Real Macedonia - Presentation of the view that Macedonia was historically a Greek state and should therefore be Greek today.
When a cat is dropped, it always lands on its feet, and when toast is dropped, it always lands with
the buttered side down. I propose to strap buttered toast to the back of a cat; the 2 will hover,
I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about "short" and
"cheap"?
-- Phyllis Diller Imagination is the highest kite one can fly.
-- Lauren Bacall Multimedia? As far as I'm concerned, it's reading with the radio on!
-- Rory Bremner "Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parents, gobble their food, and tyrannize their teachers." (Socrates) Society and Culture The closer I'm bound in love to you, the closer I am to free.
-- Indigo Girls, song lyric There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as
though everything is a miracle.
- Albert Einstein Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes
unpunished.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Society and Culture
Did you hear about the scientist whose wife had twins? He baptized one and kept the other as a control. Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature.
-- Samuel Butler 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 Everywhere I go, I'm asked if the universities stifle writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle
enough of them.
-- Flannery O'Connor Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has not heart; and any man who is over 30, and is
not a conservative, has no brains.
- Sir Winston Churchill Society and Culture When you're experimenting you have to try so many things before you choose what you want,
and you may go days getting nothing but exhaustion.
-- Fred Astaire Thanksgiving is so called because we are all so thankful that it only comes once a year.
-- P. J. O'Rourke Politics is for people who have a passion for changing life but lack a passion for living it.
-- Tom Robbins Society and Culture
Reality is nothing but a collective hunch.
-- Lily Tomlin "Do something for the joy of doing it and pray you won't be punished." (Sammy Cahn) "Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free." (Emma Lazarus) "To introduce something altogether new would mean to begin all over, to become ignorant again, and to run the old, old risk of failing to learn." (Isaac Asimov) Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance.
-- Oscar Wilde Society and Culture "Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave, and impossible to forget." (G. Randolf) Bachelors know more about women than married men; if they didn't, they'd be married too.
-- H. L. Mencken "I should reproach him for not giving us enough evidence." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970, what he would say to God if they 'met') Society and Culture
"I am convinced that it is not the fear of death, of our lives ending that haunts our sleep so much as the fear ... that as far as the world is concerned, we might as well never have lived." (Rabbi H An ideal wife is one who remains faithful to you but tries to be just as charming as if she weren't.
-- Sacha Guitry A person should never be ashamed to own that he is wrong, which is but saying in other words
that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.
-- Alexander Pope "Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Give me a museum and I'll fill it.
-- Pablo Picasso Society and Culture Ah Mozart! He was happily married - but his wife wasn't.
-- Victor Borge blah "To give anything less than your best is to sacrifice the gift." (Steve Roland Prefontaine) Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to
take away.
- Antoine de Saint Exupery Society and Culture
An ideal wife is one who remains faithful to you but tries to be just as charming as if she weren't.
-- Sacha Guitry "Whether it is a black cat or a white cat, as long as it can catch the rat, it is a good cat." (Deng Xiao Ping) "I was a total loner, not by self-design. I just didn't know what the hell to say to people. I was so shy. I used to stammer and lisp and dribble at the mouth." (Sir Anthony Hopkins, on his youth) There is nothing better for the spirit or the body than a love affair. It elevates the thoughts and
flattens the stomachs.
-- Barbara Howar The absolute yearning of one human body for another particular body and its indifference to
substitutes is one of life's major mysteries.
-- Iris Murdoch Society and Culture Distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes.
- Henry David Thoreau "If you're in a bad situation, don't worry it'll change. If you're in a good situation, don't worry it'll change." (John A. Simone Sr.) Friends need not agree in everything or go always together, or have no comparable other
friendships of the same intimacy. On the contrary, in friendship union is more about ideal things:
and in that Society and Culture
"These are days you'll remember." If you recall nothing else from your graduation ceremony,
remember you heard the New Jersey Governor quote from 10,000 Maniacs.
