Sleep is that golden chain that ties health and our bodies together.
-- Thomas Dekker "One will rarely err if extreme actions be ascribed to vanity, ordinary actions to habit, and mean actions to fear." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Growth in wisdom can be measured precisely by decline in bile." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Human, All Too Human) "I think you should defend to the death their right to march, and then go down and meet them with baseball bats." (Woody Allen, in regard to the KKK) "Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." (George Bernard Shaw) Republic of Khakassia As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; and as far as they are
certain, they do not refer to reality.
-- Albert Einstein Each of us has a spark of life inside us, and our highest endeavor ought to be to set off that spark
in one another.
-- Kenny Ausubel If you don't double-click me, I can't do anything.
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Ah Mozart! He was happily married - but his wife wasn't. -- Borge You have a cough? Go home tonight, eat a whole box of Ex-Lax--tomorrow you'll be afraid to
cough.
-- Pearl Williams Tear open packet, unfold and use.
-- Directions on moist towelette package Give me a museum and I'll fill it.
-- Pablo Picasso I skate to where the puck is going to be, not to where it has been.
-- Wayne Gretzky Republic of Khakassia I am in total control, but don't tell my wife. "Marriage excuses no one the freak's roll-call." (Joe Orton, What the Butler Saw) The worth of the state, in the long run, is the worth of the individuals composing it.
-- John Stuart Mill Republic of Khakassia
I went into a McDonald's yesterday and said, "I'd like some fries." The girl at the counter said,
"Would you like some fries with that?"
-- Jay Leno Oregon Democratic Senate candidate Tom Bruggere, in describing his support for
comprehensive health care during a candidates' forum, said he supported "erection-to-
resurrection" coverage. He later a Gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling in love.
-- Albert Einstein A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.
-- Edward Abbey What we anticipate seldom occurs: but what we least expect generally happens.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Republic of Khakassia Until the day of his death, no man can be sure of his courage.
-- Jean Anouilh I am about to--or I am going to--die; either expression is used.
-- Dominique Bouhours, French grammarian, dying words 2,400,000 Americans play the accordian - hopefully not at the same time.
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I love deadlines. I especially like the whooshing sound they make as they go flying by.
-- Douglas Adams A dollar saved is a quarter earned.
-- John Ciardi I am in total control, but don't tell my wife. Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands, but English women only hope to find in their butlers. -- W. Somerset Maugham The west wasn't won on salad.
-- ND Beef Council, billboard advertisement, 1990 Republic of Khakassia Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.
-- Virginia Woolf They think they can make fuel from horse manure.... Now, I don't know if your car will be able to
get 30 miles to the gallon, but it's sure gonna put a stop to siphoning.
-- Billie Holliday Better watch out that you won't become a television set in your next life.
--Loesje Republic of Khakassia
The only way to entertain some folks is to listen to them.
-- Kin Hubbard Happy are those who dream dreams and are willing to pay the price to make them come true.
-- Anon. Love is friendship set on fire.
- Jeremy Taylor Many a man owes his success to his first wife and his second wife to his success.
-- Jim Backus "It is a curious thing that God learned Greek when he wished to turn author--and that he did not learn it better." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Republic of Khakassia Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday
afternoon.
-- Susan Ertz Technology makes it possible for people to gain control over everything, except over technology.
-- John Tudor Of course, it is very important to be sober when you take an exam. Many worthwile careers in the
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The only thing you will ever be able to say in the so-called 'social' sciences is: "some do, some
don't."
-- Ernest Rutherford "Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave, and impossible to forget." (G. Randolf) "How is it that we never have time to do a job right, but we always have time to do it over?" (Anonymous) Every mother generally hopes that her daughter will snag a better husband than she managed to
do...but she's certain that her boy will never get as great a wife as his father did.
-- Anonymous Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when
people laugh.
-- George Bernard Shaw Republic of Khakassia Whenever I dwell for any length of time on my own shortcomings, they gradually begin to seem
mild harmless, rather engaging little things, not at all like the staring defects in other people's
chara In great matters men show themselves as they wish to be seen; in small matters, as they are.
-- Gamaliel Bradford All courage is a form of constancy. It is always himself that a coward abandons first. After this all
other betrayals come.
-- Cormac McCarthy Republic of Khakassia
"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) "One of the good things about low self-esteem is never having rain hit you in the face." (John A. Simone Jr.) blah "Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the government of himself. Can he, then be trusted with the government of others? Or have we found angels in the form of kings to govern him? If addiction is judged by how long a dumb animal will sit pressing a lever to get a 'fix' of
something, to its own detriment, then I would conclude that netnews is far more addictive than
cocaine.
Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in
accordance with the dictates of reason.
-- Oscar Wilde Republic of Khakassia Destiny is not a matter of chance; but a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, It is a
thing to be acheived.
-- William Jennings Bryant "In times of change learners inherit the earth; while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists." (Eric Hoffer) Every flower must grow through dirt.
-- Anonymous Republic of Khakassia
When a thing has been said and said well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it.
-- Anatole France I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.
- Thomas Jefferson We have to keep trying things we're not sure we can pull off. If we just do the things we know we
can do... you don't grow as much. You gotta take those chances on making those big mistakes.
-- Cybi People think we make $3 million and $4 million a year. They don't realize that most of us only
make $500,000.
-- Pete Incaviglia, baseball player, 1990 "The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves." (William Hazlitt) Republic of Khakassia "The man who never made a mistake never made anything." (Derek Longdon, Tongariro Power Development, Turangi, New Zealand) 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, He who laughs last thinks slowest.
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Motivation will almost always beat mere talent.
-- Norman R. Augustine "I'm the artist formally known as Beck. I have a genius wig. When I put that wig on, then the true genius emerges. I don't have enough hair to be a genius. I think you have to have hair going everywhe "Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) In a great romance, each person plays a part the other really likes.
-- Elizabeth Ashley Good friends are good for your health.
-- Irwin Sarason Republic of Khakassia He is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death.
- H. H. Munro (Saki) "The depth and strength of a human character are defined by its moral reserves. People reveal themselves completely only when they are thrown out of the customary conditions of their life, for only th "To pretend, I actually do the thing: I have therefore only pretended to pretend." (Jacques Derrida, French 'deconstructionist') Republic of Khakassia
The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and
science.
-- Albert Einstein Cricket is best described as organised loafing.
-- Anonymous British Radio Broadcaster, 1996 "Things do not change, we change." (Henry David Thoreau) Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.
-- Salvador Dali Since Eve ate the apple, much depends on dinner.
-- Lord Byron Republic of Khakassia My wife says if I go fishing one more time she's going to leave me. Gosh, I'm going to miss her. Call on God, but row away from the rocks.
-- Indian proverb The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
-- B. F. Skinner Republic of Khakassia
"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 You must first have a lot of patience to learn to have patience.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec "It serves me right for putting all my eggs in one bastard." (Dorothy Parker, 1893-1967, US writer) Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
- Lewis Perelman "The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning, but without understanding." (Louis Brandeis) Republic of Khakassia It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.
-- Abraham Lincoln "I was born and raised with crocodiles; they are a piece of cake. But kids are so ... unpredictable." (Steve Irwin, "Crocodile Hunter") As for courage and will - we cannot measure how much of each lies within us, we can only trust
there will be sufficient to carry through trials which may lie ahead.
-- Andre Norton Republic of Khakassia