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"You exist only in what you do." (Federico Fellini) "God is dead: but considering the state Man is in, there will perhaps be caves, for ages yet, in which his shadow will be shown." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, The Joyful Wisdom) Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for
appointment by the corrupt few.
-- George bernard Shaw I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible
by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.
- Umberto Eco Martyrdom... is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability. George Bernard
Shaw (1856 - 1950), The Devil's Disciple (1901) act 3 Government The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this
is true.
-- James Branch Cabell, The Silver Stallion "People demand freedom only when they have no power." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) If you cannot be the master of your language, you must be its slave. If you cannot examine your
thoughts, you have no choice but to think them, however silly they may be.
-- Richard Mitchell, from Government
"I offer images; I conjure memories of freedom that can still be reached ... But, we can only open the doors. We can't drag people through. I can't free them unless they want to be free--more than any The child is the father of the man.
-- William Wordsworth Men have become the tools of their tools.
- Henry David Thoreau ( A White House well filled, a little peanut field well tilled, and a wife who will go to the Bronx are
great riches.
-- Poor Jimmy's Almanac A small family is soon provided for.
-- English Proverb Government Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it
- Henry David Thoreau If you are afraid of loneliness, do not marry. -- Chekhov He who laughs, lasts.
-- Mary Pettibone Poole Government
Children are a poor man's riches.
-- English proverb Although the course may change sometimes, rivers always reach the sea.
-- Led Zeppelin, Ten Years Gone The most terrible poverty is loneliness and the feeling of being unloved.
-- Mother Teresa You got to be careful if you don't know where you're going, because you might not get there.
-- Yogi Berra In literature as in love, we are astonished at what is chosen by others.
-- André Maurois Government 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 "Feeding is a very important ritual for me. I don't trust people who don't like to eat." (Gina Gershon) "What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage." Government
I have come to the conclusion never again to think of marrying, and for this reason, I can never
be satisfied with anyone who would be blockhead enough to have me.
-- Abraham Lincoln, in a letter to "The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it." (Abbie Hoffman) "A critic is a man who knows the way but can't drive the car." (Kenneth Tynan) Church is only society on earth that exists for the benefit of non-members.
-- William Temple "Some look at things that are, and ask why. I dream of things that never were and ask why not?" (George Bernard Shaw) Government "A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool." (William Shakespeare) If God does not exist, then everything is permitted.
-- Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Devils Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
-- Abraham Lincoln Government
"God's creatures, great and small ... eat them one, eat them all." (John A. Simone Sr.) War is a profession by which a man cannot live honorably; an employment by which the soldier, if
he would reap any profit, is obliged to be false, rapacious, and cruel.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli Sleep is an excellent way of listening to an opera.
- James Stephens "Ideas are far more powerful than guns. We don't allow our enemies to have guns, why should we allow them to have ideas?" (Josef Stalin) I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them.
- Ian L. Fleming Government Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.
- Isaac Asimov "I don't think it's the nature of any man to be monogamous. Men are propelled by genetically ordained impulses over which they have no control to distribute their seed." (Marlon Brando) Hardly a year passes that fails to find a new, oft-times exotic, research method or technique
added to the armamentarium of political inquiry. Anyone who cannot negotiate Chi squares,
assess randomi Government
There are those who look at things the way they are, and ask why... I dream of things that never
were, and ask why not?
-- Robert Francis Kennedy I do not see the EEC as a great love affair. It is more like nine desperate middle-ages couples with failing marriages meeting at a Brussels hotel for a group grope. -- Tynan All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusion is called a philosopher.
- Ambrose Bierce Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the
consequences.
-- Isadora Duncan People, like nails, lose their effectiveness when they lose direction and begin to bend.
-- Walter Savage Landor Government "If you want a thing done well, do it yourself." (Napoleon Bonaparte) The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit.
-- W. Somerset Maugham Very little is known of the Canadian country since it is rarely visited by anyone but the Queen and
illiterate sport fishermen.
-- P. J. O'Rourke Government
Some of us are becoming the men we wanted to marry.
-- Gloria Steinem It's no credit to anyone to work to hard.
-- Ed Howe He who knows only his own side of the case, knows little of that.
-- John Stuart Mill "The want of logic annoys. Too much logic bores. Life eludes logic, and everything that logic alone constructs remains artificial and forced." (André Gide) Wives are people who feel they don't dance enough.
-- Groucho Marx Government We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind her stands his wife. -- Groucho Marx He had decided to live forever or die in the attempt.
-- J. Heller I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude. we are for the most part
more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers.
-- Thoreau Government
The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it.
-- Anonymous 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 Most convicted felons are just people who were not taken to museums or Broadway musicals as
children.
-- Libby Gelman-Waxner In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
- Martin Luther King Jr. The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed
desperation.
-- Henry David Thoreau, Walden (1854) Government blah "Some of the worlds greatest feats were accomplished by people not smart enough to know they were impossible. unattributed" (Anonymous) A memorandum is written not to inform the reader but to protect the writer.
-- Dean Acheson Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive.
-- Anaïs Nin Government
"I was born and raised with crocodiles; they are a piece of cake. But kids are so ... unpredictable." (Steve Irwin, "Crocodile Hunter") I tried a mail order bride, once, but she was damaged in the mail, and I had to return the unused part for my full refund. The wise see knowledge and action as one; they see truly.
-- Bhagava Gita Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you help them to become what they are
capable of being.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Happy are those who dream dreams and are willing to pay the price to make them come true.
-- Anon. Government As always, victory finds a hundred fathers but defeat is an orphan.
-- Count Galeazzo Ciano, The Ciano Diaries Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.
-- Aristotle The streets are safe in Philadelphia. It's only the people who make them unsafe.
-- Frank Rizzo, ex-police chief and mayor of Philadelphia Government
Hey, you can't fight in here! This is the war room!
-- Dr. Strangelove 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 More than kisses, letters mingle souls.
-- John Donne "Be not afraid of greatness. Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon 'em." (William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night, II:5) Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you walk into an open sewer and die.
- Mel Brooks Government Like a prune, you are not getting any better looking, but you are getting sweeter.
-- N. D. Stice Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering. The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their
attitudes of mind.
-- William James Government
"No one wants a good education. Everyone wants a good degree." (Lee Rudolph) When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her.
-- Sacha Guitry "Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) Never judge a book by its movie.
-- J. W. Eagan Music makes one feel so romantic - at least it always gets on one's nerves - which is the same
thing nowadays.
-- Oscar Wilde Government Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
-- George Bernard Shaw Nothing says loving like marrying your cousin! -- Al Bundy If you are afraid of loneliness, don't marry.
-- Chekhov Government
