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I belong to Bridegrooms Anonymous. Whenever I feel like getting married, they send over a lady in a housecoat and hair curlers to burn my toast for me. -- Dick Martin Marriage is like a mousetrap. Those on the outside are trying to get in. Those on the inside are trying to get out. Don't look back -- something might be gaining on you.
-- Satchel Paige Never judge a book by its movie.
-- J. W. Eagan There ought to be one day - just one - when there is open season on senators.
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-- Thomas Dewar "A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) Computers and Internet
This novel is not to be tossed lightly aside, but hurled with great force.
-- Dorothy Parker "If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, sir, should keep his friendship in a constant repair." (Samuel Johnson) When a girl marries she exchanges the attention of many men for the inattention of one.
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-- American Proverb Computers and Internet I do not believe in an afterlife, although I am bringing a change of underwear.
-- Woody Allen "He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever." (Chinese Proverb) Often it does seem a pity that Noah and his party did not miss the boat.
-- Mark Twain Computers and Internet
You cannot think about thinking, without thinking about thinking about something.
-- Seymour Papert The streets are safe in Philadelphia. It's only the people who make them unsafe.
-- Frank Rizzo, ex-police chief and mayor of Philadelphia "It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
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of his time, at the peril of being not to have lived.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. Computers and Internet
God help the man who won't marry until he finds a perfect woman, and God help him still more if
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-- Benjamin Tillett "Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Since Eve ate the apple, much depends on dinner.
-- Lord Byron "Like as the waves make towards the pebbl'd shore, so do our minutes, hasten to their end." (William Shakespeare) "To educate educators! But the first ones must educate themselves! And for these I write." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Computers and Internet blah "Ideas are like stars, you will not succeed in touching them with your hands, but like the seafaring man on the desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and, following them, you reach yo "Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it." (John Quincy Adams) A human being is a part of the whole, called by us Universe, a part limited in time and space. He
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-- Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., Cat's Cradle You can not apply mathematics as long as words still becloud reality.
-- Hermann Weyl Jealousy is the only vice that gives no pleasure.
-- Anonymous Musical people always want one to be perfectly dumb at the very moment when one is longing to
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-- Oscar Wilde Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
-- Henry Ford Computers and Internet "Mistakes are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) And now, in keeping with Channel 40's policy of always bringing you the latest in blood and guts,
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There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in his home.
-- Kenneth H. Olson, President of DEC, Convention of the World Future Society, 1977 blah "The best students always are flunking. Every good teacher knows that." (Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance) The best defense is a good offense.
-- Anonymous Victory goes to the player who makes the next-to-last mistake.
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-- Margaret Fairless Barber Computers and Internet You cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.
-- Mark Twain I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to.
-- Elvis Presley I think, therefore I'm single.
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Look at life through the windshield, not the rear-view mirror.
-- Byrd Baggett Prayer gives a man the opportunity of getting to know a gentleman he hardly ever meets. I do not
mean his maker, but himself.
-- Dean Inge Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
-- Henry Ford I want to die in my sleep like my friend.... Not screaming and yelling like the passengers in his
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-- Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway Computers and Internet If you are afraid of loneliness, don't marry.
-- Chekhov "The feminists used to say that chivalry and ladyhood were ways of keeping women down and preventing them from standing toe to toe with the guys. Now you've got a lot of women saying that if a guy is To take what there "is", and use it, without waiting forever in vain for the preconceived - to dig
deep into the actual and get something out of that - this doubtless is the right way to live.
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There's nothing remarkable about it. All one has to do is hit the right keys at the right time and the
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-- Johann Sebastian Bach We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.
-- George Bernard Shaw I haven't committed a crime. What I did was fail to comply with the law.
-- David Dinkins, New York City Mayor, answering accusations that he failed to pay his taxes. I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you an education.
-- Wilson Mizner What's another word for "Thesaurus?"
-- Steven Wright Computers and Internet "Humans beings can always be relied upon to assert, with vigor, their god-given right to be stupid." (Dean Koontz, Seize the Night) You can take all the sincerity in Hollywood, place it in the navel of a firefly and still have room
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-- Fred Allen "What is most appealing about young folks, after all, is the changes, not the still photograph of finished character but the movie, the soul in flux." (Thomas Pynchon) Computers and Internet
"In married life three is company and two is none." (Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest) You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.
-- Albert Camus Love is an emotion that is based on an opinion of women that is impossible for those who have
had any experience with them.
-- H. L. Mencken "I know we're not saints or virgins or lunatics; we know all the lust and lavatory jokes, and most of the dirty people; we can catch buses and count our change and cross the roads and talk real senten "Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to know." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) Computers and Internet "I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." (James Madison) "'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, Through the Looking Glass) "All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his." (Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest) Computers and Internet
Universities incline wits to sophistry and affectation.
-- Francis Bacon The eyes are not responsible when the mind does the seeing.
-- Publilius Syrus "Pleasant words are a honeycomb, Sweet to the soul and healing to the bones." (Bible, Proverbs 16:24) Education is an admirable thing, but nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
-- Oscar Wilde "The key to wisdom is knowing all the right questions." (John A. Simone Jr.) Computers and Internet Whatever you are, be a good one.
-- Abraham Lincoln Marriage is the process of finding out what kind of man your wife would have preferred. The limits of my language means the limits of my world.
-- Ludwig Wittgenstein Computers and Internet
"I've just had eighteen straight whiskies. I think that's the record." (Dylan Thomas, final words) Whatever you are from nature, keep to it; never desert your own line of talent. Be what nature
intended you for, and you will succeed; be anything else, and you will be ten thousands times
worse tha Education is not filling a bucket, but lighting a fire.
-- William Yeats It is much more comfortable to be mad and know it, than to be sane and have one's doubts.
- G. B. Burgin In any contest between power and patience, bet on patience.
- W.B. Prescott Computers and Internet It's true that I did get the girl, but then my grandfather always said, "Even a blind chicken finds a
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-- Lyle Lovett, musician, upon marying actress Julia Roberts, "If man could be crossed with the cat, it would improve man but deteriorate the cat." (Mark Twain) Reality is nothing but a collective hunch.
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