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The democratic theory is that if you accumulate enough ignorance at the polls, you produce
intelligence.
-- Philo Vance If you are going through hell, keep going.
- Sir Winston Churchill Anything is possible, but only a few things actually happen.
-- Richard Rosen The cynics are right nine times out of ten.
- Henry Louis Mencken 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 Business and Economy "Humans beings can always be relied upon to assert, with vigor, their god-given right to be stupid." (Dean Koontz, Seize the Night) Go on, get out. Last words are for fools who haven't said enough.
-- Karl Marx, dying words to his housekeeper Whoever called it necking was a poor judge of anatomy.
-- Groucho Marx Business and Economy
Silence is argument carried out by other means.
- ErnestoCheGuevara The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their
attitudes of mind.
-- William James "No one ever owns his youth or the women he loves." (Pedro Almodóvar, Live Flesh) Every normal man must be tempted at times to spit upon his hands, hoist the black flag, and
begin slitting throats.
- Henry Louis Mencken Never try to teach a pig to sing. It's a waste of your time and annoys the pig.
-- Anon. Business and Economy Men. You can't live with them. You don't have to.
-- Seen on a t-shirt "Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past." (George Orwell) The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed
desperation.
-- Henry David Thoreau, Walden (1854) Business and Economy
The marriage of Marxism and feminism has been like the marriage of husband and wife depicted in English common law: Marxism and feminism are one, and that one is Marxism. --Heidi Hartmann [The Unhappy What would you attempt if you knew you could not fail?
-- Robert Schuller Life is like a dogsled team. If you ain't the lead dog, the scenery never changes.
-- Lewis Grizzard "It is a curious thing that God learned Greek when he wished to turn author--and that he did not learn it better." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes.
- Henry David Thoreau Business and Economy There is nothing so wrong in this world that a sensible woman can't set it right in the course of an
afternoon.
-- Giraudoux By working faithfully eight hours a day, you might eventually get to be a boss and work twelve
hours a day.
-- ROBERT FROST Not only is there no God, but try finding a plumber on Sunday.
-- Woody Allen Business and Economy
Politics have no relation to morals.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but how
many can get through to you.
-- Mortimer J. Adler Boredom is the feeling that everything is a waste of time; serenity, that nothing is.
-- Thomas Szasz Distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes.
- Henry David Thoreau That's the nature of research--you don't know what in hell you're doing.
-- 'Doc' Edgerton Business and Economy No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent.
-- Abraham Lincoln Correction: Instead of being arrested, as we stated, for kicking his wife down a flight of stairs and hurling a lighted kerosene lamp after her, the Rev. James P. Wellman died unmarried four years ago The Holocaust was an obscene period in our nation's history...this century's history.... We all lived
in this century. I didn't live in this century.
-- Dan Quayle, then Indiana senator and Republic Business and Economy
I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is; I only know that people call
me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat.
-- Rebecca West, I am not young enough to know everything.
-- Oscar Wilde When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life
of another.
-- Helen Keller I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers.
-- Gandhi "I want my food dead. Not sick, not dying, dead." (Oscar Wilde) Business and Economy Love is only the game that is not called on account of darkness.
-- M. Hirschfield Be tolerant of the human race. Your whole family belongs to it -- and some of your spouse's
family does too.
-- Anonymous Mistakes are the portals of discovery.
-- James Joyce Business and Economy
"There is no such thing as a person that nothing has happened to, and each person's story is as different as his fingertips." (Elsa Lanchester) Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.
-- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz We would often be sorry if our wishes were gratified.
-- Aesop "This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) "Children begin by loving their parents. After a time they judge them. Rarely, if ever, do they forgive them." (Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance) Business and Economy A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.
-- Walter Winchell Be like a postage stamp. Stick to one thing until you get there.
-- Josh Billings Love is what we are born with. Fear is what we learn. The spiritual journey is the unlearning of
fear and prejudices and the acceptance of love back in our hearts. Love is the essential reality
and Business and Economy
"I have learned that to be with those I like is enough." (Walt Whitman) Mistress: Something between a mister and a mattress.
-- Anonymous Destiny is not a matter of chance; but a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, It is a
thing to be acheived.
-- William Jennings Bryant >From the moment I picked your book up until I laid it down I was convulsed with laughter. Some
day I intend reading it.
-- Groucho Marx "Self confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings." (Samuel Johnson) Business and Economy "Murder is the very bed-rock of our social institutions." (Octave Mirbeau, The Torture Garden) Luck is the residue of design.
- Branch Rickey - former owner of the Brooklyn Dodger Baseball Team "Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear." (Ambrose Redmoon) Business and Economy
A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.
-- Edward Abbey Truth must necessarily be stranger than fiction, for fiction is the creation of the human mind and
therefore congenial to it.
-- G. K. Chesterton Assassins!
-- Arturo Toscanini, to his orchestra The mind has exactly the same power as the hands: not merely to grasp the world, but to change
it.
-- Colin Wilson blah "A subject for a great poet would be God's boredom after the seventh day of creation." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Business and Economy If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe.
- Carl Sagan Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.
-- Abraham Lincoln Marriage resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated; often moving in
opposite directions, yet always punishing any one who comes between them.
-- Sydney Smith Business and Economy
Education ... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth
reading.
-- G. M. Trevelyan I worship the quicksand he walks in.
- Art Buchwald You probably wouldn't worry about what people think of you if you could know how seldom they
do.
-- Olin Miller There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world; and that is an idea whose time has
come.
-- Victor Hugo The optimist sees opportunity in every danger; the pessimist sees danger in every opportunity.
-- Winston Churchill Business and Economy The marriage of Marxism and feminism has been like the marriage of husband and wife depicted
in English common law: Marxism and feminism are one, and that one is Marxism.
-- Heidi Hartmann, The Unha The less a man thinks or knows about his virtues, the better we like him.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson There are times when parenthood seems nothing but feeding the mouth that bites you.
-- Peter De Vries Business and Economy
Youth is wasted on the young.
-- George Bernard Shaw "Fear is a darkroom where negatives develop." (Usman Asif) In olden times, sacrifices were made at the altar, a practice which is still very much practiced.
-- Helen Rowland I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers.
-- Gandhi "Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them." (Samuel Butler) Business and Economy The difference between a man who faces death for the sake of an idea and an imitator who goes
in search of martyrdom is that the former expresses his idea most fully in death while the latter
really "The English have all the material requisites for the revolution. What they lack is the spirit of generalization and revolutionary ardour." (Karl Marx) When a girl marries she exchanges the attention of many men for the inattention of one.
-- Helen Rowland Business and Economy
"People drag their progeny around with them like a ball and chain, like some terrible deadweight that hinders their every move - and that, as often as not, effectively winds up killing them." (Michel "Excellence is in the details. Give attention to the details and excellence will come." (Perry Paxton) "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 "Education is a vacine for violence." (Edward James Olmos) "One of the things about acting is it allows you to live other people's lives without having to pay the price. I've never been one of those actors who has touted myself as a fascinating human being. I Business and Economy Be like a postage stamp. Stick to one thing until you get there.
-- Josh Billings We have a habit in writing articles published in scientific journals to make the work as finished as
possible, to cover up all the tracks, to not worry about the blind alleys or describe how you had It depends on your definition of asleep. They were not stretched out. They had their eyes closed.
They were seated at their desks with their heads in a nodding position.
-- John Hogan, Commonwealth Business and Economy
