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Dear Mrs, Mr, Miss, or Mr and Mrs Daneeka: Words cannot express the deep personal grief I experienced when your husband, son, father or brother was killed, wounded, or reported missing in action. -- C Per cubic inch, your current TV set is perhaps the dumbest appliance in your home (and I'm not
even talking about the programs).
-- Nicholas Negroponte More than kisses, letters mingle souls.
-- John Donne In the early sixties, we were strong, we were virulent...
-- John Connally, Secretary of Treasury under Richard Nixon, in an early 70s speech, as reported
in a contemporary "American Scholar" Creativity is piercing the mundane to find the marvelous.
-- Bill Moyers Government The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.
- Emile Zola I have noticed that nothing I have never said ever did me any harm.
-- Calvin Coolidge "Use what talents you possess; The woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best." (William Blake) Government
"Conscience and cowardice are really the same things. Conscience is the trade-name of the firm. That is all." (Oscar Wilde) What sets worlds in motion is the interplay of differences, their attractions and repulsions; life is
plurality, death is uniformity.
-- Octavio Paz It is best to learn as we go, not go as we have learned.
-- Leslie Jeanne Sahler May the road rise to meet you. May the wind always be at your back. May the sun shine warm
upon your face, the rains fall soft upon your fields and, until we meet again, may God hold you in
the palm Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
-- Virginia Woolf Government Man's mind stretched to a new idea never goes back to its original dimensions.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes The majority of husbands remind me of an orangutan trying to play the violin.
-- Honore de Balzac It is well, when judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and
superior impartiality.
-- Arnold Bennett Government
Everything has been figured out, except how to live.
- Jean-Paul Sartre I do not see the EEC as a great love affair. It is more like nine desperate middle-ages couples with failing marriages meeting at a Brussels hotel for a group grope. -- Tynan Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the
moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future
generations Who, being loved, is poor?
-- Oscar Wilde I think every woman is entitled to a middle husband she can forget.
-- Adela Rogers St. John Government The streets are safe in Philadelphia. It's only the people who make them unsafe.
-- Frank Rizzo, ex-police chief and mayor of Philadelphia Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else.
-- George Bernard Shaw 2,400,000 Americans play the accordian - hopefully not at the same time.
-- inside of a Pepsi cap Government
The soul is healed by being with children.
-- Fyodor Dostoyevski "To make the individual uncomfortable, that is my task." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn; my God, do you learn!" (Clive Staples Lewis) Basic research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
-- Wernher Von Braun The more faithfully you listen to the voices within you, the better you will hear what is sounding
outside.
-- Dag Hammarskjold Government We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next door neighbour.
-- G. K. Chesterton Democracy is the name we give the people whenever we need them.
-- Marquis de Flers Robert and Arman de Caillavet blah "Some of the worlds greatest feats were accomplished by people not smart enough to know they were impossible. unattributed" (Anonymous) Government
"Deep down, no one really believes they have a right to live. But this death sentence generally stays tucked away, hidden beneath the difficulty of living. If that difficulty is removed from time to t Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous
and dreadful.
-- Samuel Johnson Propel, propel, propel your craft softly down liquid solution. Ecstatically, ecstatically, ecstatically,
ecstatically, Existence is simply illusion.
-- Fred Rogers, parody of "Row, row, row your boa "The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning, but without understanding." (Louis Brandeis) Love cures people, both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.
-- Dr. Karl Menninger Government Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. "The devil's agents may be of flesh and blood, may they not?" (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of the Baskervilles) Since Eve ate the apple, much depends on dinner.
-- Lord Byron Government
The most terrible poverty is loneliness and the feeling of being unloved.
-- Mother Teresa A man's wife has more power over him than the state has.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson The best defense is a good offense.
-- Anonymous Never moon a werewolf.
-- Mike Binder "Freedom of press is limited to those who own one." (Henry Louis Mencken) Government I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to.
-- Elvis Presley "Do not do unto others as you expect they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same." (George Bernard Shaw) blah "To give anything less than your best is to sacrifice the gift." (Steve Roland Prefontaine) Government
Truth is more of a stranger than fiction.
-- Mark Twain A lover tries to stand in well with the pet dog of the house.
-- Moliere If it weren't for electricity we'd all be watching television by candlelight.
-- George Gobel The true spirit of conversation consists in building on another man's observation, not overturning
it.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton Thought is action in rehearsal.
-- Sigmund Freud Government Life isn't a matter of milestones, but of moments.
-- Rose Kennedy I told my wife that a husband is like a fine wine; he gets better with age. The next day, she locked
me in the cellar.
-- Anonymous 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 Government
I am become death, shatterer of worlds.
-- Robert J. Oppenheimer, citing from the Bhagavadgita, after witnessing the world's first nuclear
explosion I am free of all prejudice. I hate everyone equally.
-- W. C. Fields "If I were still a critic, I would loathe knowing the person I was writing about. There's enough of an incestuous relationship between subject and writer." (Manny Farber, American film theorist) "One will rarely err if extreme actions be ascribed to vanity, ordinary actions to habit, and mean actions to fear." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Journalism consists largely in saying "Lord Jones died" to people who never knew Lord Jones
was alive.
-- G. K. Chesterton Government Man and wife make one fool. 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 I have never taken any exercise except sleeping and resting.
-- Mark Twain Government
"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 If a man is considered guilty for what goes on in his mind, give me the electric chair for all my
future crimes.
-- Prince Two souls with but a single thought,
Two hearts that beat as one.
-- Fredrich Halm "The only way to have friends is to be one." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) I love children, especially when they cry, for then someone takes them away.
-- Nancy Mitford Government Never practice two vices at once.
-- Tallulah Bankhead ARDOR, n. The quality that distinguishes love without knowledge.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 At the bottom no one in life can help anyone else in life; this one experiences over and over in
every conflict and every perplexity: that one is alone. That isn't as bad as it may first appear; and Government
The multitude is always in the wrong.
-- Wentworth Dillon, Earl of Roscommon, 1684 True, we love life, not because we are used to living, but because we are used to loving. There is
always some madness in love, but there is also always some reason in madness.
-- Friedrich Nietzsch Love is blind -- marriage is the eye-opener.
-- Pauline Thomason I know nothing about sex, because I was always married.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor "The easiest kind of relationship is with ten thousand people, the hardest is with one." (Joan Baez) Government Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald There are three kinds of death in this world. There's heart death, there's brain death, and there's
being off the network.
-- Guy Almes The story of a love is not important - what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps
the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.
-- Helen Hayes Government
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 "The only way to have friends is to be one." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) 'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
-- ee cummings I do not consider it an insult, but rather a compliment to be called an agnostic. I do not pretend to
know where many ignorant men are sure -- that is all that agnosticism means.
- Clarence Darrow, "If I could drop dead right now, I'd be the happiest man alive." (Samuel Goldwyn) Government "People demand freedom only when they have no power." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I hate women because they always know where things are.
-- James Thurber No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent.
-- Abraham Lincoln Government
