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"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 Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
-- Harriet Beecher Stowe If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself, tell yourself that you are not a poet
enough to call forth its riches; for to the creator there is no poverty and no poor indifferent p Argue for your limitations, and sure enough they're yours.
- Richard Bach I think there are only three things America will be known for 2,000 years from now when they
study this civilization: the Constitution, jazz music, and baseball.
-- Gerald Early, writer, baseball do Government The closer I'm bound in love to you, the closer I am to free.
-- Indigo Girls, song lyric Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it.
-- Baskins Can you imagine what I would do if I could do all I can?
-- The Artist Formerly Known As Prince Government
"The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves." (William Hazlitt) "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world, indeed it is the only thing that ever has." (Margaret Mead, 1901-78) Musical people always want one to be perfectly dumb at the very moment when one is longing to
be perfectly deaf.
-- Oscar Wilde Art and science have their meeting point in method.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton The only way to entertain some folks is to listen to them.
-- Kin Hubbard Government Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.
-- Oscar Wilde "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) Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.
-- James Baldwin Government
Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech.
- Martin Fraquhar Tupper "The most instructive experiences are those of everyday life." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can
never tell.
-- Joan Crawford I've had a perfectly wonderful evening. But this wasn't it.
-- Groucho Marx My darling wife was always glum. I drowned her in a cask of rum, And so made sure that she would stay, In better spirits night and day. Government If we do not maintain Justice, Justice will not maintain us.
-- Francis Bacon Love one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that.
-- Michael Leunig Technology is a way of organizing the universe so that man doesn't have to experience it.
-- Max Frisch Government
Wherever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.
-- Harry S. Truman 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 "Boredom is a vital problem for the moralist, since at least half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.
-- Paul Valery In the spider-web of facts, many a truth is strangled.
-- Paul Eldridge Government Sex is like bridge: If you don't have a good partner, you better have a good hand.
-- Charles Pierce The big difference between sex for money and sex for free is that sex for money usually costs a
lot less.
-- Brendon Behan your daughters marry men of substance: gypsies with two bears. Government
"My wallpaper and I are fighting a duel to the death. One or the other of us has to go." (Oscar Wilde, his last recorded words) Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions - it only guarantees equality of opportunity.
- Irving Kristol If I tell a lie it's only because I think I'm telling the truth.
-- Phil Gaglardi, Minister of Highways, British Columbia, Canada The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.
-- George Bernard Shaw "Deep down, no one really believes they have a right to live. But this death sentence generally stays tucked away, hidden beneath the difficulty of living. If that difficulty is removed from time to t Government Why yes -- a bulletproof vest.
-- James Rodges, murderer, on his final request before the firing squad The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed
desperation.
-- Henry David Thoreau, Walden (1854) "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." (Albert Einstein) Government
When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen.
-- Ernest Hemingway In literature as in love, we are astonished at what is chosen by others.
-- André Maurois The lover knows much more about absolute good and universal beauty than any logician or
theologian, unless the latter, too, be lovers in disguise.
-- George Santayana Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it. If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe.
- Carl Sagan Government We trained hard - but it seemed that every time we were beginning to form up into teams we were
reorganized. I was to learn later in life that we tend to meet any new situation by reorganizing,
and We are not retreating - we are advancing in another Direction.
- General Douglas MacArthur Behind every great fortune there is a crime.
- Honore de Balzac Government
We know the truth, not only by the reason, but also by the heart.
-- Blaise Pascal, Thoughts, Chap. x. 1., Translated by O. W. Wight Love is shown in your deeds, not in your words.
-- Fr. Jerome Cummings Marriage is the one subject on which all women agree and all men disagree.
-- Oscar Wilde "To be great is to be misunderstood." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Flowers are words which even a baby can understand.
-- Arthur C. Coxe Government "I consider it the highest compliment when my employees go out and start their own companies in competition with me. I always send them a plant to wish them well. Of course, it's a cactus." (Norman B As life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action
of his time, at the peril of being not to have lived.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. Marriage is a matter of give and take, but so far I haven't been able to find anybody who'll take what I have to give. -- Cass Daley Government
"If a million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing." (Anatole France) You can always amend a big plan, but you can never expand a little one. I don't believe in little
plans. I believe in plans big enough to meet a situation which we can't possibly foresee now.
-- Ha Morality consists in suspecting other people of not being legally married.
-- George Bernard Shaw People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid.
- Soren Aabye Kierkegaard The average Ph.D thesis is nothing but the transference of bones from one graveyard to another.
-- Frank J. Dobie, A Texan in England, 1945 Government Outside of the killings, Washington has one of the lowest crime rates in the country.
-- Marion Barry, Mayor, Washington, D.C. It's not as great a day for the bride as she thinks. She's not marrying the best man.
-- Anonymous Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.
-- Samuel Johnson Government
"Education must have an end in view, for it is not an end in itself." (Sybil Marshall) "I don't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones." (John Cage) "To avoid criticism: do nothing, say nothing, be nothing." (Elbert Hubbard, American author, 1856-1915) "Every Man and every Woman is a Star." (Aleister Crowley) "The brighter you are, the more you have to learn." (Don Herold) Government 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 Love is a perky elf dancing a merry little jig and then suddenly he turns on you with a miniature
machine gun.
-- Matt Groening, Love is Hell Whenever I date a guy, I think, is this the man I want my children to spend their weekends with?
-- Rita Rudner Government
blah "Some of the worlds greatest feats were accomplished by people not smart enough to know they were impossible. unattributed" (Anonymous) Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.
-- George Bernard Shaw It destroys one's nerves to be amiable everyday to the same human being.
-- Benjamin Disraeli If I tell a lie it's only because I think I'm telling the truth.
-- Phil Gaglardi, Minister of Highways, British Columbia, Canada Nothing can so alienate a voter from the political system as backing a winning candidate.
-- Mark B. Cohen Government blah "Each friend represents a world in us; a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only in meeting them that a new world is born." (Anais Nin) 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 "What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to a human soul." (Joseph Addison) Government
First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.
- Mahatma Gandhi Love is the same as like except you feel sexier.
-- Judith Viorst Happy are those who dream dreams and are willing to pay the price to make them come true.
-- Anon. "Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few." (George Bernard Shaw) 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 Government I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
-- Thomas Edison I am going to put myself to sleep now for a bit longer than usual. Call the time Eternity." (Jerzy Kosinski, Polish novelist, from his suicide note) Marriage still confers one very special privilege - only a married person can get divorced. Government
