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Marriage is bliss. Ignorance is bliss. Ergo...
-- Anonymous "Life is a great surprise. I don't see why death should not be an even greater one." (Vladimir Nabokov) "Against stupidity the very gods themselves contend in vain." (Johann Christian Friedrich von Schiller, 1759-1805, The Maid of Orleans. Act iii. Sc. 6.) 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 "I'm so insane, I voted for Eisenhower."
"Oh yeah, well I'm so insane, I voted for Eisenhower TWICE!"
-- Ken Kesey from "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" Business and Economy There is only one nature - the division into science and engineering is a human imposition, not a
natural one. Indeed, the division is a human failure; it reflects our limited capacity to comprehend Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end.
-- Semisonic, Closing Time Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.
-- Samuel Butler Business and Economy
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 Anyone can do any amount of work provided it isn't the work he's supposed to be doing at the
moment.
-- Robert Benchley Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting.
- Karl Wallenda Love may be a dream but marriage is a nightmare.
-- Joan Collins My initial response was to sue her for defamation of character, but then I realized that I had no
character.
-- Charles Barkley, on hearing Tonya Harding proclaim herself "the Charles Barkley of fig Business and Economy Marrying a man is like buying something you've been admiring for a long time in a shop window.
You may love it when you get it home, but it doesn't always go with everything in the house.
-- Jean Ke To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest.
-- Ghandi For most of history, Anonymous was a woman.
-- Virginia Woolf Business and Economy
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
is but th I criticize by creation - not by finding fault.
- Cicero If we let people see that kind of thing, there would never again be any war.
-- Pentagon official, on why US military censored graphic footage from the Gulf War It is because modern education is so seldom inspired by a great hope that it so seldom achieves
great results. The wish to preserve the past rather that the hope of creating the future dominates
the Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.
-- Ernest Hemingway Business and Economy "If a million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing." (Anatole France) No other success can compensate for failure in the home.
-- David O. McKay, Encyclopedia of Mormonism, Advice to parents at General Conference of he
LDS Church, April, 1964 Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting.
- Karl Wallenda Business and Economy
"All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream." (Edger Allen Poe) Marriage is like a mousetrap. Those on the outside are trying to get in. Those on the inside are trying to get out. "The rules for parents are but three... Love, Limit, and Let them be." (Elaine M. Ward) When nations grow old, the arts grow cold and commerce settles on every tree.
-- William Blake Does anal retentive have a hyphen?
-- Seen on a t-shirt Business and Economy "Those that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." (Benjamin Franklin) We have to keep trying things we're not sure we can pull off. If we just do the things we know we
can do... you don't grow as much. You gotta take those chances on making those big mistakes.
-- Cybi "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) Business and Economy
It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince "The formula for my happiness: a Yes, a No, a straight line, a goal." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Govern a family as you would cook a small fish - very gently.
-- Chinese Proverb Hell is a half-filled auditorium.
-- Robert Frost She felt in italics and thought in capitals.
-- Henry James Business and Economy "It ends not with a bang, but a whimper." (Thomas Stearns Eliot, aka T. S. Eliot, The Hollow Man) America is the only nation in history which miraculously has gone directly from barbarism to
degeneration without the usual intervention of civilization.
-- George Clemenceau An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field.
-- Niels Bohr Business and Economy
Fanaticism consists of redoubling your efforts when you have forgotten your aim.
-- George Santayana If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolute powerlessness make you pure?
-- Harry Shearer One survey found that ten percent of Americans thought Joan of Arc was Noah's wife....
-- Robert Boynton "If I could drop dead right now, I'd be the happiest man alive." (Samuel Goldwyn) "Friendship is born at the moment when one person says to another, 'What?! You too! Thought I was the only one.'" (Clive Staples Lewis) Business and Economy We need the iron qualities that go with true manhood. We need the positive virtues of resolution,
of courage, of indomitable will, of power to do without shrinking the rough work that must always
be It was the greatest of the imperfect ventriloquist acts: when his lips moved, her body sang.
-- Tom Robbins Cricket is best described as organised loafing.
-- Anonymous British Radio Broadcaster, 1996 Business and Economy
Mathematics transfigures the fortuitous concourse of atoms into the tracery of the finger of God.
-- Herbert Westren Turnbull I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible
by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.
- Umberto Eco The person who is slowest in making a promise is most faithful in its performance.
-- Jean-Jacques Rousseau 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 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 Business and Economy "I put on an act sometimes, and people think I'm insensitive. Really, it's like a kind of armor because I'm too sensitive. If there are two hundred people in a room and one of them doesn't like me, I' What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is
the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset.
-- Crow It is always right that a man should be able to render a reason for the faith that is within him.
-- Sydney Smith Business and Economy
"If man could be crossed with the cat, it would improve man but deteriorate the cat." (Mark Twain) I can write better than anybody who can write faster, and I can write faster than anybody who can
write better.
- A. J. Liebling "As is our confidence, so is our capacity." (William Hazlitt) Wagner's music is better than it sounds.
- Mark Twain "Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Business and Economy With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die.
-- Abraham Lincoln Mistress: Something between a mister and a mattress.
-- Anonymous Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do.
-- Dr. Benjamin Spock, American pediatrician, address to new parents Business and Economy
It was the greatest of the imperfect ventriloquist acts: when his lips moved, her body sang.
-- Tom Robbins "All women love the men they fear. All women kiss the hand that rules them." (Lionel Atwill) "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world, indeed it is the only thing that ever has." (Margaret Mead, 1901-78) 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 Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of
our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.
-- John Adams Business and Economy "What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to a human soul." (Joseph Addison) I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to.
-- Elvis Presley A human being is a part of the whole, called by us Universe, a part limited in time and space. He
experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest--a kind of
optic Business and Economy
"Truth lies not only in a dream, but in many dreams." (Pier Paolo Pasolini, Italian poet, novelist and filmmaker) What is the answer? In that case, what is the question?
-- Gertrude Stein, dying words I am ready to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me
is another matter.
- Sir Winston Churchill The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the
purpose of satisfying it afterwards.
-- Anatole France The scientific theory I like best is that the rings of Saturn are composed entirely of lost airline
luggage.
-- Mark Russell Business and Economy Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.
-- David Starr Jordan The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other
is ready.
-- Henry David Thoreau "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) Business and Economy
It's true that I did get the girl, but then my grandfather always said, "Even a blind chicken finds a
few grains of corn now and then."
-- Lyle Lovett, musician, upon marying actress Julia Roberts, It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get back up.
-- Vince Lombardi A little girl at the wedding afterwards asked her mother why the bride changed her mind. "What
do you mean?" responded her mother. "Well, she went down the aisle with one man, and came
back with ano We trained hard - but it seemed that every time we were beginning to form up into teams we were
reorganized. I was to learn later in life that we tend to meet any new situation by reorganizing,
and In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but how
many can get through to you.
-- Mortimer J. Adler Business and Economy "I've never let my school interfere with my education." (Mark Twain) There is only one nature - the division into science and engineering is a human imposition, not a
natural one. Indeed, the division is a human failure; it reflects our limited capacity to comprehend 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
