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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 Give me a museum and I'll fill it.
-- Pablo Picasso "Most people don't realize that large pieces of coral, which have been painted brown and attached to the skull by common wood screws, can make a child look like a deer." (Jack Handey) Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
-- Oscar Wilde I feel that if a person has problems communicating the very least he can do is to shut up.
-- Tom Lehrer Shopping If a politician found he had cannibals among his constituents, he would promise them
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-- H. L. Mencken There are trivial truths, and there are great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false.
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-- Neils Bohr "I am the lizard king. I can do anything." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) Shopping
The open-minded see the truth in different things: the narrow-minded see only the differences.
-- Author Unknown We live at a time when man believes himself fabulously capable of creation, but he does not
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-- Jose Ortega y Gasset Love one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that.
-- Michael Leunig Statistics have shown that mortality increases perceptibly in the military during wartime.
-- Alphonse Allais Under capitalism man exploits man; under socialism the reverse is true.
-- Polish proverb Shopping Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the
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- Sherlock Holmes Colleges are places where pebbles are polished and diamonds are dimmed.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll, (seen attributed to "R.S. Ingersoll" - a typo?) I am beginning to suspect all elaborate and special systems of education. They seem to me to be
built upon the supposition that every child is a kind of idiot who must be taught to think.
-- Anne S Shopping
The brain is a wonderful organ. It starts working the moment you get up in the morning, and does
not stop until you get into the office.
-- Robert Frost Is there life before death?
-- Belfast Graffito The Republicans have a new healthcare proposal: Just say NO to illness!
-- Mark Russell You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it come true.
-- Richard Bach Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future.
-- Paul Boese Shopping When you have to kill a man, it costs nothing to be polite.
- Sir Winston Churchill If law school is so hard to get through... how come there are so many lawyers?
-- Calvin Trillin When you gaze long into the abyss, the abyss also gazes into you.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Shopping
"There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) Practice random acts of kindness and sensless acts of beauty.
-- Adair Lara Health food makes me sick.
-- Calvin Trillin Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple, learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a
dozen.
-- John Steinbeck Infatuation is when you think that he's as sexy as Robert Redford, as smart as Henry Kissinger,
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when you r Shopping Life is a succession of lessons enforced by immediate reward, or, oftener, by immediate
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-- Ernest Dimnet If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe.
- Carl Sagan Love is like the measles. The older you get it, the worse the attack.
-- Mary Roberts Rhinehart Shopping
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 "The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn." (David Russell) I don't feel good.
-- Luther Burbank, dying words I am about to--or I am going to--die; either expression is used.
-- Dominique Bouhours, French grammarian, dying words "I've decided something: Commercial things really do stink. As soon as it becomes commercial for a mass market it really stinks." (Andy Warhol, The Andy Warhol Diaries, 1989) Shopping The louder he talked of his honour, the faster we counted our spoons.
-- Emerson, Ralph Waldo I've just learned about his illness. Let's hope it's nothing trivial.
- Irvin S. Cobb "It ends not with a bang, but a whimper." (Thomas Stearns Eliot, aka T. S. Eliot, The Hollow Man) Shopping
The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
- General George Patton The best reason I can think of for not running for President of the United States is that you have
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-- Adlai Stevenson Great Spirit, help me never to judge another until I have walked in his moccasins.
-- Sioux Indian Prayer Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous; it is nothing if it is not ridiculous.
-- Thornton Wilder The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech.
-- George Bernard Shaw Shopping Be tolerant of the human race. Your whole family belongs to it -- and some of your spouse's
family does too.
-- Anonymous Fill what's empty, empty what's full, and scratch where it itches.
- the Duchess of Windsor, when asked what is the secret of a long and happy life "Everyone is a bore to someone. That is unimportant. The thing to avoid is being a bore to oneself." (Gerald Brenan) Shopping
To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.
-- Oscar Wilde We have drugs to make women speak, but none to keep them silent.
-- Anatole France If we knew what we were doing, it wouldn't be called research, would it?
-- Albert Einstein My father was a minister. I had to make up for the lack of sin.
-- Milwuakee mayor, on why he became a politician By all means marry. If you get a good wife you will become happy, and if you get a bad one you
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-- Socrates Shopping >From the moment I picked your book up until I laid it down I was convulsed with laughter. Some
day I intend reading it.
-- Groucho Marx Ne'er take a wife till thou hast a house (and a fire) to put her in.
-- Benjamin Franklin In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice
that I am not a Republican.
-- H. L. Mencken Shopping
When we treat man as he is, we make him worse than he is; when we treat him as if he already
were what he potentially could be, we make him what he should be.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe A witty saying proves nothing.
- Voltaire 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 "Like as the waves make towards the pebbl'd shore, so do our minutes, hasten to their end." (William Shakespeare) "Learn from the mistakes of others--you can never live long enough to make them all yourself." (John Luther) Shopping I went into a McDonald's yesterday and said, "I'd like some fries." The girl at the counter said,
"Would you like some fries with that?"
-- Jay Leno Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.
-- Carl Gustav Jung Good Night, Good night! Parting is such sweet sorrow,
that I shall say good night till it be morrow.
-- Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare. Act II, Scene II, lines 220-221 Shopping
A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.
- Lao-Tzu Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint on it you can.
-- Danny Kaye There is nothing that can be said by mathematical symbols and relations which cannot also be
said by words. The converse, however, is false. Much that can be and is said by words cannot
successfully If stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out?
- Will Rogers "A true friend stabs you in the front." (Oscar Wilde) Shopping By all means marry. If you get a good wife you will become happy, and if you get a bad one you
will become a philosopher.
-- Socrates Love is the same as like except you feel sexier.
-- Judith Viorst Most of our obstacles would melt away if, instead of cowering before them, we should make up
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-- Orison Swett Marden Shopping
The difference between 'involvement' and 'commitment' is like an eggs-and-ham breakfast: the
chicken was 'involved' - the pig was 'committed'.
- unknown We have been friends together in sunshine and in shade.
-- Caroline Norton There are two major products that come out of Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to
be a coincidence.
-- Jeremy S. Anderson "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) 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 Shopping "True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost." (Charles Caleb Colton) "Feeding is a very important ritual for me. I don't trust people who don't like to eat." (Gina Gershon) Work expands to fill the time available.
-- PARKINSON'S LAW Shopping
Give me chastity and continence, but not yet.
- Saint Augustine Go on, get out. Last words are for fools who haven't said enough.
-- Karl Marx, dying words to his housekeeper My wife says if I go fishing one more time she's going to leave me. Gosh, I'm going to miss her. "Talent does what it can; genius does what it must." (Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton) There are two major products that come out of Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to
be a coincidence.
-- Jeremy S. Anderson Shopping Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them
good.
-- H.L. Mencken "For better or for worse, our company (The News Corporation Ltd.) is a reflection of my thinking, my character, my values." (Keith Rupert Murdoch, media mogul, 1931-) I belong to Bridegrooms Anonymous. Whenever I feel like getting married, they send over a lady
in a housecoat and hair curlers to burn my toast for me.
-- Dick Martin Shopping
