It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are
difficult.
-- Seneca "Mistakes are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) An eye for an eye only leads to more blindness.
-- Margaret Atwood He that always gives way to others will end in having no principles of his own.
-- Aesop Blessed is he who has learned to laugh at himself, for he shall never cease to be entertained.
-- John Powell Automotive Never try to teach a pig to sing. It's a waste of your time and annoys the pig.
-- Anon. All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it
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- Arthur Schopenhauer Choose a wife by your ear than your eye.
-- Thomas Fuller, 1732 Automotive
Opportunities multiply as they are seized.
-- Sun Tzu Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
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those tiny toil Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-
proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe
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-- Soren Kierkegaard Automotive He who laughs, lasts.
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-- Jean Kerr Automotive
"It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so." (Mark Twain) "God is a gentleman. He prefers blondes." (Joe Orton, Loot) "Great work is done by people who are not afraid to be great." (Fernando Flores) Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way
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- Plato "Be the change that you want to see in the world." (Mohandas Gandhi) Automotive "If you want a thing done well, do it yourself." (Napoleon Bonaparte) What if it was cats who invented technology... would they have tv shows starring rubber sqeak
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They were seated at their desks with their heads in a nodding position.
-- John Hogan, Commonwealth Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
-- Bob Perelman The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism
is the equal sharing of miseries.
-- Winston Churchill Automotive "This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) "I want my food dead. Not sick, not dying, dead." (Oscar Wilde) I prefer the wicked rather than the foolish. The wicked sometimes rest.
-- Alexandre Dumas pere Automotive
More than kisses, letters mingle souls.
-- John Donne If the government wants people to respect the law, it should set a better example.
-- Anon. Change before you have to.
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west.
-- Unknown history student Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.
-- John Lehman, Secretary of the Navy, 1981-1987 Love begins with a smile, grows with a kiss, and ends with a teardrop.
-- Anonymous Automotive
The principle of give and take is the principle of diplomacy - give one and take ten.
-- Mark Twain I'm worried that the universe will soon need replacing. It's not holding a charge.
-- Edward Chilton It is most unwise for people in love to marry.
-- George Bernard Shaw A person is not given integrity. It results from the relentless pursuit of honesty at all times.
-- Anon. Blessed are the young for they shall inherit the national debt.
-- Herbert Hoover Automotive "I had discovered that a person does not have to be this or be that or be anything, not even oneself. One is free." (Walker Percy, The Moviegoer) "Whether it is a black cat or a white cat, as long as it can catch the rat, it is a good cat." (Deng Xiao Ping) Victory goes to the player who makes the next-to-last mistake.
- Chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower Automotive
I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than
knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.
-- Albert Einstein "The feminists used to say that chivalry and ladyhood were ways of keeping women down and preventing them from standing toe to toe with the guys. Now you've got a lot of women saying that if a guy is Consequences, schmonsequences, as long as I'm rich!
-- Chuck Jones-directed cartoon If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolute powerlessness make you pure?
-- Harry Shearer Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife. -- PJ O'Rourke Automotive Who the hell wants to hear actors talk?
- H. M. Warner, founder of Warner Brothers, in 1927 Grad school is the snooze button on the clock-radio of life.
-- John Rogers, comedian (who holds a graduate degree in physics) "One of the good things about low self-esteem is never having rain hit you in the face." (John A. Simone Jr.) Automotive
If you would thoroughly know anything, teach it to others.
-- Tryon Edwards Let the refining and improving of your own life keep you so busy that you have little time to
criticize others.
-- H. Jackson Brown An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets, the more interested he is in her. -- Agatha Christie Lottery: A tax on people who are bad at math.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Good judgement comes from experience, and experience--well, that comes from poor judgement.
-- Cousin Woodman Automotive Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of
our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.
-- John Adams If I had been around when Rubens was painting, I would have been revered as a fabulous model.
Kate Moss? Well, she would have been the paintbrush...
-- Dawn French We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind her stands his wife. -- Groucho Marx Automotive
Feeding the hungry is a greater work than raising the dead.
-- Saint John Chrysostom "If you want a thing done well, do it yourself." (Napoleon Bonaparte) What do you take me for, an idiot?
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-- Buke Ellington Automotive The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
-- Blaise Pascal, Pens&eactue;es, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer You got to be careful if you don't know where you're going, because you might not get there.
-- Yogi Berra Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.
-- Aristotle Automotive
Mother-in-law: A woman who destroys her son-in-law's peace of mind by giving him a piece of
hers.
-- Anonymous A man sits with a pretty girl for an hour, it seems like a minute. He sits on a hot stove for a
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-- Albert Einstein "Every Man and every Woman is a Star." (Aleister Crowley) "Feeding is a very important ritual for me. I don't trust people who don't like to eat." (Gina Gershon) I love cats because I love my home and after a while they become its visible soul.
-- Jean Cocteau Automotive He who laughs last has not yet heard the bad news.
-- Bertolt Brecht Never judge a book by its movie.
-- J. W. Eagan "Ask five economists and you'll get five different answers (six if one went to Harvard)." (Edgar R. Fiedler) Automotive
"Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear." (Ambrose Redmoon) The first duty of love is to listen.
-- Paul Tillich "Death where is thy sting? Love, where is thy glory?" (William Shakespeare) "Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear." (Ambrose Redmoon) Love is a perky elf dancing a merry little jig and then suddenly he turns on you with a miniature
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-- Matt Groening, Love is Hell Automotive Laundry increases exponentially in the number of children.
-- Miriam Robbins Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it.
Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it.
Hatred darkens life; love illumines it.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. The theory used to be you marry an older man because they are more mature. The new theory is
that men don't mature. So you might as well marry a younger one.
-- Anonymous Automotive
