If I have not seen as far as others, it is because giants were standing on my shoulders.
-- Hal Abelson "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 Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.
-- John Lehman, Secretary of the Navy, 1981-1987 Men have become the tools of their tools.
-- Henry David Thoreau "A man must dream a long time in order to act with grandeur, and dreaming is nursed in darkness." (Jean Genet) Newspapers Two souls with but a single thought,
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-- Fredrich Halm Statistics have shown that mortality increases perceptibly in the military during wartime.
-- Alphonse Allais I have an existential map; it has 'you are here' written all over it.
- Steven Wright Newspapers
You'd be surprised how much it costs to look this cheap.
-- Dolly Parton I've never had major knee surgery on any other part of my body.
-- Winston Bennett, University of Kentucky basketball forward The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
-- General George Patton Marriage is a lottery, but you can't tear up your ticket if you lose.
-- F. M. Knowles Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think.
-- Niels Bohr Newspapers If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded.
-- Maya Angelou I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you an education.
-- Wilson Mizner All over Washington today, the politicians and the power brokers are happy. In fact, if you listen
closely, you can hear the sound of champagne corks popping.
-- Paul Jacob, Term Limits Executive Di Newspapers
We have only one person to blame, and that's each other.
-- Barry Beck, New York Ranger, on who started a fight furing a hockey game "The market is not an invention of capitalism. It has existed for centuries. It is an invention of civilization." (Mikhail Gorbachev, June 8, 1990) I'd marry again if I found a man who had 15 million and would sign over half of it to me before the
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-- Bette Davis Genius is 99 percent perspiration and 1 percent inspiration.
-- Thomas Edison Suicide is belated acquiescence in the opinion of one's wife's relatives. Newspapers If God does not exist, then everything is permitted.
-- Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Devils "If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost." (Aristotle) Anyone who considers arithmetical methods of producing random digits is, of course, in a state of
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-- John Von Neuman Newspapers
It's no credit to anyone to work to hard.
-- Ed Howe A man in the house is worth two in the street.
-- Mae West The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit.
-- W. Somerset Maugham Democracy is a government where you can say what you think even if you don't think.
-- Anon. cannot imagine any condition which would cause this ship to founder. Modern shipbuilding has
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-- E. I. Smith, Captain of the Titanic Newspapers Here's to you and here's to me,
and I hope we never disagree.
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-- Anonymous "Twelve magicians and two carnies have been shot dead doing the bullet catch. That's cool enough, but every night when we close our show with that trick and the loaded gun gets pointed in my face, it Ninety percent of everything is crap.
-- Theodore Sturgeon Newspapers
The only thing you will ever be able to say in the so-called 'social' sciences is: "some do, some
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-- Ernest Rutherford "We have to be able to criticise what we love, to say what we have to say 'cause if your not trying to make something better, than as far as I can tell, you are just in the way." (Ani Difranco) Worrying is like a rocking chair, it gives you something to do, but it doesn't get you anywhere.
-- Anonymous Acting is the most minor of gifts and not a very high-class way to earn a living. After all, Shirley
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-- Katharine Hepburn If pleasures are greatest in anticipation, just remember that this is also true of trouble.
-- Elbert Hubbard Newspapers All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusion is called a philosopher.
- Ambrose Bierce A grouch escapes so many little annoyances that it almost pays to be one.
-- Kin Hubbard The principle of give and take is the principle of diplomacy - give one and take ten.
-- Mark Twain Newspapers
"I have an unfortunate personality." (George Orson Welles) Love is like pi - natural, irrational, and very important.
-- Lisa Hoffman We are not retreating - we are advancing in another Direction.
- General Douglas MacArthur For most of history, Anonymous was a woman.
-- Virginia Woolf Consequences, schmonsequences, as long as I'm rich!
-- Chuck Jones-directed cartoon Newspapers If it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do not say it.
-- Marcus Aurelius 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.
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First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.
- Mahatma Gandhi I still live.
-- Daniel Webster, dying words We never reflect how pleasant it is to ask for nothing.
-- Seneca "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." (Thomas Jefferson) He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.
- Sir Winston Churchill Newspapers We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.
-- Mme de Staël "Not only is there no guarantee of the temporal immortality of the human soul, that is to say of its eternal survival after death; but, in any case, this assumption completely fails to accomplish the We have art to save ourselves from the truth.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Newspapers
Each of us has a spark of life inside us, and our highest endeavor ought to be to set off that spark
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-- Kenny Ausubel If a thing is worth doing at all, it is worth doing badly.
-- Gustav Holst, on amateur music-making My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me!
-- Henry Ford "If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost." (Aristotle) There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him asleep.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Newspapers Before marraige a man will like awake all night thinking about something you said. After marriage
he will fall asleep before you have finished saying it.
-- Anon. To write a good love letter, you ought to begin without knowing what you mean to say, and to
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-- Jean Jacques Rousseau I love deadlines. I especially like the whooshing sound they make as they go flying by.
-- Douglas Adams Newspapers
When people go to work, they shouldn't have to leave their hearts at home.
-- Betty Bender Dishonor will not trouble me, once I am dead.
-- Euripides "Great spirits have always faced voilent protest from mediocre minds." (Albert Einstein) Do you not know, my son, with what little understanding the world is ruled?
-- Pope Julius III A really busy person never knows how much he weighs.
-- Ed Howe Newspapers "... adults are just obsolete children and the hell with them." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, quoted in his obituary, Time) It was the experience of mystery -- even if mixed with fear -- that engendered religion.
- Albert Einstein Marriage is a thing which puts a ring on a woman's finger and two under the man's eyes. Newspapers
This isn't right, this isn't even wrong.
- Wolfgang Pauli (1900-1958), upon reading a young physicist's paper Whatever you are from nature, keep to it; never desert your own line of talent. Be what nature
intended you for, and you will succeed; be anything else, and you will be ten thousands times
worse tha "A dress makes no sense unless it inspires men to take it off of you." (Francois Sagan) blah "This is the hardest of all: to close the open hand out of love, and keep modest as a giver." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "If you want a thing done well, do it yourself." (Napoleon Bonaparte) Newspapers If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.
-- Virginia Woolf "A critic is a man who knows the way but can't drive the car." (Kenneth Tynan) blah "A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) Newspapers
The advice your son rejected is now being given by him to your grandson. I know I'm not in government anymore. In fact I'm out of work.
-- Ronald Reagan, Former U.S. President, on a speaking tour of Japan, 1989 We are not retreating - we are advancing in another Direction.
- General Douglas MacArthur We would often be sorry if our wishes were gratified.
-- Aesop Faith is believing what you know ain't so.
-- Mark Twain Newspapers To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance
- Oscar Wilde I know a dead parrot when I see one, and I'm looking at one right now.... This is an ex-parrot.
-- John Cleese, Monty Python, British comedy television show Dogma is the sacrifice of wisdom to consistency.
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