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-- George Orwell Love looks through a telescope; envy, through a microscope.
-- Josh Billings "Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future." (Paul Boese) My good intentions are completely lethal.
-- Margaret Atwood Radio "Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily." (Napoleon Bonaparte) Great innovations should not be forced on slender majorities.
-- Thomas Jefferson A person is not given integrity. It results from the relentless pursuit of honesty at all times.
-- Anon. Radio
Thank heaven. A bachelor's life is no life for a single man.
-- Samuel Goldwyn, immigrant-turned-famous-movie-producer, when told his son was getting
married Wherever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.
-- Harry S. Truman We are not retreating - we are advancing in another Direction.
- General Douglas MacArthur I think every woman is entitled to a middle husband she can forget.
-- Adela Rogers St. John To love another person is to see the face of God.
-- Lyric from Les Miserables Radio Prayer gives a man the opportunity of getting to know a gentleman he hardly ever meets. I do not
mean his maker, but himself.
-- Dean Inge "If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way." (Mark Twain) Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.
-- Virginia Woolf Radio
I believe in getting into hot water; it keeps you clean.
-- G. K. Chesterton The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything. Except what is worth knowing.
Journalism, conscious of this, and having tradesman-like habits, supplies their demands.
-- Oscar Wilde The wise see knowledge and action as one; they see truly.
-- Bhagava Gita "Those that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." (Benjamin Franklin) your daughters marry men of substance: gypsies with two bears. Radio "As is our confidence, so is our capacity." (William Hazlitt) Whining is not only graceless, but can be dangerous. It can alert a brute that a victim is in the
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It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.
-- Gore Vidal Creativity is piercing the mundane to find the marvelous.
-- Bill Moyers The instinct of nearly all societies is to lock up anybody who is truly free. First, society begins by
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-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Radio blah "You shall find out how salt is the taste of another man's bread, and how hard is the way up and down another man's stairs." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that it has never tried to
contact us.
-- Bill Watterson, in his comic strip Calvin and Hobbes Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
-- George Santayana Radio
Sleep is that golden chain that ties health and our bodies together.
-- Thomas Dekker "Friends can help each other. A true friend is someone who lets you have total freedom to be yourself--and especially to feel. Or, not feel. Whatever you happen to be feeling at the moment is fine wit He is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death.
- H. H. Munro (Saki) "I am convinced that it is not the fear of death, of our lives ending that haunts our sleep so much as the fear ... that as far as the world is concerned, we might as well never have lived." (Rabbi H "The one charm about marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties." (Oscar Wilde) Radio An undefined problem has an infinite number of solutions.
-- Robert A. Humphrey Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
-- H. L. Mencken "You believe that flag burning shows disrespect towards those who have fought to preserve our freedoms. Punishing protestors shows an even more profound disrespect for the ideals that these people die Radio
Of course there's a lot of knowledge in universities: the freshmen bring a little in; the seniors don't
take much away, so knowledge sort of accumulates...
-- Anonymous "He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself." (Thomas Paine) Did you hear about the scientist whose wife had twins? He baptized one and kept the other as a control. Well if this is the wrong number, why did you answer it?
-- James Thurber I want to die in my sleep like my friend.... Not screaming and yelling like the passengers in his
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as marijuana...The researchers also discovered other similarities between the two, but can't
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The good people sleep much better at night than the bad people. Of course, the bad people enjoy
the waking hours much more.
-- Woody Allen "The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves." (William Hazlitt) It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid.
- George Bernard Shaw An eye for an eye only leads to more blindness.
-- Margaret Atwood What sets worlds in motion is the interplay of differences, their attractions and repulsions; life is
plurality, death is uniformity.
-- Octavio Paz Radio "Frank and explicit; that is the right line to take when you wish to conceal your own mind and to confuse the minds of others." (Benjamin Disraeli, Sybil) May you grow so rich your widow's second husband never has to worry about a living, God forbid. "Well begun is half done." (Aristotle) Radio
We never live; we are always in the expectation of living.
-- Voltaire blah "If we did all the things we are capable of, we would literally astound ourselves." (Thomas Alva Edison) If all economists were laid end to end, they would not reach a conclusion.
-- George Bernard Shaw "Is man merely a mistake of God's? Or God merely a mistake of man's?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The backbone of surprise is fusing speed with secrecy.
- Von Clausewitz Radio True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.
-- Henry David Thoreau Where there is marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.
-- Benjamin Franklin "Hold a true friend with both your hands." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Radio
I regret that I have but one life to give for my country.
-- Nathan Hale Bigamy is one way of avoiding the painful publicity of divorce and the expense of alimony.
-- Oliver Herford It is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions.
-- Aldous Huxley Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it, misdiagnosing it, and then misapplying the
wrong remedies.
-- Groucho Marx Old soldiers never die, they just fade away.
-- General Douglas MacArthur Radio We must believe in free will, we have no choice.
-- Isaac B. Singer The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
-- B. F. Skinner He who kisses the joy is it flies lives in eternity's sunrise
-- William Blake Radio
"In order to attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd." (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1547-1616) blah "The length of this document defends it well against the risk of its being read." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) The first rule of intelligent tinkering is to save all the parts.
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-- Douglas Adams "In order to attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd." (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1547-1616) "When you resort to attacking the messenger and not the message, you have lost the debate." (Addison Whithecomb) Radio
Football incorporates the two worst elements of American society: violence punctuated by
committee meetings.
-- George F. Will, journalist, political commentator, 1994 America is a large, friendly dog in a very small room. Every time it wags its tail, it knocks over a
chair.
-- Arnold Toynbee "To avoid criticism: do nothing, say nothing, be nothing." (Elbert Hubbard, American author, 1856-1915) Beauty as we feel it is something indescribable; what it is or what it means can never be said.
-- George Santayana May the road rise to meet you. May the wind always be at your back. May the sun shine warm
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the palm Radio A man sits with a pretty girl for an hour, it seems like a minute. He sits on a hot stove for a
minute, it's longer than any hour. That is relativity.
-- Albert Einstein "One can do without people but one has need of a friend." (Chinese Proverb) When you are right, you cannot be too radical; When you are wrong, you cannot be too
conservative.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Radio
