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"Being born is like being kidnapped. And then sold into slavery." (Andy Warhol) I regret that I have but one life to give for my country.
-- Nathan Hale Life isn't a matter of milestones, but of moments.
-- Rose Kennedy Democracy is a form of government in which it is permitted to wonder aloud what the country
could do under first-class management.
-- Senator Soaper It makes no difference who you vote for - the two parties are really one party representing four
percent of the people.
-- Gore Vidal Republic of Karelia Be like a postage stamp. Stick to one thing until you get there.
-- Josh Billings Establishing yourself, furnishing a house, building up a comfortable existence, and having that menace hanging over your head all the time - no, I prefer to live in hotels, cafés, just passing through Love me or hate me, but spare me your indifference.
-- Libbie Fudim Republic of Karelia
Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.
- Napoleon Bonaparte The democratic theory is that if you accumulate enough ignorance at the polls, you produce
intelligence.
-- Philo Vance "Self-confidence is the first requisite for achieving great things." (Samuel Johnson) "The order of the world is always right - such is the judgment of God. For God has departed, but he has left his judgment behind, the way the Cheshire Cat left his grin." (Jean Baudrillard) "Boredom is a vital problem for the moralist, since at least half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Republic of Karelia Youth is wasted on the young.
-- George Bernard Shaw "We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars." (Oscar Wilde) "Like as the waves make towards the pebbl'd shore, so do our minutes, hasten to their end." (William Shakespeare) Republic of Karelia
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? The real test of friendship is: Can you literally do nothing with the other person? Can you enjoy
together those moments of life that are utterly simple? They are the moments people looks back
on at "An imbalance between rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics." (Plutarch) The nice thing about being a celebrity is that if you bore people they think it's their fault.
- Henry Kissinger Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and
blows up the bonfire.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld Republic of Karelia 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 Many a man that could rule a hundherd millyon sthrangers with an ir'n hand is careful to take off
his shoes in the front hallway whin he comes home late at night.
-- Finley Peter Dunne, Mr. Dooley O blah "The best students always are flunking. Every good teacher knows that." (Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance) Republic of Karelia
Boredom is the feeling that everything is a waste of time; serenity, that nothing is.
-- Thomas Szasz "Try not to have a good time ... This is supposed to be educational." (Charles Schultz) Hardly a year passes that fails to find a new, oft-times exotic, research method or technique
added to the armamentarium of political inquiry. Anyone who cannot negotiate Chi squares,
assess randomi 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 Nietzsche "College: two hundred people reading same book. An obvious mistake. Two hundred people can read two hundred books." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) Republic of Karelia When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President; I'm beginning to believe it.
-- Clarence Darrow "Every now and then say, 'What the fu(c)k.' 'What the fu(c)k' gives you freedom. Freedom brings opportunity. Opportunity makes your future." (Curtis Armstrong, Risky Business, 1983) He who laughs last didn't get it.
-- Helen Giangregorio Republic of Karelia
Beneath the rule of men entirely great, / The pen is mightier than the sword.
-- Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton, Richelieu, II. ii "Yes, I am a dreamer. For a dreamer is one who can find his way by moonlight, and see the dawn before the rest of the world." (Oscar Wilde) We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.
-- Mme de Staël "If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library." (Frank Zappa) You have to kiss a lot of toads before you find a handsome prince.
-- American Proverb Republic of Karelia "A man must dream a long time in order to act with grandeur, and dreaming is nursed in darkness." (Jean Genet) 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 "There is no sin except stupidity." (Oscar Wilde) Republic of Karelia
By working faithfully eight hours a day, you might eventually get to be a boss and work twelve
hours a day.
-- ROBERT FROST Obstacles cannot crush me. Every obstacle yields to stern resolve. He who is fixed to a star does
not change his mind.
-- Leonardo da Vinci, Notebooks Live TV died in the late 1950s, electronic bulletin boards came along in the mid-1980s, meaning
there was about a 25-year gap when it was difficult to put your foot in your mouth and have
people all There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world; and that is an idea whose time has
come.
