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We must become the change we want to see.
-- Gandhi 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 It is important that students bring a certain ragamuffin, barefoot, irreverence to their studies; they
are not here to worship what is known, but to question it.
-- J. Bronowski, The Ascent of Man "Love is always a stranger in the house of avarice." (Andreas Capellanus) Is it better for a woman to marry a man who loves her than a man she loves.
-- Anonymous Business and Economy "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) "Be the change that you want to see in the world." (Mohandas Gandhi) A real leader faces the music, even when he doesn't like the tune.
-- Anonymous Business and Economy
"Listen, or your tongue will make you deaf." (Native American Proverb) Free will is a golden thread running through the frozen matrix of fixed events.
-- Robert A. Heinlein _The Rolling Stones_ I don't want to achieve immortality through my work... I want to achieve it by not dying!
-- Woody Allen Now, now my good man, this is no time for making enemies.
- Voltaire (1694-1778) on his deathbed in response to a priest asking that he renounce Satan. A conference is a gathering of important people who singly can do nothing, but together can
decide that nothing can be done.
-- Fred Allen Business and Economy I believe God is managing affairs and that He doesn't need any advice from me. With God in
charge, I believe everything will work out for the best in the end. So what is there to worry about.
-- Hen I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think.
-- Socrates "Murder is the very bed-rock of our social institutions." (Octave Mirbeau, The Torture Garden) Business and Economy
Heav'n hath no rage like love to hatred turn'd, Nor Hell a fury, like a woman scorn'd.
-- William Congreve Most people think life sucks, and then you die. Not me. I beg to differ. I think life sucks, then you
get cancer, then your dog dies, your wife leaves you, the cancer goes into remission, you get a
Why do grandparents and grandchildren get along so well? They have the same enemy-- the
mother.
-- Claudette Colbert Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.
-- George Orwell No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman. -- Honore de Balzac Business and Economy The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
- Samuel Johnson "He who speaks of what he knows not only works hard to portray his ignorance." (Joseph Muchemi) Honor's a good brooch to wear in a man's hat at all times.
-- Jonson, Ben Business and Economy
Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.
-- Salvador Dali They were doing a full back shot of me in a swimsuit and I thought, Oh my God, I have to be so
brave. See, every woman hates herself from behind.
-- Cindy Crawford, supermodel This search for what you want is like tracking something that doesn't want to be tracked. It takes
time to get a dance right, to create something memorable.
-- Fred Astaire A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take
her off his hands.
-- Sacha Guitry "I love Los Angeles. I love Hollywood. They're beautiful. Everybody's plastic, but I love plastic. I want to be plastic." (Andy Warhol, Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up) Business and Economy Disclaimer: Even my wife doesn't agree with everything I say, and she loves me dearly. My employers don't love me nearly as much as she does. Draw your own conclusions. Only positive consequences encourage good future performances.
-- Kenneth H. Blanchard Women and Cats will do as they please. Men and dogs had better get used to it.
-- Robert Heinlein, Time Enough for Love, Lazarus Long Business and Economy
Be tolerant of the human race. Your whole family belongs to it -- and some of your spouse's
family does too.
-- Anonymous Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect, and it is shameful to surrender it too soon or to the first
comer: there is nobility in preserving it coolly and proudly through long youth, until at last "I feel I have to protect myself against things. So I'm pretty careful to lose most of them." (George Orson Welles) A man who has never made a woman angry is a failure in life.
-- Christopher Morley It is better to die on your feet than live on your knees.
-- Emiliano Zapata Business and Economy There are times when parenthood seems nothing but feeding the mouth that bites you.
-- Peter De Vries "Vegiburgers are wrong." (Mike Kaup) I love children, especially when they cry, for then someone takes them away.
-- Nancy Mitford Business and Economy
We have drugs to make women speak, but none to keep them silent.
-- Anatole France I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and
intellect has intended us to forgo their use.
- Galileo Galilei "Education must have an end in view, for it is not an end in itself." (Sybil Marshall) When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen.
-- Ernest Hemingway UGLINESS, n. A gift of the gods to certain women, entailing virtue without humility.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 Business and Economy He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose
-- Jim Elliott Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
-- Harriet Beecher Stowe "College: two hundred people reading same book. An obvious mistake. Two hundred people can read two hundred books." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) Business and Economy
Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.
-- Carl Gustav Jung "A thing of beauty is a joy forever." (John Keats) "Experience is a good teacher, but she sends in terrific bills." (Minna Antrim) "This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) "A man is only as faithful as his opportunity." (Chris Rock) Business and Economy "Friends can help each other. A true friend is someone who lets you have total freedom to be yourself--and especially to feel. Or, not feel. Whatever you happen to be feeling at the moment is fine wit "The most instructive experiences are those of everyday life." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Whatever you are, be a good one.
-- Abraham Lincoln Business and Economy
"When a hundred men stand together, each of them loses his mind and gets another one." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains that I
have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time.
- George Bernard Shaw Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.
-- Roger Babson Not much meat on her, but what's there is choice.
-- Spencer Tracy, about Katharine Hepburn When I have a kid, I wanna put him in one of those strollers for twins, then run around the mall
looking frantic.
-- Steven Wright Business and Economy Don't let it end like this. Tell them I said something.
-- Pancho Villa, dying words Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same
direction.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry 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 Business and Economy
"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 I've been trying desperately to save my marriage for the last 35 years. If a politician found he had cannibals among his constituents, he would promise them
missionaries for dinner.
-- H. L. Mencken The mathematician lives long and lives young; the wings of his soul do not early drop off, nor do
its pores become clogged with the earthy particles blown from the dusty highways of vulgar life.
-- "We live in an age when pizza gets to your home before the police." (Jeff Marder) Business and Economy "The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore." (Samuel Butler) "May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house." (George Carlin) What luck for the rulers that men do not think.
-- Adolf Hitler Business and Economy
Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.
-- G. K. Chesterton The fantasy which serves as a support for the figure of the Stalinist Communist is therefore
exactly the same as the fantasy which is at work in the Tom and Jerry cartoons.
-- Slavoj Zizek Courage: doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared.
-- Eddie Rickenbacker "I have learned that to be with those I like is enough." (Walt Whitman) You have to kiss a lot of toads before you find a handsome prince.
-- American Proverb Business and Economy Learn to laugh at your troubles and you'll never run out of things to laugh at.
-- Lyn Karol "I do not agree with what you have to say, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well.
-- Josh Billings Business and Economy
An understanding heart is everything is a teacher, and cannot be esteemed highly enough. One
looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our
human "Think off-center." (George Carlin) Marriage is the sole cause of divorce. Marriage is a rest period between romances. Thanksgiving is so called because we are all so thankful that it only comes once a year.
-- P. J. O'Rourke Business and Economy I never miss a chance to have sex or appear on television.
-- Gore Vidal When people go to work, they shouldn't have to leave their hearts at home.
-- Betty Bender "The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves." (William Hazlitt) Business and Economy
