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Such is life.
-- Ned Kelly, Last words, before being hung at Old Melbourne Gaol When making public policy decisions about new technologies for the Government, I think one
should ask oneself which technologies would best strengthen the hand of a police state. Then, do
not allow The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.
-- Paul Valery Marriage still confers one very special privilege - only a married person can get divorced. 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 Choral "There is only one thing more painful than learning from experience and that is not learning from experience." (Archibald McLeish) If ever two were one, then surely we.
If ever man were loved by wife, then thee.
-- Anne Bradstreet When you do the common things in life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of
the world.
- George Washington Carver Choral
"They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself." (Andy Warhol) Anyone can be passionate, but it takes real lovers to be silly.
-- Rose Franken "Sometimes I think it's another sign of the sad necessity of our crowded, lonely lives, an urgent hopeless reaching out to touch something real, a deep hunger for something authentic when everything s A behaviorist is someone who pulls habits out of rats.
-- Anonymous The absolute yearning of one human body for another particular body and its indifference to
substitutes is one of life's major mysteries.
-- Iris Murdoch Choral Nobody ever died of laughter.
-- Max Beerbohm If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt "Conscience and cowardice are really the same things. Conscience is the trade-name of the firm. That is all." (Oscar Wilde) Choral
...the fog is rising.
-- Emily Dickinson, dying words To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.
-- Karen Sunde Imagine if birds were tickled by feathers. You'd see a flock of birds come by, laughing hysterically!
-- Steven Wright "How wondrous familiar is a fool!" (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) "Use what talents you possess; The woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best." (William Blake) Choral "If you assume that there's no hope, you guarantee that there will be no hope. If you assume that there is an instinct for freedom, there are opportunities to change things, there's a chance for you t Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple, learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a
dozen.
-- John Steinbeck Character may be manifested in the great moments, but it is made in the small ones.
-- Phillip Brooks Choral
Ah, well, then I suppose I shall have to die beyond my means.
-- Oscar Wilde, dying words 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 "I am the lizard king. I can do anything." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes
unpunished.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe You never see a man walking down the street with a woman who has a little pot belly and a bald
spot.
-- Elayne Boosler Choral Look at life through the windshield, not the rear-view mirror.
-- Byrd Baggett That's the nature of research--you don't know what in hell you're doing.
-- 'Doc' Edgerton I regret that I have but one life to give for my country.
-- Nathan Hale Choral
Of course there's a lot of knowledge in universities: the freshmen bring a little in; the seniors don't
take much away, so knowledge sort of accumulates...
-- Anonymous Most turkeys taste better the day after; my mother's tasted better the day before.
-- Rita Rudner We think caged birds sing, when indeed they cry.
-- John Webster A man is incomplete until he is married. After that, he is finished.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor The trouble with children is that they are not returnable.
-- Quentin Crisp Choral Logic is in the eye of the logician.
- Gloria Steinem Laugh and the world laughs with you. Snore and you sleep alone.
-- Anthony Burgess 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 Choral
"The depth and strength of a human character are defined by its moral reserves. People reveal themselves completely only when they are thrown out of the customary conditions of their life, for only th We trained hard - but it seemed that every time we were beginning to form up into teams we were
reorganized. I was to learn later in life that we tend to meet any new situation by reorganizing,
and It is with true love as it is with ghosts; everyone talks about it, but few have seen it.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld Conversation, fastidious Goddess, loves blood better than brick, and feasts most subtly on the
human will.
-- Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway "Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise." (Alice Walker) Choral Dreams never hurt anybody if you keep working right behind the dreams to make as much of
them become real as you can.
-- Frank W. Woolworth "What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage." Everything is drive-through. In California, they even have a burial service called Jump-In-The-
Box.
-- Wil Shriner Choral
Let go of your attachment to being right, and suddenly your mind is more open. You're able to
benefit from the unique viewpoints of others, without being crippled by your own judgment.
-- Ralph Mars Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife. -- PJ O'Rourke I have noticed that nothing I have never said ever did me any harm.
-- Calvin Coolidge "Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies." (Gore Vidal) The child is the father of the man.
-- William Wordsworth Choral Black holes are where God divided by zero.
- Steven Wright All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others.
-- Chad A. Gamble, Escape, short story Abstract art: a product of the untalented sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.
-- Al Capp Choral
Remember your dreams.
-- Maryanne Radmacher-Herhey He who limps is still walking.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec Learn to laugh at your troubles and you'll never run out of things to laugh at.
-- Lyn Karol The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.
-- George Bernard Shaw "He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself." (Thomas Paine) Choral 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 The coziness between church and state is good for the state and bad for the church.
-- G. K. Chesterton "Everything in my life has been determined by mistakes." (Gene Wilder) Choral
Early to rise and early to bed.
Makes a male healthy, wealthy and dead.
-- James Thurber Anyway, 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,
ign Generations to come will find it difficult to believe that a man such as Gandhi ever walked the
face of this earth.
-- Albert Einstein I don't know why I did it, I don't know why I enjoyed it, and I don't know why I'll do it again.
-- Bart Simpson, young character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated television show If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile.
-- Lynda Barry Choral "No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave." (Calvin Coolidge) Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go.
- Oscar Wilde Happiness is nothing more than health and a poor memory.
-- Albert Schweitzer Choral
Thomas Jefferson--still surv...
-- John Adams, dying words "Talent does what it can; genius does what it must." (Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton) Celestial navigation is based on the premise that the Earth is the center of the universe. The
premise is wrong, but the navigation works. An incorrect model can be a useful tool.
-- Kelvin Throop I Worrying is like a rocking chair, it gives you something to do, but it doesn't get you anywhere.
-- Anonymous I hate it in friends when they come too late to help.
-- Euripides Choral Ordinary riches can be stolen, real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that
cannot be taken from you.
-- Oscar Wilde "Experience is a good teacher, but she sends in terrific bills." (Minna Antrim) Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte Choral
I criticize by creation - not by finding fault.
- Cicero "There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) Truth can be a dangerous thing. It is quite patient and relentless.
-- R. Scott Richards As for the virtuous poor, one can pity them, of course, but one cannot possibly admire them.
-- Oscar Wilde It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims.
- Aristotle Choral "This is the first age that's paid much attention to the future, which is a little ironic since we may not have one." (Arthur C. Clarke) "One may sometimes tell a lie, but the grimace that accompanies it tells the truth." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Treat a man as he is, and he will remain as he is. Treat a man as he could be, and he will become what he should be." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Choral
