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I am beginning to suspect all elaborate and special systems of education. They seem to me to be
built upon the supposition that every child is a kind of idiot who must be taught to think.
-- Anne S When you don't know that you don't know, it's a lot different than when you do know that you
don't know. He knows now that he doesn't know. Last year, he didn't know that.
-- Bill Parcels, New Engla 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 If other people are going to talk, conversation becomes impossible.
-- James McNeill Whistler If you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it's done.
-- Scott Adams Nadur What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson In the halls of justice, the only justice is in the halls.
-- Lenny Bruce I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.
-- Albert Einstein Nadur
"Anyone who thinks they're important is usually just a pompous moron who can't deal with his or her own pathetic insignificance and the fact that what they do is meaningless and inconsequential..." ( "When even one American--who has done nothing wrong--is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth--then all Americans are in peril." (Harry S. Truman) The closer I'm bound in love to you, the closer I am to free.
-- Indigo Girls, song lyric "The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn." (David Russell) Dogma is the sacrifice of wisdom to consistency.
- Lewis Perelman Nadur "A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities." (Eda J. Le Shan) "To avoid criticism: do nothing, say nothing, be nothing." (Elbert Hubbard, American author, 1856-1915) Govern a family as you would cook a small fish - very gently.
-- Chinese Proverb Nadur
You can't say civilization isn't advancing: in every war they kill you in a new way.
-- Will Rogers Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.
-- Oscar Wilde "Excellence is in the details. Give attention to the details and excellence will come." (Perry Paxton) "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.) "God is a gentleman. He prefers blondes." (Joe Orton, Loot) Nadur If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.
-- Virginia Woolf There is no sincerer love than the love of food.
-- George Bernard Shaw The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.
-- Franklin D. Roosevelt Nadur
Choose a wife by your ear than your eye.
-- Thomas Fuller, 1732 "I have the terrible feeling that, because I am wearing a white beard and am sitting in the back of the theatre, you expect me to tell you the truth about something. These are the cheap seats, not Mou In every country and every age, the priest has been hostile to Liberty.
-- Thomas Jefferson "I don't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones." (John Cage) 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 Nadur I don't want everyone to like me; I should think less of myself if some people did.
-- Henry James "Freedom of press is limited to those who own one." (Henry Louis Mencken) "Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience." (George Bernard Shaw) Nadur
The executive exists to make sensible exceptions to general rules.
-- Elting E. Morison Asking an incumbent member of Congress to vote for term limits is a bit like asking a chicken to
vote for Colonel Sanders.
-- Bob Inglis, 1995 Marital Freedom: The liberty that allows a husband to do exactly that which his wife pleases.
-- Anonymous Marriage isn't a word... it's a sentence.
-- King Vidor, in the 1928 film, The Crawl Idealism increases in direct proportion to one's distance from the problem.
-- John Galsworthy Nadur A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in students.
-- John Ciardi The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech.
-- George Bernard Shaw "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) Nadur
"If you want a thing done well, do it yourself." (Napoleon Bonaparte) The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
-- Blaise Pascal, Pens&eactue;es, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer "One of the things about acting is it allows you to live other people's lives without having to pay the price. I've never been one of those actors who has touted myself as a fascinating human being. I Whenever you eliminate the inedible, whatever remains, however unpalatable, must be food.
-- Anonymous We are not retreating - we are advancing in another Direction.
- General Douglas MacArthur Nadur Reading computer manuals without the hardware is a frustrating as reading sex manuals without
the software.
-- Arthur C. Clarke 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 Integrity is what we do, what we say, and what we say we do.
--Don Galer Nadur
The great tragedy of science, the slaying of a beautiful theory by an ugly fact.
-- Thomas Henry Huxley The husband who wants a happy marriage should learn to keep his mouth shut and his checkbook open. -- Groucho Marx "The greater the artist, the greater the doubt. Perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize." (Robert Hughes) "It is a curious thing that God learned Greek when he wished to turn author--and that he did not learn it better." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Hell is a half-filled auditorium.
-- Robert Frost Nadur The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat.
-- Lily Tomlin The most wasted day of all is that in which we have not laughed.
-- Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort Work is the refuge of people who have nothing better to do.
-- Oscar Wilde Nadur
Where there is love there is life.
-- Gandhi I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.
- Thomas Watson, Chairman of IBM, 1943 They have come up with a perfect understanding. He won't try to run her life, and he won't try to
run his, either.
-- Anonymous There are many things worth living for, there are a few things worth dying for, but there is nothing
worth killing for.
-- Tom Robbins I read the book of Job last night - I don't think God comes out well in it.
-- Virginia Woolf Nadur "Excellence is in the details. Give attention to the details and excellence will come." (Perry Paxton) Where there is love there is life.
-- Gandhi Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife. -- PJ O'Rourke Nadur
It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.
-- Albert Einstein Did you hear about the scientist whose wife had twins? He baptized one and kept the other as a control. I begin by taking. I shall find scholars later to demonstrate my perfect right.
- Frederick (II) the Great When people go to work, they shouldn't have to leave their hearts at home.
-- Betty Bender We have children because we want immortality and this is the most reliable way of getting it.
-- Woodrow Wyatt Nadur If you haven't got anything nice to say about anybody, come sit next to me.
- Alice Roosevelt Longworth I do not consider it an insult, but rather a compliment to be called an agnostic. I do not pretend to
know where many ignorant men are sure -- that is all that agnosticism means.
- Clarence Darrow, One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.
-- Virginia Woolf Nadur
If I have seen farther than others, it is because I was standing on the shoulders of giants.
-- Isaac Newton "Do not do unto others as you expect they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same." (George Bernard Shaw) The trouble with some women is that they get all excited about nothing -- and then marry him.
-- Cher Honor's a good brooch to wear in a man's hat at all times.
-- Jonson, Ben "Be the change that you want to see in the world." (Mohandas Gandhi) Nadur "He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches." (George Bernard Shaw) "I have no special gift; I am only passionately curious." (Albert Einstein) "Every act of violence increases the recruitment of terrorists. Iraq has been turned into a base of terror." (Noam Chomsky, from The Toronto Star, March 23, 2004) Nadur
A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.
- Lao-Tzu Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than
yourself.
-- William Faulkner Man is a natural polygamist. He always has one woman leading him by the nose and another
hanging on to his coattails.
-- H. L. Mencken "The only way to have friends is to be one." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) "Conform and be dull." (J. Frank Doble) Nadur Vote early and vote often.
- Al Capone History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.
-- Winston Churchill Women are like tea bags; put them in hot water and they get stronger.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt Nadur
