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There are three kinds of death in this world. There's heart death, there's brain death, and there's
being off the network.
-- Guy Almes We need the iron qualities that go with true manhood. We need the positive virtues of resolution,
of courage, of indomitable will, of power to do without shrinking the rough work that must always
be Do or do not. There is no try.
-- Yoda, character in the movie The Empire Strikes Back 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 I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a
woman.
-- Virginia Woolf Investment Banks The perfect love affair is one which is conducted entirely by post.
-- George Bernard Shaw Even overweight cats instinctively know the cardinal rule: when fat, arrange yourself in slim
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-- John Weitz, American Designer He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.
- Sir Winston Churchill Investment Banks
A life spent in making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent doing
nothing.
-- George Benard Shaw He who laughs last didn't get it.
-- Helen Giangregorio Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.
-- George Washington "Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) A kitten is chiefly remarkable for rushing about like mad at nothing whatever, and generally
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-- Agnes Repplier Investment Banks The course of true love never did run smooth.
-- William Shakespeare I told my wife that a husband is like a fine wine; he gets better with age. The next day, she locked
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-- Anonymous "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." (Albert Einstein) Investment Banks
There is a courtesy of the heart; it is allied to love. From it springs the purest courtesy in the
outward behavior.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "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) 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. No matter who you vote for, the Government always gets in.
-- Anon. "I don't believe people die. They just go uptown. To Bloomingdales. They just take longer to get back." (Andy Warhol) Investment Banks Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
- H. G. Wells The great advantage of being in a rut is that when one is in a rut, one knows exactly where one
is.
-- Arnold Bennett "Great indebtedness does not make men grateful, but vengeful; and if a little charity is not forgotten, it turns into a gnawing worm." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Thus Spake Zarathustra) Investment Banks
"I met someone on the street who said wasn't it great that we're going to have a movie star for president, that it was so Pop, and (laughs) when you think about it like that, it is great, it's so Amer Good hours, excellent pay, fun place to work, paid training, mean boss. Oh well, four out of five
isn't bad.
-- Help Wanted Ad, PA newspaper, 1994 "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, I'm not into working out. My philosophy: No pain, no pain.
-- Carol Leifer One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is
terribly important.
-- Bertrand Russell Investment Banks The majority of husbands remind me of an orangutan trying to play the violin.
-- Honore de Balzac If you want a place in the sun, you've got to put up with a few blisters.
-- Abigail Van Buren Life isn't a matter of milestones, but of moments.
-- Rose Kennedy Investment Banks
Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do.
-- Dr. Benjamin Spock, American pediatrician, address to new parents Never try to teach a pig to sing. It's a waste of your time and annoys the pig.
-- Anon. My mother's menu consisted of two choices: Take it or leave it.
-- Buddy Hackett "Transport of the mails, transport of the human voice, transport of flickering pictures--in this century as in others our highest accomplishments still have the single aim of bringing men together." He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose
-- Jim Elliott Investment Banks Nothing that was worthy in the past departs; no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or
can die.
-- Thomas Carlyle One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is
terribly important.
-- Bertrand Russell There are no days in life so memorable as those which vibrated to some stroke of the
imagination.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Investment Banks
A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.
- John D. Rockefeller Consequences, schmonsequences, as long as I'm rich!
-- Chuck Jones-directed cartoon "I had discovered that a person does not have to be this or be that or be anything, not even oneself. One is free." (Walker Percy, The Moviegoer) then the world 's mine oyster
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first half.
Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821 - 1881) "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 Investment Banks
"Think off-center." (George Carlin) The marriage of Marxism and feminism has been like the marriage of husband and wife depicted
in English common law: Marxism and feminism are one, and that one is Marxism.
-- Heidi Hartmann, The Unha Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through
self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.
-- Helen Keller Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you walk into an open sewer and die.
- Mel Brooks Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world.
-- George Bernard Shaw Investment Banks Study men, not historians.
-- Harry Truman If you are going to sin, sin against God, not the bureaucracy. God will forgive you but the
bureaucracy won't.
-- Hyman Rickover "I've never let my school interfere with my education." (Mark Twain) Investment Banks
"Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Talk to a man about himself and he will listen for hours.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.
-- Francis Bacon The English country gentleman galloping after a fox--the unspeakable in full pursuit of the
uneatable.
-- Oscar Wilde Nothing can so alienate a voter from the political system as backing a winning candidate.
-- Mark B. Cohen Investment Banks The IRS spends God knows how much of your tax money on these toll-free information hot lines
staffed by IRS employees, whose idea of a dynamite tax tip is that you should print neatly. If you
ask th When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President; I'm beginning to believe it.
-- Clarence Darrow The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same
time, and still retain the ability to function.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald Investment Banks
There are some things which cannot be learned quickly, and time, which is all we have, must be
paid heavily for their acquiring. They are the very simplest things and, because it takes a man's
life Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife.
-- P. J. O'Rourke "I don't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones." (John Cage) When one is trying to do something beyond his known powers it is useless to seek the approval
of friends. Friends are at their best in moments of defeat.
-- Henry Miller "Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil) Investment Banks A scar nobly got, or a noble scar, is a good livery of honour; so belike is that.
-- Shakespeare, William I am beginning to suspect all elaborate and special systems of education. They seem to me to be
built upon the supposition that every child is a kind of idiot who must be taught to think.
-- Anne S Why do grandparents and grandchildren get along so well? They have the same enemy-- the
mother.
-- Claudette Colbert Investment Banks
Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow in Australia.
-- Charles Schultz Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though it is hard to
realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and
grie "All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his." (Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest) The last good thing written in C++ was the Pachelbel Canon.
-- Jerry Olson blah "An engaged woman is always more agreeable than a disengaged. She is satisfied with herself. Her cares are over, and she feels that she may exert all her powers of pleasing without suspicion." ( Investment Banks True, we love life, not because we are used to living, but because we are used to loving. There is
always some madness in love, but there is also always some reason in madness.
-- Friedrich Nietzsch Can you imagine what I would do if I could do all I can?
-- The Artist Formerly Known As Prince The advice your son rejected is now being given by him to your grandson. Investment Banks
When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I only think about how to solve the
problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
-- Buckminster 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 Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.
- Albert Einstein Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through
self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.
-- Helen Keller It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
-- Oscar Wilde Investment Banks How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg? Four. Calling a tail a leg doesn't make it
a leg.
-- Abraham Lincoln 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 "How is it that we never have time to do a job right, but we always have time to do it over?" (Anonymous) Investment Banks
