"That government is best which governs the least, because its people discipline themselves." (Thomas Jefferson) The difference between 'involvement' and 'commitment' is like an eggs-and-ham breakfast: the
chicken was 'involved' - the pig was 'committed'.
- unknown "No one lies so boldly as the man who is indignant." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Not only is the universe stranger than we imagine, it is stranger than we can imagine.
Sir Arthur Eddington (1882 - 1944) Most convicted felons are just people who were not taken to museums or Broadway musicals as
children.
-- Libby Gelman-Waxner Nowy Sacz You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.
-- Albert Camus You can pay attention to the fact, in which case you'll probably become a mathematician, or you
can ignore it, in which case you'll probably become a physicist.
-- Len Evans, professor, Northwestern Good judgement comes from experience, and experience--well, that comes from poor judgement.
-- Cousin Woodman Nowy Sacz
Vote early and vote often.
- Al Capone Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
-- George Bernard Shaw A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel.
-- Robert Frost A beauty is a woman you notice; A charmer is one who notices you.
-- Adlai Stevenson A weed is no more than a flower in disguise.
-- James Lowell Nowy Sacz "The depth and strength of a human character are defined by its moral reserves. People reveal themselves completely only when they are thrown out of the customary conditions of their life, for only th Free will is a golden thread running through the frozen matrix of fixed events.
-- Robert A. Heinlein _The Rolling Stones_ A beauty is a woman you notice; A charmer is one who notices you.
-- Adlai Stevenson Nowy Sacz
A behaviorist is someone who pulls habits out of rats.
-- Anonymous If God created us in His image we have certainly returned the compliment.
-- Voltaire "One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries." (A. A. Milne) Imitation is the sincerest form of television.
-- Fred Allen "My daughter has never forgiven me. for what, I don't know, because for years, she won't speak to me. She blackens my name in the press and makes me think abortion is an excellent idea." (Klaus Kinsk Nowy Sacz Adolescence is a period of rapid changes. Between the ages of 12 and 17, for example, a parent
ages as much as 20 years.
-- Anonymous 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 The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.
-- ROBERT FROST Nowy Sacz
Be willing to make decisions. That's the most important quality in a good leader. Don't fall victim
to what I call the 'ready-aim-aim-aim-aim syndrome.' You must be willing to fire.
-- Gen. George "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 "I was born lost and take no pleasure in being found..." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) "A thing of beauty is a joy forever." (John Keats) Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.
- Bertrand Russell Nowy Sacz Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.
-- Albert Einstein Men have become the tools of their tools.
- Henry David Thoreau ( "I would rather die standing than live on my knees!" (Emiliano Zapata) Nowy Sacz
"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) Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive.
-- Anaïs Nin Love is temporary insanity curable by marriage.
-- Ambrose Bierce Nuns: Women who marry God. If they divorce Him, do they get half the universe? "The man who never made a mistake never made anything." (Derek Longdon, Tongariro Power Development, Turangi, New Zealand) Nowy Sacz Marriage is a lottery in which men stake their liberty and women their happiness.
-- Madame de Rieux The mistakes are all waiting to be made.
- chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower (1887-1956) on the game's opening position "We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars." (Oscar Wilde) Nowy Sacz
"Gifts must affect the receiver to the point of shock." (Walter Benjamin) Not only is there no God, but try finding a plumber on Sunday.
-- Woody Allen "The only way to have friends is to be one." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Do or do not. There is no try.
-- Yoda, character in the movie The Empire Strikes Back "What dies if freedom lives? What lives if freedom dies?" (Lindsay Anderson, British filmmaker, from if.... (1968) Nowy Sacz A life spent in making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent doing
nothing.
-- George Benard Shaw Whenever I dwell for any length of time on my own shortcomings, they gradually begin to seem
mild harmless, rather engaging little things, not at all like the staring defects in other people's
chara Love is a snowmobile racing across the tundra and then suddenly it flips over, pinning you
underneath. At night, the ice weasels come.
