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Having once decided to achieve a certain task, achieve it at all costs of tedium and distaste. The
gain in self-confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labor is immense.
-- Thomas Arnold Bennet We do not remember days; we remember moments.
-- Anonymous Books had instant replay long before televised sports.
-- Bern Williams The mistakes are all waiting to be made.
- chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower (1887-1956) on the game's opening position I have often regretted my speech, never my silence.
-- Anonymous Organizations Life - a sexually transmitted terminal condition.
-- Walter Prager The best theology would need no advocates; it would prove itself.
-- Karl Barth What a difference there is between what we say and what we think.
-- Racine Organizations
"Truth lies not only in a dream, but in many dreams." (Pier Paolo Pasolini, Italian poet, novelist and filmmaker) If you can't sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there and worrying. It's the worry
that gets you, not the loss of sleep.
-- Dale Carnegie The tragedy of life is not that man loses, but that he almost wins.
-- Heywood Brown Technology is a way of organizing the universe so that man doesn't have to experience it.
-- Max Frisch The only way to entertain some folks is to listen to them.
-- Kin Hubbard Organizations Shotgun wedding: a case of wife or death "No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave." (Calvin Coolidge) The marriage of Marxism and feminism has been like the marriage of husband and wife depicted
in English common law: Marxism and feminism are one, and that one is Marxism.
-- Heidi Hartmann, The Unha Organizations
Establishing yourself, furnishing a house, building up a comfortable existence, and having that menace hanging over your head all the time - no, I prefer to live in hotels, cafés, just passing through I do not believe in an afterlife, although I am bringing a change of underwear.
-- Woody Allen Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.
-- David Starr Jordan We have drugs to make women speak, but none to keep them silent.
-- Anatole France Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.
-- Samuel Johnson Organizations Love is an emotion that is based on an opinion of women that is impossible for those who have
had any experience with them.
-- H. L. Mencken Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside a dog, it's too dark to read.
-- Groucho Marx "Ideas are far more powerful than guns. We don't allow our enemies to have guns, why should we allow them to have ideas?" (Josef Stalin) Organizations
Women see better than men. Men see lazily, if they do not expect to act. Women see quite
without any wish to act.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than
yourself.
-- William Faulkner "Hold a true friend with both your hands." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Children are the only form of immortality that we can be sure of.
-- Peter Ustinov Infatuation is when you think that he's as sexy as Robert Redford, as smart as Henry Kissinger,
as noble as Ralph Nader, as funny as Woody Allen, and as athletic as Jimmy Conners. Love is
when you r Organizations We look forward to the time when the power to love of will replace the love of power. Then will our
world know the blessings of peace.
-- William Gladstone The less a man thinks or knows about his virtues, the better we like him.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Practice random acts of kindness and sensless acts of beauty.
-- Adair Lara Organizations
Destiny is not a matter of chance; but a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, It is a
thing to be acheived.
-- William Jennings Bryant Ridicule is generally made use of to laugh men out of virtue and good sense, by attacking
everything praiseworthy in human life.
-- Joseph Addison "There are no uninteresting things, only uninteresting people." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) "You believe that flag burning shows disrespect towards those who have fought to preserve our freedoms. Punishing protestors shows an even more profound disrespect for the ideals that these people die 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? Organizations "Character is determined more by the lack of certain experiences than by those one has had." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Creativity is the sudden cessation of stupidity.
-- Edward H. Land What do I dislike about death? Must be the hours.
-- Woody Allen Organizations
Children should be like waffles--you should be able to throw the first one away.
-- Mary Alice Messenger Is there life before death?
-- Belfast Graffito "The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning, but without understanding." (Louis Brandeis) "One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar." (Helen Keller) Not to anticipate is already to moan.
-- Leonardo da Vinci Organizations "What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to a human soul." (Joseph Addison) "In some ways, I never outgrew my adolescence. I wake up in the morning and think, 'Oh my God, I'm late for a math test!' But then I say, 'Wait a minute. I'm 40.'" (Daniel Clowes) In times of profound change, the learners inherit the earth, while the learned find themselves
beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists.
-- Al Rogers, Global SchoolHouse Netw Organizations
"I consider it the highest compliment when my employees go out and start their own companies in competition with me. I always send them a plant to wish them well. Of course, it's a cactus." (Norman B Music is the art of thinking with sounds.
-- Jules Combarieu You are educated when you have the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your
temper or self-confidence.
-- Robert Frost "The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing." (John Powell) "Now that we have everything we need, we discover that there is almost nothing that we have that we want." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) Organizations It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
-- Mark Twain "As is our confidence, so is our capacity." (William Hazlitt) It doesn't much signify whom one marries, for one is sure to find out next morning it was
someone else.
-- Rogers Organizations
"One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar." (Helen Keller) 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 Honolulu - it's got everything. Sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother. -- Ken Dodd If you are going to sin, sin against God, not the bureaucracy. God will forgive you but the
bureaucracy won't.
-- Hyman Rickover Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is.
-- Diane Ackerman Organizations Always bear in mind that your own resolution to success is more important than any other one
thing.
-- Abraham Lincoln Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer.
-- Mark Twain 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
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"A man who tells lies, like me, merely hides the truth. But a man who tells half-lies has forgotten where he put it." (Claude Rains, as Mr. Dryden, Lawrence of Arabia, 1962) There is more stupidity than hydrogen in the universe, and it has a longer shelf life.
- Frank Zappa If all economists were laid end to end, they would not reach a conclusion.
-- George Bernard Shaw There are two means of refuge from the misery of life - music and cats.
-- Albert Schweitzer "Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) Organizations Nuns: Women who marry God. If they divorce Him, do they get half the universe? I'm not dumb, I just have a command of thoroughly useless information.
-- Calvin It is better to be looked over than overlooked.
-- Mae West Organizations
The Bible contains six admonishments to homosexuals and 362 admonishments to
heterosexuals. That doesn't mean that God doesn't love heterosexuals. It's just that they need
more supervision.
-- Lynn Use your own best judgment at all times.
-- The entire Nordstrom's Department Stores policy manual Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end.
-- Semisonic, Closing Time Why do grandparents and grandchildren get along so well? They have the same enemy-- the
mother.
-- Claudette Colbert "They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself." (Andy Warhol) Organizations "Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom." (Raymonde Uy) "When thou art at Rome, do as they do at Rome." (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1547-1616) The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.
-- ROBERT FROST Organizations
The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about.
-- Oscar Wilde "You make 'em, I amuse 'em." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, on children) Imagine if every Thursday your shoes exploded if you tied them the usual way. This happens to
us all the time with computers, and nobody thinks of complaining.
-- Jeff Raskin "Try not to have a good time ... This is supposed to be educational." (Charles Schultz) Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of
genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.
-- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Organizations My father taught me to work; he did not teach me to love it.
-- Abraham Lincoln 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 A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.
-- G. K. Chesterton Organizations
