Evenki Autonomous District - Profile of the region from the Scott Polar Research Institute, University of Cambridge.
The tragedy of life is not that man loses, but that he almost wins.
-- Heywood Brown My father taught me to work; he did not teach me to love it.
-- Abraham Lincoln It's true that I did get the girl, but then my grandfather always said, "Even a blind chicken finds a
few grains of corn now and then."
-- Lyle Lovett, musician, upon marying actress Julia Roberts, You probably wouldn't worry about what people think of you if you could know how seldom they
do.
-- Olin Miller Good hours, excellent pay, fun place to work, paid training, mean boss. Oh well, four out of five
isn't bad.
-- Help Wanted Ad, PA newspaper, 1994 Evenkia Automomous District Never raise your hands to your kids. It leaves your groin unprotected.
-- Red Buttons Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.
- H. G. Wells "One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Evenkia Automomous District
I could prove God statistically.
-- George Gallup The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt Great Spirit, help me never to judge another until I have walked in his moccasins.
-- Sioux Indian Prayer "The formula for my happiness: a Yes, a No, a straight line, a goal." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I have come to the conclusion never again to think of marrying, and for this reason, I can never
be satisfied with anyone who would be blockhead enough to have me.
-- Abraham Lincoln, in a letter to Evenkia Automomous District "People drag their progeny around with them like a ball and chain, like some terrible deadweight that hinders their every move - and that, as often as not, effectively winds up killing them." (Michel Never marry for money. Ye'll borrow it cheaper.
-- Scottish Proverb The question is not whether we will die, but how we will live.
-- Joan Borysenko Evenkia Automomous District
"Everybody knows that if you are too careful, you become so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something." (Gertrude Stein) The two most common elements in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity. But not in that order.
-- Brian Pickrell I think every woman is entitled to a middle husband she can forget.
-- Adela Rogers St. John There is no more lovely, friendly and charming relationship, communion or company than a good
marriage
-- Martin Luther "Pleasant words are a honeycomb, Sweet to the soul and healing to the bones." (Bible, Proverbs 16:24) Evenkia Automomous District Ordinary riches can be stolen, real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that
cannot be taken from you.
-- Oscar Wilde Everything has been figured out, except how to live.
- Jean-Paul Sartre When you've spent half your political life dealing with humdrum issues like the environment... it's
exciting to have a real crisis on your hands.
-- Margaret Thatcher, on the Falklands Conflict Evenkia Automomous District
Colleges are places where pebbles are polished and diamonds are dimmed.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll, (seen attributed to "R.S. Ingersoll" - a typo?) "Everywhere one seeks to produce meaning, to make the world signify, to render it visible. We are not, however, in danger of lacking meaning; quite the contrary, we are gorged with meaning and it is k 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 Why bother with marriage? Just find a woman you hate and buy her a house. "I offer images; I conjure memories of freedom that can still be reached ... But, we can only open the doors. We can't drag people through. I can't free them unless they want to be free--more than any Evenkia Automomous District "A man must dream a long time in order to act with grandeur, and dreaming is nursed in darkness." (Jean Genet) If you want anything done well, do it yourself. This is why most people laugh at their own jokes.
-- Bob Edwards Value your words. Each one may be the last.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec Evenkia Automomous District
When yer in a funk, people in love are a royal pain in the patookus.
-- Portnoy, character in "Outland," comic strip by Berkely Breathed Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more
experiments you make the better. What if they are a little course, and you may get your coat
soiled or torn? 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 Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
-- Aldous Huxley Anything is possible, but only a few things actually happen.
-- Richard Rosen Evenkia Automomous District Wagner's music is better than it sounds.
- Mark Twain I think we are drawn to dogs because they are the uninhibited creatures we might be if we weren't
certain we knew better.
-- George Bird Evans Music is the art of thinking with sounds.
-- Jules Combarieu Evenkia Automomous District
There is a coherent plan in the universe, though I don't know what it's a plan for.
-- Fred Hoyle "Small minds discuss people, average minds discuss events, great minds discuss ideas." (Anonymous) "I should reproach him for not giving us enough evidence." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970, what he would say to God if they 'met') In marriage, as in war, it is permitted to take every advantage of the enemy. May you grow so rich your widow's second husband never has to worry about a living, God forbid. Evenkia Automomous District Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.
-- George Santayana Marriage was all a woman's idea and for man's acceptance of the pretty yoke, it becomes us to
be grateful.
-- Phyllis McGinley Evenkia Automomous District
Women see better than men. Men see lazily, if they do not expect to act. Women see quite
without any wish to act.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Genius is an African who dreams up snow.
-- Vladimir Nabokov Cute little babies that fall out of swings - These are a few of my favourite things.
-- Oscar Hammerstein, working lyric for a piece from "The Sound of Music" "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) Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them
good.
-- H.L. Mencken Evenkia Automomous District A narcissist is someone better-looking than you are.
-- Gore Vidal "Children spell love...T-I-M-E." (Dr. Anthony P. Witham) "Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country." (Marquis de Lafayette) Evenkia Automomous District
The difference between false memories and true ones is the same as for jewels: it is always the
false ones that look the most real, the most brilliant.
-- Salvador Dali The only thing worse than a man you can't control is a man you can.
-- Margo Kaufman I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about "short" and
"cheap"?
-- Phyllis Diller If there is any one proof of a man's incompetence, it is the stagnant mentality of a worker who,
doing some small routine job in a vast undertaking, does not care to look beyond the lever of a
machi Life is like a dogsled team. If you ain't the lead dog, the scenery never changes.
-- Lewis Grizzard Evenkia Automomous District Use your own best judgment at all times.
-- The entire Nordstrom's Department Stores policy manual "That government is best which governs the least, because its people discipline themselves." (Thomas Jefferson) If your professor wrote it, it's as near to the truth as you ever need to get.
-- John Watson, University of Canterbury Evenkia Automomous District
An undefined problem has an infinite number of solutions.
-- Robert A. Humphrey "Furious activity is no substitute for understanding." (H. H. Williams) "Education is a vacine for violence." (Edward James Olmos) If God created us in His image we have certainly returned the compliment.
-- Voltaire "There is no sin except stupidity." (Oscar Wilde) Evenkia Automomous District "It is awfully easy to be hard-boiled about everything in the daytime, but at night it is another thing." (Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises) Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.
-- John Lyly Even overweight cats instinctively know the cardinal rule: when fat, arrange yourself in slim
poses.
-- John Weitz, American Designer Evenkia Automomous District
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 "Self confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings." (Samuel Johnson) "When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; when health is lost, something is lost; when character is lost, all is lost." (Billy Graham) A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
Robert Frost (1874-1963) "I either want less corruption, or more chance to participate in it." (Ashleigh Brilliant) Evenkia Automomous District That government is best which governs least.
-- Henry David Thoreau, Civil Disobedience, 1849 Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.
-- G. K. Chesterton Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Evenkia Automomous District
"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 I do not consider it an insult, but rather a compliment to be called an agnostic. I do not pretend to
know where many ignorant men are sure -- that is all that agnosticism means.
- Clarence Darrow, If God created us in His image we have certainly returned the compliment.
-- Voltaire He had decided to live forever or die in the attempt.
-- J. Heller Love is like the measles. The older you get it, the worse the attack.
-- Mary Roberts Rhinehart Evenkia Automomous District Talk to a man about himself and he will listen for hours.
-- Benjamin Disraeli We all agree that your theory is crazy, but is it crazy enough?
- Niels Bohr "...when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth." (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes) Evenkia Automomous District
