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If excessive smoking actually plays a role in the production of lung cancer, it seems to be a minor
one.
-- Dr. W.C. Heuper of the National Cancer Institute, as quoted in the New York Times on Apri The full use of your powers along lines of excellence.
- definition of happiness by John F. Kennedy "Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." (George Bernard Shaw) All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.
-- Edgar Allan Poe Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with
the powerful, not to be neutral.
-- Paulo Freire Personal Pages It is not good enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.
-- Rene Descartes Always bear in mind that your own resolution to success is more important than any other one
thing.
-- Abraham Lincoln "To make the individual uncomfortable, that is my task." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Personal Pages
A good cook is like a sorceress who dispenses happiness.
-- Elsa Schiapirelli The good people sleep much better at night than the bad people. Of course, the bad people enjoy
the waking hours much more.
-- Woody Allen If I have not seen as far as others, it is because giants were standing on my shoulders.
-- Hal Abelson All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That is his.
-- Oscar Wilde A leader in the Democratic Party is a boss, in the Republican Party he is a leader.
Harry S. Truman Personal Pages We love because it's the only true adventure.
-- Nikki Giovanni Lawyers are... operators of the toll bridge which anyone in search of justice must pass.
-- Jane Bryant Quinn If one advances confidently in the direction of one's dreams, and endeavours to live the life which
one has imagined, one will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
-- Henry David Thoreau Personal Pages
There is a courtesy of the heart; it is allied to love. From it springs the purest courtesy in the
outward behavior.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is
the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be
cr Victory belongs to the most persevering.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte Some of us are becoming the men we wanted to marry.
-- Gloria Steinem What a difference there is between what we say and what we think.
-- Racine Personal Pages People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war or before an election.
-- Otto von Bismarck Before marriage, a man will lie awake all night thinking about something you said; after marriage,
he'll fall asleep before you finish saying it.
-- Helen Roland "He who speaks of what he knows not only works hard to portray his ignorance." (Joseph Muchemi) Personal Pages
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 In olden times sacrifices were made at the altar--a practice which is still continued.
-- Helen Rowland A man's reach should exeed his grasp, or else what's a heaven for?
-- Robert Browning If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be
closed for any other business.
-- Abraham Lincoln Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.
-- Mother Teresa Personal Pages Marriage is love. Love is blind. Therefore, marriage is an institution for the blind. If one advances confidently in the direction of one's dreams, and endeavours to live the life which
one has imagined, one will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
-- Henry David Thoreau There's a saying among prospectors: "Go out looking for one thing, and that's all you'll ever find."
-- Robert Flaherty Personal Pages
He had decided to live forever or die in the attempt.
-- J. Heller "To forget one's purpose is the commonest form of stupidity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Nobody ever died of laughter.
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hanging on to his coattails.
-- H. L. Mencken "Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom." (Raymonde Uy) "I never resist temptation, because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me." (George Bernard Shaw) Personal Pages
If it weren't for marriage, men and women would have to fight with total strangers.
-- Anonymous A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take her off his hands. -- Guitry May you grow so rich your widow's second husband never has to worry about a living, God forbid. "Self confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings." (Samuel Johnson) "In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Personal Pages If a relationship is to evolve, it must go through a series of endings.
-- Lisa Moriyama Talent does what it can; genius does what it must.
- Edward George Bulwer-Lytton "I hear, I know. I see, I remember. I do, I understand." (Confucius, 551 BC-479) Personal Pages
Early to rise and early to bed.
Makes a male healthy, wealthy and dead.
-- James Thurber "Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts." (Henry B. Adams) I belong to Bridegrooms Anonymous. Whenever I feel like getting married, they send over a lady in a housecoat and hair curlers to burn my toast for me. -- Dick Martin "We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) "I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough." (M. C. Escher) Personal Pages I feel like Zsa Zsa Gabor's sixth husband. I know what I'm supposed to do, but I don't know how
to make it interesting.
-- Milton Berle, when called to the microphone at the 2nd Annual Comedians Hal You can't shake hands with a clenched fist.
-- Indira Gandhi "The things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisi Personal Pages
This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold
of a hammer.
-- Will Rogers "A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities." (Eda J. Le Shan) Republican boys date Democratic girls. They plan to marry Republican girls, but feel they're
entitled to a little fun first.
-- Anonymous To decide, to be at the level of choice, is to take responsibility for your life and to be in control of
your life.
-- Abbie M. Dale Our schools have been scientifically designed to prevent over-education from happening. [...] The
average American (should be) content with their humble role in life, because they're not tempted
to Personal Pages People need loving the most when they deserve it the least.
-- John Harrigan A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take
her off his hands.
-- Sacha Guitry The optimist sees opportunity in every danger; the pessimist sees danger in every opportunity.
-- Winston Churchill Personal Pages
I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones.
-- John Cage In the spider-web of facts, many a truth is strangled.
-- Paul Eldridge Everything in the world may be endured except continued prosperity.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot.
-- Anonymous 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 Personal Pages This novel is not to be tossed lightly aside, but hurled with great force.
-- Dorothy Parker The great man fights the elements in his time that hinder his own greatness, in other words his own freedom and sincerity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
- Henry Kissinger Personal Pages
If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts.
-- Albert Einstein I sometimes think that God, in creating man, overestimated His ability.
-- Oscar Wilde Democracy is a process by which the people are free to choose the man who will get the blame.
-- Laurence J. Peter I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible
by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.
- Umberto Eco 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 Personal Pages Sex is like bridge: If you don't have a good partner, you better have a good hand.
-- Charles Pierce We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind her stands his wife. -- Groucho Marx In times of profound change, the learners inherit the earth, while the learned find themselves
beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists.
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"We have so little presumption that we should like to be known in the world, even to those who come after when we are no more. We have so little vanity that the esteem of five people, say six, amuses And since the stench of death will always attract flies and vermin, the arrival of Geraldo was
perhaps inevitable.
-- Garry Trudeau Creativity is the sudden cessation of stupidity.
-- Edward H. Land Whoever controls the media--the images--controls the culture.
-- Allen Ginsberg "A thing of beauty is a joy forever." (John Keats) Personal Pages I never hated a man enough to give him his diamonds back.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor "What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage." My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you'll be happy; if not, you'll become a
philosopher.
- Socrates Personal Pages
