There are three types of people in this world: Those who can count, and those who can't.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Peculiar travel suggestions are dancing lessons from God.
-- Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., Cat's Cradle We have to keep trying things we're not sure we can pull off. If we just do the things we know we
can do... you don't grow as much. You gotta take those chances on making those big mistakes.
-- Cybi "In some ways, I never outgrew my adolescence. I wake up in the morning and think, 'Oh my God, I'm late for a math test!' But then I say, 'Wait a minute. I'm 40.'" (Daniel Clowes) Happy are those who dream dreams and are willing to pay the price to make them come true.
-- Anon. Science and Environment Now is the time for all good men to come to.
-- Walt Kelly We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh.
-- Agnes Repplier Virtue is not left to stand alone. He who practices it will have neighbors.
-- Confucius Science and Environment
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
-- Aristotle No one finds life worth living; he must make it worth living.
-- Anon. I like two kinds of men: domestic and foreign.
-- Mae West It is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions.
-- Aldous Huxley I was nauseous and tingly all over... I was either in love or I had smallpox.
-- Woody Allen Science and Environment The grass may be greener on the other side of the fence, but you still have to mow it.
-- Anonymous The possibility that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause
we believe to be just.
-- Abraham Lincoln "Conform and be dull." (J. Frank Doble) Science and Environment
You are educated when you have the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your
temper or self-confidence.
-- Robert Frost "Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former." (Albert Einstein) "I love Los Angeles. I love Hollywood. They're beautiful. Everybody's plastic, but I love plastic. I want to be plastic." (Andy Warhol, Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up) The trouble with children is that they are not returnable.
-- Quentin Crisp "Teacher played hooky. Sent message: 'Receiving instruction. Enjoying myself thoroughly. See you next week.'" (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) Science and Environment If God does not exist, then everything is permitted.
-- Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Devils The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
-- Lucille S. Harper Do or do not. There is no try.
-- Yoda, character in the movie The Empire Strikes Back Science and Environment
Oregon Democratic Senate candidate Tom Bruggere, in describing his support for
comprehensive health care during a candidates' forum, said he supported "erection-to-
resurrection" coverage. He later a The love we give away is the only love we keep.
-- Elbert Hubbard The first duty of love is to listen.
-- Paul Tillich "Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear." (Ambrose Redmoon) I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
-- Thomas Edison Science and Environment Bachelor: the only man who has never told his wife a lie. Lottery: A tax on people who are bad at math.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood. If it
does need additional interpretation by someone other than the creator, then I question whether it
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Maybe this world is another planet's hell.
-- Aldous Huxley "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 "All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world, indeed it is the only thing that ever has." (Margaret Mead, 1901-78) Is there life before death?
-- Belfast Graffito Science and Environment It is well, when judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and
superior impartiality.
-- Arnold Bennett If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.
-- Voltaire You have a cough? Go home tonight, eat a whole box of Ex-Lax--tomorrow you'll be afraid to
cough.
-- Pearl Williams Science and Environment
Always bear in mind that your own resolution to success is more important than any other one
thing.
-- Abraham Lincoln "It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend." (William Blake) A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems.
- Paul Erdos Abstract art: a product of the untalented sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.
-- Al Capp If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man
will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability.
-- Henry Ford Science and Environment Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end.
-- Igor Stravinsky Let the refining and improving of your own life keep you so busy that you have little time to
criticize others.
-- H. Jackson Brown "The devil's agents may be of flesh and blood, may they not?" (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of the Baskervilles) Science and Environment
An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets, the more interested he is in her. -- Agatha Christie 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 .. I am indebted to the cat for a particular kind of honorable deceit, for a greater control over
myself, for a characteristic aversion to brutal sounds, and for the need to keep silent for long
per Giving a man space is like giving a dog a computer: the chances are he will not use it wisely.
-- Bette-Jane Raphael Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.
-- Mother Teresa Science and Environment "To avoid criticism: do nothing, say nothing, be nothing." (Elbert Hubbard, American author, 1856-1915) Children are a poor man's riches.
-- English proverb Nobody ever died of laughter.
-- Max Beerbohm Science and Environment
"Teacher played hooky. Sent message: 'Receiving instruction. Enjoying myself thoroughly. See you next week.'" (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) Defeat never comes to any man until he admits it.
-- Josephus Daniels "I don't think it's the nature of any man to be monogamous. Men are propelled by genetically ordained impulses over which they have no control to distribute their seed." (Marlon Brando) If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate.
-- Steven Wright Conceit causes more conversation than wit.
-- LaRouchefoucauld Science and Environment Most rock journalism is people who can't write interviewing people who can't talk for people who
can't read.
-- Frank Zappa "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 "Death solves all problems--no man, no problem." (Josef Stalin) Science and Environment
The IRS spends God knows how much of your tax money on these toll-free information hot lines
staffed by IRS employees, whose idea of a dynamite tax tip is that you should print neatly. If you
ask th If you were plowing a field, which would you rather use? Two strong oxen or 1024 chickens?
- Seymour Cray (1925-1996), father of supercomputing Everyone believes very easily whatever they fear or desire.
-- Jean de La Fontaine "If a man has good corn, or wood, or boards, or pigs to sell, or can make better chairs or knives, crucibles, or church organs, than anybody else, you will find a broad, hard-beaten road to his house, It destroys one's nerves to be amiable everyday to the same human being.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Science and Environment "Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Like a prune, you are not getting any better looking, but you are getting sweeter.
-- N. D. Stice May you learn to perform miracles: earn a living and marry off your daughters. Science and Environment
Reason can answer questions, but imagination has to ask them.
-- Ralph N. Gerard You can take all the sincerity in Hollywood, place it in the navel of a firefly and still have room
enough for three caraway seeds and a producer's heart.
-- Fred Allen It is with true love as it is with ghosts; everyone talks about it, but few have seen it.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.
-- Roger Babson Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.
-- Aristotle Science and Environment Laywers, I suppose, were children once.
-- Charles Lamb We do not have censorship. What we have is a limitation on what newspapers can report.
-- Louis Nel, Deputy Minister of Information, South Africa Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.
-- Francis Bacon Science and Environment
Unfortunately, the media have trouble distinguishing between real science and propaganda
cross-dressed as science.
-- Linda Bowles, political columnist "Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) Books had instant replay long before televised sports.
-- Bern Williams "Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free." (Emma Lazarus) What do I dislike about death? Must be the hours.
-- Woody Allen Science and Environment "A conservative is a man who sits and thinks, mostly sits." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) A good cook is like a sorceress who dispenses happiness.
-- Elsa Schiapirelli Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
-- Gail Godwin Science and Environment
