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There are two major products that come out of Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to
be a coincidence.
-- Jeremy S. Anderson "I love to doubt as well as know." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) "Great indebtedness does not make men grateful, but vengeful; and if a little charity is not forgotten, it turns into a gnawing worm." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Thus Spake Zarathustra) Most people are more comfortable with old problems than with new solutions.
-- Anonymous Question: If you could live forever, would you and why? Answer: I would not live forever, because
we should not live forever, because if we were supposed to live forever, then we would live
forever, Calabria A man's feet should be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world.
-- George Santayana If one advances confidently in the direction of one's dreams, and endeavours to live the life which
one has imagined, one will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
-- Henry David Thoreau Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way
around the laws.
- Plato Calabria
As life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action
of his time, at the peril of being not to have lived.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. There is a coherent plan in the universe, though I don't know what it's a plan for.
-- Fred Hoyle Being in therapy is great. I spend an hour just talking about myself. It's kinda like being the guy on
a date.
-- Caroline Rhea We have been friends together in sunshine and in shade.
-- Caroline Norton "Friendship is born at the moment when one person says to another, 'What?! You too! Thought I was the only one.'" (Clive Staples Lewis) Calabria Republican boys date Democratic girls. They plan to marry Republican girls, but feel they're
entitled to a little fun first.
-- Anonymous Change before you have to.
-- Jack Welch The only way to entertain some folks is to listen to them.
-- Kin Hubbard Calabria
A poem is never finished, only abandoned.
-- Paul Valery Often it does seem a pity that Noah and his party did not miss the boat.
-- Mark Twain "When even one American--who has done nothing wrong--is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth--then all Americans are in peril." (Harry S. Truman) "One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries." (A. A. Milne) Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteeen.
-- Albert Einstein Calabria Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you.
- Carl Gustav Jung Honolulu - it's got everything. Sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother. -- Ken Dodd The difference between false memories and true ones is the same as for jewels: it is always the
false ones that look the most real, the most brilliant.
-- Salvador Dali Calabria
Better to die ten thousand deaths than wound my honor.
-- Joseph Addison What is the answer? In that case, what is the question?
-- Gertrude Stein, dying words The marriage of Marxism and feminism has been like the marriage of husband and wife depicted in English common law: Marxism and feminism are one, and that one is Marxism. --Heidi Hartmann [The Unhappy Honor the ocean of love.
-- George de Benneville I have never taken any exercise except sleeping and resting.
-- Mark Twain Calabria If you can't sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there and worrying. It's the worry
that gets you, not the loss of sleep.
-- Dale Carnegie "Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few." (George Bernard Shaw) We live at a time when man believes himself fabulously capable of creation, but he does not
know what to create.
-- Jose Ortega y Gasset Calabria
Love is a perky elf dancing a merry little jig and then suddenly he turns on you with a miniature
machine gun.
-- Matt Groening, Love is Hell "Give me liberty or give me death." (Patrick Henry) A husband is a guy who tells you when you've got on too much lipstick and helps you with your
girdle when your hips stick.
-- Ogden Nash Mathematics transfigures the fortuitous concourse of atoms into the tracery of the finger of God.
-- Herbert Westren Turnbull Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.
-- Oscar Wilde Calabria "Contrariwise," continued Tweedledee, "if it was so, it might be, and if it were so, it would be; but
as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic!"
-- Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland I love deadlines. I especially like the whooshing sound they make as they go flying by.
-- Douglas Adams The honest poor can sometimes forget poverty. The honest rich can never forget it.
-- G. K. Chesterton Calabria
blah "Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together." (Vincent van Gogh) "Try not to have a good time ... This is supposed to be educational." (Charles Schultz) "The things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisi We had a lot in common. I loved him and he loved him.
-- Shelley Winters The west wasn't won on salad.
-- ND Beef Council, billboard advertisement, 1990 Calabria "One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) If you put garbage in a computer nothing comes out but garbage. But this garbage, having
passed through a very expensive machine, is somehow ennobled and none dare criticize it.
-- Anonymous There are times when parenthood seems nothing but feeding the mouth that bites you.
-- Peter De Vries Calabria
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 Imagine if birds were tickled by feathers. You'd see a flock of birds come by, laughing hysterically!
-- Steven Wright 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 The fickleness of the women I love is only equalled by the infernal consistency of the women who
love me.
-- George Bernard Shaw Who the hell wants to hear actors talk?
- H. M. Warner, founder of Warner Brothers, in 1927 Calabria Can you imagine what I would do if I could do all I can?
-- The Artist Formerly Known As Prince Giving a man space is like giving a dog a computer: the chances are he will not use it wisely.
-- Bette-Jane Raphael There is no sincerer love than the love of food.
-- George Bernard Shaw Calabria
Character is what you are in the dark.
-- Dwight L. Moody Even death is not to be feared by one who has lived wisely.
-- Buddha Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.
-- Aristotle "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 Sex is the mathematics urge sublimated.
-- M. C. Reed Calabria The optimist sees opportunity in every danger; the pessimist sees danger in every opportunity.
-- Winston Churchill If you can't sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there and worrying. It's the worry
that gets you, not the loss of sleep.
-- Dale Carnegie "I offer images; I conjure memories of freedom that can still be reached ... But, we can only open the doors. We can't drag people through. I can't free them unless they want to be free--more than any Calabria
With the catching end the pleasures of the chase.
-- Abraham Lincoln 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 I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
-- Mark Twain "... What good are dreams if they come true?" (Frederick Exley, A Fan's Notes) I would have made a good Pope.
-- Richard Nixon, U.S. President Calabria I have spread my dreams under your feet;
Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.
-- William Butler Yeats, from "He wishes for the cloths of heaven" "Feeding is a very important ritual for me. I don't trust people who don't like to eat." (Gina Gershon) A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel.
-- Robert Frost Calabria
How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it.
-- Alexandre Dumas fils "God's creatures, great and small ... eat them one, eat them all." (John A. Simone Sr.) Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop
questioning.
-- Albert Einstein The democratic theory is that if you accumulate enough ignorance at the polls, you produce
intelligence.
-- Philo Vance 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 Calabria In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that
no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it's the exact opposite.
-- Paul Dirac Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to
take away.
- Antoine de Saint Exupery "It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) Calabria
Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald If I had only known, I would have been a locksmith.
-- Albert Einstein Marriage is like a mousetrap. Those on the outside are trying to get in. Those on the inside are trying to get out. Eighty percent of married men cheat in America. The rest cheat in Europe.
-- Jackie Mason I have noticed that nothing I have never said ever did me any harm.
-- Calvin Coolidge Calabria He who dies a thousand deaths meets the final hour with the calmness of one who approaches a
well remembered door.
-- Heywood Brown 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 "Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Walk beside me and just be my friend." (Albert Camus) Calabria