Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not
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- Robert Orben I am beginning to suspect all elaborate and special systems of education. They seem to me to be
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-- Anne S The child is the father of the man.
-- William Wordsworth Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you
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-- Aldous Huxley I feel that if a person has problems communicating the very least he can do is to shut up.
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-- Arizona senatorial candidate Claire Sargent, on women candidates When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen.
-- Ernest Hemingway Peculiar travel suggestions are dancing lessons from God.
-- Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., Cat's Cradle Shopping
"A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward." (Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1882 - 1945, 32nd U.S. President) The soul is healed by being with children.
-- Fyodor Dostoyevski Happy are those who dream dreams and are willing to pay the price to make them come true.
-- Anon. 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) It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get back up.
-- Vince Lombardi Shopping The difference between sex and death is that with death you can do it alone and no one is going
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-- Woody Allen For I am a bear of very little brain and long words bother me.
-- Winnie the Pooh, character from author A. A. Milne Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils.
-- Hector Louis Berlioz Shopping
Marriage was all a woman's idea and for man's acceptance of the pretty yoke, it becomes us to
be grateful.
-- Phyllis McGinley "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world, indeed it is the only thing that ever has." (Margaret Mead, 1901-78) Marriage is a thing which puts a ring on a woman's finger and two under the man's eyes. "The evil that is in the world almost always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence if they lack understanding." (Albert Camus) I don't know why I did it, I don't know why I enjoyed it, and I don't know why I'll do it again.
-- Bart Simpson, young character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated television show Shopping I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about 'short' and 'cheap'? -- Phyllis Diller I have never taken any exercise except sleeping and resting.
-- Mark Twain the social sciences were for all those who had not yet decided what to do with their lives, and for
all those whose premature frustrations led them into the sterile alleys of confrontation.
-- Peter Shopping
Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think.
-- Niels Bohr The Church is an organism that grows best in an alien society.
-- C. Stacey Woods A lover tries to stand in well with the pet dog of the house.
-- Moliere Imitation is the sincerest form of television.
-- Fred Allen Now join your hands, and with your hands your hearts.
-- William Shakespeare, King Henry the Sixth Shopping "Great work is done by people who are not afraid to be great." (Fernando Flores) "It serves me right for putting all my eggs in one bastard." (Dorothy Parker, 1893-1967, US writer) "It is the nature of a man as he grows older, a small bridge in time, to protest against change, particularly change for the better." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) Shopping
The work of internal government has become the task of controlling the thousands of fifth-rate
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-- Henry B. Adams Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you walk into an open sewer and die.
- Mel Brooks Free will is a golden thread running through the frozen matrix of fixed events.
-- Robert A. Heinlein _The Rolling Stones_ Men have become the tools of their tools.
-- Henry David Thoreau Any sufficiently advanced bureaucracy is indistinguishable from molasses.
-- Anon. Shopping Love is a perky elf dancing a merry little jig and then suddenly he turns on you with a miniature
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-- Matt Groening, Love is Hell What we anticipate seldom occurs: but what we least expect generally happens.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.
- Albert Einstein Shopping
In the sciences, we are now uniquely privileged to sit side by side with the giants on whose
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-- Gerald Holton Mathematics, rightly viewed, posses not only truth, but supreme beauty -- a beauty cold and
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-- Bertrand Russell We would often be sorry if our wishes were gratified.
-- Aesop Love is what happens to men and women who don't know each other.
-- W. Somerset Maugham Behind every great fortune there is a crime.
- Honore de Balzac Shopping "To live is to dream and to die is to awaken." (Anonymous) "A man must dream a long time in order to act with grandeur, and dreaming is nursed in darkness." (Jean Genet) Some men are born with cold feet; some acquire cold feet; and some have cold feet thrust upon
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-- Anonymous Shopping
During the first period of a man's life the greatest danger is not to take the risk.
-- Soren Kierkegaard 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 This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold
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-- Will Rogers The highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to make money do more for the
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-- Henry Ford Cricket is best described as organised loafing.
-- Anonymous British Radio Broadcaster, 1996 Shopping Dreams never hurt anybody if you keep working right behind the dreams to make as much of
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-- Frank W. Woolworth Drink to me.
-- Pablo Picasso, dying words If you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it's done.
-- Scott Adams Shopping
Generations to come will find it difficult to believe that a man such as Gandhi ever walked the
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-- Albert Einstein It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
- Mark Twain "I have no special gift; I am only passionately curious." (Albert Einstein) Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parent, gobble their food, and tyrannize their
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-- Roger Babson Government is like a baby. An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of
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-- Ronald Reagan, Saturday Evening Post, 1965 Men marry because they are tired, women because they are curious; both are disappointed.
-- Oscar Wilde Shopping
I feel like Zsa Zsa Gabor's sixth husband. I know what I'm supposed to do, but I don't know how
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-- Milton Berle, when called to the microphone at the 2nd Annual Comedians Hal "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) Whenever I dwell for any length of time on my own shortcomings, they gradually begin to seem
mild harmless, rather engaging little things, not at all like the staring defects in other people's
chara The grand aim of all science is to cover the greatest number of empirical facts by logical
deduction from the smallest number of hypotheses or axioms.
-- Albert Einstein Infatuation is when you think that he's as sexy as Robert Redford, as smart as Henry Kissinger,
as noble as Ralph Nader, as funny as Woody Allen, and as athletic as Jimmy Conners. Love is
when you r Shopping 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 Music makes one feel so romantic - at least it always gets on one's nerves - which is the same
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-- Oscar Wilde Nuns: Women who marry God. If they divorce Him, do they get half the universe? Shopping
A husband is a guy who tells you when you've got on too much lipstick and helps you with your
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-- Ogden Nash There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.
-- Oscar Wilde Goodbye, Everybody!
-- Hart Crane, poet, who committed suicide by jumping overboard during a steamship voyage. The brain is a wonderful organ. It starts working the moment you get up in the morning, and does
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-- Robert Frost "Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh." (George Bernard Shaw) Shopping Men. You can't live with them. You don't have to.
-- Seen on a t-shirt "I don't care to belong to a club that accepts people like me as members." (Groucho Marx) In any organization there will always be one person who knows what is going on. This person
must be fired.
-- Conway's Law Shopping
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 man who complains about the way the ball bounces is likely the one who dropped it.
-- Lou Holtz "If you assume that there's no hope, you guarantee that there will be no hope. If you assume that there is an instinct for freedom, there are opportunities to change things, there's a chance for you t Love is a snowmobile racing across the tundra and then suddenly it flips over, pinning you
underneath. At night, the ice weasels come.
-- Matt Groening, Love is Hell Nothing is wrong with California that a rise in the ocean level wouldn't cure.
- Ross MacDonald Shopping 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
is Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.
-- George Orwell Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions - it only guarantees equality of opportunity.
- Irving Kristol Shopping
