"It is far better to be alone, than to be in bad company." (George Washington) Unfortunately, the media have trouble distinguishing between real science and propaganda
cross-dressed as science.
-- Linda Bowles, political columnist "Experience is not what happens to a man. It is what a man does with what happens to him." (Aldous Huxley) Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is most important that you do it.
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-- E. W. Howe Art and science have their meeting point in method.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton If you talk to God, you are praying; if God talks to you, you have schizophrenia.
-- Thomas Szasz Colleges and Universities
Once all struggle is grasped, miracles are possible.
-- Mao Tse-tung No matter who you vote for, the Government always gets in.
-- Anon. Love is stronger than justice.
-- Sting Thank God - every morning when you get up - that you have something to do which must be
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-- Gail Godwin Colleges and Universities If a relationship is to evolve, it must go through a series of endings.
-- Lisa Moriyama There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as
though everything is a miracle.
-- Albert Einstein Multimedia? As far as I'm concerned, it's reading with the radio on!
-- Rory Bremner Colleges and Universities
In the halls of justice, the only justice is in the halls.
-- Lenny Bruce Every man knows his follies and often they are the most interesting thing he has got.
-- Josh Billings He that would have the fruit must climb the tree.
-- Thomas Fuller, M.D. Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect, and it is shameful to surrender it too soon or to the first
comer: there is nobility in preserving it coolly and proudly through long youth, until at last In any contest between power and patience, bet on patience.
- W.B. Prescott Colleges and Universities "Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains." (Karl Marx) I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood. If it
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ha "Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily." (Napoleon Bonaparte) Colleges and Universities
Who the hell wants to hear actors talk?
- H. M. Warner, founder of Warner Brothers, in 1927 Work is a four-letter word.
-- The Smiths (Morrissey) "Courage is doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared." (Eddie Rickenbacker) Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has not heart; and any man who is over 30, and is
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- Sir Winston Churchill "Life is measured by the rapidity of change, the succession of influences that modify the being." (George Eliot) Colleges and Universities Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you
together, but do so with all your heart.
-- Marcus Aurelius Marriage is the one subject on which all women agree and all men disagree.
-- Oscar Wilde Never moon a werewolf.
-- Mike Binder Colleges and Universities
"When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; when health is lost, something is lost; when character is lost, all is lost." (Billy Graham) Even overweight cats instinctively know the cardinal rule: when fat, arrange yourself in slim
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-- John Weitz, American Designer If you are afraid of loneliness, do not marry. -- Chekhov After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
-- Aldous Huxley As always, victory finds a hundred fathers but defeat is an orphan.
-- Count Galeazzo Ciano, The Ciano Diaries Colleges and Universities Lottery: A tax on people who are bad at math.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Love is the dawn of marriage, and marriage is the sunset of love.
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Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains or slavery? Forbid it,
Almighty God! I know not what course others may take but as for me; give me liberty or give me
de It is not good enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.
-- Rene Descartes "Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parents, gobble their food, and tyrannize their teachers." (Socrates) We trained hard - but it seemed that every time we were beginning to form up into teams we were
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and Opportunity may knock only once, but temptation leans on the doorbell.
-- Anonymous Colleges and Universities If we knew what we were doing, it wouldn't be called research, would it?
-- Albert Einstein Women are like tea bags; put them in hot water and they get stronger.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt The President has kept all of the promises he intended to keep.
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A coward is a hero with a wife, kids, and a mortgage.
-- Marvin Kitman "True friends, like diamonds, are precious and rare. False friends, like autumn leaves, are found everywhere." (Anonymous) "For better or for worse, our company (The News Corporation Ltd.) is a reflection of my thinking, my character, my values." (Keith Rupert Murdoch, media mogul, 1931-) "The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom." (William Blake) I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones.
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- George Bernard Shaw May you grow so rich your widow's second husband never has to worry about a living, God forbid. True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.
-- Henry David Thoreau Colleges and Universities
Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died.
-- Erma Bombeck He would make a lovely corpse.
- Charles Dickens Very little is known of the Canadian country since it is rarely visited by anyone but the Queen and
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-- P. J. O'Rourke We seek the comfort of another. Someone to share and share the life we choose. Someone to
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-- Dorothy Parker Colleges and Universities Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame.
-- G. K. Chesterton One cardinal rule of marriage should never be forgotten: "Give little, give seldom, and above all,
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-- Channing Pollack Colleges and Universities
Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
-- Henry Ford Having once decided to achieve a certain task, achieve it at all costs of tedium and distaste. The
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-- Thomas Arnold Bennet For best results: wash in cold water separately, hang dry and iron with warm iron. For not so good
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-- Laundry instructions on a shirt "Every Man and every Woman is a Star." (Aleister Crowley) Curiosity will conquer fear even more than bravery will.
-- James Stephens Colleges and Universities The only thing worse than a man you can't control is a man you can.
-- Margo Kaufman Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
- Will Durant Good Night, Good night! Parting is such sweet sorrow,
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A baby is God's opinion that the world should go on.
-- Carl Sandburg If you don't double-click me, I can't do anything.
-- John Aniston, on how computers have taken over his life Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow in Australia.
-- Charles Schultz I don't know anything about luck. I've never banked on it, and I'm afraid of people who do. Luck to
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-- Lucille Ball For a male and female to live continuously together is...biologically speaking, an extremely
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-- Robert Briffault Colleges and Universities Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.
-- Albert Einstein If everybody is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking.
-- George S. Patton, Jr. "Your children are not your children. They are sons and daughters of life's longing for itself. They come through you but not from you. And though they are with you, they belong not to you. You may gi Colleges and Universities
Why do grandparents and grandchildren get along so well? They have the same enemy-- the
mother.
-- Claudette Colbert Humanity has advanced, when it has advanced, not because it has been sober, responsible, and
cautious, but because it has been playful, rebellious, and immature.
-- Tom Robbins "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 Vote early and vote often.
- Al Capone Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.
-- B.F. Skinner Colleges and Universities Tear open packet, unfold and use.
-- Directions on moist towelette package "If you light a man a fire, he will be warm for a day; if you light a man on fire, he will be warm for the rest of his life." (Anonymous) "Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) Colleges and Universities
