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We must become the change we want to see.
-- Gandhi "A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool." (William Shakespeare) Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.
-- Abraham Lincoln "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 Children should be like waffles--you should be able to throw the first one away.
-- Mary Alice Messenger Spain You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it come true.
-- Richard Bach Good-bye. I am leaving because I am bored.
-- George Saunders - last words When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her. -- Guitry Spain
Prayer gives a man the opportunity of getting to know a gentleman he hardly ever meets. I do not
mean his maker, but himself.
-- Dean Inge Do not let yourselves be discouraged or embittered by the smallness of the success you are likely
to achieve in trying to make life better. You certainly would not be able, in a single generation, to "Have love for your friend up to a limit for it is possible he may turn into your enemy some day; and hate your enemy up to a limit for it is possible he may turn into your friend some day." (Ali bin It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
- Mark Twain "True friends, like diamonds, are precious and rare. False friends, like autumn leaves, are found everywhere." (Anonymous) Spain Viewed from the summit of reason, all life looks like a malignant disease and the world like a
madhouse.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you walk into an open sewer and die.
- Mel Brooks You will marry into an Indian tribe and become one big Hopi family. Spain
Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame.
-- G. K. Chesterton We think caged birds sing, when indeed they cry.
-- John Webster Sometimes a scream is better than a thesis.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson It is a product of Einstein's genius -- taking a commonplace observation, combining it with some
simple imaginary experiments, and arriving at a revolutionary conclusion.
-- Clifford M. Wills, 1986 The eyes are not responsible when the mind does the seeing.
-- Publilius Syrus Spain Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and around the hands and feet of the man. The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other
is ready.
-- Henry David Thoreau When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.
-- Hunter S. Thompson Spain
"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 Reading computer manuals without the hardware is a frustrating as reading sex manuals without
the software.
-- Arthur C. Clarke Live TV died in the late 1950s, electronic bulletin boards came along in the mid-1980s, meaning
there was about a 25-year gap when it was difficult to put your foot in your mouth and have
people all Discovery consists of looking at the same thing as everyone else does and thinking something
different.
-- Albert Szent-Gyorgyi, 1937 Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine The church must be the critic and guide of the state, and never its tool.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Spain Genius is 99 percent perspiration and 1 percent inspiration.
-- Thomas Edison "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) Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.
-- Samuel Butler Spain
"Now that we have everything we need, we discover that there is almost nothing that we have that we want." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) "All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when
people laugh.
-- George Bernard Shaw "I'm so insane, I voted for Eisenhower."
"Oh yeah, well I'm so insane, I voted for Eisenhower TWICE!"
-- Ken Kesey from "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" To teach is to learn twice.
-- Joseph Joubert Spain Love is the answer, but while you're waiting for the answer, sex raises some pretty good
questions.
-- Woody Allen Martyrdom... is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability. George Bernard
Shaw (1856 - 1950), The Devil's Disciple (1901) act 3 No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman. -- Honore de Balzac Spain
The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
-- Blaise Pascal, Pensées, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer Opera in English is, in the main, about as sensible as baseball in Italian.
-- H. L. Mencken Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of
existence.
-- Sydney Smith Virtue is not left to stand alone. He who practices it will have neighbors.
-- Confucius Grove giveth and Gates taketh away.
- Bob Metcalfe (inventor of Ethernet) on the trend of hardware speedups not being able to keep
up with software demands Spain I'm proud to be paying taxes in the United States. The only thing is - I could be just as proud for
half the money.
-- Arthur Godfrey "Great indebtedness does not make men grateful, but vengeful; and if a little charity is not forgotten, it turns into a gnawing worm." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Thus Spake Zarathustra) Jake liked his women the way he liked his kiwi fruit: sweet yet tart, firm-fleshed yet yielding to the
touch, and covered with short brown fuzzy hair.
-- Jonathan S. Haas Spain
We need the iron qualities that go with true manhood. We need the positive virtues of resolution,
of courage, of indomitable will, of power to do without shrinking the rough work that must always
be "I heard the old, old, men say 'all that's beautiful drifts away, like the waters.'" (William Butler Yeats) Republican boys date Democratic girls. They plan to marry Republican girls, but feel they're
entitled to a little fun first.
-- Anonymous The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
-- Blaise Pascal, Pens&eactue;es, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer I hate it in friends when they come too late to help.
-- Euripides Spain I heard someone tried the monkeys-on-typewriters bit trying for the plays of W. Shakespeare, but
all they got was the collected works of Francis Bacon.
- Bill Hirst "...when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth." (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes) "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 Spain
Prayer gives a man the opportunity of getting to know a gentleman he hardly ever meets. I do not
mean his maker, but himself.
-- Dean Inge Remember your dreams.
-- Maryanne Radmacher-Herhey Your every voter, as surely as your chief magistrate, exercises a public trust.
-- Grover Cleveland No woman marries for money; they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in
love with him first.
-- Cesare Pavese The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn.
-- Cicero Spain "Give me liberty or give me death." (Patrick Henry) This isn't right, this isn't even wrong.
- Wolfgang Pauli (1900-1958), upon reading a young physicist's paper Great Spirit, help me never to judge another until I have walked in his moccasins.
-- Sioux Indian Prayer Spain
"By seeing the seed of failure in every success, we remain humble. By seeing the seed of success in every failure we remain hopeful." (Mel Ziegler, founder of Banana Republic) Diplomat: A man who can convince his wife she would look stout in a fur coat. Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson A hippo does not have a sting in its tail, but a wise man would still rather be sat on by a bee.
-- Polish proverb First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.
- Mahatma Gandhi Spain A man in the house is worth two in the street.
-- Mae West Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for the appointment by the corrupt few.
-- George Bernard Shaw "Good taste is the first refuge of the non-creative. It is the last-ditch stand of the artist." (Marshall McLuhan) Spain
To expect defeat is nine-tenths of defeat itself.
-- Francis Crawford Argue for your limitations, and sure enough they're yours.
- Richard Bach The man who complains about the way the ball bounces is likely the one who dropped it.
-- Lou Holtz Never go to bed angry. Stay up and fight.
-- Phyllis Diller Fill the unforgiving minute with sixty seconds worth of distance run.
- Rudyard Kipling Spain "When marrying, ask yourself this question: Do you believe that you will be able to converse well with this person into your old age? Everything else in marriage is transitory." (Friedrich Wilhelm Ni Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them
good.
-- H.L. Mencken >From the moment I picked your book up until I laid it down I was convulsed with laughter. Some
day I intend reading it.
-- Groucho Marx Spain
Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.
-- Erica Jong We didn't lose the game; we just ran out of time.
- Vince Lombardi Musical people always want one to be perfectly dumb at the very moment when one is longing to
be perfectly deaf.
-- Oscar Wilde blah "Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure." (Thomas Alva Edison) "Conform and be dull." (J. Frank Doble) Spain The difference between a man who faces death for the sake of an idea and an imitator who goes
in search of martyrdom is that the former expresses his idea most fully in death while the latter
really Washington is a city of Southern efficiency and Northern charm.
-- John F. Kennedy Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after.
-- Anne Morrow Lindbergh Spain
