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The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. The opposite of a profound truth may
well be another profound truth.
- Niels Bohr If something is boring after two minutes, try it for four. If still boring, then eight. Then sixteen. Then thirty-two. Eventually one discovers that it is not boring at all." (John Cage) To the ass, or the sow, their own offspring appears the fairest in creation.
-- Latin Proverb The telephone company is urging people to *please* not use the telephone unless it is absolutely
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jockey is not allowed to talk.
-- Fran Lebowitz In marriage, the bridge gets a shower. But for the groom, it's curtains! blah "This is the hardest of all: to close the open hand out of love, and keep modest as a giver." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Training and Schools
A leader in the Democratic Party is a boss, in the Republican Party he is a leader.
Harry S. Truman We love because it's the only true adventure.
-- Nikki Giovanni Life - a sexually transmitted terminal condition.
-- Walter Prager "Conscience and cowardice are really the same things. Conscience is the trade-name of the firm. That is all." (Oscar Wilde) When the mouse laughs at the cat, there is a hole nearby.
-- Nigerian Proverb Training and Schools Is it better for a woman to marry a man who loves her than a man she loves.
-- Anonymous Marriage is a matter of give and take, but so far I haven't been able to find anybody who'll take what I have to give. -- Cass Daley A poem is never finished, only abandoned.
-- Paul Valery Training and Schools
Children should be like waffles--you should be able to throw the first one away.
-- Mary Alice Messenger I must follow the people. Am I not their leader?
-- Benjamin Disraeli As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.
-- Abraham Lincoln "A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities." (Eda J. Le Shan) Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances
continue to exist, a wonderful living side by side can grow up, if they succeed in loving the
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-- Robert A. Heinlein _The Rolling Stones_ "The White Rabbit put on his spectacles. 'Where shall I begin, please your Majesty?' he asked. 'Begin at the beginning,' the King said gravely, 'and go on till you come to the end: then stop.'" (Lewi "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) Training and Schools
Never moon a werewolf.
-- Mike Binder After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
-- Aldous Huxley Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche Never tell. Not if you love your wife... In fact, if your old lady walks in on you, deny it. Yeah. Just
flat out and she'll believe it: "I'm tellin' ya. This chick came downstairs with a sign around All science is concerned with the relationship of cause and effect. Each scientific discovery
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- Isaac Asimov My opinions are my wife's, and she says I'm lucky to have them. "There is nothing more fearful than ignorance in action." (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1749-1832, Criticisms, Reflections and Maxims) Training and Schools
"If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost." (Aristotle) Study men, not historians.
-- Harry Truman Ah, well, then I suppose I shall have to die beyond my means.
-- Oscar Wilde, dying words "Well begun is half done." (Aristotle) Character is what you are in the dark.
-- Dwight L. Moody Training and Schools Beginning in February 1976 your assistance benefits will be discontinued ... Reason: it has been
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-- excerpt from a letter, Illinois Depart After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
-- Aldous Huxley He who has lost honor can lose nothing more.
-- Publilius Syrus Training and Schools
Destiny is but a phrase of the weak human heart - the dark apology for every error. The strong
and virtuous admit no destiny. On earth conscience guides; in heaven God watches. And destiny
is but th 'Tis better to have loved and lost
Than never to have loved at all.
-- Alfred, Lord Tennyson, In Memoriam, 1850, line 27, stanza 4 "If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost." (Aristotle) To expect defeat is nine-tenths of defeat itself.
-- Francis Crawford I admire the serene assurance of those who have religious faith. It is wonderful to observe the
calm confidence of a Christian with four aces.
-- Mark Twain Training and Schools If it weren't for electricity we'd all be watching television by candlelight.
-- George Gobel And since the stench of death will always attract flies and vermin, the arrival of Geraldo was
perhaps inevitable.
-- Garry Trudeau They had a dispute about a night out with the boys. But he finally decided to let her go.
-- Anonymous Training and Schools
"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) Saying that Windows95 is equal to Macintosh is like finding a potato that looks like Jesus and
believing you've witnessed the second coming.
-- Guy Kawasaki "Wise men learn more from fools, than fools from the wise." (Anonymous) "Friends can help each other. A true friend is someone who lets you have total freedom to be yourself--and especially to feel. Or, not feel. Whatever you happen to be feeling at the moment is fine wit Learn to laugh at your troubles and you'll never run out of things to laugh at.
-- Lyn Karol Training and Schools If a thing is worth doing at all, it is worth doing badly.
-- Gustav Holst, on amateur music-making The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other
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-- Henry David Thoreau "This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) Training and Schools
Prayer gives a man the opportunity of getting to know a gentleman he hardly ever meets. I do not
mean his maker, but himself.
-- Dean Inge Count your age with friends but not with years.
-- Anonymous Facts are the enemy of truth.
- Don Quixote - Man of La Mancha In matrimony, to hesitate is sometimes to be saved.
-- Samuel Butler "Everything in my life has been determined by mistakes." (Gene Wilder) Training and Schools "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 I know nothing about sex, because I was always married.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor "What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage." Training and Schools
Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.
-- Carl Gustav Jung Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect, and it is shameful to surrender it too soon or to the first
comer: there is nobility in preserving it coolly and proudly through long youth, until at last "He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever." (Chinese Proverb) "Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former." (Albert Einstein) "The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances." (Viktor E. Frankl) Training and Schools Consequences, schmonsequences, as long as I'm rich!
-- Chuck Jones-directed cartoon "Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom." (Raymonde Uy) When people have no other tyrant, their own public opinion becomes one.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton Training and Schools
We're our own dragons as well as our own heroes, and we have to rescue ourselves from
ourselves.
-- Tom Robbins "Courage is found in unlikely places." (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) It was the experience of mystery -- even if mixed with fear -- that engendered religion.
- Albert Einstein "There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) 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 Training and Schools blah bl "The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning, but without understanding." (Louis Brandeis) "To introduce something altogether new would mean to begin all over, to become ignorant again, and to run the old, old risk of failing to learn." (Isaac Asimov) Wagner's music is better than it sounds.
- Mark Twain Training and Schools
There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.
-- Benjamin Disraeli "Conforming is only acceptable when you conform with a nonconformist." (John A. Simone Jr.) The health of the people is really the foundation upon which all their happiness and all their
powers as a State depend.
-- Benjamin Disraeli "To be great is to be misunderstood." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Men have become the tools of their tools.
- Henry David Thoreau ( Training and Schools A woman has got to love a bad man once or twice in her life to be thankful for a good one.
-- Mae West That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the
lessons that history has to teach.
-- Aldous Huxley Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect, and it is shameful to surrender it too soon or to the first
comer: there is nobility in preserving it coolly and proudly through long youth, until at last Training and Schools
