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- Jean-Paul Sartre This isn't right, this isn't even wrong.
- Wolfgang Pauli (1900-1958), upon reading a young physicist's paper Unfortunately, the media have trouble distinguishing between real science and propaganda
cross-dressed as science.
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-- Horace Walpole Organizations Military justice is to justice what military music is to music.
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Don't be afraid your life will end; be afraid that it will never begin.
-- Grace Hansen Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.
-- George Bernard Shaw If women didn't exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning.
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-- Ambrose Bierce Once all struggle is grasped, miracles are possible.
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-- Seen on a t-shirt Organizations
Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you
have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not.
-- Aldous Huxley "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) Not only is the universe stranger than we imagine, it is stranger than we can imagine.
Sir Arthur Eddington (1882 - 1944) Marriage is the sole cause of divorce. There are three kinds of death in this world. There's heart death, there's brain death, and there's
being off the network.
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-- Winnie the Pooh I would have made a good Pope.
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live honourably.
-- Kant, Immanuel Organizations
Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than
the wisest man can answer.
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Brutus loved Caesar.
-- Bill Moyers The coziness between church and state is good for the state and bad for the church.
-- G. K. Chesterton The great advantage of being in a rut is that when one is in a rut, one knows exactly where one
is.
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-- H. L. Mencken Organizations "I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." (James Madison) "To avoid criticism: do nothing, say nothing, be nothing." (Elbert Hubbard, American author, 1856-1915) A human being is a part of the whole, called by us Universe, a part limited in time and space. He
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You never see a man walking down the street with a woman who has a little pot belly and a bald
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-- Mae West Organizations The great thing in this world is not so much where we stand as in what direction we are going.
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Work is a four-letter word.
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me in the cellar.
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-- Rick Radebaugh "One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Organizations In olden times sacrifices were made at the altar--a practice which is still continued.
-- Helen Rowland It is not necessary to understand things in order to argue about them.
-- Pierre Augustin de Beaumarchais During the first period of a man's life the greatest danger is not to take the risk.
-- Soren Kierkegaard Organizations
"I love Los Angeles. I love Hollywood. They're beautiful. Everybody's plastic, but I love plastic. I want to be plastic." (Andy Warhol, Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up) blah "This is the hardest of all: to close the open hand out of love, and keep modest as a giver." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile.
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To be able to say how much love, is love but little.
-- Petrarch Imagination is the highest kite one can fly.
-- Lauren Bacall The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
-- B. F. Skinner I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with
typewriters.
- Frank Lloyd Wright There are some experiences in life which should not be demanded twice from any man, and one
of them is listening to the Brahms Requiem.
-- George Bernard Shaw Organizations A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.
- Frank Lloyd Wright When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I only think about how to solve the
problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
-- Buckminster He that would have the fruit must climb the tree.
-- Thomas Fuller, M.D. Organizations
If the government wants people to respect the law, it should set a better example.
-- Anon. In the book of life, the answers aren't in the back.
-- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing that you will make one.
-- Ellen Hubbard "Gifts must affect the receiver to the point of shock." (Walter Benjamin) 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 Organizations You can get more with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone.
-- Al Capone If we do not maintain Justice, Justice will not maintain us.
-- Francis Bacon When Michelangelo finished the painting of the Sistine Chapel's ceiling, he spent the rest of his
life trying to remove the paint that had poured into his sleeve.
-- Francois Cavanna Organizations
"Have confidence that if you have done a little thing well, you can do a bigger thing well, too." (David Malcolm Storey) We live at a time when man believes himself fabulously capable of creation, but he does not
know what to create.
-- Jose Ortega y Gasset A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.
-- St. Augustine Smoking kills. If you're killed, you've lost a very important part of your life.
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campaign Researchers have discovered that chocolate produces some of the same reactions in the brain
as marijuana...The researchers also discovered other similarities between the two, but can't
remember what Organizations "We have been the cowards lobbing cruise missiles from 2,000 miles away. That's cowardly. Staying in the airplane when it hits the building, say what you want about it, it's not cowardly." (Bill Mahe He would make a lovely corpse.
- Charles Dickens It was the experience of mystery -- even if mixed with fear -- that engendered religion.
- Albert Einstein Organizations
The last good thing written in C++ was the Pachelbel Canon.
-- Jerry Olson In a great romance, each person plays a part the other really likes.
-- Elizabeth Ashley "In the future everyone will be famous for fifteen minutes." (Andy Warhol) Most people think life sucks, and then you die. Not me. I beg to differ. I think life sucks, then you
get cancer, then your dog dies, your wife leaves you, the cancer goes into remission, you get a
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- General George Patton Don't be afraid your life will end; be afraid that it will never begin.
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