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Every major horror of history was committed in the name of an altruistic motive.
-- Ayn Rand The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
-- B. F. Skinner "People who cease to believe in God or goodness altogether still believe in the devil. I don't know why. No, I do indeed know why. Evil is always possible. And goodness is eternally difficult." (Anne "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" "I never resist temptation, because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me." (George Bernard Shaw) News and Media I couldn't remember when I had been so disappointed. Except perhaps the time I found out that
M&Ms really do melt in your hand...
-- Peter Oakley Be willing to make decisions. That's the most important quality in a good leader. Don't fall victim
to what I call the 'ready-aim-aim-aim-aim syndrome.' You must be willing to fire.
-- Gen. George All virtue is summed up in dealing justly.
-- Aristotle News and Media
"I think people resist freedom because they're afraid of the unknown. But it's ironic....That unknown was once very well known. It's where are souls belong....The only solution is to confront them--co I don't know why I did it, I don't know why I enjoyed it, and I don't know why I'll do it again.
-- Bart Simpson, young character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated television show Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.
-- T. S. 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. A man's wife has more power over him than the state has.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson News and Media A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.
-- G. K. Chesterton "We're an embarrasment to college graduates across America." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) If the government wants people to respect the law, it should set a better example.
-- Anon. News and Media
Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana.
-- Groucho Marx Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.
-- G. K. Chesterton I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.
- Thomas Watson, Chairman of IBM, 1943 Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
-- George Santayana The lover knows much more about absolute good and universal beauty than any logician or
theologian, unless the latter, too, be lovers in disguise.
-- George Santayana News and Media 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. I shall return.
-- General Douglas MacArthur The brain is a wonderful organ. It starts working the moment you get up in the morning, and does
not stop until you get into the office.
-- Robert Frost News and Media
You can't buy love, but you can pay heavily for it.
-- Henny Youngman Wit is educated insolence.
- Aristotle The democratic theory is that if you accumulate enough ignorance at the polls, you produce
intelligence.
-- Philo Vance My wife ran off with my best friend last week. I miss him! These people have served a longer sentence than some people who have committed murder.
-- Jeff Greenfield, news analyst, describing the jury in the OJ Simpson murder trial, 1995 News and Media We have been friends together in sunshine and in shade.
-- Caroline Norton Imagine if birds were tickled by feathers. You'd see a flock of birds come by, laughing hysterically!
-- Steven Wright My wife has a split personality, and I hate both of them. News and Media
It's important to be open-minded, but not SO open-minded that your brains fall out.
-- Rick Radebaugh Reading computer manuals without the hardware is a frustrating as reading sex manuals without
the software.
-- Arthur C. Clarke In the sciences, we are now uniquely privileged to sit side by side with the giants on whose
shoulders we stand.
-- Gerald Holton "And on the seventh day, God stepped back and said 'There is my creation, perfect in every way ... oh, damn it, I left pot all over the place. Now they'll think I want them to smoke it. Now I have to It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.
-- Andre Gide News and Media Of course, it is very important to be sober when you take an exam. Many worthwile careers in the
street-cleansing, fruit-picking and subway-guitar-playing industries have been founded on a lack
of u Military justice is to justice what military music is to music.
-- George Clemenceau Gentlemen, it is better to have died a small boy than to fumble this football.
-- John Heisman News and Media
To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance
- Oscar Wilde 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 The cynics are right nine times out of ten.
- Henry Louis Mencken "If I could drop dead right now, I'd be the happiest man alive." (Samuel Goldwyn) Everyone believes very easily whatever they fear or desire.
-- Jean de La Fontaine News and Media Maybe this world is another planet's hell.
-- Aldous Huxley Silence is argument carried out by other means.
-- Ernesto "Che" Guevara "Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parents, gobble their food, and tyrannize their teachers." (Socrates) News and Media
"Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution yet." (Mae West) "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." (Albert Einstein) If a man does his best, what else is there?
- General George S. Patton The coziness between church and state is good for the state and bad for the church.
-- G. K. Chesterton Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.
-- George Orwell News and Media To teach is to learn twice.
-- Joseph Joubert Matters of religion should never be matters of controversy. We neither argue with a lover about
his taste, not condemn him, if we are just, for knowing so human a passion.
-- George Santayana Opportunities multiply as they are seized.
-- Sun Tzu News and Media
Our own heart, and not other men's opinions form our true honor.
-- Coleridge, Samuel Taylor Love is the answer, but while you're waiting for the answer, sex raises some pretty good
questions.
-- Woody Allen "We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars." (Oscar Wilde) Imagination is the highest kite one can fly.
-- Lauren Bacall A little girl at the wedding afterwards asked her mother why the bride changed her mind. "What
do you mean?" responded her mother. "Well, she went down the aisle with one man, and came
back with ano News and Media This isn't right, this isn't even wrong.
- Wolfgang Pauli (1900-1958), upon reading a young physicist's paper "A conservative is a man who sits and thinks, mostly sits." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) Man is the best computer we can put aboard a spacecraft...and the only one that can be mass
produced with unskilled labor.
-- Wernher von Braun News and Media
He who awaits much can expect little.
-- Gabriel Garcia Marquez 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 "When even one American--who has done nothing wrong--is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth--then all Americans are in peril." (Harry S. Truman) Anyone nit-picking enough to write a letter of correction to an editor doubtless deserves the error
that provoked it.
-- Alvin Toffler The days just before marriage are like a snappy introduction to a tedious book. News and Media Man and wife make one fool. Chase after the truth like all hell and you'll free yourself, even though you never touch its
coattails.
-- Clarence Darrow I never hated a man enough to give him his diamonds back.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor News and Media
It's not as great a day for the bride as she thinks. She's not marrying the best man.
-- Anonymous We have art to save ourselves from the truth.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Actually, the only memory I have of being a Cub Scout was trying to get my hat back. That was all
I did. Run back and forth at my bus stop going "Quit it."
-- Jerry Seinfeld The first half of our life is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
-- Clarence Darrow "Men act and women appear. Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at." (John Berger) News and Media No man in the world has more courage than the man who can stop after eating one peanut.
-- Channing Pollack "If you want a thing done well, do it yourself." (Napoleon Bonaparte) UGLINESS, n. A gift of the gods to certain women, entailing virtue without humility.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 News and Media
"One will rarely err if extreme actions be ascribed to vanity, ordinary actions to habit, and mean actions to fear." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) 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 "Things do not change, we change." (Henry David Thoreau) 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 "Ninety percent of my salary I spent on booze and women ... and the other ten percent I wasted." (Tug McGraw, Major League Baseball pitcher) News and Media "There is nothing more fearful than ignorance in action." (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1749-1832, Criticisms, Reflections and Maxims) "Education is a vacine for violence." (Edward James Olmos) The most terrible poverty is loneliness and the feeling of being unloved.
-- Mother Teresa News and Media
