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-- Steven Wright I think of my wife and I think of Lot, and I think of the lucky break he got. "Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies." (Gore Vidal) 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 The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow
extinction from apathy, indifference, and undernourishment.
-- Robert Hutchins, Great Books, 1954 Computers and Internet Cliches should be avoided like the plague.
-- Anon. I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury.
-- Groucho Marx 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 Computers and Internet
"When even one American--who has done nothing wrong--is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth--then all Americans are in peril." (Harry S. Truman) "The only things worth learning are the things you learn after you know it all." (Harry S. Truman) The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without
the sympathy of the community.
-- William James The man with the best job in the country is the Vice President. All he has to do is get up every
morning and say, "How's the President?"
-- Will Rogers 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 Computers and Internet "The biggest argument against democracy is a five minute discussion with the average voter." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that
no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it's the exact opposite.
-- Paul Dirac "Death is always and under all circumstances a tragedy, for if it is not, then it means that life itself has become one." (Theodore Roosevelt) Computers and Internet
There is only one nature - the division into science and engineering is a human imposition, not a
natural one. Indeed, the division is a human failure; it reflects our limited capacity to comprehend It was the greatest of the imperfect ventriloquist acts: when his lips moved, her body sang.
-- Tom Robbins In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been
widely regarded as a bad move.
-- Douglas Adams He who kisses the joy is it flies lives in eternity's sunrise
-- William Blake The closer I'm bound in love to you, the closer I am to free.
-- Indigo Girls, song lyric Computers and Internet I'm not dumb, I just have a command of thoroughly useless information.
-- Calvin Marriage: the only sport in which the trapped animal has to buy the license. "Character is determined more by the lack of certain experiences than by those one has had." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Computers and Internet
"Do you know that places only yield up their secrets, their most profound mysteries, to those who are just passing through?" (Salman Rushdie, The Moor's Last Sigh) You've no idea of what a poor opinion I have of myself, and how little I deserve it.
-- W.S. Gilbert Curiosity will conquer fear even more than bravery will.
-- James Stephens The eyes are not responsible when the mind does the seeing.
-- Publilius Syrus Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get
money from it.
-- Stephen Leacock Computers and Internet In the late 1600s the finest instruments originated from three rural families whose workshops
were side by side in the Italian village of Cremona. First were the Amatis, and outside their shop
hung "If you're in a bad situation, don't worry it'll change. If you're in a good situation, don't worry it'll change." (John A. Simone Sr.) To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance
- Oscar Wilde Computers and Internet
Lottery: A tax on people who are bad at math.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker "... What good are dreams if they come true?" (Frederick Exley, A Fan's Notes) Defeat never comes to any man until he admits it.
-- Josephus Daniels "If you meet a woman that smokes cigars ... marry her." (Arthur Lotti) If stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out?
- Will Rogers Computers and Internet If we were not all so interested in ourselves, life would be so uninteresting that none of us would
be able to endure it.
-- Schopenhauer 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 "The things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisi Computers and Internet
A lover tries to stand in well with the pet dog of the house.
-- Moliere 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 "Life is a great surprise. I don't see why death should not be an even greater one." (Vladimir Nabokov) It destroys one's nerves to be amiable everyday to the same human being.
-- Benjamin Disraeli "Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time." (E. B. White) Computers and Internet I admire the serene assurance of those who have religious faith. It is wonderful to observe the
calm confidence of a Christian with four aces.
-- Mark Twain Considering the flames and intolerance, shouldn't USENET be spelled ABUSENET?
-- Michael Meissner The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when
we created them.
- Albert Einstein Computers and Internet
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
ha "I'm so insane, I voted for Eisenhower."
"Oh yeah, well I'm so insane, I voted for Eisenhower TWICE!"
-- Ken Kesey from "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe.
- Carl Sagan In answer to the question of why it happened, I offer the modest proposal that our Universe is
simply one of those things which happen from time to time.
-- Edward P. Tryon Hell is a half-filled auditorium.
-- Robert Frost Computers and Internet Women's liberationists spread the word that...the only peaceful family is one in which either the
wife is enslaved or the husband is androgynous.
-- R. Emmett Tyell, The Liberal Crack-Up, 1984 When a friend is in trouble, don't annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up
something appropriate and do it.
-- E. W. Howe As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.
-- Abraham Lincoln Computers and Internet
I loathe people who keep dogs. They are cowards who haven't got the guts to bite people
themselves.
-- August Strindberg "The purpose of Compulsory Education is to deprive the common people of their commonsense." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) Let go of your attachment to being right, and suddenly your mind is more open. You're able to
benefit from the unique viewpoints of others, without being crippled by your own judgment.
-- Ralph Mars Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you help them to become what they are
capable of being.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Everything is drive-through. In California, they even have a burial service called Jump-In-The-
Box.
-- Wil Shriner Computers and Internet Most of our obstacles would melt away if, instead of cowering before them, we should make up
our minds to walk boldly through them.
-- Orison Swett Marden The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman. -- S. T. Coleridge Happiness, it is said, is seldom found by those who seek it, and never by those who seek it for
themselves.
-- F. Emerson Andrews Computers and Internet
In medieval times, people thought that evil spirits could enter a person through an open mouth.
These days they more often leave that way.
-- David Deckert You got to be careful if you don't know where you're going, because you might not get there.
-- Yogi Berra Effort is only effort when it begins to hurt.
-- Jose Ortega y Gasset Mathematics, rightly viewed, posses not only truth, but supreme beauty -- a beauty cold and
austere, like that of sculpture.
-- Bertrand Russell Great Spirit, help me never to judge another until I have walked in his moccasins.
-- Sioux Indian Prayer Computers and Internet You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it come true.
-- Richard Bach A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take her off his hands. -- Guitry I have read your book and much like it.
-- Moses Hadas, book reviewer Computers and Internet
Nothing says loving like marrying your cousin! -- Al Bundy Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering.
-- Anonymous I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers.
-- Gandhi "Failure is not an option!" (Ed Harris, as Gene Kranz, Apollo 13) "When I was four years old they tried to test my IQ, they showed me this picture of three oranges and a pear. They asked me which one is different and does not belong, they taught me different was wro Computers and Internet There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called
marriage.
-- James Holt McGavran Use your own best judgment at all times.
-- The entire Nordstrom's Department Stores policy manual "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) Computers and Internet
If stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out?
- Will Rogers Whenever you eliminate the inedible, whatever remains, however unpalatable, must be food.
-- Anonymous "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) Trying to determine what is going on in the world by reading newspapers is like trying to tell the
time by watching the second hand of a clock.
-- Ben Hecht Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.
-- Samuel Johnson Computers and Internet I'm an excellent housekeeper. Every time I get a divorce, I keep the house.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Watching the debate this afternoon it was apparent they loved term limits in the House -- as
Brutus loved Caesar.
-- Bill Moyers Love makes the time pass. Time makes love pass.
-- French Proverb Computers and Internet
