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"I think people resist freedom because they're afraid of the unknown. But it's ironic....That unknown was once very well known. It's where are souls belong....The only solution is to confront them--co "To err is human; to forgive, divine." (Alexander Pope) Change is not merely necessary to life, it is life.
-- Alvin Toffler Only the little people pay taxes.
-- Leona Helmsley, hotel owner and prison inmate, 1989 I have an existential map; it has 'you are here' written all over it.
- Steven Wright Society and Culture God help the man who won't marry until he finds a perfect woman, and God help him still more if
he finds her.
-- Benjamin Tillett "The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom." (William Blake) Celestial navigation is based on the premise that the Earth is the center of the universe. The
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-- Kelvin Throop I Society and Culture
Tear open packet, unfold and use.
-- Directions on moist towelette package Creativity is the sudden cessation of stupidity.
-- Edward H. Land Did you ever notice when you blow in a dog's face he gets mad at you? But when you take him in
a car he sticks his head out the window.
-- Steve Bluestone "We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars." (Oscar Wilde) If you want anything done well, do it yourself. This is why most people laugh at their own jokes.
-- Bob Edwards Society and Culture "If you believe everything you read, you better not read." (Japanese Proverb) "Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free." (Emma Lazarus) When you've spent half your political life dealing with humdrum issues like the environment... it's
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-- Margaret Thatcher, on the Falklands Conflict Society and Culture
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-- Robert G. Ingersoll, (seen attributed to "R.S. Ingersoll" - a typo?) Outside of the killings, Washington has one of the lowest crime rates in the country.
-- Marion Barry, Mayor, Washington, D.C. What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is
the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset.
-- Crowf What's another word for "Thesaurus?"
-- Steven Wright Society and Culture Genius has somewhat of the infantine; But of the childish not a touch or taint.
-- Robert Browning Not much meat on her, but what's there is choice.
-- Spencer Tracy, about Katharine Hepburn Things are more like they are now than they ever were before.
-- Dwight D. Eisenhower, U.S. President Society and Culture
Happiness is nothing more than health and a poor memory.
-- Albert Schweitzer Multimedia? As far as I'm concerned, it's reading with the radio on!
-- Rory Bremner Life is the flower for which love is the honey.
-- Victor Hugo All courage is a form of constancy. It is always himself that a coward abandons first. After this all
other betrayals come.
-- Cormac McCarthy "What dies if freedom lives? What lives if freedom dies?" (Lindsay Anderson, British filmmaker, from if.... (1968) Society and Culture A clever man commits no minor blunders.
- Goethe Genius is 99 percent perspiration and 1 percent inspiration.
-- Thomas Edison Most convicted felons are just people who were not taken to museums or Broadway musicals as
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-- Libby Gelman-Waxner Society and Culture
Happiness is nothing more than health and a poor memory.
-- Albert Schweitzer The marriage of Marxism and feminism has been like the marriage of husband and wife depicted
in English common law: Marxism and feminism are one, and that one is Marxism.
-- Heidi Hartmann, The Unha I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think.
-- Socrates "Where there's a marriage without love there will be love without marriage." (Benjamin Franklin) Good hours, excellent pay, fun place to work, paid training, mean boss. Oh well, four out of five
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-- Help Wanted Ad, PA newspaper, 1994 Society and Culture A person starts to live when he can live outside himself.
-- Albert Einstein 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 To keep your marriage brimming, with love in the wedding cup, whenever you're wrong, admit it;
whenever you're right, shut up.
-- Ogden Nash Society and Culture
A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents.
-- H. L. Mencken Bigamy is one way of avoiding the painful publicity of divorce and the expense of alimony.
-- Oliver Herford I am free of all prejudice. I hate everyone equally.
-- W. C. Fields "Mothers spend a lifetime excising from their sons the influence of their fathers." (Arthur Lotti) "Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it." (John Quincy Adams) Society and Culture Every normal man must be tempted at times to spit upon his hands, hoist the black flag, and
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- Henry Louis Mencken Marriage is like a cage--one sees the birds outside desperate to get in and those inside equally
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-- Di Peatlins I can write better than anybody who can write faster, and I can write faster than anybody who can
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- A. J. Liebling Society and Culture
'Tis better to have loved and lost
Than never to have loved at all.
-- Alfred, Lord Tennyson, In Memoriam, 1850, line 27, stanza 4 "All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) If you are going to sin, sin against God, not the bureaucracy. God will forgive you but the
bureaucracy won't.
-- Hyman Rickover The best reason I can think of for not running for President of the United States is that you have
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-- Adlai Stevenson The gods gave man fire and he invented fire engines. They gave him love and he invented marriage. Society and Culture Don't be afraid your life will end; be afraid that it will never begin.
-- Grace Hansen "Most people don't realize that large pieces of coral, which have been painted brown and attached to the skull by common wood screws, can make a child look like a deer." (Jack Handey) Courage is the price that Love exacts for granting peace.
-- Amelia Earhart Society and Culture
There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called marriage. -- James Holt McGavran "All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.
-- Albert Einstein 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,
assess randomi Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for
appointment by the corrupt few.
-- George bernard Shaw Society and Culture "The happy people are failures because they are on such good terms with themselves they don't give a damn." (Agatha Christie) Marriage is very much like a violin; after the sweet music is over, the strings are attached. If you are afraid of loneliness, don't marry.
-- Chekhov Society and Culture
Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering. May you grow so rich your widow's second husband never has to worry about a living, God forbid. "Humans beings can always be relied upon to assert, with vigor, their god-given right to be stupid." (Dean Koontz, Seize the Night) We trained hard - but it seemed that every time we were beginning to form up into teams we were
reorganized. I was to learn later in life that we tend to meet any new situation by reorganizing,
and The Democrats are the party that says government will make you smarter, taller, richer, and
remove the crabgrass on your lawn. The Republicans are the party that says government doesn't
work and the Society and Culture I tried a mail order bride, once, but she was damaged in the mail, and I had to return the unused part for my full refund. A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in students.
-- John Ciardi Every normal man must be tempted at times to spit upon his hands, hoist the black flag, and
begin slitting throats.
- Henry Louis Mencken Society and Culture
Opportunity may knock only once, but temptation leans on the doorbell.
-- Anonymous Good judgement comes from experience, and experience--well, that comes from poor judgement.
-- Cousin Woodman Mother-in-law: A woman who destroys her son-in-law's peace of mind by giving him a piece of
hers.
-- Anonymous "As long as people will accept crap, it will be financially profitable to dispense it." (Dick Cavett) Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the
moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future
generations Society and Culture The democratic theory is that if you accumulate enough ignorance at the polls, you produce
intelligence.
-- Philo Vance "What is most appealing about young folks, after all, is the changes, not the still photograph of finished character but the movie, the soul in flux." (Thomas Pynchon) A woman seldom asks advice before she has bought her wedding clothes.
-- Joseph Addison Society and Culture
"In every gathering of thirteen, expect one guest will turn out to be a Judas." (Aleister Crowley) Luck is the residue of design.
- Branch Rickey - former owner of the Brooklyn Dodger Baseball Team "A conservative is a man who sits and thinks, mostly sits." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice
that I am not a Republican.
-- H. L. Mencken Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the
gentleman.
-- Herbert Spencer Society and Culture Love is only the game that is not called on account of darkness.
-- M. Hirschfield Marriage is very much like a violin; after the sweet music is over, the strings are attached. A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.
-- G. K. Chesterton Society and Culture
