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blah bl "The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning, but without understanding." (Louis Brandeis) "Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Nobody minds having what is too good for them." (Jane Austen) A theory is something nobody believes, except the person who made it. An experiment is
something everybody believes, except the person who made it.
-- Albert Einstein, attributed "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 Education No one really listens to anyone else, and if you try it for a while you'll see why.
-- Mignon McLaughlin "The purpose of Compulsory Education is to deprive the common people of their commonsense." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) At every crossroads on the path that leads to the future, tradition has placed 10,000 men to guard
the past.
-- Maurice Maeterlink Education
"I'm the artist formally known as Beck. I have a genius wig. When I put that wig on, then the true genius emerges. I don't have enough hair to be a genius. I think you have to have hair going everywhe The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.
-- Nicholas Murray Butler I know nothing about sex, because I was always married.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a
brand new ending.
-- Anonymous 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 Education "Treat a man as he is, and he will remain as he is. Treat a man as he could be, and he will become what he should be." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) When a person can no longer laugh at himself, it is time for others to laugh at him.
-- Thomas Szasz, The Second Sin, 1973 All virtue is summed up in dealing justly.
-- Aristotle Education
My wife doesn't care what I do away from home, as long as I don't enjoy it. Marriage is like a violin. After the music is over, you still have the strings.
-- Anonymous With the catching end the pleasures of the chase.
-- Abraham Lincoln "Furious activity is no substitute for understanding." (H. H. Williams) If you are going through hell, keep going.
- Sir Winston Churchill Education If a relationship is to evolve, it must go through a series of endings.
-- Lisa Moriyama We have art to save ourselves from the truth.
- Friedrich Nietzsche "The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Education
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 Technology is a way of organizing the universe so that man doesn't have to experience it.
-- Max Frisch "College professors are the people who can't hack it in the real world." (William Thomas) He who has a 'why' to live, can bear with almost any 'how'.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Martyrdom... is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability. George Bernard
Shaw (1856 - 1950), The Devil's Disciple (1901) act 3 Education "Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains." (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, The Social Contract) May you live happily ever after with a poor, ugly, shrewish wife. You cannot think about thinking, without thinking about thinking about something.
-- Seymour Papert Education
"I fear we are not getting rid of God because we still believe in grammar." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The real questions are the ones that obtrude upon your consciousness whether you like it or not,
the ones that make your mind start vibrating like a jackhammer, the ones that you 'come to terms
with Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that he sometimes has to eat them.
-- Adlai Stevenson "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) "I've just had eighteen straight whiskies. I think that's the record." (Dylan Thomas, final words) Education 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 The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
-- Winston Churchill Football incorporates the two worst elements of American society: violence punctuated by
committee meetings.
-- George F. Will, journalist, political commentator, 1994 Education
Thank God - every morning when you get up - that you have something to do which must be
done, whether you like it or not. Being forced to work, and forced to do your best, will breed in you
a hundre While we are postponing, life speeds by.
- Seneca (3BC - 65AD) "Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies." (Gore Vidal) Assassins!
-- Arturo Toscanini, to his orchestra Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
-- Aldous Huxley Education There is more stupidity than hydrogen in the universe, and it has a longer shelf life.
- Frank Zappa I am become death, shatterer of worlds.
-- Robert J. Oppenheimer, citing from the Bhagavadgita, after witnessing the world's first nuclear
explosion I hope you have not been leading a double life, pretending to be wicked and being really good all
the time. That would be hypocrisy.
-- Oscar Wilde Education
Your every voter, as surely as your chief magistrate, exercises a public trust.
-- Grover Cleveland Guys are lucky because they get to grow mustaches. I wish I could. It's like having a little pet for
your face.
-- Anita Wise "Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) The wise see knowledge and action as one; they see truly.
-- Bhagava Gita Mathematics, rightly viewed, posses not only truth, but supreme beauty -- a beauty cold and
austere, like that of sculpture.
-- Bertrand Russell Education I am not young enough to know everything.
-- Oscar Wilde Mistakes are the portals of discovery.
-- James Joyce Repentance is not so much remorse for what we have done as the fear of the consequences.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld, Maxims, 1665 Education
If pleasures are greatest in anticipation, just remember that this is also true of trouble.
-- Elbert Hubbard Its failings notwithstanding, there is much to be said in favor of journalism in that by giving us the
opinion of the uneducated, it keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community.
-- Oscar W Never regard study as a duty, but as the enviable opportunity to learn to know the liberating
influence of beauty in the realm of the spirit for your own personal joy and to the profit of the
commun "A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool." (William Shakespeare) Love begins with a smile, grows with a kiss, and ends with a teardrop.
-- Anonymous Education Elegance of language may not be in the power of all of us; but simplicity and straight forwardness
are. Write much as you would speak; speak as you think. If with your inferior, speak no coarser
tha I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
-- Thomas Edison "The only way to have friends is to be one." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Education
I require three things in a man: He must be handsome, ruthless, and stupid.
-- Dorothy Parker Marriage is a matter of give and take, but so far I haven't been able to find anybody who'll take
what I have to give.
-- Cass Daley Men marry because they are tired, women because they are curious; both are disappointed.
-- Oscar Wilde A coward is a hero with a wife, kids, and a mortgage.
-- Marvin Kitman Computers can figure out all kinds of problems, except the things in the world that just don't add
up.
-- Anon Education "Mistakes are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from
history.
-- George Bernard Shaw Honolulu - it's got everything. Sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother. -- Ken Dodd Education
Victory goes to the player who makes the next-to-last mistake.
- Chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind her stands his wife. -- Groucho Marx Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald "Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Teach a parrot the terms "supply and demand" and you've got an economist.
-- Thomas Carlyle Education This isn't right, this isn't even wrong.
- Wolfgang Pauli (1900-1958), upon reading a young physicist's paper A good time to keep your mouth shut is when you're in deep water.
-- Sidney Goff No wonder nobody comes here--it's too crowded.
-- Yogi Berra Education
There are no days in life so memorable as those which vibrated to some stroke of the
imagination.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Luck is the residue of design.
- Branch Rickey - former owner of the Brooklyn Dodger Baseball Team Basic research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
-- Wernher Von Braun Marriage is not a ritual or an end. It is a long, intricate, intimate dance together and nothing
matters more than your own sense of balance and your choice of partner.
-- Amy Bloom I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and
intellect has intended us to forgo their use.
- Galileo Galilei Education Man's mind stretched to a new idea never goes back to its original dimensions.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes "Commit yourself to quality from day one ... it's better to do nothing at all than to do something badly." (Mark McCormack) I still say a church steeple with a lightning rod on top shows a lack of confidence.
-- Doug MacLeod Education
