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"This is the first age that's paid much attention to the future, which is a little ironic since we may not have one." (Arthur C. Clarke) The possibility that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause
we believe to be just.
-- Abraham Lincoln 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 Many a wife thinks her husband is the world's greatest lover. But she can never catch him at it. Suicide is belated acquiescence in the opinion of one's wife's relatives. Kastoria Marriage is a trip between Niagara Falls and Reno. "What dies if freedom lives? What lives if freedom dies?" (Lindsay Anderson, British filmmaker, from if.... (1968) He had occasional flashes of silence that made his conversation perfectly delightful.
-- Sydney Smith, referring to Macaulay Kastoria
"I know that God won't give me more trouble than I can handle ... but sometimes I wish he wouldn't trust me so much." (Mother Teresa) Sex is like bridge: If you don't have a good partner, you better have a good hand.
-- Charles Pierce The work of internal government has become the task of controlling the thousands of fifth-rate
men.
-- Henry B. Adams "To err is human; to forgive, divine." (Alexander Pope) It's not the men in my life that count, it's the life in my men.
-- Mae West Kastoria A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems.
- Paul Erdos Wind is to fire like distance is to love; it extinguishes the small and enflames the great.
-- Anonymous Not only is the universe stranger than we imagine, it is stranger than we can imagine.
Sir Arthur Eddington (1882 - 1944) Kastoria
"The intellect is always fooled by the heart." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) blah "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." (Thomas Jefferson) The church is the great lost and found department.
-- Robert Short Viewed from the summit of reason, all life looks like a malignant disease and the world like a
madhouse.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Live your questions now, and perhaps even without knowing it, you will live along some distant
day into your answers.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke Kastoria "One often contradicts an opinion when what is uncongenial is really the tone in which it was conveyed." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "College professors are the people who can't hack it in the real world." (William Thomas) "There is only one success: to be able to spend your life in your own way, and not to give others absurd maddening claims upon it." (Christopher Darlington Morley) Kastoria
Truth can be a dangerous thing. It is quite patient and relentless.
-- R. Scott Richards Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is most important that you do it.
-- Gandhi "This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) "Death is always and under all circumstances a tragedy, for if it is not, then it means that life itself has become one." (Theodore Roosevelt) Reading computer manuals without the hardware is a frustrating as reading sex manuals without
the software.
-- Arthur C. Clarke Kastoria Obstacles cannot crush me. Every obstacle yields to stern resolve. He who is fixed to a star does
not change his mind.
-- Leonardo da Vinci, Notebooks "If you're in a bad situation, don't worry it'll change. If you're in a good situation, don't worry it'll change." (John A. Simone Sr.) "The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing." (John Powell) Kastoria
I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
- Mark Twain Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked
where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.
-- D. H. Lawrence blah blah blah blah blah "This is the way the world ends: not with a bang, but a whimper." (Thomas Stearns Eliot, aka T. S. Eliot) _end]
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"Hello Kitty is an icon that doesn't stand for a The real test of friendship is: Can you literally do nothing with the other person? Can you enjoy
together those moments of life that are utterly simple? They are the moments people looks back
on at ARDOR, n. The quality that distinguishes love without knowledge.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 Kastoria If you never want to see a man again, say, "I love you, I want to marry you, I want to have children..." - they leave skid marks. -- Rita Rudner "Friendship is born at the moment when one person says to another, 'What?! You too! Thought I was the only one.'" (Clive Staples Lewis) Sure, it's going to kill a lot of people, but they may be dying of something else anyway.
-- Othal Brand, member of a Texas pesticide review board Kastoria
Marriage has many pains, but celibacy has no pleasures.
-- Samuel Johnson Always behave like a duck--keep calm and unruffled on the surface but paddle like the devil
underneath.
-- Jacob Braude "Never frighten a little man. He'll kill you." (Robert A. Heinlein) Marriage is bliss. Ignorance is bliss. Ergo...
-- Anonymous All marriages are happy--it's the living together afterward that causes all the problems. Kastoria The second half of a man's life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the
first half.
Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821 - 1881) "Feeding is a very important ritual for me. I don't trust people who don't like to eat." (Gina Gershon) When a cat is dropped, it always lands on its feet, and when toast is dropped, it always lands with
the buttered side down. I propose to strap buttered toast to the back of a cat; the 2 will hover,
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Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
-- Albert Einstein "If you believe everything you read, you better not read." (Japanese Proverb) There's nothing wrong with having nothing to say -- unless you insist on saying it.
-- Anonymous America is the only nation in history which miraculously has gone directly from barbarism to
degeneration without the usual intervention of civilization.
-- George Clemenceau Lawyers are... operators of the toll bridge which anyone in search of justice must pass.
-- Jane Bryant Quinn Kastoria If God does not exist, then everything is permitted.
-- Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Devils "Thanks to my solid academic training, today I can write hundreds of words on virtually any topic without possessing a shred of information, which is how I got a good job in journalism." (Dave Barry) Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else.
-- George Bernard Shaw Kastoria
I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them.
- Ian L. Fleming "As long as people will accept crap, it will be financially profitable to dispense it." (Dick Cavett) There are three types of people in this world: Those who can count, and those who can't.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Whining is not only graceless, but can be dangerous. It can alert a brute that a victim is in the
neighborhood.
-- Maya Angelou Don't be so humble - you are not that great.
- Golda Meir (1898-1978) to a visiting diplomat Kastoria Marriage is not a ritual or an end. It is a long, intricate, intimate dance together and nothing
matters more than your own sense of balance and your choice of partner.
-- Amy Bloom I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with
typewriters.
- Frank Lloyd Wright Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte Kastoria
"We have to be able to criticise what we love, to say what we have to say 'cause if your not trying to make something better, than as far as I can tell, you are just in the way." (Ani Difranco) What we anticipate seldom occurs: but what we least expect generally happens.
-- Benjamin Disraeli We can say 'Peace on Earth,' we can sing about it, preach about it or pray about it, but if we have
not internalized the mythology to make it happen inside us, then it will not be.
-- Betty Shabazz The society of women is the element of good manners.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "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) Kastoria I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell this to my children they just about throw up.
-- Barbara Bush, first lady, 1989 History is more or less bunk.
-- Henry Ford Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
-- Virginia Woolf Kastoria
Don't be afraid your life will end; be afraid that it will never begin.
-- Grace Hansen In any contest between power and patience, bet on patience.
- W.B. Prescott He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.
- Sir Winston Churchill "It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so." (Mark Twain) The great man fights the elements in his time that hinder his own greatness, in other words his own freedom and sincerity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Kastoria Love is what we are born with. Fear is what we learn. The spiritual journey is the unlearning of
fear and prejudices and the acceptance of love back in our hearts. Love is the essential reality
and Spinster: A bachelor's wife. "All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) Kastoria
There's a saying among prospectors: "Go out looking for one thing, and that's all you'll ever find."
-- Robert Flaherty blah "Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the government of himself. Can he, then be trusted with the government of others? Or have we found angels in the form of kings to govern him? I shall return.
-- General Douglas MacArthur Better to die ten thousand deaths than wound my honor.
-- Joseph Addison We can say 'Peace on Earth,' we can sing about it, preach about it or pray about it, but if we have
not internalized the mythology to make it happen inside us, then it will not be.
-- Betty Shabazz Kastoria Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly.
-- Simeon Strunsky One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good
reputation.
-- Oscar Wilde "It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so." (Mark Twain) Kastoria
