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I haven't committed a crime. What I did was fail to comply with the law.
-- David Dinkins, New York City Mayor, answering accusations that he failed to pay his taxes. Ninety percent of everything is crap.
-- Theodore Sturgeon Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.
-- Albert Einstein "Whether it is a black cat or a white cat, as long as it can catch the rat, it is a good cat." (Deng Xiao Ping) Minds are like parachutes - they only function when open.
-- Thomas Dewar Education I have always dressed according to certain Basic Guy Fashion Rules, including:
* Both of your socks should always be the same color
* Or they should at least both be fairly dark
-- Dave Barry In times of profound change, the learners inherit the earth, while the learned find themselves
beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists.
-- Al Rogers, Global SchoolHouse Netw We all agree that your theory is crazy, but is it crazy enough?
- Niels Bohr Education
Drink to me.
-- Pablo Picasso, dying words The trouble with some women is that they get all excited about nothing -- and then marry him.
-- Cher A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in students.
-- John Ciardi I believe that mink are raised for being turned into fur coats and if we didn't wear fur coats those
little animals would never have been born. So is it better not to have been born or to have lived "Courageous, untroubled, mocking and violent--that is what Wisdom wants us to be. Wisdom is a woman, and loves only a warrior." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Education "Every now and then say, 'What the fu(c)k.' 'What the fu(c)k' gives you freedom. Freedom brings opportunity. Opportunity makes your future." (Curtis Armstrong, Risky Business, 1983) My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed.
-- Christopher Morley He who awaits much can expect little.
-- Gabriel Garcia Marquez Education
They have come up with a perfect understanding. He won't try to run her life, and he won't try to
run his, either.
-- Anonymous The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without
the sympathy of the community.
-- William James Friends need not agree in everything or go always together, or have no comparable other
friendships of the same intimacy. On the contrary, in friendship union is more about ideal things:
and in that Fill what's empty, empty what's full, and scratch where it itches.
- the Duchess of Windsor, when asked what is the secret of a long and happy life "Hold the fort! I am coming!" (General William Tecumseh Sherman) Education My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed.
-- Christopher Morley Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.
-- Samuel Butler "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 Education
The Holocaust was an obscene period in our nation's history...this century's history.... We all lived
in this century. I didn't live in this century.
-- Dan Quayle, then Indiana senator and Republic "No drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ignorance, g "Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains." (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, The Social Contract) The less a man thinks or knows about his virtues, the better we like him.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.
-- Henry Ford Education Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.
-- Albert Einstein There's a saying among prospectors: "Go out looking for one thing, and that's all you'll ever find."
-- Robert Flaherty Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with
the powerful, not to be neutral.
-- Paulo Freire Education
"It is awfully easy to be hard-boiled about everything in the daytime, but at night it is another thing." (Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises) I have a daughter who goes to SMU. She could've gone to UCLA here in California, but it's one
more letter she'd have to remember.
-- Shecky Greene A conference is a gathering of important people who singly can do nothing, but together can
decide that nothing can be done.
-- Fred Allen The male is a domestic animal which, if treated with firmness, can be trained to do most things.
-- Jilly Cooper Wit is educated insolence.
- Aristotle Education Bachelors know more about women than married men; if they didn't, they'd be married too.
-- H. L. Mencken The advantage of a classical education is that it enables you to despise the wealth which it
prevents you from achieving.
-- Russell Green All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it
is accepted as being self-evident.
- Arthur Schopenhauer Education
Thomas Jefferson--still surv...
-- John Adams, dying words "Humans beings can always be relied upon to assert, with vigor, their god-given right to be stupid." (Dean Koontz, Seize the Night) "Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously u "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) They think they can make fuel from horse manure.... Now, I don't know if your car will be able to
get 30 miles to the gallon, but it's sure gonna put a stop to siphoning.
-- Billie Holliday Education Logic is in the eye of the logician.
- Gloria Steinem "To live is to dream and to die is to awaken." (Anonymous) Now comes the mystery.
-- Henry Ward Beecher, dying words, March 8, 1887 Education
Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.
-- Oscar Wilde Coffee is a beverage that puts one to sleep when not drank.
-- Alphonse Allais You can observe a lot by watching.
-- Yogi Berra The multitude is always in the wrong.
-- Wentworth Dillon, Earl of Roscommon, 1684 "One often contradicts an opinion when what is uncongenial is really the tone in which it was conveyed." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Education It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
-- Oscar Wilde When people go to work, they shouldn't have to leave their hearts at home.
-- Betty Bender Remember your dreams.
-- Maryanne Radmacher-Herhey Education
A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.
-- St. Augustine Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteeen.
-- Albert Einstein "Don't let your ego get too close to your position, so that if your position gets shot down, your ego doesn't go with it." (Colin Powell) A person should never be ashamed to own that he is wrong, which is but saying in other words
that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.
-- Alexander Pope 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 Education Organic chemistry is the chemistry of carbon compounds. Biochemistry is the study of carbon
compounds that crawl.
-- Mike Adams There ought to be one day - just one - when there is open season on senators.
-- Will Rogers You have it easily in your power to increase the sum total of this world's happiness now. How? By
giving a few words of sincere appreciation to someone who is lonely or discouraged. Perhaps you
will Education
The great thing in this world is not so much where we stand as in what direction we are going.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes I don't know which is more discouraging, literature or chickens.
-- E. B. White There is a theory which states that if ever anybody discovers exactly what the Universe is for and
why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and
inex They're almost inseparable. Sometimes it takes ten people to separate them.
-- Anonymous "The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet." (Andy Warhol) Education Good hours, excellent pay, fun place to work, paid training, mean boss. Oh well, four out of five
isn't bad.
-- Help Wanted Ad, PA newspaper, 1994 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 To correct a natural indifference I was placed half-way between misery and the sun. Misery kept
me from believing that all was well under the sun, and the sun taught me that history wasn't
everythin Education
Genius is an African who dreams up snow.
-- Vladimir Nabokov Don't marry for money; you can borrow it cheaper. 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 "There are no uninteresting things, only uninteresting people." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) This isn't right, this isn't even wrong.
- Wolfgang Pauli (1900-1958), upon reading a young physicist's paper Education "The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances." (Viktor E. Frankl) Children are a poor man's riches.
-- English proverb "He who speaks of what he knows not only works hard to portray his ignorance." (Joseph Muchemi) Education
Some of us are becoming the men we wanted to marry.
-- Gloria Steinem "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 I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.
- Thomas Jefferson Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.
-- G. K. Chesterton The real questions are the ones that obtrude upon your consciousness whether you like it or not,
the ones that make your mind start vibrating like a jackhammer, the ones that you 'come to terms
with Education "As long as people will accept crap, it will be financially profitable to dispense it." (Dick Cavett) Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering. "The one charm about marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties." (Oscar Wilde) Education
