If addiction is judged by how long a dumb animal will sit pressing a lever to get a 'fix' of
something, to its own detriment, then I would conclude that netnews is far more addictive than
cocaine.
"Experience is a good teacher, but she sends in terrific bills." (Minna Antrim) "A conservative is a man who sits and thinks, mostly sits." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) Hardly a year passes that fails to find a new, oft-times exotic, research method or technique
added to the armamentarium of political inquiry. Anyone who cannot negotiate Chi squares,
assess randomi If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded.
-- Maya Angelou Ariege "When a hundred men stand together, each of them loses his mind and gets another one." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) A man's reach should exeed his grasp, or else what's a heaven for?
-- Robert Browning No matter who you vote for, the Government always gets in.
-- Anon. Ariege
"Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known." (Blaise Pascal) Epperson's law:
When a man says it's a silly, childish game, it's probably something his wife can beat him at. "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 I'm like old wine. They don't bring me out very often, but I'm well preserved.
-- Rose Kennedy, (1890-1995) family matriarch, on her 100th birthday, 1991 blah "Some of the worlds greatest feats were accomplished by people not smart enough to know they were impossible. unattributed" (Anonymous) Ariege "Think where mans glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends." (William Butler Yeats) Never look at the trombones. You'll only encourage them.
-- Richard Strauss, on conducting "Commit yourself to quality from day one ... it's better to do nothing at all than to do something badly." (Mark McCormack) Ariege
You have it easily in your power to increase the sum total of this world's happiness now. How? By
giving a few words of sincere appreciation to someone who is lonely or discouraged. Perhaps you
will "Courageous, untroubled, mocking and violent--that is what Wisdom wants us to be. Wisdom is a woman, and loves only a warrior." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I'm like old wine. They don't bring me out very often, but I'm well preserved.
-- Rose Kennedy, (1890-1995) family matriarch, on her 100th birthday, 1991 "Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect every one who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are ine Creativity is the sudden cessation of stupidity.
-- Edward H. Land Ariege Everybody can be great... because anybody can serve. You don't have to have a college degree
to serve. You don't have to make your subject and verb agree to serve. you only need a heart full
of grac In marriage, the bridge gets a shower. But for the groom, it's curtains! My wife ran off with my best friend last week. I miss him! Ariege
blah "Each friend represents a world in us; a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only in meeting them that a new world is born." (Anais Nin) I don't know as much as God, but I know more than He did at my age.
-- Henry Kissinger "I was a total loner, not by self-design. I just didn't know what the hell to say to people. I was so shy. I used to stammer and lisp and dribble at the mouth." (Sir Anthony Hopkins, on his youth) In the blithe days of honeymoon,
With Kate's allurements smitten,
I lov'd her late, I lov'd her soon,
And call'd her dearest kitten.
But now my kitten's grown a cat,
And cross like other wives.
Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and around the hands and feet of the man. Ariege You can't buy love, but you can pay heavily for it.
-- Henny Youngman "Those who feel certainty are stupid and those with any imagination or understanding are filled with doubt and indecision." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) If ever two were one, then surely we.
If ever man were loved by wife, then thee.
-- Anne Bradstreet Ariege
I take my wife everywhere I go. She always finds her way back.
-- Henny Youngman Life is like music; it must be composed by ear, feeling, and instinct, not by rule.
-- Samuel Butler "The only things worth learning are the things you learn after you know it all." (Harry S. Truman) Men are strong only so long as they represent a strong idea. They become powerless when they
oppose it.
-- Sigmund Freud "The purpose of Compulsory Education is to deprive the common people of their commonsense." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) Ariege "... What good are dreams if they come true?" (Frederick Exley, A Fan's Notes) Now join your hands, and with your hands your hearts.
-- William Shakespeare, King Henry the Sixth "One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Ariege
"Mothers spend a lifetime excising from their sons the influence of their fathers." (Arthur Lotti) Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
-- H. L. Mencken Shotgun wedding: a case of wife or death "Be the change that you want to see in the world." (Mohandas Gandhi) The principle of give and take is the principle of diplomacy - give one and take ten.
-- Mark Twain Ariege 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 worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow in Australia.
-- Charles Schultz He who has a 'why' to live, can bear with almost any 'how'.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Ariege
Marriage is love. Love is blind. Therefore, marriage is an institution for the blind. "I have an unfortunate personality." (George Orson Welles) Marriage is more than four bare legs in a bed.
-- Hoshang N. Akhtar The best reason I can think of for not running for President of the United States is that you have
to shave twice a day.
-- Adlai Stevenson If the French were really intelligent, they'd speak English.
-- Wilfred Sheed Ariege In marriage, the bridge gets a shower. But for the groom, it's curtains! Intelligence has nothing to do with politics.
-- Londo Molari Prejudice is the child of ignorance.
-- William Hazlitt Ariege
Great innovations should not be forced on slender majorities.
-- Thomas Jefferson In olden times, sacrifices were made at the altar, a practice which is still very much practiced.
-- Helen Rowland Democracy is a form of government in which it is permitted to wonder aloud what the country
could do under first-class management.
-- Senator Soaper Establishing yourself, furnishing a house, building up a comfortable existence, and having that menace hanging over your head all the time - no, I prefer to live in hotels, cafés, just passing through "A thing of beauty is a joy forever." (John Keats) Ariege "Ideas are far more powerful than guns. We don't allow our enemies to have guns, why should we allow them to have ideas?" (Josef Stalin) "Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom." (Raymonde Uy) Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
-- Soren Kierkegaard Ariege
"All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.
-Robert Frost (1874-1963) "The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances." (Viktor E. Frankl) Be like a postage stamp. Stick to one thing until you get there.
-- Josh Billings One survey found that ten percent of Americans thought Joan of Arc was Noah's wife....
-- Robert Boynton Ariege Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting.
- Karl Wallenda "I want my food dead. Not sick, not dying, dead." (Oscar Wilde) Happiness, it is said, is seldom found by those who seek it, and never by those who seek it for
themselves.
-- F. Emerson Andrews Ariege
"We must view young people not as empty bottles to be filled but as candles to be lit." (Robert Shaffer) The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this
is true.
-- James Branch Cabell, The Silver Stallion "Someday there will be girls and women whose name will no longer mean the mere opposite of the male, but something in itself, something that makes one think not of any compliment and limit, but only o I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think.
-- Socrates You can close your eyes to reality, but not to memories.
-- Stanislaw J. Lem Ariege The most savage controversies are about those matters as to which there is no good evidence
either way.
-- Bertrand Russell "We already have the statistics for the future: the growth percentages of pollution, overpopulation, desertification. The future is already in place." (Günther Grass, Winner of the Nobel Prize for Li It may be that the race is not always to the swift, nor the battle to the strong -- but that is the way
to bet.
-- Damon Runyan Ariege
I have an existential map; it has 'you are here' written all over it.
- Steven Wright Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labour in
freedom.
-- Albert Einstein "I don't care to belong to a club that accepts people like me as members." (Groucho Marx) I have spread my dreams under your feet;
Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.
-- William Butler Yeats, from "He wishes for the cloths of heaven" What do I dislike about death? Must be the hours.
-- Woody Allen Ariege I've always thought that underpopulated countries in Africa are vastly underpolluted.
-- Lawrence Summers, chief economist of the World Bank, explaining why we should export toxic
wastes to Third Wo And in the end it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
-- Abraham Lincoln "Talent does what it can; genius does what it must." (Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton) Ariege
