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"God is dead: but considering the state Man is in, there will perhaps be caves, for ages yet, in which his shadow will be shown." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, The Joyful Wisdom) To expect defeat is nine-tenths of defeat itself.
-- Francis Crawford A narcissist is someone better-looking than you are.
-- Gore Vidal The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.
-- ee cummings "When you resort to attacking the messenger and not the message, you have lost the debate." (Addison Whithecomb) Society and Culture He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose
-- Jim Elliott "Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night." (Edger Allen Poe) We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
-- Aristotle Society and Culture
This novel is not to be tossed lightly aside, but hurled with great force.
-- Dorothy Parker "Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing." (Oscar Wilde) Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.
-- George Orwell Men are strong only so long as they represent a strong idea. They become powerless when they
oppose it.
-- Sigmund Freud In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
- Martin Luther King Jr. Society and Culture "Have love for your friend up to a limit for it is possible he may turn into your enemy some day; and hate your enemy up to a limit for it is possible he may turn into your friend some day." (Ali bin A real leader faces the music, even when he doesn't like the tune.
-- Anonymous "Dream as if you'll live forever; live as if you'll die tomorrow." (James Dean) Society and Culture
Some men are born with cold feet; some acquire cold feet; and some have cold feet thrust upon
them.
-- Anonymous Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and
retaliation. the foundation of such a method is love.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. When a thing has been said and said well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it.
-- Anatole France "It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so." (Mark Twain) People need loving the most when they deserve it the least.
-- John Harrigan Society and Culture I loathe people who keep dogs. They are cowards who haven't got the guts to bite people
themselves.
-- August Strindberg "One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries." (A. A. Milne) "That government is best which governs the least, because its people discipline themselves." (Thomas Jefferson) Society and Culture
Your every voter, as surely as your chief magistrate, exercises a public trust.
-- Grover Cleveland The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow
extinction from apathy, indifference, and undernourishment.
-- Robert Hutchins, Great Books, 1954 What do you take me for, an idiot?
- General Charles de Gaulle (1890-1970), when a journalist asked him if he was happy And since the stench of death will always attract flies and vermin, the arrival of Geraldo was
perhaps inevitable.
-- Garry Trudeau People, like nails, lose their effectiveness when they lose direction and begin to bend.
-- Walter Savage Landor Society and Culture Musical people always want one to be perfectly dumb at the very moment when one is longing to
be perfectly deaf.
-- Oscar Wilde To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest.
-- Ghandi blah "The best students always are flunking. Every good teacher knows that." (Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance) Society and Culture
I don't want everyone to like me; I should think less of myself if some people did.
-- Henry James Always go to the bathroom when you have a chance.
-- King George V Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the
consequences.
-- Isadora Duncan Sex is the mathematics urge sublimated.
-- M. C. Reed If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself, tell yourself that you are not a poet
enough to call forth its riches; for to the creator there is no poverty and no poor indifferent p Society and Culture "Drugs have done a lot of good. A lot of good songs have been written. 'Penny Lane' is worth 10 dead kids. 'Dark Side of the Moon?' 100 dead kids. At least that many were conceived by people listening The only one of your children who does not grow up and move away is your husband. "Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Society and Culture
It is not necessary that whilst I live I live happily; but it is necessary that so long as I live I should
live honourably.
-- Kant, Immanuel We can do not great things - only small things with great love.
-- Mother Theresa The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything.
-- Oscar Wilde In any organization there will always be one person who knows what is going on. This person
must be fired.
-- Conway's Law A friend is a gift you give yourself.
-- Robert Louis Stevenson Society and Culture No wonder nobody comes here--it's too crowded.
-- Yogi Berra He had occasional flashes of silence that made his conversation perfectly delightful.
-- Sydney Smith, referring to Macaulay "Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking." (H. Jackson Brown (Jr.) Society and Culture
"Things do not change, we change." (Henry David Thoreau) In every country and every age, the priest has been hostile to Liberty.
-- Thomas Jefferson "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) "Experience is the name that everyone gives to their mistakes." (Oscar Wilde) "Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to know." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) Society and Culture Drink to me.
-- Pablo Picasso, dying words "People who cease to believe in God or goodness altogether still believe in the devil. I don't know why. No, I do indeed know why. Evil is always possible. And goodness is eternally difficult." (Anne It is most unwise for people in love to marry.
-- George Bernard Shaw Society and Culture
The IRS spends God knows how much of your tax money on these toll-free information hot lines
staffed by IRS employees, whose idea of a dynamite tax tip is that you should print neatly. If you
ask th The only thing that holds a marriage together is the husband bein' big enough to keep his mouth
shut, to step back and see where his wife is wrong.
-- Archie Bunker, character on "All in the Family, Insurance is like marriage. You pay, pay, pay, and you never get anything back.
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labour in
freedom.
-- Albert Einstein 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) Society and Culture "Humans beings can always be relied upon to assert, with vigor, their god-given right to be stupid." (Dean Koontz, Seize the Night) The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything.
-- Oscar Wilde Mathematics transfigures the fortuitous concourse of atoms into the tracery of the finger of God.
-- Herbert Westren Turnbull Society and Culture
The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One
cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the
marvelous str "If I work toward an end, meantime I am confined to a process. The rainbow is more beautiful than the pot at the end of it, because the rainbow is now. And the pot never turns out to be quite what I e Who the hell wants to hear actors talk?
- H. M. Warner, founder of Warner Brothers, in 1927 If I have not seen as far as others, it is because giants were standing on my shoulders.
-- Hal Abelson "I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it." (Thomas Jefferson, to Archibald Stuart, 1791) Society and Culture "All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) To love another person is to help them love God.
-- Søren Kierkegaard "Kill a man, and you are a murderer. Kill millions of men, and you are a conquerer. Kill everyone, and you are a god." (Jean Rostand) Society and Culture
It is well, when judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and
superior impartiality.
-- Arnold Bennett If the French were really intelligent, they'd speak English.
-- Wilfred Sheed Eighty percent of married men cheat in America. The rest cheat in Europe.
-- Jackie Mason The only thing you take with you when you're gone is what you leave behind.
-- John Allston Things are more like they are now than they ever were before.
-- Dwight D. Eisenhower, U.S. President Society and Culture Is it better for a woman to marry a man who loves her than a man she loves.
-- Anonymous "Careful?! Was my mother careful when she stabbed me in the heart with a coat hanger while I was still in the womb?" (Trey Parker) "The devil's agents may be of flesh and blood, may they not?" (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of the Baskervilles) Society and Culture
What do I dislike about death? Must be the hours.
-- Woody Allen Gravitation can not be held responsible for people falling in love.
-- Albert Einstein When a man takes an oath, Meg, he's holding his ownself in his own hands. Like water. And if he
opens his fingers then- he needn't hope to find himself again.
-- Robert Bolt from A Man For All Seas "What dies if freedom lives? What lives if freedom dies?" (Lindsay Anderson, British filmmaker, from if.... (1968) We see the brightness of a new page where everything yet can happen.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke, Book of Hours Society and Culture Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
-- Gail Godwin Gentlemen, it is better to have died a small boy than to fumble this football.
-- John Heisman My wife ran off with my best friend last week. I miss him! Society and Culture
