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He who dies a thousand deaths meets the final hour with the calmness of one who approaches a
well remembered door.
-- Heywood Brown "If you believe everything you read, you better not read." (Japanese Proverb) If you want to sing out, sing out, and if you want to be free, be free, 'cause there's a million ways
to be, you know that there are...
-- Cat Stevens, from a song lyric ...the fog is rising.
-- Emily Dickinson, dying words Go on, get out. Last words are for fools who haven't said enough.
-- Karl Marx, dying words to his housekeeper Heemstede "Don't let your ego get too close to your position, so that if your position gets shot down, your ego doesn't go with it." (Colin Powell) "We're an embarrasment to college graduates across America." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) "Men act and women appear. Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at." (John Berger) Heemstede
Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parent, gobble their food, and tyrannize their
teachers.
-- Socrates University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
-- Henry Kissinger The Church is an organism that grows best in an alien society.
-- C. Stacey Woods Thomas Jefferson--still surv...
-- John Adams, dying words For best results: wash in cold water separately, hang dry and iron with warm iron. For not so good
results: drag behind car through puddles, blow-dry on roofrack.
-- Laundry instructions on a shirt Heemstede "Great work is done by people who are not afraid to be great." (Fernando Flores) "God is Man's stupidest idea." (Marcel Duchamp, French Dadaist) I will try to follow the advice that a university president once gave a prospective commencement
speaker. "Think of yourself as the body at an Irish wake" he said. "They need you in order to have
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There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of
bread.
- Mahatma Gandhi Anything too stupid to be said, is sung.
-- Voltaire "The only man who behaved sensibly was my tailor; he took my measurement anew every time he saw me, while all the rest went on with their old measurements and expected them to fit me." (George Bernar We come to love not by finding a perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person
perfectly.
-- Anonymous blah "Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the government of himself. Can he, then be trusted with the government of others? Or have we found angels in the form of kings to govern him? Heemstede Diplomacy is the art of saying "Nice doggie" until you can find a rock.
-- Wynn Catlin, also attributed to Will Rogers Love is like the measles. The older you get it, the worse the attack.
-- Mary Roberts Rhinehart LOVE, n. A temporary insanity curable by marriage or by removal of the patient from the
influences under which he incurred the disorder... It is sometimes fatal, but more frequently to the
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"I owe much to my friends; but, all things considered, it strikes me that I owe even more to my enemies. The real person springs life under a sting even better than under a caress." (André Gide) "If a man has good corn, or wood, or boards, or pigs to sell, or can make better chairs or knives, crucibles, or church organs, than anybody else, you will find a broad, hard-beaten road to his house, Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the
truth.
- Sherlock Holmes Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and around the hands and feet of the man. A leader in the Democratic Party is a boss, in the Republican Party he is a leader.
Harry S. Truman Heemstede Life is a sexually transmitted terminal disease.
-- Colin Greene Outside of the killings, Washington has one of the lowest crime rates in the country.
-- Marion Barry, Mayor, Washington, D.C. I'm at the age where food has taken the place of sex in my life. In fact, I've just had a mirror put
over my kitchen table.
-- Rodney Dangerfield Heemstede
Technology makes it possible for people to gain control over everything, except over technology.
-- John Tudor Everything has been figured out, except how to live.
- Jean-Paul Sartre Love is the answer, but while you're waiting for the answer, sex raises some pretty good
questions.
-- Woody Allen Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of
our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.
-- John Adams I don't think I'll get married again. I'll just find a woman I don't like and give her a house.
-- Lewis Grizzard Heemstede What do you take me for, an idiot?
- General Charles de Gaulle (1890-1970), when a journalist asked him if he was happy 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) I should have no objection to a repetition of the same life from its beginning, only asking the
advantages authors have in a second edition to correct some faults of the first.
-- Benjamin Franklin Heemstede
The democratic theory is that if you accumulate enough ignorance at the polls, you produce
intelligence.
-- Philo Vance I'm worried that the universe will soon need replacing. It's not holding a charge.
-- Edward Chilton Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more
experiments you make the better. What if they are a little course, and you may get your coat
soiled or torn? Doctors are the same as lawyers; the only difference is that lawyers merely rob you, whereas
doctors rob you and kill you too.
-- Anton Chekhov We would often be sorry if our wishes were gratified.
-- Aesop Heemstede Man and wife make one fool. "Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn; my God, do you learn!" (Clive Staples Lewis) The President has kept all of the promises he intended to keep.
- Clinton aide George Stephanopolous speaking on Larry King Live Heemstede
Celestial navigation is based on the premise that the Earth is the center of the universe. The
premise is wrong, but the navigation works. An incorrect model can be a useful tool.
-- Kelvin Throop I The only thing you take with you when you're gone is what you leave behind.
-- John Allston A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn; it can be stabbed to death by a joke
or worried to death by a frown on the right person's brow.
-- Charles Brower 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 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 Heemstede If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded.
-- Maya Angelou Honor's a thing too subtle for wisdom; if honor lie in eating, he's right honorable.
-- Beaumont, Francis "Give me liberty or give me death." (Patrick Henry) Heemstede
"If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) To heck with marrying a girl who makes biscuits like her mother--I want to marry one who makes dough like her father. "Fake is as old as the Eden tree." (George Orson Welles) "He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself." (Thomas Paine) "Women might be able to fake orgasms. But men can fake whole relationships." (Sharon Stone) Heemstede "When marrying, ask yourself this question: Do you believe that you will be able to converse well with this person into your old age? Everything else in marriage is transitory." (Friedrich Wilhelm Ni At every crossroads on the path that leads to the future, tradition has placed 10,000 men to guard
the past.
-- Maurice Maeterlink "Things do not change, we change." (Henry David Thoreau) Heemstede
People only see what they are prepared to see.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson "'Contrariwise,' continued Tweedledee, 'if it was so, it might be, and if it were so, it would be; but as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic!'" (Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking Glass) My wife submits and I obey; she always lets me have her way. We see the brightness of a new page where everything yet can happen.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke, Book of Hours We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind her stands his wife. -- Groucho Marx Heemstede I think one of the reasons I'm popular again is because I'm wearing a tie. You have to be different.
-- Tony Bennett, 1995 "Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts." (Henry B. Adams) Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business.
-- Tom Robbins Heemstede
I am not young enough to know everything.
-- Oscar Wilde Winning is a habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.
-- Vince Lombardi "Not only is there no guarantee of the temporal immortality of the human soul, that is to say of its eternal survival after death; but, in any case, this assumption completely fails to accomplish the If someone had told me I would be Pope one day, I would have studied harder.
-- Pope John Paul I I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than
knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.
-- Albert Einstein Heemstede "There are no uninteresting things, only uninteresting people." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) Education ... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth
reading.
-- G. M. Trevelyan I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.
- Francois-Auguste Rodin (1840-1917), when asked how he managed to make his remarkable
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"The biggest argument against democracy is a five minute discussion with the average voter." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) Why are women so much more interesting to men than men are to women?
-- Virginia Woolf "One pretty good definition of college is that it's a place where people are made to read difficult books." (Jonathan Franzen) I criticize by creation - not by finding fault.
- Cicero If you can count your money, you don't have a billion dollars.
- J. Paul Getty Heemstede The innkeeper loves the drunkard, but not for a son-in-law.
-- Yiddish Proverb "College: two hundred people reading same book. An obvious mistake. Two hundred people can read two hundred books." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) A woman's always younger than a man of equal years.
-Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Aurora Leigh Heemstede
