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 The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.
-- ee cummings Study men, not historians.
-- Harry Truman In every country and every age, the priest has been hostile to Liberty.
-- Thomas Jefferson blah "If we did all the things we are capable of, we would literally astound ourselves." (Thomas Alva Edison) Computers and Internet It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid.
- George Bernard Shaw Sir, I would rather be right than be President.
-- Henry Clay, Speech, 1850, referring to the Compromise Measure Fighting is essentially a masculine idea; a woman's weapon is her tongue.
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I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell this to my children they just about throw up.
-- Barbara Bush, first lady, 1989 Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche ...the fog is rising.
-- Emily Dickinson, dying words What would you attempt if you knew you could not fail?
-- Robert Schuller "One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Computers and Internet Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than
the wisest man can answer.
-- Charles Caleb Colton The graveyards are full of indispensable men.
- Charles de Gaulle "We have been the cowards lobbing cruise missiles from 2,000 miles away. That's cowardly. Staying in the airplane when it hits the building, say what you want about it, it's not cowardly." (Bill Mahe Computers and Internet
Work is the refuge of people who have nothing better to do.
-- Oscar Wilde A teacher is one who makes himself progressively unnecessary.
-- Thomas Carruthers 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 My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed.
-- Christopher Morley 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 Computers and Internet I never miss a chance to have sex or appear on television.
-- Gore Vidal I was a pilot flying an airplane and it just so happened that where I was flying made what I was
doing spying.
-- Francis Gary Power, U-2 reconnaissance pilot held by the Soviets for spying, in an i "Hold the fort! I am coming!" (General William Tecumseh Sherman) Computers and Internet
"Everything in my life has been determined by mistakes." (Gene Wilder) Blessed are the young for they shall inherit the national debt.
-- Herbert Hoover Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you help them to become what they are
capable of being.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe The better part of valor is discretion.
-- William Shakespeare 1564-1616 from King Henry the Fourth, Part I Having once decided to achieve a certain task, achieve it at all costs of tedium and distaste. The
gain in self-confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labor is immense.
-- Thomas Arnold Bennet Computers and Internet 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 We have a habit in writing articles published in scientific journals to make the work as finished as
possible, to cover up all the tracks, to not worry about the blind alleys or describe how you had A husband is what is left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
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Adolescence is a period of rapid changes. Between the ages of 12 and 17, for example, a parent
ages as much as 20 years.
-- Anonymous Love is the answer, but while you're waiting for the answer, sex raises some pretty good
questions.
-- Woody Allen The highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to make money do more for the
betterment of life.
-- Henry Ford Duct tape is like the Force. It has a light side, a dark side, and it holds the universe together....
-- Carl Zwanzig Every major horror of history was committed in the name of an altruistic motive.
-- Ayn Rand Computers and Internet The difference between a man who faces death for the sake of an idea and an imitator who goes
in search of martyrdom is that the former expresses his idea most fully in death while the latter
really "There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered." (Nelson Mandela, A Long Walk to Freedom) Teach a parrot the terms "supply and demand" and you've got an economist.
-- Thomas Carlyle Computers and Internet
"Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them." (Samuel Butler) There is nothing better for the spirit or the body than a love affair. It elevates the thoughts and
flattens the stomachs.
-- Barbara Howar I was going to change my shirt, but I changed my mind instead.
-- Winnie the Pooh There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as
though everything is a miracle.
-- Albert Einstein The tragedy of life is not that man loses, but that he almost wins.
-- Heywood Brown Computers and Internet I married beneath me. All women do.
-- Lady Nancy Astor, attributed It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
-- Oscar Wilde "I was lousy in school. Real screwed-up. A moron. I was antisocial and didn't bother with the other kids. A really bad student. I didn't have any brains. I didn't know what I was doing there. That's w Computers and Internet
When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life
of another.
-- Helen Keller Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop
questioning.
-- Albert Einstein I believe in getting into hot water; it keeps you clean.
-- G. K. Chesterton A man who marries a woman to educate her falls a victim to the same fallacy as the woman who
marries a man to reform him.
-- Elbert Hubbard I've had a perfectly wonderful evening. But this wasn't it.
-- Groucho Marx Computers and Internet Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.
- Isaac Asimov "I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury." (Groucho Marx) My initial response was to sue her for defamation of character, but then I realized that I had no
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-- Charles Barkley, on hearing Tonya Harding proclaim herself "the Charles Barkley of fig Computers and Internet
A girl must marry for love and keep on marrying until she finds it.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you.
-- John-Paul Sartre "I consider it the highest compliment when my employees go out and start their own companies in competition with me. I always send them a plant to wish them well. Of course, it's a cactus." (Norman B "No one lies so boldly as the man who is indignant." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Death solves all problems--no man, no problem." (Josef Stalin) Computers and Internet "Avoid providing material for the drama that is always stretched tight between parents and children; it uses up much of the children's strength and wastes the love of the elders, which acts and warms There is no more lovely, friendly and charming relationship, communion or company than a good
marriage
-- Martin Luther "Kill a man, and you are a murderer. Kill millions of men, and you are a conquerer. Kill everyone, and you are a god." (Jean Rostand) Computers and Internet
If you would thoroughly know anything, teach it to others.
-- Tryon Edwards Character is what you are in the dark.
-- Dwight L. Moody I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and
intellect has intended us to forgo their use.
- Galileo Galilei When Baby's cries grew hard to bear I popped him in the Frigidaire. I never would have done so if
I'd known that he'd be frozen stiff. My wife said, "George, I'm so unhappy! Our darling's now
comple Life is a succession of lessons enforced by immediate reward, or, oftener, by immediate
chastisement.
-- Ernest Dimnet Computers and Internet "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 "Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom." (Raymonde Uy) When looking back, usually I'm more sorry for the things I didn't do than for the things I shouldn't
have done.
-- Malcolm Forbes Computers and Internet
"I've just had eighteen straight whiskies. I think that's the record." (Dylan Thomas, final words) There is no more lovely, friendly and charming relationship, communion or company than a good
marriage
-- Martin Luther "Over grown military establishments are under any form of government inauspicious to liberty, and are to be regarded as particularly hostile to republican liberty." (George Washington) Watching the debate this afternoon it was apparent they loved term limits in the House -- as
Brutus loved Caesar.
-- Bill Moyers If you never want to see a man again, say, "I love you, I want to marry you, I want to have children..." - they leave skid marks. -- Rita Rudner Computers and Internet The innkeeper loves the drunkard, but not for a son-in-law.
-- Yiddish Proverb "A girl can wait for the right man to come along, but in the meantime that still doesn't mean she can't have a wonderful time with all the wrong ones." (Cher) Of course, it is very important to be sober when you take an exam. Many worthwile careers in the
street-cleansing, fruit-picking and subway-guitar-playing industries have been founded on a lack
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Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of
existence.
-- Sydney Smith He who has lost honor can lose nothing more.
-- Publilius Syrus Our marriage would have worked if we hadn't lived together.
-- Joan Thompson "If you assume that there's no hope, you guarantee that there will be no hope. If you assume that there is an instinct for freedom, there are opportunities to change things, there's a chance for you t It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is
the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be
cr Computers and Internet The best reason I can think of for not running for President of the United States is that you have
to shave twice a day.
-- Adlai Stevenson Not everything that can be counted counts; and not everything that counts can be counted.
-- Albert Einstein "You make 'em, I amuse 'em." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, on children) Computers and Internet
