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Victory belongs to the most persevering.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte It is never too late to be what you might have been.
-- George Eliot When he first ran for office, he appealed to the voters: "I never stole anything in my life. All I ask
is a chance."
-- Anon. Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance.
-- Oscar Wilde Man's mind stretched to a new idea never goes back to its original dimensions.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes Recreation and Sports Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
- Lewis Perelman People, like nails, lose their effectiveness when they lose direction and begin to bend.
-- Walter Savage Landor "May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house." (George Carlin) Recreation and Sports
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 Anyone who considers arithmetical methods of producing random digits is, of course, in a state of
sin.
-- John Von Neuman Nature gave men two ends - one to sit on and one to think with. Ever since then man's success or
failure has been dependent on the one he used most.
-- George R. Kirkpatrick Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount.
-- Clare Boothe Luce Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow.
-- Helen Keller Recreation and Sports "If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way." (Mark Twain) Love is not blind - it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.
Rabbi Julius Gordon Marriage was all a woman's idea and for man's acceptance of the pretty yoke, it becomes us to
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-- Phyllis McGinley Recreation and Sports
"Marriage excuses no one the freak's roll-call." (Joe Orton, What the Butler Saw) A witty saying proves nothing.
- Voltaire Education is the state-controlled manufacture of echoes.
-- Norman Douglas The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense.
-- Tom Clancy Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door
and just visit now and then.
-- Katharine Hepburn Recreation and Sports Many a man that could rule a hundherd millyon sthrangers with an ir'n hand is careful to take off
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-- Vladimir Nabokov "Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking." (H. Jackson Brown (Jr.) Recreation and Sports
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expect i Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche Marriage is more than four bare legs in a bed.
-- Hoshang N. Akhtar If everybody is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking.
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-- Lawrence Summers, chief economist of the World Bank, explaining why we should export toxic
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-- Soren Kierkegaard Any sufficiently advanced bureaucracy is indistinguishable from molasses.
-- Anon. He who laughs, lasts.
-- Mary Pettibone Poole Recreation and Sports
An undefined problem has an infinite number of solutions.
-- Robert A. Humphrey 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 "I think it's about time we voted for senators with breasts. After all, we've been voting for boobs
long enough."
-- Arizona senatorial candidate Claire Sargent, on women candidates God help the man who won't marry until he finds a perfect woman, and God help him still more if
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-- Benjamin Tillett Hell is other people.
- Jean-Paul Sartre Recreation and Sports The difference between sex and death is that with death you can do it alone and no one is going
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Life is a sexually transmitted terminal disease.
-- Colin Greene There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in his home.
-- Kenneth H. Olson, President of DEC, Convention of the World Future Society, 1977 "Do something for the joy of doing it and pray you won't be punished." (Sammy Cahn) If you want to recapture your youth, just cut off his allowance.
-- Al Bernstein Those parts of the system that you can hit with a hammer (not advised) are called hardware;
those program instructions that you can only curse at are called software.
-- Unknown author, Levitating T Recreation and Sports "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." (Albert Einstein) There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.
-- George Santayana Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche Recreation and Sports
A government is the only known vessel that leaks from the top.
-- James Reston "It wasn't until I started reading and found books they wouldn't let us read in school that I discovered you could be insane and happy and have a good life without being like everybody else." (John W "The formula for my happiness: a Yes, a No, a straight line, a goal." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "So little done, so much to do." (Cecil Rhodes) It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are
difficult.
-- Seneca Recreation and Sports 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 "We have been the cowards lobbing cruise missiles from 2,000 miles away. That's cowardly. Staying in the airplane when it hits the building, say what you want about it, it's not cowardly." (Bill Mahe 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.
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"Furious activity is no substitute for understanding." (H. H. Williams) "One of the good things about low self-esteem is never having rain hit you in the face." (John A. Simone Jr.) Sometimes a scream is better than a thesis.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Stung by the splendour of a sudden thought.
-- Robert Browning If I tell a lie it's only because I think I'm telling the truth.
-- Phil Gaglardi, Minister of Highways, British Columbia, Canada Recreation and Sports "Of all mankind the great poet is the equable man." (Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass, 1855) Age does not make us childish, as some say; it finds us true children.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit.
-- W. Somerset Maugham Recreation and Sports
"The reason why kids are crazy is because nobody can face the responsibility of bringing them up." (John Lennon) "God is Man's stupidest idea." (Marcel Duchamp, French Dadaist) Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before
marriage, which is never advisable.
-- Oscar Wilde Age does not make us childish, as some say; it finds us true children.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe The world has achieved brilliance without conscience. Ours is a world of nuclear giants and
ethical infants.
-- General Omar Bradley Recreation and Sports "Murder is the very bed-rock of our social institutions." (Octave Mirbeau, The Torture Garden) Now join your hands, and with your hands your hearts.
-- William Shakespeare, King Henry the Sixth The male is a domestic animal which, if treated with firmness, can be trained to do most things.
-- Jilly Cooper Recreation and Sports
It was the experience of mystery -- even if mixed with fear -- that engendered religion.
- Albert Einstein Our schools have been scientifically designed to prevent over-education from happening. [...] The
average American (should be) content with their humble role in life, because they're not tempted
to It may be that the race is not always to the swift, nor the battle to the strong -- but that is the way
to bet.
-- Damon Runyan "He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever." (Chinese Proverb) If you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it's done.
-- Scott Adams Recreation and Sports It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.
-- Abraham Lincoln Men have become the tools of their tools.
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One survey found that ten percent of Americans thought Joan of Arc was Noah's wife....
-- Robert Boynton 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 "A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool." (William Shakespeare) We must believe in free will, we have no choice.
-- Isaac B. Singer For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of our tasks; the ultimate,
the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.
-- Rainer Maria Ril Recreation and Sports They had a dispute about a night out with the boys. But he finally decided to let her go.
-- Anonymous If something is boring after two minutes, try it for four. If still boring, then eight. Then sixteen. Then thirty-two. Eventually one discovers that it is not boring at all." (John Cage) "Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear." (Ambrose Redmoon) Recreation and Sports