-- Matt Groening, Love is Hell Nowy Sacz
Not to anticipate is already to moan.
-- Leonardo da Vinci As for courage and will - we cannot measure how much of each lies within us, we can only trust
there will be sufficient to carry through trials which may lie ahead.
-- Andre Norton A sweetheart is a bottle of wine, a wife is a wine bottle.
-- Baudelaire There is a theory which states that if ever anybody discovers exactly what the Universe is for and
why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and
inex After finding no qualified candidates for the position of principal, the school board is extremely
pleased to announce the appointment of David Steele to the post.
-- Philip Streifer, Superintendent Nowy Sacz "Character is determined more by the lack of certain experiences than by those one has had." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "I should reproach him for not giving us enough evidence." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970, what he would say to God if they 'met') I've sometimes thought of marrying, and then I've thought again.
-- Noel Coward Nowy Sacz
"If man could be crossed with the cat, it would improve man but deteriorate the cat." (Mark Twain) You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.
-- Henry Ford Feeding the hungry is a greater work than raising the dead.
-- Saint John Chrysostom If someone offers you a breath mint, accept it.
-- H. Jackson Brown, Jr., Life's Little Treasure Book, on wisdom Radio news is bearable. This is due to the fact that while the news is being broadcast the disc
jockey is not allowed to talk.
-- Fran Lebowitz Nowy Sacz No one can earn a million dollars honestly.
- William Jennings Bryan Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you.
-- John-Paul Sartre He is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death.
- H. H. Munro (Saki) Nowy Sacz
Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you
have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not.
-- Aldous Huxley "I always thought a dog-lover was a dog who loved another dog." (James Thurber) If the French were really intelligent, they'd speak English.
-- Wilfred Sheed Diplomat: A man who can convince his wife she would look stout in a fur coat. I want to die in my sleep like my friend.... Not screaming and yelling like the passengers in his
car.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Nowy Sacz "In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) In the late 1600s the finest instruments originated from three rural families whose workshops
were side by side in the Italian village of Cremona. First were the Amatis, and outside their shop
hung You can always amend a big plan, but you can never expand a little one. I don't believe in little
plans. I believe in plans big enough to meet a situation which we can't possibly foresee now.
-- Ha Nowy Sacz
True, we love life, not because we are used to living, but because we are used to loving. There is
always some madness in love, but there is also always some reason in madness.
-- Friedrich Nietzsch "All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) "We have to be able to criticise what we love, to say what we have to say 'cause if your not trying to make something better, than as far as I can tell, you are just in the way." (Ani Difranco) The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
-- B. F. Skinner A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems.
- Paul Erdos Nowy Sacz >From error to error one discovers the entire truth.
-- Sigmund Freud A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.
-Robert Frost (1874-1963) "I met someone on the street who said wasn't it great that we're going to have a movie star for president, that it was so Pop, and (laughs) when you think about it like that, it is great, it's so Amer Nowy Sacz
What do you take me for, an idiot?
- General Charles de Gaulle (1890-1970), when a journalist asked him if he was happy After finding no qualified candidates for the position of principal, the school board is extremely
pleased to announce the appointment of David Steele to the post.
-- Philip Streifer, Superintendent The optimist sees opportunity in every danger; the pessimist sees danger in every opportunity.
-- Winston Churchill My wife doesn't care what I do away from home, as long as I don't enjoy it. We got to roll with the punches, play all of our hunches, make the best of whatever comes your
way. Forget that blind ambition, learn to trust your intuition -- plowing straight ahead, come what
may Nowy Sacz Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go.
- Oscar Wilde If you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it's done.
-- Scott Adams Just buy a box of popcorn and a Coca-Cola and sit back and watch.
-- James Carville, Clinton advisor, offering advice for Democrats on the term-limits vote in the
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