The crime bill passed by the Senate would reinstate the Federal death penalty for certain violent
crimes: assassinating the President; hijacking an airliner; and murdering a government poultry
inspe If you want a place in the sun, you've got to put up with a few blisters.
-- Abigail Van Buren "I have learned that to be with those I like is enough." (Walt Whitman) Is fuel efficiency really what we need most desperately? I say what we really need is a car that
can be shot when it breaks down.
-- Russell Baker The important thing is not to stop questioning.
-- Albert Einstein Guides and Directories Nothing has really happened until it has been recorded.
-- Virginia Woolf If we may believe our logicians, man is distinguished from all other creatures by the
faculty of laughter.
-- Joseph Addison What does not kill me makes me stronger.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Guides and Directories
blah "A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) "Murder is the very bed-rock of our social institutions." (Octave Mirbeau, The Torture Garden) Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country.
-- Typewriting exercise "People demand freedom only when they have no power." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims.
- Aristotle Guides and Directories "We always get bored with those whom we bore." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) Is there life before death?
-- Belfast Graffito "If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library." (Frank Zappa) Guides and Directories
"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 right to swing my fist ends where the other man's nose begins.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous; it is nothing if it is not ridiculous.
-- Thornton Wilder "For better or for worse, our company (The News Corporation Ltd.) is a reflection of my thinking, my character, my values." (Keith Rupert Murdoch, media mogul, 1931-) The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.
-- Franklin D. Roosevelt Guides and Directories A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take her off his hands. -- Guitry Of the seven dwarves, only Dopey had a shaven face. This should tell us something about the
custom of shaving.
-- Tom Robbins, Skinny Legs and All "Fear is a darkroom where negatives develop." (Usman Asif) Guides and Directories
"Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom." (Raymonde Uy) Parents are the bones upon which children sharpen their teeth.
-- Peter Ustinov 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 To love another person is to help them love God.
-- Søren Kierkegaard Die? I should say not, dear fellow. No Barrymore would allow such a conventional thing to
happen to him.
-- John Barrymore - last words Guides and Directories Very little is known of the Canadian country since it is rarely visited by anyone but the Queen and
illiterate sport fishermen.
-- P. J. O'Rourke Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after.
-- Anne Morrow Lindbergh A husband is what's left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
-- Helen Rowland Guides and Directories
This book fills a much-needed gap.
- Moses Hadas in a review He who awaits much can expect little.
-- Gabriel Garcia Marquez "I like boring things." (Andy Warhol, Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up) "I know we're not saints or virgins or lunatics; we know all the lust and lavatory jokes, and most of the dirty people; we can catch buses and count our change and cross the roads and talk real senten ARDOR, n. The quality that distinguishes love without knowledge.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 Guides and Directories Argue for your limitations, and sure enough they're yours.
- Richard Bach If you can count your money, you don't have a billion dollars.
- J. Paul Getty Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do.
-- Dr. Benjamin Spock, American pediatrician, address to new parents Guides and Directories
The weirder you're going to behave, the more normal you should look. It works in reverse, too.
When I see a kid with three or four rings in his nose, I know there is absolutely nothing
extraordinary Often it does seem a pity that Noah and his party did not miss the boat.
-- Mark Twain Never practice two vices at once.
-- Tallulah Bankhead If someone had told me I would be Pope one day, I would have studied harder.
-- Pope John Paul I Sex is like bridge: If you don't have a good partner, you better have a good hand.
-- Charles Pierce Guides and Directories "Have you ever fed your pocket and starved your soul?" (Ivana Santilli, Too Deep) There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him asleep.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson "Every act of violence increases the recruitment of terrorists. Iraq has been turned into a base of terror." (Noam Chomsky, from The Toronto Star, March 23, 2004) Guides and Directories
If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe.
- Carl Sagan Marriage is like a bank account. You put it in, you take it out, you lose interest.
-- Irwin Corey Don't be so humble - you are not that great.
- Golda Meir (1898-1978) to a visiting diplomat All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusion is called a philosopher.
- Ambrose Bierce We're our own dragons as well as our own heroes, and we have to rescue ourselves from
ourselves.
-- Tom Robbins Guides and Directories The greatest homage to truth is to use it.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson There are those who look at things the way they are, and ask why... I dream of things that never
were, and ask why not?
-- Robert Francis Kennedy "Try not to have a good time ... This is supposed to be educational." (Charles Schultz) Guides and Directories
Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not
there, I go to work.
- Robert Orben Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it. What is politics, after all, but the compulsion to preside over property and make other peoples'
decisions for them?
-- Tom Robbins, Skinny Legs and All "You are rewarding a teacher poorly if you remain always a pupil." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "In every gathering of thirteen, expect one guest will turn out to be a Judas." (Aleister Crowley) Guides and Directories Wit is educated insolence.
- Aristotle We are not in a position in which we have nothing to work with. We already have capacities,
talents, direction, missions, callings.
-- Abraham Maslow Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.
-- Salvador Dali Guides and Directories
And now, in keeping with Channel 40's policy of always bringing you the latest in blood and guts,
in living color, you're about to see another first -- an attempted suicide.
-- Chris Hubbock, who sh Old soldiers never die, they just fade away.
-- General Douglas MacArthur The absolute yearning of one human body for another particular body and its indifference to
substitutes is one of life's major mysteries.
-- Iris Murdoch The innkeeper loves the drunkard, but not for a son-in-law.
-- Yiddish Proverb There are not enough Indians in the world to defeat the Seventh Cavalry.
-- George Armstrong Custer Guides and Directories In the past decade or so, the women's magazines have taken to running home-handyperson
articles suggesting that women can learn to fix things just as well as men. These articles are
apparently based Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.
-- Oscar Wilde "Gifts must affect the receiver to the point of shock." (Walter Benjamin) Guides and Directories
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 I think one of the reasons I'm popular again is because I'm wearing a tie. You have to be different.
-- Tony Bennett, 1995 Peculiar travel suggestions are dancing lessons from God.
-- Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., Cat's Cradle "Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent." (Napoleon Bonaparte) No matter who you vote for, the Government always gets in.
-- Anon. Guides and Directories "Death solves all problems--no man, no problem." (Josef Stalin) Anyone can do any amount of work provided it isn't the work he's supposed to be doing at the
moment.
-- Robert Benchley The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn.
-- Cicero Guides and Directories
By all means marry. If you get a good wife you will become happy, and if you get a bad one you
will become a philosopher.
-- Socrates Washington is a city of Southern efficiency and Northern charm.
-- John F. Kennedy "People demand freedom only when they have no power." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) When making public policy decisions about new technologies for the Government, I think one
should ask oneself which technologies would best strengthen the hand of a police state. Then, do
not allow Men have become the tools of their tools.
- Henry David Thoreau ( Guides and Directories "I was born lost and take no pleasure in being found..." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) CAPITAL, n. The seat of misgovernment. That which provides the fire, the pot, the dinner, the
table and the knife and fork for the anarchist; the part of the repast that himself supplies is the
disg The closer I'm bound in love to you, the closer I am to free.
-- Indigo Girls, song lyric Guides and Directories
