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The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.
-- Albert Einstein Learn to laugh at your troubles and you'll never run out of things to laugh at.
-- Lyn Karol I could prove God statistically.
-- George Gallup "Ask five economists and you'll get five different answers (six if one went to Harvard)." (Edgar R. Fiedler) Not knowing when the dawn will come, I open every door.
-- Emily Dickinson Gorinchem "I love Los Angeles. I love Hollywood. They're beautiful. Everybody's plastic, but I love plastic. I want to be plastic." (Andy Warhol, Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up) "For better or for worse, our company (The News Corporation Ltd.) is a reflection of my thinking, my character, my values." (Keith Rupert Murdoch, media mogul, 1931-) "The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances." (Viktor E. Frankl) Gorinchem
Hardly a year passes that fails to find a new, oft-times exotic, research method or technique
added to the armamentarium of political inquiry. Anyone who cannot negotiate Chi squares,
assess randomi "As a child, I thought I hated everybody, but when I grew up I realized it was just children I didn't like." (Philip Larkin) "Today was good. / Today was fun. / Tomorrow is another one." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) The President has kept all of the promises he intended to keep.
- Clinton aide George Stephanopolous speaking on Larry King Live "Avoid providing material for the drama that is always stretched tight between parents and children; it uses up much of the children's strength and wastes the love of the elders, which acts and warms Gorinchem "Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave, and impossible to forget." (G. Randolf) When yer in a funk, people in love are a royal pain in the patookus.
-- Portnoy, character in "Outland," comic strip by Berkely Breathed 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 Gorinchem
Peculiar travel suggestions are dancing lessons from God.
-- Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., Cat's Cradle There is nothing that can be said by mathematical symbols and relations which cannot also be
said by words. The converse, however, is false. Much that can be and is said by words cannot
successfully Joint Checking Account: a handly little device which permits my wife to beat me to the draw. Victory belongs to the most persevering.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for
him.
-- Rich Little Gorinchem An ideal wife is one who remains faithful to you but tries to be just as charming as if she weren't.
-- Sacha Guitry "Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Gorinchem
"Try not to have a good time ... This is supposed to be educational." (Charles Schultz) "We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars." (Oscar Wilde) This world is a comedy for those who think and a tragedy for those who feel.
-- Horace Walpole "The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves." (William Hazlitt) There's no problem so awful that you can't add some guilt to it and make it even worse!
-- Calvin Gorinchem Washington is a city of Southern efficiency and Northern charm.
-- John F. Kennedy One of the greatest discoveries a man makes, one of his great surprises, is to find he can do
what he was afraid he couldn't do.
-- Henry Ford The wise see knowledge and action as one; they see truly.
-- Bhagava Gita Gorinchem
I hate women because they always know where things are.
-- James Thurber The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious.
-- Albert Einstein "How can we know the dancer from the dance?" (William Butler Yeats) Old soldiers never die, they just fade away.
-- General Douglas MacArthur He would make a lovely corpse.
- Charles Dickens Gorinchem In the end, everything is a gag.
- Charlie Chaplin Fill the unforgiving minute with sixty seconds worth of distance run.
- Rudyard Kipling Wind is to fire like distance is to love; it extinguishes the small and enflames the great.
-- Anonymous Gorinchem
I begin by taking. I shall find scholars later to demonstrate my perfect right.
- Frederick (II) the Great A team effort is a lot of people doing what I say.
-- Michael Winner 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 To love another person is to see the face of God.
-- Lyric from Les Miserables Books had instant replay long before televised sports.
-- Bern Williams Gorinchem Minds are like parachutes - they only function when open.
-- Thomas Dewar "Self confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings." (Samuel Johnson) "To make the individual uncomfortable, that is my task." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Gorinchem
"In my opinion, the greatest single failure of American education is that students come away unable to distinguish between a symbol and the thing the symbol stands for." (Paul Lutus) "Everybody knows that if you are too careful, you become so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something." (Gertrude Stein) "Hold a true friend with both your hands." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One
cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the
marvelous str Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.
-- Abraham Lincoln Gorinchem Marriage is a lottery in which men stake their liberty and women their happiness.
-- Madame de Rieux "Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains." (Karl Marx) Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after.
-- Anne Morrow Lindbergh Gorinchem
"Treat a man as he is, and he will remain as he is. Treat a man as he could be, and he will become what he should be." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) We see the brightness of a new page where everything yet can happen.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke, Book of Hours If God does not exist, then everything is permitted.
-- Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Devils Marriage certificate is just another word for a work permit. Marriage is an institution--but who wants to live in an institution? Gorinchem Democracy encourages the majority to decide things about which the majority is blissfully
ignorant.
--John Simon Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the
moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future
generations When we treat man as he is, we make him worse than he is; when we treat him as if he already
were what he potentially could be, we make him what he should be.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Gorinchem
You have a cough? Go home tonight, eat a whole box of Ex-Lax--tomorrow you'll be afraid to
cough.
-- Pearl Williams A witty saying proves nothing.
- Voltaire Our marriage would have worked if we hadn't lived together.
-- Joan Thompson Suicide is belated acquiescence in the opinion of one's wife's relatives. "We're all proud of making little mistakes. It gives us the feeling we don't make any big ones." (Andrew A. Rooney) Gorinchem Imagine if birds were tickled by feathers. You'd see a flock of birds come by, laughing hysterically!
-- Steven Wright The reason most people play golf is to wear clothes they would not be caught dead in otherwise.
-- Roger Simon Our own heart, and not other men's opinions form our true honor.
-- Coleridge, Samuel Taylor Gorinchem
"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) Always talk to your wife while you're making love... if there's a phone handy. Trust everybody, but cut the cards.
-- Finley Peter Dunne Honolulu, it's got everything. Sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother.
-- Ken Dodd The first half of our life is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
-- Clarence Darrow Gorinchem Politics doesn't make strange bedfellows, marriage does.
-- Groucho Marx I don't know why we are here, but I'm pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves.
- Ludwig Wittgenstein "I have no special gift; I am only passionately curious." (Albert Einstein) Gorinchem
All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That is his.
-- Oscar Wilde If we may believe our logicians, man is distinguished from all other creatures by the
faculty of laughter.
-- Joseph Addison May you never leave your marriage alive. blah "Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure." (Thomas Alva Edison) We all agree that your theory is crazy, but is it crazy enough?
- Niels Bohr Gorinchem Not everything that can be counted counts; and not everything that counts can be counted.
-- Albert Einstein blah "It is a grand mistake to think of being great without goodness and I pronounce it as certain that there was never a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous." (Benjamin Fran Problems worthy of attack prove their worth by fighting back.
- Paul Erdos Gorinchem
