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"... and then the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom." (Anais Nin) The charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that, from age to age, nothing
changes and yet everything is completely different.
-- Aldous Huxley Very little is known of the Canadian country since it is rarely visited by anyone but the Queen and
illiterate sport fishermen.
-- P. J. O'Rourke Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains or slavery? Forbid it,
Almighty God! I know not what course others may take but as for me; give me liberty or give me
de "It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what other men say in whole books--what other men do not say in whole books." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols) Science and Environment Marriage is a great institution, but who wants to live in an institution?
-- Marx Groucho, the film "Animal Crackers" When yer in a funk, people in love are a royal pain in the patookus.
-- Portnoy, character in "Outland," comic strip by Berkely Breathed Each religion, by the help of more or less myth which it takes more or less seriously, proposes
some method of fortifying the human soul and enabline it to make its peace with its destiny.
-- George Science and Environment
Giving birth is like taking your lower lip and forcing it over your head.
-- Carol Burnett I'm astounded by people who want to 'know' the universe when it's hard enough to find your way
around Chinatown.
-- Woody Allen "We live in an age when pizza gets to your home before the police." (Jeff Marder) 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 Life is ours to be spent, not to be saved.
-- D.H. Lawrence Science and Environment When yer in a funk, people in love are a royal pain in the patookus.
-- Portnoy, character in "Outland," comic strip by Berkely Breathed Airplane travel is nature's way of making you look like your passport photo.
-- Al Gore, U.S. Vice President I don't want to achieve immortality through my work... I want to achieve it by not dying!
-- Woody Allen Science and Environment
People, like nails, lose their effectiveness when they lose direction and begin to bend.
-- Walter Savage Landor Love one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that.
-- Michael Leunig There ought to be one day - just one - when there is open season on senators.
-- Will Rogers "Some people must go to extremes to get the world in balance for themselves. Some can't bear bright lights, so wherever they go they search for the dark; they turn the lights down, anything to sustain "There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) Science and Environment "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." (Thomas Jefferson) Anyone who considers arithmetical methods of producing random digits is, of course, in a state of
sin.
-- John Von Neuman If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt Science and Environment
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. I do not like broccoli. And I haven't liked it since I was a little kid and my mother made me eat it.
And I'm President of the United States and I'm not going to eat any more broccoli.
-- George Bus A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.
-- Gloria Steinem Elegance of language may not be in the power of all of us; but simplicity and straight forwardness
are. Write much as you would speak; speak as you think. If with your inferior, speak no coarser
tha Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and around the hands and feet of the man. Science and Environment Work is a four-letter word.
-- The Smiths (Morrissey) "I don't think it's the nature of any man to be monogamous. Men are propelled by genetically ordained impulses over which they have no control to distribute their seed." (Marlon Brando) There's many a bestseller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.
-- Flannery O'Connor Science and Environment
There is no realizable power that man cannot, in time, fashion the tools to attain, nor any power
so secure that the naked ape will not abuse it. So it is written in the genetic cards - only physics Public office is the last refuge of a scoundrel.
-- Boies Penrose, 1931 Conscience is the inner voice which warns us that someone may be looking.
-- H. L. Mencken If it weren't for electricity we'd all be watching television by candlelight.
-- George Gobel "Anyone who thinks they're important is usually just a pompous moron who can't deal with his or her own pathetic insignificance and the fact that what they do is meaningless and inconsequential..." ( Science and Environment We are the echo of the future.
-- W. S. Merwin Its failings notwithstanding, there is much to be said in favor of journalism in that by giving us the
opinion of the uneducated, it keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community.
-- Oscar W Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end.
-- Semisonic, Closing Time Science and Environment
Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of
the other person.
-- Mark Twain Per cubic inch, your current TV set is perhaps the dumbest appliance in your home (and I'm not
even talking about the programs).
-- Nicholas Negroponte A conclusion is the place where you got tired thinking.
-- Martin H. Fischer "Vegiburgers are wrong." (Mike Kaup) Does anal retentive have a hyphen?
-- Seen on a t-shirt Science and Environment If a man is talking in the forest, and there is no woman there to hear him, is he still wrong?
-- Jenny Weber A life spent in making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent doing
nothing.
-- George Benard Shaw Most people are more comfortable with old problems than with new solutions.
-- Anonymous Science and Environment
One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: that word is love.
-- Sophocles Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three pillars of learning.
-- Benjamin Disraeli "I was a total loner, not by self-design. I just didn't know what the hell to say to people. I was so shy. I used to stammer and lisp and dribble at the mouth." (Sir Anthony Hopkins, on his youth) "Children spell love...T-I-M-E." (Dr. Anthony P. Witham) "In times of change learners inherit the earth; while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists." (Eric Hoffer) Science and Environment Happiness, it is said, is seldom found by those who seek it, and never by those who seek it for
themselves.
-- F. Emerson Andrews There ought to be one day - just one - when there is open season on senators.
-- Will Rogers Only positive consequences encourage good future performances.
-- Kenneth H. Blanchard Science and Environment
Maybe this world is another planet's hell.
-- Aldous Huxley "The English have all the material requisites for the revolution. What they lack is the spirit of generalization and revolutionary ardour." (Karl Marx) To decide, to be at the level of choice, is to take responsibility for your life and to be in control of
your life.
-- Abbie M. Dale I date this girl for two years--and then the nagging starts: "I wanna know your name."
-- Mike Binder "I am convinced that it is not the fear of death, of our lives ending that haunts our sleep so much as the fear ... that as far as the world is concerned, we might as well never have lived." (Rabbi H Science and Environment Every flower must grow through dirt.
-- Anonymous What would you attempt if you knew you could not fail?
-- Robert Schuller "I do not suppose I shall be remembered for anything. But I don't think about my work in those terms. It is just as vulgar to work for the sake of posterity as to work for the sake of money." (George Science and Environment
Give me chastity and continence, but not yet.
- Saint Augustine "A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh.
-- Agnes Repplier "I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is." (Alan Watts) Until the day of his death, no man can be sure of his courage.
-- Jean Anouilh Science and Environment "I am not afraid of tomorrow, for i have seen yesterday and i love today!" (William Allen White) The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.
-- Franklin D. Roosevelt 'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
-- ee cummings Science and Environment
A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.
-- Fr. Jerome Cummings "The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves." (William Hazlitt) The English country gentleman galloping after a fox--the unspeakable in full pursuit of the
uneatable.
-- Oscar Wilde Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get
money from it.
-- Stephen Leacock Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance.
-- Oscar Wilde Science and Environment You can not apply mathematics as long as words still becloud reality.
-- Hermann Weyl "A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool." (William Shakespeare) When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her.
-- Sacha Guitry Science and Environment
"I love to doubt as well as know." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do.
-- Dr. Benjamin Spock, American pediatrician, address to new parents A husband is a guy who tells you when you've got on too much lipstick and helps you with your
girdle when your hips stick.
-- Ogden Nash Most rock journalism is people who can't write interviewing people who can't talk for people who
can't read.
-- Frank Zappa Happiness, it is said, is seldom found by those who seek it, and never by those who seek it for
themselves.
-- F. Emerson Andrews Science and Environment Never judge a book by its movie.
-- J. W. Eagan A weed is no more than a flower in disguise.
-- James Lowell The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with
the wish to teach himself.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton Science and Environment
