Question: If you could live forever, would you and why? Answer: I would not live forever, because
we should not live forever, because if we were supposed to live forever, then we would live
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-- The Knights who so recently said "Nee!", Monty Python, British comedy television show For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of our tasks; the ultimate,
the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.
-- Rainer Maria Ril Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.
-- Salvador Dali The honest poor can sometimes forget poverty. The honest rich can never forget it.
-- G. K. Chesterton Natural Science "... and then the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom." (Anais Nin) Anyone can do any amount of work provided it isn't the work he's supposed to be doing at the
moment.
-- Robert Benchley Only positive consequences encourage good future performances.
-- Kenneth H. Blanchard Natural Science
Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.
- George Eliot I don't know if God exists, but it would be better for His reputation if He didn't.
-- Jules Renard Acting is the most minor of gifts and not a very high-class way to earn a living. After all, Shirley
Temple could do it at the age of four.
-- Katharine Hepburn Often it does seem a pity that Noah and his party did not miss the boat.
-- Mark Twain 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 Natural Science A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend upon the support of Paul.
-- George Bernard Shaw "A critic is a man who knows the way but can't drive the car." (Kenneth Tynan) In the halls of justice, the only justice is in the halls.
-- Lenny Bruce Natural Science
Do not assume that she who seeks to comfort you now, lives untroubled among the simple and
quiet words that sometimes do you good. Her life may also have much sadness and difficulty, that
remains fa Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and
retaliation. the foundation of such a method is love.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. "In literary criticism the critic has no choice but to make over the victim of his attention into something the size and shape of himself." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) "If you assume that there's no hope, you guarantee that there will be no hope. If you assume that there is an instinct for freedom, there are opportunities to change things, there's a chance for you t The more faithfully you listen to the voices within you, the better you will hear what is sounding
outside.
-- Dag Hammarskjold Natural Science "You know what charm is: a way of getting the answer yes without having asked any clear question." (Albert Camus, The Fall) I'm an excellent housekeeper. Every time I get a divorce, I keep the house.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Trouble is a part of your life, and if you don't share it, you don't give the person that loves you
enough chance to love you enough.
-- Dinah Shore Natural Science
Statistics have shown that mortality increases perceptibly in the military during wartime.
-- Alphonse Allais 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 When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives mean the most to us, we often find
that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our
pain Imitation is the sincerest form of television.
-- Fred Allen I would have made a good Pope.
-- Richard Nixon, U.S. President Natural Science Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than
the wisest man can answer.
-- Charles Caleb Colton It is most unwise for people in love to marry.
-- George Bernard Shaw "The biggest argument against democracy is a five minute discussion with the average voter." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) Natural Science
"Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance, or a stranger." (Franklin P. Jones) Some people talk in their sleep. Lecturers talk while other people sleep.
-- Albert Camus More light!
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, dying words The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
-- Winston Churchill "Yes, I am a dreamer. For a dreamer is one who can find his way by moonlight, and see the dawn before the rest of the world." (Oscar Wilde) Natural Science "Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country." (Marquis de Lafayette) 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 You can't say civilization isn't advancing: in every war they kill you in a new way.
-- Will Rogers Natural Science
"Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former." (Albert Einstein) "You believe that flag burning shows disrespect towards those who have fought to preserve our freedoms. Punishing protestors shows an even more profound disrespect for the ideals that these people die "Is life not a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "No one lies so boldly as the man who is indignant." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "A true friend stabs you in the front." (Oscar Wilde) Natural Science Women: If they're not turning down your proposals for marriage, they're accusing you of
suspicious behavior in the women's lingerie changing room.
-- Cliff Clavin, character on "Cheers", U.S. Televi Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.
-- John Lyly "I consider it the highest compliment when my employees go out and start their own companies in competition with me. I always send them a plant to wish them well. Of course, it's a cactus." (Norman B Natural Science
"Experience is the name that everyone gives to their mistakes." (Oscar Wilde) Manuscript: something submitted in haste and returned at leisure.
-- Oliver Herford Men are strong only so long as they represent a strong idea. They become powerless when they
oppose it.
-- Sigmund Freud "No man is clever enough to know all the evil he does." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) I hate it in friends when they come too late to help.
-- Euripides Natural Science We look forward to the time when the power to love of will replace the love of power. Then will our
world know the blessings of peace.
-- William Gladstone Why did Nature create man? Was it to show that she is big enough to make mistakes, or was it
pure ignorance?
-- Holbrook Jackson "I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough." (M. C. Escher) Natural Science
There's no problem so awful that you can't add some guilt to it and make it even worse!
-- Calvin Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.
-- Don Stanford A little girl at the wedding afterwards asked her mother why the bride changed her mind. "What
do you mean?" responded her mother. "Well, she went down the aisle with one man, and came
back with ano If God does not exist, then everything is permitted.
-- Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Devils I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts, then there is no hurt, but only more love.
-- Mother Teresa Natural Science Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains or slavery? Forbid it,
Almighty God! I know not what course others may take but as for me; give me liberty or give me
de blah "The best students always are flunking. Every good teacher knows that." (Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance) The advice your son rejected is now being given by him to your grandson. Natural Science
"I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it." (Thomas Jefferson, to Archibald Stuart, 1791) "Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect every one who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are ine Is it better for a woman to marry a man who loves her than a man she loves.
-- Anonymous The Internet is so big, so powerful and pointless that for some people it is a complete substitute
for life.
-- Andrew Brown Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died.
-- Erma Bombeck Natural Science Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the
really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.
-- Mark Twain Martyrdom... is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability. George Bernard
Shaw (1856 - 1950), The Devil's Disciple (1901) act 3 "To forget one's purpose is the commonest form of stupidity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Natural Science
"By seeing the seed of failure in every success, we remain humble. By seeing the seed of success in every failure we remain hopeful." (Mel Ziegler, founder of Banana Republic) Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a losttradition.
-- Jacques Barzun You have it easily in your power to increase the sum total of this world's happiness now. How? By
giving a few words of sincere appreciation to someone who is lonely or discouraged. Perhaps you
will The last good thing written in C++ was the Pachelbel Canon.
-- Jerry Olson Love may be a dream but marriage is a nightmare.
-- Joan Collins Natural Science "Murderers have been known to find that young girls give them more trouble than anybody else." (Jean Cocteau, Les Enfants Terribles) Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you.
-- John-Paul Sartre Thought is action in rehearsal.
-- Sigmund Freud Natural Science
Church is only society on earth that exists for the benefit of non-members.
-- William Temple I must follow the people. Am I not their leader?
-- Benjamin Disraeli It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
- Oscar Wilde "A conservative is a man who sits and thinks, mostly sits." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
-- T.S. Eliot Natural Science Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.
-- Samuel Johnson Bigamy is one way of avoiding the painful publicity of divorce and the expense of alimony.
-- Oliver Herford Love is shown in your deeds, not in your words.
-- Fr. Jerome Cummings Natural Science
