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Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than the arguments of its opposers.
-- William Penn Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars
-- Les Brown "College: two hundred people reading same book. An obvious mistake. Two hundred people can read two hundred books." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) blah bl "The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning, but without understanding." (Louis Brandeis) Saying that Windows95 is equal to Macintosh is like finding a potato that looks like Jesus and
believing you've witnessed the second coming.
-- Guy Kawasaki Government "Furious activity is no substitute for understanding." (H. H. Williams) A person starts to live when he can live outside himself.
-- Albert Einstein If someone offers you a breath mint, accept it.
-- H. Jackson Brown, Jr., Life's Little Treasure Book, on wisdom Government
The planting of trees is the least self-centered of all that we can do. It is a purer act of faith than
the procreation of children.
-- Thornton Wilder "Dreams are the touchstones of our personality." (Henry David Thoreau) Most convicted felons are just people who were not taken to museums or Broadway musicals as
children.
-- Libby Gelman-Waxner "I was lousy in school. Real screwed-up. A moron. I was antisocial and didn't bother with the other kids. A really bad student. I didn't have any brains. I didn't know what I was doing there. That's w If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded.
-- Maya Angelou Government Computers will not be perfected until they can compute how much more than the estimate the job
will cost.
-- Anon When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of many men for the inattention of one.
-- Helen Rowland The real test of friendship is: Can you literally do nothing with the other person? Can you enjoy
together those moments of life that are utterly simple? They are the moments people looks back
on at Government
It's important to be open-minded, but not SO open-minded that your brains fall out.
-- Rick Radebaugh All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.
-- Edgar Allan Poe The difference between pornography and erotica is lighting.
-- Gloria Leonard The concept is interesting and well-formed, but in order to earn better than a 'C', the idea must be
feasible.
- A Yale University management professor in response to student Fred Smith's paper prop "People have to talk about something just to keep their voice boxes in working order so they'll have good voice boxes in case there's ever anything really meaningful to say." (Kurt Vonnegut) Government If we don't change the direction we are going,
We are likely to end up where we are heading.
-- Chinese saying "Against stupidity the very gods themselves contend in vain." (Johann Christian Friedrich von Schiller, 1759-1805, The Maid of Orleans. Act iii. Sc. 6.) A clever man commits no minor blunders.
- Goethe Government
"So little done, so much to do." (Cecil Rhodes) Many a man in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl.
-- Stephen Leacock Many a man that could rule a hundherd millyon sthrangers with an ir'n hand is careful to take off
his shoes in the front hallway whin he comes home late at night.
-- Finley Peter Dunne, Mr. Dooley O "Conform and be dull." (J. Frank Doble) "Ideas are far more powerful than guns. We don't allow our enemies to have guns, why should we allow them to have ideas?" (Josef Stalin) Government A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted
by a little physical antipathy.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche "Be the change that you want to see in the world." (Mohandas Gandhi) "The intellect is always fooled by the heart." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) Government
For most of history, Anonymous was a woman.
-- Virginia Woolf The trouble with children is that they are not returnable.
-- Quentin Crisp We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
-- Winston Churchill A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.
- Lao-Tzu Time is at once the most valuable and most perishable of all our possessions.
-- John Randolph Government 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 Intelligence has nothing to do with politics.
-- Londo Molari The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat.
-- Lily Tomlin Government
Second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience. "A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool." (William Shakespeare) The average person thinks he isn't.
- Father Larry Lorenzoni "For how can one know color in perpetual green, and what good is warmth without cold to give it sweetness?" (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) "If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they don't want to hear." (George Orwell) Government Argue for your limitations, and sure enough they're yours.
- Richard Bach Many a man owes his success to his first wife and his second wife to his success.
-- Jim Backus Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.
-- Francis Bacon Government
Truth must necessarily be stranger than fiction, for fiction is the creation of the human mind and
therefore congenial to it.
-- G. K. Chesterton A friend is a gift you give yourself.
-- Robert Louis Stevenson Question: Ted Kennedy: "Where was George?"
Answer: Dry, sober, and at home with his wife Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance
- Oscar Wilde Government To marry is to halve your rights and double your duties.
-- Arthur Schopenhauer A human being is a part of the whole, called by us Universe, a part limited in time and space. He
experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest--a kind of
optic I couldn't remember when I had been so disappointed. Except perhaps the time I found out that
M&Ms really do melt in your hand...
-- Peter Oakley Government
It is always right that a man should be able to render a reason for the faith that is within him.
-- Sydney Smith "Great spirits have always faced voilent protest from mediocre minds." (Albert Einstein) Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died.
-- Erma Bombeck Don't trust anyone over 30 who used to say "Don't trust anyone over 30."
-- Anonymous Have you ever noticed? Anybody going slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than
you is a maniac.
-- George Carlin Government Imitation is the sincerest form of television.
-- Fred Allen All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.
-- Edgar Allan Poe Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.
-- George Washington Government
What if nothing exists and we're all in somebody's dream? Or what's worse, what if only that fat
guy in the third row exists?
-- Woody Allen "This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) Honolulu, it's got everything. Sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother.
-- Ken Dodd We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
-- Aristotle My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed.
-- Christopher Morley Government Use your own best judgment at all times.
-- The entire Nordstrom's Department Stores policy manual "In the future everyone will be famous for fifteen minutes." (Andy Warhol) "True friends, like diamonds, are precious and rare. False friends, like autumn leaves, are found everywhere." (Anonymous) Government
Whatever women do they must do it twice as well as men to be thought half as good. Luckily this
is not difficult.
-- Charlotte Whitton Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it.
-- Baskins "I was born lost and take no pleasure in being found..." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) Nothing has really happened until it has been recorded.
-- Virginia Woolf I do not believe in an afterlife, although I am bringing a change of underwear.
-- Woody Allen Government "What is tolerance? -- it is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error; let us pardon reciprocally each other's folly -- that is the first law of nature." (Francois Marie Ar "It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend." (William Blake) 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 Government
blah "Ability wins us the esteem of the true men; luck that of the people." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) By the time (the Leaning Tower of Pisa) was 10% built, everyone knew it would be a total
disaster. But the investment was so big they felt compelled to go on. Since its completion, it cost
a fortune Every calling is great when greatly pursued.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes Ninety percent of everything is crap.
-- Theodore Sturgeon If pleasures are greatest in anticipation, just remember that this is also true of trouble.
-- Elbert Hubbard Government "Every now and then say, 'What the fu(c)k.' 'What the fu(c)k' gives you freedom. Freedom brings opportunity. Opportunity makes your future." (Curtis Armstrong, Risky Business, 1983) By working faithfully eight hours a day, you might eventually get to be a boss and work twelve
hours a day.
-- ROBERT FROST Considering the flames and intolerance, shouldn't USENET be spelled ABUSENET?
-- Michael Meissner Government
