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When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I only think about how to solve the
problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
- Buckminster Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.
- Bertrand Russell Honeymoon: A short period of doting between dating and debting.
-- Ray Bandy Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died.
-- Erma Bombeck Now join your hands, and with your hands your hearts.
-- William Shakespeare, King Henry the Sixth Kaavi The highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to make money do more for the
betterment of life.
-- Henry Ford If everybody is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking.
-- George S. Patton, Jr. Whenever I dwell for any length of time on my own shortcomings, they gradually begin to seem
mild harmless, rather engaging little things, not at all like the staring defects in other people's
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I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll "The great aim of education is not knowledge but action." (Herbert Spencer) When you steal from one author, it's plagiarism; if you steal from many, it's research.
-- Wilson Mizner The mind has exactly the same power as the hands: not merely to grasp the world, but to change
it.
-- Colin Wilson Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.
-- Roger Babson Kaavi America is a large, friendly dog in a very small room. Every time it wags its tail, it knocks over a
chair.
-- Arnold Toynbee Peculiar travel suggestions are dancing lessons from God.
-- Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., Cat's Cradle "Is man merely a mistake of God's? Or God merely a mistake of man's?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Kaavi
Reading computer manuals without the hardware is a frustrating as reading sex manuals without
the software.
-- Arthur C. Clarke Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are conservatives.
-- John Stuart Mill A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
-- Robert Frost 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 Bigamy is one way of avoiding the painful publicity of divorce and the expense of alimony.
-- Oliver Herford Kaavi 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 As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he.
-- Proverbs 23:7 Now is the time for all good men to come to.
-- Walt Kelly Kaavi
"Have confidence that if you have done a little thing well, you can do a bigger thing well, too." (David Malcolm Storey) "The mark of our time is its revulsion against imposed patterns." (Marshall McLuhan) I am become death, shatterer of worlds.
-- Robert J. Oppenheimer, citing from the Bhagavadgita, after witnessing the world's first nuclear
explosion Ah, well, then I suppose I shall have to die beyond my means.
-- Oscar Wilde, dying words To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.
-- Oscar Wilde Kaavi "I'm basically an optimist in life but this doesn't prevent me from deducing as a scientist that we are probably doomed." (Vladimir Chaloupka, physicist, University of Washington, regarding mankind's A multiple personality is in a certain sense normal.
-- George H. Mead If I tell a lie it's only because I think I'm telling the truth.
-- Phil Gaglardi, Minister of Highways, British Columbia, Canada Kaavi
Adolescence is a period of rapid changes. Between the ages of 12 and 17, for example, a parent
ages as much as 20 years.
-- Anonymous Grow old with me! The best is yet to be!
-- Robert Browning The theory used to be you marry an older man because they are more mature. The new theory is that men don't mature. So you might as well marry a younger one. 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 "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" Kaavi I drink no more than a sponge.
-- Francis Rabelais, Works. Book i. Chap. v. Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing.
-- Oscar Wilde A multiple personality is in a certain sense normal.
-- George H. Mead Kaavi
There is a coherent plan in the universe, though I don't know what it's a plan for.
-- Fred Hoyle Wife: The perfect acquisition for any gentleman feeling himself to have excessive control over his personal affairs. Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow.
-- Helen Keller 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.
-- Winston Churchill Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by heart and his friends can
only read the title.
-- Virginia Woolf Kaavi If you are going through hell, keep going.
- Sir Winston Churchill The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. The opposite of a profound truth may
well be another profound truth.
- Niels Bohr In the book of life, the answers aren't in the back.
-- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz Kaavi
Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a losttradition.
-- Jacques Barzun There's many a bestseller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.
-- Flannery O'Connor I like nonsense -- it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living. It's a way
of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope...and that enables you to laugh at all "Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect every one who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are ine Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than
the wisest man can answer.
-- Charles Caleb Colton Kaavi 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 "If it doesn't matter who wins or loses, then why do they keep score?" (Vince Lombardi) Virtue is like health: the harmony of the whole man.
-- Thomas Carlyle Kaavi
Half of the American people never read a newspaper.
Half never voted for President.
One hopes it is the same half.
-- Gore Vidal Lottery: A tax on people who are bad at math.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as
though everything is a miracle.
- Albert Einstein "The monster a child knows best and is most concerned with [is] the monster he feels or fears himself to be. " (Bruno Bettelheim, child psychologist) I married beneath me. All women do.
-- Lady Nancy Astor, attributed Kaavi Hey, you can't fight in here! This is the war room!
-- Dr. Strangelove "God is Man's stupidest idea." (Marcel Duchamp, French Dadaist) "By seeing the seed of failure in every success, we remain humble. By seeing the seed of success in every failure we remain hopeful." (Mel Ziegler, founder of Banana Republic) Kaavi
"Conform and be dull." (J. Frank Doble) Experience teaches only the teachable.
-- Aldous Huxley By the time (the Leaning Tower of Pisa) was 10% built, everyone knew it would be a total
disaster. But the investment was so big they felt compelled to go on. Since its completion, it cost
a fortune Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.
- Jean-Paul Sartre Most people think life sucks, and then you die. Not me. I beg to differ. I think life sucks, then you
get cancer, then your dog dies, your wife leaves you, the cancer goes into remission, you get a
Kaavi I don't want to achieve immortality through my work... I want to achieve it by not dying!
-- Woody Allen Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though it is hard to
realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and
grie "I never learned from a man who agreed with me." (Robert A. Heinlein) Kaavi
"I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you and education." (Wilson Mizner) Behind every great fortune there is a crime.
- Honore de Balzac Eighty percent of married men cheat in America. The rest cheat in Europe.
-- Jackie Mason "There are no uninteresting things, only uninteresting people." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one.
-- Mother Teresa Kaavi "The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Truth is more of a stranger than fiction.
-- Mark Twain cannot imagine any condition which would cause this ship to founder. Modern shipbuilding has
gone beyond that.
-- E. I. Smith, Captain of the Titanic Kaavi
Character may be manifested in the great moments, but it is made in the small ones.
-- Phillip Brooks To look backward for a while is to refresh the eye, to restore it, and to render it more fit for its
prime function of looking forward.
-- Margaret Fairless Barber "There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) He who hesitates is a damned fool.
- Mae West "The only way to have friends is to be one." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Kaavi Is there life before death?
-- Belfast Graffito For I am a bear of very little brain and long words bother me.
-- Winnie the Pooh, character from author A. A. Milne "It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend." (William Blake) Kaavi
