"I hear, I know. I see, I remember. I do, I understand." (Confucius, 551 BC-479) That is the best -- to laugh with someone because you think the same things are funny.
-- Gloria Vanderbilt "No one ever owns his youth or the women he loves." (Pedro Almodóvar, Live Flesh) "I would rather die standing than live on my knees!" (Emiliano Zapata) Sex is like bridge: If you don't have a good partner, you better have a good hand.
-- Charles Pierce Computers and Internet Nothing has really happened until it has been recorded.
-- Virginia Woolf There is no realizable power that man cannot, in time, fashion the tools to attain, nor any power
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-- Michael Meissner "Who is more foolish? The fool or the fool that follows it?" (Alec Guinness) I don't think I'll get married again. I'll just find a woman I don't like and give her a house.
-- Lewis Grizzard Marriage is a rest period between romances. Everything that can be invented has been invented.
- Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899 Computers and Internet All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman and a pretty girl.
-- Charlie Chaplin It is well, when judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and
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-- Arnold Bennett The mathematician lives long and lives young; the wings of his soul do not early drop off, nor do
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I date this girl for two years--and then the nagging starts: "I wanna know your name."
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-- Theodore Roosevelt Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance.
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-- Samuel Johnson Computers and Internet
If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be
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-- Abraham Lincoln Marriage certificate is just another word for a work permit. Love is like the measles. The older you get it, the worse the attack.
-- Mary Roberts Rhinehart Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is most important that you do it.
-- Gandhi We always believe our first love is our last, and our last love our first.
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-- Millard Fillmore, dying words You must first have a lot of patience to learn to have patience.
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"No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave." (Calvin Coolidge) When you see what some girls marry, you realize how they must hate to work for a living.
-- Helen Rowland In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that
no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it's the exact opposite.
-- Paul Dirac If a man does his best, what else is there?
- General George S. Patton Don't let it end like this. Tell them I said something.
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-- Ogden Nash "I owe much to my friends; but, all things considered, it strikes me that I owe even more to my enemies. The real person springs life under a sting even better than under a caress." (André Gide) The question is not whether we will die, but how we will live.
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There is nothing better for the spirit or the body than a love affair. It elevates the thoughts and
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-- Barbara Howar Confidence is the feeling you have before you understand the situation.
--Anon. The imaginary friends I had as a kid dropped me because their friends thought I didn't exist.
-- Aaron Machado "Education is a vacine for violence." (Edward James Olmos) A good marriage is like a casserole, only those responsible for it really know what goes in it.
-- Anonymous Computers and Internet Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is enemy action.
- Auric Goldfinger, in Goldfinger by Ian L. Fleming History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte "Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Computers and Internet
"Eschew the ordinary, disdain the commonplace. If you have a single-minded need for something, let it be the unusual, the esoteric, the bizarre, the unexpected..." (Chuck Jones) Life is ours to be spent, not to be saved.
-- D.H. Lawrence The Churches must learn humility as well as teach it.
-- George Bernard Shaw, St. Joan If pleasures are greatest in anticipation, just remember that this is also true of trouble.
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I just need enough to tide me over until I need more.
-- Bill Hoest I hate women because they always know where things are.
-- James Thurber Morality consists in suspecting other people of not being legally married.
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- Father Larry Lorenzoni Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same
direction.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry Computers and Internet "The face is the soul of the body." (Ludwig Wittgenstein) "If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost." (Aristotle) A wasted youth is better by far than a wise and productive old age.
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"Furious activity is no substitute for understanding." (H. H. Williams) 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 Education ... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth
reading.
-- G. M. Trevelyan "I never resist temptation, because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me." (George Bernard Shaw) Well, I think that it's a- it's had some difficult times but I think we have- we, I think, have been able
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-- Bertolt Brecht Nothing has really happened until it has been recorded.
-- Virginia Woolf To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.
-- Karen Sunde Computers and Internet
Suicide is belated acquiescence in the opinion of one's wife's relatives. I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than
knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.
-- Albert Einstein "Those that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." (Benjamin Franklin) "You make 'em, I amuse 'em." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, on children) If pleasures are greatest in anticipation, just remember that this is also true of trouble.
-- Elbert Hubbard Computers and Internet Change before you have to.
-- Jack Welch God gave men both a penis and a brain, but unfortunately not enough blood supply to run both at
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- Robin Williams, commenting on the Clinton/Lewinsky affair Soul meets soul on lovers lips.
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The perfect love affair is one which is conducted entirely by post.
-- George Bernard Shaw Men have a much better time of it than women: for one thing they marry later, for another thing
they die earlier.
-- H. L. Mencken 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 a Most rock journalism is people who can't write interviewing people who can't talk for people who
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-- Frank Zappa Technology is a way of organizing the universe so that man doesn't have to experience it.
-- Max Frisch Computers and Internet "People demand freedom only when they have no power." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The older one grows, the more one likes indecency.
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