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"Gifts must affect the receiver to the point of shock." (Walter Benjamin) cannot imagine any condition which would cause this ship to founder. Modern shipbuilding has
gone beyond that.
-- E. I. Smith, Captain of the Titanic Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end.
-- Semisonic, Closing Time Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.
-- B.F. Skinner Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for him. -- Rich Little Railways "Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past." (George Orwell) 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 The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
- Mark Twain Railways
"Some look at things that are, and ask why. I dream of things that never were and ask why not?" (George Bernard Shaw) Be like a postage stamp. Stick to one thing until you get there.
-- Josh Billings The remarkable thing about television is that it permits several million people to laugh at the same
joke and still feel lonely.
-- T. S. Eliot At the bottom no one in life can help anyone else in life; this one experiences over and over in
every conflict and every perplexity: that one is alone. That isn't as bad as it may first appear; and "I'm so insane, I voted for Eisenhower."
"Oh yeah, well I'm so insane, I voted for Eisenhower TWICE!"
-- Ken Kesey from "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" Railways It is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions.
-- Aldous Huxley "Is life not a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through
self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.
-- Helen Keller Railways
Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere.
-- Chinese Proverb Thought is action in rehearsal.
-- Sigmund Freud "All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) Thus the metric system did not really catch on in the States, unless you count the increasing
popularity of the nine-millimeter bullet.
-- Dave Barry "The intellect is always fooled by the heart." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) Railways We love because it's the only true adventure.
-- Nikki Giovanni Launch out into the deep. One discovers by living in scorn of consequence.
-- Essie Summers "There is nothing more fearful than ignorance in action." (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1749-1832, Criticisms, Reflections and Maxims) Railways
Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get
money from it.
-- Stephen Leacock I'm an excellent housekeeper. Every time I get a divorce, I keep the house.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor There is no course of life so weak and sottish as that which is managed by order, method, and
discipline.
-- Michel de Montaigne "The evil that is in the world almost always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence if they lack understanding." (Albert Camus) "Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past." (George Orwell) Railways When a thing has been said and said well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it.
-- Anatole France Wind is to fire like distance is to love; it extinguishes the small and enflames the great.
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Guys are lucky because they get to grow mustaches. I wish I could. It's like having a little pet for
your face.
-- Anita Wise I worship the quicksand he walks in.
- Art Buchwald I'm not a member of any organized political party, I'm a Democrat!
-- Will Rogers In endowing us with memory, nature has revealed to us a truth utterly unimaginable to the
unreflective creation, the truth of immortality....The most ideal human passion is love, which is
also the m Anyway, no drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the
source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity,
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-- Erma Bombeck There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.
-- Oscar Wilde The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when
we created them.
- Albert Einstein Railways
Remember your dreams.
-- Maryanne Radmacher-Herhey Give me a museum and I'll fill it.
-- Pablo Picasso "Children spell love...T-I-M-E." (Dr. Anthony P. Witham) Never tell. Not if you love your wife... In fact, if your old lady walks in on you, deny it. Yeah. Just
flat out and she'll believe it: "I'm tellin' ya. This chick came downstairs with a sign around My good intentions are completely lethal.
-- Margaret Atwood Railways A great deal of talent is lost to the world for want of a little courage. Every day sends to their
graves obscure men whom timidity prevented from making a first effort.
-- Sydney Smith Facts are the enemy of truth.
- Don Quixote - Man of La Mancha To love another person is to help them love God.
-- Søren Kierkegaard Railways
"Fear is a darkroom where negatives develop." (Usman Asif) Health food makes me sick.
-- Calvin Trillin Worrying is like a rocking chair, it gives you something to do, but it doesn't get you anywhere.
-- Anonymous "Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country." (Marquis de Lafayette) 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 Railways When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her.
-- Sacha Guitry If you were plowing a field, which would you rather use? Two strong oxen or 1024 chickens?
- Seymour Cray (1925-1996), father of supercomputing The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.
-- Thomas Jefferson Railways
Sleep is that golden chain that ties health and our bodies together.
-- Thomas Dekker "Kill a man, and you are a murderer. Kill millions of men, and you are a conquerer. Kill everyone, and you are a god." (Jean Rostand) The great tragedy of science, the slaying of a beautiful theory by an ugly fact.
-- Thomas Henry Huxley Goodbye, Everybody!
-- Hart Crane, poet, who committed suicide by jumping overboard during a steamship voyage. "Have you ever fed your pocket and starved your soul?" (Ivana Santilli, Too Deep) Railways Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
- H. G. Wells I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible
by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.
- Umberto Eco I believe God is managing affairs and that He doesn't need any advice from me. With God in
charge, I believe everything will work out for the best in the end. So what is there to worry about.
-- Hen Railways
"The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do." (Anonymous) Some of us are becoming the men we wanted to marry.
-- Gloria Steinem "Someday there will be girls and women whose name will no longer mean the mere opposite of the male, but something in itself, something that makes one think not of any compliment and limit, but only o Govern a family as you would cook a small fish - very gently.
-- Chinese Proverb Wedding is destiny, and hanging likewise.
-- John Heywood Railways Never marry for money. Ye'll borrow it cheaper.
-- Scottish Proverb "If you light a man a fire, he will be warm for a day; if you light a man on fire, he will be warm for the rest of his life." (Anonymous) When you don't know that you don't know, it's a lot different than when you do know that you
don't know. He knows now that he doesn't know. Last year, he didn't know that.
-- Bill Parcels, New Engla Railways
"I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it." (Thomas Jefferson, to Archibald Stuart, 1791) Conversation, fastidious Goddess, loves blood better than brick, and feasts most subtly on the
human will.
-- Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway 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 Nothing says lovin' like marrying your cousin!
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show To love another person is to see the face of God.
-- Lyric from Les Miserables Railways Insurance is like marriage. You pay, pay, pay, and you never get anything back.
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.
-- Gore Vidal Say goodbye to the oldies, but goodies, because the good old days weren't always good and
tomorrow aint as bad as it seems.
-- Billy Joel Railways
The true spirit of conversation consists in building on another man's observation, not overturning
it.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton "Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance, or a stranger." (Franklin P. Jones) "Freedom of press is limited to those who own one." (Henry Louis Mencken) Every major horror of history was committed in the name of an altruistic motive.
-- Ayn Rand "When I was four years old they tried to test my IQ, they showed me this picture of three oranges and a pear. They asked me which one is different and does not belong, they taught me different was wro Railways When you're experimenting you have to try so many things before you choose what you want,
and you may go days getting nothing but exhaustion.
-- Fred Astaire I owe the government $3400 in taxes. So I sent them two hammers and a toilet seat.
-- Michael McShane A leader in the Democratic Party is a boss, in the Republican Party he is a leader.
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