In olden times, sacrifices were made at the altar, a practice which is still very much practiced.
-- Helen Rowland "Education must have an end in view, for it is not an end in itself." (Sybil Marshall) "It is the nature of a man as he grows older, a small bridge in time, to protest against change, particularly change for the better." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) "Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains." (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, The Social Contract) I date this girl for two years--and then the nagging starts: "I wanna know your name."
-- Mike Binder Business and Economy Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.
-- T. S. Eliot 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 "Death is always and under all circumstances a tragedy, for if it is not, then it means that life itself has become one." (Theodore Roosevelt) Business and Economy
"Murder is the very bed-rock of our social institutions." (Octave Mirbeau, The Torture Garden) Statistics are like a bikini. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.
-- Aaron Levenstein "There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) The promises of maniacs, like those of women, are not safely relied upon.
-- Joseph Heller, God Knows To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance
- Oscar Wilde Business and Economy Politics is for people who have a passion for changing life but lack a passion for living it.
-- Tom Robbins "I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is." (Alan Watts) "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 Business and Economy
Laugh and the world laughs with you. Snore and you sleep alone.
-- Anthony Burgess It's no credit to anyone to work to hard.
-- Ed Howe The principle of give and take is the principle of diplomacy - give one and take ten.
-- Mark Twain Beginning in February 1976 your assistance benefits will be discontinued ... Reason: it has been
reported to our office that you expired on January 1, 1976.
-- excerpt from a letter, Illinois Depart A problem is a chance for you to do your best.
-- Buke Ellington Business and Economy No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem.
-- Booker T. Washington He is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death.
- H. H. Munro (Saki) The majority of husbands remind me of an orangutan trying to play the violin.
-- Honore de Balzac Business and Economy
"Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future." (Paul Boese) When a cat is dropped, it always lands on its feet, and when toast is dropped, it always lands with
the buttered side down. I propose to strap buttered toast to the back of a cat; the 2 will hover,
I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
-- Thomas Edison This world is a comedy for those who think and a tragedy for those who feel.
-- Horace Walpole The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow
extinction from apathy, indifference, and undernourishment.
-- Robert Hutchins, Great Books, 1954 Business and Economy Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than
the wisest man can answer.
-- Charles Caleb Colton A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties; no
religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear
of "We always get bored with those whom we bore." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) Business and Economy
Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
-- H. L. Mencken "Work like you don't need the money. Love like you've never been hurt. Dance like nobody's watching." (Satchel Paige) Never marry for money. Ye'll borrow it cheaper.
-- Scottish Proverb We never reflect how pleasant it is to ask for nothing.
-- Seneca "No one wants a good education. Everyone wants a good degree." (Lee Rudolph) Business and Economy "Courage is doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared." (Eddie Rickenbacker) Every mother generally hopes that her daughter will snag a better husband than she managed to
do...but she's certain that her boy will never get as great a wife as his father did.
-- Anonymous What luck for the rulers that men do not think.
-- Adolf Hitler Business and Economy
Mathematicians are like Frenchmen: whatever you say to them they translate into their own
language and forthwith it is something entirely different.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. "No drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ignorance, g 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 Flowers are words which even a baby can understand.
-- Arthur C. Coxe Business and Economy Under capitalism man exploits man; under socialism the reverse is true.
-- Polish proverb For the majority of People, smoking has a beneficial effect.
-- Dr. Ian G. Macdonald, Los Angeles surgeon, quoted in Newsweek , Nov.18th 1963. There's too much blood in my caffeine system.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker 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) The absolute yearning of one human body for another particular body and its indifference to
substitutes is one of life's major mysteries.
-- Iris Murdoch Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up.
-- Robert Frost Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by heart and his friends can
only read the title.
-- Virginia Woolf Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish.
-- Albert Einstein Business and Economy Whenever a husband and wife begin to discuss their marriage, they are giving evidence at an
inquest.
-- H. L. Mencken Go away...I'm alright.
-- H. G. Wells, dying words "I know that God won't give me more trouble than I can handle ... but sometimes I wish he wouldn't trust me so much." (Mother Teresa) Business and Economy
"One pretty good definition of college is that it's a place where people are made to read difficult books." (Jonathan Franzen) We need the iron qualities that go with true manhood. We need the positive virtues of resolution,
of courage, of indomitable will, of power to do without shrinking the rough work that must always
be Never look at the trombones. You'll only encourage them.
-- Richard Strauss, on conducting The bottom line is that (a) people are never perfect, but love can be, (b) that is the one and only
way that the mediocre and vile can be transformed, and (c) doing that makes it that. We waste
time The child is the father of the man.
-- William Wordsworth Business and Economy "The dancer's body is simply the luminous manifestation of the soul." (Isadora Duncan) The two most common elements in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity. But not in that order.
-- Brian Pickrell Never practice two vices at once.
-- Tallulah Bankhead Business and Economy
A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in students.
-- John Ciardi All that is gold does not glitter. Not all those who wander are lost;
-- J.R.R. Tolkein Genius is 99 percent perspiration and 1 percent inspiration.
-- Thomas Edison The philosophy exam was a piece of cake -- which was a bit of a surprise, actually, because I
was expecting some questions on a sheet of paper.
-- Smith & Jones 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 Business and Economy The promises of maniacs, like those of women, are not safely relied upon.
-- Joseph Heller, God Knows Count your age with friends but not with years.
-- Anonymous Whether you think that you can, or that you can't, you are usually right.
-- Henry Ford Business and Economy
We never reflect how pleasant it is to ask for nothing.
-- Seneca "There is no sin except stupidity." (Oscar Wilde) Character is what you are in the dark.
-- Dwight L. Moody "In order to preserve your self-respect, it is sometimes necessary to lie and cheat." (Robert Byrne) Computers will not be perfected until they can compute how much more than the estimate the job
will cost.
-- Anon Business and Economy He who laughs, lasts.
-- Mary Pettibone Poole Inanimate objects are classified scientifically into three categories-- those that don't work, those
that break down, and those that get lost.
-- Russell Baker A man who marries a woman to educate her falls a victim to the same fallacy as the woman who
marries a man to reform him.
-- Elbert Hubbard Business and Economy
"There is only one thing more painful than learning from experience and that is not learning from experience." (Archibald McLeish) Love is temporary insanity curable by marriage.
-- Ambrose Bierce My wife says if I go fishing one more time she's going to leave me. Gosh, I'm going to miss her. Usenet is like Tetris for people who still remember how to read.
-- Button from the Computer Museum, Boston, MA "Dear World, I am leaving because I am bored. I feel I have lived long enough. I am leaving you with your worries in this sweet cesspool. Good luck." (George Sanders, suicide note) Business and Economy I know I'm not in government anymore. In fact I'm out of work.
-- Ronald Reagan, Former U.S. President, on a speaking tour of Japan, 1989 blah blah blah blah blah "This is the way the world ends: not with a bang, but a whimper." (Thomas Stearns Eliot, aka T. S. Eliot) _end]
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"Hello Kitty is an icon that doesn't stand for a Experience is the worst teacher; it gives the test before presenting the lesson.
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