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The only reward of virtue is virtue.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson You've achieved success in your field when you don't know whether what you're doing is work or
play.
-- WARREN BEATTY The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One
cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the
marvelous str Why doesn't she like me? Is it my hair, my overbite, the fact that I've worn the same shirt and
shorts for the last four years?
-- Bart Simpson, young character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated tele The first half of our life is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
-- Clarence Darrow Management Facts are the enemy of truth.
- Don Quixote - Man of La Mancha Acting is the most minor of gifts and not a very high-class way to earn a living. After all, Shirley
Temple could do it at the age of four.
-- Katharine Hepburn If Satan ever loses his hair, there'll be hell toupee.
-- Anonymous Management
It is the final proof of God's omnipotence that he need not exist in order to save us.
-- Peter De Vries Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.
-- Don Stanford We are not retreating - we are advancing in another Direction.
- General Douglas MacArthur The love we give away is the only love we keep.
-- Elbert Hubbard A good marriage is like a casserole, only those responsible for it really know what goes in it.
-- Anonymous Management Everyone is a genius at least once a year; a real genius has his original ideas closer together.
- Georg Lichtenberg Even death is not to be feared by one who has lived wisely.
-- Buddha "Not only is there no guarantee of the temporal immortality of the human soul, that is to say of its eternal survival after death; but, in any case, this assumption completely fails to accomplish the Management
Men are strong only so long as they represent a strong idea. They become powerless when they
oppose it.
-- Sigmund Freud Hey, you can't fight in here! This is the war room!
-- Dr. Strangelove Good friends are good for your health.
-- Irwin Sarason If God does not exist, then everything is permitted.
-- Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Devils When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of many men for the inattention of one.
-- Helen Rowland Management A memorandum is written not to inform the reader but to protect the writer.
-- Dean Acheson "Dying is the most embarrassing thing that can ever happen to you, because someone's got to take care of all your details." (Andy Warhol, America, 1985) A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.
-- Walter Winchell Management
I have noticed that nothing I have never said ever did me any harm.
-- Calvin Coolidge At the bottom no one in life can help anyone else in life; this one experiences over and over in
every conflict and every perplexity: that one is alone. That isn't as bad as it may first appear; and Tauzin backs term limits -- But he thinks it's a bad idea.
-- Headline, story in the New Orleans Times-Picayune, Feb 20, 1995 "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 A good cook is like a sorceress who dispenses happiness.
-- Elsa Schiapirelli Management "Are you bored with life? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours." (Dale I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and
intellect has intended us to forgo their use.
- Galileo Galilei "There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) Management
Technology makes it possible for people to gain control over everything, except over technology.
-- John Tudor Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.
-- George Orwell I don't feel good.
-- Luther Burbank, dying words Marriage: the only sport in which the trapped animal has to buy the license. "The want of logic annoys. Too much logic bores. Life eludes logic, and everything that logic alone constructs remains artificial and forced." (André Gide) Management A good cook is like a sorceress who dispenses happiness.
-- Elsa Schiapirelli "We must view young people not as empty bottles to be filled but as candles to be lit." (Robert Shaffer) "The dancer's body is simply the luminous manifestation of the soul." (Isadora Duncan) Management
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. "When marrying, ask yourself this question: Do you believe that you will be able to converse well with this person into your old age? Everything else in marriage is transitory." (Friedrich Wilhelm Ni Joy is but the sign that creative emotion is fulfilling its purpose.
-- Charles Du Bos Minds are like parachutes - they only function when open.
-- Thomas Dewar Hell hath no fury like a bureaucrat scorned.
-- Milton Friedman Management In endowing us with memory, nature has revealed to us a truth utterly unimaginable to the
unreflective creation, the truth of immortality....The most ideal human passion is love, which is
also the m "Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) If it weren't for marriage, men and women would have to fight with total strangers.
-- Anonymous Management
"Oh, the tiger will love you. There is no sincerer love than the love of food." (George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman) "Nietzsche was stupid and abnormal." (Leo Tolstoy, 1828-1910) Women are like tea bags; put them in hot water and they get stronger.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt "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) Dreams never hurt anybody if you keep working right behind the dreams to make as much of
them become real as you can.
-- Frank W. Woolworth Management "When even one American--who has done nothing wrong--is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth--then all Americans are in peril." (Harry S. Truman) 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 The imaginary friends I had as a kid dropped me because their friends thought I didn't exist.
-- Aaron Machado Management
"I have an unfortunate personality." (George Orson Welles) Thus the metric system did not really catch on in the States, unless you count the increasing
popularity of the nine-millimeter bullet.
-- Dave Barry Experience is the name every one gives his mistakes.
-- Elbert Hubbard "The man who never made a mistake never made anything." (Derek Longdon, Tongariro Power Development, Turangi, New Zealand) The nourishment is palatable.
-- Millard Fillmore, dying words Management Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by
definition, is unassailable.
-- James Baldwin, Nobody Knows My Name, 1961 Viewed from the summit of reason, all life looks like a malignant disease and the world like a
madhouse.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe In olden times sacrifices were made at the altar--a practice which is still continued.
-- Helen Rowland Management
In the halls of justice, the only justice is in the halls.
-- Lenny Bruce The imaginary friends I had as a kid dropped me because their friends thought I didn't exist.
-- Aaron Machado The difference between marriage and death? Dead people are free. Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.
- George Eliot "Kill a man, and you are a murderer. Kill millions of men, and you are a conquerer. Kill everyone, and you are a god." (Jean Rostand) Management "No one lies so boldly as the man who is indignant." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Feminists are OK, I just wouldn't want my sister to marry one 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 Management
What if it was cats who invented technology... would they have tv shows starring rubber sqeak
toys?
-- Douglas Coupland Here's to you and here's to me,
and I hope we never disagree.
But, if that should ever be,
to HELL with you, here's to ME!
-- Anonymous The worth of the state, in the long run, is the worth of the individuals composing it.
-- John Stuart Mill "For others do I wait ... for higher ones, stronger ones, more triumphant ones, merrier ones, for such as are built squarely in body and soul: laughing lions must come." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Goodbye, Everybody!
-- Hart Crane, poet, who committed suicide by jumping overboard during a steamship voyage. Management "Boredom is a vital problem for the moralist, since at least half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) If you don't know how to do something, you don't know how to do it with a computer.
-- Anon. Some people talk in their sleep. Lecturers talk while other people sleep.
-- Albert Camus Management
"Most people would rather die than think; in fact, they do so." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) blah "It is a grand mistake to think of being great without goodness and I pronounce it as certain that there was never a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous." (Benjamin Fran It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
-- Mark Twain 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 Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them
down people's throats.
-- Howard Aiken Management He had occasional flashes of silence that made his conversation perfectly delightful.
-- Sydney Smith, referring to Macaulay "A man must dream a long time in order to act with grandeur, and dreaming is nursed in darkness." (Jean Genet) Sex is God's joke on human beings.
-- Bette Davis Management
