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 "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world, indeed it is the only thing that ever has." (Margaret Mead, 1901-78) "Fear is a darkroom where negatives develop." (Usman Asif) "Fear is a darkroom where negatives develop." (Usman Asif) A government is the only known vessel that leaks from the top.
-- James Reston Ostrow County "Courageous, untroubled, mocking and violent--that is what Wisdom wants us to be. Wisdom is a woman, and loves only a warrior." (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') Marriage is a lottery, but you can't tear up your ticket if you lose.
-- F. M. Knowles Ostrow County
"The monster a child knows best and is most concerned with [is] the monster he feels or fears himself to be. " (Bruno Bettelheim, child psychologist) If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself, tell yourself that you are not a poet
enough to call forth its riches; for to the creator there is no poverty and no poor indifferent p The more faithfully you listen to the voices within you, the better you will hear what is sounding
outside.
-- Dag Hammarskjold I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude. we are for the most part
more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers.
-- Thoreau "Dying is the most embarrassing thing that can ever happen to you, because someone's got to take care of all your details." (Andy Warhol, America, 1985) Ostrow County "The order of the world is always right - such is the judgment of God. For God has departed, but he has left his judgment behind, the way the Cheshire Cat left his grin." (Jean Baudrillard) "It is awfully easy to be hard-boiled about everything in the daytime, but at night it is another thing." (Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises) None but a good man is really a living man, and the more good any man does, the more he really
lives. All the rest is death, or belongs to it.
-- Herman Melville Ostrow County
"I think all great innovations are built on rejections." (Louis-Ferdinand Céline) "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) Ne'er take a wife till thou hast a house (and a fire) to put her in.
-- Benjamin Franklin Establishing yourself, furnishing a house, building up a comfortable existence, and having that menace hanging over your head all the time - no, I prefer to live in hotels, cafés, just passing through "I have the terrible feeling that, because I am wearing a white beard and am sitting in the back of the theatre, you expect me to tell you the truth about something. These are the cheap seats, not Mou Ostrow County The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One
cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the
marvelous str Nothing has really happened until it has been recorded.
-- Virginia Woolf This book fills a much-needed gap.
- Moses Hadas in a review Ostrow County
I am beginning to suspect all elaborate and special systems of education. They seem to me to be
built upon the supposition that every child is a kind of idiot who must be taught to think.
-- Anne S To teach is to learn twice.
-- Joseph Joubert Question: Ted Kennedy: "Where was George?"
Answer: Dry, sober, and at home with his wife "I was born and raised with crocodiles; they are a piece of cake. But kids are so ... unpredictable." (Steve Irwin, "Crocodile Hunter") Half of the American people never read a newspaper.
Half never voted for President.
One hopes it is the same half.
-- Gore Vidal Ostrow County "What is tolerance? -- it is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error; let us pardon reciprocally each other's folly -- that is the first law of nature." (Francois Marie Ar When the mouse laughs at the cat, there is a hole nearby.
-- Nigerian Proverb The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One
cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the
marvelous str Ostrow County
Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of
existence.
-- Sydney Smith Not everything that can be counted counts; and not everything that counts can be counted.
-- Albert Einstein I don't know why I did it, I don't know why I enjoyed it, and I don't know why I'll do it again.
-- Bart Simpson, young character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated television show blah "Some of the worlds greatest feats were accomplished by people not smart enough to know they were impossible. unattributed" (Anonymous) Love is not blind - it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.
Rabbi Julius Gordon Ostrow County Imagine if every Thursday your shoes exploded if you tied them the usual way. This happens to
us all the time with computers, and nobody thinks of complaining.
-- Jeff Raskin Suicide is belated acquiescence in the opinion of one's wife's relatives. My grandfather once told me that there are two kinds of people: those who work and those who
take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was less competition there.
-- INDIRA Ostrow County
Does anal retentive have a hyphen?
-- Seen on a t-shirt No one finds life worth living; he must make it worth living.
-- Anon. "Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences." (Isadora Duncan) I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers.
-- Gandhi The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. The opposite of a profound truth may
well be another profound truth.
- Niels Bohr Ostrow County "Yes, I am a dreamer. For a dreamer is one who can find his way by moonlight, and see the dawn before the rest of the world." (Oscar Wilde) I am free of all prejudice. I hate everyone equally.
-- W. C. Fields They gave me a book of checks. They didn't ask for any deposits.
-- Joe Early, Congressman (D-Mass), at a press conference to answer questions about the
House Bank scandal Ostrow County
"Listen, or your tongue will make you deaf." (Native American Proverb) "College: two hundred people reading same book. An obvious mistake. Two hundred people can read two hundred books." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) 2,400,000 Americans play the accordian - hopefully not at the same time.
-- inside of a Pepsi cap Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.
- Jean-Paul Sartre I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity.
-- Albert Einstein Ostrow County Drink to me.
-- Pablo Picasso, dying words "Have confidence that if you have done a little thing well, you can do a bigger thing well, too." (David Malcolm Storey) If you talk to God, you are praying; if God talks to you, you have schizophrenia.
-- Thomas Szasz Ostrow County
Man and wife make one fool. Cliches should be avoided like the plague.
-- Anon. You have a cough? Go home tonight, eat a whole box of Ex-Lax--tomorrow you'll be afraid to
cough.
-- Pearl Williams Age does not protect you from love but love to some extent protects you from age.
-- Jeanne Moreau The Bible contains six admonishments to homosexuals and 362 admonishments to
heterosexuals. That doesn't mean that God doesn't love heterosexuals. It's just that they need
more supervision.
-- Lynn Ostrow County Virtue is like health: the harmony of the whole man.
-- Thomas Carlyle It is much more comfortable to be mad and know it, than to be sane and have one's doubts.
- G. B. Burgin Acting is the most minor of gifts and not a very high-class way to earn a living. After all, Shirley
Temple could do it at the age of four.
-- Katharine Hepburn Ostrow County
Marrying a man is like buying something you've been admiring for a long time in a shop window.
You may love it when you get it home, but it doesn't always go with everything in the house.
-- Jean Ke A poem is never finished, only abandoned.
-- Paul Valery Until the day of his death, no man can be sure of his courage.
-- Jean Anouilh If all economists were laid end to end, they would not reach a conclusion.
-- George Bernard Shaw The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it.
-- Anonymous Ostrow County I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.
- Thomas Watson, Chairman of IBM, 1943 Genius is an African who dreams up snow.
-- Vladimir Nabokov "Be the change that you want to see in the world." (Mohandas Gandhi) Ostrow County
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 Honor lies in honest toil.
-- Grover Cleveland "Self confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings." (Samuel Johnson) Women: If they're not turning down your proposals for marriage, they're accusing you of
suspicious behavior in the women's lingerie changing room.
-- Cliff Clavin, character on "Cheers", U.S. Televi "Humans beings can always be relied upon to assert, with vigor, their god-given right to be stupid." (Dean Koontz, Seize the Night) Ostrow County "Let no one be discouraged by the belief there is nothing one person can do against the enormous array of the world's ills, misery, ignorance, and violence. Few will have the greatness to bend history Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.
-- Bertrand Russell The Middle Eastern states aren't nations; they're quarrels with borders.
-- P. J. O'Rourke Ostrow County
"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 When marriage is outlawed, only outlaws will have inlaws. "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) "I have learned that to be with those I like is enough." (Walt Whitman) In the sciences, we are now uniquely privileged to sit side by side with the giants on whose
shoulders we stand.
-- Gerald Holton Ostrow County 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 It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.
-- Abraham Lincoln Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three pillars of learning.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Ostrow County
