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If everything seems under control, you're just not going fast enough.
- Mario Andretti "If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, sir, should keep his friendship in a constant repair." (Samuel Johnson) Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.
-- G. K. Chesterton Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.
-- Oscar Wilde A man's reach should exeed his grasp, or else what's a heaven for?
-- Robert Browning Guides and Directories Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
-- T.S. Eliot Church is only society on earth that exists for the benefit of non-members.
-- William Temple Laugh and the world laughs with you. Snore and you sleep alone.
-- Anthony Burgess Guides and Directories
Minds are like parachutes - they only function when open.
-- Thomas Dewar I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.
- Thomas Watson, Chairman of IBM, 1943 All that is gold does not glitter. Not all those who wander are lost;
-- J.R.R. Tolkein "Gifts must affect the receiver to the point of shock." (Walter Benjamin) Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.
-- Oscar Wilde Guides and Directories "One of the things about acting is it allows you to live other people's lives without having to pay the price. I've never been one of those actors who has touted myself as a fascinating human being. I In a novel, the hero can lay ten girls and marry a virgin for the finish. In a movie, that is not
allowed. The villain can lay anybody he wants, have as much fun and as he wants cheating,
stealing, It's impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune.
-- Woody Allen Guides and Directories
"College: two hundred people reading same book. An obvious mistake. Two hundred people can read two hundred books." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) Behind every great fortune there is a crime.
- Honore de Balzac A witty saying proves nothing.
- Voltaire Sign in a marriage counselor's window: "Out to lunch - Think it over." Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried.
-- G. K. Chesterton Guides and Directories Usenet is like a herd of performing elephants with diarrhea -- massive, difficult to redirect, awe-
inspiring, entertaining, and a source of mind-boggling amounts of excrement when you least
expect i Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
-- Oscar Wilde We must become the change we want to see.
-- Gandhi Guides and Directories
To correct a natural indifference I was placed half-way between misery and the sun. Misery kept
me from believing that all was well under the sun, and the sun taught me that history wasn't
everythin "Who is more foolish? The fool or the fool that follows it?" (Alec Guinness) Wedding is destiny, and hanging likewise.
-- John Heywood Now, now my good man, this is no time for making enemies.
- Voltaire (1694-1778) on his deathbed in response to a priest asking that he renounce Satan. "May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house." (George Carlin) Guides and Directories Those parts of the system that you can hit with a hammer (not advised) are called hardware;
those program instructions that you can only curse at are called software.
-- Unknown author, Levitating T Per cubic inch, your current TV set is perhaps the dumbest appliance in your home (and I'm not
even talking about the programs).
-- Nicholas Negroponte "There is no such thing as a person that nothing has happened to, and each person's story is as different as his fingertips." (Elsa Lanchester) Guides and Directories
That government is best which governs least.
-- Henry David Thoreau, Civil Disobedience, 1849 Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.
-- Albert Einstein Repentance is not so much remorse for what we have done as the fear of the consequences.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld, Maxims, 1665 Wise men make proverbs, but fools repeat them.
- Samuel Palmer I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers.
-- Gandhi Guides and Directories blah "This is the hardest of all: to close the open hand out of love, and keep modest as a giver." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) In a novel, the hero can lay ten girls and marry a virgin for the finish. In a movie, that is not
allowed. The villain can lay anybody he wants, have as much fun and as he wants cheating,
stealing, blah "A subject for a great poet would be God's boredom after the seventh day of creation." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Guides and Directories
You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.
-- Henry Ford The coziness between church and state is good for the state and bad for the church.
-- G. K. Chesterton A kitten is chiefly remarkable for rushing about like mad at nothing whatever, and generally
stopping before it gets there.
-- Agnes Repplier Sometimes you get shown the light in the strangest of places if you look at it right.
-- Jerry Garcia Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by
definition, is unassailable.
-- James Baldwin, Nobody Knows My Name, 1961 Guides and Directories "Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parents, gobble their food, and tyrannize their teachers." (Socrates) Love is an ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.
-- Lord Dewar Reality is nothing but a collective hunch.
-- Lily Tomlin Guides and Directories
Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by heart and his friends can
only read the title.
-- Virginia Woolf "Dream as if you'll live forever; live as if you'll die tomorrow." (James Dean) Assassins!
-- Arturo Toscanini, to his orchestra I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
-- Thomas Edison "When thou art at Rome, do as they do at Rome." (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1547-1616) Guides and Directories If we don't change the direction we are going,
We are likely to end up where we are heading.
-- Chinese saying The lover knows much more about absolute good and universal beauty than any logician or
theologian, unless the latter, too, be lovers in disguise.
-- George Santayana The mathematician lives long and lives young; the wings of his soul do not early drop off, nor do
its pores become clogged with the earthy particles blown from the dusty highways of vulgar life.
-- Guides and Directories
... it is certain that the real function of art is to increase our self-consciousness; to make us more
aware of what we are, and therefore of what the universe in which we live really is. And since
"Fake is as old as the Eden tree." (George Orson Welles) Humanity has advanced, when it has advanced, not because it has been sober, responsible, and
cautious, but because it has been playful, rebellious, and immature.
-- Tom Robbins You can't buy love, but you can pay heavily for it.
-- Henny Youngman I don't want everyone to like me; I should think less of myself if some people did.
-- Henry James Guides and Directories Marriage: the only sport in which the trapped animal has to buy the license. I am become death, shatterer of worlds.
-- Robert J. Oppenheimer, citing from the Bhagavadgita, after witnessing the world's first nuclear
explosion Don't be afraid your life will end; be afraid that it will never begin.
-- Grace Hansen Guides and Directories
He who laughs last didn't get it.
-- Helen Giangregorio "The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning, but without understanding." (Louis Brandeis) I hate it in friends when they come too late to help.
-- Euripides The paradox is really the pathos of intellectual life and just as only great souls are exposed to
passions it is only the great thinker who is exposed to what I call paradoxes, which are . . .
grand Opportunities multiply as they are seized.
-- Sun Tzu Guides and Directories "We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars." (Oscar Wilde) "No man is clever enough to know all the evil he does." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Guides and Directories
If you don't double-click me, I can't do anything.
-- John Aniston, on how computers have taken over his life Once all struggle is grasped, miracles are possible.
-- Mao Tse-tung "He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself." (Thomas Paine) Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.
-- William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Act i. Sc. 1. A dollar saved is a quarter earned.
-- John Ciardi Guides and Directories Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.
-- B.F. Skinner Wagner's music is better than it sounds.
- Mark Twain "If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they don't want to hear." (George Orwell) Guides and Directories
Chase after the truth like all hell and you'll free yourself, even though you never touch its
coattails.
-- Clarence Darrow Friends need not agree in everything or go always together, or have no comparable other
friendships of the same intimacy. On the contrary, in friendship union is more about ideal things:
and in that The great advantage of being in a rut is that when one is in a rut, one knows exactly where one
is.
-- Arnold Bennett "Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The real questions are the ones that obtrude upon your consciousness whether you like it or not,
the ones that make your mind start vibrating like a jackhammer, the ones that you 'come to terms
with Guides and Directories The crime bill passed by the Senate would reinstate the Federal death penalty for certain violent
crimes: assassinating the President; hijacking an airliner; and murdering a government poultry
inspe You have to walk carefully in the beginning of love; the running across fields into your lover's
arms can only come later when you're sure they won't laugh if you trip.
-- Jonathan Carroll, Outside When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President; I'm beginning to believe it.
-- Clarence Darrow Guides and Directories
