There is no realizable power that man cannot, in time, fashion the tools to attain, nor any power
so secure that the naked ape will not abuse it. So it is written in the genetic cards - only physics We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
-- Aristotle Someday is not a day of the week.
-- Anon. Nothing can so alienate a voter from the political system as backing a winning candidate.
-- Mark B. Cohen I'd marry again if I found a man who had 15 million and would sign over half of it to me before the
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-- Bette Davis Travel and Tourism The question is not whether we will die, but how we will live.
-- Joan Borysenko "Death is only a launching into the region of the strange Untried; it is but the first salutation to the possibilities of the immense Remote, the Wild, the Watery, the Unshored..." (Herman Melville, And gain is gain, however small.
-- Robert Browning Travel and Tourism
In medieval times, people thought that evil spirits could enter a person through an open mouth.
These days they more often leave that way.
-- David Deckert Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances
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distance I still live.
-- Daniel Webster, dying words There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as
though everything is a miracle.
-- Albert Einstein "I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter." (Blaise Pascal) Travel and Tourism blah "A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) With this ring I thee wed, with my body I thee worship, and with all my worldly good I thee endow.
-- Wedding Vow, Book of Common Prayer the social sciences were for all those who had not yet decided what to do with their lives, and for
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-- Peter Travel and Tourism
Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think.
-- Niels Bohr "I love Los Angeles. I love Hollywood. They're beautiful. Everybody's plastic, but I love plastic. I want to be plastic." (Andy Warhol, Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up) blah "Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together." (Vincent van Gogh) Some birds aren't meant to be caged, their feathers are just too bright. And when they fly away,
the part of you that knows it was a sin to lock them up, does rejoice. I guess I just miss my friend. "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) Travel and Tourism Of the seven dwarves, only Dopey had a shaven face. This should tell us something about the
custom of shaving.
-- Tom Robbins, Skinny Legs and All "I know we're not saints or virgins or lunatics; we know all the lust and lavatory jokes, and most of the dirty people; we can catch buses and count our change and cross the roads and talk real senten The charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that, from age to age, nothing
changes and yet everything is completely different.
-- Aldous Huxley Travel and Tourism
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
-- Aristotle To look backward for a while is to refresh the eye, to restore it, and to render it more fit for its
prime function of looking forward.
-- Margaret Fairless Barber Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of
the other person.
-- Mark Twain "I'll endorse with my name any of the following; clothing AC-DC, cigarettes, small tapes, sound equipment, ROCK N' ROLL RECORDS, anything, film, and film equipment, Food, Helium, Whips, MONEY!!" (And Grove giveth and Gates taketh away.
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up with software demands Travel and Tourism "There is only one success: to be able to spend your life in your own way, and not to give others absurd maddening claims upon it." (Christopher Darlington Morley) "In times of change learners inherit the earth; while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists." (Eric Hoffer) "Commit yourself to quality from day one ... it's better to do nothing at all than to do something badly." (Mark McCormack) Travel and Tourism
Men marry because they are tired, women because they are curious; both are disappointed.
-- Oscar Wilde The two most common elements in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity. But not in that order.
-- Brian Pickrell If the government wants people to respect the law, it should set a better example.
-- Anon. Often it does seem a pity that Noah and his party did not miss the boat.
-- Mark Twain An act of love that fails is just as much a part of the divine life as an act of love that succeeds, for
love is measured by fullness, not by reception.
-- Harold Loukes Travel and Tourism The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.
-- ee cummings A coward is a hero with a wife, kids, and a mortgage.
-- Marvin Kitman Be willing to make decisions. That's the most important quality in a good leader. Don't fall victim
to what I call the 'ready-aim-aim-aim-aim syndrome.' You must be willing to fire.
-- Gen. George Travel and Tourism
This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold
of a hammer.
-- Will Rogers Marriage certificate is just another word for a work permit. Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.
-- Samuel Butler The nation's honor is dearer than the nation's comfort; yes, than the nation's life itself.
-- Woodrow Wilson Whether you think that you can, or that you can't, you are usually right.
-- Henry Ford Travel and Tourism "I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." (James Madison) Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by heart and his friends can
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-- Virginia Woolf "Careful?! Was my mother careful when she stabbed me in the heart with a coat hanger while I was still in the womb?" (Trey Parker) Travel and Tourism
Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.
-- Dietrich Bonhoeffer "Self confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings." (Samuel Johnson) The Holocaust was an obscene period in our nation's history...this century's history.... We all lived
in this century. I didn't live in this century.
-- Dan Quayle, then Indiana senator and Republic Outside of the killings, Washington has one of the lowest crime rates in the country.
-- Marion Barry, Mayor, Washington, D.C. "Children spell love...T-I-M-E." (Dr. Anthony P. Witham) Travel and Tourism "All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream." (Edger Allen Poe) I envy people who drink -- at least they know what to blame everything on.
-- Oscar Levant Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for him. -- Rich Little Travel and Tourism
"Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains." (Karl Marx) Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country.
-- Typewriting exercise The time is always right to do what is right.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Love thy neighbor, but make sure her husband is away first. Many a man that could rule a hundherd millyon sthrangers with an ir'n hand is careful to take off
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-- Finley Peter Dunne, Mr. Dooley O Travel and Tourism The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may
well be another profound truth.
-- Niels Bohr Egotist: a person more interested in himself than in me.
- Ambrose Bierce blah "Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure." (Thomas Alva Edison) Travel and Tourism
The great end of life is not knowledge, but action. What men need is as much knowledge as they
can organize for action; give them more and it may become injurious. Some men are heavy and
stupid from Reason can answer questions, but imagination has to ask them.
-- Ralph N. Gerard Guide to understanding a net.addict's day:
Slow day: didn't have much to do, so spent three hours on usenet.
Busy day: managed to work in three hours of usenet.
Bad day: barely squeezed in three ho As for courage and will - we cannot measure how much of each lies within us, we can only trust
there will be sufficient to carry through trials which may lie ahead.
-- Andre Norton "Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts." (Henry B. Adams) Travel and Tourism The Republicans have a new healthcare proposal: Just say NO to illness!
-- Mark Russell I'll sleep when I'm dead.
- Warren Zevon History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte Travel and Tourism
A lover tries to stand in well with the pet dog of the house.
-- Moliere "When I was four years old they tried to test my IQ, they showed me this picture of three oranges and a pear. They asked me which one is different and does not belong, they taught me different was wro "True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost." (Charles Caleb Colton) My wife ran off with my best friend last week. I miss him! "I either want less corruption, or more chance to participate in it." (Ashleigh Brilliant) Travel and Tourism In the spider-web of facts, many a truth is strangled.
-- Paul Eldridge One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.
-- Virginia Woolf I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with
typewriters.
- Frank Lloyd Wright Travel and Tourism
If women didn't exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning.
-- Aristotle Onassis If you want anything done well, do it yourself. This is why most people laugh at their own jokes.
-- Bob Edwards I am ready at any time. Do not keep me waiting.
-- John Brown - last words Now is the time for all good men to come to.
-- Walt Kelly The open-minded see the truth in different things: the narrow-minded see only the differences.
-- Author Unknown Travel and Tourism Imagine if birds were tickled by feathers. You'd see a flock of birds come by, laughing hysterically!
-- Steven Wright 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 We had a lot in common. I loved him and he loved him.
-- Shelley Winters Travel and Tourism
