The Phaistos Disk - Translation of the disk of Phaistos (Phaestos), found on Crete.
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-- Will Rogers Society and Culture Duct tape is like the Force. It has a light side, a dark side, and it holds the universe together....
-- Carl Zwanzig A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence
University education.
-- George Bernard Shaw When making public policy decisions about new technologies for the Government, I think one
should ask oneself which technologies would best strengthen the hand of a police state. Then, do
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I envy people who drink -- at least they know what to blame everything on.
-- Oscar Levant To be able to say how much love, is love but little.
-- Petrarch "A celebrity is a person who works hard all his life to become well known, then wears dark glasses to avoid being recognized." (Fred Allen) We do not remember days; we remember moments.
-- Anonymous We must believe in free will, we have no choice.
-- Isaac B. Singer Society and Culture If you haven't got anything nice to say about anybody, come sit next to me.
- Alice Roosevelt Longworth "Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known." (Blaise Pascal) Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
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"It ends not with a bang, but a whimper." (Thomas Stearns Eliot, aka T. S. Eliot, The Hollow Man) "Self confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings." (Samuel Johnson) My other wife is beautiful. 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 The possibility that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause
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-- Abraham Lincoln Society and Culture "Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously u Trust, but verify.
-- Ronald Reagan Sex is the mathematics urge sublimated.
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Marriage is not just a having a wife, but also worries inherited forever. When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of many men for the inattention of one.
-- Helen Rowland Cricket is best described as organised loafing.
-- Anonymous British Radio Broadcaster, 1996 You can observe a lot by watching.
-- Yogi Berra Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.
-- David Starr Jordan Society and Culture "Genius without education is like silver in the mine." (Benjamin Franklin) Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.
-- Francis Bacon Defeat never comes to any man until he admits it.
-- Josephus Daniels Society and Culture
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 The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn.
-- Cicero Minds are like parachutes - they only function when open.
-- Thomas Dewar If you are all wrapped up in yourself, you are overdressed
-- Kate Halverson "I consider it the highest compliment when my employees go out and start their own companies in competition with me. I always send them a plant to wish them well. Of course, it's a cactus." (Norman B Society and Culture The tragedy of life is not that man loses, but that he almost wins.
-- Heywood Brown "Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect every one who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are ine "Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) Society and Culture
You can observe a lot by watching.
-- Yogi Berra The only Zen you find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there.
-- Robert M. Pirsig He who knows only his own side of the case, knows little of that.
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-- Daniel Webster, dying words Society and Culture Wit is educated insolence.
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It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.
-- Henry James "Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) If it were weren't for pickpockets, I'd have no sex life at all.
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The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.
-- Albert Einstein The mind has exactly the same power as the hands: not merely to grasp the world, but to change
it.
-- Colin Wilson A theory is something nobody believes, except the person who made it. An experiment is
something everybody believes, except the person who made it.
-- Albert Einstein, attributed With this ring I thee wed, with my body I thee worship, and with all my worldly good I thee endow.
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-- George Santayana Society and Culture I am ready to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me
is another matter.
- Sir Winston Churchill Adolescence is a period of rapid changes. Between the ages of 12 and 17, for example, a parent
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-- Anonymous When a friend is in trouble, don't annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up
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-- E. W. Howe Society and Culture
Courage: doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared.
-- Eddie Rickenbacker Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is.
-- Diane Ackerman One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is
terribly important.
- Bertrand Russell
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A little inaccuracy sometimes saves a ton It is a known fact that men are practical, hardheaded realists, in contrast to women, who are
romantic dreamers and actually believe that estrogenic skin cream must do something or they
couldn't cha "Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Society and Culture Love is like the measles. The older you get it, the worse the attack.
-- Mary Roberts Rhinehart In marriage, as in war, it is permitted to take every advantage of the enemy. We have drugs to make women speak, but none to keep them silent.
-- Anatole France Society and Culture
"Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them." (Samuel Butler) If addiction is judged by how long a dumb animal will sit pressing a lever to get a 'fix' of
something, to its own detriment, then I would conclude that netnews is far more addictive than
cocaine.
Hell is other people.
- Jean-Paul Sartre Marriage is an institution--but who wants to live in an institution? "A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities." (Eda J. Le Shan) Society and Culture "One will rarely err if extreme actions be ascribed to vanity, ordinary actions to habit, and mean actions to fear." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is
the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be
cr To expect defeat is nine-tenths of defeat itself.
-- Francis Crawford Society and Culture
Your life and my life flow into each other as wave flows into wave, and unless there is peace and
joy and freedom for you, there can be no real peace or joy or freedom for me. To see reality--not
as A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend upon the support of Paul.
-- George Bernard Shaw "Now that we have everything we need, we discover that there is almost nothing that we have that we want." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) Honor's a thing too subtle for wisdom; if honor lie in eating, he's right honorable.
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- Mark Twain Music is the art of thinking with sounds.
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