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I don't even butter my bread; I consider that cooking.
-- Katherine Cebrian It ain't what we don't know that gives us trouble, it's what we know that ain't so.
-- Will Rogers Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteeen.
-- Albert Einstein "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) When he first ran for office, he appealed to the voters: "I never stole anything in my life. All I ask
is a chance."
-- Anon. Science and Environment Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education
without natural ability.
Cicero (106 BC - 43 BC) "Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh." (George Bernard Shaw) "I have the terrible feeling that, because I am wearing a white beard and am sitting in the back of the theatre, you expect me to tell you the truth about something. These are the cheap seats, not Mou Science and Environment
After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
-- Aldous Huxley When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life
of another.
-- Helen Keller I criticize by creation - not by finding fault.
- Cicero Silence is argument carried out by other means.
- ErnestoCheGuevara Usenet is like a herd of performing elephants with diarrhea -- massive, difficult to redirect, awe-
inspiring, entertaining, and a source of mind-boggling amounts of excrement when you least
expect i Science and Environment When I give a lecture, I accept that people look at their watches, but what I do not tolerate is
when they look at it and raise it to their ear to find out if it stopped.
-- Marcel Achard 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 If men knew all that women think, they'd be twenty times more daring.
-- Alphonse Karr Science and Environment
When marriage is outlawed, only outlaws will have inlaws. The weirder you're going to behave, the more normal you should look. It works in reverse, too.
When I see a kid with three or four rings in his nose, I know there is absolutely nothing
extraordinary Whenever I climb I am followed by a dog called 'Ego'.
- Friedrich Nietzsche "REASONABLE, adj. Accessible to the infection of our own opinions. Hospitable to persuasion, dissuasion and evasion." (Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary) Why don't you write books people can read?
-- Nora Joyce, to her husband James Science and Environment 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. "Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise." (Alice Walker) Marriage isn't a word... it's a sentence.
-- King Vidor, in the 1928 film, The Crawl Science and Environment
A team effort is a lot of people doing what I say.
-- Michael Winner Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.
-- Aristotle The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt To marry is to halve your rights and double your duties.
-- Arthur Schopenhauer "Against stupidity the very gods themselves contend in vain." (Johann Christian Friedrich von Schiller, 1759-1805, The Maid of Orleans. Act iii. Sc. 6.) Science and Environment I have been attacked by Rush Limbaugh on the air, an experience somewhat akin to being
gummed by a newt. It doesn't actually hurt, but it leaves you with slimy stuff on your ankle.
-- Molly Ivins If it weren't for marriage, men would spend their lives thinking they had no faults at all.
-- Anonymous Talk to a man about himself and he will listen for hours.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Science and Environment
An economist is a man who states the obvious in terms of the incomprehensible.
-- Alfred A. Knopf Marriage is a trip between Niagara Falls and Reno. "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) We are all here for a spell; get all the good laughs you can.
-- Will Rogers I'm worried that the universe will soon need replacing. It's not holding a charge.
-- Edward Chilton Science and Environment Study men, not historians.
-- Harry Truman Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
-- Harriet Beecher Stowe A life spent in making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent doing
nothing.
-- George Benard Shaw Science and Environment
"A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool." (William Shakespeare) A memorandum is written not to inform the reader but to protect the writer.
-- Dean Acheson "I've decided something: Commercial things really do stink. As soon as it becomes commercial for a mass market it really stinks." (Andy Warhol, The Andy Warhol Diaries, 1989) He who knows only his own side of the case, knows little of that.
-- John Stuart Mill "When even one American--who has done nothing wrong--is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth--then all Americans are in peril." (Harry S. Truman) Science and Environment All you need is love.
-- The Beatles, song title When a man takes an oath, Meg, he's holding his ownself in his own hands. Like water. And if he
opens his fingers then- he needn't hope to find himself again.
-- Robert Bolt from A Man For All Seas "One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Science and Environment
"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world, indeed it is the only thing that ever has." (Margaret Mead, 1901-78) "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) They think they can make fuel from horse manure.... Now, I don't know if your car will be able to
get 30 miles to the gallon, but it's sure gonna put a stop to siphoning.
-- Billie Holliday Do you not know, my son, with what little understanding the world is ruled?
-- Pope Julius III 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.
-- H Science and Environment I don't mind if you don't like my manners. I don't like them myself. They're pretty bad. I grieve over
them on long winter evenings.
-- Humphrey Bogart to Lauren Bacall, in "The Big Sleep" Marriage is not just a having a wife, but also worries inherited forever. If it weren't for marriage, men and women would have to fight with total strangers.
-- Anonymous Science and Environment
Age does not protect you from love but love to some extent protects you from age.
-- Jeanne Moreau The marriage of Marxism and feminism has been like the marriage of husband and wife depicted in English common law: Marxism and feminism are one, and that one is Marxism. --Heidi Hartmann [The Unhappy "God is Man's stupidest idea." (Marcel Duchamp, French Dadaist) We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
-- Winston Churchill A man in the house is worth two in the street.
-- Mae West Science and Environment What is politics, after all, but the compulsion to preside over property and make other peoples'
decisions for them?
-- Tom Robbins, Skinny Legs and All Minds are like parachutes - they only function when open.
-- Thomas Dewar "He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself." (Thomas Paine) Science and Environment
We know the truth, not only by the reason, but also by the heart.
-- Blaise Pascal, Thoughts, Chap. x. 1., Translated by O. W. Wight "I was born lost and take no pleasure in being found..." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) "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 Watching the debate this afternoon it was apparent they loved term limits in the House -- as
Brutus loved Caesar.
-- Bill Moyers What would you attempt if you knew you could not fail?
-- Robert Schuller Science and Environment "He who speaks of what he knows not only works hard to portray his ignorance." (Joseph Muchemi) Health food makes me sick.
-- Calvin Trillin We do not have censorship. What we have is a limitation on what newspapers can report.
-- Louis Nel, Deputy Minister of Information, South Africa Science and Environment
The nourishment is palatable.
-- Millard Fillmore, dying words It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely uneducated.
-- Alec Bourne, A Doctor's Creed Computers can figure out all kinds of problems, except the things in the world that just don't add
up.
-- Anon Be willing to make decisions. That's the most important quality in a good leader. Don't fall victim
to what I call the 'ready-aim-aim-aim-aim syndrome.' You must be willing to fire.
-- Gen. George "One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Science and Environment I begin by taking. I shall find scholars later to demonstrate my perfect right.
- Frederick (II) the Great You can close your eyes to reality, but not to memories.
-- Stanislaw J. Lem Biography lends to death a new terror.
-- Oscar Wilde Science and Environment
I have a great diet. You're allowed to eat anything you want, but you must eat it with naked fat
people.
-- Ed Bluestone The difference between 'involvement' and 'commitment' is like an eggs-and-ham breakfast: the
chicken was 'involved' - the pig was 'committed'.
- unknown "Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free." (Emma Lazarus) Not everything that can be counted counts; and not everything that counts can be counted.
-- Albert Einstein The course of true love never did run smooth.
-- William Shakespeare Science and Environment Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount.
-- Clare Boothe Luce Based on what you know about him in history books, what do you think Abraham Lincoln would
be doing if he were alive today?
1) Writing his memoirs of the Civil War.
2) Advising the President.
3) D Great ability develops and reveals itself increasingly with every new assignment. Baltasar
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