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To correct a natural indifference I was placed half-way between misery and the sun. Misery kept
me from believing that all was well under the sun, and the sun taught me that history wasn't
everythin "I met someone on the street who said wasn't it great that we're going to have a movie star for president, that it was so Pop, and (laughs) when you think about it like that, it is great, it's so Amer "What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Good hours, excellent pay, fun place to work, paid training, mean boss. Oh well, four out of five
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-- Help Wanted Ad, PA newspaper, 1994 If you can't sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there and worrying. It's the worry
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-- Dale Carnegie Services, Industrial, Professional and Technical Union Truth must necessarily be stranger than fiction, for fiction is the creation of the human mind and
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-- G. K. Chesterton If a politician found he had cannibals among his constituents, he would promise them
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-- H. L. Mencken Sure, it's going to kill a lot of people, but they may be dying of something else anyway.
-- Othal Brand, member of a Texas pesticide review board Services, Industrial, Professional and Technical Union
Books had instant replay long before televised sports.
-- Bern Williams Choose a wife by your ear than your eye.
-- Thomas Fuller, 1732 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 "The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man." (George Bernard Shaw) It's no credit to anyone to work to hard.
-- Ed Howe Services, Industrial, Professional and Technical Union I'm for abolishing and doing away with redundancy.
-- J. Curtis McKay, Wisconsin State Elections Board Immature love says: "I love you because I need you." Mature love says: "I need you because I
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-- Erich Fromm "There is no such thing as a person that nothing has happened to, and each person's story is as different as his fingertips." (Elsa Lanchester) Services, Industrial, Professional and Technical Union
You must first have a lot of patience to learn to have patience.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.
-- Oscar Wilde "Do not do unto others as you expect they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same." (George Bernard Shaw) Being in therapy is great. I spend an hour just talking about myself. It's kinda like being the guy on
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-- Caroline Rhea "We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars." (Oscar Wilde) Services, Industrial, Professional and Technical Union The backbone of surprise is fusing speed with secrecy.
- Von Clausewitz 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 blah bla "I never think of the future. It comes soon enough." (Albert Einstein) Services, Industrial, Professional and Technical Union
We always believe our first love is our last, and our last love our first.
-- Anonymous Computers will not be perfected until they can compute how much more than the estimate the job
will cost.
-- Anon Miracles occur naturally as expressions of love. The real miracle is the love that inspires them. In
this sense everything that comes from love is a miracle.
-- Marianne Williamson This world is a comedy for those who think and a tragedy for those who feel.
-- Horace Walpole There is a courtesy of the heart; it is allied to love. From it springs the purest courtesy in the
outward behavior.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Services, Industrial, Professional and Technical Union Whenever I dwell for any length of time on my own shortcomings, they gradually begin to seem
mild harmless, rather engaging little things, not at all like the staring defects in other people's
chara "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) To keep your marriage brimming
With love in the marriage cup,
Whenever you're wrong, admit it,
Whenever you're right, shut up. -- Nash Services, Industrial, Professional and Technical Union
"One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar." (Helen Keller) Never practice two vices at once.
-- Tallulah Bankhead Women see better than men. Men see lazily, if they do not expect to act. Women see quite
without any wish to act.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson "Truth lies not only in a dream, but in many dreams." (Pier Paolo Pasolini, Italian poet, novelist and filmmaker) Chance is always powerful. - Let your hook be always cast; in the pool where you least expect it,
there will be a fish.
-- Ovid Services, Industrial, Professional and Technical Union The fantasy which serves as a support for the figure of the Stalinist Communist is therefore
exactly the same as the fantasy which is at work in the Tom and Jerry cartoons.
-- Slavoj Zizek A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.
-- Edward Abbey A little girl at the wedding afterwards asked her mother why the bride changed her mind. "What
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Effort is only effort when it begins to hurt.
-- Jose Ortega y Gasset "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) And since the stench of death will always attract flies and vermin, the arrival of Geraldo was
perhaps inevitable.
-- Garry Trudeau He who laughs last thinks slowest.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been
widely regarded as a bad move.
