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"It seems to me that almost all our sadnesses are moments of tension, which we feel as paralysis because we no longer hear our astonished emotions living." (Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poe "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 Wilhelm Nietzsche) "I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter." (Blaise Pascal) We got to roll with the punches, play all of our hunches, make the best of whatever comes your
way. Forget that blind ambition, learn to trust your intuition -- plowing straight ahead, come what
may "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 Bibione "Use what talents you possess; The woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best." (William Blake) Man's mind stretched to a new idea never goes back to its original dimensions.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes "If I were still a critic, I would loathe knowing the person I was writing about. There's enough of an incestuous relationship between subject and writer." (Manny Farber, American film theorist) Bibione
blah "If we did all the things we are capable of, we would literally astound ourselves." (Thomas Alva Edison) It takes two to speak truth --One to speak, and another to hear.
-- Henry David Thoreau Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.
-- Dietrich Bonhoeffer "I know we're not saints or virgins or lunatics; we know all the lust and lavatory jokes, and most of the dirty people; we can catch buses and count our change and cross the roads and talk real senten The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.
-- George Bernard Shaw Bibione Marriage is a great institution, but who wants to live in an institution?
-- Marx Groucho, the film "Animal Crackers" Tauzin backs term limits -- But he thinks it's a bad idea.
-- Headline, story in the New Orleans Times-Picayune, Feb 20, 1995 Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering.
-- Anonymous Bibione
There are some things which cannot be learned quickly, and time, which is all we have, must be
paid heavily for their acquiring. They are the very simplest things and, because it takes a man's
life You must first have a lot of patience to learn to have patience.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec The brain is a wonderful organ. It starts working the moment you get up in the morning, and does
not stop until you get into the office.
-- Robert Frost "Well begun is half done." (Aristotle) If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe.
- Carl Sagan Bibione The concept is interesting and well-formed, but in order to earn better than a 'C', the idea must be
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- A Yale University management professor in response to student Fred Smith's paper prop 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 Whoever is not a misanthrope at forty can never have loved mankind.
-- Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort Bibione
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 "Think off-center." (George Carlin) "Common sense and education are highly compatible; in fact, neither is worth much without the other." (Donald G. Smith) For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of our tasks; the ultimate,
the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.
-- Rainer Maria Ril The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that it has never tried to
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-- Bill Watterson, in his comic strip Calvin and Hobbes Bibione The eyes are not responsible when the mind does the seeing.
-- Publilius Syrus Once a boy becomes a man, he's a man all his life, but a woman is only sexy until she becomes
your wife.
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it.
Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it.
Hatred darkens life; love illumines it.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Bibione
Propel, propel, propel your craft softly down liquid solution. Ecstatically, ecstatically, ecstatically,
ecstatically, Existence is simply illusion.
-- Fred Rogers, parody of "Row, row, row your boa Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.
-- Samuel Johnson Never raise your hands to your kids. It leaves your groin unprotected.
-- Red Buttons Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business.
-- Tom Robbins Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
- Lewis Perelman Bibione If everybody is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking.
-- George S. Patton, Jr. "The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of the dream." (Eleanor Roosevelt) Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-
proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe
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The male is a domestic animal which, if treated with firmness, can be trained to do most things.
-- Jilly Cooper To decide, to be at the level of choice, is to take responsibility for your life and to be in control of
your life.
-- Abbie M. Dale Experience is not what happens to you; it's what you do with what happens to you.
-- Aldous Huxley Great innovations should not be forced on slender majorities.
-- Thomas Jefferson You got to be careful if you don't know where you're going, because you might not get there.
-- Yogi Berra Bibione "Experience is a good teacher, but she sends in terrific bills." (Minna Antrim) "Greed, for lack of a better word, is good. Greed is right. Greed works." (Michael Douglas, as Gordon Gekko, Wall Street, 1987) "He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself." (Thomas Paine) Bibione
Your goals, minus your doubts, equal your reality.
-- Ralph Marston The principle of give and take is the principle of diplomacy - give one and take ten.
-- Mark Twain No wonder nobody comes here--it's too crowded.
-- Yogi Berra "People drag their progeny around with them like a ball and chain, like some terrible deadweight that hinders their every move - and that, as often as not, effectively winds up killing them." (Michel "The bite of conscience, like the bite of a dog into a stone, is a stupidity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Bibione The Church is an organism that grows best in an alien society.
-- C. Stacey Woods Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple, learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a
dozen.
-- John Steinbeck Whatever you are, be a good one.
-- Abraham Lincoln Bibione
"Not only is there no guarantee of the temporal immortality of the human soul, that is to say of its eternal survival after death; but, in any case, this assumption completely fails to accomplish the Whoever called it necking was a poor judge of anatomy.
-- Groucho Marx Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not
there, I go to work.
- Robert Orben If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile.
-- Lynda Barry Why doesn't she like me? Is it my hair, my overbite, the fact that I've worn the same shirt and
shorts for the last four years?
-- Bart Simpson, young character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated tele Bibione To love another person is to help them love God.
-- Søren Kierkegaard Very little is known of the Canadian country since it is rarely visited by anyone but the Queen and
illiterate sport fishermen.
-- P. J. O'Rourke Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are conservatives.
-- John Stuart Mill Bibione
Wives are people who feel they don't dance enough.
-- Groucho Marx There are those who look at things the way they are, and ask why... I dream of things that never
were, and ask why not?
-- Robert Francis Kennedy Eighty percent of married men cheat in America. The rest cheat in Europe.
-- Jackie Mason "Not only is there no guarantee of the temporal immortality of the human soul, that is to say of its eternal survival after death; but, in any case, this assumption completely fails to accomplish the After all, all he did was string together a lot of old, well-known quotations.
-- H. L. Mencken, on Shakespeare Bibione Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance.
-- Oscar Wilde The theory used to be you marry an older man because they are more mature. The new theory is
that men don't mature. So you might as well marry a younger one.
-- Anonymous "I hear, I know. I see, I remember. I do, I understand." (Confucius, 551 BC-479) Bibione
"A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) Great Spirit, help me never to judge another until I have walked in his moccasins.
-- Sioux Indian Prayer A straight line is the shortest in morals as in mathematics.
-- Maria Edgeworth I think every woman is entitled to a middle husband she can forget.
-- Adela Rogers St. John 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 Bibione "A man who flies from his fear may find he has only taken a shortcut to meet it." (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) For best results: wash in cold water separately, hang dry and iron with warm iron. For not so good
results: drag behind car through puddles, blow-dry on roofrack.
-- Laundry instructions on a shirt The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains that I
have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time.
- George Bernard Shaw Bibione
Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
- Napoleon Bonaparte Lottery: A tax on people who are bad at math.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker 'Tis better to have loved and lost
Than never to have loved at all.
-- Alfred, Lord Tennyson, In Memoriam, 1850, line 27, stanza 4 I sometimes think that God, in creating man, overestimated His ability.
-- Oscar Wilde "Fake is as old as the Eden tree." (George Orson Welles) Bibione I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers.
-- Gandhi Honolulu, it's got everything. Sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother.
-- Ken Dodd Hell hath no fury like a bureaucrat scorned.
-- Milton Friedman Bibione
