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"To educate educators! But the first ones must educate themselves! And for these I write." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "I am interested in anything about revolt, disorder , chaos--especially activity that seems to have no meaning. It seems to me to be the road toward freedom ... Rather than starting inside, I start ou The church is the great lost and found department.
-- Robert Short Asking an incumbent member of Congress to vote for term limits is a bit like asking a chicken to
vote for Colonel Sanders.
-- Bob Inglis, 1995 'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
-- ee cummings Ecology "Well begun is half done." (Aristotle) If we were not all so interested in ourselves, life would be so uninteresting that none of us would
be able to endure it.
-- Schopenhauer Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked
where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.
-- D. H. Lawrence Ecology
"I don't care to belong to a club that accepts people like me as members." (Groucho Marx) What I have to say is far more important than how long my eyelashes are.
-- Alanis Morissette, singer, 1995 If we were not all so interested in ourselves, life would be so uninteresting that none of us would
be able to endure it.
-- Schopenhauer We would often be sorry if our wishes were gratified.
-- Aesop An economic forecaster is like a cross-eyed javelin thrower: they don't win many accuracy
contests, but they keep the crowd's attention.
-- Anonymous Ecology Books had instant replay long before televised sports.
-- Bern Williams My wife has a split personality, and I hate both of them. The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed
desperation.
-- Henry David Thoreau, Walden (1854) Ecology
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 Basically, I no longer work for anything but the sensation I have while working.
- Albert Giacometti (sculptor) When a person can no longer laugh at himself, it is time for others to laugh at him.
-- Thomas Szasz, The Second Sin, 1973 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 If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe.
- Carl Sagan Ecology "... and then the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom." (Anais Nin) My good intentions are completely lethal.
-- Margaret Atwood You can always amend a big plan, but you can never expand a little one. I don't believe in little
plans. I believe in plans big enough to meet a situation which we can't possibly foresee now.
-- Ha Ecology
Hark, the Herald Tribune sings,
Advertising wondrous things!
-- Tom Lehrer "He who cannot give anything away cannot feel anything either." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "How wondrous familiar is a fool!" (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) then the world 's mine oyster
-- William Shakespeare, The Merry Wives of Windsor "It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open one's mouth and remove all doubt." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) Ecology "Great work is done by people who are not afraid to be great." (Fernando Flores) A man has to live with himself, and he should see to it that he always has good company.
-- Charles Evans Hughes A man has to live with himself, and he should see to it that he always has good company.
-- Charles Evans Hughes Ecology
"These are days you'll remember." If you recall nothing else from your graduation ceremony,
remember you heard the New Jersey Governor quote from 10,000 Maniacs.
-- Christine Todd, NJ Governor, Whea "Brevity is the soul of wit." (William Shakespeare) If we do not maintain Justice, Justice will not maintain us.
-- Francis Bacon Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.
-- Oscar Wilde I'll sleep when I'm dead.
- Warren Zevon Ecology "Wise men learn more from fools, than fools from the wise." (Anonymous) Practice random acts of kindness and sensless acts of beauty.
-- Adair Lara Just buy a box of popcorn and a Coca-Cola and sit back and watch.
-- James Carville, Clinton advisor, offering advice for Democrats on the term-limits vote in the
House Ecology
Old soldiers never die, they just fade away.
-- General Douglas MacArthur If you would thoroughly know anything, teach it to others.
-- Tryon Edwards The tragedy of life is not that man loses, but that he almost wins.
-- Heywood Brown I just want what every married woman wants, someone besides her husband to sleep with.
-- Peg Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.
-- James Baldwin Ecology Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.
-- James Baldwin Health food makes me sick.
-- Calvin Trillin "I am a part of all that I have met." (Alfred Lord Tennyson, 1809-1892, English poet) Ecology
Parenthetical remarks (however relevant) are unnecessary.
-- Frank L. Visco, How to Write Good Do not assume that she who seeks to comfort you now, lives untroubled among the simple and
quiet words that sometimes do you good. Her life may also have much sadness and difficulty, that
remains fa "Dream as if you'll live forever; live as if you'll die tomorrow." (James Dean) "I'm so insane, I voted for Eisenhower."
"Oh yeah, well I'm so insane, I voted for Eisenhower TWICE!"
-- Ken Kesey from "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" Give the people not hell, but hope and courage.
-- John Murray Ecology Marriage was all a woman's idea and for man's acceptance of the pretty yoke, it becomes us to
be grateful.
-- Phyllis McGinley If we let people see that kind of thing, there would never again be any war.
-- Pentagon official, on why US military censored graphic footage from the Gulf War He that would have the fruit must climb the tree.
-- Thomas Fuller, M.D. Ecology
Man's mind stretched to a new idea never goes back to its original dimensions.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind
her stands his wife.
-- Groucho Marx Life isn't a matter of milestones, but of moments.
-- Rose Kennedy It is most unwise for people in love to marry.
-- George Bernard Shaw Why is it that our memory is good enough to retain the least triviality that happens to us, and yet
not good enough to recollect how often we have told it to the same person?
-- François de La Rouch Ecology Age does not protect you from love but love to some extent protects you from age.
-- Jeanne Moreau Better to die ten thousand deaths than wound my honor.
-- Joseph Addison I was under medication when I made the decision not to burn the tapes.
-- Richard Nixon, U.S. President Ecology
It's not the men in my life that count, it's the life in my men.
-- Mae West Marrying a man is like buying something you've been admiring for a long time in a shop window.
You may love it when you get it home, but it doesn't always go with everything in the house.
-- Jean Ke Being a woman is of special interest only to aspiring male transsexuals. To actual women it is
merely a good excuse not to play football.
-- Fran Lebowitz We have a habit in writing articles published in scientific journals to make the work as finished as
possible, to cover up all the tracks, to not worry about the blind alleys or describe how you had Having children makes you no more a parent than having a piano makes you a pianist.
-- Michael Levine, Lessons at the Halfway Point Ecology Everything is drive-through. In California, they even have a burial service called Jump-In-The-
Box.
-- Wil Shriner There are only two things a child will share willingly communicable diseases and his mother's
age.
-- Modern Maturity How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create
it herself.
- Anais Nin Ecology
Govern a family as you would cook a small fish - very gently.
-- Chinese Proverb Why did Nature create man? Was it to show that she is big enough to make mistakes, or was it
pure ignorance?
-- Holbrook Jackson Honor's a thing too subtle for wisdom; if honor lie in eating, he's right honorable.
-- Beaumont, Francis It is with true love as it is with ghosts; everyone talks about it, but few have seen it.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld Government is like a baby. An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of
responsibility at the other.
-- Ronald Reagan, Saturday Evening Post, 1965 Ecology The fantasy which serves as a support for the figure of the Stalinist Communist is therefore
exactly the same as the fantasy which is at work in the Tom and Jerry cartoons.
-- Slavoj Zizek Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country.
-- Typewriting exercise The Church is an organism that grows best in an alien society.
-- C. Stacey Woods Ecology
Everyone believes very easily whatever they fear or desire.
-- Jean de La Fontaine "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 It doesn't much signify whom one marries, for one is sure to find out next morning it was
someone else.
-- Rogers The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious.
-- Albert Einstein An undefined problem has an infinite number of solutions.
-- Robert A. Humphrey Ecology 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 A leader in the Democratic Party is a boss, in the Republican Party he is a leader.
Harry S. Truman Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it.
-- George Bernard Shaw Ecology
