Education is the state-controlled manufacture of echoes.
-- Norman Douglas Government is like a baby. An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of
responsibility at the other.
-- Ronald Reagan, Saturday Evening Post, 1965 The only thing worse than a man you can't control is a man you can.
-- Margo Kaufman How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it.
-- Alexandre Dumas fils Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.
-- Mother Teresa Travel and Accommodation If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.
-- Voltaire I still believe in liberalism today as much as I ever did, but, oh, there was a happy time when I
believed in liberals...
-- G. K. Chesterton It's true that I did get the girl, but then my grandfather always said, "Even a blind chicken finds a
few grains of corn now and then."
-- Lyle Lovett, musician, upon marying actress Julia Roberts, Travel and Accommodation
The full use of your powers along lines of excellence.
- definition of happiness by John F. Kennedy "The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom." (William Blake) It is because modern education is so seldom inspired by a great hope that it so seldom achieves
great results. The wish to preserve the past rather that the hope of creating the future dominates
the Computers will not be perfected until they can compute how much more than the estimate the job
will cost.
-- Anon "It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) Travel and Accommodation Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. He who knows only his own side of the case, knows little of that.
-- John Stuart Mill Basically, I no longer work for anything but the sensation I have while working.
- Albert Giacometti (sculptor) Travel and Accommodation
Saying that men talk about baseball in order to avoid talking about their feelings is the same as
saying that women talk about their feelings in order to avoid talking about baseball.
-- Deborah Tan 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 Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.
-- Samuel Johnson But at my back I always hear Time's winged chariot hurrying near.
- Andrew Marvell "All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream." (Edger Allen Poe) Travel and Accommodation If one advances confidently in the direction of one's dreams, and endeavours to live the life which
one has imagined, one will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
-- Henry David Thoreau Obedience is the gateway through which knowledge, yes, and love, too, enter the mind of the
child.
-- Anne Sullivan "If I were still a critic, I would loathe knowing the person I was writing about. There's enough of an incestuous relationship between subject and writer." (Manny Farber, American film theorist) Travel and Accommodation
"Children spell love...T-I-M-E." (Dr. Anthony P. Witham) A man can do what he wants, but not want what he wants.
-- Arthur Schoperhauer Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.
-- Roger Babson "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 A leader in the Democratic Party is a boss, in the Republican Party he is a leader.
Harry S. Truman Travel and Accommodation That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the
lessons that history has to teach.
-- Aldous Huxley The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but
newspapers.
-- Thomas Jefferson If I were a girl, I'd despair. The supply of good women far exceeds that of the men who deserve
them.
-- Robert Graves Travel and Accommodation
The planting of trees is the least self-centered of all that we can do. It is a purer act of faith than
the procreation of children.
-- Thornton Wilder "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 They had a dispute about a night out with the boys. But he finally decided to let her go.
-- Anonymous "Now that we have everything we need, we discover that there is almost nothing that we have that we want." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) "Commit yourself to quality from day one ... it's better to do nothing at all than to do something badly." (Mark McCormack) Travel and Accommodation "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 You can't say civilization isn't advancing: in every war they kill you in a new way.
-- Will Rogers The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.
-- George Bernard Shaw Travel and Accommodation
Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before
marriage, which is never advisable.
-- Oscar Wilde I shall return.
-- General Douglas MacArthur "It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend." (William Blake) "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) These people have served a longer sentence than some people who have committed murder.
-- Jeff Greenfield, news analyst, describing the jury in the OJ Simpson murder trial, 1995 Travel and Accommodation The telephone company is urging people to *please* not use the telephone unless it is absolutely
necessary in order to keep the lines open for emergency personnel. We'll be right back after this
bre 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 Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.
-- G. K. Chesterton Travel and Accommodation
"To make the individual uncomfortable, that is my task." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) We live at a time when man believes himself fabulously capable of creation, but he does not
know what to create.
-- Jose Ortega y Gasset All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it
is accepted as being self-evident.
- Arthur Schopenhauer blah "The length of this document defends it well against the risk of its being read." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) "Have love for your friend up to a limit for it is possible he may turn into your enemy some day; and hate your enemy up to a limit for it is possible he may turn into your friend some day." (Ali bin Travel and Accommodation Every calling is great when greatly pursued.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes blah "Ideas are like stars, you will not succeed in touching them with your hands, but like the seafaring man on the desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and, following them, you reach yo All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it
is accepted as being self-evident.
- Arthur Schopenhauer Travel and Accommodation
If you can't convince them, confuse them.
-- Harry S. Truman "The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Where there is marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.
-- Benjamin Franklin Basically, I no longer work for anything but the sensation I have while working.
- Albert Giacometti (sculptor) "I'll tell you something: Luxury disgusts me." (Giorgio Armani) Travel and Accommodation Well if this is the wrong number, why did you answer it?
-- James Thurber I have spread my dreams under your feet;
Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.
-- William Butler Yeats, from "He wishes for the cloths of heaven" "We already have the statistics for the future: the growth percentages of pollution, overpopulation, desertification. The future is already in place." (Günther Grass, Winner of the Nobel Prize for Li Travel and Accommodation
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 Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.
-- Bertrand Russell They couldn't hit an elephant at this dist---
-- John B. Sedgwick, general, dying words, 1864 If I were a girl, I'd despair. The supply of good women far exceeds that of the men who deserve
them.
-- Robert Graves Never look at the trombones. You'll only encourage them.
-- Richard Strauss, on conducting Travel and Accommodation Once a boy becomes a man, he's a man all his life, but a woman is only sexy until she becomes
your wife.
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show The most savage controversies are about those matters as to which there is no good evidence
either way.
-- Bertrand Russell If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt Travel and Accommodation
As always, victory finds a hundred fathers but defeat is an orphan.
-- Count Galeazzo Ciano, The Ciano Diaries I regret that I have but one life to give for my country.
-- Nathan Hale If you can't get rid of the skeleton in your closet, you'd best teach it to dance.
- George Bernard Shaw "Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains." (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, The Social Contract) A kitten is chiefly remarkable for rushing about like mad at nothing whatever, and generally
stopping before it gets there.
-- Agnes Repplier Travel and Accommodation "Those that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." (Benjamin Franklin) "Ideas are far more powerful than guns. We don't allow our enemies to have guns, why should we allow them to have ideas?" (Josef Stalin) "Better is the enemy of good." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) Travel and Accommodation
Hell hath no fury like a bureaucrat scorned.
-- Milton Friedman The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
- General George Patton The average person thinks he isn't.
- Father Larry Lorenzoni The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you an education.
-- Wilson Mizner Travel and Accommodation If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt "Every great institution is the lengthened shadow of a single man. His character determines the character of the organization." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Twenty years fron now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones
you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in
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