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Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after.
-- Anne Morrow Lindbergh A life spent in making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent doing
nothing.
-- George Benard Shaw Tear open packet, unfold and use.
-- Directions on moist towelette package If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?
-- Abraham Lincoln "I expect nothing. I fear no one. I am free." (Nikos Kazantzakis) Orta San Giulio My grandfather once told me that there are two kinds of people: those who work and those who
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-- INDIRA Propel, propel, propel your craft softly down liquid solution. Ecstatically, ecstatically, ecstatically,
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-- Fred Rogers, parody of "Row, row, row your boa The person who is slowest in making a promise is most faithful in its performance.
-- Jean-Jacques Rousseau Orta San Giulio
I have never taken any exercise except sleeping and resting.
-- Mark Twain It is absurd to divide people into good or bad. People are either charming or tedious.
-- Oscar Wilde 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 How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg? Four. Calling a tail a leg doesn't make it
a leg.
-- Abraham Lincoln 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 Orta San Giulio In endowing us with memory, nature has revealed to us a truth utterly unimaginable to the
unreflective creation, the truth of immortality....The most ideal human passion is love, which is
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"The reward of a thing well done is having done it." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) We need a president who's fluent in at least one language.
-- Buck Henry "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) Love is shown in your deeds, not in your words.
-- Fr. Jerome Cummings Gravitation can not be held responsible for people falling in love.
-- Albert Einstein Orta San Giulio How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg? Four. Calling a tail a leg doesn't make it
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-- Abraham Lincoln Now, now my good man, this is no time for making enemies.
- Voltaire (1694-1778) on his deathbed in response to a priest asking that he renounce Satan. I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known.
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My wife says if I go fishing one more time she's going to leave me. Gosh, I'm going to miss her. "And on the seventh day, God stepped back and said 'There is my creation, perfect in every way ... oh, damn it, I left pot all over the place. Now they'll think I want them to smoke it. Now I have to Ambition is not a vice of little people.
-- Michel de Montaigne blah "There is a melancholy that stems from greatness." (Sébastien-Roch Nicolas Chamfort, 1740/41-1794) America's one of the finest countries anyone ever stole.
-- Bobcat Goldthwait Orta San Giulio Under capitalism man exploits man; under socialism the reverse is true.
-- Polish proverb "It is neccessary to have wished for death in order to know how good it is to live." (Alexander Dumas) Going to church doesn't make you a Christian any more than going to a garage makes you an
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-- Billy Sunday Orta San Giulio
The open-minded see the truth in different things: the narrow-minded see only the differences.
-- Author Unknown Fine art and pizza delivery: what we do falls neatly in between.
-- David Letterman The greatest homage to truth is to use it.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson By all means marry. If you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher. -- Socrates Die? I should say not, dear fellow. No Barrymore would allow such a conventional thing to
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-- John Barrymore - last words Orta San Giulio Life isn't a matter of milestones, but of moments.
-- Rose Kennedy Democracy is a form of government in which it is permitted to wonder aloud what the country
could do under first-class management.
-- Senator Soaper Its failings notwithstanding, there is much to be said in favor of journalism in that by giving us the
opinion of the uneducated, it keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community.
-- Oscar W Orta San Giulio
If all economists were laid end to end, they would not reach a conclusion.
-- George Bernard Shaw You have to walk carefully in the beginning of love; the running across fields into your lover's
arms can only come later when you're sure they won't laugh if you trip.
-- Jonathan Carroll, Outside We need a president who's fluent in at least one language.
-- Buck Henry There is no future in any job. The future lies in the man who holds the job.
-- George Crane The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about.
-- Oscar Wilde Orta San Giulio "The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances." (Viktor E. Frankl) "If you believe everything you read, you better not read." (Japanese Proverb) You can get more with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone.
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Anyone nit-picking enough to write a letter of correction to an editor doubtless deserves the error
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-- Alvin Toffler Value your words. Each one may be the last.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec "For others do I wait ... for higher ones, stronger ones, more triumphant ones, merrier ones, for such as are built squarely in body and soul: laughing lions must come." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind
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-- Groucho Marx My Alma mater was books, a good library . . . . I could spend the rest of my life reading, just
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--Malcolm X Orta San Giulio God gave men both a penis and a brain, but unfortunately not enough blood supply to run both at
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- Robin Williams, commenting on the Clinton/Lewinsky affair I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you an education.
-- Wilson Mizner For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of our tasks; the ultimate,
the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.
-- Rainer Maria Ril Orta San Giulio
NEIGHBOR, n. One whom we are commanded to love as ourselves, and who does all he knows
how to make us disobedient.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
- Mark Twain Mathematics, rightly viewed, posses not only truth, but supreme beauty -- a beauty cold and
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-- Bertrand Russell Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
-- T.S. Eliot Education ... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth
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-- G. M. Trevelyan Orta San Giulio It doesn't much signify whom one marries, for one is sure to find out next morning it was
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-- Rogers I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is; I only know that people call
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-- Rebecca West, "When marrying, ask yourself this question: Do you believe that you will be able to converse well with this person into your old age? Everything else in marriage is transitory." (Friedrich Wilhelm Ni Orta San Giulio
"If I could drop dead right now, I'd be the happiest man alive." (Samuel Goldwyn) "Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil) My mother's menu consisted of two choices: Take it or leave it.
-- Buddy Hackett Whoever controls the media--the images--controls the culture.
-- Allen Ginsberg I date this girl for two years--and then the nagging starts: "I wanna know your name."
-- Mike Binder Orta San Giulio Doctors are the same as lawyers; the only difference is that lawyers merely rob you, whereas
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-- Anton Chekhov "Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking." (H. Jackson Brown (Jr.) "What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage." Orta San Giulio
Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer.
-- Mark Twain Live TV died in the late 1950s, electronic bulletin boards came along in the mid-1980s, meaning
there was about a 25-year gap when it was difficult to put your foot in your mouth and have
people all "The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) We never reflect how pleasant it is to ask for nothing.
-- Seneca We have children because we want immortality and this is the most reliable way of getting it.
-- Woodrow Wyatt Orta San Giulio "Twelve magicians and two carnies have been shot dead doing the bullet catch. That's cool enough, but every night when we close our show with that trick and the loaded gun gets pointed in my face, it "Have you ever fed your pocket and starved your soul?" (Ivana Santilli, Too Deep) "All our best men are laughed at in this nightmare land." (Jack Keroac) Orta San Giulio
After all, all he did was string together a lot of old, well-known quotations.
-- H. L. Mencken, on Shakespeare "Your children are not your children. They are sons and daughters of life's longing for itself. They come through you but not from you. And though they are with you, they belong not to you. You may gi "The one charm about marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties." (Oscar Wilde) Whenever I climb I am followed by a dog called 'Ego'.
- Friedrich Nietzsche "I was born lost and take no pleasure in being found..." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) Orta San Giulio Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your position falls, your ego goes with
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-- Colin Powell We never reflect how pleasant it is to ask for nothing.
-- Seneca The IRS spends God knows how much of your tax money on these toll-free information hot lines
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