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"See - one side of my face is gentle and kind, incapable of anything but love of my fellow man. The other side, the other profile, is cruel and predatory and evil, incapable of anything but lusts and Motivation will almost always beat mere talent.
-- Norman R. Augustine Property may be destroyed and money may lose its purchasing power; but, character, health,
knowledge and good judgement will always be in demand under all conditions.
-- Roger Babson There's nothing wrong with having nothing to say -- unless you insist on saying it.
-- Anonymous It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.
-- Albert Einstein Glengarriff "The one charm about marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties." (Oscar Wilde) There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld There are three types of people in this world: Those who can count, and those who can't.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Glengarriff
"Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night." (Edger Allen Poe) The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
-- B. F. Skinner "I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it." (Thomas Jefferson, to Archibald Stuart, 1791) In a novel, the hero can lay ten girls and marry a virgin for the finish. In a movie, that is not
allowed. The villain can lay anybody he wants, have as much fun and as he wants cheating,
stealing, The graveyards are full of indispensable men.
- Charles de Gaulle Glengarriff "A man is only as faithful as his opportunity." (Chris Rock) Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely
been detected.
-- Oscar Wilde My mother's menu consisted of two choices: Take it or leave it.
-- Buddy Hackett Glengarriff
"Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it." (John Quincy Adams) "I'm basically an optimist in life but this doesn't prevent me from deducing as a scientist that we are probably doomed." (Vladimir Chaloupka, physicist, University of Washington, regarding mankind's "It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open one's mouth and remove all doubt." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) Most people think life sucks, and then you die. Not me. I beg to differ. I think life sucks, then you
get cancer, then your dog dies, your wife leaves you, the cancer goes into remission, you get a
Assassins!
-- Arturo Toscanini, to his orchestra Glengarriff The philosophy exam was a piece of cake -- which was a bit of a surprise, actually, because I
was expecting some questions on a sheet of paper.
-- Smith & Jones Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it
- Henry David Thoreau Research is the act of going up alleys to see if they are blind.
-- Plutarch Glengarriff
Every St. Patrick's Day every Irishman goes out to find another Irishman to make a speech to.
-- Shane Leslie Destiny is not a matter of chance; but a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, It is a
thing to be acheived.
-- William Jennings Bryant "The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances." (Viktor E. Frankl) Education ... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth
reading.
-- G. M. Trevelyan Courage: doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared.
-- Eddie Rickenbacker Glengarriff blah "There is a melancholy that stems from greatness." (Sébastien-Roch Nicolas Chamfort, 1740/41-1794) 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 We need a president who's fluent in at least one language.
-- Buck Henry Glengarriff
A successful man is one who makes more money than his wife can spend. A successful woman
is one who can find such a man.
-- Lana Turner "Goodwill is the only asset that competition cannot undersell or destroy." (Mrshall Field, businessman and philanthropist) I hate work. That's why I got married.
-- Peg Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Fill the unforgiving minute with sixty seconds worth of distance run.
- Rudyard Kipling "Today was good. / Today was fun. / Tomorrow is another one." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) Glengarriff The sun never sets on the British empire because Britain is in the east and the sun sets in the
west.
-- Unknown history student In any organization there will always be one person who knows what is going on. This person
must be fired.
-- Conway's Law "That's the true sign. If the lover has not yet achieved his prize, his eyes will follow the woman, while she appears indifferent. But once he's gained his goal, it's the woman's eyes that follow him, Glengarriff
Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.
-- George Washington "The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do." (Anonymous) An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field.
-- Niels Bohr A poem is never finished, only abandoned.
-- Paul Valery Organic chemistry is the chemistry of carbon compounds. Biochemistry is the study of carbon
compounds that crawl.
-- Mike Adams Glengarriff 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 "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) Sleep is an excellent way of listening to an opera.
- James Stephens Glengarriff
The Churches must learn humility as well as teach it.
-- George Bernard Shaw, St. Joan Imagine if birds were tickled by feathers. You'd see a flock of birds come by, laughing hysterically!
-- Steven Wright All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others.
-- Chad A. Gamble, Escape, short story It is not necessary to understand things in order to argue about them.
-- Pierre Augustin de Beaumarchais Love is much nicer to be in than an automobile accident, a tight girdle, a higher tax bracket, or a
holding pattern over Philadelphia.
-- Judith Viorst Glengarriff However, never daunted, I will cope with adversity in my usual manner...sulking and nausea.
-- Tom K. Ryan The best reason I can think of for not running for President of the United States is that you have
to shave twice a day.
-- Adlai Stevenson The second half of a man's life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the
first half.
Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821 - 1881) Glengarriff
"The want of logic annoys. Too much logic bores. Life eludes logic, and everything that logic alone constructs remains artificial and forced." (André Gide) To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.
-- Karen Sunde "The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet." (Andy Warhol) "Failure is not an option!" (Ed Harris, as Gene Kranz, Apollo 13) The worth of the state, in the long run, is the worth of the individuals composing it.
-- John Stuart Mill Glengarriff The difference between marriage and death? Dead people are free. It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is
the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be
cr Basically, I no longer work for anything but the sensation I have while working.
- Albert Giacometti (sculptor) Glengarriff
"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) "Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom." (Raymonde Uy) 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 Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing.
-- Oscar Wilde The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.
-- Albert Einstein Glengarriff There is nothing that can be said by mathematical symbols and relations which cannot also be
said by words. The converse, however, is false. Much that can be and is said by words cannot
successfully "Great work is done by people who are not afraid to be great." (Fernando Flores) When you have to kill a man, it costs nothing to be polite.
- Sir Winston Churchill Glengarriff
"Anyone who thinks they're important is usually just a pompous moron who can't deal with his or her own pathetic insignificance and the fact that what they do is meaningless and inconsequential..." ( If ever two were one, then surely we.
If ever man were loved by wife, then thee.
-- Anne Bradstreet Always go to the bathroom when you have a chance.
-- King George V Every major horror of history was committed in the name of an altruistic motive.
-- Ayn Rand "People drag their progeny around with them like a ball and chain, like some terrible deadweight that hinders their every move - and that, as often as not, effectively winds up killing them." (Michel Glengarriff In endowing us with memory, nature has revealed to us a truth utterly unimaginable to the
unreflective creation, the truth of immortality....The most ideal human passion is love, which is
also the m The voice of the intellect is a soft one, but it does not rest till it has gained a hearing.
-- Sigmund Freud Obedience is the gateway through which knowledge, yes, and love, too, enter the mind of the
child.
-- Anne Sullivan Glengarriff
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Oregon Democratic Senate candidate Tom Bruggere, in describing his support for
comprehensive health care during a candidates' forum, said he supported "erection-to-
resurrection" coverage. He later a There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house
as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends.
-- Homer, Odyssey, ninth century Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.
-- T. S. Eliot There are many things worth living for, there are a few things worth dying for, but there is nothing
worth killing for.
-- Tom Robbins Glengarriff It is the final proof of God's omnipotence that he need not exist in order to save us.
-- Peter De Vries blah blah blah blah blah "This is the way the world ends: not with a bang, but a whimper." (Thomas Stearns Eliot, aka T. S. Eliot) _end]
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"Hello Kitty is an icon that doesn't stand for a The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech.
-- George Bernard Shaw Glengarriff
