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There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as
though everything is a miracle.
-- Albert Einstein With this ring I thee wed, with my body I thee worship, and with all my worldly good I thee endow.
-- Wedding Vow, Book of Common Prayer "The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn." (David Russell) There is no realizable power that man cannot, in time, fashion the tools to attain, nor any power
so secure that the naked ape will not abuse it. So it is written in the genetic cards - only physics "Let no one be discouraged by the belief there is nothing one person can do against the enormous array of the world's ills, misery, ignorance, and violence. Few will have the greatness to bend history News and Media When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life
of another.
-- Helen Keller 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 Count your age with friends but not with years.
-- Anonymous News and Media
What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is
the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset.
-- Crow Fill the unforgiving minute with sixty seconds worth of distance run.
- Rudyard Kipling He who laughs, lasts.
-- Mary Pettibone Poole Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for
appointment by the corrupt few.
-- George bernard Shaw "Is man merely a mistake of God's? Or God merely a mistake of man's?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) News and Media It's impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune.
-- Woody Allen 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 I should have no objection to a repetition of the same life from its beginning, only asking the
advantages authors have in a second edition to correct some faults of the first.
-- Benjamin Franklin News and Media
In the spider-web of facts, many a truth is strangled.
-- Paul Eldridge "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) The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn.
-- Cicero It is most unwise for people in love to marry.
-- George Bernard Shaw blah "An engaged woman is always more agreeable than a disengaged. She is satisfied with herself. Her cares are over, and she feels that she may exert all her powers of pleasing without suspicion." ( News and Media Marriage: the only sport in which the trapped animal has to buy the license. I just want what every married woman wants, someone besides her husband to sleep with.
-- Peg Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense.
-- Tom Clancy News and Media
When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her. -- Guitry I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury.
-- Groucho Marx My grandfather once told me that there are two kinds of people: those who work and those who
take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was less competition there.
-- INDIRA There is more to life than increasing its speed.
-- Gandhi "We live in an age when pizza gets to your home before the police." (Jeff Marder) News and Media We don't like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out.
-- Decca Recording Company, rejecting the Beatles, 1962 When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are
legislators.
-- P. J. O'Rourke Men have a much better time of it than women: for one thing they marry later, for another thing
they die earlier.
-- H. L. Mencken News and Media
"Great spirits have always faced voilent protest from mediocre minds." (Albert Einstein) "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) "We're an embarrasment to college graduates across America." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) With this ring I thee wed, with my body I thee worship, and with all my worldly good I thee endow.
-- Wedding Vow, Book of Common Prayer Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education
without natural ability.
Cicero (106 BC - 43 BC) News and Media Feeding the hungry is a greater work than raising the dead.
-- Saint John Chrysostom "When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; when health is lost, something is lost; when character is lost, all is lost." (Billy Graham) Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to
take away.
- Antoine de Saint Exupery News and Media
Stung by the splendour of a sudden thought.
-- Robert Browning "The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves." (William Hazlitt) To keep your marriage brimming
With love in the marriage cup,
Whenever you're wrong, admit it,
Whenever you're right, shut up. -- Nash Opera in English is, in the main, about as sensible as baseball in Italian.
-- H. L. Mencken Our elections are free - it's in the results where eventually we pay.
-- Bill Stern News and Media Silence is argument carried out by other means.
-- Ernesto "Che" Guevara "Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parents, gobble their food, and tyrannize their teachers." (Socrates) If someone had told me I would be Pope one day, I would have studied harder.
-- Pope John Paul I News and Media
The second day of a diet is always easier than the first. By the second day you're off it.
-- Jackie Gleason Many a man's reputation would not know his character if they met on the street.
- Elbert Hubbard The great tragedy of science, the slaying of a beautiful theory by an ugly fact.
-- Thomas Henry Huxley Genius is an African who dreams up snow.
-- Vladimir Nabokov For most of history, Anonymous was a woman.
-- Virginia Woolf News and Media blah "Ability wins us the esteem of the true men; luck that of the people." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) Democracy encourages the majority to decide things about which the majority is blissfully
ignorant.
--John Simon What do you take me for, an idiot?
- General Charles de Gaulle (1890-1970), when a journalist asked him if he was happy News and Media
Good friends are good for your health.
-- Irwin Sarason Why doesn't she like me? Is it my hair, my overbite, the fact that I've worn the same shirt and
shorts for the last four years?
-- Bart Simpson, young character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated tele "Frank and explicit; that is the right line to take when you wish to conceal your own mind and to confuse the minds of others." (Benjamin Disraeli, Sybil) Not much meat on her, but what's there is choice.
-- Spencer Tracy, about Katharine Hepburn Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech.
- Martin Fraquhar Tupper News and Media Too bad all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving cabs and cutting hair.
-- George Burns "The meeting of two personalites is like the contact of two chemical substances. If there is any reaction, both are transformed." (Carl Gustav Jung) Don't anthropomorphize computers -- they hate it.
-- Anonymous News and Media
As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; and as far as they are
certain, they do not refer to reality.
-- Albert Einstein Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for
him.
-- Rich Little "He who cannot give anything away cannot feel anything either." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Every flower must grow through dirt.
-- Anonymous If a man is talking in the forest, and there is no woman there to hear him, is he still wrong?
-- Jenny Weber News and Media We have children because we want immortality and this is the most reliable way of getting it.
-- Woodrow Wyatt I don't want to achieve immortality through my work... I want to achieve it by not dying!
-- Woody Allen "To educate educators! But the first ones must educate themselves! And for these I write." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) News and Media
blah "Some of the worlds greatest feats were accomplished by people not smart enough to know they were impossible. unattributed" (Anonymous) For the majority of People, smoking has a beneficial effect.
-- Dr. Ian G. Macdonald, Los Angeles surgeon, quoted in Newsweek , Nov.18th 1963. Why did Nature create man? Was it to show that she is big enough to make mistakes, or was it
pure ignorance?
-- Holbrook Jackson "The meeting of two personalites is like the contact of two chemical substances. If there is any reaction, both are transformed." (Carl Gustav Jung) "I've decided something: Commercial things really do stink. As soon as it becomes commercial for a mass market it really stinks." (Andy Warhol, The Andy Warhol Diaries, 1989) News and Media Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
- Will Durant "Better to be deprived of food for three days than tea for one." (Chinese Proverb) My wife says if I go fishing one more time she's going to leave me. Gosh, I'm going to miss her. News and Media
I don't know exactly what democracy is. But we need more of it.
-- Anonymous Chinese Student, during protests in Tianamen Square, Beijing, 1989 If it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do not say it.
-- Marcus Aurelius Obedience is the gateway through which knowledge, yes, and love, too, enter the mind of the
child.
-- Anne Sullivan Never go to bed angry. Stay up and fight.
-- Phyllis Diller Thomas Jefferson--still surv...
-- John Adams, dying words News and Media "I was a total loner, not by self-design. I just didn't know what the hell to say to people. I was so shy. I used to stammer and lisp and dribble at the mouth." (Sir Anthony Hopkins, on his youth) Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is most important that you do it.
-- Gandhi Love thy neighbor, but make sure her husband is away first. News and Media
