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Oregon Democratic Senate candidate Tom Bruggere, in describing his support for
comprehensive health care during a candidates' forum, said he supported "erection-to-
resurrection" coverage. He later a Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of
humor is just common sense, dancing.
-- Clive James "The formula for my happiness: a Yes, a No, a straight line, a goal." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Nobody ever died of laughter.
-- Max Beerbohm What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
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-- Charles Evans Hughes What is the answer? In that case, what is the question?
-- Gertrude Stein, dying words If I have seen farther than others, it is because I was standing on the shoulders of giants.
-- Isaac Newton Wijk aan Zee
I worship the quicksand he walks in.
- Art Buchwald In a great romance, each person plays a part the other really likes.
-- Elizabeth Ashley I feel that if a person has problems communicating the very least he can do is to shut up.
-- Tom Lehrer Creativity is the sudden cessation of stupidity.
-- Edward H. Land "Some people must go to extremes to get the world in balance for themselves. Some can't bear bright lights, so wherever they go they search for the dark; they turn the lights down, anything to sustain Wijk aan Zee A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.
-- Walter Winchell "One pretty good definition of college is that it's a place where people are made to read difficult books." (Jonathan Franzen) Never judge someone by who he's in love with; judge him by his friends. People fall in love with
the most appalling people. Take a cool, appraising glance at his pals.
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God help the man who won't marry until he finds a perfect woman, and God help him still more if
he finds her.
-- Benjamin Tillett Adolescence is a period of rapid changes. Between the ages of 12 and 17, for example, a parent
ages as much as 20 years.
-- Anonymous I'd marry again if I found a man who had 15 million and would sign over half of it to me before the
marriage and guarantee he'd be dead within a year.
-- Bette Davis Do or do not. There is no try.
-- Yoda, character in the movie The Empire Strikes Back "No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave." (Calvin Coolidge) Wijk aan Zee My wife says if I go fishing one more time she's going to leave me. Gosh, I'm going to miss her. If you can count your money, you don't have a billion dollars.
- J. Paul Getty "... adults are just obsolete children and the hell with them." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, quoted in his obituary, Time) Wijk aan Zee
"Have confidence that if you have done a little thing well, you can do a bigger thing well, too." (David Malcolm Storey) Live your questions now, and perhaps even without knowing it, you will live along some distant
day into your answers.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke It's important to be open-minded, but not SO open-minded that your brains fall out.
-- Rick Radebaugh One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.
-- Virginia Woolf "Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Walk beside me and just be my friend." (Albert Camus) Wijk aan Zee Your every voter, as surely as your chief magistrate, exercises a public trust.
-- Grover Cleveland Great eaters and great sleepers are incapable of anything else that is great.
-- William Shakespeare, Henry IV When you see what some girls marry, you realize how they must hate to work for a living.
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"The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." (Thomas Jefferson) Few things are harder to put up with than a good example.
- Mark Twain Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
- Lewis Perelman If it weren't for electricity we'd all be watching television by candlelight.
-- George Gobel We are not in a position in which we have nothing to work with. We already have capacities,
talents, direction, missions, callings.
-- Abraham Maslow Wijk aan Zee I have read your book and much like it.
-- Moses Hadas, book reviewer At the bottom no one in life can help anyone else in life; this one experiences over and over in
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-- Oscar Wilde Wijk aan Zee
Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
-- Albert Einstein Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than
the wisest man can answer.
-- Charles Caleb Colton "Goodwill is the only asset that competition cannot undersell or destroy." (Mrshall Field, businessman and philanthropist) "In literary criticism the critic has no choice but to make over the victim of his attention into something the size and shape of himself." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) Wijk aan Zee My wife says if I go fishing one more time she's going to leave me. Gosh, I'm going to miss her. Diplomat: A man who can convince his wife she would look stout in a fur coat. I don't even butter my bread; I consider that cooking.
-- Katherine Cebrian Wijk aan Zee
We see the brightness of a new page where everything yet can happen.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke, Book of Hours This is the miracle that happens every time to those who really love; the more they give, the more
they possess.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke Marrying a man is like buying something you've been admiring for a long time in a shop window.
You may love it when you get it home, but it doesn't always go with everything in the house.
-- Jean Ke "All women love the men they fear. All women kiss the hand that rules them." (Lionel Atwill) "You exist only in what you do." (Federico Fellini) Wijk aan Zee I don't know exactly what democracy is. But we need more of it.
-- Anonymous Chinese Student, during protests in Tianamen Square, Beijing, 1989 There is a theory which states that if ever anybody discovers exactly what the Universe is for and
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inex "College: two hundred people reading same book. An obvious mistake. Two hundred people can read two hundred books." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) Wijk aan Zee
If all men were brothers, would you let one marry your sister? Look not mournfully into the Past. It comes not back again. Wisely improve the Present. It is
thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy Future, without fear, and with a manly heart.
-- Henry Wadsworth Lo "For others do I wait ... for higher ones, stronger ones, more triumphant ones, merrier ones, for such as are built squarely in body and soul: laughing lions must come." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The nice thing about being a celebrity is that if you bore people they think it's their fault.
- Henry Kissinger Never try to teach a pig to sing. It wastes your time and annoys the pig.
-- Anonymous Wijk aan Zee "They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself." (Andy Warhol) Marriage is not a word. It is a sentence--a life sentence. Always behave like a duck--keep calm and unruffled on the surface but paddle like the devil
underneath.
-- Jacob Braude Wijk aan Zee
I am about to--or I am going to--die; either expression is used.
-- Dominique Bouhours, French grammarian, dying words Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your position falls, your ego goes with
it.
-- Colin Powell An economic forecaster is like a cross-eyed javelin thrower: they don't win many accuracy
contests, but they keep the crowd's attention.
-- Anonymous Silence is argument carried out by other means.
-- Ernesto "Che" Guevara Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it.
-- George Bernard Shaw Wijk aan Zee Marriage is a lottery, but you can't tear up your ticket if you lose.
-- F. M. Knowles The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
-- Winston Churchill The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds the most discoveries, is not
"Eureka!", but "That's funny..."
-- Isaac Asimov Wijk aan Zee
I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to.
-- Elvis Presley People think we make $3 million and $4 million a year. They don't realize that most of us only
make $500,000.
-- Pete Incaviglia, baseball player, 1990 Life isn't a matter of milestones, but of moments.
-- Rose Kennedy Beneath the rule of men entirely great, / The pen is mightier than the sword.
-- Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton, Richelieu, II. ii "One will rarely err if extreme actions be ascribed to vanity, ordinary actions to habit, and mean actions to fear." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Wijk aan Zee Not everything that can be counted counts; and not everything that counts can be counted.
-- Albert Einstein They had a dispute about a night out with the boys. But he finally decided to let her go.
-- Anonymous Love is stronger than justice.
-- Sting Wijk aan Zee
"It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Our elections are free - it's in the results where eventually we pay.
-- Bill Stern They're almost inseparable. Sometimes it takes ten people to separate them.
-- Anonymous "Pleasant words are a honeycomb, Sweet to the soul and healing to the bones." (Bible, Proverbs 16:24) 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 Wijk aan Zee Dreams never hurt anybody if you keep working right behind the dreams to make as much of
them become real as you can.
-- Frank W. Woolworth Immature love says: "I love you because I need you." Mature love says: "I need you because I
love you."
-- Erich Fromm With the catching end the pleasures of the chase.
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