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History is more or less bunk.
-- Henry Ford I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them.
- Ian L. Fleming "Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect every one who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are ine I do not see the EEC as a great love affair. It is more like nine desperate middle-ages couples with failing marriages meeting at a Brussels hotel for a group grope. -- Tynan Women's liberationists spread the word that...the only peaceful family is one in which either the
wife is enslaved or the husband is androgynous.
-- R. Emmett Tyell, The Liberal Crack-Up, 1984 Personal Homepages Be willing to make decisions. That's the most important quality in a good leader. Don't fall victim
to what I call the 'ready-aim-aim-aim-aim syndrome.' You must be willing to fire.
-- Gen. George A conference is a gathering of important people who singly can do nothing, but together can
decide that nothing can be done.
-- Fred Allen Hell is a half-filled auditorium.
-- Robert Frost Personal Homepages
It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.
-- Andre Gide "In order to keep anything cultural, logical, or ideological, you have to reinvent the reality of it." (Ani Difranco) 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 "Have confidence that if you have done a little thing well, you can do a bigger thing well, too." (David Malcolm Storey) For the memory of love is sweet, though the love itself were in vain. And what I have lost of
pleasure, assuage what I find of pain.
-- Lyster Personal Homepages Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
-- Harriet Beecher Stowe A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.
-- Fr. Jerome Cummings "Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent." (Napoleon Bonaparte) Personal Homepages
Computers will not be perfected until they can compute how much more than the estimate the job
will cost.
-- Anon We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh.
-- Agnes Repplier "I know we're not saints or virgins or lunatics; we know all the lust and lavatory jokes, and most of the dirty people; we can catch buses and count our change and cross the roads and talk real senten An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets, the more interested he is in her. -- Agatha Christie Anyone who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without
feminine upheaval. Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex,
the ugl Personal Homepages "Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Walk beside me and just be my friend." (Albert Camus) "One pretty good definition of college is that it's a place where people are made to read difficult books." (Jonathan Franzen) "Crime like death is not confined to the old and withered alone. The youngest and fairest are too often its chosen victims." (Charles Dickens, 1812-70, Oliver Twist) Personal Homepages
If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe.
- Carl Sagan "The concerned investment banker is the one who blows the horn on his Mercedes as he drives through a red light." (Anonymous) I believe in getting into hot water; it keeps you clean.
-- G. K. Chesterton 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 What if it was cats who invented technology... would they have tv shows starring rubber sqeak
toys?
-- Douglas Coupland Personal Homepages Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which is never advisable. -- Oscar Wilde Never try to teach a pig to sing. It wastes your time and annoys the pig.
-- Anonymous It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid.
- George Bernard Shaw Personal Homepages
I regret that I have but one life to give for my country.
-- Nathan Hale Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the
unpalatable.
-- John Kenneth Galbraith "Oh, the tiger will love you. There is no sincerer love than the love of food." (George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman) If women didn't exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning.
-- Aristotle Onassis Beneath the rule of men entirely great, / The pen is mightier than the sword.
-- Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton, Richelieu, II. ii Personal Homepages 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 The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
- Mark Twain The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. The opposite of a profound truth may
well be another profound truth.
- Niels Bohr Personal Homepages
To love another person is to see the face of God.
-- Lyric from Les Miserables If you don't know how to do something, you don't know how to do it with a computer.
-- Anon. The child is the father of the man.
-- William Wordsworth A real leader faces the music, even when he doesn't like the tune.
-- Anonymous Suicide is belated acquiescence in the opinion of one's wife's relatives. Personal Homepages One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good
reputation.
-- Oscar Wilde "When we are born we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools." (William Shakespeare) Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it.
-- George Bernard Shaw Personal Homepages
Live out of your imagination, not your history.
-- Stephen Covey There are three kinds of death in this world. There's heart death, there's brain death, and there's
being off the network.
-- Guy Almes Whoever called it necking was a poor judge of anatomy.
-- Groucho Marx "Are you bored with life? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours." (Dale "The want of logic annoys. Too much logic bores. Life eludes logic, and everything that logic alone constructs remains artificial and forced." (André Gide) Personal Homepages We have children because we want immortality and this is the most reliable way of getting it.
-- Woodrow Wyatt The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman. -- S. T. Coleridge It is because modern education is so seldom inspired by a great hope that it so seldom achieves
great results. The wish to preserve the past rather that the hope of creating the future dominates
the Personal Homepages
My mother-in-law broke up my marriage. My wife came home from work one day and found me in
bed with her.
-- Lenny Bruce I can write better than anybody who can write faster, and I can write faster than anybody who can
write better.
- A. J. Liebling Music is the art of thinking with sounds.
-- Jules Combarieu In answer to the question of why it happened, I offer the modest proposal that our Universe is
simply one of those things which happen from time to time.
-- Edward P. Tryon "Truth lies not only in a dream, but in many dreams." (Pier Paolo Pasolini, Italian poet, novelist and filmmaker) Personal Homepages blah "Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together." (Vincent van Gogh) An economic forecaster is like a cross-eyed javelin thrower: they don't win many accuracy
contests, but they keep the crowd's attention.
-- Anonymous I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.
-- Albert Einstein Personal Homepages
We have art to save ourselves from the truth.
- Friedrich Nietzsche The promises of maniacs, like those of women, are not safely relied upon.
-- Joseph Heller, God Knows It is important that students bring a certain ragamuffin, barefoot, irreverence to their studies; they
are not here to worship what is known, but to question it.
-- J. Bronowski, The Ascent of Man For the majority of People, smoking has a beneficial effect.
-- Dr. Ian G. Macdonald, Los Angeles surgeon, quoted in Newsweek , Nov.18th 1963. "That's the true sign. If the lover has not yet achieved his prize, his eyes will follow the woman, while she appears indifferent. But once he's gained his goal, it's the woman's eyes that follow him, Personal Homepages I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is; I only know that people call
me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat.
-- Rebecca West, We have a habit in writing articles published in scientific journals to make the work as finished as
possible, to cover up all the tracks, to not worry about the blind alleys or describe how you had "In literary criticism the critic has no choice but to make over the victim of his attention into something the size and shape of himself." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) Personal Homepages
"It ends not with a bang, but a whimper." (Thomas Stearns Eliot, aka T. S. Eliot, The Hollow Man) Destiny is but a phrase of the weak human heart - the dark apology for every error. The strong
and virtuous admit no destiny. On earth conscience guides; in heaven God watches. And destiny
is but th blah "You can lead a man to Congress, but you can't make him think." (Milton Berle) Marriage is an institution in which a man loses his Bachelor's Degree and the woman gets her Masters. Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than
yourself.
-- William Faulkner Personal Homepages Reason can answer questions, but imagination has to ask them.
-- Ralph N. Gerard I have lost friends, some by death, others through sheer inability to cross the street.
-- Virginia Woolf Grad school is the snooze button on the clock-radio of life.
-- John Rogers, comedian (who holds a graduate degree in physics) Personal Homepages
There are three types of people in this world: Those who can count, and those who can't.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.
-- Virginia Woolf Hell is a half-filled auditorium.
- Robert Frost A man's feet should be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world.
-- George Santayana Trouble is a part of your life, and if you don't share it, you don't give the person that loves you
enough chance to love you enough.
-- Dinah Shore Personal Homepages Life is a succession of lessons enforced by immediate reward, or, oftener, by immediate
chastisement.
-- Ernest Dimnet If Satan ever loses his hair, there'll be hell toupee.
-- Anonymous In olden times sacrifices were made at the altar--a practice which is still continued.
-- Helen Rowland Personal Homepages
