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"Have confidence that if you have done a little thing well, you can do a bigger thing well, too." (David Malcolm Storey) Minds are like parachutes - they only function when open.
-- Thomas Dewar We must believe in free will, we have no choice.
-- Isaac B. Singer He early on let her know who is the boss. He looked her right in the eye and clearly said, "You're
the boss."
-- Anonymous University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
-- Henry Kissinger Education "The market is not an invention of capitalism. It has existed for centuries. It is an invention of civilization." (Mikhail Gorbachev, June 8, 1990) Democracy is a government where you can say what you think even if you don't think.
-- Anon. The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.
-- G. K. Chesterton Education
Nothing is beneath you if it is in the direction of your life.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than
the wisest man can answer.
-- Charles Caleb Colton "Like as the waves make towards the pebbl'd shore, so do our minutes, hasten to their end." (William Shakespeare) "A dress makes no sense unless it inspires men to take it off of you." (Francois Sagan) Art and science have their meeting point in method.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton Education With the catching end the pleasures of the chase.
-- Abraham Lincoln Disclaimer: Even my wife doesn't agree with everything I say, and she loves me dearly. My employers don't love me nearly as much as she does. Draw your own conclusions. "If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) Education
"I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it." (Thomas Jefferson, to Archibald Stuart, 1791) We had a lot in common. I loved him and he loved him.
-- Shelley Winters Neither fire nor wind, birth nor death can erase our good deeds.
-- Buddha We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next door neighbour.
-- G. K. Chesterton One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: that word is love.
-- Sophocles Education The principle of give and take is the principle of diplomacy - give one and take ten.
-- Mark Twain If all men were brothers, would you let one marry your sister? I don't know why we are here, but I'm pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves.
- Ludwig Wittgenstein Education
All you need is love.
-- The Beatles, song title To read a writer is for me not merely to get an idea of what he says, but to go off with him and travel in his company.
Andre Gide To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.
-- Karen Sunde The time is always right to do what is right.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Live truth instead of professing it.
-- Elbert Hubbard Education The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because
generally they are the same people.
-- G. K. Chesterton Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is enemy action.
- Auric Goldfinger, in Goldfinger by Ian L. Fleming Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple, learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a
dozen.
-- John Steinbeck Education
The trouble with some women is that they get all excited about nothing -- and then marry him.
-- Cher There is a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious, makes you so sick at
heart, you can't take part. And you've got to put your body upon the gears and upon the wheels,
upon the lev We didn't send you to Washington to make intelligent decisions. We sent you to represent us.
-- Kent York, Baptist minister to US Rep. Bill Sarpalius If you would thoroughly know anything, teach it to others.
-- Tryon Edwards In the past decade or so, the women's magazines have taken to running home-handyperson
articles suggesting that women can learn to fix things just as well as men. These articles are
apparently based Education There's many a bestseller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.
-- Flannery O'Connor A true gentleman is one who is never unintentionally rude.
-- Oscar Wilde All that is gold does not glitter. Not all those who wander are lost;
-- J.R.R. Tolkein Education
An eye for an eye only leads to more blindness.
-- Margaret Atwood The nice thing about being a celebrity is that if you bore people they think it's their fault.
- Henry Kissinger "People who cease to believe in God or goodness altogether still believe in the devil. I don't know why. No, I do indeed know why. Evil is always possible. And goodness is eternally difficult." (Anne 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 Sleep is that golden chain that ties health and our bodies together.
-- Thomas Dekker Education your daughters marry men of substance: gypsies with two bears. Every act of creation is first an act of destruction.
-- Pablo Picasso "They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself." (Andy Warhol) Education
Most people think life sucks, and then you die. Not me. I beg to differ. I think life sucks, then you
get cancer, then your dog dies, your wife leaves you, the cancer goes into remission, you get a
If I were a girl, I'd despair. The supply of good women far exceeds that of the men who deserve
them.
-- Robert Graves She felt in italics and thought in capitals.
-- Henry James "Common sense and education are highly compatible; in fact, neither is worth much without the other." (Donald G. Smith) "College: two hundred people reading same book. An obvious mistake. Two hundred people can read two hundred books." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) Education Marriage is very much like a violin; after the sweet music is over, the strings are attached. Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you help them to become what they are
capable of being.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try.
-- Beverly Sills Education
"Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future." (Paul Boese) Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has not heart; and any man who is over 30, and is
not a conservative, has no brains.
- Sir Winston Churchill Friends applaud, the Comedy is over.
-- Ludwig von Beethoven, dying words Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end.
-- Semisonic, Closing Time Many a man in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl.
-- Stephen Leacock Education "Some people must go to extremes to get the world in balance for themselves. Some can't bear bright lights, so wherever they go they search for the dark; they turn the lights down, anything to sustain I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity.
-- Albert Einstein "If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they don't want to hear." (George Orwell) Education
Joy is but the sign that creative emotion is fulfilling its purpose.
-- Charles Du Bos Church is only society on earth that exists for the benefit of non-members.
-- William Temple Men are strong only so long as they represent a strong idea. They become powerless when they
oppose it.
-- Sigmund Freud Many a man's reputation would not know his character if they met on the street.
- Elbert Hubbard "And on the seventh day, God stepped back and said 'There is my creation, perfect in every way ... oh, damn it, I left pot all over the place. Now they'll think I want them to smoke it. Now I have to Education I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible
by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.
- Umberto Eco Women see better than men. Men see lazily, if they do not expect to act. Women see quite
without any wish to act.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Oregon Democratic Senate candidate Tom Bruggere, in describing his support for
comprehensive health care during a candidates' forum, said he supported "erection-to-
resurrection" coverage. He later a Education
"The perception of beauty is a moral test." (Henry David Thoreau) Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for
appointment by the corrupt few.
-- George bernard Shaw "Women might be able to fake orgasms. But men can fake whole relationships." (Sharon Stone) "... and then the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom." (Anais Nin) Genius has somewhat of the infantine; But of the childish not a touch or taint.
-- Robert Browning Education Genius has somewhat of the infantine; But of the childish not a touch or taint.
-- Robert Browning Coffee is a beverage that puts one to sleep when not drank.
-- Alphonse Allais I have come to the conclusion never again to think of marrying, and for this reason, I can never
be satisfied with anyone who would be blockhead enough to have me.
-- Abraham Lincoln, in a letter to Education
"Better to be deprived of food for three days than tea for one." (Chinese Proverb) 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 Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.
-- Erica Jong Argue for your limitations, and sure enough they're yours.
- Richard Bach "Freedom of press is limited to those who own one." (Henry Louis Mencken) Education "In large states public education will always be mediocre, for the same reason that in large kitchens the cooking is usually bad." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "The man who never made a mistake never made anything." (Derek Longdon, Tongariro Power Development, Turangi, New Zealand) "Give me liberty or give me death." (Patrick Henry) Education
