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Mistakes are the portals of discovery.
-- James Joyce "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) A memorandum is written not to inform the reader but to protect the writer.
-- Dean Acheson Choose a wife by your ear than your eye.
-- Thomas Fuller, 1732 When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.
-- Hunter S. Thompson Society and Culture Love is what happens to men and women who don't know each other.
-- W. Somerset Maugham There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld "Humans beings can always be relied upon to assert, with vigor, their god-given right to be stupid." (Dean Koontz, Seize the Night) Society and Culture
Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe The backbone of surprise is fusing speed with secrecy.
- Von Clausewitz Success is peace of mind which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you did your best
to become the best you are capable of becoming.
-- John R. Wooden, Practical Modern Basketball The innkeeper loves the drunkard, but not for a son-in-law.
-- Yiddish Proverb Before marriage, a man will lie awake all night thinking about something you said; after marriage,
he'll fall asleep before you finish saying it.
-- Helen Roland Society and Culture An understanding heart is everything is a teacher, and cannot be esteemed highly enough. One
looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our
human The grand aim of all science is to cover the greatest number of empirical facts by logical
deduction from the smallest number of hypotheses or axioms.
-- Albert Einstein A man's wife has more power over him than the state has.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Society and Culture
Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
-- T.S. Eliot In endowing us with memory, nature has revealed to us a truth utterly unimaginable to the
unreflective creation, the truth of immortality....The most ideal human passion is love, which is
also the m "Growth in wisdom can be measured precisely by decline in bile." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Human, All Too Human) I love children, especially when they cry, for then someone takes them away.
-- Nancy Mitford This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold
of a hammer.
-- Will Rogers Society and Culture The better part of one's life consists of his friendships.
-- Abraham Lincoln They had a dispute about a night out with the boys. But he finally decided to let her go.
-- Anonymous Under capitalism man exploits man; under socialism the reverse is true.
-- Polish proverb Society and Culture
Feeding the hungry is a greater work than raising the dead.
-- Saint John Chrysostom The higher up you go, the more mistakes you are allowed. Right at the top, if you make enough of
them, it's considered to be your style.
-- Fred Astaire Where there is marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.
-- Benjamin Franklin Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you help them to become what they are
capable of being.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "Education is the process of driving a set of prejudices down your throat." (Martin H. Fischer) Society and Culture Many a man's reputation would not know his character if they met on the street.
- Elbert Hubbard If you want to sing out, sing out, and if you want to be free, be free, 'cause there's a million ways
to be, you know that there are...
-- Cat Stevens, from a song lyric I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.
- Francois-Auguste Rodin (1840-1917), when asked how he managed to make his remarkable
statues Society and Culture
A multiple personality is in a certain sense normal.
-- George H. Mead "Not by wrath does one kill, but by laughter." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Of all mankind the great poet is the equable man." (Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass, 1855) The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
- Mark Twain Immature love says: "I love you because I need you." Mature love says: "I need you because I
love you."
-- Erich Fromm Society and Culture The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the
purpose of satisfying it afterwards.
-- Anatole France Youth is wasted on the young.
-- George Bernard Shaw Your life and my life flow into each other as wave flows into wave, and unless there is peace and
joy and freedom for you, there can be no real peace or joy or freedom for me. To see reality--not
as Society and Culture
The man who complains about the way the ball bounces is likely the one who dropped it.
-- Lou Holtz The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it.
-- Anonymous Love, I find, is like singing. Everybody can do enough to satisfy themselves, though it may not
impress the neighbors as being very much.
-- Zora Neale Hurston ... it is certain that the real function of art is to increase our self-consciousness; to make us more
aware of what we are, and therefore of what the universe in which we live really is. And since
Marriage is not a ritual or an end. It is a long, intricate, intimate dance together and nothing
matters more than your own sense of balance and your choice of partner.
-- Amy Bloom Society and Culture "The overman ... Who has organized the chaos of his passions, given style to his character, and become creative. Aware of life's terrors, he affirms life without resentment." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietz Character is what you are in the dark.
-- Dwight L. Moody Music is the art of thinking with sounds.
-- Jules Combarieu Society and Culture
"One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.
- Thomas Watson, Chairman of IBM, 1943 My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me!
-- Henry Ford Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.
-- Don Stanford I don't feel good.
-- Luther Burbank, dying words Society and Culture Once all struggle is grasped, miracles are possible.
-- Mao Tse-tung "I have Social Disease. I have to go out every night. If I stay home one night I start spreading rumors to my dogs." (Andy Warhol, Andy Warhol's Exposures, 1980) Under capitalism man exploits man; under socialism the reverse is true.
-- Polish proverb Society and Culture
The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat.
-- Lily Tomlin I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
-- Thomas Edison If people turn to look at you on the street, you are not well dressed.
-- Beau Brummel CAPITAL, n. The seat of misgovernment. That which provides the fire, the pot, the dinner, the
table and the knife and fork for the anarchist; the part of the repast that himself supplies is the
disg You cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.
-- Mark Twain Society and Culture Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow.
-- Helen Keller Fill the unforgiving minute with sixty seconds worth of distance run.
- Rudyard Kipling Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can
never tell.
-- Joan Crawford Society and Culture
It's impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune.
-- Woody Allen You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try.
-- Beverly Sills The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
- General George Patton Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is enemy action.
- Auric Goldfinger, in Goldfinger by Ian L. Fleming "A conservative is a man who sits and thinks, mostly sits." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) Society and Culture The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds the most discoveries, is not
"Eureka!", but "That's funny..."
-- Isaac Asimov "What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage." "To be great is to be misunderstood." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Society and Culture
"Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) It was the experience of mystery -- even if mixed with fear -- that engendered religion.
- Albert Einstein We can do not great things - only small things with great love.
-- Mother Theresa "I heard the old, old, men say 'all that's beautiful drifts away, like the waters.'" (William Butler Yeats) Only the little people pay taxes.
-- Leona Helmsley, hotel owner and prison inmate, 1989 Society and Culture Man is the best computer we can put aboard a spacecraft...and the only one that can be mass
produced with unskilled labor.
-- Wernher von Braun When a friend is in trouble, don't annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up
something appropriate and do it.
-- E. W. Howe There's many a bestseller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.
-- Flannery O'Connor Society and Culture
Grow old with me! The best is yet to be!
-- Robert Browning "And on the seventh day, God stepped back and said 'There is my creation, perfect in every way ... oh, damn it, I left pot all over the place. Now they'll think I want them to smoke it. Now I have to Honor's a thing too subtle for wisdom; if honor lie in eating, he's right honorable.
-- Beaumont, Francis Men have a much better time of it than women: for one thing they marry later, for another thing
they die earlier.
-- H. L. Mencken I don't know why we are here, but I'm pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves.
- Ludwig Wittgenstein Society and Culture Trust everybody, but cut the cards.
-- Finley Peter Dunne When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are
legislators.
-- P. J. O'Rourke "Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death." (General Michel Aoun) Society and Culture
