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"Humans beings can always be relied upon to assert, with vigor, their god-given right to be stupid." (Dean Koontz, Seize the Night) Why are women so much more interesting to men than men are to women?
-- Virginia Woolf Realism is a corruption of reality.
-- Wallace Stevens "Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country." (Marquis de Lafayette) It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are
difficult.
-- Seneca Kokkola To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance
- Oscar Wilde It is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions.
-- Aldous Huxley Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your position falls, your ego goes with
it.
-- Colin Powell Kokkola
"College: two hundred people reading same book. An obvious mistake. Two hundred people can read two hundred books." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) Like a prune, you are not getting any better looking, but you are getting sweeter.
-- N. D. Stice "God is Man's stupidest idea." (Marcel Duchamp, French Dadaist) There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.
-- Oscar Wilde As life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action
of his time, at the peril of being not to have lived.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. Kokkola A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.
-- G. K. Chesterton I still live.
-- Daniel Webster, dying words "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) Kokkola
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bre Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than
yourself.
-- William Faulkner I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known.
-- Walt Disney Never go to bed angry. Stay up and fight.
-- Phyllis Diller If everybody is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking.
-- George S. Patton, Jr. Kokkola If it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do not say it.
-- Marcus Aurelius In a novel, the hero can lay ten girls and marry a virgin for the finish. In a movie, that is not
allowed. The villain can lay anybody he wants, have as much fun and as he wants cheating,
stealing, Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.
- Bertrand Russell Kokkola
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? 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.
-- Crow A man who marries a woman to educate her falls a victim to the same fallacy as the woman who
marries a man to reform him.
-- Elbert Hubbard "It seems to me that almost all our sadnesses are moments of tension, which we feel as paralysis because we no longer hear our astonished emotions living." (Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poe To be or not to be isn't the question. The question is how to prolong being.
-- Tom Robbins Kokkola Some people talk in their sleep. Lecturers talk while other people sleep.
-- Albert Camus If we don't change the direction we are going,
We are likely to end up where we are heading.
-- Chinese saying All courage is a form of constancy. It is always himself that a coward abandons first. After this all
other betrayals come.
-- Cormac McCarthy Kokkola
The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain.
-- Lord Byron The only thing worse than a man you can't control is a man you can.
-- Margo Kaufman "There is only one success: to be able to spend your life in your own way, and not to give others absurd maddening claims upon it." (Christopher Darlington Morley) The Republicans have a new healthcare proposal: Just say NO to illness!
-- Mark Russell 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 Kokkola "One often contradicts an opinion when what is uncongenial is really the tone in which it was conveyed." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) We know the truth, not only by the reason, but also by the heart.
-- Blaise Pascal, Thoughts, Chap. x. 1., Translated by O. W. Wight "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 Kokkola
We live at a time when man believes himself fabulously capable of creation, but he does not
know what to create.
-- Jose Ortega y Gasset "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) This is the miracle that happens every time to those who really love; the more they give, the more
they possess.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke Motivation will almost always beat mere talent.
-- Norman R. Augustine It takes two to speak truth --One to speak, and another to hear.
-- Henry David Thoreau Kokkola If you want to recapture your youth, just cut off his allowance.
-- Al Bernstein We seek the comfort of another. Someone to share and share the life we choose. Someone to
help us through the neverending attempt to understand ourselves. And in the end, someone to
comfort us along In the blithe days of honeymoon,
With Kate's allurements smitten,
I lov'd her late, I lov'd her soon,
And call'd her dearest kitten.
But now my kitten's grown a cat,
And cross like other wives.
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The worth of the state, in the long run, is the worth of the individuals composing it.
-- John Stuart Mill The better part of one's life consists of his friendships.
-- Abraham Lincoln Repentance is not so much remorse for what we have done as the fear of the consequences.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld, Maxims, 1665 Republican boys date Democratic girls. They plan to marry Republican girls, but feel they're
entitled to a little fun first.
-- Anonymous Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.
-- David Starr Jordan Kokkola Man's mind stretched to a new idea never goes back to its original dimensions.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes Honor's a thing too subtle for wisdom; if honor lie in eating, he's right honorable.
-- Beaumont, Francis "Someday there will be girls and women whose name will no longer mean the mere opposite of the male, but something in itself, something that makes one think not of any compliment and limit, but only o Kokkola
"The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves." (William Hazlitt) "One can do without people but one has need of a friend." (Chinese Proverb) An economist is a man who states the obvious in terms of the incomprehensible.
-- Alfred A. Knopf "Hold a true friend with both your hands." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolute powerlessness make you pure?
-- Harry Shearer Kokkola When you do the common things in life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of
the world.
- George Washington Carver 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.
- Sir Winston Churchill The difference between false memories and true ones is the same as for jewels: it is always the
false ones that look the most real, the most brilliant.
-- Salvador Dali Kokkola
Men have a much better time of it than women: for one thing they marry later, for another thing
they die earlier.
-- H. L. Mencken Marriage is a lottery in which men stake their liberty and women their happiness.
-- Madame de Rieux What I look forward to is continued immaturity followed by death.
-- Dave Barry When marriage is outlawed, only outlaws will have inlaws. The more we do, the more we can do; the more busy we are the more leisure we have.
-- William Hazlitt Kokkola There is a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious, makes you so sick at
heart, you can't take part. And you've got to put your body upon the gears and upon the wheels,
upon the lev Marriage is a trip between Niagara Falls and Reno. Logic is in the eye of the logician.
- Gloria Steinem Kokkola
The nourishment is palatable.
-- Millard Fillmore, dying words "The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom." (William Blake) In the spider-web of facts, many a truth is strangled.
-- Paul Eldridge All science is concerned with the relationship of cause and effect. Each scientific discovery
increases man's ability to predict the consequences of his actions and thus his ability to control
futur The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.
- Emile Zola Kokkola Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is enemy action.
- Auric Goldfinger, in Goldfinger by Ian L. Fleming Marriage is bliss. Ignorance is bliss. Ergo...
-- Anonymous There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called
marriage.
-- James Holt McGavran Kokkola
"The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn." (David Russell) 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" Now, now my good man, this is no time for making enemies.
- Voltaire (1694-1778) on his deathbed in response to a priest asking that he renounce Satan. 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 You are educated when you have the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your
temper or self-confidence.
-- Robert Frost Kokkola When a cat is dropped, it always lands on its feet, and when toast is dropped, it always lands with
the buttered side down. I propose to strap buttered toast to the back of a cat; the 2 will hover,
blah bl "The better the state is established, the fainter is humanity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Nothing average ever stood as a monument to progress. When progress is looking for a partner it
doesn't turn to those who believe they are only average. It turns instead to those who are forever
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