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All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman and a pretty girl.
-- Charlie Chaplin 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 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 "I have great faith in fools; My friends call it self-confidence." (Edger Allen Poe) Parenthetical remarks (however relevant) are unnecessary.
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- Father Larry Lorenzoni "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) Lari
"To avoid criticism: do nothing, say nothing, be nothing." (Elbert Hubbard, American author, 1856-1915) I was a pilot flying an airplane and it just so happened that where I was flying made what I was
doing spying.
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study this civilization: the Constitution, jazz music, and baseball.
-- Gerald Early, writer, baseball do "The most beautiful things in the world are the most useless, peacocks and lilies, for instance." (John Ruskin) "If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) Lari Youth is wasted on the young.
-- George Bernard Shaw "I think all great innovations are built on rejections." (Louis-Ferdinand Céline) "Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Lari
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 In every country and every age, the priest has been hostile to Liberty.
-- Thomas Jefferson If you don't double-click me, I can't do anything.
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-- Jules Combarieu Lari
He who laughs last didn't get it.
-- Helen Giangregorio "I owe much to my friends; but, all things considered, it strikes me that I owe even more to my enemies. The real person springs life under a sting even better than under a caress." (André Gide) Statistics are like a bikini. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.
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-- David Letterman "An imbalance between rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics." (Plutarch) Lari Happiness is nothing more than health and a poor memory.
-- Albert Schweitzer Every flower must grow through dirt.
-- Anonymous The first clergyman was the first rascal who met the first fool.
-- Voltaire Lari
"In literary criticism the critic has no choice but to make over the victim of his attention into something the size and shape of himself." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) I support efforts to limit the terms of members of Congress, especially members of the House and
members of the Senate.
-- Dan Quayle, Former Vice-President It was just him and me. He fought with honor. If it weren't for his honor, he and the others would
have beaten me together. They might have killed me, then. His sense of honor saved my life. I
didn' In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.
-- Albert Einstein You can get more with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone.
-- Al Capone Lari This world is a comedy for those who think and a tragedy for those who feel.
-- Horace Walpole Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution.
-- Mae West No one finds life worth living; he must make it worth living.
-- Anon. Lari
Experience is not what happens to you; it's what you do with what happens to you.
-- Aldous Huxley "They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself." (Andy Warhol) Hell is a half-filled auditorium.
- Robert Frost "Everything in my life has been determined by mistakes." (Gene Wilder) The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this
is true.
-- James Branch Cabell, The Silver Stallion Lari "Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave, and impossible to forget." (G. Randolf) I told my wife that a husband is like a fine wine; he gets better with age. The next day, she locked
me in the cellar.
-- Anonymous Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you.
-- John-Paul Sartre Lari
"Video games are bad for you? That's what they said about rock 'n roll." (Shigeru Miyamoto, game designer for Nintendo) "All our best men are laughed at in this nightmare land." (Jack Keroac) "Our lives are repetitious shams--every single day a simulacrum of the previous day. So for Man, he is out to pepper his daily activities with different things--he's fighting against boredom." (Matth A man in the house is worth two in the street.
-- Mae West Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.
-- John F. Kennedy Lari In a novel, the hero can lay ten girls and marry a virgin for the finish. In a movie, that is not
allowed. The villain can lay anybody he wants, have as much fun and as he wants cheating,
stealing, Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before
marriage, which is never advisable.
-- Oscar Wilde "The man who never made a mistake never made anything." (Derek Longdon, Tongariro Power Development, Turangi, New Zealand) Lari
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increases man's ability to predict the consequences of his actions and thus his ability to control
futur I am in total control, but don't tell my wife. I am about to--or I am going to--die; either expression is used.
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heart, you can't take part. And you've got to put your body upon the gears and upon the wheels,
upon the lev Any sufficiently advanced bureaucracy is indistinguishable from molasses.
-- Anon. Courage is the price that Love exacts for granting peace.
-- Amelia Earhart Lari
Until the day of his death, no man can be sure of his courage.
-- Jean Anouilh The two most common elements in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity. But not in that order.
-- Brian Pickrell "One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Our lives are repetitious shams--every single day a simulacrum of the previous day. So for Man, he is out to pepper his daily activities with different things--he's fighting against boredom." (Matth There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written or badly written.
-- Oscar Wilde Lari I've been trying desperately to save my marriage for the last 35 years. There are two major products that come out of Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to
be a coincidence.
-- Jeremy S. Anderson Our marriage would have worked if we hadn't lived together.
-- Joan Thompson Lari
If law school is so hard to get through... how come there are so many lawyers?
-- Calvin Trillin Marriage is an institution--but who wants to live in an institution? There is nothing that can be said by mathematical symbols and relations which cannot also be
said by words. The converse, however, is false. Much that can be and is said by words cannot
successfully A memorandum is written not to inform the reader but to protect the writer.
-- Dean Acheson We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh.
-- Agnes Repplier Lari Love is a snowmobile racing across the tundra and then suddenly it flips over, pinning you
underneath. At night, the ice weasels come.
-- Matt Groening, Love is Hell "God is dead: but considering the state Man is in, there will perhaps be caves, for ages yet, in which his shadow will be shown." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, The Joyful Wisdom) Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.
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Good judgement comes from experience, and experience--well, that comes from poor judgement.
-- Cousin Woodman "I know that God won't give me more trouble than I can handle ... but sometimes I wish he wouldn't trust me so much." (Mother Teresa) Worrying is like a rocking chair, it gives you something to do, but it doesn't get you anywhere.
-- Anonymous The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.
-- ee cummings When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are
legislators.
-- P. J. O'Rourke Lari "Courage is found in unlikely places." (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) Destiny is not a matter of chance; but a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, It is a
thing to be acheived.
-- William Jennings Bryant "Fear is the dark room where the Devil develops his negatives." (Gary Busey) Lari
