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Mathematics transfigures the fortuitous concourse of atoms into the tracery of the finger of God.
-- Herbert Westren Turnbull Diplomat: A man who can convince his wife she would look stout in a fur coat. It is not good enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.
-- Rene Descartes The possibility that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause
we believe to be just.
-- Abraham Lincoln "Genius without education is like silver in the mine." (Benjamin Franklin) Employment A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.
- Lao-Tzu The planting of trees is the least self-centered of all that we can do. It is a purer act of faith than
the procreation of children.
-- Thornton Wilder "They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself." (Andy Warhol) Employment
"The market is not an invention of capitalism. It has existed for centuries. It is an invention of civilization." (Mikhail Gorbachev, June 8, 1990) Jealousy is the only vice that gives no pleasure.
-- Anonymous You have to stay in shape. My grandmother, she started walking five miles a day when she was
60. She's 97 today and we don't know where the hell she is.
-- Ellen DeGeneres Church is only society on earth that exists for the benefit of non-members.
-- William Temple Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature.
-- Samuel Butler Employment "Think where mans glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends." (William Butler Yeats) Destiny is but a phrase of the weak human heart - the dark apology for every error. The strong
and virtuous admit no destiny. On earth conscience guides; in heaven God watches. And destiny
is but th To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance
- Oscar Wilde Employment
"Great work is done by people who are not afraid to be great." (Fernando Flores) Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering. Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day.
-- Thornton Wilder "I learned more from the one restaurant that didn't work than from all the ones that were successes." (Wolfgang Puck, restauranteur) Paradoxically though it may seem, it is none the less true that life imitates art far more than art
imitates life.
-- Oscar Wilde Employment Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it
- Henry David Thoreau The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that it has never tried to
contact us.
-- Bill Watterson, in his comic strip Calvin and Hobbes "What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage." Employment
It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
- Mark Twain A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in students.
-- John Ciardi Discovery consists of looking at the same thing as everyone else does and thinking something
different.
-- Albert Szent-Gyorgyi, 1937 Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine The fantasy which serves as a support for the figure of the Stalinist Communist is therefore
exactly the same as the fantasy which is at work in the Tom and Jerry cartoons.
-- Slavoj Zizek If you don't know how to do something, you don't know how to do it with a computer.
-- Anon. Employment "Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death." (General Michel Aoun) Every St. Patrick's Day every Irishman goes out to find another Irishman to make a speech to.
-- Shane Leslie "It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what other men say in whole books--what other men do not say in whole books." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols) Employment
Life is a succession of lessons enforced by immediate reward, or, oftener, by immediate
chastisement.
-- Ernest Dimnet "Better is the enemy of good." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) 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 Early to rise and early to bed.
Makes a male healthy, wealthy and dead.
-- James Thurber The second day of a diet is always easier than the first. By the second day you're off it.
-- Jackie Gleason Employment By the time (the Leaning Tower of Pisa) was 10% built, everyone knew it would be a total
disaster. But the investment was so big they felt compelled to go on. Since its completion, it cost
a fortune And since the stench of death will always attract flies and vermin, the arrival of Geraldo was
perhaps inevitable.
-- Garry Trudeau In the book of life, the answers aren't in the back.
-- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz Employment
blah "Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together." (Vincent van Gogh) "Everyone is a bore to someone. That is unimportant. The thing to avoid is being a bore to oneself." (Gerald Brenan) You can't buy love, but you can pay heavily for it.
-- Henny Youngman The two most common elements in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity. But not in that order.
-- Brian Pickrell Love is an attempt to change a piece of the dream-world into reality.
-- Theodor Reik Employment "We must view young people not as empty bottles to be filled but as candles to be lit." (Robert Shaffer) "It wasn't until I started reading and found books they wouldn't let us read in school that I discovered you could be insane and happy and have a good life without being like everybody else." (John W "Gifts must affect the receiver to the point of shock." (Walter Benjamin) Employment
Obedience is the gateway through which knowledge, yes, and love, too, enter the mind of the
child.
-- Anne Sullivan Art and science have their meeting point in method.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton Under capitalism man exploits man; under socialism the reverse is true.
-- Polish proverb I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is; I only know that people call
me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat.
-- Rebecca West, "... 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) Employment I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with
typewriters.
- Frank Lloyd Wright When you're away, I'm restless, lonely
Wretched, bored, dejected; only
here's the rub, my darling dear,
I feel the same when you are here.
-- Samuel Hoffenstein Realism is a corruption of reality.
-- Wallace Stevens Employment
I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury.
-- Groucho Marx I do not believe in an afterlife, although I am bringing a change of underwear.
-- Woody Allen "Well begun is half done." (Aristotle) If addiction is judged by how long a dumb animal will sit pressing a lever to get a 'fix' of
something, to its own detriment, then I would conclude that netnews is far more addictive than
cocaine.
Marriage is like a violin. After the music is over, you still have the strings.
-- Anonymous Employment When you gaze long into the abyss, the abyss also gazes into you.
- Friedrich Nietzsche "Friends are those people who know the words to the song in your heart and sing them back to you when you have forgotten the words." (Anonymous) "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) Employment
Life is a succession of lessons enforced by immediate reward, or, oftener, by immediate
chastisement.
-- Ernest Dimnet Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere.
-- Chinese Proverb I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day.
-- Vincent Van Gogh A behaviorist is someone who pulls habits out of rats.
-- Anonymous "It is not the answer that enlightens, but the question." (Eugene Ionesco) Employment I'm astounded by people who want to 'know' the universe when it's hard enough to find your way
around Chinatown.
-- Woody Allen Curiosity killed the cat, but for a while I was a suspect.
-- Steven Wright Love is the same as like except you feel sexier.
-- Judith Viorst Employment
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 "REASONABLE, adj. Accessible to the infection of our own opinions. Hospitable to persuasion, dissuasion and evasion." (Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary) We didn't lose the game; we just ran out of time.
- Vince Lombardi "Pay no attention to what the critics say; there has never been set up a statue in honor of a critic." (Jean Sibelius) Good friends are good for your health.
-- Irwin Sarason Employment Truth must necessarily be stranger than fiction, for fiction is the creation of the human mind and
therefore congenial to it.
-- G. K. Chesterton Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love,
but no friendship.
-- Oscar Wilde Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which is never advisable. -- Oscar Wilde Employment
History repeats itself; that's one of the things that's wrong with history.
-- Clarence Darrow "The reward of a thing well done is having done it." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.
-- Aristotle Men are strong only so long as they represent a strong idea. They become powerless when they
oppose it.
-- Sigmund Freud Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche Employment The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.
-- Nicholas Murray Butler Always bear in mind that your own resolution to success is more important than any other one
thing.
-- Abraham Lincoln "I was a total loner, not by self-design. I just didn't know what the hell to say to people. I was so shy. I used to stammer and lisp and dribble at the mouth." (Sir Anthony Hopkins, on his youth) Employment
