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and you may go days getting nothing but exhaustion.
-- Fred Astaire Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
-- George Bernard Shaw The days just before marriage are like a snappy introduction to a tedious book. There's a fine line between fishing and standing on the shore like an idiot.
-- Steven Wright Education There are trivial truths, and there are great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false.
The opposite of a great truth is also true.
-- Neils Bohr If you were plowing a field, which would you rather use? Two strong oxen or 1024 chickens?
- Seymour Cray (1925-1996), father of supercomputing Marriage has many pains, but celibacy has no pleasures.
-- Samuel Johnson Education
"A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "The sickness of our times for me has been just this damn thing that everything has been getting smaller and smaller and less and less important, that the romantic spirit has dried up, that there is n "In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends." (Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.) A real leader faces the music, even when he doesn't like the tune.
-- Anonymous "I either want less corruption, or more chance to participate in it." (Ashleigh Brilliant) Education Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
-- Bob Perelman The great thing in this world is not so much where we stand as in what direction we are going.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes Opera in English is, in the main, about as sensible as baseball in Italian.
-- H. L. Mencken Education
"I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is." (Alan Watts) A White House well filled, a little peanut field well tilled, and a wife who will go to the Bronx are
great riches.
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over my kitchen table.
-- Rodney Dangerfield Education
Why did Nature create man? Was it to show that she is big enough to make mistakes, or was it
pure ignorance?
-- Holbrook Jackson Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get
money from it.
-- Stephen Leacock Why yes -- a bulletproof vest.
-- James Rodges, murderer, on his final request before the firing squad Hell hath no fury like a bureaucrat scorned.
-- Milton Friedman If we let people see that kind of thing, there would never again be any war.
-- Pentagon official, on why US military censored graphic footage from the Gulf War Education "The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves." (William Hazlitt) If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded.
-- Maya Angelou 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 Education
He who kisses the joy is it flies lives in eternity's sunrise
-- William Blake A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.
- Lao-Tzu Look at life through the windshield, not the rear-view mirror.
-- Byrd Baggett Husbands are awkward things to deal with; even keeping them in hot water will not make them
tender.
-- Mary Buckley Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.
-- Albert Einstein Education "Dying is the most embarrassing thing that can ever happen to you, because someone's got to take care of all your details." (Andy Warhol, America, 1985) Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of
genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.
-- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Who the hell wants to hear actors talk?
- H. M. Warner, founder of Warner Brothers, in 1927 Education
Smoking kills. If you're killed, you've lost a very important part of your life.
-- Brooke Shields, during an interview to become spokesperson for a federal anti-smoking
campaign Experience teaches only the teachable.
-- Aldous Huxley "Employees make the best dates. You don't have to pick them up and they're always tax-deductible." (Andy Warhol, Andy Warhol's Exposures, 1980) Love is the delusion that one man or woman differs from another.
-- H. L. Mencken While we are postponing, life speeds by.
- Seneca (3BC - 65AD) Education Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for him. -- Rich Little "In literary criticism the critic has no choice but to make over the victim of his attention into something the size and shape of himself." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) The open-minded see the truth in different things: the narrow-minded see only the differences.
-- Author Unknown Education
"When you resort to attacking the messenger and not the message, you have lost the debate." (Addison Whithecomb) As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.
-- Abraham Lincoln "Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few." (George Bernard Shaw) I'm not indecisive. Am I indecisive?
-- Jim Scheibel, mayor, St. Paul MN "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) Education Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
-- Bob Perelman "The proper office of a friend is to side with you when you are wrong. Nearly anybody will side with you when you are right." (Mark Twain) Some men are born with cold feet; some acquire cold feet; and some have cold feet thrust upon
them.
-- Anonymous Education
"A man is only as faithful as his opportunity." (Chris Rock) Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than
the wisest man can answer.
-- Charles Caleb Colton "To live is to dream and to die is to awaken." (Anonymous) Sleep is that golden chain that ties health and our bodies together.
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guy in the third row exists?
-- Woody Allen Children should be like waffles--you should be able to throw the first one away.
-- Mary Alice Messenger Education
"A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities." (Eda J. Le Shan) 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 True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.
-- Henry David Thoreau Computers will not be perfected until they can compute how much more than the estimate the job
will cost.
-- Anon Every flower must grow through dirt.
-- Anonymous Education "Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously u "He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself." (Thomas Paine) I don't feel good.
-- Luther Burbank, dying words Education
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-- Anonymous Love is what we are born with. Fear is what we learn. The spiritual journey is the unlearning of
fear and prejudices and the acceptance of love back in our hearts. Love is the essential reality
and Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
-- George Bernard Shaw Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after.
-- Anne Morrow Lindbergh Education Good Night, Good night! Parting is such sweet sorrow,
that I shall say good night till it be morrow.
-- Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare. Act II, Scene II, lines 220-221 You have to stay in shape. My grandmother, she started walking five miles a day when she was
60. She's 97 today and we don't know where the hell she is.
-- Ellen DeGeneres Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a losttradition.
-- Jacques Barzun Education
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girdle when your hips stick.
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-- Lord Rutherford Morality consists in suspecting other people of not being legally married.
-- George Bernard Shaw I once asked my history teacher how we were expected to learn anything useful from his subject,
when it seemed to me to be nothing but a monotonous and sordid succession of robber baron
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