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-- H. L. Mencken "Those who feel certainty are stupid and those with any imagination or understanding are filled with doubt and indecision." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Internet "Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "In large states public education will always be mediocre, for the same reason that in large kitchens the cooking is usually bad." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to.
-- Elvis Presley Internet
Behind every great fortune there is a crime.
- Honore de Balzac In the book of life, the answers aren't in the back.
-- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.
-- G. K. Chesterton The second day of a diet is always easier than the first. By the second day you're off it.
-- Jackie Gleason The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
- Mark Twain Internet The less their ability, the more their conceit.
Ahad HaAm "The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet." (Andy Warhol) I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.
-- Albert Einstein Internet
The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.
-- Nicholas Murray Butler Anyone can do any amount of work provided it isn't the work he's supposed to be doing at the
moment.
-- Robert Benchley It's important to be open-minded, but not SO open-minded that your brains fall out.
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-- Mark Twain Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous
and dreadful.
-- Samuel Johnson Internet
The right to swing my fist ends where the other man's nose begins.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes Saying that Windows95 is equal to Macintosh is like finding a potato that looks like Jesus and
believing you've witnessed the second coming.
-- Guy Kawasaki Marital Freedom: The liberty that allows a husband to do exactly that which his wife pleases.
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-- Flannery O'Connor Internet
I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them.
- Ian L. Fleming Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future.
-- Paul Boese An ideal wife is one who remains faithful to you but tries to be just as charming as if she weren't.
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is one who can find such a man.
-- Lana Turner Sometimes a scream is better than a thesis.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Internet "People demand freedom only when they have no power." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One
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-- Terry Cohen Internet
"The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning, but without understanding." (Louis Brandeis) The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because
generally they are the same people.
-- G. K. Chesterton An eye for an eye only leads to more blindness.
-- Margaret Atwood This delivery driver carries no money. His wife has it all. It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
- Oscar Wilde Internet A person starts to live when he can live outside himself.
-- Albert Einstein "A girl can wait for the right man to come along, but in the meantime that still doesn't mean she can't have a wonderful time with all the wrong ones." (Cher) A memorandum is written not to inform the reader but to protect the writer.
-- Dean Acheson Internet
Work expands to fill the time available.
-- PARKINSON'S LAW Thought is action in rehearsal.
-- Sigmund Freud 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 The great tragedy of science, the slaying of a beautiful theory by an ugly fact.
-- Thomas Henry Huxley 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 Internet Mary had a little lamb and the doctor fainted.
-- Anonymous Education is the state-controlled manufacture of echoes.
-- Norman Douglas Logic is in the eye of the logician.
- Gloria Steinem Internet
A woman has got to love a bad man once or twice in her life to be thankful for a good one.
-- Mae West "My wallpaper and I are fighting a duel to the death. One or the other of us has to go." (Oscar Wilde, his last recorded words) To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance
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-- Prince The power of accurate observation is frequently called cynicism by those who don't have it.
- George Bernard Shaw Internet The multitude is always in the wrong.
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-- Benjamin Disraeli Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for
appointment by the corrupt few.
-- George bernard Shaw Internet
The Republicans have a new healthcare proposal: Just say NO to illness!
-- Mark Russell "The dancer's body is simply the luminous manifestation of the soul." (Isadora Duncan) "This is the first age that's paid much attention to the future, which is a little ironic since we may not have one." (Arthur C. Clarke) There's many a bestseller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.
-- Flannery O'Connor Give her two red roses, each with a note. The first note says "For the woman I love" and the
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-- Anonymous Internet The President has kept all of the promises he intended to keep.
- Clinton aide George Stephanopolous speaking on Larry King Live Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can
never tell.
-- Joan Crawford I don't even butter my bread; I consider that cooking.
-- Katherine Cebrian Internet
The child is the father of the man.
-- William Wordsworth It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get back up.
-- Vince Lombardi There's nothing remarkable about it. All one has to do is hit the right keys at the right time and the
instrument plays itself.
-- Johann Sebastian Bach Character may be manifested in the great moments, but it is made in the small ones.
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-- Albert Einstein Internet He who awaits much can expect little.
-- Gabriel Garcia Marquez "Beauty awakens the soul to act." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) Love, I find, is like singing. Everybody can do enough to satisfy themselves, though it may not
impress the neighbors as being very much.
-- Zora Neale Hurston Internet
Change is not merely necessary to life, it is life.
-- Alvin Toffler Opportunity may knock only once, but temptation leans on the doorbell.
-- Anonymous "Defeat the fear of death and welcome the death of fear." (G. Gordon Liddy) This book fills a much-needed gap.
- Moses Hadas in a review "Fake is as old as the Eden tree." (George Orson Welles) Internet "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." (Albert Einstein) We are not retreating - we are advancing in another Direction.
- General Douglas MacArthur To expect defeat is nine-tenths of defeat itself.
-- Francis Crawford Internet
