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"The most instructive experiences are those of everyday life." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) 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 Use your own best judgment at all times.
-- The entire Nordstrom's Department Stores policy manual 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 "They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself." (Andy Warhol) Education Love is an ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.
-- Lord Dewar The difference between sex and death is that with death you can do it alone and no one is going
to make fun of you.
-- Woody Allen "Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time." (E. B. White) Education
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 "Most people would rather die than think; in fact, they do so." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible
by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.
- Umberto Eco There is no course of life so weak and sottish as that which is managed by order, method, and
discipline.
-- Michel de Montaigne If you want to recapture your youth, just cut off his allowance.
-- Al Bernstein Education Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and around the hands and feet of the man. May you grow so rich your widow's second husband never has to worry about a living, God forbid. 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 Education
The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when
we created them.
- Albert Einstein Question: If you could live forever, would you and why? Answer: I would not live forever, because
we should not live forever, because if we were supposed to live forever, then we would live
forever, Whenever you eliminate the inedible, whatever remains, however unpalatable, must be food.
-- Anonymous Goodbye, Everybody!
-- Hart Crane, poet, who committed suicide by jumping overboard during a steamship voyage. The only way to entertain some folks is to listen to them.
-- Kin Hubbard Education "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) The health of the people is really the foundation upon which all their happiness and all their
powers as a State depend.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Bride: A woman with a fine prospect of happiness behind her. Education
"The act of policing is, in order to punish less often, to punish more severely." (Napoleon Bonaparte) Be like a postage stamp. Stick to one thing until you get there.
-- Josh Billings What if nothing exists and we're all in somebody's dream? Or what's worse, what if only that fat
guy in the third row exists?
-- Woody Allen "I have great faith in fools; My friends call it self-confidence." (Edger Allen Poe) Under capitalism man exploits man; under socialism the reverse is true.
-- Polish proverb Education The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about.
-- Oscar Wilde If we knew what we were doing, it wouldn't be called research, would it?
-- Albert Einstein After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
-- Aldous Huxley Education
Success is peace of mind which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you did your best
to become the best you are capable of becoming.
-- John R. Wooden, Practical Modern Basketball The great tragedy of science, the slaying of a beautiful theory by an ugly fact.
-- Thomas Henry Huxley I'm not indecisive. Am I indecisive?
-- Jim Scheibel, mayor, St. Paul MN "Love is always a stranger in the house of avarice." (Andreas Capellanus) "To live in the hearts we leave behind is not to die." (Thomas Campbell) Education Fine art and pizza delivery: what we do falls neatly in between.
-- David Letterman "The great aim of education is not knowledge but action." (Herbert Spencer) It is not because it is difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that things are
difficult.
-- Lucius Anneaus Seneca Education
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 Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by
definition, is unassailable.
-- James Baldwin, Nobody Knows My Name, 1961 "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 "It ends not with a bang, but a whimper." (Thomas Stearns Eliot, aka T. S. Eliot, The Hollow Man) Trust, but verify.
-- Ronald Reagan Education What a difference there is between what we say and what we think.
-- Racine Whenever I'm caught between two evils, I take the one I've never tried.
-- Mae West "Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishments." (Anonymous) Education
The love we give away is the only love we keep.
-- Elbert Hubbard No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem.
-- Booker T. Washington "There is no sin except stupidity." (Oscar Wilde) I begin by taking. I shall find scholars later to demonstrate my perfect right.
- Frederick (II) the Great Now is the time for all good men to come to.
-- Walt Kelly Education "He who cannot give anything away cannot feel anything either." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I believe God is managing affairs and that He doesn't need any advice from me. With God in
charge, I believe everything will work out for the best in the end. So what is there to worry about.
-- Hen Sometimes a scream is better than a thesis.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Education
The only thing you take with you when you're gone is what you leave behind.
-- John Allston "I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is." (Alan Watts) The question is not whether we will die, but how we will live.
-- Joan Borysenko Most people are more comfortable with old problems than with new solutions.
-- Anonymous "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 Education "Ideas are far more powerful than guns. We don't allow our enemies to have guns, why should we allow them to have ideas?" (Josef Stalin) I think one of the reasons I'm popular again is because I'm wearing a tie. You have to be different.
-- Tony Bennett, 1995 Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely
been detected.
-- Oscar Wilde Education
We have children because we want immortality and this is the most reliable way of getting it.
-- Woodrow Wyatt There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him asleep.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.
-- George Santayana "As a child, I thought I hated everybody, but when I grew up I realized it was just children I didn't like." (Philip Larkin) Basic research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
-- Wernher Von Braun Education Husbands are like fires. They go out if unattended.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Stung by the splendour of a sudden thought.
-- Robert Browning "So little done, so much to do." (Cecil Rhodes) Education
A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.
- Lao-Tzu Epperson's law:
When a man says it's a silly, childish game, it's probably something his wife can beat him at. I feel that if a person has problems communicating the very least he can do is to shut up.
-- Tom Lehrer "Some look at things that are, and ask why. I dream of things that never were and ask why not?" (George Bernard Shaw) Marriage is bliss. Ignorance is bliss. Ergo...
-- Anonymous Education "Like as the waves make towards the pebbl'd shore, so do our minutes, hasten to their end." (William Shakespeare) He would make a lovely corpse.
- Charles Dickens Hell is paved with good samaritans.
-- William M. Holden Education
Reading computer manuals without the hardware is a frustrating as reading sex manuals without
the software.
-- Arthur C. Clarke I envy people who drink -- at least they know what to blame everything on.
-- Oscar Levant There are two major products that come out of Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to
be a coincidence.
-- Jeremy S. Anderson Destiny is not a matter of chance; but a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, It is a
thing to be acheived.
-- William Jennings Bryant We must believe in free will, we have no choice.
-- Isaac B. Singer Education "What is tolerance? -- it is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error; let us pardon reciprocally each other's folly -- that is the first law of nature." (Francois Marie Ar Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop
questioning.
-- Albert Einstein 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 Education
