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Do not assume that she who seeks to comfort you now, lives untroubled among the simple and
quiet words that sometimes do you good. Her life may also have much sadness and difficulty, that
remains fa We trained hard - but it seemed that every time we were beginning to form up into teams we were
reorganized. I was to learn later in life that we tend to meet any new situation by reorganizing,
and "What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country.
-- Typewriting exercise "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) Easkey Courage: doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared.
-- Eddie Rickenbacker "Brevity is the soul of wit." (William Shakespeare) blah "There is a melancholy that stems from greatness." (Sébastien-Roch Nicolas Chamfort, 1740/41-1794) Easkey
"The first question I ask myself when something doesn't seem to be beautiful is why do I think it's not beautiful. And very shortly you discover that there is no reason." (John Cage) "I run to see who has the most guts." (Steve Roland Prefontaine) I was a pilot flying an airplane and it just so happened that where I was flying made what I was
doing spying.
-- Francis Gary Power, U-2 reconnaissance pilot held by the Soviets for spying, in an i A woman's always younger than a man of equal years.
-Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Aurora Leigh I regret that I have but one life to give for my country.
-- Nathan Hale Easkey Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow in Australia.
-- Charles Schultz Marriage is a mutual relationship if both parties know when to be mute. Imagination is the highest kite one can fly.
-- Lauren Bacall Easkey
Look at life through the windshield, not the rear-view mirror.
-- Byrd Baggett My mother-in-law broke up my marriage. My wife came home from work one day and found me in
bed with her.
-- Lenny Bruce Love begins with a smile, grows with a kiss, and ends with a teardrop.
-- Anonymous There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.
-- Benjamin Disraeli "Babies are necessary to grown-ups. A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities. In a world that is cutting down its trees to build highways, losing its eart Easkey I would have made a good Pope.
-- Richard Nixon, U.S. President The higher up you go, the more mistakes you are allowed. Right at the top, if you make enough of
them, it's considered to be your style.
-- Fred Astaire I date this girl for two years--and then the nagging starts: "I wanna know your name."
-- Mike Binder Easkey
He believes that marriage and a career don't mix. So after the wedding he plans to quit his job.
-- Anonymous Ninety percent of the game is half mental.
-- Yogi Berra What sets worlds in motion is the interplay of differences, their attractions and repulsions; life is
plurality, death is uniformity.
-- Octavio Paz A wasted youth is better by far than a wise and productive old age.
-- Meat Loaf, from the song "Wasted Youth" on the album Bat Out of Hell II Have you ever noticed? Anybody going slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than
you is a maniac.
-- George Carlin Easkey Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely
been detected.
-- Oscar Wilde I still live.
-- Daniel Webster, dying words "When I was four years old they tried to test my IQ, they showed me this picture of three oranges and a pear. They asked me which one is different and does not belong, they taught me different was wro Easkey
Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.
-- Samuel Johnson "If I work toward an end, meantime I am confined to a process. The rainbow is more beautiful than the pot at the end of it, because the rainbow is now. And the pot never turns out to be quite what I e blah "Each friend represents a world in us; a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only in meeting them that a new world is born." (Anais Nin) The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this
is true.
-- James Branch Cabell, The Silver Stallion 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 Easkey "Everywhere one seeks to produce meaning, to make the world signify, to render it visible. We are not, however, in danger of lacking meaning; quite the contrary, we are gorged with meaning and it is k Going to church doesn't make you a Christian any more than going to a garage makes you an
automobile.
-- Billy Sunday If addiction is judged by how long a dumb animal will sit pressing a lever to get a 'fix' of
something, to its own detriment, then I would conclude that netnews is far more addictive than
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The reason most people play golf is to wear clothes they would not be caught dead in otherwise.
-- Roger Simon Die? I should say not, dear fellow. No Barrymore would allow such a conventional thing to
happen to him.
-- John Barrymore - last words In the sciences, we are now uniquely privileged to sit side by side with the giants on whose
shoulders we stand.
