I've always thought that underpopulated countries in Africa are vastly underpolluted.
-- Lawrence Summers, chief economist of the World Bank, explaining why we should export toxic
wastes to Third Wo You can always amend a big plan, but you can never expand a little one. I don't believe in little
plans. I believe in plans big enough to meet a situation which we can't possibly foresee now.
-- Ha blah bl "The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning, but without understanding." (Louis Brandeis) Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.
-- B.F. Skinner "Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains." (Karl Marx) Territories 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 "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) Whoever called it necking was a poor judge of anatomy.
-- Groucho Marx Territories
When looking back, usually I'm more sorry for the things I didn't do than for the things I shouldn't
have done.
-- Malcolm Forbes It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
-- Oscar Wilde 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 nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
- Lucille S. Harper "A dress makes no sense unless it inspires men to take it off of you." (Francois Sagan) Territories Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.
-- Louise Hay What's another word for "Thesaurus?"
-- Steven Wright We love because it's the only true adventure.
-- Nikki Giovanni Territories
"Dream as if you'll live forever; live as if you'll die tomorrow." (James Dean) "To pretend, I actually do the thing: I have therefore only pretended to pretend." (Jacques Derrida, French 'deconstructionist') Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely
been detected.
-- Oscar Wilde "Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past." (George Orwell) In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
- Martin Luther King Jr. Territories "A conservative is a man who sits and thinks, mostly sits." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) Prejudice is the child of ignorance.
-- William Hazlitt By working faithfully eight hours a day, you might eventually get to be a boss and work twelve
hours a day.
-- ROBERT FROST Territories
Immature love says: "I love you because I need you." Mature love says: "I need you because I
love you."
-- Erich Fromm It is better to be looked over than overlooked.
-- Mae West I am ready to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me
is another matter.
- Sir Winston Churchill 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 I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.
-- Francois-Auguste Rodin, when asked how he managed to make his remarkable statues Territories Men. You can't live with them. You don't have to.
-- Seen on a t-shirt A narcissist is someone better-looking than you are.
-- Gore Vidal Asking an incumbent member of Congress to vote for term limits is a bit like asking a chicken to
vote for Colonel Sanders.
-- Bob Inglis, 1995 Territories
If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.
-- Voltaire Life is the flower for which love is the honey.
-- Victor Hugo With this ring I thee wed, with my body I thee worship, and with all my worldly good I thee endow.
-- Wedding Vow, Book of Common Prayer Nothing says loving like marrying your cousin! -- Al Bundy Man is the only animal that blushes--or needs to.
-- Mark Twain Territories "It serves me right for putting all my eggs in one bastard." (Dorothy Parker, 1893-1967, US writer) "Those that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." (Benjamin Franklin) Reality is nothing but a collective hunch.
-- Lily Tomlin Territories
A woman's always younger than a man of equal years.
-Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Aurora Leigh "If it doesn't matter who wins or loses, then why do they keep score?" (Vince Lombardi) You can observe a lot by watching.
-- Yogi Berra "College professors are the people who can't hack it in the real world." (William Thomas) When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I only think about how to solve the
problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
-- Buckminster Territories Did you hear about the scientist whose wife had twins? He baptized one and kept the other as a control. Man is the best computer we can put aboard a spacecraft...and the only one that can be mass
produced with unskilled labor.
-- Wernher von Braun He who laughs last has not yet heard the bad news.
-- Bertolt Brecht Territories
"This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) "I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter." (Blaise Pascal) "Inside of a ring or out, ain't nothing wrong with going down. It's staying down that's wrong." (Muhammad Ali) "Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past." (George Orwell) Saying that men talk about baseball in order to avoid talking about their feelings is the same as
saying that women talk about their feelings in order to avoid talking about baseball.
-- Deborah Tan Territories Familiarity breeds contempt -- and children.
-- Mark Twain 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 "It seems to me that almost all our sadnesses are moments of tension, which we feel as paralysis because we no longer hear our astonished emotions living." (Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poe Territories
"If you believe everything you read, you better not read." (Japanese Proverb) One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is
terribly important.
- Bertrand Russell
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A little inaccuracy sometimes saves a ton >From the moment I picked your book up until I laid it down I was convulsed with laughter. Some
day I intend reading it.
-- Groucho Marx We always believe our first love is our last, and our last love our first.
-- Anonymous I'm not into working out. My philosophy: No pain, no pain.
-- Carol Leifer Territories CAPITAL, n. The seat of misgovernment. That which provides the fire, the pot, the dinner, the
table and the knife and fork for the anarchist; the part of the repast that himself supplies is the
disg In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been
widely regarded as a bad move.
-- Douglas Adams A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
-- Michel de Montaigne Territories
Never be possessive. If a female friend lets on that she is going out with another man, be kind
and understanding. If she says she would like to go out with the Dallas Cowboys, including the
coachin No one really listens to anyone else, and if you try it for a while you'll see why.
-- Mignon McLaughlin Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions - it only guarantees equality of opportunity.
- Irving Kristol "I heard the old, old, men say 'all that's beautiful drifts away, like the waters.'" (William Butler Yeats) Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.
-- Erica Jong Territories First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.
- Mahatma Gandhi Usenet is like Tetris for people who still remember how to read.
-- Button from the Computer Museum, Boston, MA "The intellect is always fooled by the heart." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) Territories
Marriage is like a mousetrap. Those on the outside are trying to get in. Those on the inside are trying to get out. My good intentions are completely lethal.
-- Margaret Atwood If the French were really intelligent, they'd speak English.
-- Wilfred Sheed When I give a lecture, I accept that people look at their watches, but what I do not tolerate is
when they look at it and raise it to their ear to find out if it stopped.
-- Marcel Achard The mistakes are all waiting to be made.
- chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower (1887-1956) on the game's opening position Territories Death does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when it does
come, we no longer exist.
-- Epicurus Music is the art of thinking with sounds.
-- Jules Combarieu The more faithfully you listen to the voices within you, the better you will hear what is sounding
outside.
-- Dag Hammarskjold Territories
"One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "I have great faith in fools; My friends call it self-confidence." (Edger Allen Poe) A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties; no
religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear
of A person starts to live when he can live outside himself.
-- Albert Einstein Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a losttradition.
-- Jacques Barzun Territories blah bl "The better the state is established, the fainter is humanity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) A behaviorist is someone who pulls habits out of rats.
-- Anonymous The man with the best job in the country is the Vice President. All he has to do is get up every
morning and say, "How's the President?"
-- Will Rogers Territories
