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"How wondrous familiar is a fool!" (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) blah "To give anything less than your best is to sacrifice the gift." (Steve Roland Prefontaine) Smoking kills. If you're killed, you've lost a very important part of your life.
-- Brooke Shields, during an interview to become spokesperson for a federal anti-smoking
campaign We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we
respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart.
-- H. L. Mencken Now join your hands, and with your hands your hearts.
-- William Shakespeare, King Henry the Sixth Society and Culture Multimedia? As far as I'm concerned, it's reading with the radio on!
-- Rory Bremner The man who complains about the way the ball bounces is likely the one who dropped it.
-- Lou Holtz They're almost inseparable. Sometimes it takes ten people to separate them.
-- Anonymous Society and Culture
Each of us has a spark of life inside us, and our highest endeavor ought to be to set off that spark
in one another.
-- Kenny Ausubel "For others do I wait ... for higher ones, stronger ones, more triumphant ones, merrier ones, for such as are built squarely in body and soul: laughing lions must come." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
-- B. F. Skinner The great advantage of being in a rut is that when one is in a rut, one knows exactly where one
is.
-- Arnold Bennett "A man who tells lies, like me, merely hides the truth. But a man who tells half-lies has forgotten where he put it." (Claude Rains, as Mr. Dryden, Lawrence of Arabia, 1962) Society and Culture The optimist sees opportunity in every danger; the pessimist sees danger in every opportunity.
-- Winston Churchill I want to die in my sleep like my friend.... Not screaming and yelling like the passengers in his
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-- Seen on a bumper sticker If you want a place in the sun, you've got to put up with a few blisters.
-- Abigail Van Buren Society and Culture
I still believe in liberalism today as much as I ever did, but, oh, there was a happy time when I
believed in liberals...
-- G. K. Chesterton "Some look at things that are, and ask why. I dream of things that never were and ask why not?" (George Bernard Shaw) "Pleasant words are a honeycomb, Sweet to the soul and healing to the bones." (Bible, Proverbs 16:24) To be able to say how much love, is love but little.
-- Petrarch Health food makes me sick.
-- Calvin Trillin Society and Culture Goodbye, Everybody!
-- Hart Crane, poet, who committed suicide by jumping overboard during a steamship voyage. Mary had a little lamb and the doctor fainted.
-- Anonymous In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.
-- Albert Einstein Society and Culture
"In large states public education will always be mediocre, for the same reason that in large kitchens the cooking is usually bad." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Marriage is not just a having a wife, but also worries inherited forever. We have art to save ourselves from the truth.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Marriage is like a violin. After the music is over, you still have the strings.
-- Anonymous "Conform and be dull." (J. Frank Doble) Society and Culture "The meeting of two personalites is like the contact of two chemical substances. If there is any reaction, both are transformed." (Carl Gustav Jung) The only way to entertain some folks is to listen to them.
-- Kin Hubbard In marriage, the bridge gets a shower. But for the groom, it's curtains! Society and Culture
Have you ever noticed? Anybody going slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than
you is a maniac.
-- George Carlin Marriage resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated; often moving in
opposite directions, yet always punishing any one who comes between them.
-- Sydney Smith Anyone can be passionate, but it takes real lovers to be silly.
-- Rose Franken Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
-- H. L. Mencken You are educated when you have the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your
temper or self-confidence.
-- Robert Frost Society and Culture For I am a bear of very little brain and long words bother me.
-- Winnie the Pooh, character from author A. A. Milne The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about.
-- Oscar Wilde "Gifts must affect the receiver to the point of shock." (Walter Benjamin) Society and Culture
"Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Walk beside me and just be my friend." (Albert Camus) "Like as the waves make towards the pebbl'd shore, so do our minutes, hasten to their end." (William Shakespeare) Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the
unpalatable.
-- John Kenneth Galbraith Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when
people laugh.
-- George Bernard Shaw History is more or less bunk.
-- Henry Ford Society and Culture God help the man who won't marry until he finds a perfect woman, and God help him still more if
he finds her.
-- Benjamin Tillett "Not by wrath does one kill, but by laughter." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) If a man is considered guilty for what goes on in his mind, give me the electric chair for all my
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-- Prince Society and Culture
A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.
-- St. Augustine 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 the social sciences were for all those who had not yet decided what to do with their lives, and for
all those whose premature frustrations led them into the sterile alleys of confrontation.
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-- The Knights who so recently said "Nee!", Monty Python, British comedy television show More than kisses, letters mingle souls.
-- John Donne Society and Culture It's important to be open-minded, but not SO open-minded that your brains fall out.
-- Rick Radebaugh The two most common elements in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity. But not in that order.
-- Brian Pickrell I do not believe in an afterlife, although I am bringing a change of underwear.
-- Woody Allen Society and Culture
Paradoxically though it may seem, it is none the less true that life imitates art far more than art
imitates life.
-- Oscar Wilde Considering the flames and intolerance, shouldn't USENET be spelled ABUSENET?
-- Michael Meissner Marriage is more than four bare legs in a bed.
-- Hoshang N. Akhtar "What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Once all struggle is grasped, miracles are possible.
-- Mao Tse-tung Society and Culture The less a man thinks or knows about his virtues, the better we like him.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Imitation is the sincerest form of television.
-- Fred Allen I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
-- Thomas Edison Society and Culture
It is much more comfortable to be mad and know it, than to be sane and have one's doubts.
- G. B. Burgin The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense.
-- Tom Clancy In the halls of justice, the only justice is in the halls.
-- Lenny Bruce Whatever you are, be a good one.
-- Abraham Lincoln Where there is love there is life.
-- Gandhi Society and Culture In view of all the deadly computer viruses that have been spreading lately, Weekend Update
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-- Thomas Jefferson Society and Culture
It is because modern education is so seldom inspired by a great hope that it so seldom achieves
great results. The wish to preserve the past rather that the hope of creating the future dominates
the "I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough." (M. C. Escher) A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents.
-- H. L. Mencken A man can do what he wants, but not want what he wants.
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-- Scott Adams Society and Culture
Have you ever noticed? Anybody going slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than
you is a maniac.
-- George Carlin This isn't right, this isn't even wrong.
- Wolfgang Pauli (1900-1958), upon reading a young physicist's paper The honest poor can sometimes forget poverty. The honest rich can never forget it.
-- G. K. Chesterton You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.
-- Henry Ford Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end.
-- Semisonic, Closing Time Society and Culture The difference between a man who faces death for the sake of an idea and an imitator who goes
in search of martyrdom is that the former expresses his idea most fully in death while the latter
really blah "There is a melancholy that stems from greatness." (Sébastien-Roch Nicolas Chamfort, 1740/41-1794) "Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh." (George Bernard Shaw) Society and Culture
