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-- Mother Teresa Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
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There is no course of life so weak and sottish as that which is managed by order, method, and
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I had some words with my wife, and she had some paragraphs with me. "Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom." (Raymonde Uy) That government is best which governs least.
-- Henry David Thoreau, Civil Disobedience, 1849 "The only way to have friends is to be one." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.
- Thomas Watson, Chairman of IBM, 1943 News and Media "If you assume that there's no hope, you guarantee that there will be no hope. If you assume that there is an instinct for freedom, there are opportunities to change things, there's a chance for you t "Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously u If ever two were one, then surely we.
If ever man were loved by wife, then thee.
-- Anne Bradstreet News and Media
The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
- Samuel Johnson Not knowing when the dawn will come, I open every door.
-- Emily Dickinson No one can earn a million dollars honestly.
- William Jennings Bryan God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.
-- Voltaire 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 News and Media "Talent does what it can; genius does what it must." (Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton) We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
-- Aristotle There is no future in any job. The future lies in the man who holds the job.
-- George Crane News and Media
The grand aim of all science is to cover the greatest number of empirical facts by logical
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-- Albert Einstein "I have great faith in fools; My friends call it self-confidence." (Edger Allen Poe) In matrimony, to hesitate is sometimes to be saved.
-- Samuel Butler A man has to live with himself, and he should see to it that he always has good company.
-- Charles Evans Hughes Once a boy becomes a man, he's a man all his life, but a woman is only sexy until she becomes
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-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show News and Media "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) This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold
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-- Will Rogers Whenever I date a guy, I think, is this the man I want my children to spend their weekends with?
-- Rita Rudner News and Media
'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
-- ee cummings "Careful?! Was my mother careful when she stabbed me in the heart with a coat hanger while I was still in the womb?" (Trey Parker) Beware of men on airplanes. The minute a man reaches thirty thousand feet, he immediately
becomes consumed by distasteful sexual fantasies which involve doing uncomfortable things in
those tiny toil It doesn't much signify whom one marries, for one is sure to find out next morning it was
someone else.
-- Rogers We must believe in free will, we have no choice.
-- Isaac B. Singer News and Media "I love to doubt as well as know." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) Experience is the worst teacher; it gives the test before presenting the lesson.
-- Vernon Law Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly.
-- Simeon Strunsky News and Media
Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the
gentleman.
-- Herbert Spencer There are two major products that come out of Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to
be a coincidence.
-- Jeremy S. Anderson "He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever." (Chinese Proverb) Each of us has a spark of life inside us, and our highest endeavor ought to be to set off that spark
in one another.
-- Kenny Ausubel Does anal retentive have a hyphen?
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-- Henry David Thoreau, Civil Disobedience, 1849 Marriage is like a box of chocolates. You have to squeeze a few bottoms to make sure you like
what you are getting.
-- Anonymous Marriage is a great institution, but who wants to live in an institution?
-- Marx Groucho, the film "Animal Crackers" News and Media
There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of
bread.
- Mahatma Gandhi Marriage is bliss. Ignorance is bliss. Ergo...
-- Anonymous A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence
University education.
-- George Bernard Shaw Character is what you are in the dark.
-- Dwight L. Moody To love another person is to see the face of God.
-- Lyric from Les Miserables News and Media Boredom is the feeling that everything is a waste of time; serenity, that nothing is.
-- Thomas Szasz "For better or for worse, our company (The News Corporation Ltd.) is a reflection of my thinking, my character, my values." (Keith Rupert Murdoch, media mogul, 1931-) I tried a mail order bride, once, but she was damaged in the mail, and I had to return the unused part for my full refund. News and Media
Love is a snowmobile racing across the tundra and then suddenly it flips over, pinning you
underneath. At night, the ice weasels come.
-- Matt Groening, Love is Hell Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before
marriage, which is never advisable.
-- Oscar Wilde Live truth instead of professing it.
-- Elbert Hubbard Life is a succession of lessons enforced by immediate reward, or, oftener, by immediate
chastisement.
-- Ernest Dimnet Eighty percent of married men cheat in America. The rest cheat in Europe.
-- Jackie Mason News and Media It's impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune.
-- Woody Allen I was nauseous and tingly all over... I was either in love or I had smallpox.
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"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) "Drugs have done a lot of good. A lot of good songs have been written. 'Penny Lane' is worth 10 dead kids. 'Dark Side of the Moon?' 100 dead kids. At least that many were conceived by people listening The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.
-- Franklin D. Roosevelt You can pay attention to the fact, in which case you'll probably become a mathematician, or you
can ignore it, in which case you'll probably become a physicist.
-- Len Evans, professor, Northwestern "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) News and Media An understanding heart is everything is a teacher, and cannot be esteemed highly enough. One
looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our
human Public office is the last refuge of a scoundrel.
-- Boies Penrose, 1931 Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
-- Abraham Lincoln News and Media
Giving birth is like taking your lower lip and forcing it over your head.
-- Carol Burnett Marriage is the only war in which you sleep with the enemy.
-- Anonymous I love children, especially when they cry, for then someone takes them away.
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-- Hermann Weyl I don't know why I did it, I don't know why I enjoyed it, and I don't know why I'll do it again.
-- Bart Simpson, young character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated television show You don't have to suffer to be a poet; adolescence is enough suffering for anyone.
-- John Ciardi News and Media
