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When yer in a funk, people in love are a royal pain in the patookus.
-- Portnoy, character in "Outland," comic strip by Berkely Breathed Not much meat on her, but what's there is choice.
-- Spencer Tracy, about Katharine Hepburn blah bl "The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning, but without understanding." (Louis Brandeis) 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 "Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn; my God, do you learn!" (Clive Staples Lewis) Organizations "What is the difference between exploring and being lost?" (Dan Eldon, photojournalist) An economist is a man who states the obvious in terms of the incomprehensible.
-- Alfred A. Knopf Sex is God's joke on human beings.
-- Bette Davis Organizations
When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen.
-- Ernest Hemingway The society of women is the element of good manners.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get
married.
-- Katharine Hepburn Give her two red roses, each with a note. The first note says "For the woman I love" and the
second, "For my best friend."
-- Anonymous "Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former." (Albert Einstein) Organizations It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.
-- Abraham Lincoln Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald If variety is the spice of life, marriage is the big can of leftover Spam.
-- Johnny Carson Organizations
blah bl "The better the state is established, the fainter is humanity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) If we knew what we were doing, it wouldn't be called research, would it?
-- Albert Einstein The more we do, the more we can do; the more busy we are the more leisure we have.
-- William Hazlitt We do not have censorship. What we have is a limitation on what newspapers can report.
-- Louis Nel, Deputy Minister of Information, South Africa If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.
-- Voltaire Organizations The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.
-- Paul Valery I believe in getting into hot water; it keeps you clean.
-- G. K. Chesterton I tried a mail order bride, once, but she was damaged in the mail, and I had to return the unused part for my full refund. Organizations
Whoever called it necking was a poor judge of anatomy.
-- Groucho Marx We think caged birds sing, when indeed they cry.
-- John Webster May you be too good for the world and not good enough for your wife. All science is concerned with the relationship of cause and effect. Each scientific discovery
increases man's ability to predict the consequences of his actions and thus his ability to control
futur "If I were still a critic, I would loathe knowing the person I was writing about. There's enough of an incestuous relationship between subject and writer." (Manny Farber, American film theorist) Organizations Love is like pi - natural, irrational, and very important.
-- Lisa Hoffman The imaginary friends I had as a kid dropped me because their friends thought I didn't exist.
-- Aaron Machado "No one wants a good education. Everyone wants a good degree." (Lee Rudolph) Organizations
Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer.
-- Mark Twain I hate it in friends when they come too late to help.
-- Euripides "The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld "Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." (George Bernard Shaw) Organizations I begin by taking. I shall find scholars later to demonstrate my perfect right.
- Frederick (II) the Great People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid.
- Soren Aabye Kierkegaard A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents.
-- H. L. Mencken Organizations
The mind has exactly the same power as the hands: not merely to grasp the world, but to change
it.
-- Colin Wilson Health food makes me sick.
-- Calvin Trillin When I have a kid, I wanna put him in one of those strollers for twins, then run around the mall
looking frantic.
-- Steven Wright "Dear World, I am leaving because I am bored. I feel I have lived long enough. I am leaving you with your worries in this sweet cesspool. Good luck." (George Sanders, suicide note) I still live.
-- Daniel Webster, dying words Organizations "Pleasant words are a honeycomb, Sweet to the soul and healing to the bones." (Bible, Proverbs 16:24) "He who speaks of what he knows not only works hard to portray his ignorance." (Joseph Muchemi) For the majority of People, smoking has a beneficial effect.
-- Dr. Ian G. Macdonald, Los Angeles surgeon, quoted in Newsweek , Nov.18th 1963. Organizations
While we are postponing, life speeds by.
- Seneca (3BC - 65AD) Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame.
- Benjamin Franklin I don't worry about terrorism. I was married for two years.
-- Sam Kinison Fanaticism consists of redoubling your efforts when you have forgotten your aim.
-- George Santayana An undefined problem has an infinite number of solutions.
-- Robert A. Humphrey Organizations But at my back I always hear Time's winged chariot hurrying near.
- Andrew Marvell If love is the answer, could you rephrase the question?
-- Lily Tomlin Thank heaven. A bachelor's life is no life for a single man.
-- Samuel Goldwyn, immigrant-turned-famous-movie-producer, when told his son was getting
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The great thing in this world is not so much where we stand as in what direction we are going.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it come true.
-- Richard Bach There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in his home.
-- Kenneth H. Olson, President of DEC, Convention of the World Future Society, 1977 I could prove God statistically.
-- George Gallup "... and then the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom." (Anais Nin) Organizations It is no use walking anywhere to preach unless our walking is our preaching.
-- St. Francis of Assisi Life is like music; it must be composed by ear, feeling, and instinct, not by rule.
-- Samuel Butler "The greater the artist, the greater the doubt. Perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize." (Robert Hughes) Organizations
Love is stronger than justice.
-- Sting The full use of your powers along lines of excellence.
- definition of happiness by John F. Kennedy "I have learned that to be with those I like is enough." (Walt Whitman) The nice thing about being a celebrity is that if you bore people they think it's their fault.
- Henry Kissinger I am returning this otherwise good typing paper to you because someone has printed gibberish all
over it and put your name at the top.
-- English Professor, Ohio University Organizations blah "Ability wins us the esteem of the true men; luck that of the people." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) Its failings notwithstanding, there is much to be said in favor of journalism in that by giving us the
opinion of the uneducated, it keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community.
-- Oscar W The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech.
-- George Bernard Shaw Organizations
My father taught me to work; he did not teach me to love it.
-- Abraham Lincoln "There are no uninteresting things, only uninteresting people." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) We are the echo of the future.
-- W. S. Merwin Trust everybody, but cut the cards.
-- Finley Peter Dunne I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.
- Thomas Jefferson Organizations To love another person is to help them love God.
-- Søren Kierkegaard Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with
the powerful, not to be neutral.
-- Paulo Freire "In fact, most deaths are not tragic. Few people die because of a flaw in character, which is the essential element of tragedy. They just die." (John Chancellor, The News Business) Organizations
Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of
opportunity.
-- George Bernard Shaw "Love is always a stranger in the house of avarice." (Andreas Capellanus) He who laughs last has not yet heard the bad news.
-- Bertolt Brecht "Be the change that you want to see in the world." (Mohandas Gandhi) "I have learned that to be with those I like is enough." (Walt Whitman) Organizations Hark, the Herald Tribune sings,
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-- Tom Lehrer You will marry into an Indian tribe and become one big Hopi family. Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting.
-- Karl Wallenda Organizations
