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In marriage, the bridge gets a shower. But for the groom, it's curtains! Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though it is hard to
realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and
grie Sir, I would rather be right than be President.
-- Henry Clay, Speech, 1850, referring to the Compromise Measure The great advantage of being in a rut is that when one is in a rut, one knows exactly where one
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-- Arnold Bennett Don't stay in bed, unless you can make money in bed.
- George Burns Concentration and Death Camps Don't look back -- something might be gaining on you.
-- Satchel Paige The best theology would need no advocates; it would prove itself.
-- Karl Barth Once all struggle is grasped, miracles are possible.
-- Mao Tse-tung Concentration and Death Camps
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature.
-- Samuel Butler We love because it's the only true adventure.
-- Nikki Giovanni "Eagles may soar, but weasels don't get sucked into jet engines." (John Benfield) "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." (Albert Einstein) Concentration and Death Camps The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their
attitudes of mind.
-- William James A man sits with a pretty girl for an hour, it seems like a minute. He sits on a hot stove for a
minute, it's longer than any hour. That is relativity.
-- Albert Einstein I like nonsense -- it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living. It's a way
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They were doing a full back shot of me in a swimsuit and I thought, Oh my God, I have to be so
brave. See, every woman hates herself from behind.
-- Cindy Crawford, supermodel Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door
and just visit now and then.
-- Katharine Hepburn Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried.
-- G. K. Chesterton He who laughs last thinks slowest.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker It takes two to speak truth --One to speak, and another to hear.
-- Henry David Thoreau Concentration and Death Camps The bottom line is that (a) people are never perfect, but love can be, (b) that is the one and only
way that the mediocre and vile can be transformed, and (c) doing that makes it that. We waste
time It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.
-- Andre Gide Whoever called it necking was a poor judge of anatomy.
-- Groucho Marx Concentration and Death Camps
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 The gods gave man fire and he invented fire engines. They gave him love and he invented marriage. Statistics have shown that mortality increases perceptibly in the military during wartime.
-- Alphonse Allais If we were not all so interested in ourselves, life would be so uninteresting that none of us would
be able to endure it.
-- Schopenhauer I am free of all prejudice. I hate everyone equally.
-- W. C. Fields Concentration and Death Camps Why don't you write books people can read?
-- Nora Joyce, to her husband James Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it
- Henry David Thoreau "Most people would rather die than think; in fact, they do so." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Concentration and Death Camps
She felt in italics and thought in capitals.
-- Henry James Most rock journalism is people who can't write interviewing people who can't talk for people who
can't read.
-- Frank Zappa Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a losttradition.
-- Jacques Barzun Executive ability is deciding quickly and getting someone else to do the work.
-- John G. Pollard A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.
-- G. K. Chesterton Concentration and Death Camps If someone had told me I would be Pope one day, I would have studied harder.
-- Pope John Paul I My wife ran off with my best friend last week. I miss him! He can compress the most words into the smallest idea of any man I know.
- Abraham Lincoln Concentration and Death Camps
"A celebrity is a person who works hard all his life to become well known, then wears dark glasses to avoid being recognized." (Fred Allen) Like a prune, you are not getting any better looking, but you are getting sweeter.
-- N. D. Stice Live your questions now, and perhaps even without knowing it, you will live along some distant
day into your answers.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke "Life is measured by the rapidity of change, the succession of influences that modify the being." (George Eliot) Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for
appointment by the corrupt few.
-- George bernard Shaw Concentration and Death Camps Most people are more comfortable with old problems than with new solutions.
-- Anonymous Experience is not what happens to you; it's what you do with what happens to you.
-- Aldous Huxley Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the
unpalatable.
-- John Kenneth Galbraith Concentration and Death Camps
Happiness, it is said, is seldom found by those who seek it, and never by those who seek it for
themselves.
-- F. Emerson Andrews He who receives an idea from me receives instruction for himself without lessening mine; as he
who lights his taper at mine receives light without darkening me.
-- Thomas Jefferson Truth is more of a stranger than fiction.
-- Mark Twain Love is the dawn of marriage, and marriage is the sunset of love.
-- French saying If everything seems under control, you're just not going fast enough.
- Mario Andretti Concentration and Death Camps Parents often talk about the younger generations as if they didn't have anything to do with it. With the catching end the pleasures of the chase.
-- Abraham Lincoln Love looks through a telescope; envy, through a microscope.
-- Josh Billings Concentration and Death Camps
Marriage still confers one very special privilege - only a married person can get divorced. Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up.
-- Robert Frost Life is like a movie--since there aren't any commercial breaks, you have to get up and go to the
bathroom in the middle of it.
-- Nick Mirov Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than
the wisest man can answer.
-- Charles Caleb Colton The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
-- Winston Churchill Concentration and Death Camps The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything.
-- Oscar Wilde The gods too are fond of a joke.
-- Aristotle Chase after the truth like all hell and you'll free yourself, even though you never touch its
coattails.
-- Clarence Darrow Concentration and Death Camps
What sets worlds in motion is the interplay of differences, their attractions and repulsions; life is
plurality, death is uniformity.
-- Octavio Paz "So little done, so much to do." (Cecil Rhodes) The Middle Eastern states aren't nations; they're quarrels with borders.
-- P. J. O'Rourke It is not because it is difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that things are
difficult.
-- Lucius Anneaus Seneca Sleep is an excellent way of listening to an opera.
- James Stephens Concentration and Death Camps An ideal wife is one who remains faithful to you but tries to be just as charming as if she weren't.
-- Sacha Guitry If you can't get rid of the skeleton in your closet, you'd best teach it to dance.
- George Bernard Shaw It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
-- Oscar Wilde Concentration and Death Camps
Idealism increases in direct proportion to one's distance from the problem.
-- John Galsworthy "Everybody knows that if you are too careful, you become so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something." (Gertrude Stein) Smoking kills. If you're killed, you've lost a very important part of your life.
-- Brooke Shields, during an interview to become spokesperson for a federal anti-smoking
campaign To take what there "is", and use it, without waiting forever in vain for the preconceived - to dig
deep into the actual and get something out of that - this doubtless is the right way to live.
-- H If all men were brothers, would you let one marry your sister? Concentration and Death Camps Before marraige a man will like awake all night thinking about something you said. After marriage
he will fall asleep before you have finished saying it.
-- Anon. The difference between pornography and erotica is lighting.
-- Gloria Leonard Opportunities multiply as they are seized.
-- Sun Tzu Concentration and Death Camps
Many a man has finally succeeded only because he has failed after repeated efforts. If he had
never met defeat he would never have known any great victory.
-- Orison Swett Marden "One often contradicts an opinion when what is uncongenial is really the tone in which it was conveyed." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress.
-- Gandhi Smoking kills. If you're killed, you've lost a very important part of your life.
-- Brooke Shields, during an interview to become spokesperson for a federal anti-smoking
campaign "I fear we are not getting rid of God because we still believe in grammar." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Concentration and Death Camps There are trivial truths, and there are great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false.
The opposite of a great truth is also true.
-- Neils Bohr Marriage is an institution--but who wants to live in an institution? It is best to learn as we go, not go as we have learned.
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