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The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when
we created them.
- Albert Einstein "All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) Under capitalism man exploits man; under socialism the reverse is true.
-- Polish proverb "Sometimes I think it's another sign of the sad necessity of our crowded, lonely lives, an urgent hopeless reaching out to touch something real, a deep hunger for something authentic when everything s A clever man commits no minor blunders.
- Goethe Elections I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.
-- Francois-Auguste Rodin, when asked how he managed to make his remarkable statues 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 do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood. If it
does need additional interpretation by someone other than the creator, then I question whether it
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"You know what charm is: a way of getting the answer yes without having asked any clear question." (Albert Camus, The Fall) Whenever a husband and wife begin to discuss their marriage, they are giving evidence at an
inquest.
-- H. L. Mencken Motivation will almost always beat mere talent.
-- Norman R. Augustine When I was a kid my favorite relative was Uncle Caveman. After school we'd all go play in his
cave, and every once in a while he would eat one of us. It wasn't until later that I found out that
Uncl Never eat more than you can lift.
-- Miss Piggy, character on "The Muppet Show," U.S. television show Elections In the end, everything is a gag.
-- Charlie Chaplin He can compress the most words into the smallest idea of any man I know.
- Abraham Lincoln If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get
married.
-- Katharine Hepburn Elections
Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education
without natural ability.
Cicero (106 BC - 43 BC) Chase after the truth like all hell and you'll free yourself, even though you never touch its
coattails.
-- Clarence Darrow If you are afraid of loneliness, don't marry.
-- Chekhov Keep in mind that neither success nor failure is ever final.
-- Roger Babson Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you.
- Carl Gustav Jung Elections Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.
- H. G. Wells If you can't annoy somebody, there's little point in writing.
-- Kingsley Amis If a man does his best, what else is there?
- General George S. Patton Elections
Here's a toast to your new bride who has everything a girl could want in her life, except for good
taste in men!
-- Wedding Toast If ever I get married again it would have to be under an anaesthetic.
-- Marie Tonkin I don't feel good.
-- Luther Burbank, dying words "It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what other men say in whole books--what other men do not say in whole books." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols) If other people are going to talk, conversation becomes impossible.
-- James McNeill Whistler Elections Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands... but English women only
hope to find in their butlers.
-- W. Somerset Maugham A woman's always younger than a man of equal years.
-Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Aurora Leigh "Education is a vacine for violence." (Edward James Olmos) Elections
May the road rise to meet you. May the wind always be at your back. May the sun shine warm
upon your face, the rains fall soft upon your fields and, until we meet again, may God hold you in
the palm "In fact, most deaths are not tragic. Few people die because of a flaw in character, which is the essential element of tragedy. They just die." (John Chancellor, The News Business) The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious.
-- Albert Einstein Each of us has a spark of life inside us, and our highest endeavor ought to be to set off that spark
in one another.
-- Kenny Ausubel I don't know as much as God, but I know more than He did at my age.
-- Henry Kissinger Elections To teach is to learn twice.
-- Joseph Joubert Ah, well, then I suppose I shall have to die beyond my means.
-- Oscar Wilde, dying words "Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance, or a stranger." (Franklin P. Jones) Elections
For best results: wash in cold water separately, hang dry and iron with warm iron. For not so good
results: drag behind car through puddles, blow-dry on roofrack.
-- Laundry instructions on a shirt A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.
-Robert Frost (1874-1963) The concept is interesting and well-formed, but in order to earn better than a 'C', the idea must be
feasible.
- A Yale University management professor in response to student Fred Smith's paper prop "Defeat the fear of death and welcome the death of fear." (G. Gordon Liddy) Why is it that our memory is good enough to retain the least triviality that happens to us, and yet
not good enough to recollect how often we have told it to the same person?
-- François de La Rouch Elections Behind every great fortune there is a crime.
- Honore de Balzac If God wanted women to understand men, football would never have been created.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker I think, therefore I'm single.
-- Female philosopher Elections
"One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) A White House well filled, a little peanut field well tilled, and a wife who will go to the Bronx are
great riches.
-- Poor Jimmy's Almanac There's a fine line between fishing and standing on the shore like an idiot.
-- Steven Wright Anyone who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without
feminine upheaval. Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex,
the ugl I'm not a member of any organized political party, I'm a Democrat!
-- Will Rogers Elections It destroys one's nerves to be amiable everyday to the same human being.
-- Benjamin Disraeli "To be great is to be misunderstood." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Give her two red roses, each with a note. The first note says "For the woman I love" and the
second, "For my best friend."
-- Anonymous Elections
You'd be surprised how much it costs to look this cheap.
-- Dolly Parton When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President; I'm beginning to believe it.
-- Clarence Darrow "I have no special gift; I am only passionately curious." (Albert Einstein) You are educated when you have the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your
temper or self-confidence.
-- Robert Frost Why are women so much more interesting to men than men are to women?
-- Virginia Woolf Elections "For how can one know color in perpetual green, and what good is warmth without cold to give it sweetness?" (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) Everyone is a genius at least once a year; a real genius has his original ideas closer together.
- Georg Lichtenberg If stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out?
- Will Rogers Elections
You can pretend to be serious; you can't pretend to be witty.
- Sacha Guitry If a man is considered guilty for what goes on in his mind, give me the electric chair for all my
future crimes.
-- Prince Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte "Dreams are the touchstones of our personality." (Henry David Thoreau) That's the nature of research--you don't know what in hell you're doing.
-- 'Doc' Edgerton Elections The course of true love never did run smooth.
-- William Shakespeare "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) Love me or hate me, but spare me your indifference.
-- Libbie Fudim Elections
Tauzin backs term limits -- But he thinks it's a bad idea.
-- Headline, story in the New Orleans Times-Picayune, Feb 20, 1995 Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parent, gobble their food, and tyrannize their
teachers.
-- Socrates Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.
-- George Washington We haven't the money, so we've got to think.
-- Lord Rutherford May you be too good for the world and not good enough for your wife. Elections To write a good love letter, you ought to begin without knowing what you mean to say, and to
finish without knowing what you have written.
-- Jean Jacques Rousseau We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart. -- H.L. Mencken "Contrariwise," continued Tweedledee, "if it was so, it might be, and if it were so, it would be; but
as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic!"
-- Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland Elections
Feeding the hungry is a greater work than raising the dead.
-- Saint John Chrysostom Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.
-- Erica Jong "The English have all the material requisites for the revolution. What they lack is the spirit of generalization and revolutionary ardour." (Karl Marx) "There cannot be a God because, if there were one, I would not believe that I was not He." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself, tell yourself that you are not a poet
enough to call forth its riches; for to the creator there is no poverty and no poor indifferent p Elections "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) Tear open packet, unfold and use.
-- Directions on moist towelette package A conclusion is the place where you got tired thinking.
-- Martin H. Fischer Elections
