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"Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains." (Karl Marx) Your life and my life flow into each other as wave flows into wave, and unless there is peace and
joy and freedom for you, there can be no real peace or joy or freedom for me. To see reality--not
as The Church is an organism that grows best in an alien society.
-- C. Stacey Woods "An able man shows his spirit by gentle words and resolute actions; he is neither hot nor timid." (Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield, 4th earl of) 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) Engineering Consequences, schmonsequences, as long as I'm rich!
-- Chuck Jones-directed cartoon To marry is to halve your rights and double your duties.
-- Arthur Schopenhauer Love: An obsessive delusion that is cured by marriage. Engineering
Luck is the residue of design.
- Branch Rickey - former owner of the Brooklyn Dodger Baseball Team "The key to wisdom is knowing all the right questions." (John A. Simone Jr.) The nourishment is palatable.
-- Millard Fillmore, dying words In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
- Martin Luther King Jr. blah blah blah blah blah "This is the way the world ends: not with a bang, but a whimper." (Thomas Stearns Eliot, aka T. S. Eliot) _end]
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"Hello Kitty is an icon that doesn't stand for a Engineering Man's mind stretched to a new idea never goes back to its original dimensions.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes One of the greatest discoveries a man makes, one of his great surprises, is to find he can do
what he was afraid he couldn't do.
-- Henry Ford Courage is the price that Love exacts for granting peace.
-- Amelia Earhart Engineering
Military justice is to justice what military music is to music.
-- George Clemenceau If it weren't for electricity we'd all be watching television by candlelight.
-- George Gobel A baby is God's opinion that the world should go on.
-- Carl Sandburg "The evil that is in the world almost always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence if they lack understanding." (Albert Camus) "If you light a man a fire, he will be warm for a day; if you light a man on fire, he will be warm for the rest of his life." (Anonymous) Engineering "There is nothing more fearful than ignorance in action." (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1749-1832, Criticisms, Reflections and Maxims) "Are you bored with life? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours." (Dale Learn to laugh at your troubles and you'll never run out of things to laugh at.
-- Lyn Karol Engineering
"Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Have love for your friend up to a limit for it is possible he may turn into your enemy some day; and hate your enemy up to a limit for it is possible he may turn into your friend some day." (Ali bin "That government is best which governs the least, because its people discipline themselves." (Thomas Jefferson) "Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time." (E. B. White) Education is not filling a bucket, but lighting a fire.
-- William Yeats Engineering America's one of the finest countries anyone ever stole.
-- Bobcat Goldthwait "We have been the cowards lobbing cruise missiles from 2,000 miles away. That's cowardly. Staying in the airplane when it hits the building, say what you want about it, it's not cowardly." (Bill Mahe A successful man is one who makes more money than his wife can spend. A successful woman
is one who can find such a man.
-- Lana Turner Engineering
Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do.
-- Dr. Benjamin Spock, American pediatrician, address to new parents "I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter." (Blaise Pascal) Morality consists in suspecting other people of not being legally married.
-- George Bernard Shaw War is a profession by which a man cannot live honorably; an employment by which the soldier, if
he would reap any profit, is obliged to be false, rapacious, and cruel.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which is never advisable. -- Oscar Wilde Engineering "The sickness of our times for me has been just this damn thing that everything has been getting smaller and smaller and less and less important, that the romantic spirit has dried up, that there is n Never moon a werewolf.
-- Mike Binder The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is
not read.
-- Oscar Wilde Engineering
Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when
people laugh.
-- George Bernard Shaw Where there is love there is life.
-- Gandhi Nature gave men two ends - one to sit on and one to think with. Ever since then man's success or
failure has been dependent on the one he used most.
-- George R. Kirkpatrick It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are
difficult.
-- Seneca I have lost friends, some by death, others through sheer inability to cross the street.
-- Virginia Woolf Engineering Sign in a marriage counselor's window: "Out to lunch - Think it over." "The feminists used to say that chivalry and ladyhood were ways of keeping women down and preventing them from standing toe to toe with the guys. Now you've got a lot of women saying that if a guy is A sweetheart is a bottle of wine, a wife is a wine bottle.
-- Baudelaire Engineering
The only one of your children who does not grow up and move away is your husband. Give the people not hell, but hope and courage.
-- John Murray None but a good man is really a living man, and the more good any man does, the more he really
lives. All the rest is death, or belongs to it.
-- Herman Melville Blessed is he who has learned to laugh at himself, for he shall never cease to be entertained.
-- John Powell Multimedia? As far as I'm concerned, it's reading with the radio on!
-- Rory Bremner Engineering Many a man owes his success to his first wife and his second wife to his success.
-- Jim Backus I think 'Hail to the Chief' has a nice ring to it.
- John F. Kennedy when asked what is his favorite song Whenever I climb I am followed by a dog called 'Ego'.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Engineering
Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you.
-- John-Paul Sartre "There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered." (Nelson Mandela, A Long Walk to Freedom) Often it does seem a pity that Noah and his party did not miss the boat.
-- Mark Twain Anyone can be passionate, but it takes real lovers to be silly.
-- Rose Franken Politics doesn't make strange bedfellows, marriage does.
-- Groucho Marx Engineering Laundry increases exponentially in the number of children.
-- Miriam Robbins "The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves." (William Hazlitt) Once a boy becomes a man, he's a man all his life, but a woman is only sexy until she becomes
your wife.
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Engineering
True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.
-- Henry David Thoreau "Crime like death is not confined to the old and withered alone. The youngest and fairest are too often its chosen victims." (Charles Dickens, 1812-70, Oliver Twist) By the time (the Leaning Tower of Pisa) was 10% built, everyone knew it would be a total
disaster. But the investment was so big they felt compelled to go on. Since its completion, it cost
a fortune Nothing has really happened until it has been recorded.
-- Virginia Woolf We think caged birds sing, when indeed they cry.
-- John Webster Engineering It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid.
- George Bernard Shaw Tear open packet, unfold and use.
-- Directions on moist towelette package The Internet is so big, so powerful and pointless that for some people it is a complete substitute
for life.
-- Andrew Brown Engineering
We are not retreating - we are advancing in another Direction.
- General Douglas MacArthur I just need enough to tide me over until I need more.
-- Bill Hoest "A thing of beauty is a joy forever." (John Keats) All human actions are equivalent... and... all are on principle doomed...
-- Jean-Paul Sartre, "Being and Nothingness" "In times of change learners inherit the earth; while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists." (Eric Hoffer) Engineering Give me a museum and I'll fill it.
-- Pablo Picasso If your professor wrote it, it's as near to the truth as you ever need to get.
-- John Watson, University of Canterbury The less their ability, the more their conceit.
Ahad HaAm Engineering
You can close your eyes to reality, but not to memories.
-- Stanislaw J. Lem Music makes one feel so romantic - at least it always gets on one's nerves - which is the same
thing nowadays.
-- Oscar Wilde I guess the only way to stop divorce is to stop marriage.
-- Will Rogers It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.
-- Henry James Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that he sometimes has to eat them.
-- Adlai Stevenson Engineering Shotgun wedding: a case of wife or death 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 The world has suffered more from the ravages of ill-advised marriages than from virginity.
-- Ambrose Bierce Engineering
