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It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
-- Mark Twain In a hierarchy, every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence. Therefore:
? In time, every post tends to be occupied by an employee who is incompetent to carry out its
duties.
? Work The question is not whether we will die, but how we will live.
-- Joan Borysenko "That's the true sign. If the lover has not yet achieved his prize, his eyes will follow the woman, while she appears indifferent. But once he's gained his goal, it's the woman's eyes that follow him, "You know what charm is: a way of getting the answer yes without having asked any clear question." (Albert Camus, The Fall) Travel and Tourism I still live.
-- Daniel Webster, dying words There are trivial truths, and there are great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false.
The opposite of a great truth is also true.
-- Neils Bohr 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 Travel and Tourism
The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.
-- Thomas Jefferson blah bl "Less is more." (Robert Browning) You can always amend a big plan, but you can never expand a little one. I don't believe in little
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-- Ha "The only man who behaved sensibly was my tailor; he took my measurement anew every time he saw me, while all the rest went on with their old measurements and expected them to fit me." (George Bernar If God does not exist, then everything is permitted.
-- Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Devils Travel and Tourism Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.
-- Philip K. Dick "If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way." (Mark Twain) A Code of Honor: Never approach a friend's girlfriend or wife with mischief as your goal. There
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Creativity is allowing oneself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.
-- Scott Adams, The Dilbert Principle Duct tape is like the Force. It has a light side, a dark side, and it holds the universe together....
-- Carl Zwanzig As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.
-- Abraham Lincoln "When you resort to attacking the messenger and not the message, you have lost the debate." (Addison Whithecomb) What luck for the rulers that men do not think.
-- Adolf Hitler Travel and Tourism Some people talk in their sleep. Lecturers talk while other people sleep.
-- Albert Camus If stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out?
- Will Rogers Children are a poor man's riches.
-- English proverb Travel and Tourism
"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 God help the man who won't marry until he finds a perfect woman, and God help him still more if
he finds her.
-- Benjamin Tillett Second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience. "Man looks in the abyss, there's nothing staring back at him. At that moment, man finds his character. And that is what keeps him out of the abyss." (Hal Holbrook, Wallstreet) Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labour in
freedom.
-- Albert Einstein Travel and Tourism Some birds aren't meant to be caged, their feathers are just too bright. And when they fly away,
the part of you that knows it was a sin to lock them up, does rejoice. I guess I just miss my friend. Humanity has advanced, when it has advanced, not because it has been sober, responsible, and
cautious, but because it has been playful, rebellious, and immature.
-- Tom Robbins Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.
-- John Lehman, Secretary of the Navy, 1981-1987 Travel and Tourism
Nothing is beneath you if it is in the direction of your life.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson If men knew all that women think, they'd be twenty times more daring.
-- Alphonse Karr Disclaimer: Even my wife doesn't agree with everything I say, and she loves me dearly. My employers don't love me nearly as much as she does. Draw your own conclusions. Giving a man space is like giving a dog a computer: the chances are he will not use it wisely.
-- Bette-Jane Raphael And now, in keeping with Channel 40's policy of always bringing you the latest in blood and guts,
in living color, you're about to see another first -- an attempted suicide.
-- Chris Hubbock, who sh Travel and Tourism There are those who look at things the way they are, and ask why... I dream of things that never
were, and ask why not?
-- Robert Francis Kennedy I do not see the EEC as a great love affair. It is more like nine desperate middle-ages couples with failing marriages meeting at a Brussels hotel for a group grope. -- Tynan Death does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when it does
come, we no longer exist.
-- Epicurus Travel and Tourism
"The English have all the material requisites for the revolution. What they lack is the spirit of generalization and revolutionary ardour." (Karl Marx) Neither fire nor wind, birth nor death can erase our good deeds.
-- Buddha "Is man merely a mistake of God's? Or God merely a mistake of man's?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "I've decided something: Commercial things really do stink. As soon as it becomes commercial for a mass market it really stinks." (Andy Warhol, The Andy Warhol Diaries, 1989) I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than
knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.
