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"Do not go gentle into that good night. Old age should burn and rave at close of day. Rage, rage against the dying of the light." (Dylan Thomas) The most savage controversies are about those matters as to which there is no good evidence
either way.
-- Bertrand Russell One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is
terribly important.
-- Bertrand Russell I just need enough to tide me over until I need more.
-- Bill Hoest Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by
definition, is unassailable.
-- James Baldwin, Nobody Knows My Name, 1961 Putignano Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.
-- John F. Kennedy If you were plowing a field, which would you rather use? Two strong oxen or 1024 chickens?
- Seymour Cray (1925-1996), father of supercomputing Creativity is piercing the mundane to find the marvelous.
-- Bill Moyers Putignano
You can always amend a big plan, but you can never expand a little one. I don't believe in little
plans. I believe in plans big enough to meet a situation which we can't possibly foresee now.
-- Ha I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude. we are for the most part
more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers.
-- Thoreau If you want to sing out, sing out, and if you want to be free, be free, 'cause there's a million ways
to be, you know that there are...
-- Cat Stevens, from a song lyric "Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former." (Albert Einstein) I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them.
- Ian L. Fleming Putignano My wife submits and I obey; she always lets me have her way. Having a family is like having a bowling alley installed in your brain.
-- Martin Mull A memorandum is written not to inform the reader but to protect the writer.
-- Dean Acheson Putignano
The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but
newspapers.
-- Thomas Jefferson the social sciences were for all those who had not yet decided what to do with their lives, and for
all those whose premature frustrations led them into the sterile alleys of confrontation.
-- Peter Ah Mozart! He was happily married - but his wife wasn't. -- Borge "It is a curious thing that God learned Greek when he wished to turn author--and that he did not learn it better." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Marriage is like a violin. After the music is over, you still have the strings.
-- Anonymous Putignano "Life is measured by the rapidity of change, the succession of influences that modify the being." (George Eliot) A good marriage is at least 80 percent good luck in finding the right person at the right time. The
rest is trust.
-- Nanette Newman, British actress All science is concerned with the relationship of cause and effect. Each scientific discovery
increases man's ability to predict the consequences of his actions and thus his ability to control
futur Putignano
"The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do." (Anonymous) To love another person is to see the face of God.
-- Lyric from Les Miserables Why don't you write books people can read?
-- Nora Joyce, to her husband James "I have the terrible feeling that, because I am wearing a white beard and am sitting in the back of the theatre, you expect me to tell you the truth about something. These are the cheap seats, not Mou It is the final proof of God's omnipotence that he need not exist in order to save us.
-- Peter De Vries Putignano 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 Familiarity breeds contempt -- and children.
-- Mark Twain Integrity is what we do, what we say, and what we say we do.
--Don Galer Putignano
"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) I hate it in friends when they come too late to help.
-- Euripides "I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." (James Madison) Marriage is love. Love is blind. Therefore, marriage is an institution for the blind. I was a pilot flying an airplane and it just so happened that where I was flying made what I was
doing spying.
-- Francis Gary Power, U-2 reconnaissance pilot held by the Soviets for spying, in an i Putignano I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood. If it
does need additional interpretation by someone other than the creator, then I question whether it
ha Courage: doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared.
-- Eddie Rickenbacker "It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what other men say in whole books--what other men do not say in whole books." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols) Putignano
I think one of the reasons I'm popular again is because I'm wearing a tie. You have to be different.
-- Tony Bennett, 1995 One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good
reputation.
-- Oscar Wilde Nothing that was worthy in the past departs; no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or
can die.
-- Thomas Carlyle Obstacles cannot crush me. Every obstacle yields to stern resolve. He who is fixed to a star does
not change his mind.
-- Leonardo da Vinci, Notebooks "Have confidence that if you have done a little thing well, you can do a bigger thing well, too." (David Malcolm Storey) Putignano "Think where mans glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends." (William Butler Yeats) A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems.
- Paul Erdos I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude. we are for the most part
more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers.
-- Thoreau Putignano
The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.
-- Nicholas Murray Butler Morality consists in suspecting other people of not being legally married.
-- George Bernard Shaw An act of love that fails is just as much a part of the divine life as an act of love that succeeds, for
love is measured by fullness, not by reception.
-- Harold Loukes A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn; it can be stabbed to death by a joke
or worried to death by a frown on the right person's brow.
-- Charles Brower Problems worthy of attack prove their worth by fighting back.
- Paul Erdos Putignano The less their ability, the more their conceit.
Ahad HaAm Realism is a corruption of reality.
-- Wallace Stevens Love thy neighbor, but make sure her husband is away first. Putignano
One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is
terribly important.
-- Bertrand Russell "The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet." (Andy Warhol) If you want to sing out, sing out, and if you want to be free, be free, 'cause there's a million ways
to be, you know that there are...
-- Cat Stevens, from a song lyric "A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) It is always right that a man should be able to render a reason for the faith that is within him.
-- Sydney Smith Putignano Value your words. Each one may be the last.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec "There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered." (Nelson Mandela, A Long Walk to Freedom) "I know we're not saints or virgins or lunatics; we know all the lust and lavatory jokes, and most of the dirty people; we can catch buses and count our change and cross the roads and talk real senten Putignano
It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
-- Mark Twain The advice your son rejected is now being given by him to your grandson. Marriage is an institution in which a man loses his Bachelor's Degree and the woman gets her Masters. 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 Unha "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 Putignano "In some ways, I never outgrew my adolescence. I wake up in the morning and think, 'Oh my God, I'm late for a math test!' But then I say, 'Wait a minute. I'm 40.'" (Daniel Clowes) "This is the first age that's paid much attention to the future, which is a little ironic since we may not have one." (Arthur C. Clarke) Why do grandparents and grandchildren get along so well? They have the same enemy-- the
mother.
-- Claudette Colbert Putignano
Even overweight cats instinctively know the cardinal rule: when fat, arrange yourself in slim
poses.
-- John Weitz, American Designer Problems worthy of attack prove their worth by fighting back.
- Paul Erdos The difference between a man who faces death for the sake of an idea and an imitator who goes
in search of martyrdom is that the former expresses his idea most fully in death while the latter
really "In order to attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd." (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1547-1616) "I never resist temptation, because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me." (George Bernard Shaw) Putignano 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 "The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves." (William Hazlitt) I am returning this otherwise good typing paper to you because someone has printed gibberish all
over it and put your name at the top.
-- English Professor, Ohio University Putignano
"Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under." (Henry Louis Mencken) The work of internal government has become the task of controlling the thousands of fifth-rate
men.
-- Henry B. Adams Sometimes a scream is better than a thesis.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson "Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) Life is a succession of lessons enforced by immediate reward, or, oftener, by immediate
chastisement.
-- Ernest Dimnet Putignano I admire the serene assurance of those who have religious faith. It is wonderful to observe the
calm confidence of a Christian with four aces.
-- Mark Twain Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow.
-- Helen Keller MARRIAGE, n. The state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress and two
slaves, making in all, two.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 Putignano
