and death is that with death you can do it alone and no one is going
to make fun of you.
-- Woody Allen Cesky Krumlov
Most people are more comfortable with old problems than with new solutions.
-- Anonymous "I think you should defend to the death their right to march, and then go down and meet them with baseball bats." (Woody Allen, in regard to the KKK) Marriage is the process of finding out what kind of man your wife would have preferred. >From the moment I picked your book up until I laid it down I was convulsed with laughter. Some
day I intend reading it.
-- Groucho Marx A beauty is a woman you notice; A charmer is one who notices you.
-- Adlai Stevenson Cesky Krumlov Marriage is a mutual relationship if both parties know when to be mute. Substitute "damn" every time you're inclined to write "very"; your editor will delete it and the
writing will be just as it should be.
-- Mark Twain Laywers, I suppose, were children once.
-- Charles Lamb Cesky Krumlov
I don't feel good.
-- Luther Burbank, dying words blah bl "The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning, but without understanding." (Louis Brandeis) Let the refining and improving of your own life keep you so busy that you have little time to
criticize others.
-- H. Jackson Brown The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is
not read.
-- Oscar Wilde "Growth in wisdom can be measured precisely by decline in bile." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Human, All Too Human) Cesky Krumlov Everywhere I go, I'm asked if the universities stifle writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle
enough of them.
-- Flannery O'Connor "The act of policing is, in order to punish less often, to punish more severely." (Napoleon Bonaparte) And life is what we make it. Always has been, always will be.
-- Grandma Moses Cesky Krumlov
"When we are born we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools." (William Shakespeare) Remember your dreams.
-- Maryanne Radmacher-Herhey When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives mean the most to us, we often find
that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our
pain "I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him." (Galileo Galilei) Talent does what it can; genius does what it must.
- Edward George Bulwer-Lytton Cesky Krumlov To take what there "is", and use it, without waiting forever in vain for the preconceived - to dig
deep into the actual and get something out of that - this doubtless is the right way to live.
-- H An undefined problem has an infinite number of solutions.
-- Robert A. Humphrey "Education must have an end in view, for it is not an end in itself." (Sybil Marshall) Cesky Krumlov
That government is best which governs least.
-- Henry David Thoreau, Civil Disobedience, 1849 Marrying a man is like buying something you've been admiring for a long time in a shop window.
You may love it when you get it home, but it doesn't always go with everything in the house.
-- Jean Ke "Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains." (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, The Social Contract) Icky icky icky icky fKANG zoop-boing n zowzyin...
-- The Knights who so recently said "Nee!", Monty Python, British comedy television show When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives mean the most to us, we often find
that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our
pain Cesky Krumlov There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of
bread.
- Mahatma Gandhi Every major horror of history was committed in the name of an altruistic motive.
-- Ayn Rand I believe that mink are raised for being turned into fur coats and if we didn't wear fur coats those
little animals would never have been born. So is it better not to have been born or to have lived Cesky Krumlov
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-- The Knights who so recently said "Nee!", Monty Python, British comedy television show There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you
yourself have altered.
-- Nelson Mandela, A Long Walk to Freedom When a thing has been said and said well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it.
-- Anatole France 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 Unha 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 Unha Cesky Krumlov People, like nails, lose their effectiveness when they lose direction and begin to bend.
-- Walter Savage Landor The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.
-- G. K. Chesterton "Employees make the best dates. You don't have to pick them up and they're always tax-deductible." (Andy Warhol, Andy Warhol's Exposures, 1980) Cesky Krumlov
"I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough." (M. C. Escher) Cliches should be avoided like the plague.
-- Anon. It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid.
- George Bernard Shaw You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try.
-- Beverly Sills "Friends are those people who know the words to the song in your heart and sing them back to you when you have forgotten the words." (Anonymous) Cesky Krumlov When a girl marries she exchanges the attention of many men for the inattention of one.
-- Helen Rowland "What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Thank heaven. A bachelor's life is no life for a single man.
-- Samuel Goldwyn, immigrant-turned-famous-movie-producer, when told his son was getting
married Cesky Krumlov
