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I'm for abolishing and doing away with redundancy.
-- J. Curtis McKay, Wisconsin State Elections Board "There is no sin except stupidity." (Oscar Wilde) Saying that men talk about baseball in order to avoid talking about their feelings is the same as
saying that women talk about their feelings in order to avoid talking about baseball.
-- Deborah Tan If addiction is judged by how long a dumb animal will sit pressing a lever to get a 'fix' of
something, to its own detriment, then I would conclude that netnews is far more addictive than
cocaine.
While we are postponing, life speeds by.
- Seneca (3BC - 65AD) Science and Environment Every child is born a genius.
-- R. Buckminster Fuller The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain.
-- Lord Byron Work is the curse of the drinking class.
-- Oscar Wilde Science and Environment
Vote early and vote often.
- Al Capone "Don't let your ego get too close to your position, so that if your position gets shot down, your ego doesn't go with it." (Colin Powell) A successful man is one who makes more money than his wife can spend. A successful woman
is one who can find such a man.
-- Lana Turner "We have been the cowards lobbing cruise missiles from 2,000 miles away. That's cowardly. Staying in the airplane when it hits the building, say what you want about it, it's not cowardly." (Bill Mahe Sleep is an excellent way of listening to an opera.
- James Stephens Science and Environment Life is like music; it must be composed by ear, feeling, and instinct, not by rule.
-- Samuel Butler UGLINESS, n. A gift of the gods to certain women, entailing virtue without humility.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try.
-- Beverly Sills Science and Environment
Feminists are OK, I just wouldn't want my sister to marry one Sex is like bridge: If you don't have a good partner, you better have a good hand.
-- Charles Pierce And life is what we make it. Always has been, always will be.
-- Grandma Moses Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.
-- Aristotle Science and Environment "When you resort to attacking the messenger and not the message, you have lost the debate." (Addison Whithecomb) We can lick gravity, but sometimes the paperwork is overwhelming.
-- Wehrner von Braun I am returning this otherwise good typing paper to you because someone has printed gibberish all
over it and put your name at the top.
-- English Professor, Ohio University Science and Environment
"Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience." (George Bernard Shaw) The mistakes are all waiting to be made.
- chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower (1887-1956) on the game's opening position "Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known." (Blaise Pascal) "The proper office of a friend is to side with you when you are wrong. Nearly anybody will side with you when you are right." (Mark Twain) Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the
truth.
- Sherlock Holmes Science and Environment Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with
the powerful, not to be neutral.
-- Paulo Freire Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that he sometimes has to eat them.
-- Adlai Stevenson I do not like broccoli. And I haven't liked it since I was a little kid and my mother made me eat it.
And I'm President of the United States and I'm not going to eat any more broccoli.
-- George Bus Science and Environment
Everything is drive-through. In California, they even have a burial service called Jump-In-The-
Box.
-- Wil Shriner "Beauty without expression is boring." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn.
-- Cicero The fantasy which serves as a support for the figure of the Stalinist Communist is therefore
exactly the same as the fantasy which is at work in the Tom and Jerry cartoons.
-- Slavoj Zizek "Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily." (Napoleon Bonaparte) Science and Environment Life is like a dogsled team. If you ain't the lead dog, the scenery never changes.
-- Lewis Grizzard "Pay no attention to what the critics say; there has never been set up a statue in honor of a critic." (Jean Sibelius) Under capitalism man exploits man; under socialism the reverse is true.
-- Polish proverb Science and Environment
Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote.
-- George Jean Nathan "Give me liberty or give me death." (Patrick Henry) You can get more with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone.
-- Al Capone I admire the serene assurance of those who have religious faith. It is wonderful to observe the
calm confidence of a Christian with four aces.
-- Mark Twain When you have to kill a man, it costs nothing to be polite.
- Sir Winston Churchill Science and Environment Marriage is like a box of chocolates. You have to squeeze a few bottoms to make sure you like
what you are getting.
