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Sleep is an excellent way of listening to an opera.
- James Stephens I'll sleep when I'm dead.
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-- Tom Robbins Business and Economy If everything seems under control, you're just not going fast enough.
- Mario Andretti The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt "There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) Business and Economy
The west wasn't won on salad.
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- Jimmy Durante Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte Republican boys date Democratic girls. They plan to marry Republican girls, but feel they're
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-- Anonymous Business and Economy "The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom." (William Blake) "The concerned investment banker is the one who blows the horn on his Mercedes as he drives through a red light." (Anonymous) Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting.
- Karl Wallenda Business and Economy
Imagine if every Thursday your shoes exploded if you tied them the usual way. This happens to
us all the time with computers, and nobody thinks of complaining.
-- Jeff Raskin "Murder is the very bed-rock of our social institutions." (Octave Mirbeau, The Torture Garden) "If I work toward an end, meantime I am confined to a process. The rainbow is more beautiful than the pot at the end of it, because the rainbow is now. And the pot never turns out to be quite what I e "When you have nothing to say, say nothing." (Charles Caleb Colton) Once a boy becomes a man, he's a man all his life, but a woman is only sexy until she becomes
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little animals would never have been born. So is it better not to have been born or to have lived Effort is only effort when it begins to hurt.
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If all these sweet young things were laid end to end, I wouldn't be the slightest bit surprised.
-- Dorothy Parker "If you want to make enemies, try to change something." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) We come to love not by finding a perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person
perfectly.
-- Anonymous Celestial navigation is based on the premise that the Earth is the center of the universe. The
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existence.
-- Sydney Smith Business and Economy
It's not as great a day for the bride as she thinks. She's not marrying the best man.
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-- David Bissonette The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
-- B. F. Skinner Business and Economy By the time (the Leaning Tower of Pisa) was 10% built, everyone knew it would be a total
disaster. But the investment was so big they felt compelled to go on. Since its completion, it cost
a fortune A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted
by a little physical antipathy.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.
- Thomas Watson, Chairman of IBM, 1943 Business and Economy
Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love,
but no friendship.
-- Oscar Wilde An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field.
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-- Scottish Proverb The bottom line is that (a) people are never perfect, but love can be, (b) that is the one and only
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time Business and Economy We are the echo of the future.
-- W. S. Merwin If someone had told me I would be Pope one day, I would have studied harder.
-- Pope John Paul I All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.
-- Edgar Allan Poe Business and Economy
Morality consists in suspecting other people of not being legally married.
-- George Bernard Shaw For most men life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed.
-- Clifton Fadiman "There is no sin except stupidity." (Oscar Wilde) Most turkeys taste better the day after; my mother's tasted better the day before.
-- Rita Rudner Love is a snowmobile racing across the tundra and then suddenly it flips over, pinning you
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-- Matt Groening, Love is Hell Business and Economy The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.
-- Albert Einstein If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one.
-- Mother Teresa Dogma is the sacrifice of wisdom to consistency.
- Lewis Perelman Business and Economy
Books had instant replay long before televised sports.
-- Bern Williams "A man who flies from his fear may find he has only taken a shortcut to meet it." (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) I stopped believing in Santa Claus when I was six. Mother took me to see him in a department
store and he asked for my autograph.
-- Shirley Temple Black War is a profession by which a man cannot live honorably; an employment by which the soldier, if
he would reap any profit, is obliged to be false, rapacious, and cruel.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli "Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance, or a stranger." (Franklin P. Jones) Business and Economy The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One
cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the
marvelous str It was the experience of mystery -- even if mixed with fear -- that engendered religion.
- Albert Einstein I have been attacked by Rush Limbaugh on the air, an experience somewhat akin to being
gummed by a newt. It doesn't actually hurt, but it leaves you with slimy stuff on your ankle.
-- Molly Ivins Business and Economy
"It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.
- Francois-Auguste Rodin (1840-1917), when asked how he managed to make his remarkable
statues When you've spent half your political life dealing with humdrum issues like the environment... it's
exciting to have a real crisis on your hands.
-- Margaret Thatcher, on the Falklands Conflict "Of all mankind the great poet is the equable man." (Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass, 1855) In matrimony, to hesitate is sometimes to be saved.
-- Samuel Butler Business and Economy Integrity is what we do, what we say, and what we say we do.
--Don Galer Marriage isn't a word... it's a sentence.
-- King Vidor, in the 1928 film, The Crawl And in the end the love you take is equal to the love you make.
-- The Beatles, The last lyric of their last song Business and Economy
I have read your book and much like it.
-- Moses Hadas, book reviewer Sex is the mathematics urge sublimated.
-- M. C. Reed He that would have the fruit must climb the tree.
-- Thomas Fuller, M.D. Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and around the hands and feet of the man. "In order to preserve your self-respect, it is sometimes necessary to lie and cheat." (Robert Byrne) Business and Economy It is because modern education is so seldom inspired by a great hope that it so seldom achieves
great results. The wish to preserve the past rather that the hope of creating the future dominates
the A small family is soon provided for.
-- English Proverb The great man fights the elements in his time that hinder his own greatness, in other words his own freedom and sincerity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Business and Economy
Creativity is allowing oneself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.
-- Scott Adams, The Dilbert Principle "In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) A coward is a hero with a wife, kids, and a mortgage.
-- Marvin Kitman Every normal man must be tempted at times to spit upon his hands, hoist the black flag, and
begin slitting throats.
- Henry Louis Mencken The voice of the intellect is a soft one, but it does not rest till it has gained a hearing.
-- Sigmund Freud Business and Economy History repeats itself; that's one of the things that's wrong with history.
-- Clarence Darrow I shall return.
-- General Douglas MacArthur "It wasn't until I started reading and found books they wouldn't let us read in school that I discovered you could be insane and happy and have a good life without being like everybody else." (John W Business and Economy
