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"The proper office of a friend is to side with you when you are wrong. Nearly anybody will side with you when you are right." (Mark Twain) Love is an emotion that is based on an opinion of women that is impossible for those who have
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-- H. L. Mencken "In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends." (Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.) A girl must marry for love and keep on marrying until she finds it.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor We do not have censorship. What we have is a limitation on what newspapers can report.
-- Louis Nel, Deputy Minister of Information, South Africa Business and Economy History is more or less bunk.
-- Henry Ford And gain is gain, however small.
-- Robert Browning Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow in Australia.
-- Charles Schultz Business and Economy
Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
-- Aldous Huxley No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem.
-- Booker T. Washington Do or do not. There is no try.
-- Yoda, character in the movie The Empire Strikes Back Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer.
-- Mark Twain 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 Business and Economy An understanding heart is everything is a teacher, and cannot be esteemed highly enough. One
looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our
human Happiness, it is said, is seldom found by those who seek it, and never by those who seek it for
themselves.
-- F. Emerson Andrews He who has a 'why' to live, can bear with almost any 'how'.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Business and Economy
I don't want to achieve immortality through my work... I want to achieve it by not dying!
-- Woody Allen The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll We seek the comfort of another. Someone to share and share the life we choose. Someone to
help us through the neverending attempt to understand ourselves. And in the end, someone to
comfort us along When we treat man as he is, we make him worse than he is; when we treat him as if he already
were what he potentially could be, we make him what he should be.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe At every crossroads on the path that leads to the future, tradition has placed 10,000 men to guard
the past.
-- Maurice Maeterlink Business and Economy Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.
-- Francis Bacon If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe.
- Carl Sagan "Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame." (Erica Jong) Business and Economy
"The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore." (Samuel Butler) Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect, and it is shameful to surrender it too soon or to the first
comer: there is nobility in preserving it coolly and proudly through long youth, until at last "The meeting of two personalites is like the contact of two chemical substances. If there is any reaction, both are transformed." (Carl Gustav Jung) "You know that being an American is more than a matter of where your parents came from. It is a belief that all men are created free and equal and that everyone deserves an even break." (Harry S. Tru Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.
-- John Lehman, Secretary of the Navy, 1981-1987 Business and Economy The Middle Eastern states aren't nations; they're quarrels with borders.
-- P. J. O'Rourke "What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage." I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
-- Mark Twain Business and Economy
It is dangerous for a national candidate to say things that people might remember.
-- Eugene McCarthy "There is nothing more fearful than ignorance in action." (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1749-1832, Criticisms, Reflections and Maxims) It is important that students bring a certain ragamuffin, barefoot, irreverence to their studies; they
are not here to worship what is known, but to question it.
-- J. Bronowski, The Ascent of Man In the end, everything is a gag.
- Charlie Chaplin Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for him. -- Rich Little Business and Economy If you are all wrapped up in yourself, you are overdressed
-- Kate Halverson I do not believe in an afterlife, although I am bringing a change of underwear.
-- Woody Allen He who laughs last thinks slowest.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Business and Economy
Each religion, by the help of more or less myth which it takes more or less seriously, proposes
some method of fortifying the human soul and enabline it to make its peace with its destiny.
-- George "People who cease to believe in God or goodness altogether still believe in the devil. I don't know why. No, I do indeed know why. Evil is always possible. And goodness is eternally difficult." (Anne Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche In olden times sacrifices were made at the altar--a practice which is still continued.
-- Helen Rowland First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.
- Mahatma Gandhi Business and Economy "Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect every one who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are ine Why don't you write books people can read?
-- Nora Joyce, to her husband James "I should reproach him for not giving us enough evidence." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970, what he would say to God if they 'met') Business and Economy
Your every voter, as surely as your chief magistrate, exercises a public trust.
-- Grover Cleveland "Crime like death is not confined to the old and withered alone. The youngest and fairest are too often its chosen victims." (Charles Dickens, 1812-70, Oliver Twist) Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
-- Albert Einstein If you can't convince them, confuse them.
-- Harry S. Truman Tauzin backs term limits -- But he thinks it's a bad idea.
-- Headline, story in the New Orleans Times-Picayune, Feb 20, 1995 Business and Economy Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteeen.
-- Albert Einstein The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about.
-- Oscar Wilde "I am a part of all that I have met." (Alfred Lord Tennyson, 1809-1892, English poet) Business and Economy
It was a day like this Marco Polo left for China. What are your plans for today?
--Loesje Being a woman is of special interest only to aspiring male transsexuals. To actual women it is
merely a good excuse not to play football.
-- Fran Lebowitz You will marry into an Indian tribe and become one big Hopi family. 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 Nietzsche Marriage is a lottery in which men stake their liberty and women their happiness.
-- Madame de Rieux Business and Economy A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence
University education.
-- George Bernard Shaw Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.
-- George Orwell "The reason why kids are crazy is because nobody can face the responsibility of bringing them up." (John Lennon) Business and Economy
Why did Nature create man? Was it to show that she is big enough to make mistakes, or was it
pure ignorance?
-- Holbrook Jackson He believes that marriage and a career don't mix. So after the wedding he plans to quit his job.
-- Anonymous Life isn't a matter of milestones, but of moments.
-- Rose Kennedy A good marriage is at least 80 percent good luck in finding the right person at the right time. The
rest is trust.
-- Nanette Newman, British actress Wind is to fire like distance is to love; it extinguishes the small and enflames the great.
-- Anonymous Business and Economy "I never resist temptation, because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me." (George Bernard Shaw) Is it better for a woman to marry a man who loves her than a man she loves.
-- Anonymous All science is concerned with the relationship of cause and effect. Each scientific discovery
increases man's ability to predict the consequences of his actions and thus his ability to control
futur Business and Economy
It was the experience of mystery -- even if mixed with fear -- that engendered religion.
- Albert Einstein The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
-- Winston Churchill The advantage of a classical education is that it enables you to despise the wealth which it
prevents you from achieving.
-- Russell Green If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.
-- Virginia Woolf "Self-confidence is the first requisite for achieving great things." (Samuel Johnson) Business and Economy "The reward of a thing well done is having done it." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) To heck with marrying a girl who makes biscuits like her mother--I want to marry one who makes dough like her father. Some men are born with cold feet; some acquire cold feet; and some have cold feet thrust upon
them.
-- Anonymous Business and Economy
Where there is an unknowable there is a promise.
-- Thornton Wilder You've achieved success in your field when you don't know whether what you're doing is work or
play.
-- WARREN BEATTY "There is nothing more fearful than ignorance in action." (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1749-1832, Criticisms, Reflections and Maxims) The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.
-- Thomas Jefferson "If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way." (Mark Twain) Business and Economy Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it.
-- Baskins "To err is human; to forgive, divine." (Alexander Pope) Imitation is the sincerest form of television.
-- Fred Allen Business and Economy
