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The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech.
-- George Bernard Shaw The advice your son rejected is now being given by him to your grandson. Tear open packet, unfold and use.
-- Directions on moist towelette package "Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) The fickleness of the women I love is only equalled by the infernal consistency of the women who
love me.
-- George Bernard Shaw Heraklion "Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution yet." (Mae West) Love cures people, both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.
-- Dr. Karl Menninger It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely uneducated.
-- Alec Bourne, A Doctor's Creed Heraklion
The Church is an organism that grows best in an alien society.
-- C. Stacey Woods "Mothers spend a lifetime excising from their sons the influence of their fathers." (Arthur Lotti) A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.
- John D. Rockefeller "Truth lies not only in a dream, but in many dreams." (Pier Paolo Pasolini, Italian poet, novelist and filmmaker) The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax.
-- Albert Einstein Heraklion I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think.
-- Socrates If you can't convince them, confuse them.
-- Harry S. Truman The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One
cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the
marvelous str Heraklion
What kills a skunk is the publicity it gives itself.
-- Abraham Lincoln Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering. Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.
- Albert Einstein Give her two red roses, each with a note. The first note says "For the woman I love" and the
second, "For my best friend."
-- Anonymous There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as
though everything is a miracle.
- Albert Einstein Heraklion You can't buy love, but you can pay heavily for it.
-- Henny Youngman The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
-- Winston Churchill "It is a curious thing that God learned Greek when he wished to turn author--and that he did not learn it better." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Heraklion
There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world; and that is an idea whose time has
come.
-- Victor Hugo Everything has been figured out, except how to live.
- Jean-Paul Sartre We can never be sure that the opinion we are endeavoring to stifle is a false opinion; and if we
were sure, stifling it would be an evil still.
-- John Stuart Mill "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) History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.
-- Winston Churchill Heraklion Every child is born a genius.
-- R. Buckminster Fuller He who laughs last thinks slowest.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when
people laugh.
-- George Bernard Shaw Heraklion
You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.
-- Henry Ford Just buy a box of popcorn and a Coca-Cola and sit back and watch.
-- James Carville, Clinton advisor, offering advice for Democrats on the term-limits vote in the
House If women didn't exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning.
-- Aristotle Onassis Generations to come will find it difficult to believe that a man such as Gandhi ever walked the
face of this earth.
-- Albert Einstein The concept is interesting and well-formed, but in order to earn better than a 'C', the idea must be
feasible.
- A Yale University management professor in response to student Fred Smith's paper prop Heraklion "Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." (George Bernard Shaw) Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance.
-- Oscar Wilde What do you take me for, an idiot?
- General Charles de Gaulle (1890-1970), when a journalist asked him if he was happy Heraklion
In America, anybody can be president. That's one of the risks you take.
-- Adlai Stevenson For most of history, Anonymous was a woman.
-- Virginia Woolf Never moon a werewolf.
-- Mike Binder Good hours, excellent pay, fun place to work, paid training, mean boss. Oh well, four out of five
isn't bad.
-- Help Wanted Ad, PA newspaper, 1994 The only reward of virtue is virtue.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Heraklion Mistress: Something between a mister and a mattress.
-- Anonymous Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them
down people's throats.
-- Howard Aiken We don't like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out.
-- Decca Recording Company, rejecting the Beatles, 1962 Heraklion
Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.
-- Bertrand Russell Nothing is wrong with California that a rise in the ocean level wouldn't cure.
- Ross MacDonald The greatest homage to truth is to use it.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson "The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves." (William Hazlitt) You must first have a lot of patience to learn to have patience.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec Heraklion I do not see the EEC as a great love affair. It is more like nine desperate middle-ages couples with failing marriages meeting at a Brussels hotel for a group grope. -- Tynan "The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn." (David Russell) Never judge a book by its movie.
-- J. W. Eagan Heraklion
Parenthetical remarks (however relevant) are unnecessary.
-- Frank L. Visco, How to Write Good Despite the high cost of living it remains a popular item.
-- Anonymous However, never daunted, I will cope with adversity in my usual manner...sulking and nausea.
-- Tom K. Ryan "The last Christian died on the cross." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) We have drugs to make women speak, but none to keep them silent.
-- Anatole France Heraklion "People demand freedom only when they have no power." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Multimedia? As far as I'm concerned, it's reading with the radio on!
-- Rory Bremner "I don't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones." (John Cage) Heraklion
The right to swing my fist ends where the other man's nose begins.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes Creativity is piercing the mundane to find the marvelous.
-- Bill Moyers "Never frighten a little man. He'll kill you." (Robert A. Heinlein) Marriage means commitment. Of course, so does insanity. "Murderers have been known to find that young girls give them more trouble than anybody else." (Jean Cocteau, Les Enfants Terribles) Heraklion "Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom." (Raymonde Uy) "The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning, but without understanding." (Louis Brandeis) Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day.
-- Thornton Wilder Heraklion
In great matters men show themselves as they wish to be seen; in small matters, as they are.
-- Gamaliel Bradford You cannot think about thinking, without thinking about thinking about something.
-- Seymour Papert Journalism consists largely in saying "Lord Jones died" to people who never knew Lord Jones
was alive.
-- G. K. Chesterton "So little done, so much to do." (Cecil Rhodes) "In order to keep anything cultural, logical, or ideological, you have to reinvent the reality of it." (Ani Difranco) Heraklion "I don't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones." (John Cage) When in doubt, make a fool of yourself. There is a microscopically thin line between being
brilliantly creative and acting like the most gigantic idiot on earth. So what the hell, leap.
-- Cynthia H Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the
unpalatable.
-- John Kenneth Galbraith Heraklion
What if it was cats who invented technology... would they have tv shows starring rubber sqeak
toys?
-- Douglas Coupland Imagination is the highest kite one can fly.
-- Lauren Bacall blah "You can lead a man to Congress, but you can't make him think." (Milton Berle) When one is trying to do something beyond his known powers it is useless to seek the approval
of friends. Friends are at their best in moments of defeat.
-- Henry Miller Outside of the killings, Washington has one of the lowest crime rates in the country.
-- Marion Barry, Mayor, Washington, D.C. Heraklion "Contrariwise," continued Tweedledee, "if it was so, it might be, and if it were so, it would be; but
as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic!"
-- Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland blah "It is a grand mistake to think of being great without goodness and I pronounce it as certain that there was never a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous." (Benjamin Fran Executive ability is deciding quickly and getting someone else to do the work.
-- John G. Pollard Heraklion
