Strong Resolve 2002 [mil.no] - Exersice in Norway and Poland with participants from 13 countries. Streaming video, news, press releases, photo gallery, facts and figures.
Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson If ever two were one, then surely we.
If ever man were loved by wife, then thee.
-- Anne Bradstreet "Transport of the mails, transport of the human voice, transport of flickering pictures--in this century as in others our highest accomplishments still have the single aim of bringing men together." I admire the serene assurance of those who have religious faith. It is wonderful to observe the
calm confidence of a Christian with four aces.
-- Mark Twain "I want my food dead. Not sick, not dying, dead." (Oscar Wilde) Exercises It's important to be open-minded, but not SO open-minded that your brains fall out.
-- Rick Radebaugh The telephone company is urging people to *please* not use the telephone unless it is absolutely
necessary in order to keep the lines open for emergency personnel. We'll be right back after this
bre "To avoid criticism: do nothing, say nothing, be nothing." (Elbert Hubbard, American author, 1856-1915) Exercises
Love, I find, is like singing. Everybody can do enough to satisfy themselves, though it may not
impress the neighbors as being very much.
-- Zora Neale Hurston "Being born is like being kidnapped. And then sold into slavery." (Andy Warhol) "Life is a great surprise. I don't see why death should not be an even greater one." (Vladimir Nabokov) "In order to keep anything cultural, logical, or ideological, you have to reinvent the reality of it." (Ani Difranco) Fine art and pizza delivery: what we do falls neatly in between.
-- David Letterman Exercises "The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing." (John Powell) If we don't change the direction we are going,
We are likely to end up where we are heading.
-- Chinese saying If I were a girl, I'd despair. The supply of good women far exceeds that of the men who deserve
them.
-- Robert Graves Exercises
Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same
direction.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.
-- Samuel Butler If you don't know how to do something, you don't know how to do it with a computer.
-- Anon. We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.
-- Mme de Staël If variety is the spice of life, marriage is the big can of leftover Spam.
-- Johnny Carson Exercises In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice
that I am not a Republican.
-- H. L. Mencken One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is
terribly important.
-- Bertrand Russell Giving birth is like taking your lower lip and forcing it over your head.
-- Carol Burnett Exercises
If law school is so hard to get through... how come there are so many lawyers?
-- Calvin Trillin "You can get help from teachers, but you are going to have to learn a lot by yourself, sitting alone in a room." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, On becoming a writer, NY Times 21 Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.
-- Roger Babson The wit of a graduate student is like champagne. Canadian champagne.
-- Robertson Davies 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 Exercises Truth is more of a stranger than fiction.
-- Mark Twain If it weren't for electricity we'd all be watching television by candlelight.
-- George Gobel "That's the true sign. If the lover has not yet achieved his prize, his eyes will follow the woman, while she appears indifferent. But once he's gained his goal, it's the woman's eyes that follow him, Exercises
Life is a sexually transmitted terminal disease.
-- Colin Greene "Self confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings." (Samuel Johnson) Marriage is like a mousetrap. Those on the outside are trying to get in. Those on the inside are trying to get out. Gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling in love.
-- Albert Einstein "Have love for your friend up to a limit for it is possible he may turn into your enemy some day; and hate your enemy up to a limit for it is possible he may turn into your friend some day." (Ali bin Exercises They gave me a book of checks. They didn't ask for any deposits.
-- Joe Early, Congressman (D-Mass), at a press conference to answer questions about the
House Bank scandal "Life is a great surprise. I don't see why death should not be an even greater one." (Vladimir Nabokov) Lawyers are... operators of the toll bridge which anyone in search of justice must pass.
-- Jane Bryant Quinn Exercises
Truth must necessarily be stranger than fiction, for fiction is the creation of the human mind and
therefore congenial to it.
-- G. K. Chesterton Beware you be not swallowed up in books! An ounce of love is worth a pound of knowledge.
-- John Wesley It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince Paradoxically though it may seem, it is none the less true that life imitates art far more than art
imitates life.
-- Oscar Wilde Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for the appointment by the corrupt few.
-- George Bernard Shaw Exercises "A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities." (Eda J. Le Shan) They couldn't hit an elephant at this dist---
-- John B. Sedgwick, general, dying words, 1864 He had decided to live forever or die in the attempt.
-- J. Heller Exercises
Marriage is like a cage--one sees the birds outside desperate to get in and those inside equally
desparate to get out.
-- Di Peatlins War is a profession by which a man cannot live honorably; an employment by which the soldier, if
he would reap any profit, is obliged to be false, rapacious, and cruel.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli We never live; we are always in the expectation of living.
-- Voltaire "College professors are the people who can't hack it in the real world." (William Thomas) "I am the lizard king. I can do anything." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) Exercises America is a large, friendly dog in a very small room. Every time it wags its tail, it knocks over a
chair.
-- Arnold Toynbee "The perception of beauty is a moral test." (Henry David Thoreau) We always believe our first love is our last, and our last love our first.
-- Anonymous Exercises
What does not kill me makes me stronger.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Technology is a way of organizing the universe so that man doesn't have to experience it.
-- Max Frisch There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.
-- Oscar Wilde "Education is a vacine for violence." (Edward James Olmos) Don't let it end like this. Tell them I said something.
-- Pancho Villa, dying words Exercises Is there life before death?
-- Belfast Graffito It is always right that a man should be able to render a reason for the faith that is within him.
-- Sydney Smith Someday is not a day of the week.
-- Anon. Exercises
If it weren't for marriage, men and women would have to fight with total strangers.
-- Anonymous "In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends." (Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.) A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.
-- Fr. Jerome Cummings "I offer images; I conjure memories of freedom that can still be reached ... But, we can only open the doors. We can't drag people through. I can't free them unless they want to be free--more than any Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. Exercises My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music.
-- Vladimir Nabokov Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.
-- Carl Gustav Jung Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.
- Albert Einstein Exercises
Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.
-- Sigmund Freud Love, I find, is like singing. Everybody can do enough to satisfy themselves, though it may not
impress the neighbors as being very much.
-- Zora Neale Hurston "Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains." (Karl Marx) To love someone deeply gives you strength. Being loved by someone deeply gives you courage.
-- Lao Tzu "If you assume that there's no hope, you guarantee that there will be no hope. If you assume that there is an instinct for freedom, there are opportunities to change things, there's a chance for you t Exercises Honor's a thing too subtle for wisdom; if honor lie in eating, he's right honorable.
-- Beaumont, Francis blah "The best students always are flunking. Every good teacher knows that." (Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance) At every crossroads on the path that leads to the future, tradition has placed 10,000 men to guard
the past.
-- Maurice Maeterlink Exercises
Give the people not hell, but hope and courage.
-- John Murray Faith is believing what you know ain't so.
-- Mark Twain "Twelve magicians and two carnies have been shot dead doing the bullet catch. That's cool enough, but every night when we close our show with that trick and the loaded gun gets pointed in my face, it It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims.
- Aristotle Mathematicians are like Frenchmen: whatever you say to them they translate into their own
language and forthwith it is something entirely different.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Exercises Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a losttradition.
-- Jacques Barzun Never regard study as a duty, but as the enviable opportunity to learn to know the liberating
influence of beauty in the realm of the spirit for your own personal joy and to the profit of the
commun If you can't get rid of the skeleton in your closet, you'd best teach it to dance.
- George Bernard Shaw Exercises
