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You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it come true.
-- Richard Bach 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 The better part of one's life consists of his friendships.
-- Abraham Lincoln To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest.
-- Ghandi "The perception of beauty is a moral test." (Henry David Thoreau) News and Media If you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it's done.
-- Scott Adams Trust, but verify.
-- Ronald Reagan "For how can one know color in perpetual green, and what good is warmth without cold to give it sweetness?" (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) News and Media
Self-reliance is the only road to true freedom, and being one's own person is its ultimate reward.
-- Patricia Sampson By working faithfully eight hours a day, you might eventually get to be a boss and work twelve
hours a day.
-- ROBERT FROST "Man is a strange animal. He generally cannot read the handwriting on the wall until his back is up against it." (Adlai Stevenson) "Friends can help each other. A true friend is someone who lets you have total freedom to be yourself--and especially to feel. Or, not feel. Whatever you happen to be feeling at the moment is fine wit Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish.
-- Albert Einstein News and Media Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died.
-- Erma Bombeck The open-minded see the truth in different things: the narrow-minded see only the differences.
-- Author Unknown The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
-- Blaise Pascal, Pensées, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer News and Media
History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte Marriage is a matter of give and take, but so far I haven't been able to find anybody who'll take what I have to give. -- Cass Daley Knowledge is the intellectual manipulation of carefully verified observations.
-- Sigmund Freud Do not let yourselves be discouraged or embittered by the smallness of the success you are likely
to achieve in trying to make life better. You certainly would not be able, in a single generation, to Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
-- George Bernard Shaw News and Media "The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none." (Thomas Carlyle, 1795-1881) Women are like tea bags; put them in hot water and they get stronger.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt Neither fire nor wind, birth nor death can erase our good deeds.
-- Buddha News and Media
Trust everybody, but cut the cards.
-- Finley Peter Dunne >From error to error one discovers the entire truth.
-- Sigmund Freud Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of
the time.
-- E. B. White If you can't convince them, confuse them.
-- Harry S. Truman I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to.
-- Elvis Presley News and Media "The reason why kids are crazy is because nobody can face the responsibility of bringing them up." (John Lennon) You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.
-- Albert Camus Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount.
-- Clare Boothe Luce News and Media
"The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing." (John Powell) Every St. Patrick's Day every Irishman goes out to find another Irishman to make a speech to.
-- Shane Leslie You can close your eyes to reality, but not to memories.
-- Stanislaw J. Lem The story of a love is not important - what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps
the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.
-- Helen Hayes Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech.
- Martin Fraquhar Tupper News and Media Chase after the truth like all hell and you'll free yourself, even though you never touch its
coattails.
-- Clarence Darrow Computers will not be perfected until they can compute how much more than the estimate the job
will cost.
-- Anon There's many a bestseller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.
-- Flannery O'Connor News and Media
"It is neccessary to have wished for death in order to know how good it is to live." (Alexander Dumas) Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do.
-- Dr. Benjamin Spock, American pediatrician, address to new parents "Mistakes are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) Anyway, no drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the
source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity,
ign My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you'll be happy; if not, you'll become a
philosopher.
- Socrates News and Media Parents often talk about the younger generations as if they didn't have anything to do with it. "Listen, or your tongue will make you deaf." (Native American Proverb) We have children because we want immortality and this is the most reliable way of getting it.
-- Woodrow Wyatt News and Media
I'm not indecisive. Am I indecisive?
-- Jim Scheibel, mayor, St. Paul MN Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
-- Oscar Wilde The great man fights the elements in his time that hinder his own greatness, in other words his own freedom and sincerity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose
-- Jim Elliott He who knows only his own side of the case, knows little of that.
-- John Stuart Mill News and Media The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
-- Winston Churchill "I met someone on the street who said wasn't it great that we're going to have a movie star for president, that it was so Pop, and (laughs) when you think about it like that, it is great, it's so Amer "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 News and Media
"This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) My wife submits and I obey; she always lets me have her way. "The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of the dream." (Eleanor Roosevelt) "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, Alice in Wonderland There is nothing more notable in Socrates than that he found time, when he was an old man, to
learn music and dancing, and thought it time well spent.
-- Michel de Montaigne News and Media "Everywhere one seeks to produce meaning, to make the world signify, to render it visible. We are not, however, in danger of lacking meaning; quite the contrary, we are gorged with meaning and it is k blah bla "I never think of the future. It comes soon enough." (Albert Einstein) I shall return.
-- General Douglas MacArthur News and Media
The great tragedy of science, the slaying of a beautiful theory by an ugly fact.
-- Thomas Henry Huxley I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.
-- Albert Einstein "Ask five economists and you'll get five different answers (six if one went to Harvard)." (Edgar R. Fiedler) "We live in an age when pizza gets to your home before the police." (Jeff Marder) Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door
and just visit now and then.
-- Katharine Hepburn News and Media I recently read that love is entirely a matter of chemistry. That must be why my wife treats me like
toxic waste.
-- David Bissonette Friends need not agree in everything or go always together, or have no comparable other
friendships of the same intimacy. On the contrary, in friendship union is more about ideal things:
and in that Death does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when it does
come, we no longer exist.
-- Epicurus News and Media
The husband who wants a happy marriage should learn to keep his mouth shut and his checkbook open. -- Groucho Marx "I'll tell you something: Luxury disgusts me." (Giorgio Armani) A conference is a gathering of important people who singly can do nothing, but together can
decide that nothing can be done.
-- Fred Allen It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.
-- Henry James Jealousy is the only vice that gives no pleasure.
-- Anonymous News and Media Bride: A woman with a fine prospect of happiness behind her. Reason can answer questions, but imagination has to ask them.
-- Ralph N. Gerard The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that it has never tried to
contact us.
-- Bill Watterson, in his comic strip Calvin and Hobbes News and Media
Generations to come will find it difficult to believe that a man such as Gandhi ever walked the
face of this earth.
-- Albert Einstein "Goodwill is the only asset that competition cannot undersell or destroy." (Mrshall Field, businessman and philanthropist) blah "Ability wins us the esteem of the true men; luck that of the people." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) That's the nature of research--you don't know what in hell you're doing.
-- 'Doc' Edgerton We come to love not by finding a perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person
perfectly.
-- Anonymous News and Media Love is like the measles. The older you get it, the worse the attack.
-- Mary Roberts Rhinehart My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you'll be happy; if not, you'll become a
philosopher.
- Socrates Politics is for people who have a passion for changing life but lack a passion for living it.
-- Tom Robbins News and Media
