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It is important that students bring a certain ragamuffin, barefoot, irreverence to their studies; they
are not here to worship what is known, but to question it.
-- J. Bronowski, The Ascent of Man Change is not merely necessary to life, it is life.
-- Alvin Toffler "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." (Albert Einstein) "I run to see who has the most guts." (Steve Roland Prefontaine) We see the brightness of a new page where everything yet can happen.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke, Book of Hours Military Marriage is an institution--but who wants to live in an institution? "Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under." (Henry Louis Mencken) A narcissist is someone better-looking than you are.
-- Gore Vidal Military
But at my back I always hear Time's winged chariot hurrying near.
- Andrew Marvell blah bl "The better the state is established, the fainter is humanity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains.The superior teacher demonstrates. The
great teacher inspires.
-- William Arthur Ward "The face is the soul of the body." (Ludwig Wittgenstein) Eighty percent of married men cheat in America. The rest cheat in Europe.
-- Jackie Mason Military "I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." (James Madison) The first duty of love is to listen.
-- Paul Tillich The only thing you take with you when you're gone is what you leave behind.
-- John Allston Military
Jake liked his women the way he liked his kiwi fruit: sweet yet tart, firm-fleshed yet yielding to the
touch, and covered with short brown fuzzy hair.
-- Jonathan S. Haas Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than
yourself.
-- William Faulkner Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of
the time.
-- E. B. White Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so you apologize for truth.
-- Benjamin Disraeli blah "You can lead a man to Congress, but you can't make him think." (Milton Berle) Military "I want my food dead. Not sick, not dying, dead." (Oscar Wilde) We seek the comfort of another. Someone to share and share the life we choose. Someone to
help us through the neverending attempt to understand ourselves. And in the end, someone to
comfort us along "You can get help from teachers, but you are going to have to learn a lot by yourself, sitting alone in a room." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, On becoming a writer, NY Times 21 Military
He who limps is still walking.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims.
- Aristotle 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 "It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend." (William Blake) Now, now my good man, this is no time for making enemies.
- Voltaire (1694-1778) on his deathbed in response to a priest asking that he renounce Satan. Military I have often regretted my speech, never my silence.
-- Anonymous "All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.
-- Salvador Dali Military
"Today was good. / Today was fun. / Tomorrow is another one." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) When you do the common things in life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of
the world.
- George Washington Carver All virtue is summed up in dealing justly.
-- Aristotle The most terrible poverty is loneliness and the feeling of being unloved.
-- Mother Teresa "Some people wear their heart up on their sleeve. I wear mine underneath my right pant leg, strapped to my boot." (Ani Difranco) Military A multiple personality is in a certain sense normal.
-- George H. Mead Football incorporates the two worst elements of American society: violence punctuated by
committee meetings.
-- George F. Will, journalist, political commentator, 1994 All that is gold does not glitter. Not all those who wander are lost;
-- J.R.R. Tolkein Military
Based on what you know about him in history books, what do you think Abraham Lincoln would
be doing if he were alive today?
1) Writing his memoirs of the Civil War.
2) Advising the President.
3) D Confidence is the feeling you have before you understand the situation.
--Anon. You never see a man walking down the street with a woman who has a little pot belly and a bald
spot.
-- Elayne Boosler Life is like a movie--since there aren't any commercial breaks, you have to get up and go to the
bathroom in the middle of it.
-- Nick Mirov "Now that we have everything we need, we discover that there is almost nothing that we have that we want." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) Military We are the echo of the future.
-- W. S. Merwin When a friend is in trouble, don't annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up
something appropriate and do it.
-- E. W. Howe The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when
we created them.
- Albert Einstein Military
It's not as great a day for the bride as she thinks. She's not marrying the best man.
-- Anonymous 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 crime bill passed by the Senate would reinstate the Federal death penalty for certain violent
crimes: assassinating the President; hijacking an airliner; and murdering a government poultry
inspe Anything too stupid to be said, is sung.
-- Voltaire This is a test. It is only a test. Had it been an actual job, you would have received raises,
promotions, and other signs of appreciation.
-- Anonymous Military Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it.
-- George Bernard Shaw A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in students.
-- John Ciardi Generations to come will find it difficult to believe that a man such as Gandhi ever walked the
face of this earth.
-- Albert Einstein Military
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 Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it. "Death is only a launching into the region of the strange Untried; it is but the first salutation to the possibilities of the immense Remote, the Wild, the Watery, the Unshored..." (Herman Melville, "God is Man's stupidest idea." (Marcel Duchamp, French Dadaist) The more I know about people, the better I like my dog.
-- Mark Twain Military Military justice is to justice what military music is to music.
-- George Clemenceau "Boredom is a vital problem for the moralist, since at least half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) blah "This is the hardest of all: to close the open hand out of love, and keep modest as a giver." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Military
Sex is the mathematics urge sublimated.
-- M. C. Reed then the world 's mine oyster
-- William Shakespeare, The Merry Wives of Windsor "One of the good things about low self-esteem is never having rain hit you in the face." (John A. Simone Jr.) Marriage is a great institution, but who wants to live in an institution?
-- Marx Groucho, the film "Animal Crackers" All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.
-- Edgar Allan Poe Military When one find's oneself in a hole of one's own making, it is a good time to examine the quality of
the workmanship.
-- John Renmerde "Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave, and impossible to forget." (G. Randolf) "Where there's a marriage without love there will be love without marriage." (Benjamin Franklin) Military
"I knew I was an unwanted baby when I saw my bath toys were a toaster and a radio." (Joan Rivers) Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana.
-- Groucho Marx "A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward." (Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1882 - 1945, 32nd U.S. President) The great advantage of being in a rut is that when one is in a rut, one knows exactly where one
is.
-- Arnold Bennett The remarkable thing about television is that it permits several million people to laugh at the same
joke and still feel lonely.
-- T. S. Eliot Military My father taught me to work; he did not teach me to love it.
-- Abraham Lincoln "One often contradicts an opinion when what is uncongenial is really the tone in which it was conveyed." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you.
-- John-Paul Sartre Military
"Men act and women appear. Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at." (John Berger) I sometimes think that God, in creating man, overestimated His ability.
-- Oscar Wilde Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
-- Virginia Woolf, Bernard, in The Waves, 1931; repr. 1943, p. 189 "Every great institution is the lengthened shadow of a single man. His character determines the character of the organization." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) If ever two were one, then surely we.
If ever man were loved by wife, then thee.
-- Anne Bradstreet Military I've always thought that underpopulated countries in Africa are vastly underpolluted.
-- Lawrence Summers, chief economist of the World Bank, explaining why we should export toxic
wastes to Third Wo There are two means of refuge from the misery of life - music and cats.
-- Albert Schweitzer Work is the curse of the drinking class.
-- Oscar Wilde Military
