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Never regard study as a duty, but as the enviable opportunity to learn to know the liberating
influence of beauty in the realm of the spirit for your own personal joy and to the profit of the
commun A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn; it can be stabbed to death by a joke
or worried to death by a frown on the right person's brow.
-- Charles Brower 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 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 Education is not filling a bucket, but lighting a fire.
-- William Yeats Perugia That's the nature of research--you don't know what in hell you're doing.
-- 'Doc' Edgerton More than kisses, letters mingle souls.
-- John Donne To love someone deeply gives you strength. Being loved by someone deeply gives you courage.
-- Lao Tzu Perugia
Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.
-- Aristotle "I love Los Angeles. I love Hollywood. They're beautiful. Everybody's plastic, but I love plastic. I want to be plastic." (Andy Warhol, Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up) When you have to kill a man, it costs nothing to be polite.
- Sir Winston Churchill All virtue is summed up in dealing justly.
-- Aristotle "It ends not with a bang, but a whimper." (Thomas Stearns Eliot, aka T. S. Eliot, The Hollow Man) Perugia Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more
experiments you make the better. What if they are a little course, and you may get your coat
soiled or torn? Live out of your imagination, not your history.
-- Stephen Covey Men have become the tools of their tools.
- Henry David Thoreau ( Perugia
There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him asleep.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson "I don't care to belong to a club that accepts people like me as members." (Groucho Marx) Football incorporates the two worst elements of American society: violence punctuated by
committee meetings.
-- George F. Will, journalist, political commentator, 1994 Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
-- T.S. Eliot Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting.
- Karl Wallenda Perugia The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.
-- Harper Lee The husband who wants a happy marriage should learn to keep his mouth shut and his checkbook open. -- Groucho Marx Familiarity breeds contempt -- and children.
-- Mark Twain Perugia
"Use what talents you possess; The woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best." (William Blake) If you want to sing out, sing out, and if you want to be free, be free, 'cause there's a million ways
to be, you know that there are...
-- Cat Stevens, from a song lyric Ah Mozart! He was happily married - but his wife wasn't.
-- Victor Borge Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the
unpalatable.
-- John Kenneth Galbraith "People expect a certain reaction from a business, and when you pleasantly exceed those expectations, you've somehow passed an important psychological threshold." (Richard Thalheimer, president, The Perugia Even overweight cats instinctively know the cardinal rule: when fat, arrange yourself in slim
poses.
-- John Weitz, American Designer Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday
afternoon.
-- Susan Ertz Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive.
-- Anaïs Nin Perugia
"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 "I had discovered that a person does not have to be this or be that or be anything, not even oneself. One is free." (Walker Percy, The Moviegoer) The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other
is ready.
-- Henry David Thoreau Second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience. A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence
University education.
-- George Bernard Shaw Perugia Cricket is best described as organised loafing.
-- Anonymous British Radio Broadcaster, 1996 Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.
-- Samuel Johnson "Everybody knows that if you are too careful, you become so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something." (Gertrude Stein) Perugia
He who dies a thousand deaths meets the final hour with the calmness of one who approaches a
well remembered door.
-- Heywood Brown blah "A subject for a great poet would be God's boredom after the seventh day of creation." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) May you grow so rich your widow's second husband never has to worry about a living, God forbid. Do not worry about your difficulties in mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater.
-- Albert Einstein My opinions are my wife's, and she says I'm lucky to have them. Perugia Based on what you know about him in history books, what do you think Abraham Lincoln would
be doing if he were alive today?
1) Writing his memoirs of the Civil War.
2) Advising the President.
3) D People, like nails, lose their effectiveness when they lose direction and begin to bend.
-- Walter Savage Landor I should have no objection to a repetition of the same life from its beginning, only asking the
advantages authors have in a second edition to correct some faults of the first.
-- Benjamin Franklin Perugia
"Liberty has never come from the government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of it. The history of liberty is a history of resistance. The history of liberty is a history of limitations of g He that always gives way to others will end in having no principles of his own.
-- Aesop I have never taken any exercise except sleeping and resting.
-- Mark Twain Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
-- Soren Kierkegaard Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.
-- G. K. Chesterton Perugia "All women love the men they fear. All women kiss the hand that rules them." (Lionel Atwill) There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called marriage. -- James Holt McGavran The fate of love is that it always seems too little or too much.
-- Anonymous Perugia
The nation's honor is dearer than the nation's comfort; yes, than the nation's life itself.
-- Woodrow Wilson "We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars." (Oscar Wilde) I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
- e e cummings Ordinary riches can be stolen, real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that
cannot be taken from you.
-- Oscar Wilde "It serves me right for putting all my eggs in one bastard." (Dorothy Parker, 1893-1967, US writer) Perugia Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution.
-- Mae West Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains or slavery? Forbid it,
Almighty God! I know not what course others may take but as for me; give me liberty or give me
de In great matters men show themselves as they wish to be seen; in small matters, as they are.
-- Gamaliel Bradford Perugia
If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man
will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability.
-- Henry Ford 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 May you be blessed with a wife so healthy and strong, she can pull the plow when your horse drops dead. If people turn to look at you on the street, you are not well dressed.
-- Beau Brummel What I have to say is far more important than how long my eyelashes are.
-- Alanis Morissette, singer, 1995 Perugia "You know what charm is: a way of getting the answer yes without having asked any clear question." (Albert Camus, The Fall) "Education must have an end in view, for it is not an end in itself." (Sybil Marshall) Food, one assumes, provides nourishment; but Americans eat it fully aware that small amounts of
poison have been added to improve its appearance and delay its putrefaction.
-- John Cage Perugia
Love is the dawn of marriage, and marriage is the sunset of love.
-- French saying Few things are harder to put up with than a good example.
- Mark Twain Anyone who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without
feminine upheaval. Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex,
the ugl The most terrible poverty is loneliness and the feeling of being unloved.
-- Mother Teresa Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Perugia Some of us are becoming the men we wanted to marry.
-- Gloria Steinem "Small minds discuss people, average minds discuss events, great minds discuss ideas." (Anonymous) The world has achieved brilliance without conscience. Ours is a world of nuclear giants and
ethical infants.
-- General Omar Bradley Perugia
We live at a time when man believes himself fabulously capable of creation, but he does not
know what to create.
-- Jose Ortega y Gasset Dew knot trussed yore spell chequer two fined awl yore mistakes.
-- Brendan Hills Where there is an unknowable there is a promise.
-- Thornton Wilder Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere.
-- Chinese Proverb We have art to save ourselves from the truth.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Perugia Whoever called it necking was a poor judge of anatomy.
-- Groucho Marx The promises of maniacs, like those of women, are not safely relied upon.
-- Joseph Heller, God Knows "Dying is the most embarrassing thing that can ever happen to you, because someone's got to take care of all your details." (Andy Warhol, America, 1985) Perugia