-- Albert Einstein Travel and Tourism More light!
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, dying words Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint on it you can.
-- Danny Kaye "How wondrous familiar is a fool!" (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) Travel and Tourism
Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after.
-- Anne Morrow Lindbergh Maybe this world is another planet's hell.
-- Aldous Huxley Anyway, 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,
ign My initial response was to sue her for defamation of character, but then I realized that I had no
character.
-- Charles Barkley, on hearing Tonya Harding proclaim herself "the Charles Barkley of fig The first duty of a lecturer: to hand you after an hour's discourse a nugget of pure truth to wrap up
between the pages of your notebooks, and keep on the mantlepiece forever.
-- Virginia Woolf Travel and Tourism Great innovations should not be forced on slender majorities.
-- Thomas Jefferson Every act of creation is first an act of destruction.
-- Pablo Picasso "I have learned that to be with those I like is enough." (Walt Whitman) Travel and Tourism
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 "I am not afraid of tomorrow, for i have seen yesterday and i love today!" (William Allen White) "Life is a great surprise. I don't see why death should not be an even greater one." (Vladimir Nabokov) Giving birth is like taking your lower lip and forcing it over your head.
-- Carol Burnett The best theology would need no advocates; it would prove itself.
-- Karl Barth Travel and Tourism I'm worried that the universe will soon need replacing. It's not holding a charge.
-- Edward Chilton The mistakes are all waiting to be made.
- chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower (1887-1956) on the game's opening position ... it is certain that the real function of art is to increase our self-consciousness; to make us more
aware of what we are, and therefore of what the universe in which we live really is. And since
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Oregon Democratic Senate candidate Tom Bruggere, in describing his support for
comprehensive health care during a candidates' forum, said he supported "erection-to-
resurrection" coverage. He later a I should have no objection to a repetition of the same life from its beginning, only asking the
advantages authors have in a second edition to correct some faults of the first.
-- Benjamin Franklin Good judgement comes from experience, and experience--well, that comes from poor judgement.
-- Cousin Woodman "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 The time is always right to do what is right.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Travel and Tourism I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.
-- Francois-Auguste Rodin, when asked how he managed to make his remarkable statues 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 "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 Travel and Tourism
Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.
-- Roger Babson The artist alone sees spirits. But after he has told of their appearing to him, everybody sees them.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe He who hesitates is a damned fool.
- Mae West Saying that men talk about baseball in order to avoid talking about their feelings is the same as
saying that women talk about their feelings in order to avoid talking about baseball.
-- Deborah Tan When you've spent half your political life dealing with humdrum issues like the environment... it's
exciting to have a real crisis on your hands.
-- Margaret Thatcher, on the Falklands Conflict Travel and Tourism Live your questions now, and perhaps even without knowing it, you will live along some distant
day into your answers.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke Sir Francis Drake circumsized the world with a 100-foot clipper.
-- Unknown history student Courage: doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared.
-- Eddie Rickenbacker Travel and Tourism
When Michelangelo finished the painting of the Sistine Chapel's ceiling, he spent the rest of his
life trying to remove the paint that had poured into his sleeve.
-- Francois Cavanna The great end of life is not knowledge, but action. What men need is as much knowledge as they
can organize for action; give them more and it may become injurious. Some men are heavy and
stupid from Marriage is a lottery, but you can't tear up your ticket if you lose.
-- F. M. Knowles Guide to understanding a net.addict's day:
Slow day: didn't have much to do, so spent three hours on usenet.
Busy day: managed to work in three hours of usenet.
Bad day: barely squeezed in three ho How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create
it herself.
- Anais Nin Travel and Tourism "We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then is not an act but a habit." (Aristotle) Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteeen.
-- Albert Einstein Is fuel efficiency really what we need most desperately? I say what we really need is a car that
can be shot when it breaks down.
-- Russell Baker Travel and Tourism
