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If addiction is judged by how long a dumb animal will sit pressing a lever to get a 'fix' of
something, to its own detriment, then I would conclude that netnews is far more addictive than
cocaine.
We can never be sure that the opinion we are endeavoring to stifle is a false opinion; and if we
were sure, stifling it would be an evil still.
-- John Stuart Mill "Frank and explicit; that is the right line to take when you wish to conceal your own mind and to confuse the minds of others." (Benjamin Disraeli, Sybil) Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.
-- Dietrich Bonhoeffer The most wasted day of all is that in which we have not laughed.
-- Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort Rumia All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That is his.
-- Oscar Wilde To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance
- Oscar Wilde When a person can no longer laugh at himself, it is time for others to laugh at him.
-- Thomas Szasz, The Second Sin, 1973 Rumia
I heard someone tried the monkeys-on-typewriters bit trying for the plays of W. Shakespeare, but
all they got was the collected works of Francis Bacon.
- Bill Hirst "The face is the soul of the body." (Ludwig Wittgenstein) He who laughs last didn't get it.
-- Helen Giangregorio "People demand freedom only when they have no power." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the
lessons that history has to teach.
-- Aldous Huxley Rumia "Every Man and every Woman is a Star." (Aleister Crowley) He who has a 'why' to live, can bear with almost any 'how'.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Marriage is an institution in which a man loses his Bachelor's Degree and the woman gets her Masters. Rumia
I support efforts to limit the terms of members of Congress, especially members of the House and
members of the Senate.
-- Dan Quayle, Former Vice-President There are two means of refuge from the misery of life - music and cats.
-- Albert Schweitzer I require three things in a man: He must be handsome, ruthless, and stupid.
-- Dorothy Parker "Every act of violence increases the recruitment of terrorists. Iraq has been turned into a base of terror." (Noam Chomsky, from The Toronto Star, March 23, 2004) The trouble with some women is that they get all excited about nothing -- and then marry him.
-- Cher Rumia He who laughs, lasts.
-- Mary Pettibone Poole "The only man who behaved sensibly was my tailor; he took my measurement anew every time he saw me, while all the rest went on with their old measurements and expected them to fit me." (George Bernar Everywhere I go, I'm asked if the universities stifle writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle
enough of them.
-- Flannery O'Connor Rumia
Now join your hands, and with your hands your hearts.
-- William Shakespeare, King Henry the Sixth Why do grandparents and grandchildren get along so well? They have the same enemy-- the
mother.
-- Claudette Colbert Universities incline wits to sophistry and affectation.
-- Francis Bacon Logic is in the eye of the logician.
- Gloria Steinem Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.
-- Erica Jong Rumia "May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house." (George Carlin) The better part of valor is discretion.
-- William Shakespeare 1564-1616 from King Henry the Fourth, Part I The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
-- Blaise Pascal, Pens&eactue;es, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer Rumia
"Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts." (Henry B. Adams) Health food makes me sick.
-- Calvin Trillin It's not the men in my life that count, it's the life in my men.
-- Mae West Do not worry about your difficulties in mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater.
-- Albert Einstein "When marrying, ask yourself this question: Do you believe that you will be able to converse well with this person into your old age? Everything else in marriage is transitory." (Friedrich Wilhelm Ni Rumia It is the final proof of God's omnipotence that he need not exist in order to save us.
-- Peter De Vries Correction: Instead of being arrested, as we stated, for kicking his wife down a flight of stairs and hurling a lighted kerosene lamp after her, the Rev. James P. Wellman died unmarried four years ago A friend is a gift you give yourself.
-- Robert Louis Stevenson Rumia
"If you want to make enemies, try to change something." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) The lover knows much more about absolute good and universal beauty than any logician or
theologian, unless the latter, too, be lovers in disguise.
-- George Santayana A husband is what's left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
-- Helen Rowland "Great spirits have always faced voilent protest from mediocre minds." (Albert Einstein) A girl must marry for love and keep on marrying until she finds it.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Rumia The work of internal government has become the task of controlling the thousands of fifth-rate
men.
-- Henry B. Adams To correct a natural indifference I was placed half-way between misery and the sun. Misery kept
me from believing that all was well under the sun, and the sun taught me that history wasn't
everythin The only thing worse than a man you can't control is a man you can.
-- Margo Kaufman Rumia
If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate.
-- Steven Wright "Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "See - one side of my face is gentle and kind, incapable of anything but love of my fellow man. The other side, the other profile, is cruel and predatory and evil, incapable of anything but lusts and The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax.
-- Albert Einstein "Death where is thy sting? Love, where is thy glory?" (William Shakespeare) Rumia Character is what you are in the dark.
-- Dwight L. Moody "Those who feel certainty are stupid and those with any imagination or understanding are filled with doubt and indecision." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) "I want my food dead. Not sick, not dying, dead." (Oscar Wilde) Rumia
Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils.
-- Hector Louis Berlioz If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get
married.
-- Katharine Hepburn There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him asleep.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson 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 An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets, the more interested he is in her. -- Agatha Christie Rumia We can lick gravity, but sometimes the paperwork is overwhelming.
-- Wehrner von Braun The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
-- B. F. Skinner Marriage is very much like a violin; after the sweet music is over, the strings are attached. Rumia
Fill what's empty, empty what's full, and scratch where it itches.
- the Duchess of Windsor, when asked what is the secret of a long and happy life The power of accurate observation is frequently called cynicism by those who don't have it.
- George Bernard Shaw Women see better than men. Men see lazily, if they do not expect to act. Women see quite
without any wish to act.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Silence is argument carried out by other means.
- ErnestoCheGuevara "Pleasant words are a honeycomb, Sweet to the soul and healing to the bones." (Bible, Proverbs 16:24) Rumia I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known.
-- Walt Disney Airplane travel is nature's way of making you look like your passport photo.
-- Al Gore, U.S. Vice President Genius is an African who dreams up snow.
-- Vladimir Nabokov Rumia
Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is most important that you do it.
-- Gandhi "Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain -- and most fools do." (Dale Carnegie) Silence is as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unhewn marble of a great sculpture.
-- Aldous Huxley "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) He didn't say that. He was reading what was given to him in a speech.
-- Richard Darman, director of OMB, explaining why President Bush wasn't following up on his
campaign pledge that there would be Rumia We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart. -- H.L. Mencken Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three pillars of learning.
-- Benjamin Disraeli The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.
-- ROBERT FROST Rumia
Marriage is the process of finding out what kind of man your wife would have preferred. Hell is other people.
- Jean-Paul Sartre We have children because we want immortality and this is the most reliable way of getting it.
-- Woodrow Wyatt Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-
proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe
is Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the
unpalatable.
-- John Kenneth Galbraith Rumia One of the greatest discoveries a man makes, one of his great surprises, is to find he can do
what he was afraid he couldn't do.
-- Henry Ford "One pretty good definition of college is that it's a place where people are made to read difficult books." (Jonathan Franzen) A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.
- John D. Rockefeller Rumia
