A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.
- Frank Lloyd Wright Marriage is a lottery in which men stake their liberty and women their happiness.
-- Madame de Rieux The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism
is the equal sharing of miseries.
-- Winston Churchill Creativity is piercing the mundane to find the marvelous.
-- Bill Moyers "The things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisi Surf Shops "Use what talents you possess; The woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best." (William Blake) "I love to doubt as well as know." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has not heart; and any man who is over 30, and is
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-- Winston Churchill Surf Shops
The two most common elements in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity. But not in that order.
-- Brian Pickrell Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
-- George Bernard Shaw I feel that if a person has problems communicating the very least he can do is to shut up.
-- Tom Lehrer the social sciences were for all those who had not yet decided what to do with their lives, and for
all those whose premature frustrations led them into the sterile alleys of confrontation.
-- Peter There is no realizable power that man cannot, in time, fashion the tools to attain, nor any power so secure that the naked ape will not abuse it. So it is written in the genetic cards - only physics a Surf Shops We think caged birds sing, when indeed they cry.
-- John Webster Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.
-- Oscar Wilde Beware of men on airplanes. The minute a man reaches thirty thousand feet, he immediately
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Happiness, it is said, is seldom found by those who seek it, and never by those who seek it for
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-- F. Emerson Andrews The best way to get husbands to do something is to suggest that perhaps they are too old to do it.
-- Shirley MacLaine Friends need not agree in everything or go always together, or have no comparable other
friendships of the same intimacy. On the contrary, in friendship union is more about ideal things:
and in that In answer to the question of why it happened, I offer the modest proposal that our Universe is
simply one of those things which happen from time to time.
-- Edward P. Tryon If pleasures are greatest in anticipation, just remember that this is also true of trouble.
-- Elbert Hubbard Surf Shops "I think all great innovations are built on rejections." (Louis-Ferdinand Céline) The executive exists to make sensible exceptions to general rules.
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Wherever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.
-- Harry S. Truman For of all sad words of tongue or pen,
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-- John Greenleaf Whittier "Genius without education is like silver in the mine." (Benjamin Franklin) Computers will not be perfected until they can compute how much more than the estimate the job
will cost.
-- Anon Guide to understanding a net.addict's day:
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Busy day: managed to work in three hours of usenet.
Bad day: barely squeezed in three ho Surf Shops "...when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth." (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes) "If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost." (Aristotle) A life spent in making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent doing
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Knowledge is the intellectual manipulation of carefully verified observations.
-- Sigmund Freud Honor's a thing too subtle for wisdom; if honor lie in eating, he's right honorable.
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-- Nanette Newman, British actress "What is most appealing about young folks, after all, is the changes, not the still photograph of finished character but the movie, the soul in flux." (Thomas Pynchon) Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.
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Love begins with a smile, grows with a kiss, and ends with a teardrop.
-- Anonymous "I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him." (Galileo Galilei) If you don't know how to do something, you don't know how to do it with a computer.
-- Anon. "Great spirits have always faced voilent protest from mediocre minds." (Albert Einstein) If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.
-- Virginia Woolf Surf Shops All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.
-- Edgar Allan Poe Mistress: Something between a mister and a mattress.
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An undefined problem has an infinite number of solutions.
-- Robert A. Humphrey "Truth lies not only in a dream, but in many dreams." (Pier Paolo Pasolini, Italian poet, novelist and filmmaker) Love is an emotion that is based on an opinion of women that is impossible for those who have
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-- H. L. Mencken Republican boys date Democratic girls. They plan to marry Republican girls, but feel they're
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Robert Frost (1874-1963) Many a man has finally succeeded only because he has failed after repeated efforts. If he had
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I know nothing about sex, because I was always married.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Intelligence has nothing to do with politics.
-- Londo Molari Why yes -- a bulletproof vest.
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-- Will Rogers If everything seems under control, you're just not going fast enough.
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-- Ludwig Wittgenstein Often it does seem a pity that Noah and his party did not miss the boat.
-- Mark Twain Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to
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-- Jean Kerr Surf Shops
My father was a minister. I had to make up for the lack of sin.
-- Milwuakee mayor, on why he became a politician Being a woman is of special interest only to aspiring male transsexuals. To actual women it is
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-- Fran Lebowitz Chase after the truth like all hell and you'll free yourself, even though you never touch its
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-- Clarence Darrow What I look forward to is continued immaturity followed by death.
-- Dave Barry Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Surf Shops It's not as great a day for the bride as she thinks. She's not marrying the best man.
-- Anonymous People think we make $3 million and $4 million a year. They don't realize that most of us only
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I didn't accept it. I received it.
-- Richard Allen, National Security Advisor to President Reagan, explaining the $1000 in cash and
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room is the temple where they worship arrested development.
-- Russell Baker "I am the lizard king. I can do anything." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) They gave me a book of checks. They didn't ask for any deposits.
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-- Smith & Jones "Thanks to my solid academic training, today I can write hundreds of words on virtually any topic without possessing a shred of information, which is how I got a good job in journalism." (Dave Barry) Live your questions now, and perhaps even without knowing it, you will live along some distant
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