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"Things do not change, we change." (Henry David Thoreau) The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this
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-- James Branch Cabell, The Silver Stallion Opportunities multiply as they are seized.
-- Sun Tzu Truth is more of a stranger than fiction.
-- Mark Twain I shall return.
-- General Douglas MacArthur Arts and Entertainment Ah Mozart! He was happily married - but his wife wasn't. -- Borge "To live in the hearts we leave behind is not to die." (Thomas Campbell) It is absurd to divide people into good or bad. People are either charming or tedious.
-- Oscar Wilde Arts and Entertainment
You can pay attention to the fact, in which case you'll probably become a mathematician, or you
can ignore it, in which case you'll probably become a physicist.
-- Len Evans, professor, Northwestern The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains.The superior teacher demonstrates. The
great teacher inspires.
-- William Arthur Ward The health of the people is really the foundation upon which all their happiness and all their
powers as a State depend.
-- Benjamin Disraeli If someone had told me I would be Pope one day, I would have studied harder.
-- Pope John Paul I "Better to be deprived of food for three days than tea for one." (Chinese Proverb) Arts and Entertainment Old soldiers never die, they just fade away.
-- General Douglas MacArthur "As a child, I thought I hated everybody, but when I grew up I realized it was just children I didn't like." (Philip Larkin) The nice thing about being a celebrity is that if you bore people they think it's their fault.
- Henry Kissinger Arts and Entertainment
Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it.
Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it.
Hatred darkens life; love illumines it.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. "I have an unfortunate personality." (George Orson Welles) Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is
terribly important.
-- Bertrand Russell He who conquers himself is the mightiest warrior.
-- Confucius Arts and Entertainment "Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country." (Marquis de Lafayette) Government is like a baby. An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of
responsibility at the other.
-- Ronald Reagan, Saturday Evening Post, 1965 Where there is an unknowable there is a promise.
-- Thornton Wilder Arts and Entertainment
Education ... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth
reading.
-- G. M. Trevelyan He who knows nothing, knows nothing. But he who knows he knows nothing knows something. And he who knows someone whose friend's wife's brother knows nothing, he knows something. Or something like that The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.
-- Albert Einstein There's many a bestseller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.
-- Flannery O'Connor And life is what we make it. Always has been, always will be.
-- Grandma Moses Arts and Entertainment A girl must marry for love and keep on marrying until she finds it.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.
-- John Lehman, Secretary of the Navy, 1981-1987 Happiness, it is said, is seldom found by those who seek it, and never by those who seek it for
themselves.
-- F. Emerson Andrews Arts and Entertainment
Your goals, minus your doubts, equal your reality.
-- Ralph Marston I don't know why we are here, but I'm pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves.
- Ludwig Wittgenstein The nation's honor is dearer than the nation's comfort; yes, than the nation's life itself.
-- Woodrow Wilson Someday is not a day of the week.
-- Anon. No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman. -- Honore de Balzac Arts and Entertainment "Conscience and cowardice are really the same things. Conscience is the trade-name of the firm. That is all." (Oscar Wilde) Infatuation is when you think that he's as sexy as Robert Redford, as smart as Henry Kissinger,
as noble as Ralph Nader, as funny as Woody Allen, and as athletic as Jimmy Conners. Love is
when you r It is a product of Einstein's genius -- taking a commonplace observation, combining it with some
simple imaginary experiments, and arriving at a revolutionary conclusion.
-- Clifford M. Wills, 1986 Arts and Entertainment
Saying that men talk about baseball in order to avoid talking about their feelings is the same as
saying that women talk about their feelings in order to avoid talking about baseball.
-- Deborah Tan Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business.
-- Tom Robbins Giving birth is like taking your lower lip and forcing it over your head.
-- Carol Burnett What's new? Most of my wife. They're almost inseparable. Sometimes it takes ten people to separate them.
-- Anonymous Arts and Entertainment "Careful?! Was my mother careful when she stabbed me in the heart with a coat hanger while I was still in the womb?" (Trey Parker) America's one of the finest countries anyone ever stole.
-- Bobcat Goldthwait An economic forecaster is like a cross-eyed javelin thrower: they don't win many accuracy
contests, but they keep the crowd's attention.
-- Anonymous Arts and Entertainment
I have never taken any exercise except sleeping and resting.
-- Mark Twain A man's feet should be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world.
-- George Santayana Of course, it is very important to be sober when you take an exam. Many worthwile careers in the
street-cleansing, fruit-picking and subway-guitar-playing industries have been founded on a lack
of u "It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter." (Blaise Pascal) Arts and Entertainment I do not like broccoli. And I haven't liked it since I was a little kid and my mother made me eat it.
And I'm President of the United States and I'm not going to eat any more broccoli.
-- George Bus I love children, especially when they cry, for then someone takes them away.
-- Nancy Mitford .. I am indebted to the cat for a particular kind of honorable deceit, for a greater control over
myself, for a characteristic aversion to brutal sounds, and for the need to keep silent for long
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"To live in the hearts we leave behind is not to die." (Thomas Campbell) Grove giveth and Gates taketh away.
- Bob Metcalfe (inventor of Ethernet) on the trend of hardware speedups not being able to keep
up with software demands "Greed, for lack of a better word, is good. Greed is right. Greed works." (Michael Douglas, as Gordon Gekko, Wall Street, 1987) It is most unwise for people in love to marry.
-- George Bernard Shaw Honorable, adj. Afflicted with an impediment in one's reach. In legislative bodies, it is customary
to mention all members as honorable; as, ``the honorable gentleman is a scurvy cur.'
-- Bierce, A Arts and Entertainment "Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) For a male and female to live continuously together is...biologically speaking, an extremely
unnatural condition.
-- Robert Briffault "Some look at things that are, and ask why. I dream of things that never were and ask why not?" (George Bernard Shaw) Arts and Entertainment
"He who cannot give anything away cannot feel anything either." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) If variety is the spice of life, marriage is the big can of leftover Spam.
-- Johnny Carson The perfect love affair is one which is conducted entirely by post.
-- George Bernard Shaw A man should be taller, older, heavier, uglier, and hoarser than his wife.
-- Edgar Watson Howe There is a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious, makes you so sick at
heart, you can't take part. And you've got to put your body upon the gears and upon the wheels,
upon the lev Arts and Entertainment Music is the art of thinking with sounds.
-- Jules Combarieu Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it.
Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it.
Hatred darkens life; love illumines it.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Imagination is the highest kite one can fly.
-- Lauren Bacall Arts and Entertainment
Cliches should be avoided like the plague.
-- Anon. It is best to learn as we go, not go as we have learned.
-- Leslie Jeanne Sahler I think there are only three things America will be known for 2,000 years from now when they
study this civilization: the Constitution, jazz music, and baseball.
-- Gerald Early, writer, baseball do Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop
questioning.
-- Albert Einstein Dishonor will not trouble me, once I am dead.
-- Euripides Arts and Entertainment Before you put on a frown, make absolutely sure there are no smiles available.
-- Jim Beggs Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by the traffic from
both sides.
-- Margaret Thatcher May you grow so rich your widow's second husband never has to worry about a living, God forbid. Arts and Entertainment
"Treat a man as he is, and he will remain as he is. Treat a man as he could be, and he will become what he should be." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from
history.
-- George Bernard Shaw A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted
by a little physical antipathy.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
-- H. L. Mencken Anyone who considers arithmetical methods of producing random digits is, of course, in a state of
sin.
-- John Von Neuman Arts and Entertainment The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
- General George Patton Politics have no relation to morals.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli The first half of our life is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
-- Clarence Darrow Arts and Entertainment
