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The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains.The superior teacher demonstrates. The
great teacher inspires.
-- William Arthur Ward Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting.
- Karl Wallenda I sometimes think that God, in creating man, overestimated His ability.
-- Oscar Wilde If a man is talking in the forest, and there is no woman there to hear him, is he still wrong?
-- Jenny Weber It makes no difference who you vote for - the two parties are really one party representing four
percent of the people.
-- Gore Vidal Pienza The Middle Eastern states aren't nations; they're quarrels with borders.
-- P. J. O'Rourke Heav'n hath no rage like love to hatred turn'd, Nor Hell a fury, like a woman scorn'd.
-- William Congreve One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.
-- Virginia Woolf Pienza
"We live in an age when pizza gets to your home before the police." (Jeff Marder) In marriage, as in war, it is permitted to take every advantage of the enemy. If other people are going to talk, conversation becomes impossible.
-- James McNeill Whistler A great deal of talent is lost to the world for want of a little courage. Every day sends to their
graves obscure men whom timidity prevented from making a first effort.
-- Sydney Smith Not knowing when the dawn will come, I open every door.
-- Emily Dickinson Pienza When you gaze long into the abyss, the abyss also gazes into you.
- Friedrich Nietzsche There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home.
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"Babies are necessary to grown-ups. A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities. In a world that is cutting down its trees to build highways, losing its eart I've just learned about his illness. Let's hope it's nothing trivial.
- Irvin S. Cobb 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 Your life and my life flow into each other as wave flows into wave, and unless there is peace and
joy and freedom for you, there can be no real peace or joy or freedom for me. To see reality--not
as Our own heart, and not other men's opinions form our true honor.
-- Coleridge, Samuel Taylor Pienza Victory goes to the player who makes the next-to-last mistake.
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-- Anne Morrow Lindbergh If one advances confidently in the direction of one's dreams, and endeavours to live the life which
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-- Henry David Thoreau Pienza
They couldn't hit an elephant at this dist---
-- John B. Sedgwick, general, dying words, 1864 The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that it has never tried to
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-- Benjamin Disraeli If you want a place in the sun, you've got to put up with a few blisters.
-- Abigail Van Buren Pienza "The things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisi "Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future." (Paul Boese) If it weren't for marriage, men and women would have to fight with total strangers.
-- Anonymous Pienza
Victory belongs to the most persevering.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte "Your children are not your children. They are sons and daughters of life's longing for itself. They come through you but not from you. And though they are with you, they belong not to you. You may gi An economic forecaster is like a cross-eyed javelin thrower: they don't win many accuracy
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-- Anonymous Marriage is the one subject on which all women agree and all men disagree.
-- Oscar Wilde "Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) Pienza Love is the answer, but while you're waiting for the answer, sex raises some pretty good
questions.
-- Woody Allen "In order to preserve your self-respect, it is sometimes necessary to lie and cheat." (Robert Byrne) The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit.
-- W. Somerset Maugham Pienza
In the spider-web of facts, many a truth is strangled.
-- Paul Eldridge Only positive consequences encourage good future performances.
-- Kenneth H. Blanchard Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education
without natural ability.
Cicero (106 BC - 43 BC) This book fills a much-needed gap.
- Moses Hadas in a review Practice random acts of kindness and sensless acts of beauty.
-- Adair Lara Pienza If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.
-- Voltaire Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald If you can't sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there and worrying. It's the worry
that gets you, not the loss of sleep.
-- Dale Carnegie Pienza
The Internet is so big, so powerful and pointless that for some people it is a complete substitute
for life.
-- Andrew Brown "Kill a man, and you are a murderer. Kill millions of men, and you are a conquerer. Kill everyone, and you are a god." (Jean Rostand) If there is any one proof of a man's incompetence, it is the stagnant mentality of a worker who,
doing some small routine job in a vast undertaking, does not care to look beyond the lever of a
machi None but a good man is really a living man, and the more good any man does, the more he really
lives. All the rest is death, or belongs to it.
-- Herman Melville The only weapon that becomes sharper with constant use is the tongue.
-- Anonymous Pienza Love is shown in your deeds, not in your words.
-- Fr. Jerome Cummings He who laughs last thinks slowest.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Books, like friends, should be few and well chosen.
-- Samuel Paterson Pienza
Age does not protect you from love but love to some extent protects you from age.
-- Jeanne Moreau He who receives an idea from me receives instruction for himself without lessening mine; as he
who lights his taper at mine receives light without darkening me.
-- Thomas Jefferson Eternal boyhood is the dream of a depressing percentage of American males, and the locker
room is the temple where they worship arrested development.
-- Russell Baker Let the refining and improving of your own life keep you so busy that you have little time to
criticize others.
-- H. Jackson Brown Elegance of language may not be in the power of all of us; but simplicity and straight forwardness
are. Write much as you would speak; speak as you think. If with your inferior, speak no coarser
tha Pienza The principle of give and take is the principle of diplomacy - give one and take ten.
-- Mark Twain What sets worlds in motion is the interplay of differences, their attractions and repulsions; life is
plurality, death is uniformity.
-- Octavio Paz There are three types of people in this world: Those who can count, and those who can't.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Pienza
A friend is a gift you give yourself.
-- Robert Louis Stevenson "A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools." (Douglas Adams) As life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action
of his time, at the peril of being not to have lived.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. "I'm so insane, I voted for Eisenhower."
"Oh yeah, well I'm so insane, I voted for Eisenhower TWICE!"
-- Ken Kesey from "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" Jealousy is the only vice that gives no pleasure.
-- Anonymous Pienza "This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) "We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars." (Oscar Wilde) Character may be manifested in the great moments, but it is made in the small ones.
-- Phillip Brooks Pienza
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 Flowers are words which even a baby can understand.
-- Arthur C. Coxe Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.
-- Albert Einstein Hell hath no fury like a bureaucrat scorned.
-- Milton Friedman Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end.
-- Igor Stravinsky Pienza Well, I think that it's a- it's had some difficult times but I think we have- we, I think, have been able
to make some very good progress and it's- I would say that it's- it's- it's delightful that w Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche Every normal man must be tempted at times to spit upon his hands, hoist the black flag, and
begin slitting throats.
- Henry Louis Mencken Pienza
I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with
typewriters.
- Frank Lloyd Wright Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.
-- Philip K. Dick The gods too are fond of a joke.
- Aristotle I am going to put myself to sleep now for a bit longer than usual. Call the time Eternity." (Jerzy Kosinski, Polish novelist, from his suicide note) The Churches must learn humility as well as teach it.
-- George Bernard Shaw, St. Joan Pienza If all men were brothers, would you let one marry your sister? "Better is the enemy of good." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) 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 Pienza
