The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
-- B. F. Skinner If your wife wants to learn how to drive, don't stand in her way. As for the virtuous poor, one can pity them, of course, but one cannot possibly admire them.
-- Oscar Wilde A problem is a chance for you to do your best.
-- Buke Ellington blah bl "The better the state is established, the fainter is humanity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Dance Parents often talk about the younger generations as if they didn't have anything to do with it. You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.
-- Albert Camus Anyone nit-picking enough to write a letter of correction to an editor doubtless deserves the error
that provoked it.
-- Alvin Toffler Dance
Opportunity may knock only once, but temptation leans on the doorbell.
-- Anonymous I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and
intellect has intended us to forgo their use.
- Galileo Galilei "One often contradicts an opinion when what is uncongenial is really the tone in which it was conveyed." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Great innovations should not be forced on slender majorities.
-- Thomas Jefferson Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow.
-- Helen Keller Dance You will marry into an Indian tribe and become one big Hopi family. When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen.
-- Ernest Hemingway The less their ability, the more their conceit.
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He who conquers himself is the mightiest warrior.
-- Confucius Better to die ten thousand deaths than wound my honor.
-- Joseph Addison "I never learned from a man who agreed with me." (Robert A. Heinlein) "A man must dream a long time in order to act with grandeur, and dreaming is nursed in darkness." (Jean Genet) Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.
-- James Baldwin Dance The best reason I can think of for not running for President of the United States is that you have
to shave twice a day.
-- Adlai Stevenson To read a writer is for me not merely to get an idea of what he says, but to go off with him and travel in his company.
Andre Gide "The perception of beauty is a moral test." (Henry David Thoreau) Dance
Change is not merely necessary to life, it is life.
-- Alvin Toffler There are not enough Indians in the world to defeat the Seventh Cavalry.
-- George Armstrong Custer 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 I'd wipe the machines off the face of the earth again, and end the industrial epoch absolutely, like
a black mistake.
-- D. H. Lawrence "I fear we are not getting rid of God because we still believe in grammar." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Dance Life is a succession of lessons enforced by immediate reward, or, oftener, by immediate
chastisement.
-- Ernest Dimnet The best way to get husbands to do something is to suggest that perhaps they are too old to do it.
-- Shirley MacLaine "College: two hundred people reading same book. An obvious mistake. Two hundred people can read two hundred books." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) Dance
"Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking." (H. Jackson Brown (Jr.) Wives are people who feel they don't dance enough.
-- Groucho Marx I tried a mail order bride, once, but she was damaged in the mail, and I had to return the unused part for my full refund. Ordinary riches can be stolen, real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that
cannot be taken from you.
-- Oscar Wilde All that is gold does not glitter. Not all those who wander are lost;
-- J.R.R. Tolkein Dance There are some experiences in life which should not be demanded twice from any man, and one
of them is listening to the Brahms Requiem.
-- George Bernard Shaw Blessed are the young for they shall inherit the national debt.
-- Herbert Hoover If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe.
- Carl Sagan Dance
The innkeeper loves the drunkard, but not for a son-in-law.
-- Yiddish Proverb I have noticed that nothing I have never said ever did me any harm.
-- Calvin Coolidge Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up.
-- Robert Frost He who laughs last thinks slowest.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker your daughters marry men of substance: gypsies with two bears. Dance You can get more with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone.
-- Al Capone The coziness between church and state is good for the state and bad for the church.
-- G. K. Chesterton I'm not dumb, I just have a command of thoroughly useless information.
-- Calvin Dance
"Some people must go to extremes to get the world in balance for themselves. Some can't bear bright lights, so wherever they go they search for the dark; they turn the lights down, anything to sustain Twenty years fron now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones
you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in
your "The formula for my happiness: a Yes, a No, a straight line, a goal." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Doctors are the same as lawyers; the only difference is that lawyers merely rob you, whereas
doctors rob you and kill you too.
-- Anton Chekhov "If I work toward an end, meantime I am confined to a process. The rainbow is more beautiful than the pot at the end of it, because the rainbow is now. And the pot never turns out to be quite what I e Dance 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 "A wise man among the ignorant is as a beautiful girl in the company of blind men." (Saadi) "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) Dance
Better to have loved a short man than never to have loved a tall.
-- David Chambless "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." "In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends." (Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.) "Ah! Don't say you agree with me. When people agree with me I always feel that I must be wrong." (Oscar Wilde) Trying to determine what is going on in the world by reading newspapers is like trying to tell the
time by watching the second hand of a clock.
-- Ben Hecht Dance When women go wrong, men go right after them.
-- Mae West "Careful?! Was my mother careful when she stabbed me in the heart with a coat hanger while I was still in the womb?" (Trey Parker) What kills a skunk is the publicity it gives itself.
-- Abraham Lincoln Dance
Facts are the enemy of truth.
- Don Quixote - Man of La Mancha A person is not given integrity. It results from the relentless pursuit of honesty at all times.
-- Anon. Your every voter, as surely as your chief magistrate, exercises a public trust.
-- Grover Cleveland Children are a poor man's riches.
-- English proverb If God does not exist, then everything is permitted.
-- Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Devils Dance Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can
never tell.
-- Joan Crawford Marriage is a lottery, but you can't tear up your ticket if you lose.
-- F. M. Knowles Music is the art of thinking with sounds.
-- Jules Combarieu Dance
"Someday there will be girls and women whose name will no longer mean the mere opposite of the male, but something in itself, something that makes one think not of any compliment and limit, but only o Can you imagine what I would do if I could do all I can?
-- The Artist Formerly Known As Prince When people go to work, they shouldn't have to leave their hearts at home.
-- Betty Bender "The dancer's body is simply the luminous manifestation of the soul." (Isadora Duncan) After all, all he did was string together a lot of old, well-known quotations.
-- H. L. Mencken, on Shakespeare Dance "This is the first age that's paid much attention to the future, which is a little ironic since we may not have one." (Arthur C. Clarke) I was going to change my shirt, but I changed my mind instead.
-- Winnie the Pooh "Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame." (Erica Jong) Dance
Opera in English is, in the main, about as sensible as baseball in Italian.
-- H. L. Mencken "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) He can compress the most words into the smallest idea of any man I know.
- Abraham Lincoln "I couldn't find the sports car of my dreams, so I built it myself." (Dr. Ferdinand Porsche) Great innovations should not be forced on slender majorities.
-- Thomas Jefferson Dance Time is at once the most valuable and most perishable of all our possessions.
-- John Randolph There is no one so bound to his own face that he does not cherish the hope of presenting another
to the world.
-- Antonio Machado "I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough." (M. C. Escher) Dance
