Electric Power From Magnetic Tapes - Basil Dimitropoulos, a graduate electrical engineer, is seeking support for the production of a new portable power supply.
Watching the debate this afternoon it was apparent they loved term limits in the House -- as
Brutus loved Caesar.
-- Bill Moyers "Beauty without expression is boring." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Miracles occur naturally as expressions of love. The real miracle is the love that inspires them. In
this sense everything that comes from love is a miracle.
-- Marianne Williamson Infatuation is when you think that he's as sexy as Robert Redford, as smart as Henry Kissinger,
as noble as Ralph Nader, as funny as Woody Allen, and as athletic as Jimmy Conners. Love is
when you r You can only find truth with logic if you have already found truth without it.
- Gilbert Keith Chesterton Engineering Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for
appointment by the corrupt few.
-- George bernard Shaw "One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) A witty saying proves nothing.
- Voltaire Engineering
"I know that God won't give me more trouble than I can handle ... but sometimes I wish he wouldn't trust me so much." (Mother Teresa) "I am convinced that it is not the fear of death, of our lives ending that haunts our sleep so much as the fear ... that as far as the world is concerned, we might as well never have lived." (Rabbi H "No one ever owns his youth or the women he loves." (Pedro Almodóvar, Live Flesh) The best theology would need no advocates; it would prove itself.
-- Karl Barth Go away...I'm alright.
-- H. G. Wells, dying words Engineering What I have to say is far more important than how long my eyelashes are.
-- Alanis Morissette, singer, 1995 Sign in a marriage counselor's window: "Out to lunch - Think it over." Love is temporary insanity curable by marriage.
-- Ambrose Bierce Engineering
In every country and every age, the priest has been hostile to Liberty.
-- Thomas Jefferson In the end, everything is a gag.
- Charlie Chaplin In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that
no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it's the exact opposite.
-- Paul Dirac Women and Cats will do as they please. Men and dogs had better get used to it.
-- Robert Heinlein, Time Enough for Love, Lazarus Long "Wise men learn more from fools, than fools from the wise." (Anonymous) Engineering Live truth instead of professing it.
-- Elbert Hubbard "What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to a human soul." (Joseph Addison) Wise men make proverbs, but fools repeat them.
- Samuel Palmer Engineering
He who laughs last thinks slowest.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Experience is the worst teacher; it gives the test before presenting the lesson.
-- Vernon Law If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.
-- Voltaire "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." (Albert Einstein) It is not necessary that whilst I live I live happily; but it is necessary that so long as I live I should
live honourably.
-- Kant, Immanuel Engineering Saying that Windows95 is equal to Macintosh is like finding a potato that looks like Jesus and
believing you've witnessed the second coming.
-- Guy Kawasaki "... What good are dreams if they come true?" (Frederick Exley, A Fan's Notes) The church must be the critic and guide of the state, and never its tool.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Engineering
One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture and, if
possible, speak a few reasonable words.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Whatever women do they must do it twice as well as men to be thought half as good. Luckily this
is not difficult.
-- Charlotte Whitton Show my head to the people, it is worth seeing.
-- Georges Danton, to his executioner A woman seldom asks advice before she has bought her wedding clothes.
-- Joseph Addison Never go to bed angry. Stay up and fight.
-- Phyllis Diller Engineering "The face is the soul of the body." (Ludwig Wittgenstein) One of the greatest discoveries a man makes, one of his great surprises, is to find he can do
what he was afraid he couldn't do.
-- Henry Ford He who receives an idea from me receives instruction for himself without lessening mine; as he
who lights his taper at mine receives light without darkening me.
-- Thomas Jefferson Engineering
"In married life three is company and two is none." (Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest) 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 The price of freedom is eternal vigilance.
-- Thomas Jefferson There are two major products that come out of Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to
be a coincidence.
-- Jeremy S. Anderson Chase after the truth like all hell and you'll free yourself, even though you never touch its
coattails.
-- Clarence Darrow Engineering "If I were still a critic, I would loathe knowing the person I was writing about. There's enough of an incestuous relationship between subject and writer." (Manny Farber, American film theorist) I feel that if a person has problems communicating the very least he can do is to shut up.
-- Tom Lehrer "One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Engineering
There are not enough Indians in the world to defeat the Seventh Cavalry.
-- George Armstrong Custer They had a dispute about a night out with the boys. But he finally decided to let her go.
-- Anonymous A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.
- John D. Rockefeller To heck with marrying a girl who makes biscuits like her mother--I want to marry one who makes dough like her father. Sleep is an excellent way of listening to an opera.
- James Stephens Engineering "Are you bored with life? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours." (Dale "If you meet a woman that smokes cigars ... marry her." (Arthur Lotti) Marriage is an institution--but who wants to live in an institution? Engineering
Anyone can do any amount of work provided it isn't the work he's supposed to be doing at the
moment.
-- Robert Benchley "Every act of creation is first an act of destruction." (Pablo Picasso) "A thing of beauty is a joy forever." (John Keats) "When even one American--who has done nothing wrong--is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth--then all Americans are in peril." (Harry S. Truman) She felt in italics and thought in capitals.
-- Henry James Engineering "It is neccessary to have wished for death in order to know how good it is to live." (Alexander Dumas) When you gaze long into the abyss, the abyss also gazes into you.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.
-- Roger Babson Engineering
"Children begin by loving their parents. After a time they judge them. Rarely, if ever, do they forgive them." (Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance) I regret that I have but one life to give for my country.
-- Nathan Hale There is no one so bound to his own face that he does not cherish the hope of presenting another
to the world.
-- Antonio Machado Since Eve ate the apple, much depends on dinner.
-- Lord Byron A sweetheart is a bottle of wine, a wife is a wine bottle.
-- Baudelaire Engineering 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 That's the nature of research--you don't know what in hell you're doing.
-- 'Doc' Edgerton When you gaze long into the abyss, the abyss also gazes into you.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Engineering
"The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing." (John Powell) "Have love for your friend up to a limit for it is possible he may turn into your enemy some day; and hate your enemy up to a limit for it is possible he may turn into your friend some day." (Ali bin America's one of the finest countries anyone ever stole.
-- Bobcat Goldthwait I am going to put myself to sleep now for a bit longer than usual. Call the time Eternity." (Jerzy Kosinski, Polish novelist, from his suicide note) When you do the common things in life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of
the world.
- George Washington Carver Engineering May you learn to perform miracles: earn a living and marry off your daughters. The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about.
-- Oscar Wilde "I don't care to belong to a club that accepts people like me as members." (Groucho Marx) Engineering
The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit.
-- W. Somerset Maugham If you want anything done well, do it yourself. This is why most people laugh at their own jokes.
-- Bob Edwards Marriage is a lottery, but you can't tear up your ticket if you lose.
-- F. M. Knowles Before you put on a frown, make absolutely sure there are no smiles available.
-- Jim Beggs "God is a gentleman. He prefers blondes." (Joe Orton, Loot) Engineering "Teacher played hooky. Sent message: 'Receiving instruction. Enjoying myself thoroughly. See you next week.'" (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) And gain is gain, however small.
-- Robert Browning We have children because we want immortality and this is the most reliable way of getting it.
-- Woodrow Wyatt Engineering
