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Women want mediocre men, and men are working hard to become as mediocre as possible.
-- Margaret Mead For the majority of People, smoking has a beneficial effect.
-- Dr. Ian G. Macdonald, Los Angeles surgeon, quoted in Newsweek , Nov.18th 1963. Computers will not be perfected until they can compute how much more than the estimate the job
will cost.
-- Anon Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it.
-- George Bernard Shaw I think we are drawn to dogs because they are the uninhibited creatures we might be if we weren't
certain we knew better.
-- George Bird Evans Tampere 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 Love is the dawn of marriage, and marriage is the sunset of love.
-- French saying This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold
of a hammer.
-- Will Rogers Tampere
Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than
yourself.
-- William Faulkner Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.
-- Samuel Butler The Church is an organism that grows best in an alien society.
-- C. Stacey Woods "As is our confidence, so is our capacity." (William Hazlitt) Let the refining and improving of your own life keep you so busy that you have little time to
criticize others.
-- H. Jackson Brown Tampere Every child is born a genius.
-- R. Buckminster Fuller Once a boy becomes a man, he's a man all his life, but a woman is only sexy until she becomes
your wife.
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show This is the fourth?
-- Thomas Jefferson, dying words Tampere
Two souls with but a single thought,
Two hearts that beat as one.
-- Fredrich Halm Not knowing when the dawn will come, I open every door.
-- Emily Dickinson Everything has been figured out, except how to live.
- Jean-Paul Sartre "Avoid providing material for the drama that is always stretched tight between parents and children; it uses up much of the children's strength and wastes the love of the elders, which acts and warms Remember your dreams.
-- Maryanne Radmacher-Herhey Tampere I don't even butter my bread; I consider that cooking.
-- Katherine Cebrian He would make a lovely corpse.
- Charles Dickens It's no credit to anyone to work to hard.
-- Ed Howe Tampere
I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to.
-- Elvis Presley Better to have loved a short man than never to have loved a tall.
-- David Chambless A good marriage is at least 80 percent good luck in finding the right person at the right time. The
rest is trust.
-- Nanette Newman, British actress Don't marry for money; you can borrow it cheaper. "Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Tampere "Fools rush in where angels fear to tread." (Alexander Pope) Everyone believes very easily whatever they fear or desire.
-- Jean de La Fontaine Whatever you are from nature, keep to it; never desert your own line of talent. Be what nature
intended you for, and you will succeed; be anything else, and you will be ten thousands times
worse tha Tampere
History is more or less bunk.
-- Henry Ford "May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house." (George Carlin) "When a hundred men stand together, each of them loses his mind and gets another one." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) After all, all he did was string together a lot of old, well-known quotations.
-- H. L. Mencken, on Shakespeare Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
-- H. L. Mencken Tampere Truth can be a dangerous thing. It is quite patient and relentless.
-- R. Scott Richards "I don't believe people die. They just go uptown. To Bloomingdales. They just take longer to get back." (Andy Warhol) Conscience is the inner voice which warns us that someone may be looking.
-- H. L. Mencken Tampere
Laugh and the world laughs with you. Snore and you sleep alone.
-- Anthony Burgess Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.
-- Louise Hay Journalism consists largely in saying "Lord Jones died" to people who never knew Lord Jones
was alive.
-- G. K. Chesterton Love begins with a smile, grows with a kiss, and ends with a teardrop.
-- Anonymous "Self-confidence is the first requisite for achieving great things." (Samuel Johnson) Tampere To decide, to be at the level of choice, is to take responsibility for your life and to be in control of
your life.
-- Abbie M. Dale Children are a poor man's riches.
-- English proverb "I either want less corruption, or more chance to participate in it." (Ashleigh Brilliant) Tampere
I don't even butter my bread; I consider that cooking.
-- Katherine Cebrian Not only is the universe stranger than we imagine, it is stranger than we can imagine.
Sir Arthur Eddington (1882 - 1944) This isn't right, this isn't even wrong.
- Wolfgang Pauli (1900-1958), upon reading a young physicist's paper "Thanks to my solid academic training, today I can write hundreds of words on virtually any topic without possessing a shred of information, which is how I got a good job in journalism." (Dave Barry) Disclaimer: Even my wife doesn't agree with everything I say, and she loves me dearly. My employers don't love me nearly as much as she does. Draw your own conclusions. Tampere You can observe a lot by watching.
-- Yogi Berra Morality consists in suspecting other people of not being legally married.
-- George Bernard Shaw I still say a church steeple with a lightning rod on top shows a lack of confidence.
-- Doug MacLeod Tampere
Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to
take away.
- Antoine de Saint Exupery blah bla "I never think of the future. It comes soon enough." (Albert Einstein) Nothing has really happened until it has been recorded.
-- Virginia Woolf A weed is no more than a flower in disguise.
-- James Lowell If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded.
-- Maya Angelou Tampere The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
-- Winston Churchill "Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something." (Plato, 427 BC-348) I've always thought that underpopulated countries in Africa are vastly underpolluted.
-- Lawrence Summers, chief economist of the World Bank, explaining why we should export toxic
wastes to Third Wo Tampere
I do not see the EEC as a great love affair. It is more like nine desperate middle-ages couples with failing marriages meeting at a Brussels hotel for a group grope. -- Tynan "I heard the old, old, men say 'all that's beautiful drifts away, like the waters.'" (William Butler Yeats) A weed is no more than a flower in disguise.
-- James Lowell Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you help them to become what they are
capable of being.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe There is no realizable power that man cannot, in time, fashion the tools to attain, nor any power so secure that the naked ape will not abuse it. So it is written in the genetic cards - only physics a Tampere My opinions are my wife's, and she says I'm lucky to have them. Heav'n hath no rage like love to hatred turn'd, Nor Hell a fury, like a woman scorn'd.
-- William Congreve "It is neccessary to have wished for death in order to know how good it is to live." (Alexander Dumas) Tampere
A friend is a gift you give yourself.
-- Robert Louis Stevenson ARDOR, n. The quality that distinguishes love without knowledge.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 Live TV died in the late 1950s, electronic bulletin boards came along in the mid-1980s, meaning
there was about a 25-year gap when it was difficult to put your foot in your mouth and have
people all Mary had a little lamb and the doctor fainted.
-- Anonymous Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through
self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.
-- Helen Keller Tampere Substitute "damn" every time you're inclined to write "very"; your editor will delete it and the
writing will be just as it should be.
-- Mark Twain blah "A subject for a great poet would be God's boredom after the seventh day of creation." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "One of the great dangers in having a career is getting bored." (Itzhak Perlman) Tampere
To take what there "is", and use it, without waiting forever in vain for the preconceived - to dig
deep into the actual and get something out of that - this doubtless is the right way to live.
-- H I must follow the people. Am I not their leader?
-- Benjamin Disraeli This compact disc is made from analog masters recorded without noise reduction. Half the tracks,
in fact, were recorded in a dismal, cheap basement eight-track studio with puddles of water on
the fl "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world, indeed it is the only thing that ever has." (Margaret Mead, 1901-78) In any contest between power and patience, bet on patience.
- W.B. Prescott Tampere Success is just a matter of attitude.
-- Darcy E. Gibbons The power of accurate observation is frequently called cynicism by those who don't have it.
- George Bernard Shaw Whether you think that you can, or that you can't, you are usually right.
-- Henry Ford Tampere
