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As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; and as far as they are
certain, they do not refer to reality.
-- Albert Einstein Chase after the truth like all hell and you'll free yourself, even though you never touch its
coattails.
-- Clarence Darrow "If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost." (Aristotle) The most wasted day of all is that in which we have not laughed.
-- Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort "To forget one's purpose is the commonest form of stupidity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Guides and Directories Knowledge is the intellectual manipulation of carefully verified observations.
-- Sigmund Freud "Whether it is a black cat or a white cat, as long as it can catch the rat, it is a good cat." (Deng Xiao Ping) Sir, I would rather be right than be President.
-- Henry Clay, Speech, 1850, referring to the Compromise Measure Guides and Directories
We trained hard - but it seemed that every time we were beginning to form up into teams we were
reorganized. I was to learn later in life that we tend to meet any new situation by reorganizing,
and Education ... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth
reading.
-- G. M. Trevelyan People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid.
- Soren Aabye Kierkegaard The greatest homage to truth is to use it.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson "If man could be crossed with the cat, it would improve man but deteriorate the cat." (Mark Twain) Guides and Directories Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.
-- Roger Babson "Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death." (General Michel Aoun) "If I work toward an end, meantime I am confined to a process. The rainbow is more beautiful than the pot at the end of it, because the rainbow is now. And the pot never turns out to be quite what I e Guides and Directories
Marriage is a trip between Niagara Falls and Reno. "Let no one be discouraged by the belief there is nothing one person can do against the enormous array of the world's ills, misery, ignorance, and violence. Few will have the greatness to bend history Peculiar travel suggestions are dancing lessons from God.
-- Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., Cat's Cradle If there is any one proof of a man's incompetence, it is the stagnant mentality of a worker who,
doing some small routine job in a vast undertaking, does not care to look beyond the lever of a
machi The man who complains about the way the ball bounces is likely the one who dropped it.
-- Lou Holtz Guides and Directories A man in the house is worth two in the street.
-- Mae West 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 better part of valor is discretion.
-- William Shakespeare 1564-1616 from King Henry the Fourth, Part I Guides and Directories
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 Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana.
-- Groucho Marx "We have so little presumption that we should like to be known in the world, even to those who come after when we are no more. We have so little vanity that the esteem of five people, say six, amuses As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.
-- Abraham Lincoln I heard someone tried the monkeys-on-typewriters bit trying for the plays of W. Shakespeare, but
all they got was the collected works of Francis Bacon.
- Bill Hirst Guides and Directories There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written or badly written.
-- Oscar Wilde We can lick gravity, but sometimes the paperwork is overwhelming.
-- Wehrner von Braun "Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known." (Blaise Pascal) Guides and Directories
I'd wipe the machines off the face of the earth again, and end the industrial epoch absolutely, like
a black mistake.
-- D. H. Lawrence 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 Everybody can be great... because anybody can serve. You don't have to have a college degree
to serve. You don't have to make your subject and verb agree to serve. you only need a heart full
of grac "In every gathering of thirteen, expect one guest will turn out to be a Judas." (Aleister Crowley) The mistakes are all waiting to be made.
- chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower (1887-1956) on the game's opening position Guides and Directories Ne'er take a wife till thou hast a house (and a fire) to put her in.
-- Benjamin Franklin Manuscript: something submitted in haste and returned at leisure.
-- Oliver Herford Mistakes are the portals of discovery.
-- James Joyce Guides and Directories
It may be that the race is not always to the swift, nor the battle to the strong -- but that is the way
to bet.
-- Damon Runyan "Small minds discuss people, average minds discuss events, great minds discuss ideas." (Anonymous) I would have made a good Pope.
-- Richard Nixon, U.S. President Stung by the splendour of a sudden thought.
-- Robert Browning "Nobody minds having what is too good for them." (Jane Austen) Guides and Directories Ask her to wait a moment - I am almost done.
-- Carl Friedrich Gauss, when informed that his wife was dying "Some look at things that are, and ask why. I dream of things that never were and ask why not?" (George Bernard Shaw) "When we are born we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools." (William Shakespeare) Guides and Directories
"Self confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings." (Samuel Johnson) "Majority rule only works if you're also considering individual rights. Because you can't have five wolves and one sheep voting on what to have for supper." (Larry Flynt) Let go of your attachment to being right, and suddenly your mind is more open. You're able to
benefit from the unique viewpoints of others, without being crippled by your own judgment.
-- Ralph Mars Opera in English is, in the main, about as sensible as baseball in Italian.
-- H. L. Mencken I still say a church steeple with a lightning rod on top shows a lack of confidence.
-- Doug MacLeod Guides and Directories Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.
- Bertrand Russell Love is a snowmobile racing across the tundra and then suddenly it flips over, pinning you
underneath. At night, the ice weasels come.
-- Matt Groening, Love is Hell 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 Guides and Directories
He believes that marriage and a career don't mix. So after the wedding he plans to quit his job.
-- Anonymous Great innovations should not be forced on slender majorities.
-- Thomas Jefferson Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.
- Bertrand Russell Saying that Windows95 is equal to Macintosh is like finding a potato that looks like Jesus and
believing you've witnessed the second coming.
-- Guy Kawasaki We need the iron qualities that go with true manhood. We need the positive virtues of resolution,
of courage, of indomitable will, of power to do without shrinking the rough work that must always
be Guides and Directories I do not believe in an afterlife, although I am bringing a change of underwear.
-- Woody Allen The grass may be greener on the other side of the fence, but you still have to mow it.
-- Anonymous Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
- Lewis Perelman Guides and Directories
My initial response was to sue her for defamation of character, but then I realized that I had no
character.
-- Charles Barkley, on hearing Tonya Harding proclaim herself "the Charles Barkley of fig Democracy is a form of government in which it is permitted to wonder aloud what the country
could do under first-class management.
-- Senator Soaper If ever two were one, then surely we.
If ever man were loved by wife, then thee.
-- Anne Bradstreet When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her. -- Guitry "Boredom is a vital problem for the moralist, since at least half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Guides and Directories Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a
brand new ending.
-- Anonymous A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.
-- St. Augustine "I was lousy in school. Real screwed-up. A moron. I was antisocial and didn't bother with the other kids. A really bad student. I didn't have any brains. I didn't know what I was doing there. That's w Guides and Directories
Sometimes you get shown the light in the strangest of places if you look at it right.
-- Jerry Garcia Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
- Henry Ford There is no sincerer love than the love of food.
-- George Bernard Shaw "I've just had eighteen straight whiskies. I think that's the record." (Dylan Thomas, final words) "You know that being an American is more than a matter of where your parents came from. It is a belief that all men are created free and equal and that everyone deserves an even break." (Harry S. Tru Guides and Directories We don't like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out.
-- Decca Recording Company, rejecting the Beatles, 1962 It destroys one's nerves to be amiable everyday to the same human being.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Laywers, I suppose, were children once.
-- Charles Lamb Guides and Directories
"Whether it is a black cat or a white cat, as long as it can catch the rat, it is a good cat." (Deng Xiao Ping) Live truth instead of professing it.
-- Elbert Hubbard We have to keep trying things we're not sure we can pull off. If we just do the things we know we
can do... you don't grow as much. You gotta take those chances on making those big mistakes.
-- Cybi "I've never let my school interfere with my education." (Mark Twain) He who has a 'why' to live, can bear with almost any 'how'.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Guides and Directories Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of
humor is just common sense, dancing.
-- Clive James The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and
science.
-- Albert Einstein All courage is a form of constancy. It is always himself that a coward abandons first. After this all
other betrayals come.
-- Cormac McCarthy Guides and Directories
