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Mathematics transfigures the fortuitous concourse of atoms into the tracery of the finger of God.
-- Herbert Westren Turnbull May you learn to perform miracles: earn a living and marry off your daughters. How could they tell?
-- Dorothy Parker, upon hearing that President Coolidge had died My darling wife was always glum. I drowned her in a cask of rum, And so made sure that she would stay, In better spirits night and day. Blessed are the young for they shall inherit the national debt.
-- Herbert Hoover Nocera Umbra If I were a girl, I'd despair. The supply of good women far exceeds that of the men who deserve
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-- Robert Graves When people go to work, they shouldn't have to leave their hearts at home.
-- Betty Bender Character is what you are in the dark.
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There is no realizable power that man cannot, in time, fashion the tools to attain, nor any power so secure that the naked ape will not abuse it. So it is written in the genetic cards - only physics a "Try not to have a good time ... This is supposed to be educational." (Charles Schultz) You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it come true.
-- Richard Bach Adolescence is a period of rapid changes. Between the ages of 12 and 17, for example, a parent
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-- Anonymous The first rule of intelligent tinkering is to save all the parts.
-- Paul Ehrlich Nocera Umbra 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 "Work like you don't need the money. Love like you've never been hurt. Dance like nobody's watching." (Satchel Paige) Ambition is not a vice of little people.
-- Michel de Montaigne Nocera Umbra
"Murder is the very bed-rock of our social institutions." (Octave Mirbeau, The Torture Garden) The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything. Except what is worth knowing.
Journalism, conscious of this, and having tradesman-like habits, supplies their demands.
-- Oscar Wilde Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same
direction.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry Wife: The perfect acquisition for any gentleman feeling himself to have excessive control over his personal affairs. Beauty as we feel it is something indescribable; what it is or what it means can never be said.
-- George Santayana Nocera Umbra "That government is best which governs the least, because its people discipline themselves." (Thomas Jefferson) Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.
-- George Orwell Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.
-- Don Stanford Nocera Umbra
In the spider-web of facts, many a truth is strangled.
-- Paul Eldridge Sex is God's joke on human beings.
-- Bette Davis You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it come true.
-- Richard Bach "The most instructive experiences are those of everyday life." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Go away...I'm alright.
-- H. G. Wells, dying words Nocera Umbra Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous
and dreadful.
-- Samuel Johnson Time is at once the most valuable and most perishable of all our possessions.
-- John Randolph Hardly a year passes that fails to find a new, oft-times exotic, research method or technique
added to the armamentarium of political inquiry. Anyone who cannot negotiate Chi squares,
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Grow old with me! The best is yet to be!
-- Robert Browning I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood. If it
does need additional interpretation by someone other than the creator, then I question whether it
ha "When we are born we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools." (William Shakespeare) Marriage is a thing which puts a ring on a woman's finger and two under the man's eyes. If you don't double-click me, I can't do anything.
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--Loesje To love another person is to see the face of God.
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"Self-confidence is the first requisite for achieving great things." (Samuel Johnson) We have children because we want immortality and this is the most reliable way of getting it.
-- Woodrow Wyatt Mathematics, rightly viewed, posses not only truth, but supreme beauty -- a beauty cold and
austere, like that of sculpture.
-- Bertrand Russell My grandfather once told me that there are two kinds of people: those who work and those who
take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was less competition there.
-- INDIRA Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parent, gobble their food, and tyrannize their
teachers.
-- Socrates Nocera Umbra Character is what you are in the dark.
-- Dwight L. Moody Marriage is a lottery in which men stake their liberty and women their happiness.
-- Madame de Rieux Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside a dog, it's too dark to read.
-- Groucho Marx Nocera Umbra
"Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) A conclusion is the place where you got tired thinking.
-- Martin H. Fischer In great matters men show themselves as they wish to be seen; in small matters, as they are.
-- Gamaliel Bradford As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.
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Sometimes you get shown the light in the strangest of places if you look at it right.
-- Jerry Garcia Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for
him.
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time, and still retain the ability to function.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald A woman seldom asks advice before she has bought her wedding clothes.
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minute, it's longer than any hour. That is relativity.
-- Albert Einstein Love is only the game that is not called on account of darkness.
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Man is the best computer we can put aboard a spacecraft...and the only one that can be mass
produced with unskilled labor.
-- Wernher von Braun Thanksgiving is so called because we are all so thankful that it only comes once a year.
-- P. J. O'Rourke Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has not heart; and any man who is over 30, and is
not a conservative, has no brains.
- Sir Winston Churchill Study men, not historians.
-- Harry Truman When making public policy decisions about new technologies for the Government, I think one
should ask oneself which technologies would best strengthen the hand of a police state. Then, do
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-- Steven Wright The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech.
-- George Bernard Shaw Nocera Umbra
"Twelve magicians and two carnies have been shot dead doing the bullet catch. That's cool enough, but every night when we close our show with that trick and the loaded gun gets pointed in my face, it I date this girl for two years--and then the nagging starts: "I wanna know your name."
-- Mike Binder Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you.
- Carl Gustav Jung With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die.
-- Abraham Lincoln If ever I get married again it would have to be under an anaesthetic.
-- Marie Tonkin Nocera Umbra A person starts to live when he can live outside himself.
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* Both of your socks should always be the same color
* Or they should at least both be fairly dark
-- Dave Barry He who conquers himself is the mightiest warrior.
-- Confucius Wherever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.
-- Harry S. Truman A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.
-- G. K. Chesterton Nocera Umbra If God had meant us to vote, He would have given us candidates.
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