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The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds the most discoveries, is not
"Eureka!", but "That's funny..."
-- Isaac Asimov Always behave like a duck--keep calm and unruffled on the surface but paddle like the devil
underneath.
-- Jacob Braude Better watch out that you won't become a television set in your next life.
--Loesje Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress.
-- Gandhi No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman.
-- Honore de Balzac News and Media Many a man has finally succeeded only because he has failed after repeated efforts. If he had
never met defeat he would never have known any great victory.
-- Orison Swett Marden "I don't think it's the nature of any man to be monogamous. Men are propelled by genetically ordained impulses over which they have no control to distribute their seed." (Marlon Brando) Paradoxically though it may seem, it is none the less true that life imitates art far more than art
imitates life.
-- Oscar Wilde News and Media
Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere.
-- Chinese Proverb The remarkable thing about television is that it permits several million people to laugh at the same
joke and still feel lonely.
-- T. S. Eliot This delivery driver carries no money. His wife has it all. Luck is the residue of design.
- Branch Rickey - former owner of the Brooklyn Dodger Baseball Team How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg? Four. Calling a tail a leg doesn't make it
a leg.
-- Abraham Lincoln News and Media Life is the flower for which love is the honey.
-- Victor Hugo "Is life not a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Before marraige a man will like awake all night thinking about something you said. After marriage
he will fall asleep before you have finished saying it.
-- Anon. News and Media
The gods too are fond of a joke.
-- Aristotle I don't feel good.
-- Luther Burbank, dying words The Churches must learn humility as well as teach it.
-- George Bernard Shaw, St. Joan "REASONABLE, adj. Accessible to the infection of our own opinions. Hospitable to persuasion, dissuasion and evasion." (Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary) "This is the first age that's paid much attention to the future, which is a little ironic since we may not have one." (Arthur C. Clarke) News and Media Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting.
- Karl Wallenda "Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The greatest homage to truth is to use it.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson News and Media
Reading computer manuals without the hardware is a frustrating as reading sex manuals without
the software.
-- Arthur C. Clarke Opportunities multiply as they are seized.
-- Sun Tzu If you want a place in the sun, you've got to put up with a few blisters.
-- Abigail Van Buren Some birds aren't meant to be caged, their feathers are just too bright. And when they fly away,
the part of you that knows it was a sin to lock them up, does rejoice. I guess I just miss my friend. Love is the same as like except you feel sexier.
-- Judith Viorst News and Media He who has lost honor can lose nothing more.
-- Publilius Syrus The important thing is not to stop questioning.
-- Albert Einstein I'm worried that the universe will soon need replacing. It's not holding a charge.
-- Edward Chilton News and Media
"As a child, I thought I hated everybody, but when I grew up I realized it was just children I didn't like." (Philip Larkin) If we were not all so interested in ourselves, life would be so uninteresting that none of us would
be able to endure it.
-- Schopenhauer I find television very educating. Every time sombody turns on the set, I go into the other room and
read a book.
-- Groucho Marx If I were a girl, I'd despair. The supply of good women far exceeds that of the men who deserve
them.
-- Robert Graves "I don't care to belong to a club that accepts people like me as members." (Groucho Marx) News and Media I still say a church steeple with a lightning rod on top shows a lack of confidence.
-- Doug MacLeod Establishing yourself, furnishing a house, building up a comfortable existence, and having that menace hanging over your head all the time - no, I prefer to live in hotels, cafés, just passing through I think that I shall never see
A billboard lovely as a tree.
Indeed, unless the billboards fall,
I'll never see a tree at all.
-- Ogden Nash, Song of the Open Road, 1945 News and Media
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 We have art to save ourselves from the truth.
- Friedrich Nietzsche To be able to say how much love, is love but little.
-- Petrarch Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
-- Albert Einstein blah "You shall find out how salt is the taste of another man's bread, and how hard is the way up and down another man's stairs." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) News and Media We never live; we are always in the expectation of living.
-- Voltaire I belong to Bridegrooms Anonymous. Whenever I feel like getting married, they send over a lady in a housecoat and hair curlers to burn my toast for me. -- Dick Martin If you can't convince them, confuse them.
-- Harry S. Truman News and Media
The more faithfully you listen to the voices within you, the better you will hear what is sounding
outside.
-- Dag Hammarskjold University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
- Henry Kissinger "Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "That government is best which governs the least, because its people discipline themselves." (Thomas Jefferson) Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
- Gail Godwin News and Media The best theology would need no advocates; it would prove itself.
-- Karl Barth Where there is marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.
-- Benjamin Franklin The question is not whether we will die, but how we will live.
-- Joan Borysenko News and Media
Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.
- Isaac Asimov The mistakes are all waiting to be made.
- chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower (1887-1956) on the game's opening position Sex is the mathematics urge sublimated.
-- M. C. Reed 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
cocaine.
I was going to change my shirt, but I changed my mind instead.
-- Winnie the Pooh News and Media "We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) Silence is argument carried out by other means.
-- Ernesto "Che" Guevara 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 News and Media
Love is the answer, but while you're waiting for the answer, sex raises some pretty good
questions.
-- Woody Allen When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are
legislators.
-- P. J. O'Rourke There's a fine line between fishing and standing on the shore like an idiot.
-- Steven Wright "You exist only in what you do." (Federico Fellini) Men have become the tools of their tools.
- Henry David Thoreau ( News and Media "Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom." (Raymonde Uy) blah blah blah blah blah "This is the way the world ends: not with a bang, but a whimper." (Thomas Stearns Eliot, aka T. S. Eliot) _end]
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"Hello Kitty is an icon that doesn't stand for a "If a man has good corn, or wood, or boards, or pigs to sell, or can make better chairs or knives, crucibles, or church organs, than anybody else, you will find a broad, hard-beaten road to his house, News and Media
Marriage is love. Love is blind. Therefore, marriage is an institution for the blind. Women: If they're not turning down your proposals for marriage, they're accusing you of
suspicious behavior in the women's lingerie changing room.
-- Cliff Clavin, character on "Cheers", U.S. Televi He who laughs last didn't get it.
-- Helen Giangregorio "I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you and education." (Wilson Mizner) It is not good enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.
-- Rene Descartes News and Media "Beauty without expression is boring." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Unfortunately, the media have trouble distinguishing between real science and propaganda
cross-dressed as science.
-- Linda Bowles, political columnist "The most instructive experiences are those of everyday life." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) News and Media
"I don't believe people die. They just go uptown. To Bloomingdales. They just take longer to get back." (Andy Warhol) Do or do not. There is no try.
-- Yoda, character in the movie The Empire Strikes Back My grandfather once told me that there are two kinds of people: those who work and those who
take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was less competition there.
-- INDIRA I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
- e e cummings You cannot think about thinking, without thinking about thinking about something.
-- Seymour Papert News and Media We have drugs to make women speak, but none to keep them silent.
-- Anatole France Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of
the time.
-- E. B. White A person starts to live when he can live outside himself.
-- Albert Einstein News and Media
