Sleep is an excellent way of listening to an opera.
- James Stephens Marriage certificate is just another word for a work permit. "Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains." (Karl Marx) Education is an admirable thing, but nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
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Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.
-- George Orwell I've had a perfectly wonderful evening. But this wasn't it.
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Journalism is merely history's first draft.
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-- Robert Short I was under medication when I made the decision not to burn the tapes.
-- Richard Nixon, U.S. President There are three types of people in this world: Those who can count, and those who can't.
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Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.
-- Philip K. Dick Gentlemen, it is better to have died a small boy than to fumble this football.
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-- Samuel Butler "When you have nothing to say, say nothing." (Charles Caleb Colton) "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 National Parks In the early sixties, we were strong, we were virulent...
-- John Connally, Secretary of Treasury under Richard Nixon, in an early 70s speech, as reported
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To love another person is to see the face of God.
-- Lyric from Les Miserables "Gifts must affect the receiver to the point of shock." (Walter Benjamin) The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with
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Do or do not. There is no try.
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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 Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.
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"Self-confidence is the first requisite for achieving great things." (Samuel Johnson) "A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) I've been trying desperately to save my marriage for the last 35 years. Love begins with a smile, grows with a kiss, and ends with a teardrop.
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The only thing you will ever be able to say in the so-called 'social' sciences is: "some do, some
don't."
-- Ernest Rutherford Nothing is wrong with California that a rise in the ocean level wouldn't cure.
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The voice of the intellect is a soft one, but it does not rest till it has gained a hearing.
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I have been attacked by Rush Limbaugh on the air, an experience somewhat akin to being
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- Aristotle You can't shake hands with a clenched fist.
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- Thomas Watson, Chairman of IBM, 1943 "Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it." (John Quincy Adams) National Parks
Nothing is wrong with California that a rise in the ocean level wouldn't cure.
- Ross MacDonald "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) "Well begun is half done." (Aristotle) After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
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-- Albert Einstein 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.
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