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The last good thing written in C++ was the Pachelbel Canon.
-- Jerry Olson Marriage means commitment. Of course, so does insanity. There are those who look at things the way they are, and ask why... I dream of things that never
were, and ask why not?
-- Robert Francis Kennedy Basically, I no longer work for anything but the sensation I have while working.
- Albert Giacometti (sculptor) When you are right, you cannot be too radical; When you are wrong, you cannot be too
conservative.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Business and Economy A good marriage is like a casserole, only those responsible for it really know what goes in it.
-- Anonymous It is not necessary that whilst I live I live happily; but it is necessary that so long as I live I should
live honourably.
-- Kant, Immanuel If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one.
-- Mother Teresa Business and Economy
"Every great institution is the lengthened shadow of a single man. His character determines the character of the organization." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) "I'm the artist formally known as Beck. I have a genius wig. When I put that wig on, then the true genius emerges. I don't have enough hair to be a genius. I think you have to have hair going everywhe I am about to--or I am going to--die; either expression is used.
-- Dominique Bouhours, French grammarian, dying words "If you light a man a fire, he will be warm for a day; if you light a man on fire, he will be warm for the rest of his life." (Anonymous) All human actions are equivalent... and... all are on principle doomed...
-- Jean-Paul Sartre, "Being and Nothingness" Business and Economy History repeats itself; that's one of the things that's wrong with history.
-- Clarence Darrow I sometimes think that God, in creating man, overestimated His ability.
-- Oscar Wilde We can lick gravity, but sometimes the paperwork is overwhelming.
-- Wehrner von Braun Business and Economy
"The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) Repentance is not so much remorse for what we have done as the fear of the consequences.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld, Maxims, 1665 We must become the change we want to see.
-- Gandhi If a thing is worth doing at all, it is worth doing badly.
-- Gustav Holst, on amateur music-making "Bread feeds the body, indeed, but flowers feed also the soul." (The Prophet Mohammad) Business and Economy Live out of your imagination, not your history.
-- Stephen Covey If the French were really intelligent, they'd speak English.
-- Wilfred Sheed If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man
will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability.
-- Henry Ford Business and Economy
The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.
-- G. K. Chesterton English Law prohibits a man from marrying his mother-in-law. This is our idea of useless legislation. Tauzin backs term limits -- But he thinks it's a bad idea.
-- Headline, story in the New Orleans Times-Picayune, Feb 20, 1995 There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called
marriage.
-- James Holt McGavran Repentance is not so much remorse for what we have done as the fear of the consequences.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld, Maxims, 1665 Business and Economy "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 Most of our obstacles would melt away if, instead of cowering before them, we should make up
our minds to walk boldly through them.
-- Orison Swett Marden If you are afraid of loneliness, do not marry. -- Chekhov Business and Economy
A witty saying proves nothing.
- Voltaire Even overweight cats instinctively know the cardinal rule: when fat, arrange yourself in slim
poses.
-- John Weitz, American Designer Every flower must grow through dirt.
-- Anonymous 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 Trust, but verify.
-- Ronald Reagan Business and Economy "The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do." (Anonymous) The fantasy which serves as a support for the figure of the Stalinist Communist is therefore
exactly the same as the fantasy which is at work in the Tom and Jerry cartoons.
-- Slavoj Zizek It destroys one's nerves to be amiable everyday to the same human being.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Business and Economy
"I should reproach him for not giving us enough evidence." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970, what he would say to God if they 'met') With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die.
-- Abraham Lincoln May you grow so rich your widow's second husband never has to worry about a living, God forbid. Obstacles cannot crush me. Every obstacle yields to stern resolve. He who is fixed to a star does
not change his mind.
-- Leonardo da Vinci, Notebooks "I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." (James Madison) Business and Economy Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.
-- Sigmund Freud 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. May your wife be a witch who takes after her mother, and may you all live together in a one-room house. Business and Economy
The first duty of love is to listen.
-- Paul Tillich The great man fights the elements in his time that hinder his own greatness, in other words his own freedom and sincerity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Sometimes you get shown the light in the strangest of places if you look at it right.
-- Jerry Garcia Sure, it's going to kill a lot of people, but they may be dying of something else anyway.
-- Othal Brand, member of a Texas pesticide review board The imaginary friends I had as a kid dropped me because their friends thought I didn't exist.
-- Aaron Machado Business and Economy Argue for your limitations, and sure enough they're yours.
- Richard Bach Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.
-- Salvador Dali Meetings are an addictive, highly self-indulgent activity that corporations and other large
organizations habitually engage in only because they cannot actually masturbate.
-- Dave Barry Business and Economy
I am become death, shatterer of worlds.
-- Robert J. Oppenheimer, citing from the Bhagavadgita, after witnessing the world's first nuclear
explosion Do or do not. There is no try.
-- Yoda, character in the movie The Empire Strikes Back Character may be manifested in the great moments, but it is made in the small ones.
-- Phillip Brooks "I was lousy in school. Real screwed-up. A moron. I was antisocial and didn't bother with the other kids. A really bad student. I didn't have any brains. I didn't know what I was doing there. That's w "Good taste is the first refuge of the non-creative. It is the last-ditch stand of the artist." (Marshall McLuhan) Business and Economy Effort is only effort when it begins to hurt.
-- Jose Ortega y Gasset First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.
- Mahatma Gandhi Marriage is a lottery, but you can't tear up your ticket if you lose.
-- F. M. Knowles Business and Economy
'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
-- ee cummings Doctors are the same as lawyers; the only difference is that lawyers merely rob you, whereas
doctors rob you and kill you too.
-- Anton Chekhov blah "A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) Love is temporary insanity curable by marriage.
-- Ambrose Bierce Early to rise and early to bed.
Makes a male healthy, wealthy and dead.
-- James Thurber Business and Economy "Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night." (Edger Allen Poe) Discovery consists of looking at the same thing as everyone else does and thinking something
different.
-- Albert Szent-Gyorgyi, 1937 Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine "How is it that we never have time to do a job right, but we always have time to do it over?" (Anonymous) Business and Economy
"I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it." (Thomas Jefferson, to Archibald Stuart, 1791) "A true friend stabs you in the front." (Oscar Wilde) "I heard the old, old, men say 'all that's beautiful drifts away, like the waters.'" (William Butler Yeats) Love is blind -- marriage is the eye-opener.
-- Pauline Thomason He who dies a thousand deaths meets the final hour with the calmness of one who approaches a
well remembered door.
-- Heywood Brown Business and Economy Marriage was all a woman's idea and for man's acceptance of the pretty yoke, it becomes us to
be grateful.
-- Phyllis McGinley My mother-in-law broke up my marriage. My wife came home from work one day and found me in
bed with her.
-- Lenny Bruce If a man does his best, what else is there?
- General George S. Patton Business and Economy
Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.
-- Oscar Wilde "These are days you'll remember." If you recall nothing else from your graduation ceremony,
remember you heard the New Jersey Governor quote from 10,000 Maniacs.
-- Christine Todd, NJ Governor, Whea What if nothing exists and we're all in somebody's dream? Or what's worse, what if only that fat
guy in the third row exists?
-- Woody Allen Marriage is like a bank account. You put it in, you take it out, you lose interest.
-- Irwin Corey Humanity has advanced, when it has advanced, not because it has been sober, responsible, and
cautious, but because it has been playful, rebellious, and immature.
-- Tom Robbins Business and Economy "The happy people are failures because they are on such good terms with themselves they don't give a damn." (Agatha Christie) The time is always right to do what is right.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Not only is there no God, but try finding a plumber on Sunday.
-- Woody Allen Business and Economy
