However, never daunted, I will cope with adversity in my usual manner...sulking and nausea.
-- Tom K. Ryan Usenet is like Tetris for people who still remember how to read.
-- Button from the Computer Museum, Boston, MA Women and Cats will do as they please. Men and dogs had better get used to it.
-- Robert Heinlein, Time Enough for Love, Lazarus Long blah "To give anything less than your best is to sacrifice the gift." (Steve Roland Prefontaine) Drink to me.
-- Pablo Picasso, dying words Barberino Val d'Elsa There are three kinds of death in this world. There's heart death, there's brain death, and there's
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-- Guy Almes It's important to be open-minded, but not SO open-minded that your brains fall out.
-- Rick Radebaugh Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Barberino Val d'Elsa
The coziness between church and state is good for the state and bad for the church.
-- G. K. Chesterton My initial response was to sue her for defamation of character, but then I realized that I had no
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-- Charles Barkley, on hearing Tonya Harding proclaim herself "the Charles Barkley of fig "Have you ever fed your pocket and starved your soul?" (Ivana Santilli, Too Deep) For most of history, Anonymous was a woman.
-- Virginia Woolf America is the only nation in history which miraculously has gone directly from barbarism to
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-- George Clemenceau Barberino Val d'Elsa Curiosity will conquer fear even more than bravery will.
-- James Stephens We can say 'Peace on Earth,' we can sing about it, preach about it or pray about it, but if we have
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-- Betty Shabazz "One of the good things about low self-esteem is never having rain hit you in the face." (John A. Simone Jr.) Barberino Val d'Elsa
You can get more with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone.
-- Al Capone Despite the high cost of living it remains a popular item.
-- Anonymous 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 My good intentions are completely lethal.
-- Margaret Atwood Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it, misdiagnosing it, and then misapplying the
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-- Groucho Marx Barberino Val d'Elsa I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a
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-- Virginia Woolf The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn.
-- Cicero The Republicans have a new healthcare proposal: Just say NO to illness!
-- Mark Russell Barberino Val d'Elsa
Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a losttradition.
-- Jacques Barzun Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.
-- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz A conclusion is the place where you got tired thinking.
-- Martin H. Fischer The less a man thinks or knows about his virtues, the better we like him.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Marital Freedom: The liberty that allows a husband to do exactly that which his wife pleases.
-- Anonymous Barberino Val d'Elsa Everything that can be invented has been invented.
- Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899 Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried.
-- G. K. Chesterton The louder he talked of his honour, the faster we counted our spoons.
-- Emerson, Ralph Waldo Barberino Val d'Elsa
"I was born and raised with crocodiles; they are a piece of cake. But kids are so ... unpredictable." (Steve Irwin, "Crocodile Hunter") We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
-- Aristotle Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech.
- Martin Fraquhar Tupper Realism is a corruption of reality.
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-- Thornton Wilder Barberino Val d'Elsa University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
-- Henry Kissinger Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not
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- Robert Orben Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Barberino Val d'Elsa
"In order to keep anything cultural, logical, or ideological, you have to reinvent the reality of it." (Ani Difranco) There's too much blood in my caffeine system.
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-- John Watson, University of Canterbury "The only thing we have to fear is fear itself." (Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1882 - 1945, 32nd U.S. President) Barberino Val d'Elsa Success is peace of mind which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you did your best
to become the best you are capable of becoming.
-- John R. Wooden, Practical Modern Basketball There are three great friends: an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.
-- Benjamin Franklin "Frank and explicit; that is the right line to take when you wish to conceal your own mind and to confuse the minds of others." (Benjamin Disraeli, Sybil) Barberino Val d'Elsa
But at my back I always hear Time's winged chariot hurrying near.
- Andrew Marvell "He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself." (Thomas Paine) "Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect every one who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are ine The nourishment is palatable.
-- Millard Fillmore, dying words A beauty is a woman you notice; A charmer is one who notices you.
-- Adlai Stevenson Barberino Val d'Elsa I am beginning to suspect all elaborate and special systems of education. They seem to me to be
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-- Anne S Viewed from the summit of reason, all life looks like a malignant disease and the world like a
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-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Faith is believing what you know ain't so.
-- Mark Twain Barberino Val d'Elsa
Just buy a box of popcorn and a Coca-Cola and sit back and watch.
-- James Carville, Clinton advisor, offering advice for Democrats on the term-limits vote in the
House Trust, but verify.
-- Ronald Reagan A real leader faces the music, even when he doesn't like the tune.
-- Anonymous "Crime like death is not confined to the old and withered alone. The youngest and fairest are too often its chosen victims." (Charles Dickens, 1812-70, Oliver Twist) The covers of this book are too far apart.
-- Ambrose Bierce Barberino Val d'Elsa Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple, learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a
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-- John Steinbeck Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.
-- George Orwell In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice
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-- H. L. Mencken Barberino Val d'Elsa
I love deadlines. I especially like the whooshing sound they make as they go flying by.
-- Douglas Adams Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot.
-- Anonymous I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
- e e cummings When yer in a funk, people in love are a royal pain in the patookus.
-- Portnoy, character in "Outland," comic strip by Berkely Breathed Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
-- Virginia Woolf Barberino Val d'Elsa Ambition is not a vice of little people.
-- Michel de Montaigne The society of women is the element of good manners.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Creativity is piercing the mundane to find the marvelous.
-- Bill Moyers Barberino Val d'Elsa
Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
- Henry Louis Mencken "Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under." (Henry Louis Mencken) Coffee is a beverage that puts one to sleep when not drank.
-- Alphonse Allais First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.
- Mahatma Gandhi I'm not into working out. My philosophy: No pain, no pain.
-- Carol Leifer Barberino Val d'Elsa This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold
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-- Will Rogers Talent does what it can; genius does what it must.
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"Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few." (George Bernard Shaw) Silence is argument carried out by other means.
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-- George Washington Marry not a tennis player. For love means nothing to them. Once all struggle is grasped, miracles are possible.
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-- Irwin Corey Creativity is allowing oneself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.
-- Scott Adams, The Dilbert Principle The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind
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