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Destiny is not a matter of chance; but a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, It is a
thing to be acheived.
-- William Jennings Bryant A multiple personality is in a certain sense normal.
-- George H. Mead I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.
-- Francois-Auguste Rodin, when asked how he managed to make his remarkable statues When you're experimenting you have to try so many things before you choose what you want,
and you may go days getting nothing but exhaustion.
-- Fred Astaire I have a great diet. You're allowed to eat anything you want, but you must eat it with naked fat
people.
-- Ed Bluestone Arts and Entertainment If there is any one proof of a man's incompetence, it is the stagnant mentality of a worker who,
doing some small routine job in a vast undertaking, does not care to look beyond the lever of a
machi The Democrats are the party that says government will make you smarter, taller, richer, and
remove the crabgrass on your lawn. The Republicans are the party that says government doesn't
work and the He who conquers himself is the mightiest warrior.
-- Confucius Arts and Entertainment
Confidence is the feeling you have before you understand the situation.
--Anon. The child is the father of the man.
-- William Wordsworth Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.
-- George Washington "It ends not with a bang, but a whimper." (Thomas Stearns Eliot, aka T. S. Eliot, The Hollow Man) >From the moment I picked your book up until I laid it down I was convulsed with laughter. Some
day I intend reading it.
-- Groucho Marx Arts and Entertainment Democracy is the name we give the people whenever we need them.
-- Marquis de Flers Robert and Arman de Caillavet Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you
have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not.
-- Aldous Huxley "I am interested in anything about revolt, disorder , chaos--especially activity that seems to have no meaning. It seems to me to be the road toward freedom ... Rather than starting inside, I start ou Arts and Entertainment
"It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend." (William Blake) "Who is more foolish? The fool or the fool that follows it?" (Alec Guinness) Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.
-- Samuel Johnson "It is awfully easy to be hard-boiled about everything in the daytime, but at night it is another thing." (Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises) "And on the seventh day, God stepped back and said 'There is my creation, perfect in every way ... oh, damn it, I left pot all over the place. Now they'll think I want them to smoke it. Now I have to Arts and Entertainment How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create
it herself.
- Anais Nin We see the brightness of a new page where everything yet can happen.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke, Book of Hours It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.
-- Abraham Lincoln Arts and Entertainment
When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen.
-- Ernest Hemingway 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 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 Marriage is a rest period between romances. There is nothing that can be said by mathematical symbols and relations which cannot also be
said by words. The converse, however, is false. Much that can be and is said by words cannot
successfully Arts and Entertainment For the majority of People, smoking has a beneficial effect.
-- Dr. Ian G. Macdonald, Los Angeles surgeon, quoted in Newsweek , Nov.18th 1963. Love cures people, both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.
-- Dr. Karl Menninger The philosophy exam was a piece of cake -- which was a bit of a surprise, actually, because I
was expecting some questions on a sheet of paper.
-- Smith & Jones Arts and Entertainment
Men marry because they are tired, women because they are curious; both are disappointed.
-- Oscar Wilde The trouble with some women is that they get all excited about nothing -- and then marry him.
-- Cher "Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of
genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.
-- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Most of our obstacles would melt away if, instead of cowering before them, we should make up
our minds to walk boldly through them.
-- Orison Swett Marden Arts and Entertainment A husband is what is left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
- Helen Rowland If all these sweet young things were laid end to end, I wouldn't be the slightest bit surprised.
-- Dorothy Parker It is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions.
-- Aldous Huxley Arts and Entertainment
Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.
-- William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Act i. Sc. 1. 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 Men have become the tools of their tools.
- Henry David Thoreau ( "When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of all the other men of her acquaintance for the inattention of just one." (Helen Rowland) Marriage is an institution--but who wants to live in an institution? Arts and Entertainment "I have an unfortunate personality." (George Orson Welles) Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe A scar nobly got, or a noble scar, is a good livery of honour; so belike is that.
-- Shakespeare, William Arts and Entertainment
"Everywhere one seeks to produce meaning, to make the world signify, to render it visible. We are not, however, in danger of lacking meaning; quite the contrary, we are gorged with meaning and it is k "When once you have tasted flight you will always walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward: for there you have been and there you will always be." (Henry Van Dyke) Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than the arguments of its opposers.
-- William Penn Work is a four-letter word.
-- The Smiths (Morrissey) If I had only known, I would have been a locksmith.
-- Albert Einstein Arts and Entertainment Let the refining and improving of your own life keep you so busy that you have little time to
criticize others.
-- H. Jackson Brown "Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) We can say 'Peace on Earth,' we can sing about it, preach about it or pray about it, but if we have
not internalized the mythology to make it happen inside us, then it will not be.
-- Betty Shabazz Arts and Entertainment
I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
-- Thomas Edison Always go to the bathroom when you have a chance.
-- King George V Well, I think that it's a- it's had some difficult times but I think we have- we, I think, have been able
to make some very good progress and it's- I would say that it's- it's- it's delightful that w Computers will not be perfected until they can compute how much more than the estimate the job
will cost.
-- Anon Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-
proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe
is Arts and Entertainment "A thing of beauty is a joy forever." (John Keats) Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else.
-- George Bernard Shaw 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. -- Cass Daley Arts and Entertainment
Love is the delusion that one man or woman differs from another.
-- H. L. Mencken The lover knows much more about absolute good and universal beauty than any logician or
theologian, unless the latter, too, be lovers in disguise.
-- George Santayana "Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." (George Bernard Shaw) 2,400,000 Americans play the accordian - hopefully not at the same time.
-- inside of a Pepsi cap Experience teaches only the teachable.
-- Aldous Huxley Arts and Entertainment "I should reproach him for not giving us enough evidence." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970, what he would say to God if they 'met') Give me chastity and continence, but not yet.
- Saint Augustine Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
-- Will Rogers Arts and Entertainment
Hell is a half-filled auditorium.
-- Robert Frost Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more
experiments you make the better. What if they are a little course, and you may get your coat
soiled or torn? Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.
-- Albert Einstein "All women love the men they fear. All women kiss the hand that rules them." (Lionel Atwill) Effort is only effort when it begins to hurt.
-- Jose Ortega y Gasset Arts and Entertainment There are those who look at things the way they are, and ask why... I dream of things that never
were, and ask why not?
-- Robert Francis Kennedy 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. He is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death.
- H. H. Munro (Saki) Arts and Entertainment
That is the best -- to laugh with someone because you think the same things are funny.
-- Gloria Vanderbilt Society is like a stew. If you don't stir it up every once in a while then a layer of scum floats to the
top.
-- Ed Abbey Hell is a half-filled auditorium.
-- Robert Frost "Babies are necessary to grown-ups. A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities. In a world that is cutting down its trees to build highways, losing its eart "Sometimes I think it's another sign of the sad necessity of our crowded, lonely lives, an urgent hopeless reaching out to touch something real, a deep hunger for something authentic when everything s Arts and Entertainment Oregon Democratic Senate candidate Tom Bruggere, in describing his support for
comprehensive health care during a candidates' forum, said he supported "erection-to-
resurrection" coverage. He later a If pleasures are greatest in anticipation, just remember that this is also true of trouble.
-- Elbert Hubbard The Middle Eastern states aren't nations; they're quarrels with borders.
-- P. J. O'Rourke Arts and Entertainment