-- Victor Hugo To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance
- Oscar Wilde Republic of Karelia Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the
truth.
- Sherlock Holmes "Every great institution is the lengthened shadow of a single man. His character determines the character of the organization." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) In times of profound change, the learners inherit the earth, while the learned find themselves
beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists.
-- Al Rogers, Global SchoolHouse Netw Republic of Karelia
Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.
-- Oscar Wilde "Transport of the mails, transport of the human voice, transport of flickering pictures--in this century as in others our highest accomplishments still have the single aim of bringing men together." A person should never be ashamed to own that he is wrong, which is but saying in other words
that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.
-- Alexander Pope "Be the change that you want to see in the world." (Mohandas Gandhi) Humanity has advanced, when it has advanced, not because it has been sober, responsible, and
cautious, but because it has been playful, rebellious, and immature.
-- Tom Robbins Republic of Karelia "That's the true sign. If the lover has not yet achieved his prize, his eyes will follow the woman, while she appears indifferent. But once he's gained his goal, it's the woman's eyes that follow him, I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones.
-- John Cage Knowledge is the intellectual manipulation of carefully verified observations.
-- Sigmund Freud Republic of Karelia
I don't know which is more discouraging, literature or chickens.
-- E. B. White "Great spirits have always faced voilent protest from mediocre minds." (Albert Einstein) The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
-- Blaise Pascal, Pensées, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer As always, victory finds a hundred fathers but defeat is an orphan.
-- Count Galeazzo Ciano, The Ciano Diaries They have come up with a perfect understanding. He won't try to run her life, and he won't try to
run his, either.
-- Anonymous Republic of Karelia "The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves." (William Hazlitt) "Children spell love...T-I-M-E." (Dr. Anthony P. Witham) The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow
extinction from apathy, indifference, and undernourishment.
-- Robert Hutchins, Great Books, 1954 Republic of Karelia
The wise see knowledge and action as one; they see truly.
-- Bhagava Gita Politics is for people who have a passion for changing life but lack a passion for living it.
-- Tom Robbins The artist alone sees spirits. But after he has told of their appearing to him, everybody sees them.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The full use of your powers along lines of excellence.
- definition of happiness by John F. Kennedy Republic of Karelia I base my fashion sense on what doesn't itch.
-- Gilda Radner Assassins!
-- Arturo Toscanini, to his orchestra To keep your marriage brimming, with love in the wedding cup, whenever you're wrong, admit it;
whenever you're right, shut up.
-- Ogden Nash Republic of Karelia
The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.
-- Paul Valery He who knows only his own side of the case, knows little of that.
-- John Stuart Mill The bottom line is that (a) people are never perfect, but love can be, (b) that is the one and only
way that the mediocre and vile can be transformed, and (c) doing that makes it that. We waste
time Too bad all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving cabs and cutting hair.
-- George Burns All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman and a pretty girl.
-- Charlie Chaplin Republic of Karelia If ever I get married again it would have to be under an anaesthetic.
-- Marie Tonkin I figure you have the same chance of winning the lottery whether you play or not.
-- Fran Lebowitz Our own heart, and not other men's opinions form our true honor.
-- Coleridge, Samuel Taylor Republic of Karelia
A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.
-- St. Augustine Art and science have their meeting point in method.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton Miracles occur naturally as expressions of love. The real miracle is the love that inspires them. In
this sense everything that comes from love is a miracle.
-- Marianne Williamson "Vegiburgers are wrong." (Mike Kaup) None but a good man is really a living man, and the more good any man does, the more he really
lives. All the rest is death, or belongs to it.
-- Herman Melville Republic of Karelia Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
-- George Bernard Shaw There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you
yourself have altered.
-- Nelson Mandela, A Long Walk to Freedom ...the fog is rising.
-- Emily Dickinson, dying words Republic of Karelia