-- Gerald Holton "If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they don't want to hear." (George Orwell) The limits of my language means the limits of my world.
-- Ludwig Wittgenstein Easkey Even a band of angels can turn ugly and start looting if enough angels are unemployed and
hanging around the Pearly Gates convinced that all the succubi own all the liquor stores in
Heaven.
-- P. J If someone had told me I would be Pope one day, I would have studied harder.
-- Pope John Paul I Researchers have discovered that chocolate produces some of the same reactions in the brain
as marijuana...The researchers also discovered other similarities between the two, but can't
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Logic is in the eye of the logician.
- Gloria Steinem This world is a comedy for those who think and a tragedy for those who feel.
-- Horace Walpole Dogma is the sacrifice of wisdom to consistency.
- Lewis Perelman "Thanks to my solid academic training, today I can write hundreds of words on virtually any topic without possessing a shred of information, which is how I got a good job in journalism." (Dave Barry) "No one wants a good education. Everyone wants a good degree." (Lee Rudolph) Easkey "The biggest argument against democracy is a five minute discussion with the average voter." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) When looking back, usually I'm more sorry for the things I didn't do than for the things I shouldn't
have done.
-- Malcolm Forbes The eyes are not responsible when the mind does the seeing.
-- Publilius Syrus Easkey
"A true friend stabs you in the front." (Oscar Wilde) "There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered." (Nelson Mandela, A Long Walk to Freedom) Love thy neighbor, but make sure her husband is away first. Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot.
-- Anonymous "One of the good things about low self-esteem is never having rain hit you in the face." (John A. Simone Jr.) Easkey Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you.
- Carl Gustav Jung I tried a mail order bride, once, but she was damaged in the mail, and I had to return the unused part for my full refund. I don't know exactly what democracy is. But we need more of it.
-- Anonymous Chinese Student, during protests in Tianamen Square, Beijing, 1989 Easkey
Drink to me.
-- Pablo Picasso, dying words You've no idea of what a poor opinion I have of myself, and how little I deserve it.
-- W.S. Gilbert There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world; and that is an idea whose time has
come.
-- Victor Hugo My darling wife was always glum. I drowned her in a cask of rum, And so made sure that she would stay, In better spirits night and day. Everyone believes very easily whatever they fear or desire.
-- Jean de La Fontaine Easkey "Courage is doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared." (Eddie Rickenbacker) "There cannot be a God because, if there were one, I would not believe that I was not He." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily." (Napoleon Bonaparte) Easkey
When a person can no longer laugh at himself, it is time for others to laugh at him.
-- Thomas Szasz, The Second Sin, 1973 The hard part about being a bartender is figuring out who is drunk and who is just stupid.
-- Richard Braunstein Courage is the price that Love exacts for granting peace.
-- Amelia Earhart "I owe much to my friends; but, all things considered, it strikes me that I owe even more to my enemies. The real person springs life under a sting even better than under a caress." (André Gide) NEIGHBOR, n. One whom we are commanded to love as ourselves, and who does all he knows
how to make us disobedient.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 Easkey 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? Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.
- Napoleon Bonaparte "By seeing the seed of failure in every success, we remain humble. By seeing the seed of success in every failure we remain hopeful." (Mel Ziegler, founder of Banana Republic) Easkey
"Death is always and under all circumstances a tragedy, for if it is not, then it means that life itself has become one." (Theodore Roosevelt) A good marriage is like a casserole, only those responsible for it really know what goes in it.
-- Anonymous If pleasures are greatest in anticipation, just remember that this is also true of trouble.
-- Elbert Hubbard Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which is never advisable. -- Oscar Wilde A man should be taller, older, heavier, uglier, and hoarser than his wife.
-- Edgar Watson Howe Easkey Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive.
-- Anaïs Nin Joint Checking Account: a handly little device which permits my wife to beat me to the draw. Happy are those who dream dreams and are willing to pay the price to make them come true.
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