Dominte, Claudiu - Contains his Curriculum Vitae, projects and personal photographs.
He who laughs last has not yet heard the bad news.
-- Bertolt Brecht I could prove God statistically.
-- George Gallup If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts.
-- Albert Einstein Mary had a little lamb and the doctor fainted.
-- Anonymous Suicide is belated acquiescence in the opinion of one's wife's relatives. Society and Culture If you cannot be the master of your language, you must be its slave. If you cannot examine your
thoughts, you have no choice but to think them, however silly they may be.
-- Richard Mitchell, from The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
- Samuel Johnson "Our lives are repetitious shams--every single day a simulacrum of the previous day. So for Man, he is out to pepper his daily activities with different things--he's fighting against boredom." (Matth Society and Culture
Jake liked his women the way he liked his kiwi fruit: sweet yet tart, firm-fleshed yet yielding to the
touch, and covered with short brown fuzzy hair.
-- Jonathan S. Haas I was nauseous and tingly all over... I was either in love or I had smallpox.
-- Woody Allen "Those who hear not the music think the dancers mad." (Anonymous) Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it.
-- George Bernard Shaw "You make 'em, I amuse 'em." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, on children) Society and Culture "A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) The backbone of surprise is fusing speed with secrecy.
- Von Clausewitz Wagner's music is better than it sounds.
- Mark Twain Society and Culture
A girl must marry for love and keep on marrying until she finds it.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Live out of your imagination, not your history.
-- Stephen Covey "Freedom of press is limited to those who own one." (Henry Louis Mencken) Universities incline wits to sophistry and affectation.
-- Francis Bacon Marriage is the sole cause of divorce. Society and Culture "If there is something to pardon in everything, there is also something to condemn." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, The Will to Power, 1888) "If you assume that there's no hope, you guarantee that there will be no hope. If you assume that there is an instinct for freedom, there are opportunities to change things, there's a chance for you t "The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances." (Viktor E. Frankl) Society and Culture
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 A dollar saved is a quarter earned.
-- John Ciardi The graveyards are full of indispensable men.
- Charles de Gaulle "If you want a thing done well, do it yourself." (Napoleon Bonaparte) It is a known fact that men are practical, hardheaded realists, in contrast to women, who are
romantic dreamers and actually believe that estrogenic skin cream must do something or they
couldn't cha Society and Culture We do not have censorship. What we have is a limitation on what newspapers can report.
-- Louis Nel, Deputy Minister of Information, South Africa "I think all great innovations are built on rejections." (Louis-Ferdinand Céline) You can't say civilization isn't advancing: in every war they kill you in a new way.
-- Will Rogers Society and Culture
"Those who hear not the music think the dancers mad." (Anonymous) This search for what you want is like tracking something that doesn't want to be tracked. It takes
time to get a dance right, to create something memorable.
-- Fred Astaire Republican boys date Democratic girls. They plan to marry Republican girls, but feel they're entitled to a little fun first. Not to anticipate is already to moan.
-- Leonardo da Vinci It is most unwise for people in love to marry.
-- George Bernard Shaw Society and Culture The tragedy of life is not that man loses, but that he almost wins.
-- Heywood Brown I don't worry about terrorism. I was married for two years.
-- Sam Kinison There are some things which cannot be learned quickly, and time, which is all we have, must be
paid heavily for their acquiring. They are the very simplest things and, because it takes a man's
life Society and Culture
Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. Nature gave men two ends - one to sit on and one to think with. Ever since then man's success or
failure has been dependent on the one he used most.
-- George R. Kirkpatrick Life is a succession of lessons enforced by immediate reward, or, oftener, by immediate
chastisement.
-- Ernest Dimnet Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the
unpalatable.
-- John Kenneth Galbraith A girl must marry for love and keep on marrying until she finds it.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Society and Culture All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusion is called a philosopher.
- Ambrose Bierce blah blah blah blah blah "This is the way the world ends: not with a bang, but a whimper." (Thomas Stearns Eliot, aka T. S. Eliot) _end]
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"Hello Kitty is an icon that doesn't stand for a A teacher is one who makes himself progressively unnecessary.
-- Thomas Carruthers Society and Culture
The better part of one's life consists of his friendships.
-- Abraham Lincoln The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.
-- Franklin D. Roosevelt In a hierarchy, every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence. Therefore:
? In time, every post tends to be occupied by an employee who is incompetent to carry out its
duties.
? Work University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
-- Henry Kissinger No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent.
-- Abraham Lincoln Society and Culture Don't look back -- something might be gaining on you.
-- Satchel Paige Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get
money from it.
-- Stephen Leacock When I have a kid, I wanna put him in one of those strollers for twins, then run around the mall
looking frantic.
-- Steven Wright Society and Culture
Whoever is not a misanthrope at forty can never have loved mankind.
-- Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is
the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset.
-- Crow There is no course of life so weak and sottish as that which is managed by order, method, and
discipline.
-- Michel de Montaigne Heav'n hath no rage like love to hatred turn'd, Nor Hell a fury, like a woman scorn'd.
-- William Congreve I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood. If it
does need additional interpretation by someone other than the creator, then I question whether it
ha Society and Culture All science is concerned with the relationship of cause and effect. Each scientific discovery
increases man's ability to predict the consequences of his actions and thus his ability to control
futur What if nothing exists and we're all in somebody's dream? Or what's worse, what if only that fat
guy in the third row exists?
-- Woody Allen Celestial navigation is based on the premise that the Earth is the center of the universe. The
premise is wrong, but the navigation works. An incorrect model can be a useful tool.
-- Kelvin Throop I Society and Culture
The true spirit of conversation consists in building on another man's observation, not overturning
it.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton All human actions are equivalent... and... all are on principle doomed...
-- Jean-Paul Sartre, "Being and Nothingness" "You are rewarding a teacher poorly if you remain always a pupil." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) A friend is a gift you give yourself.
-- Robert Louis Stevenson In the end, everything is a gag.
-- Charlie Chaplin Society and Culture "This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) "I expect nothing. I fear no one. I am free." (Nikos Kazantzakis) I loathe people who keep dogs. They are cowards who haven't got the guts to bite people
themselves.
-- August Strindberg Society and Culture
People, like nails, lose their effectiveness when they lose direction and begin to bend.
-- Walter Savage Landor What's another word for "Thesaurus?"
-- Steven Wright 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 It makes no difference who you vote for - the two parties are really one party representing four
percent of the people.
-- Gore Vidal "If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost." (Aristotle) Society and Culture I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
- Mark Twain If you would thoroughly know anything, teach it to others.
-- Tryon Edwards Mathematics transfigures the fortuitous concourse of atoms into the tracery of the finger of God.
-- Herbert Westren Turnbull Society and Culture
Does anal retentive have a hyphen?
-- Seen on a t-shirt Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not
there, I go to work.
- Robert Orben "Crime like death is not confined to the old and withered alone. The youngest and fairest are too often its chosen victims." (Charles Dickens, 1812-70, Oliver Twist) There is nothing that can be said by mathematical symbols and relations which cannot also be
said by words. The converse, however, is false. Much that can be and is said by words cannot
successfully "When you have nothing to say, say nothing." (Charles Caleb Colton) Society and Culture If you are all wrapped up in yourself, you are overdressed
-- Kate Halverson Honorable, adj. Afflicted with an impediment in one's reach. In legislative bodies, it is customary
to mention all members as honorable; as, ``the honorable gentleman is a scurvy cur.'
-- Bierce, A Adolescence is a period of rapid changes. Between the ages of 12 and 17, for example, a parent
ages as much as 20 years.
-- Anonymous Society and Culture