-- Douglas Adams Services, Industrial, Professional and Technical Union The great advantage of being in a rut is that when one is in a rut, one knows exactly where one
is.
-- Arnold Bennett I know a dead parrot when I see one, and I'm looking at one right now.... This is an ex-parrot.
-- John Cleese, Monty Python, British comedy television show "Every Man and every Woman is a Star." (Aleister Crowley) Services, Industrial, Professional and Technical Union
"The purpose of Compulsory Education is to deprive the common people of their commonsense." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) It is much more comfortable to be mad and know it, than to be sane and have one's doubts.
- G. B. Burgin ARDOR, n. The quality that distinguishes love without knowledge.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince What's new? Most of my wife. Services, Industrial, Professional and Technical Union A husband is what's left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
-- Helen Rowland "The overman ... Who has organized the chaos of his passions, given style to his character, and become creative. Aware of life's terrors, he affirms life without resentment." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietz Marital Freedom: The liberty that allows a husband to do exactly that which his wife pleases.
-- Anonymous Services, Industrial, Professional and Technical Union
I base my fashion sense on what doesn't itch.
-- Gilda Radner "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) "The purpose of Compulsory Education is to deprive the common people of their commonsense." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) "There is only one thing more painful than learning from experience and that is not learning from experience." (Archibald McLeish) The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
- Mark Twain Services, Industrial, Professional and Technical Union The male is a domestic animal which, if treated with firmness, can be trained to do most things.
-- Jilly Cooper Love matches are made by people who are content, for a month of honey, to condemn
themselves to a life of vinegar.
-- Countess of Blessington Never tell. Not if you love your wife... In fact, if your old lady walks in on you, deny it. Yeah. Just
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Mathematics transfigures the fortuitous concourse of atoms into the tracery of the finger of God.
-- Herbert Westren Turnbull If a man is considered guilty for what goes on in his mind, give me the electric chair for all my
future crimes.
-- Prince 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
remember what The real questions are the ones that obtrude upon your consciousness whether you like it or not,
the ones that make your mind start vibrating like a jackhammer, the ones that you 'come to terms
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-- Fran Lebowitz Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow.
-- Helen Keller Destiny is but a phrase of the weak human heart - the dark apology for every error. The strong
and virtuous admit no destiny. On earth conscience guides; in heaven God watches. And destiny
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Integrity is what we do, what we say, and what we say we do.
--Don Galer Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork
picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art.
-- Tom Stoppard Infatuation is when you think that he's as sexy as Robert Redford, as smart as Henry Kissinger,
as noble as Ralph Nader, as funny as Woody Allen, and as athletic as Jimmy Conners. Love is
when you r Virtue is like health: the harmony of the whole man.
-- Thomas Carlyle I'm like old wine. They don't bring me out very often, but I'm well preserved.
-- Rose Kennedy, (1890-1995) family matriarch, on her 100th birthday, 1991 Services, Industrial, Professional and Technical Union "The one charm about marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties." (Oscar Wilde) When you have to kill a man, it costs nothing to be polite.
- Sir Winston Churchill Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
-- Soren Kierkegaard Services, Industrial, Professional and Technical Union
You have to walk carefully in the beginning of love; the running across fields into your lover's
arms can only come later when you're sure they won't laugh if you trip.
-- Jonathan Carroll, Outside 'Tis better to have loved and lost
Than never to have loved at all.
-- Alfred, Lord Tennyson, In Memoriam, 1850, line 27, stanza 4 "A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities." (Eda J. Le Shan) "The bite of conscience, like the bite of a dog into a stone, is a stupidity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The story of a love is not important - what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps
the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.
-- Helen Hayes Services, Industrial, Professional and Technical Union Life is like a dogsled team. If you ain't the lead dog, the scenery never changes.
-- Lewis Grizzard As for the virtuous poor, one can pity them, of course, but one cannot possibly admire them.
-- Oscar Wilde "In my opinion, the greatest single failure of American education is that students come away unable to distinguish between a symbol and the thing the symbol stands for." (Paul Lutus) Services, Industrial, Professional and Technical Union
