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Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
-- George Santayana The concept is interesting and well-formed, but in order to earn better than a 'C', the idea must be
feasible.
- A Yale University management professor in response to student Fred Smith's paper prop It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are
difficult.
-- Seneca The big difference between sex for money and sex for free is that sex for money usually costs a
lot less.
-- Brendon Behan "Give me liberty or give me death." (Patrick Henry) Puumala If all economists were laid end to end, they would not reach a conclusion.
-- George Bernard Shaw A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.
-- Gloria Steinem Now comes the mystery.
-- Henry Ward Beecher, dying words, March 8, 1887 Puumala
"In literary criticism the critic has no choice but to make over the victim of his attention into something the size and shape of himself." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) "Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death." (General Michel Aoun) "The market is not an invention of capitalism. It has existed for centuries. It is an invention of civilization." (Mikhail Gorbachev, June 8, 1990) Facts are the enemy of truth.
- Don Quixote - Man of La Mancha The executive exists to make sensible exceptions to general rules.
-- Elting E. Morison Puumala I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
-- Thomas Edison A weed is no more than a flower in disguise.
-- James Lowell "Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn; my God, do you learn!" (Clive Staples Lewis) Puumala
The world has suffered more from the ravages of ill-advised marriages than from virginity.
-- Ambrose Bierce Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.
- Albert Einstein In answer to the question of why it happened, I offer the modest proposal that our Universe is
simply one of those things which happen from time to time.
-- Edward P. Tryon I don't want to achieve immortality through my work... I want to achieve it by not dying!
-- Woody Allen I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
-- Mark Twain Puumala "Club Secretary: I say, Lawrence. You are a clown!
Lawrence: We can't all be lion tamers." (Thomas Edward Lawrence, Lawrence of Arabia, 1962) "When a hundred men stand together, each of them loses his mind and gets another one." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
-- Harriet Beecher Stowe Puumala
Happiness is nothing more than health and a poor memory.
-- Albert Schweitzer blah bla "I never think of the future. It comes soon enough." (Albert Einstein) blah "Some of the worlds greatest feats were accomplished by people not smart enough to know they were impossible. unattributed" (Anonymous) "It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend." (William Blake) Researchers have discovered that chocolate produces some of the same reactions in the brain
as marijuana...The researchers also discovered other similarities between the two, but can't
remember what Puumala Many a man in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl.
-- Stephen Leacock Children are the only form of immortality that we can be sure of.
-- Peter Ustinov No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent.
-- Abraham Lincoln Puumala
Wedding is destiny, and hanging likewise.
-- John Heywood "Liberty has never come from the government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of it. The history of liberty is a history of resistance. The history of liberty is a history of limitations of g To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance
- Oscar Wilde The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
-- Winston Churchill Golf is a good walk spoiled.
-- Mark Twain Puumala Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died.
-- Erma Bombeck "A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) It is always right that a man should be able to render a reason for the faith that is within him.
-- Sydney Smith Puumala
"In some ways, I never outgrew my adolescence. I wake up in the morning and think, 'Oh my God, I'm late for a math test!' But then I say, 'Wait a minute. I'm 40.'" (Daniel Clowes) Sleep is an excellent way of listening to an opera.
- James Stephens The average Ph.D thesis is nothing but the transference of bones from one graveyard to another.
-- Frank J. Dobie, A Texan in England, 1945 Once all struggle is grasped, miracles are possible.
-- Mao Tse-tung Vote for the man who promises least. He'll be the least disappointing.
-- Bernard Baruch Puumala We didn't send you to Washington to make intelligent decisions. We sent you to represent us.
-- Kent York, Baptist minister to US Rep. Bill Sarpalius Bachelors know more about women than married men; if they didn't, they'd be married too.
-- H. L. Mencken No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman.
-- Honore de Balzac Puumala
"Goodwill is the only asset that competition cannot undersell or destroy." (Mrshall Field, businessman and philanthropist) Self-reliance is the only road to true freedom, and being one's own person is its ultimate reward.
-- Patricia Sampson Question: Ted Kennedy: "Where was George?"
Answer: Dry, sober, and at home with his wife >From the Far East I send you one single thought, one sole idea--written in red on every
beachhead form Australia to Tokyo--There is no substitute for victory!
-- General Douglas MacArthur "I heard the old, old, men say 'all that's beautiful drifts away, like the waters.'" (William Butler Yeats) Puumala There's a saying among prospectors: "Go out looking for one thing, and that's all you'll ever find."
-- Robert Flaherty What a difference there is between what we say and what we think.
-- Racine Church is only society on earth that exists for the benefit of non-members.
-- William Temple Puumala
Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish.
-- Albert Einstein Tear open packet, unfold and use.
-- Directions on moist towelette package If ever I get married again it would have to be under an anaesthetic.
-- Marie Tonkin If a thing is worth doing at all, it is worth doing badly.
-- Gustav Holst, on amateur music-making "Experience is not what happens to a man. It is what a man does with what happens to him." (Aldous Huxley) Puumala Nothing shows a man's character more than what he laughs at.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so you apologize for truth.
-- Benjamin Disraeli What kills a skunk is the publicity it gives itself.
-- Abraham Lincoln Puumala
Use your own best judgment at all times.
-- The entire Nordstrom's Department Stores policy manual "Eagles may soar, but weasels don't get sucked into jet engines." (John Benfield) We must believe in free will, we have no choice.
-- Isaac B. Singer Grove giveth and Gates taketh away.
- Bob Metcalfe (inventor of Ethernet) on the trend of hardware speedups not being able to keep
up with software demands Success is just a matter of attitude.
-- Darcy E. Gibbons Puumala blah "Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the government of himself. Can he, then be trusted with the government of others? Or have we found angels in the form of kings to govern him? There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him asleep.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson The innkeeper loves the drunkard, but not for a son-in-law.
-- Yiddish Proverb Puumala
"Those that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." (Benjamin Franklin) Count your age with friends but not with years.
-- Anonymous "The overman ... Who has organized the chaos of his passions, given style to his character, and become creative. Aware of life's terrors, he affirms life without resentment." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietz In a cat's eyes, all things belong to cats.
-- English Proverb The marriage of Marxism and feminism has been like the marriage of husband and wife depicted in English common law: Marxism and feminism are one, and that one is Marxism. --Heidi Hartmann [The Unhappy Puumala A woman's always younger than a man of equal years.
-Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Aurora Leigh We have drugs to make women speak, but none to keep them silent.
-- Anatole France Laundry increases exponentially in the number of children.
-- Miriam Robbins Puumala
The only reward of virtue is virtue.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Your every voter, as surely as your chief magistrate, exercises a public trust.
-- Grover Cleveland I begin by taking. I shall find scholars later to demonstrate my perfect right.
- Frederick (II) the Great If stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out?
- Will Rogers With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die.
-- Abraham Lincoln Puumala At every crossroads on the path that leads to the future, tradition has placed 10,000 men to guard
the past.
-- Maurice Maeterlink The weirder you're going to behave, the more normal you should look. It works in reverse, too.
When I see a kid with three or four rings in his nose, I know there is absolutely nothing
extraordinary I am returning this otherwise good typing paper to you because someone has printed gibberish all
over it and put your name at the top.
-- English Professor, Ohio University Puumala
