Age does not make us childish, as some say; it finds us true children.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Winning is a habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.
-- Vince Lombardi The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain.
-- Lord Byron There are trivial truths, and there are great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false.
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-- Neils Bohr My wife says if I go fishing one more time she's going to leave me. Gosh, I'm going to miss her. Specialized Instruction Wives are people who feel they don't dance enough.
-- Groucho Marx Life is ours to be spent, not to be saved.
-- D.H. Lawrence Silence is as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unhewn marble of a great sculpture.
-- Aldous Huxley Specialized Instruction
Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education
without natural ability.
Cicero (106 BC - 43 BC) Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from
history.
-- George Bernard Shaw Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not
there, I go to work.
- Robert Orben A woman has got to love a bad man once or twice in her life to be thankful for a good one.
-- Mae West Truth must necessarily be stranger than fiction, for fiction is the creation of the human mind and
therefore congenial to it.
-- G. K. Chesterton Specialized Instruction Do you not know, my son, with what little understanding the world is ruled?
-- Pope Julius III "The monster a child knows best and is most concerned with [is] the monster he feels or fears himself to be. " (Bruno Bettelheim, child psychologist) It is not because it is difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that things are
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-- Lucius Anneaus Seneca Specialized Instruction
A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems.
- Paul Erdos "Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains." (Karl Marx) Marriage is like a bank account. You put it in, you take it out, you lose interest.
-- Irwin Corey "That government is best which governs the least, because its people discipline themselves." (Thomas Jefferson) "Ask five economists and you'll get five different answers (six if one went to Harvard)." (Edgar R. Fiedler) Specialized Instruction In olden times, sacrifices were made at the altar, a practice which is still very much practiced.
-- Helen Rowland If I have seen farther than others, it is because I was standing on the shoulders of giants.
-- Isaac Newton No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem.
-- Booker T. Washington Specialized Instruction
Blessed is he who has learned to laugh at himself, for he shall never cease to be entertained.
-- John Powell "Men act and women appear. Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at." (John Berger) Before marriage, a man will lie awake all night thinking about something you said; after marriage,
he'll fall asleep before you finish saying it.
-- Helen Roland "Women might be able to fake orgasms. But men can fake whole relationships." (Sharon Stone) In the early sixties, we were strong, we were virulent...
-- John Connally, Secretary of Treasury under Richard Nixon, in an early 70s speech, as reported
in a contemporary "American Scholar" Specialized Instruction NEIGHBOR, n. One whom we are commanded to love as ourselves, and who does all he knows
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-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 The honest poor can sometimes forget poverty. The honest rich can never forget it.
-- G. K. Chesterton "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) Specialized Instruction
And life is what we make it. Always has been, always will be.
-- Grandma Moses "I was a total loner, not by self-design. I just didn't know what the hell to say to people. I was so shy. I used to stammer and lisp and dribble at the mouth." (Sir Anthony Hopkins, on his youth) All television is children's television.
-- Richard P. Adler blah "There is a melancholy that stems from greatness." (Sébastien-Roch Nicolas Chamfort, 1740/41-1794) "The feminists used to say that chivalry and ladyhood were ways of keeping women down and preventing them from standing toe to toe with the guys. Now you've got a lot of women saying that if a guy is Specialized Instruction I have always dressed according to certain Basic Guy Fashion Rules, including:
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-- Dave Barry You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.
-- Albert Camus There is a coherent plan in the universe, though I don't know what it's a plan for.
-- Fred Hoyle Specialized Instruction
Character is what you are in the dark.
-- Dwight L. Moody The great tragedy of science, the slaying of a beautiful theory by an ugly fact.
-- Thomas Henry Huxley Marriage is very much like a violin; after the sweet music is over, the strings are attached. Ambition is not a vice of little people.
-- Michel de Montaigne If I tell a lie it's only because I think I'm telling the truth.
-- Phil Gaglardi, Minister of Highways, British Columbia, Canada Specialized Instruction Soul meets soul on lovers lips.
-- Percy Bysshe Shelley Never be possessive. If a female friend lets on that she is going out with another man, be kind
and understanding. If she says she would like to go out with the Dallas Cowboys, including the
coachin The unfortunate thing about this world is that the good habits are much easier to give up than the
bad ones.
-- W. Somerset Maugham Specialized Instruction
"Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution yet." (Mae West) "Better to be deprived of food for three days than tea for one." (Chinese Proverb) Wind is to fire like distance is to love; it extinguishes the small and enflames the great.
-- Anonymous Under capitalism man exploits man; under socialism the reverse is true.
-- Polish proverb The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because
generally they are the same people.
-- G. K. Chesterton Specialized Instruction One of the greatest discoveries a man makes, one of his great surprises, is to find he can do
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-- Henry Ford Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.
-- George Orwell Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
- Napoleon Bonaparte Specialized Instruction
"If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way." (Mark Twain) He who laughs, lasts.
-- Mary Pettibone Poole History repeats itself; that's one of the things that's wrong with history.
-- Clarence Darrow It's not as great a day for the bride as she thinks. She's not marrying the best man.
-- Anonymous Don't let it end like this. Tell them I said something.
-- Pancho Villa, dying words Specialized Instruction I love cats because I love my home and after a while they become its visible soul.
-- Jean Cocteau We had a lot in common. I loved him and he loved him.
-- Shelley Winters However, never daunted, I will cope with adversity in my usual manner...sulking and nausea.
-- Tom K. Ryan Specialized Instruction
You have to stay in shape. My grandmother, she started walking five miles a day when she was
60. She's 97 today and we don't know where the hell she is.
-- Ellen DeGeneres Don't marry for money; you can borrow it cheaper. The nation's honor is dearer than the nation's comfort; yes, than the nation's life itself.
-- Woodrow Wilson then the world 's mine oyster
-- William Shakespeare, The Merry Wives of Windsor "Those who feel certainty are stupid and those with any imagination or understanding are filled with doubt and indecision." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Specialized Instruction "The perception of beauty is a moral test." (Henry David Thoreau) The only reward of virtue is virtue.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson There is only one nature - the division into science and engineering is a human imposition, not a
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Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by the traffic from
both sides.
-- Margaret Thatcher Ambition is not a vice of little people.
-- Michel de Montaigne "Friends can help each other. A true friend is someone who lets you have total freedom to be yourself--and especially to feel. Or, not feel. Whatever you happen to be feeling at the moment is fine wit What is the answer? In that case, what is the question?
-- Gertrude Stein, dying words Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.
- Napoleon Bonaparte Specialized Instruction "The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves." (William Hazlitt) Ne'er take a wife till thou hast a house (and a fire) to put her in.
-- Benjamin Franklin Marriage is like a box of chocolates. You have to squeeze a few bottoms to make sure you like
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-- Anonymous Specialized Instruction
Success is peace of mind which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you did your best
to become the best you are capable of becoming.
-- John R. Wooden, Practical Modern Basketball "The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn." (David Russell) Insurance is like marriage. You pay, pay, pay, and you never get anything back.
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show What kills a skunk is the publicity it gives itself.
-- Abraham Lincoln It ain't what we don't know that gives us trouble, it's what we know that ain't so.
-- Will Rogers Specialized Instruction Sleep is an excellent way of listening to an opera.
- James Stephens "Every act of violence increases the recruitment of terrorists. Iraq has been turned into a base of terror." (Noam Chomsky, from The Toronto Star, March 23, 2004) "Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) Specialized Instruction
