"Liberty has never come from the government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of it. The history of liberty is a history of resistance. The history of liberty is a history of limitations of g Saying that Windows95 is equal to Macintosh is like finding a potato that looks like Jesus and
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-- Guy Kawasaki Marriage is like a cage--one sees the birds outside desperate to get in and those inside equally
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-- Di Peatlins If you don't know how to do something, you don't know how to do it with a computer.
-- Anon. The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything. Except what is worth knowing.
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-- Oscar Wilde News and Media The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains.The superior teacher demonstrates. The
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-- William Arthur Ward It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage.
-- Jane Austen I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell this to my children they just about throw up.
-- Barbara Bush, first lady, 1989 News and Media
"What is tolerance? -- it is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error; let us pardon reciprocally each other's folly -- that is the first law of nature." (Francois Marie Ar The second half of a man's life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the
first half.
Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821 - 1881) More than kisses, letters mingle souls.
-- John Donne Musical people always want one to be perfectly dumb at the very moment when one is longing to
be perfectly deaf.
-- Oscar Wilde Let the refining and improving of your own life keep you so busy that you have little time to
criticize others.
-- H. Jackson Brown News and Media What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is
the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset.
-- Crowf Can you imagine what I would do if I could do all I can?
-- The Artist Formerly Known As Prince Music is the art of thinking with sounds.
-- Jules Combarieu News and Media
The nice thing about being a celebrity is that if you bore people they think it's their fault.
- Henry Kissinger You can pay attention to the fact, in which case you'll probably become a mathematician, or you
can ignore it, in which case you'll probably become a physicist.
-- Len Evans, professor, Northwestern "Babies are necessary to grown-ups. A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities. In a world that is cutting down its trees to build highways, losing its eart 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 I never hated a man enough to give him his diamonds back.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor News and Media My wife says if I go fishing one more time she's going to leave me. Gosh, I'm going to miss her. "Ideas are far more powerful than guns. We don't allow our enemies to have guns, why should we allow them to have ideas?" (Josef Stalin) Dear Mrs, Mr, Miss, or Mr and Mrs Daneeka: Words cannot express the deep personal grief I experienced when your husband, son, father or brother was killed, wounded, or reported missing in action. -- C News and Media
"The most instructive experiences are those of everyday life." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) blah "If we did all the things we are capable of, we would literally astound ourselves." (Thomas Alva Edison) To be or not to be isn't the question. The question is how to prolong being.
-- Tom Robbins There is a coherent plan in the universe, though I don't know what it's a plan for.
-- Fred Hoyle "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) News and Media Change is not merely necessary to life, it is life.
-- Alvin Toffler The promises of maniacs, like those of women, are not safely relied upon.
-- Joseph Heller, God Knows "I would rather die standing than live on my knees!" (Emiliano Zapata) News and Media
An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field.
-- Niels Bohr Men have a much better time of it than women; for one thing, they marry later; for another thing, they die earlier. --H.L. Mencken Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the
consequences.
-- Isadora Duncan I am in total control, but don't tell my wife. After finding no qualified candidates for the position of principal, the school board is extremely
pleased to announce the appointment of David Steele to the post.
-- Philip Streifer, Superintendent News and Media Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.
- Bertrand Russell The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
- General George Patton I don't mind if you don't like my manners. I don't like them myself. They're pretty bad. I grieve over
them on long winter evenings.
-- Humphrey Bogart to Lauren Bacall, in "The Big Sleep" News and Media
When I give a lecture, I accept that people look at their watches, but what I do not tolerate is
when they look at it and raise it to their ear to find out if it stopped.
-- Marcel Achard He who knows nothing, knows nothing. But he who knows he knows nothing knows something. And he who knows someone whose friend's wife's brother knows nothing, he knows something. Or something like that 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 That's the way things come clear. All of a sudden. And then you realize how obvious they've been
all along.
-- Madeleine L'Engle I have spread my dreams under your feet;
Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.
-- William Butler Yeats, from "He wishes for the cloths of heaven" News and Media "There cannot be a God because, if there were one, I would not believe that I was not He." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Goodbye, Everybody!
-- Hart Crane, poet, who committed suicide by jumping overboard during a steamship voyage. He who hesitates is a damned fool.
- Mae West News and Media
Usenet is like Tetris for people who still remember how to read.
-- Button from the Computer Museum, Boston, MA Whenever you eliminate the inedible, whatever remains, however unpalatable, must be food.
-- Anonymous All that is gold does not glitter. Not all those who wander are lost;
-- J.R.R. Tolkein >From the Far East I send you one single thought, one sole idea--written in red on every
beachhead form Australia to Tokyo--There is no substitute for victory!
-- General Douglas MacArthur Love is temporary insanity curable by marriage.
-- Ambrose Bierce News and Media Don't be so humble - you are not that great.
- Golda Meir (1898-1978) to a visiting diplomat Don't anthropomorphize computers -- they hate it.
-- Anonymous All marriages are happy--it's the living together afterward that causes all the problems. News and Media
"Crime like death is not confined to the old and withered alone. The youngest and fairest are too often its chosen victims." (Charles Dickens, 1812-70, Oliver Twist) Art and science have their meeting point in method.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton By all means marry. If you get a good wife you will become happy, and if you get a bad one you
will become a philosopher.
-- Socrates Many a man has finally succeeded only because he has failed after repeated efforts. If he had
never met defeat he would never have known any great victory.
-- Orison Swett Marden "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 News and Media Go away...I'm alright.
-- H. G. Wells, dying words blah bl "Less is more." (Robert Browning) "Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free." (Emma Lazarus) News and Media
You can close your eyes to reality, but not to memories.
-- Stanislaw J. Lem Don't let it end like this. Tell them I said something.
-- Pancho Villa, dying words He who has lost honor can lose nothing more.
-- Publilius Syrus "If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way." (Mark Twain) It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely uneducated.
-- Alec Bourne, A Doctor's Creed News and Media If you can't sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there and worrying. It's the worry
that gets you, not the loss of sleep.
-- Dale Carnegie My opinions are my wife's, and she says I'm lucky to have them. More than kisses, letters mingle souls.
-- John Donne News and Media
Change before you have to.
-- Jack Welch Unfortunately, the media have trouble distinguishing between real science and propaganda
cross-dressed as science.
-- Linda Bowles, political columnist Marriage is the process of finding out what kind of man your wife would have preferred. The absolute yearning of one human body for another particular body and its indifference to
substitutes is one of life's major mysteries.
-- Iris Murdoch "The depth and strength of a human character are defined by its moral reserves. People reveal themselves completely only when they are thrown out of the customary conditions of their life, for only th News and Media The first clergyman was the first rascal who met the first fool.
-- Voltaire There is nothing that can be said by mathematical symbols and relations which cannot also be
said by words. The converse, however, is false. Much that can be and is said by words cannot
successfully There are trivial truths, and there are great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false.
The opposite of a great truth is also true.
-- Neils Bohr News and Media
It is always right that a man should be able to render a reason for the faith that is within him.
-- Sydney Smith "Better to be deprived of food for three days than tea for one." (Chinese Proverb) Love is like the measles. The older you get it, the worse the attack.
-- Mary Roberts Rhinehart Trying to determine what is going on in the world by reading newspapers is like trying to tell the
time by watching the second hand of a clock.
-- Ben Hecht "Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) News and Media Well if this is the wrong number, why did you answer it?
-- James Thurber A kitten is chiefly remarkable for rushing about like mad at nothing whatever, and generally
stopping before it gets there.
-- Agnes Repplier It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
- Oscar Wilde News and Media
