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If there is any one proof of a man's incompetence, it is the stagnant mentality of a worker who,
doing some small routine job in a vast undertaking, does not care to look beyond the lever of a
machi Ninety percent of the game is half mental.
-- Yogi Berra "Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Walk beside me and just be my friend." (Albert Camus) The scientific theory I like best is that the rings of Saturn are composed entirely of lost airline
luggage.
-- Mark Russell Don't anthropomorphize computers -- they hate it.
-- Anonymous Society and Culture Wife: The perfect acquisition for any gentleman feeling himself to have excessive control over his personal affairs. The limits of my language means the limits of my world.
-- Ludwig Wittgenstein "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, ignorance, g Society and Culture
Whenever a husband and wife begin to discuss their marriage, they are giving evidence at an
inquest.
-- H. L. Mencken What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is
the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset.
-- Crowf Repentance is not so much remorse for what we have done as the fear of the consequences.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld, Maxims, 1665 Children are the only form of immortality that we can be sure of.
-- Peter Ustinov If we were not all so interested in ourselves, life would be so uninteresting that none of us would
be able to endure it.
-- Schopenhauer Society and Culture Giving a man space is like giving a dog a computer: the chances are he will not use it wisely.
-- Bette-Jane Raphael "Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something." (Plato, 427 BC-348) blah "A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) Society and Culture
Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you
have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not.
-- Aldous Huxley "A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities." (Eda J. Le Shan) Many a man has finally succeeded only because he has failed after repeated efforts. If he had
never met defeat he would never have known any great victory.
-- Orison Swett Marden When people go to work, they shouldn't have to leave their hearts at home.
-- Betty Bender Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.
-- Bertrand Russell Society and Culture Don't anthropomorphize computers -- they hate it.
-- Anonymous For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of our tasks; the ultimate,
the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.
-- Rainer Maria Ril A team effort is a lot of people doing what I say.
-- Michael Winner Society and Culture
I think we are drawn to dogs because they are the uninhibited creatures we might be if we weren't
certain we knew better.
-- George Bird Evans I've had a perfectly wonderful evening. But this wasn't it.
-- Groucho Marx blah "Each friend represents a world in us; a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only in meeting them that a new world is born." (Anais Nin) "I have Social Disease. I have to go out every night. If I stay home one night I start spreading rumors to my dogs." (Andy Warhol, Andy Warhol's Exposures, 1980) Great ability develops and reveals itself increasingly with every new assignment. Baltasar
Gracian Society and Culture My good intentions are completely lethal.
-- Margaret Atwood "People have to talk about something just to keep their voice boxes in working order so they'll have good voice boxes in case there's ever anything really meaningful to say." (Kurt Vonnegut) Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after.
-- Anne Morrow Lindbergh Society and Culture
In the early sixties, we were strong, we were virulent...
-- John Connally, Secretary of Treasury under Richard Nixon, in an early 70s speech, as reported
in a contemporary "American Scholar" Not much meat on her, but what's there is choice.
-- Spencer Tracy, about Katharine Hepburn Life is a sexually transmitted terminal disease.
-- Colin Greene "If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost." (Aristotle) You have a cough? Go home tonight, eat a whole box of Ex-Lax--tomorrow you'll be afraid to
cough.
-- Pearl Williams Society and Culture Integrity is what we do, what we say, and what we say we do.
--Don Galer A good cook is like a sorceress who dispenses happiness.
-- Elsa Schiapirelli Grad school is the snooze button on the clock-radio of life.
-- John Rogers, comedian (who holds a graduate degree in physics) Society and Culture
Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.
-- George Bernard Shaw "Education is the process of driving a set of prejudices down your throat." (Martin H. Fischer) Going to church doesn't make you a Christian any more than going to a garage makes you an
automobile.
-- Billy Sunday The fickleness of the women I love is only equalled by the infernal consistency of the women who
love me.
-- George Bernard Shaw Golf is a good walk spoiled.
-- Mark Twain Society and Culture I want to die in my sleep like my friend.... Not screaming and yelling like the passengers in his
car.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Everyone believes very easily whatever they fear or desire.
-- Jean de La Fontaine Guys are lucky because they get to grow mustaches. I wish I could. It's like having a little pet for
your face.
-- Anita Wise Society and Culture
Marriage is like a mousetrap. Those on the outside are trying to get in. Those on the inside are trying to get out. A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.
-- Walter Winchell "Those who feel certainty are stupid and those with any imagination or understanding are filled with doubt and indecision." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) You've no idea of what a poor opinion I have of myself, and how little I deserve it.
-- W.S. Gilbert Some birds aren't meant to be caged, their feathers are just too bright. And when they fly away,
the part of you that knows it was a sin to lock them up, does rejoice. I guess I just miss my friend. Society and Culture Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through
self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.
-- Helen Keller Our schools have been scientifically designed to prevent over-education from happening. [...] The
average American (should be) content with their humble role in life, because they're not tempted
to A memorandum is written not to inform the reader but to protect the writer.
-- Dean Acheson Society and Culture
The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
-- Lucille S. Harper University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
-- Henry Kissinger "Being born is like being kidnapped. And then sold into slavery." (Andy Warhol) Love is what we are born with. Fear is what we learn. The spiritual journey is the unlearning of
fear and prejudices and the acceptance of love back in our hearts. Love is the essential reality
and Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the
truth.
- Sherlock Holmes Society and Culture If Satan ever loses his hair, there'll be hell toupee.
-- Anonymous Everyone is a genius at least once a year; a real genius has his original ideas closer together.
- Georg Lichtenberg A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.
-- Edward Abbey Society and Culture
"What is most appealing about young folks, after all, is the changes, not the still photograph of finished character but the movie, the soul in flux." (Thomas Pynchon) More than kisses, letters mingle souls.
-- John Donne Why don't you write books people can read?
-- Nora Joyce, to her husband James Marriage is like a box of chocolates. You have to squeeze a few bottoms to make sure you like
what you are getting.
-- Anonymous Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.
-- George Orwell Society and Culture Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.
-- Albert Einstein "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) A problem is a chance for you to do your best.
-- Buke Ellington Society and Culture
Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them
good.
-- H.L. Mencken A straight line is the shortest in morals as in mathematics.
-- Maria Edgeworth The scientific theory I like best is that the rings of Saturn are composed entirely of lost airline
luggage.
-- Mark Russell 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 I've sometimes thought of marrying, and then I've thought again.
-- Noel Coward Society and Culture Chase after the truth like all hell and you'll free yourself, even though you never touch its
coattails.
-- Clarence Darrow A sweetheart is a bottle of wine, a wife is a wine bottle.
-- Baudelaire It takes two to speak truth --One to speak, and another to hear.
-- Henry David Thoreau Society and Culture
"The feminists used to say that chivalry and ladyhood were ways of keeping women down and preventing them from standing toe to toe with the guys. Now you've got a lot of women saying that if a guy is blah "Some of the worlds greatest feats were accomplished by people not smart enough to know they were impossible. unattributed" (Anonymous) "To live is to dream and to die is to awaken." (Anonymous) You can't learn too soon that the most useful thing about a principle is that it can always be
sacrificed to expediency.
-- W. Somerset Maugham I read the book of Job last night - I don't think God comes out well in it.
-- Virginia Woolf Society and Culture Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it.
-- Baskins You'd be surprised how much it costs to look this cheap.
-- Dolly Parton "Every act of creation is first an act of destruction." (Pablo Picasso) Society and Culture
