There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called marriage. -- James Holt McGavran "Don't let your ego get too close to your position, so that if your position gets shot down, your ego doesn't go with it." (Colin Powell) Property may be destroyed and money may lose its purchasing power; but, character, health,
knowledge and good judgement will always be in demand under all conditions.
-- Roger Babson Grove giveth and Gates taketh away.
- Bob Metcalfe (inventor of Ethernet) on the trend of hardware speedups not being able to keep
up with software demands "Eagles may soar, but weasels don't get sucked into jet engines." (John Benfield) Computers and Internet And in the end it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
-- Abraham Lincoln Change before you have to.
-- Jack Welch "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) Computers and Internet
Before I married, I had three theories about raising children and no children. Now, I have three
children and no theories.
-- John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
- Gail Godwin "It is neccessary to have wished for death in order to know how good it is to live." (Alexander Dumas) "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 You can get more with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone.
-- Al Capone Computers and Internet "Feeding is a very important ritual for me. I don't trust people who don't like to eat." (Gina Gershon) "The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none." (Thomas Carlyle, 1795-1881) Value your words. Each one may be the last.
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When you gaze long into the abyss, the abyss also gazes into you.
- Friedrich Nietzsche A woman has got to love a bad man once or twice in her life to be thankful for a good one.
-- Mae West The artist alone sees spirits. But after he has told of their appearing to him, everybody sees them.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way." (Mark Twain) English Law prohibits a man from marrying his mother-in-law. This is our idea of useless legislation. Computers and Internet A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take her off his hands. -- Guitry "When marrying, ask yourself this question: Do you believe that you will be able to converse well with this person into your old age? Everything else in marriage is transitory." (Friedrich Wilhelm Ni Give her two red roses, each with a note. The first note says "For the woman I love" and the
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-- Anonymous Computers and Internet
Work is a four-letter word.
-- The Smiths (Morrissey) "In literary criticism the critic has no choice but to make over the victim of his attention into something the size and shape of himself." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) You can get more with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone.
-- Al Capone There's no problem so awful that you can't add some guilt to it and make it even worse!
-- Calvin Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame.
-- G. K. Chesterton Computers and Internet Gravitation can not be held responsible for people falling in love.
-- Albert Einstein Defeat never comes to any man until he admits it.
-- Josephus Daniels "Courage is doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared." (Eddie Rickenbacker) Computers and Internet
The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax.
-- Albert Einstein Marry in haste, repent in leisure.
-- Tilney Love is not blind - it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.
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it.
-- Colin Wilson Computers and Internet "Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent." (Napoleon Bonaparte) Ah, well, then I suppose I shall have to die beyond my means.
-- Oscar Wilde, dying words 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.
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Work is the curse of the drinking class.
-- Oscar Wilde When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen.
-- Ernest Hemingway Look at life through the windshield, not the rear-view mirror.
-- Byrd Baggett Give me a museum and I'll fill it.
-- Pablo Picasso A memorandum is written not to inform the reader but to protect the writer.
-- Dean Acheson Computers and Internet To write a good love letter, you ought to begin without knowing what you mean to say, and to
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-- Jean Jacques Rousseau "Liberty has never come from the government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of it. The history of liberty is a history of resistance. The history of liberty is a history of limitations of g "The dancer's body is simply the luminous manifestation of the soul." (Isadora Duncan) Computers and Internet
In every man's heart there is a secret nerve that answers to the vibrations of beauty.
-- Christopher Morley "The last Christian died on the cross." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Education must have an end in view, for it is not an end in itself." (Sybil Marshall) Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after.
-- Anne Morrow Lindbergh "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) Computers and Internet I was going to change my shirt, but I changed my mind instead.
-- Winnie the Pooh Most turkeys taste better the day after; my mother's tasted better the day before.
-- Rita Rudner Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Computers and Internet
This search for what you want is like tracking something that doesn't want to be tracked. It takes
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-- Fred Astaire What we anticipate seldom occurs: but what we least expect generally happens.
-- Benjamin Disraeli I know nothing about sex, because I was always married.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor We must become the change we want to see.
-- Gandhi It destroys one's nerves to be amiable everyday to the same human being.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Computers and Internet Happiness is nothing more than health and a poor memory.
-- Albert Schweitzer Stung by the splendour of a sudden thought.
-- Robert Browning This isn't right, this isn't even wrong.
- Wolfgang Pauli (1900-1958), upon reading a young physicist's paper Computers and Internet
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 The weirder you're going to behave, the more normal you should look. It works in reverse, too.
When I see a kid with three or four rings in his nose, I know there is absolutely nothing
extraordinary "Have confidence that if you have done a little thing well, you can do a bigger thing well, too." (David Malcolm Storey) The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
- Lucille S. Harper Children are a poor man's riches.
-- English proverb Computers and Internet Conceit causes more conversation than wit.
-- LaRouchefoucauld Chance is always powerful. - Let your hook be always cast; in the pool where you least expect it,
there will be a fish.
-- Ovid Marriage is like a cage--one sees the birds outside desperate to get in and those inside equally
desparate to get out.
-- Di Peatlins Computers and Internet
A man can do what he wants, but not want what he wants.
-- Arthur Schoperhauer "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) We trained hard - but it seemed that every time we were beginning to form up into teams we were
reorganized. I was to learn later in life that we tend to meet any new situation by reorganizing,
and 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 The optimist sees opportunity in every danger; the pessimist sees danger in every opportunity.
-- Winston Churchill Computers and Internet A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence
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-- George Bernard Shaw In the spider-web of facts, many a truth is strangled.
-- Paul Eldridge Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the
truth.
- Sherlock Holmes Computers and Internet
I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones.
-- John Cage To love another person is to see the face of God.
-- Lyric from Les Miserables The marriage of Marxism and feminism has been like the marriage of husband and wife depicted
in English common law: Marxism and feminism are one, and that one is Marxism.
-- Heidi Hartmann, The Unha Never look at the trombones. You'll only encourage them.
-- Richard Strauss, on conducting The mind has exactly the same power as the hands: not merely to grasp the world, but to change
it.
-- Colin Wilson Computers and Internet "People demand freedom only when they have no power." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it." (Thomas Jefferson, to Archibald Stuart, 1791) There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him asleep.
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