-- Christine Todd, NJ Governor, Whea Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through
self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.
-- Helen Keller Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get
money from it.
-- Stephen Leacock "I was born and raised with crocodiles; they are a piece of cake. But kids are so ... unpredictable." (Steve Irwin, "Crocodile Hunter") Never go to bed angry. Stay up and fight.
-- Phyllis Diller Society and Culture Compromise: An amiable arrangement between husband and wife whereby they agree to let her
have her own way.
-- Anonymous "The first question I ask myself when something doesn't seem to be beautiful is why do I think it's not beautiful. And very shortly you discover that there is no reason." (John Cage) The best reason I can think of for not running for President of the United States is that you have
to shave twice a day.
-- Adlai Stevenson Society and Culture
All science is concerned with the relationship of cause and effect. Each scientific discovery
increases man's ability to predict the consequences of his actions and thus his ability to control
futur As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he.
-- Proverbs 23:7 I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think.
-- Socrates Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you help them to become what they are
capable of being.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.
-- Edgar Allan Poe Society and Culture "The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore." (Samuel Butler) Ridicule is generally made use of to laugh men out of virtue and good sense, by attacking
everything praiseworthy in human life.
-- Joseph Addison I figure you have the same chance of winning the lottery whether you play or not.
-- Fran Lebowitz Society and Culture
A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.
-- Walter Winchell I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.
- Thomas Watson, Chairman of IBM, 1943 If it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do not say it.
-- Marcus Aurelius He who receives an idea from me receives instruction for himself without lessening mine; as he
who lights his taper at mine receives light without darkening me.
-- Thomas Jefferson "I knew I was an unwanted baby when I saw my bath toys were a toaster and a radio." (Joan Rivers) Society and Culture Love is not blind - it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.
Rabbi Julius Gordon To read a writer is for me not merely to get an idea of what he says, but to go off with him and travel in his company.
Andre Gide Just buy a box of popcorn and a Coca-Cola and sit back and watch.
-- James Carville, Clinton advisor, offering advice for Democrats on the term-limits vote in the
House Society and Culture
University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
- Henry Kissinger "The masses are far more likely to believe a big lie than several small ones." (Adolf Hitler) "Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent." (Napoleon Bonaparte) Marriage is a rest period between romances. "The first question I ask myself when something doesn't seem to be beautiful is why do I think it's not beautiful. And very shortly you discover that there is no reason." (John Cage) Society and Culture The backbone of surprise is fusing speed with secrecy.
- Von Clausewitz America is a large, friendly dog in a very small room. Every time it wags its tail, it knocks over a
chair.
-- Arnold Toynbee Nothing can so alienate a voter from the political system as backing a winning candidate.
-- Mark B. Cohen Society and Culture
Blessed are the young for they shall inherit the national debt.
-- Herbert Hoover "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) The love we give away is the only love we keep.
-- Elbert Hubbard Most of our obstacles would melt away if, instead of cowering before them, we should make up
our minds to walk boldly through them.
-- Orison Swett Marden "I fear we are not getting rid of God because we still believe in grammar." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Society and Culture Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.
- Albert Einstein A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.
- Frank Lloyd Wright Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.
-- T. S. Eliot Society and Culture
The more faithfully you listen to the voices within you, the better you will hear what is sounding
outside.
-- Dag Hammarskjold Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely
been detected.
-- Oscar Wilde We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
-- Aristotle I begin by taking. I shall find scholars later to demonstrate my perfect right.
- Frederick (II) the Great Marriage is like a cage--one sees the birds outside desperate to get in and those inside equally
desparate to get out.
-- Di Peatlins Society and Culture And now here is my secret, a very simple secret; it is only with the heart that one can see rightly,
what is essential is invisible to the eye.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupery Imagine if every Thursday your shoes exploded if you tied them the usual way. This happens to
us all the time with computers, and nobody thinks of complaining.
-- Jeff Raskin Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances
continue to exist, a wonderful living side by side can grow up, if they succeed in loving the
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