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There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in his home.
-- Kenneth H. Olson, President of DEC, Convention of the World Future Society, 1977 The difference between pornography and erotica is lighting.
-- Gloria Leonard If I tell a lie it's only because I think I'm telling the truth.
-- Phil Gaglardi, Minister of Highways, British Columbia, Canada We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
-- Winston Churchill "For better or for worse, our company (The News Corporation Ltd.) is a reflection of my thinking, my character, my values." (Keith Rupert Murdoch, media mogul, 1931-) Anghiari If variety is the spice of life, marriage is the big can of leftover Spam.
-- Johnny Carson "One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries." (A. A. Milne) Marriage isn't a word... it's a sentence.
-- King Vidor, in the 1928 film, The Crawl Anghiari
"Are you bored with life? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours." (Dale Experience is not what happens to you; it's what you do with what happens to you.
-- Aldous Huxley "An imbalance between rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics." (Plutarch) Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in
accordance with the dictates of reason.
-- Oscar Wilde "It is awfully easy to be hard-boiled about everything in the daytime, but at night it is another thing." (Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises) Anghiari Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-
proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe
is "Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains." (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, The Social Contract) "Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains." (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, The Social Contract) Anghiari
There ought to be one day - just one - when there is open season on senators.
-- Will Rogers Some men are born with cold feet; some acquire cold feet; and some have cold feet thrust upon
them.
-- Anonymous "The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of the dream." (Eleanor Roosevelt) Everywhere I go, I'm asked if the universities stifle writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle
enough of them.
-- Flannery O'Connor "An able man shows his spirit by gentle words and resolute actions; he is neither hot nor timid." (Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield, 4th earl of) Anghiari Marriage is a great institution, but who wants to live in an institution?
-- Marx Groucho, the film "Animal Crackers" "The sickness of our times for me has been just this damn thing that everything has been getting smaller and smaller and less and less important, that the romantic spirit has dried up, that there is n 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 Anghiari
Working mothers are guinea pigs in a scientific experiment to show that sleep is not necessary to human life. "We already have the statistics for the future: the growth percentages of pollution, overpopulation, desertification. The future is already in place." (Günther Grass, Winner of the Nobel Prize for Li blah bla "I never think of the future. It comes soon enough." (Albert Einstein) It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is
the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be
cr Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.
-- G. K. Chesterton Anghiari What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when
we created them.
- Albert Einstein "No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous." (Henry B. Adams) Anghiari
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 They gave me a book of checks. They didn't ask for any deposits.
-- Joe Early, Congressman (D-Mass), at a press conference to answer questions about the
House Bank scandal "Dream as if you'll live forever; live as if you'll die tomorrow." (James Dean) The gods too are fond of a joke.
- Aristotle Is there life before death?
-- Belfast Graffito Anghiari Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
-- Henry Ford Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them
good.
-- H.L. Mencken We can say 'Peace on Earth,' we can sing about it, preach about it or pray about it, but if we have
not internalized the mythology to make it happen inside us, then it will not be.
-- Betty Shabazz Anghiari
"Be not afraid of greatness. Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon 'em." (William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night, II:5) The English country gentleman galloping after a fox--the unspeakable in full pursuit of the
uneatable.
-- Oscar Wilde It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.
-- Gore Vidal Laywers, I suppose, were children once.
-- Charles Lamb I loathe people who keep dogs. They are cowards who haven't got the guts to bite people
themselves.
-- August Strindberg Anghiari What if nothing exists and we're all in somebody's dream? Or what's worse, what if only that fat
guy in the third row exists?
-- Woody Allen A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take
her off his hands.
-- Sacha Guitry Men have a much better time of it than women; for one thing, they marry later; for another thing, they die earlier. --H.L. Mencken Anghiari
"Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear." (Ambrose Redmoon) I base my fashion sense on what doesn't itch.
-- Gilda Radner Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside
desperate to get out.
-- Michel de Montaigne Whatever women do they must do it twice as well as men to be thought half as good. Luckily this
is not difficult.
-- Charlotte Whitton "The English have all the material requisites for the revolution. What they lack is the spirit of generalization and revolutionary ardour." (Karl Marx) Anghiari The Churches must learn humility as well as teach it.
-- George Bernard Shaw, St. Joan You must first have a lot of patience to learn to have patience.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec Marriage resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated; often moving in
opposite directions, yet always punishing any one who comes between them.
-- Sydney Smith Anghiari
Trust, but verify.
-- Ronald Reagan Why is it that our memory is good enough to retain the least triviality that happens to us, and yet
not good enough to recollect how often we have told it to the same person?
-- François de La Rouch Beauty as we feel it is something indescribable; what it is or what it means can never be said.
-- George Santayana "Ideas are far more powerful than guns. We don't allow our enemies to have guns, why should we allow them to have ideas?" (Josef Stalin) This is the miracle that happens every time to those who really love; the more they give, the more
they possess.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke Anghiari "As long as people will accept crap, it will be financially profitable to dispense it." (Dick Cavett) Let the refining and improving of your own life keep you so busy that you have little time to
criticize others.
-- H. Jackson Brown I base my fashion sense on what doesn't itch.
-- Gilda Radner Anghiari
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" If a man is talking in the forest, and there is no woman there to hear him, is he still wrong?
-- Jenny Weber A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.
-- St. Augustine It's not as great a day for the bride as she thinks. She's not marrying the best man.
-- Anonymous "Do not do unto others as you expect they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same." (George Bernard Shaw) Anghiari "Vegiburgers are wrong." (Mike Kaup) Marriage is a thing which puts a ring on a woman's finger and two under the man's eyes. "Humans beings can always be relied upon to assert, with vigor, their god-given right to be stupid." (Dean Koontz, Seize the Night) Anghiari
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 Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not
there, I go to work.
- Robert Orben Everything in the world may be endured except continued prosperity.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
-- Robert Frost He who kisses the joy is it flies lives in eternity's sunrise
-- William Blake Anghiari If people turn to look at you on the street, you are not well dressed.
-- Beau Brummel blah bl "The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning, but without understanding." (Louis Brandeis) Anyone can do any amount of work provided it isn't the work he's supposed to be doing at the
moment.
-- Robert Benchley Anghiari
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 My wife has a split personality, and I hate both of them. Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
-- Bob Perelman I belong to Bridegrooms Anonymous. Whenever I feel like getting married, they send over a lady in a housecoat and hair curlers to burn my toast for me. -- Dick Martin "Courageous, untroubled, mocking and violent--that is what Wisdom wants us to be. Wisdom is a woman, and loves only a warrior." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Anghiari "I think it's about time we voted for senators with breasts. After all, we've been voting for boobs
long enough."
-- Arizona senatorial candidate Claire Sargent, on women candidates Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.
- George Eliot My wife doesn't care what I do away from home, as long as I don't enjoy it. Anghiari
