I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them.
- Ian L. Fleming Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife.
-- P. J. O'Rourke "I've never let my school interfere with my education." (Mark Twain) Don't be afraid your life will end; be afraid that it will never begin.
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"A man who tells lies, like me, merely hides the truth. But a man who tells half-lies has forgotten where he put it." (Claude Rains, as Mr. Dryden, Lawrence of Arabia, 1962) You have to stay in shape. My grandmother, she started walking five miles a day when she was
60. She's 97 today and we don't know where the hell she is.
-- Ellen DeGeneres Executive ability is deciding quickly and getting someone else to do the work.
-- John G. Pollard "Even death is unreliable. Instead of zero it may be some ghastly hallucination, such as the square root of minus one." (Samuel Beckett) "It is the nature of a man as he grows older, a small bridge in time, to protest against change, particularly change for the better." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) Kazimierz Dolny Love looks through a telescope; envy, through a microscope.
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We all agree that your theory is crazy, but is it crazy enough?
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in one another.
-- Kenny Ausubel "Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom." (Raymonde Uy) When a man takes an oath, Meg, he's holding his ownself in his own hands. Like water. And if he
opens his fingers then- he needn't hope to find himself again.
-- Robert Bolt from A Man For All Seas "You can get help from teachers, but you are going to have to learn a lot by yourself, sitting alone in a room." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, On becoming a writer, NY Times 21 Kazimierz Dolny blah "Each friend represents a world in us; a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only in meeting them that a new world is born." (Anais Nin) There are trivial truths, and there are great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false.
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A conference is a gathering of important people who singly can do nothing, but together can
decide that nothing can be done.
-- Fred Allen There is only one nature - the division into science and engineering is a human imposition, not a
natural one. Indeed, the division is a human failure; it reflects our limited capacity to comprehend "I know that God won't give me more trouble than I can handle ... but sometimes I wish he wouldn't trust me so much." (Mother Teresa) Wife: The perfect acquisition for any gentleman feeling himself to have excessive control over his personal affairs. "From the start, marriage was instituted for contemptible, practical reasons--an idea of men." (Catherine Deneuve) Kazimierz Dolny "He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches." (George Bernard Shaw) The philosophy exam was a piece of cake -- which was a bit of a surprise, actually, because I
was expecting some questions on a sheet of paper.
-- Smith & Jones What a difference there is between what we say and what we think.
-- Racine Kazimierz Dolny
"This is the first age that's paid much attention to the future, which is a little ironic since we may not have one." (Arthur C. Clarke) Defeat never comes to any man until he admits it.
-- Josephus Daniels Despite the high cost of living it remains a popular item.
-- Anonymous The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit.
-- W. Somerset Maugham Blessed are the young for they shall inherit the national debt.
-- Herbert Hoover Kazimierz Dolny It is most unwise for people in love to marry.
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Under capitalism man exploits man; under socialism the reverse is true.
-- Polish proverb Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
-- Aldous Huxley The marriage of Marxism and feminism has been like the marriage of husband and wife depicted
in English common law: Marxism and feminism are one, and that one is Marxism.
-- Heidi Hartmann, The Unha My father was a minister. I had to make up for the lack of sin.
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the powerful, not to be neutral.
-- Paulo Freire Kazimierz Dolny "If I work toward an end, meantime I am confined to a process. The rainbow is more beautiful than the pot at the end of it, because the rainbow is now. And the pot never turns out to be quite what I e "An able man shows his spirit by gentle words and resolute actions; he is neither hot nor timid." (Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield, 4th earl of) Nothing average ever stood as a monument to progress. When progress is looking for a partner it
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For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of our tasks; the ultimate,
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-- Rainer Maria Ril We don't like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out.
-- Decca Recording Company, rejecting the Beatles, 1962 When in doubt, make a fool of yourself. There is a microscopically thin line between being
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-- Cynthia H Fill what's empty, empty what's full, and scratch where it itches.
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-- Gandhi To keep your marriage brimming, with love in the wedding cup, whenever you're wrong, admit it;
whenever you're right, shut up.
-- Ogden Nash Life is like a movie--since there aren't any commercial breaks, you have to get up and go to the
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-- Nick Mirov Tauzin backs term limits -- But he thinks it's a bad idea.
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-- Benjamin Franklin "When once you have tasted flight you will always walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward: for there you have been and there you will always be." (Henry Van Dyke) Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and
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Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife. -- PJ O'Rourke "I was lousy in school. Real screwed-up. A moron. I was antisocial and didn't bother with the other kids. A really bad student. I didn't have any brains. I didn't know what I was doing there. That's w Duct tape is like the Force. It has a light side, a dark side, and it holds the universe together....
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-- Abigail Van Buren Familiarity breeds contempt -- and children.
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Love makes the time pass. Time makes love pass.
-- French Proverb Work is the refuge of people who have nothing better to do.
-- Oscar Wilde Never try to teach a pig to sing. It wastes your time and annoys the pig.
-- Anonymous Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.
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-- Nikki Giovanni I haven't committed a crime. What I did was fail to comply with the law.
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Sometimes you get shown the light in the strangest of places if you look at it right.
-- Jerry Garcia "I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is." (Alan Watts) Love: An obsessive delusion that is cured by marriage. "God is dead: but considering the state Man is in, there will perhaps be caves, for ages yet, in which his shadow will be shown." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, The Joyful Wisdom) The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.
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