-- Anonymous It is most unwise for people in love to marry.
-- George Bernard Shaw I was a pilot flying an airplane and it just so happened that where I was flying made what I was
doing spying.
-- Francis Gary Power, U-2 reconnaissance pilot held by the Soviets for spying, in an i Science and Environment
"Every act of violence increases the recruitment of terrorists. Iraq has been turned into a base of terror." (Noam Chomsky, from The Toronto Star, March 23, 2004) We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh.
-- Agnes Repplier Radio news is bearable. This is due to the fact that while the news is being broadcast the disc
jockey is not allowed to talk.
-- Fran Lebowitz 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) There are trivial truths, and there are great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false.
The opposite of a great truth is also true.
-- Neils Bohr Science and Environment Sign in a marriage counselor's window: "Out to lunch - Think it over." The time is always right to do what is right.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Vote for the man who promises least. He'll be the least disappointing.
-- Bernard Baruch Science and Environment
"Every now and then say, 'What the fu(c)k.' 'What the fu(c)k' gives you freedom. Freedom brings opportunity. Opportunity makes your future." (Curtis Armstrong, Risky Business, 1983) When a girl marries she exchanges the attention of many men for the inattention of one.
-- Helen Rowland "The market is not an invention of capitalism. It has existed for centuries. It is an invention of civilization." (Mikhail Gorbachev, June 8, 1990) blah "Some of the worlds greatest feats were accomplished by people not smart enough to know they were impossible. unattributed" (Anonymous) People say "I want peace." If you remove I {ego}, and your want {desire}, you are left with peace.
-- Satya Sai Baba Science and Environment "We have so little presumption that we should like to be known in the world, even to those who come after when we are no more. We have so little vanity that the esteem of five people, say six, amuses Don't anthropomorphize computers -- they hate it.
-- Anonymous "Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it." (John Quincy Adams) Science and Environment
Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow in Australia.
-- Charles Schultz You can pay attention to the fact, in which case you'll probably become a mathematician, or you
can ignore it, in which case you'll probably become a physicist.
-- Len Evans, professor, Northwestern The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism
is the equal sharing of miseries.
-- Winston Churchill "I'm so insane, I voted for Eisenhower."
"Oh yeah, well I'm so insane, I voted for Eisenhower TWICE!"
-- Ken Kesey from "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" It destroys one's nerves to be amiable everyday to the same human being.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Science and Environment 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 Never look at the trombones. You'll only encourage them.
-- Richard Strauss, on conducting It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince Science and Environment
If you put garbage in a computer nothing comes out but garbage. But this garbage, having
passed through a very expensive machine, is somehow ennobled and none dare criticize it.
-- Anonymous A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take
her off his hands.
-- Sacha Guitry Mathematics, rightly viewed, posses not only truth, but supreme beauty -- a beauty cold and
austere, like that of sculpture.
-- Bertrand Russell Ask her to wait a moment - I am almost done.
-- Carl Friedrich Gauss, when informed that his wife was dying Women are like tea bags; put them in hot water and they get stronger.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt Science and Environment "Conscience and cowardice are really the same things. Conscience is the trade-name of the firm. That is all." (Oscar Wilde) We have to keep trying things we're not sure we can pull off. If we just do the things we know we
can do... you don't grow as much. You gotta take those chances on making those big mistakes.
-- Cybi Gravitation can not be held responsible for people falling in love.
-- Albert Einstein Science and Environment
"In married life three is company and two is none." (Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest) To love another person is to see the face of God.
-- Lyric from Les Miserables Everything in the world may be endured except continued prosperity.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe He who laughs last has not yet heard the bad news.
-- Bertolt Brecht Parents are the bones upon which children sharpen their teeth.
-- Peter Ustinov Science and Environment There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of
bread.
- Mahatma Gandhi Abstract art: a product of the untalented sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.
-- Al Capp The Churches must learn humility as well as teach it.
-- George Bernard Shaw, St. Joan Science and Environment
