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-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton No one really listens to anyone else, and if you try it for a while you'll see why.
-- Mignon McLaughlin "Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same
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-- Albert Einstein Business and Economy
Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
-- Abraham Lincoln Thought is action in rehearsal.
-- Sigmund Freud "Employees make the best dates. You don't have to pick them up and they're always tax-deductible." (Andy Warhol, Andy Warhol's Exposures, 1980) To decide, to be at the level of choice, is to take responsibility for your life and to be in control of
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-- Abbie M. Dale Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple, learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a
dozen.
-- John Steinbeck Business and Economy When you've spent half your political life dealing with humdrum issues like the environment... it's
exciting to have a real crisis on your hands.
-- Margaret Thatcher, on the Falklands Conflict Education is an admirable thing, but nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
-- Oscar Wilde "When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of all the other men of her acquaintance for the inattention of just one." (Helen Rowland) Business and Economy
Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.
-- George Orwell When people go to work, they shouldn't have to leave their hearts at home.
-- Betty Bender "Conform and be dull." (J. Frank Doble) Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
-- Abraham Lincoln Every child is born a genius.
-- R. Buckminster Fuller Business and Economy "Conscience and cowardice are really the same things. Conscience is the trade-name of the firm. That is all." (Oscar Wilde) "Vegiburgers are wrong." (Mike Kaup) We must become the change we want to see.
-- Gandhi Business and Economy
If we don't change the direction we are going,
We are likely to end up where we are heading.
-- Chinese saying When one find's oneself in a hole of one's own making, it is a good time to examine the quality of
the workmanship.
-- John Renmerde Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half shut afterwards.
-- Benjamin Franklin A conclusion is the place where you got tired thinking.
-- Martin H. Fischer Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
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- Sir Winston Churchill Men marry because they are tired, women because they are curious; both are disappointed.
-- Oscar Wilde Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is.
-- Diane Ackerman Business and Economy
One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is
terribly important.
- Bertrand Russell
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A little inaccuracy sometimes saves a ton I'm at the age where food has taken the place of sex in my life. In fact, I've just had a mirror put
over my kitchen table.
-- Rodney Dangerfield I stopped believing in Santa Claus when I was six. Mother took me to see him in a department
store and he asked for my autograph.
-- Shirley Temple Black Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
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-- Albert Szent-Gyorgyi, 1937 Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine Any sufficiently advanced bureaucracy is indistinguishable from molasses.
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He believes that marriage and a career don't mix. So after the wedding he plans to quit his job.
-- Anonymous Children should be like waffles--you should be able to throw the first one away.
-- Mary Alice Messenger Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
- Gail Godwin It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get back up.
-- Vince Lombardi "My wallpaper and I are fighting a duel to the death. One or the other of us has to go." (Oscar Wilde, his last recorded words) Business and Economy Ninety percent of the game is half mental.
-- Yogi Berra The last good thing written in C++ was the Pachelbel Canon.
-- Jerry Olson "You make 'em, I amuse 'em." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, on children) Business and Economy
Marriage isn't a word... it's a sentence.
-- King Vidor, in the 1928 film, The Crawl "No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous." (Henry B. Adams) Gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling in love.
-- Albert Einstein How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg? Four. Calling a tail a leg doesn't make it
a leg.
-- Abraham Lincoln Blessed are the young for they shall inherit the national debt.
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no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it's the exact opposite.
-- Paul Dirac The difference between sex and death is that with death you can do it alone and no one is going
to make fun of you.
-- Woody Allen Business and Economy
"From the start, marriage was instituted for contemptible, practical reasons--an idea of men." (Catherine Deneuve) "It serves me right for putting all my eggs in one bastard." (Dorothy Parker, 1893-1967, US writer) Better watch out that you won't become a television set in your next life.
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take away.
- Antoine de Saint Exupery I have an existential map; it has 'you are here' written all over it.
- Steven Wright Business and Economy The health of the people is really the foundation upon which all their happiness and all their
powers as a State depend.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Never try to teach a pig to sing. It's a waste of your time and annoys the pig.
-- Anon. At every crossroads on the path that leads to the future, tradition has placed 10,000 men to guard
the past.
-- Maurice Maeterlink Business and Economy
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 Live your questions now, and perhaps even without knowing it, you will live along some distant
day into your answers.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke "Dying is the most embarrassing thing that can ever happen to you, because someone's got to take care of all your details." (Andy Warhol, America, 1985) If all men were brothers, would you let one marry your sister? Marriage is a matter of give and take, but so far I haven't been able to find anybody who'll take
what I have to give.
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-- Thomas Jefferson Business and Economy
...the fog is rising.
-- Emily Dickinson, dying words Spinster: A bachelor's wife. Great innovations should not be forced on slender majorities.
-- Thomas Jefferson By all means marry. If you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher. -- Socrates The Church is an organism that grows best in an alien society.
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Education is the state-controlled manufacture of echoes.
-- Norman Douglas "Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) The best way to get husbands to do something is to suggest that perhaps they are too old to do it.
-- Shirley MacLaine "I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you and education." (Wilson Mizner) Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has not heart; and any man who is over 30, and is
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-- Winston Churchill Business and Economy We look forward to the time when the power to love of will replace the love of power. Then will our
world know the blessings of peace.
-- William Gladstone When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen.
-- Ernest Hemingway "Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains." (Karl Marx) Business and Economy
