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Marriage certificate is just another word for a work permit. History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
- H. G. Wells All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusion is called a philosopher.
- Ambrose Bierce "No drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ignorance, g Chelyabinsk Is fuel efficiency really what we need most desperately? I say what we really need is a car that
can be shot when it breaks down.
-- Russell Baker The true spirit of conversation consists in building on another man's observation, not overturning
it.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton Many a man has finally succeeded only because he has failed after repeated efforts. If he had
never met defeat he would never have known any great victory.
-- Orison Swett Marden Chelyabinsk
Honeymoon: A short period of doting between dating and debting.
-- Ray Bandy "I am interested in anything about revolt, disorder , chaos--especially activity that seems to have no meaning. It seems to me to be the road toward freedom ... Rather than starting inside, I start ou Be tolerant of the human race. Your whole family belongs to it -- and some of your spouse's
family does too.
-- Anonymous "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) It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
- Oscar Wilde Chelyabinsk If you want a place in the sun, you've got to put up with a few blisters.
-- Abigail Van Buren Silence is argument carried out by other means.
- ErnestoCheGuevara When in doubt, make a fool of yourself. There is a microscopically thin line between being
brilliantly creative and acting like the most gigantic idiot on earth. So what the hell, leap.
-- Cynthia H Chelyabinsk
The first rule of intelligent tinkering is to save all the parts.
-- Paul Ehrlich ... 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
Things are more like they are now than they ever were before.
-- Dwight D. Eisenhower, U.S. President 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 The last good thing written in C++ was the Pachelbel Canon.
-- Jerry Olson Chelyabinsk The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech.
-- George Bernard Shaw The cynics are right nine times out of ten.
- Henry Louis Mencken Such is life.
-- Ned Kelly, Last words, before being hung at Old Melbourne Gaol Chelyabinsk
"A wise man among the ignorant is as a beautiful girl in the company of blind men." (Saadi) I require three things in a man: He must be handsome, ruthless, and stupid.
-- Dorothy Parker Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of
the other person.
-- Mark Twain The majority of husbands remind me of an orangutan trying to play the violin.
-- Honore de Balzac The health of the people is really the foundation upon which all their happiness and all their
powers as a State depend.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Chelyabinsk One of the greatest discoveries a man makes, one of his great surprises, is to find he can do
what he was afraid he couldn't do.
-- Henry Ford No, that is the great fallacy; the wisdom of old men. They do not grow wise. They grow careful." (Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell To Arms) To love another person is to see the face of God.
-- Lyric from Les Miserables Chelyabinsk
There is only one nature - the division into science and engineering is a human imposition, not a
natural one. Indeed, the division is a human failure; it reflects our limited capacity to comprehend "Death is only a launching into the region of the strange Untried; it is but the first salutation to the possibilities of the immense Remote, the Wild, the Watery, the Unshored..." (Herman Melville, The only thing that holds a marriage together is the husband bein' big enough to keep his mouth
shut, to step back and see where his wife is wrong.
-- Archie Bunker, character on "All in the Family, "There cannot be a God because, if there were one, I would not believe that I was not He." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home.
- Ken Olson, president, chairman and founder of Digital Equipment Corp., 1977 Chelyabinsk "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." (Thomas Jefferson) Having a family is like having a bowling alley installed in your brain.
-- Martin Mull Silence is argument carried out by other means.
-- Ernesto "Che" Guevara Chelyabinsk
The man with the best job in the country is the Vice President. All he has to do is get up every
morning and say, "How's the President?"
-- Will Rogers Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
-- Oscar Wilde I think, therefore I'm single.
-- Female philosopher All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusion is called a philosopher.
- Ambrose Bierce Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than the arguments of its opposers.
-- William Penn Chelyabinsk "When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; when health is lost, something is lost; when character is lost, all is lost." (Billy Graham) Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by
definition, is unassailable.
-- James Baldwin, Nobody Knows My Name, 1961 "The one charm about marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties." (Oscar Wilde) Chelyabinsk
"It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure on the world." (John Steinbeck "Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "If all men knew what others say of them, there would not be four friends in the world." (Blaise Pascal) A man has to live with himself, and he should see to it that he always has good company.
-- Charles Evans Hughes Who the hell wants to hear actors talk?
- H. M. Warner, founder of Warner Brothers, in 1927 Chelyabinsk It is because modern education is so seldom inspired by a great hope that it so seldom achieves
great results. The wish to preserve the past rather that the hope of creating the future dominates
the Silence is argument carried out by other means.
-- Ernesto "Che" Guevara I am not young enough to know everything.
-- Oscar Wilde Chelyabinsk
When we treat man as he is, we make him worse than he is; when we treat him as if he already
were what he potentially could be, we make him what he should be.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.
-- Louise Hay "Be not afraid of greatness. Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon 'em." (William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night, II:5) All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it
is accepted as being self-evident.
- Arthur Schopenhauer What would you attempt if you knew you could not fail?
-- Robert Schuller Chelyabinsk "Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country." (Marquis de Lafayette) What do I dislike about death? Must be the hours.
-- Woody Allen Saying that men talk about baseball in order to avoid talking about their feelings is the same as
saying that women talk about their feelings in order to avoid talking about baseball.
-- Deborah Tan Chelyabinsk
Sometimes you get shown the light in the strangest of places if you look at it right.
-- Jerry Garcia "Every act of violence increases the recruitment of terrorists. Iraq has been turned into a base of terror." (Noam Chomsky, from The Toronto Star, March 23, 2004) The grass may be greener on the other side of the fence, but you still have to mow it.
-- Anonymous Victory belongs to the most persevering.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte "The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Chelyabinsk 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 "A bore is a man who, when you ask him how he is, tells you." (Bert Leston Taylor) "Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Chelyabinsk
Too bad all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving cabs and cutting hair.
-- George Burns Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can
never tell.
-- Joan Crawford This is the miracle that happens every time to those who really love; the more they give, the more
they possess.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke I begin by taking. I shall find scholars later to demonstrate my perfect right.
- Frederick (II) the Great Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day.
-- Thornton Wilder Chelyabinsk If a thing is worth doing at all, it is worth doing badly.
-- Gustav Holst, on amateur music-making Matters of religion should never be matters of controversy. We neither argue with a lover about
his taste, not condemn him, if we are just, for knowing so human a passion.
-- George Santayana blah "The length of this document defends it well against the risk of its being read." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) Chelyabinsk
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 Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.
- Albert Einstein The church must be the critic and guide of the state, and never its tool.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. It's no credit to anyone to work to hard.
-- Ed Howe "Freedom of press is limited to those who own one." (Henry Louis Mencken) Chelyabinsk If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe.
- Carl Sagan "It is far better to be alone, than to be in bad company." (George Washington) "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 Chelyabinsk