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"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." 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 Now, now my good man, this is no time for making enemies.
- Voltaire (1694-1778) on his deathbed in response to a priest asking that he renounce Satan. Learn to laugh at your troubles and you'll never run out of things to laugh at.
-- Lyn Karol Blessed are the young for they shall inherit the national debt.
-- Herbert Hoover Kosice "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 In olden times, sacrifices were made at the altar, a practice which is still very much practiced.
-- Helen Rowland It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
-- Mark Twain Kosice
"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) Being a woman is of special interest only to aspiring male transsexuals. To actual women it is
merely a good excuse not to play football.
-- Fran Lebowitz "Failure is not an option!" (Ed Harris, as Gene Kranz, Apollo 13) There is a coherent plan in the universe, though I don't know what it's a plan for.
-- Fred Hoyle When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of many men for the inattention of one.
-- Helen Rowland Kosice Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than
the wisest man can answer.
-- Charles Caleb Colton I just need enough to tide me over until I need more.
-- Bill Hoest When one find's oneself in a hole of one's own making, it is a good time to examine the quality of
the workmanship.
-- John Renmerde Kosice
Reading computer manuals without the hardware is a frustrating as reading sex manuals without
the software.
-- Arthur C. Clarke A behaviorist is someone who pulls habits out of rats.
-- Anonymous "Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise." (Alice Walker) Hey, you can't fight in here! This is the war room!
-- Dr. Strangelove We are not retreating - we are advancing in another Direction.
- General Douglas MacArthur Kosice The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
-- Winston Churchill In a hierarchy, every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence. Therefore:
? In time, every post tends to be occupied by an employee who is incompetent to carry out its
duties.
? Work Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for
him.
-- Rich Little Kosice
"The key to wisdom is knowing all the right questions." (John A. Simone Jr.) In a hierarchy, every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence. Therefore:
? In time, every post tends to be occupied by an employee who is incompetent to carry out its
duties.
? Work Books had instant replay long before televised sports.
-- Bern Williams "Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) By the time (the Leaning Tower of Pisa) was 10% built, everyone knew it would be a total
disaster. But the investment was so big they felt compelled to go on. Since its completion, it cost
a fortune Kosice "One of the things about acting is it allows you to live other people's lives without having to pay the price. I've never been one of those actors who has touted myself as a fascinating human being. I If everybody is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking.
-- George S. Patton, Jr. Never eat more than you can lift.
-- Miss Piggy, character on "The Muppet Show," U.S. television show Kosice
A man can't get rich if he takes proper care of his family.
-- Navaho saying Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has not heart; and any man who is over 30, and is
not a conservative, has no brains.
-- Winston Churchill blah blah blah blah blah "This is the way the world ends: not with a bang, but a whimper." (Thomas Stearns Eliot, aka T. S. Eliot) _end]
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"Hello Kitty is an icon that doesn't stand for a "Death is only a launching into the region of the strange Untried; it is but the first salutation to the possibilities of the immense Remote, the Wild, the Watery, the Unshored..." (Herman Melville, "The easiest kind of relationship is with ten thousand people, the hardest is with one." (Joan Baez) Kosice "Every now and then say, 'What the fu(c)k.' 'What the fu(c)k' gives you freedom. Freedom brings opportunity. Opportunity makes your future." (Curtis Armstrong, Risky Business, 1983) I haven't committed a crime. What I did was fail to comply with the law.
-- David Dinkins, New York City Mayor, answering accusations that he failed to pay his taxes. A Code of Honor: Never approach a friend's girlfriend or wife with mischief as your goal. There
are just too many women in the world to justify that sort of dishonorable behavior. Unless she's
reall Kosice
"Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking." (H. Jackson Brown (Jr.) And since the stench of death will always attract flies and vermin, the arrival of Geraldo was
perhaps inevitable.
-- Garry Trudeau Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three pillars of learning.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Conversation, fastidious Goddess, loves blood better than brick, and feasts most subtly on the
human will.
-- Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway Question: If you could live forever, would you and why? Answer: I would not live forever, because
we should not live forever, because if we were supposed to live forever, then we would live
forever, Kosice You can complain because roses have thorns, or you can rejoice because thorns have roses.
-- Ziggy, character in comic strip by Tom Wilson History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte "God is Man's stupidest idea." (Marcel Duchamp, French Dadaist) Kosice
Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has not heart; and any man who is over 30, and is
not a conservative, has no brains.
- Sir Winston Churchill I think one of the reasons I'm popular again is because I'm wearing a tie. You have to be different.
-- Tony Bennett, 1995 "Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Walk beside me and just be my friend." (Albert Camus) "We're all proud of making little mistakes. It gives us the feeling we don't make any big ones." (Andrew A. Rooney) "In my opinion, the greatest single failure of American education is that students come away unable to distinguish between a symbol and the thing the symbol stands for." (Paul Lutus) Kosice The open-minded see the truth in different things: the narrow-minded see only the differences.
-- Author Unknown Love is friendship set on fire.
- Jeremy Taylor "Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Kosice
Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.
-- Virginia Woolf blah "There is a melancholy that stems from greatness." (Sébastien-Roch Nicolas Chamfort, 1740/41-1794) When a man takes an oath, Meg, he's holding his ownself in his own hands. Like water. And if he
opens his fingers then- he needn't hope to find himself again.
-- Robert Bolt from A Man For All Seas With the catching end the pleasures of the chase.
-- Abraham Lincoln Each religion, by the help of more or less myth which it takes more or less seriously, proposes
some method of fortifying the human soul and enabline it to make its peace with its destiny.
-- George Kosice "'Contrariwise,' continued Tweedledee, 'if it was so, it might be, and if it were so, it would be; but as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic!'" (Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking Glass) I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
- Mark Twain "Some people wear their heart up on their sleeve. I wear mine underneath my right pant leg, strapped to my boot." (Ani Difranco) Kosice
The fantasy which serves as a support for the figure of the Stalinist Communist is therefore
exactly the same as the fantasy which is at work in the Tom and Jerry cartoons.
-- Slavoj Zizek The worth of the state, in the long run, is the worth of the individuals composing it.
-- John Stuart Mill Live out of your imagination, not your history.
-- Stephen Covey "I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is." (Alan Watts) Society is like a stew. If you don't stir it up every once in a while then a layer of scum floats to the
top.
-- Ed Abbey Kosice Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering. "Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Give me a museum and I'll fill it.
-- Pablo Picasso Kosice
"The only thing we have to fear is fear itself." (Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1882 - 1945, 32nd U.S. President) "We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then is not an act but a habit." (Aristotle) "When you have nothing to say, say nothing." (Charles Caleb Colton) "No drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ignorance, g To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance
- Oscar Wilde Kosice I hate women because they always know where things are.
-- James Thurber "Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing." (Oscar Wilde) "The reward of a thing well done is having done it." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Kosice
Football incorporates the two worst elements of American society: violence punctuated by
committee meetings.
-- George F. Will, journalist, political commentator, 1994 Thank God - every morning when you get up - that you have something to do which must be
done, whether you like it or not. Being forced to work, and forced to do your best, will breed in you
a hundre Working mothers are guinea pigs in a scientific experiment to show that sleep is not necessary to human life. "Crime like death is not confined to the old and withered alone. The youngest and fairest are too often its chosen victims." (Charles Dickens, 1812-70, Oliver Twist) Only the little people pay taxes.
-- Leona Helmsley, hotel owner and prison inmate, 1989 Kosice It is not because it is difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that things are
difficult.
-- Lucius Anneaus Seneca There is nothing so wrong in this world that a sensible woman can't set it right in the course of an
afternoon.
-- Giraudoux Women's liberationists spread the word that...the only peaceful family is one in which either the
wife is enslaved or the husband is androgynous.
-- R. Emmett Tyell, The Liberal Crack-Up, 1984 Kosice
