One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is
terribly important.
- Bertrand Russell
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A little inaccuracy sometimes saves a ton "The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man." (George Bernard Shaw) To expect defeat is nine-tenths of defeat itself.
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-- Kin Hubbard Novara
"He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever." (Chinese Proverb) "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) Love is only the game that is not called on account of darkness.
-- M. Hirschfield There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Prayer gives a man the opportunity of getting to know a gentleman he hardly ever meets. I do not
mean his maker, but himself.
-- Dean Inge Novara Everybody can be great... because anybody can serve. You don't have to have a college degree
to serve. You don't have to make your subject and verb agree to serve. you only need a heart full
of grac "Greed, for lack of a better word, is good. Greed is right. Greed works." (Michael Douglas, as Gordon Gekko, Wall Street, 1987) Life is a sexually transmitted terminal disease.
-- Colin Greene Novara
All human actions are equivalent... and... all are on principle doomed...
-- Jean-Paul Sartre, "Being and Nothingness" "I run to see who has the most guts." (Steve Roland Prefontaine) Never marry for money. Ye'll borrow it cheaper.
-- Scottish Proverb "I would rather die standing than live on my knees!" (Emiliano Zapata) The mathematician lives long and lives young; the wings of his soul do not early drop off, nor do
its pores become clogged with the earthy particles blown from the dusty highways of vulgar life.
-- Novara Whenever I dwell for any length of time on my own shortcomings, they gradually begin to seem
mild harmless, rather engaging little things, not at all like the staring defects in other people's
chara Prayer gives a man the opportunity of getting to know a gentleman he hardly ever meets. I do not
mean his maker, but himself.
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Live your questions now, and perhaps even without knowing it, you will live along some distant
day into your answers.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke I think we are drawn to dogs because they are the uninhibited creatures we might be if we weren't
certain we knew better.
-- George Bird Evans The gods too are fond of a joke.
- Aristotle Half of the American people never read a newspaper.
Half never voted for President.
One hopes it is the same half.
-- Gore Vidal The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
-- Winston Churchill Novara Most convicted felons are just people who were not taken to museums or Broadway musicals as
children.
-- Libby Gelman-Waxner In marriage, the bridge gets a shower. But for the groom, it's curtains! Marriage is like a violin. After the music is over, you still have the strings.
-- Anonymous Novara
"The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man." (George Bernard Shaw) All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others.
-- Chad A. Gamble, Escape, short story Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
- Napoleon Bonaparte Knowledge is the intellectual manipulation of carefully verified observations.
-- Sigmund Freud blah "Ideas are like stars, you will not succeed in touching them with your hands, but like the seafaring man on the desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and, following them, you reach yo Novara Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.
-- John Lyly The streets are safe in Philadelphia. It's only the people who make them unsafe.
-- Frank Rizzo, ex-police chief and mayor of Philadelphia The secret of success is to know something nobody else knows.
- Aristotle Onassis Novara
The days just before marriage are like a snappy introduction to a tedious book. "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 We don't like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out.
-- Decca Recording Company, rejecting the Beatles, 1962 "A dress makes no sense unless it inspires men to take it off of you." (Francois Sagan) The mistakes are all waiting to be made.
- chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower (1887-1956) on the game's opening position Novara The artist alone sees spirits. But after he has told of their appearing to him, everybody sees them.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe It is not necessary to understand things in order to argue about them.
-- Pierre Augustin de Beaumarchais Marry not a tennis player. For love means nothing to them. Novara
Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.
-- G. K. Chesterton Love me or hate me, but spare me your indifference.
-- Libbie Fudim "All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his." (Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest) Whenever I climb I am followed by a dog called 'Ego'.
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-- August Strindberg Novara "Paper should be edible, nutritious. Inks used for printing or writing should have delicious flavors. Magazines or newspapers read at breakfast should be eaten for lunch. Instead of throwing one's mai Even overweight cats instinctively know the cardinal rule: when fat, arrange yourself in slim
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-- John Weitz, American Designer "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 Novara
Martyrdom... is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability. George Bernard
Shaw (1856 - 1950), The Devil's Disciple (1901) act 3 Love is only the game that is not called on account of darkness.
-- M. Hirschfield Worrying is like a rocking chair, it gives you something to do, but it doesn't get you anywhere.
-- Anonymous "Nobody minds having what is too good for them." (Jane Austen) We can never be sure that the opinion we are endeavoring to stifle is a false opinion; and if we
were sure, stifling it would be an evil still.
-- John Stuart Mill Novara Dogma is the sacrifice of wisdom to consistency.
- Lewis Perelman "As long as people will accept crap, it will be financially profitable to dispense it." (Dick Cavett) Reality is nothing but a collective hunch.
-- Lily Tomlin Novara
It ain't what we don't know that gives us trouble, it's what we know that ain't so.
-- Will Rogers Many a man has finally succeeded only because he has failed after repeated efforts. If he had
never met defeat he would never have known any great victory.
-- Orison Swett Marden I'd marry again if I found a man who had 15 million and would sign over half of it to me before the
marriage and guarantee he'd be dead within a year.
-- Bette Davis Always go to the bathroom when you have a chance.
-- King George V If your professor wrote it, it's as near to the truth as you ever need to get.
-- John Watson, University of Canterbury Novara "A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward." (Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1882 - 1945, 32nd U.S. President) The question is not whether we will die, but how we will live.
-- Joan Borysenko The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain.
-- Lord Byron Novara
"Think where mans glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends." (William Butler Yeats) Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them
good.
-- H.L. Mencken An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field.
-- Niels Bohr "A man is only as faithful as his opportunity." (Chris Rock) Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get
money from it.
-- Stephen Leacock Novara Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteeen.
-- Albert Einstein Always do right; this will gratify some people and astonish the rest.
-- Mark Twain Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
-- H. L. Mencken Novara
If ever I get married again it would have to be under an anaesthetic.
-- Marie Tonkin We didn't lose the game; we just ran out of time.
- Vince Lombardi The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.
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-- Sydney Smith, referring to Macaulay Novara
