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"I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." (James Madison) I used to be Snow White, but I drifted.
-- Mae West We had a lot in common. I loved him and he loved him.
-- Shelley Winters The absolute yearning of one human body for another particular body and its indifference to
substitutes is one of life's major mysteries.
-- Iris Murdoch "The order of the world is always right - such is the judgment of God. For God has departed, but he has left his judgment behind, the way the Cheshire Cat left his grin." (Jean Baudrillard) Mailing Lists "As a child, I thought I hated everybody, but when I grew up I realized it was just children I didn't like." (Philip Larkin) Anyway, no drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the
source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity,
ign When you are right, you cannot be too radical; When you are wrong, you cannot be too
conservative.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Mailing Lists
The paradox is really the pathos of intellectual life and just as only great souls are exposed to
passions it is only the great thinker who is exposed to what I call paradoxes, which are . . .
grand A husband is what is left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
- Helen Rowland A man is incomplete until he is married. After that, he is finished.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor If you haven't got anything nice to say about anybody, come sit next to me.
- Alice Roosevelt Longworth The charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that, from age to age, nothing
changes and yet everything is completely different.
-- Aldous Huxley Mailing Lists "The only thing we have to fear is fear itself." (Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1882 - 1945, 32nd U.S. President) Not everything that can be counted counts; and not everything that counts can be counted.
-- Albert Einstein Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.
-- Erica Jong Mailing Lists
I was a pilot flying an airplane and it just so happened that where I was flying made what I was
doing spying.
-- Francis Gary Power, U-2 reconnaissance pilot held by the Soviets for spying, in an i "The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man." (George Bernard Shaw) Asking politicians to vote themselves out of power is like asking rabbits not to multiply, it ain't
natural.
-- Bob Beckel, on term limits, CBS This Morning, 3/30/95 Its failings notwithstanding, there is much to be said in favor of journalism in that by giving us the
opinion of the uneducated, it keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community.
-- Oscar W I've had a perfectly wonderful evening. But this wasn't it.
-- Groucho Marx Mailing Lists Computers can figure out all kinds of problems, except the things in the world that just don't add
up.
-- Anon Parents are the bones upon which children sharpen their teeth.
-- Peter Ustinov 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
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Love matches are made by people who are content, for a month of honey, to condemn
themselves to a life of vinegar.
-- Countess of Blessington Everything is drive-through. In California, they even have a burial service called Jump-In-The-
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-- Wil Shriner 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 Humanity has advanced, when it has advanced, not because it has been sober, responsible, and
cautious, but because it has been playful, rebellious, and immature.
-- Tom Robbins We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh.
-- Agnes Repplier Mailing Lists You are educated when you have the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your
temper or self-confidence.
-- Robert Frost He can compress the most words into the smallest idea of any man I know.
- Abraham Lincoln "One of the things about acting is it allows you to live other people's lives without having to pay the price. I've never been one of those actors who has touted myself as a fascinating human being. I Mailing Lists
Like a prune, you are not getting any better looking, but you are getting sweeter.
-- N. D. Stice Love is like the measles. The older you get it, the worse the attack.
-- Mary Roberts Rhinehart I have a great diet. You're allowed to eat anything you want, but you must eat it with naked fat
people.
-- Ed Bluestone "Every act of violence increases the recruitment of terrorists. Iraq has been turned into a base of terror." (Noam Chomsky, from The Toronto Star, March 23, 2004) Character may be manifested in the great moments, but it is made in the small ones.
-- Phillip Brooks Mailing Lists People need loving the most when they deserve it the least.
-- John Harrigan I hope you have not been leading a double life, pretending to be wicked and being really good all
the time. That would be hypocrisy.
-- Oscar Wilde "I put on an act sometimes, and people think I'm insensitive. Really, it's like a kind of armor because I'm too sensitive. If there are two hundred people in a room and one of them doesn't like me, I' Mailing Lists
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is a chance."
-- Anon. All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That is his.
-- Oscar Wilde Honorable, adj. Afflicted with an impediment in one's reach. In legislative bodies, it is customary
to mention all members as honorable; as, ``the honorable gentleman is a scurvy cur.'
-- Bierce, A "Men act and women appear. Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at." (John Berger) Mailing Lists It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely
been detected.
-- Oscar Wilde In a novel, the hero can lay ten girls and marry a virgin for the finish. In a movie, that is not
allowed. The villain can lay anybody he wants, have as much fun and as he wants cheating,
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"Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known." (Blaise Pascal) He believes that marriage and a career don't mix. So after the wedding he plans to quit his job.
-- Anonymous "Beauty awakens the soul to act." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) In any organization there will always be one person who knows what is going on. This person
must be fired.
-- Conway's Law Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
-- Henry Ford Mailing Lists I recently read that love is entirely a matter of chemistry. That must be why my wife treats me like
toxic waste.
-- David Bissonette "He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever." (Chinese Proverb) blah "The length of this document defends it well against the risk of its being read." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) Mailing Lists
"Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences." (Isadora Duncan) Victory belongs to the most persevering.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte 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.
-- Al Rogers, Global SchoolHouse Netw I don't worry about terrorism. I was married for two years.
-- Sam Kinison All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others.
-- Chad A. Gamble, Escape, short story Mailing Lists "Man looks in the abyss, there's nothing staring back at him. At that moment, man finds his character. And that is what keeps him out of the abyss." (Hal Holbrook, Wallstreet) Logic is in the eye of the logician.
- Gloria Steinem If you want to recapture your youth, just cut off his allowance.
-- Al Bernstein Mailing Lists
When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I only think about how to solve the
problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
- Buckminster Love is not blind - it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.
Rabbi Julius Gordon A straight line is the shortest in morals as in mathematics.
-- Maria Edgeworth Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by heart and his friends can
only read the title.
-- Virginia Woolf If God created us in His image we have certainly returned the compliment.
-- Voltaire Mailing Lists Never be possessive. If a female friend lets on that she is going out with another man, be kind
and understanding. If she says she would like to go out with the Dallas Cowboys, including the
coachin Every calling is great when greatly pursued.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes It is most unwise for people in love to marry.
-- George Bernard Shaw Mailing Lists
You can observe a lot by watching.
-- Yogi Berra "That's the true sign. If the lover has not yet achieved his prize, his eyes will follow the woman, while she appears indifferent. But once he's gained his goal, it's the woman's eyes that follow him, Republican boys date Democratic girls. They plan to marry Republican girls, but feel they're entitled to a little fun first. Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald If women didn't exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning.
-- Aristotle Onassis Mailing Lists "It is awfully easy to be hard-boiled about everything in the daytime, but at night it is another thing." (Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises) Too bad all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving cabs and cutting hair.
-- George Burns I am become death, shatterer of worlds.
-- Robert J. Oppenheimer, citing from the Bhagavadgita, after witnessing the world's first nuclear
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Give me a museum and I'll fill it.
-- Pablo Picasso I once asked my history teacher how we were expected to learn anything useful from his subject,
when it seemed to me to be nothing but a monotonous and sordid succession of robber baron
scumbags dev "Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." (George Bernard Shaw) It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
-- Mark Twain Democracy is a form of government in which it is permitted to wonder aloud what the country
could do under first-class management.
-- Senator Soaper Mailing Lists 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 I have often regretted my speech, never my silence.
-- Anonymous Never go to bed angry. Stay up and fight.
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