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"Every great institution is the lengthened shadow of a single man. His character determines the character of the organization." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Children should be like waffles--you should be able to throw the first one away.
-- Mary Alice Messenger It was a day like this Marco Polo left for China. What are your plans for today?
--Loesje Defeat never comes to any man until he admits it.
-- Josephus Daniels "What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to a human soul." (Joseph Addison) Sinaia Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else.
-- George Bernard Shaw "If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library." (Frank Zappa) Lawyers are... operators of the toll bridge which anyone in search of justice must pass.
-- Jane Bryant Quinn Sinaia
Doctors are the same as lawyers; the only difference is that lawyers merely rob you, whereas
doctors rob you and kill you too.
-- Anton Chekhov Having a family is like having a bowling alley installed in your brain.
-- Martin Mull By working faithfully eight hours a day, you might eventually get to be a boss and work twelve
hours a day.
-- ROBERT FROST We haven't the money, so we've got to think.
-- Lord Rutherford Do or do not. There is no try.
-- Yoda, character in the movie The Empire Strikes Back Sinaia We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind
her stands his wife.
-- Groucho Marx There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in his home.
-- Kenneth H. Olson, President of DEC, Convention of the World Future Society, 1977 I'm at the age where food has taken the place of sex in my life. In fact, I've just had a mirror put
over my kitchen table.
-- Rodney Dangerfield Sinaia
"Those who hear not the music think the dancers mad." (Anonymous) If we do not maintain Justice, Justice will not maintain us.
-- Francis Bacon The difference between sex and death is that with death you can do it alone and no one is going
to make fun of you.
-- Woody Allen "A man who flies from his fear may find he has only taken a shortcut to meet it." (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) We can say 'Peace on Earth,' we can sing about it, preach about it or pray about it, but if we have
not internalized the mythology to make it happen inside us, then it will not be.
-- Betty Shabazz Sinaia "In large states public education will always be mediocre, for the same reason that in large kitchens the cooking is usually bad." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) blah "If we did all the things we are capable of, we would literally astound ourselves." (Thomas Alva Edison) Grove giveth and Gates taketh away.
- Bob Metcalfe (inventor of Ethernet) on the trend of hardware speedups not being able to keep
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An eye for an eye only leads to more blindness.
-- Margaret Atwood If all economists were laid end to end, they would not reach a conclusion.
-- George Bernard Shaw I think 'Hail to the Chief' has a nice ring to it.
- John F. Kennedy when asked what is his favorite song Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when
people laugh.
-- George Bernard Shaw "Ideas are far more powerful than guns. We don't allow our enemies to have guns, why should we allow them to have ideas?" (Josef Stalin) Sinaia "The feminists used to say that chivalry and ladyhood were ways of keeping women down and preventing them from standing toe to toe with the guys. Now you've got a lot of women saying that if a guy is I criticize by creation - not by finding fault.
- Cicero Familiarity breeds contempt -- and children.
-- Mark Twain Sinaia
"One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) We trained hard - but it seemed that every time we were beginning to form up into teams we were
reorganized. I was to learn later in life that we tend to meet any new situation by reorganizing,
and 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 "Deep down, no one really believes they have a right to live. But this death sentence generally stays tucked away, hidden beneath the difficulty of living. If that difficulty is removed from time to t A coward is a hero with a wife, kids, and a mortgage.
-- Marvin Kitman Sinaia Fine art and pizza delivery: what we do falls neatly in between.
-- David Letterman They will say you are on the wrong road, if it is your own.
-- Antonio Porchi I shall return.
-- General Douglas MacArthur Sinaia
Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
- Napoleon Bonaparte 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 When one is trying to do something beyond his known powers it is useless to seek the approval
of friends. Friends are at their best in moments of defeat.
-- Henry Miller Researchers have discovered that chocolate produces some of the same reactions in the brain
as marijuana...The researchers also discovered other similarities between the two, but can't
remember what Suicide is belated acquiescence in the opinion of one's wife's relatives. Sinaia "There cannot be a God because, if there were one, I would not believe that I was not He." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than the arguments of its opposers.
-- William Penn "This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) Sinaia
This world is a comedy for those who think and a tragedy for those who feel.
-- Horace Walpole The only one of your children who does not grow up and move away is your husband. The trouble with children is that they are not returnable.
-- Quentin Crisp "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) The Church is an organism that grows best in an alien society.
-- C. Stacey Woods Sinaia We never live; we are always in the expectation of living.
-- Voltaire The difference between 'involvement' and 'commitment' is like an eggs-and-ham breakfast: the
chicken was 'involved' - the pig was 'committed'.
- unknown "Avoid providing material for the drama that is always stretched tight between parents and children; it uses up much of the children's strength and wastes the love of the elders, which acts and warms Sinaia
Television: A medium. So called because it is neither rare nor well done.
-- Ernie Kovacs Marriage is an institution--but who wants to live in an institution? There's a saying among prospectors: "Go out looking for one thing, and that's all you'll ever find."
-- Robert Flaherty Unfortunately, the media have trouble distinguishing between real science and propaganda
cross-dressed as science.
-- Linda Bowles, political columnist Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork
picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art.
-- Tom Stoppard Sinaia Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.
-- B.F. Skinner Television: A medium. So called because it is neither rare nor well done.
-- Ernie Kovacs "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." (Thomas Jefferson) Sinaia
"Don't let your ego get too close to your position, so that if your position gets shot down, your ego doesn't go with it." (Colin Powell) Life is like a movie--since there aren't any commercial breaks, you have to get up and go to the
bathroom in the middle of it.
-- Nick Mirov Giving birth is like taking your lower lip and forcing it over your head.
-- Carol Burnett You can't buy love, but you can pay heavily for it.
-- Henny Youngman Trust, but verify.
-- Ronald Reagan Sinaia Faith is believing what you know ain't so.
-- Mark Twain "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 Despite the high cost of living it remains a popular item.
-- Anonymous Sinaia
"A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "The only things worth learning are the things you learn after you know it all." (Harry S. Truman) Love: An obsessive delusion that is cured by marriage. "If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they don't want to hear." (George Orwell) The charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that, from age to age, nothing
changes and yet everything is completely different.
-- Aldous Huxley Sinaia All marriages are happy--it's the living together afterward that causes all the problems. I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than
knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.
-- Albert Einstein Feeding the hungry is a greater work than raising the dead.
-- Saint John Chrysostom Sinaia
Better watch out that you won't become a television set in your next life.
--Loesje Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars
-- Les Brown We think caged birds sing, when indeed they cry.
-- John Webster Things are more like they are now than they ever were before.
-- Dwight D. Eisenhower, U.S. President "Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country." (Marquis de Lafayette) Sinaia The sun never sets on the British empire because Britain is in the east and the sun sets in the
west.
-- Unknown history student Courage: doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared.
-- Eddie Rickenbacker The promises of maniacs, like those of women, are not safely relied upon.
-- Joseph Heller, God Knows Sinaia
