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Basic research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
-- Wernher Von Braun If you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it's done.
-- Scott Adams "Beauty without expression is boring." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Minds are like parachutes - they only function when open.
-- Thomas Dewar If the government wants people to respect the law, it should set a better example.
-- Anon. Maps and Views Genius is 99 percent perspiration and 1 percent inspiration.
-- Thomas Edison If I have not seen as far as others, it is because giants were standing on my shoulders.
-- Hal Abelson Integrity is what we do, what we say, and what we say we do.
--Don Galer Maps and Views
It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is
the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be
cr Beware you be not swallowed up in books! An ounce of love is worth a pound of knowledge.
-- John Wesley I don't even butter my bread; I consider that cooking.
-- Katherine Cebrian "If I were still a critic, I would loathe knowing the person I was writing about. There's enough of an incestuous relationship between subject and writer." (Manny Farber, American film theorist) "The man who never made a mistake never made anything." (Derek Longdon, Tongariro Power Development, Turangi, New Zealand) Maps and Views then the world 's mine oyster
-- William Shakespeare, The Merry Wives of Windsor The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but
newspapers.
-- Thomas Jefferson "Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent." (Napoleon Bonaparte) Maps and Views
Books had instant replay long before televised sports.
-- Bern Williams "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 In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that
no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it's the exact opposite.
-- Paul Dirac "These are days you'll remember." If you recall nothing else from your graduation ceremony,
remember you heard the New Jersey Governor quote from 10,000 Maniacs.
-- Christine Todd, NJ Governor, Whea In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice
that I am not a Republican.
-- H. L. Mencken Maps and Views Thank heaven. A bachelor's life is no life for a single man.
-- Samuel Goldwyn, immigrant-turned-famous-movie-producer, when told his son was getting
married It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are
difficult.
-- Seneca The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. The opposite of a profound truth may
well be another profound truth.
- Niels Bohr Maps and Views
"There cannot be a God because, if there were one, I would not believe that I was not He." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they don't want to hear." (George Orwell) Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect, and it is shameful to surrender it too soon or to the first
comer: there is nobility in preserving it coolly and proudly through long youth, until at last Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple, learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a
dozen.
-- John Steinbeck Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you.
-- John-Paul Sartre Maps and Views As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he.
-- Proverbs 23:7 The only one of your children who does not grow up and move away is your husband. Happiness is nothing more than health and a poor memory.
-- Albert Schweitzer Maps and Views
The paradox is really the pathos of intellectual life and just as only great souls are exposed to
passions it is only the great thinker who is exposed to what I call paradoxes, which are . . .
grand Having once decided to achieve a certain task, achieve it at all costs of tedium and distaste. The
gain in self-confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labor is immense.
-- Thomas Arnold Bennet "The only way to have friends is to be one." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) All marriages are happy--it's the living together afterward that causes all the problems. "The market is not an invention of capitalism. It has existed for centuries. It is an invention of civilization." (Mikhail Gorbachev, June 8, 1990) Maps and Views There is no course of life so weak and sottish as that which is managed by order, method, and
discipline.
-- Michel de Montaigne Immature love says: "I love you because I need you." Mature love says: "I need you because I
love you."
-- Erich Fromm "Well begun is half done." (Aristotle) Maps and Views
"I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough." (M. C. Escher) The real questions are the ones that obtrude upon your consciousness whether you like it or not,
the ones that make your mind start vibrating like a jackhammer, the ones that you 'come to terms
with If you are going to sin, sin against God, not the bureaucracy. God will forgive you but the
bureaucracy won't.
-- Hyman Rickover To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance
- Oscar Wilde "Great work is done by people who are not afraid to be great." (Fernando Flores) Maps and Views Why do grandparents and grandchildren get along so well? They have the same enemy-- the
mother.
-- Claudette Colbert "Dream as if you'll live forever; live as if you'll die tomorrow." (James Dean) "Inside of a ring or out, ain't nothing wrong with going down. It's staying down that's wrong." (Muhammad Ali) Maps and Views
Some men are born with cold feet; some acquire cold feet; and some have cold feet thrust upon
them.
-- Anonymous In the end, everything is a gag.
-- Charlie Chaplin Drink to me.
-- Pablo Picasso, dying words Did you hear about the scientist whose wife had twins? He baptized one and kept the other as a control. I would have made a good Pope.
-- Richard Nixon, U.S. President Maps and Views Logic is in the eye of the logician.
- Gloria Steinem 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 The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
- General George Patton Maps and Views
The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat.
-- Lily Tomlin You can take all the sincerity in Hollywood, place it in the navel of a firefly and still have room
enough for three caraway seeds and a producer's heart.
-- Fred Allen "The masses are far more likely to believe a big lie than several small ones." (Adolf Hitler) Peculiar travel suggestions are dancing lessons from God.
-- Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., Cat's Cradle 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 Maps and Views I was nauseous and tingly all over... I was either in love or I had smallpox.
-- Woody Allen We see the brightness of a new page where everything yet can happen.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke, Book of Hours This is the fourth?
-- Thomas Jefferson, dying words Maps and Views
The gods gave man fire and he invented fire engines. They gave him love and he invented marriage. I believe God is managing affairs and that He doesn't need any advice from me. With God in
charge, I believe everything will work out for the best in the end. So what is there to worry about.
-- Hen The advice your son rejected is now being given by him to your grandson. The question is not whether we will die, but how we will live.
-- Joan Borysenko The eyes are not responsible when the mind does the seeing.
-- Publilius Syrus Maps and Views Marriage is a lottery in which men stake their liberty and women their happiness.
-- Madame de Rieux "We always get bored with those whom we bore." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) In the past decade or so, the women's magazines have taken to running home-handyperson
articles suggesting that women can learn to fix things just as well as men. These articles are
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I love children, especially when they cry, for then someone takes them away.
-- Nancy Mitford God help the man who won't marry until he finds a perfect woman, and God help him still more if
he finds her.
-- Benjamin Tillett 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.
-- Cynthia H Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson People, like nails, lose their effectiveness when they lose direction and begin to bend.
-- Walter Savage Landor Maps and Views Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.
-- Ernest Hemingway Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than
the wisest man can answer.
-- Charles Caleb Colton "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) Maps and Views
Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
- Gail Godwin The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and
science.
-- Albert Einstein To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.
-- Oscar Wilde I don't want everyone to like me; I should think less of myself if some people did.
-- Henry James I am become death, shatterer of worlds.
-- Robert J. Oppenheimer, citing from the Bhagavadgita, after witnessing the world's first nuclear
explosion Maps and Views A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel.
-- Robert Frost blah "Ideas are like stars, you will not succeed in touching them with your hands, but like the seafaring man on the desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and, following them, you reach yo "I am the lizard king. I can do anything." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) Maps and Views
