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Minds are like parachutes - they only function when open.
-- Thomas Dewar In view of all the deadly computer viruses that have been spreading lately, Weekend Update
would like to remind you: when you link up to another computer, you're linking up to every
computer that th It is never too late to be what you might have been.
-- George Eliot The possibility that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause
we believe to be just.
-- Abraham Lincoln Live out of your imagination, not your history.
-- Stephen Covey Akranes I don't know why we are here, but I'm pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves.
- Ludwig Wittgenstein "The intellect is always fooled by the heart." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go.
- Oscar Wilde Akranes
Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them
down people's throats.
-- Howard Aiken May you grow so rich your widow's second husband never has to worry about a living, God forbid. The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious.
-- Albert Einstein "I do not suppose I shall be remembered for anything. But I don't think about my work in those terms. It is just as vulgar to work for the sake of posterity as to work for the sake of money." (George Is it better for a woman to marry a man who loves her than a man she loves.
-- Anonymous Akranes Hell is other people.
- Jean-Paul Sartre "A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward." (Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1882 - 1945, 32nd U.S. President) "The happy people are failures because they are on such good terms with themselves they don't give a damn." (Agatha Christie) Akranes
...the fog is rising.
-- Emily Dickinson, dying words Never go to bed angry. Stay up and fight.
-- Phyllis Diller I read the book of Job last night - I don't think God comes out well in it.
-- Virginia Woolf Multimedia? As far as I'm concerned, it's reading with the radio on!
-- Rory Bremner Cute little babies that fall out of swings - These are a few of my favourite things.
-- Oscar Hammerstein, working lyric for a piece from "The Sound of Music" Akranes Value your words. Each one may be the last.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains or slavery? Forbid it,
Almighty God! I know not what course others may take but as for me; give me liberty or give me
de I am ready at any time. Do not keep me waiting.
-- John Brown - last words Akranes
All television is children's television.
-- Richard P. Adler "You can get help from teachers, but you are going to have to learn a lot by yourself, sitting alone in a room." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, On becoming a writer, NY Times 21 "A girl can wait for the right man to come along, but in the meantime that still doesn't mean she can't have a wonderful time with all the wrong ones." (Cher) "The devil's agents may be of flesh and blood, may they not?" (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of the Baskervilles) A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.
-Robert Frost (1874-1963) Akranes Your every voter, as surely as your chief magistrate, exercises a public trust.
-- Grover Cleveland "We have to be able to criticise what we love, to say what we have to say 'cause if your not trying to make something better, than as far as I can tell, you are just in the way." (Ani Difranco) I don't know exactly what democracy is. But we need more of it.
-- Anonymous Chinese Student, during protests in Tianamen Square, Beijing, 1989 Akranes
"In order to keep anything cultural, logical, or ideological, you have to reinvent the reality of it." (Ani Difranco) He would make a lovely corpse.
- Charles Dickens Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for
him.
-- Rich Little Books, like friends, should be few and well chosen.
-- Samuel Paterson 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 Akranes If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe.
- Carl Sagan "A critic is a man who knows the way but can't drive the car." (Kenneth Tynan) "Self-confidence is the first requisite for achieving great things." (Samuel Johnson) Akranes
It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
-- Mark Twain The artist alone sees spirits. But after he has told of their appearing to him, everybody sees them.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Work expands to fill the time available.
-- PARKINSON'S LAW "A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities." (Eda J. Le Shan) "Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing." (Oscar Wilde) Akranes "As is our confidence, so is our capacity." (William Hazlitt) Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get
money from it.
-- Stephen Leacock An economist is a man who states the obvious in terms of the incomprehensible.
-- Alfred A. Knopf Akranes
"People have to talk about something just to keep their voice boxes in working order so they'll have good voice boxes in case there's ever anything really meaningful to say." (Kurt Vonnegut) "Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future." (Paul Boese) Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.
-- James Matthew Barrie Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.
-- G. K. Chesterton "A conservative is a man who sits and thinks, mostly sits." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) Akranes In the halls of justice, the only justice is in the halls.
-- Lenny Bruce "Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parents, gobble their food, and tyrannize their teachers." (Socrates) Great innovations should not be forced on slender majorities.
-- Thomas Jefferson Akranes
Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.
-- John Lehman, Secretary of the Navy, 1981-1987 When he first ran for office, he appealed to the voters: "I never stole anything in my life. All I ask
is a chance."
-- Anon. blah "Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the government of himself. Can he, then be trusted with the government of others? Or have we found angels in the form of kings to govern him? And I shall love thee still my dear, Until my wife is wise. Life isn't a matter of milestones, but of moments.
-- Rose Kennedy Akranes Character is what you are in the dark.
-- Dwight L. Moody He who limps is still walking.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec A husband is what's left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
-- Helen Rowland Akranes
I love deadlines. I especially like the whooshing sound they make as they go flying by.
-- Douglas Adams I used to be Snow White, but I drifted.
-- Mae West In times of profound change, the learners inherit the earth, while the learned find themselves
beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists.
-- Al Rogers, Global SchoolHouse Netw While we are postponing, life speeds by.
- Seneca (3BC - 65AD) Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by heart and his friends can
only read the title.
-- Virginia Woolf Akranes All virtue is summed up in dealing justly.
-- Aristotle "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 A man sits with a pretty girl for an hour, it seems like a minute. He sits on a hot stove for a
minute, it's longer than any hour. That is relativity.
-- Albert Einstein Akranes
Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country.
-- Typewriting exercise Drink to me.
-- Pablo Picasso, dying words "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 "In large states public education will always be mediocre, for the same reason that in large kitchens the cooking is usually bad." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) 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 Akranes "I don't think it's the nature of any man to be monogamous. Men are propelled by genetically ordained impulses over which they have no control to distribute their seed." (Marlon Brando) Trouble is a part of your life, and if you don't share it, you don't give the person that loves you
enough chance to love you enough.
-- Dinah Shore Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it.
-- Baskins Akranes
"I consider it the highest compliment when my employees go out and start their own companies in competition with me. I always send them a plant to wish them well. Of course, it's a cactus." (Norman B Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteeen.
-- Albert Einstein It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.
-- Albert Einstein Reading computer manuals without the hardware is a frustrating as reading sex manuals without
the software.
-- Arthur C. Clarke Most turkeys taste better the day after; my mother's tasted better the day before.
-- Rita Rudner Akranes Early to rise and early to bed.
Makes a male healthy, wealthy and dead.
-- James Thurber Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labour in
freedom.
-- Albert Einstein History repeats itself; that's one of the things that's wrong with history.
-- Clarence Darrow Akranes
