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My father taught me to work; he did not teach me to love it.
-- Abraham Lincoln Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the
truth.
- Sherlock Holmes "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) Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.
-- Roger Babson Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in
accordance with the dictates of reason.
-- Oscar Wilde Business and Economy I stopped believing in Santa Claus when I was six. Mother took me to see him in a department
store and he asked for my autograph.
-- Shirley Temple Black The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when
we created them.
- Albert Einstein There is no realizable power that man cannot, in time, fashion the tools to attain, nor any power so secure that the naked ape will not abuse it. So it is written in the genetic cards - only physics a Business and Economy
When people go to work, they shouldn't have to leave their hearts at home.
-- Betty Bender "The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves." (William Hazlitt) "There is only one success: to be able to spend your life in your own way, and not to give others absurd maddening claims upon it." (Christopher Darlington Morley) "An imbalance between rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics." (Plutarch) "The man who never made a mistake never made anything." (Derek Longdon, Tongariro Power Development, Turangi, New Zealand) Business and Economy Ah Mozart! He was happily married - but his wife wasn't. -- Borge Obstacles cannot crush me. Every obstacle yields to stern resolve. He who is fixed to a star does
not change his mind.
-- Leonardo da Vinci, Notebooks "Every great institution is the lengthened shadow of a single man. His character determines the character of the organization." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Business and Economy
In great matters men show themselves as they wish to be seen; in small matters, as they are.
-- Gamaliel Bradford I don't mind if you don't like my manners. I don't like them myself. They're pretty bad. I grieve over
them on long winter evenings.
-- Humphrey Bogart to Lauren Bacall, in "The Big Sleep" "Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past." (George Orwell) "One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries." (A. A. Milne) the social sciences were for all those who had not yet decided what to do with their lives, and for
all those whose premature frustrations led them into the sterile alleys of confrontation.
-- Peter Business and Economy To die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture.
-- Anatole France "Have you ever fed your pocket and starved your soul?" (Ivana Santilli, Too Deep) Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the
truth.
- Sherlock Holmes Business and Economy
"The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore." (Samuel Butler) Before marriage, a man will lie awake all night thinking about something you said; after marriage,
he'll fall asleep before you finish saying it.
-- Helen Roland It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.
-- Gore Vidal One survey found that ten percent of Americans thought Joan of Arc was Noah's wife....
-- Robert Boynton Gentlemen, it is better to have died a small boy than to fumble this football.
-- John Heisman Business and Economy 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 greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing that you will make one.
-- Ellen Hubbard To be able to say how much love, is love but little.
-- Petrarch Business and Economy
To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest.
-- Ghandi Some people talk in their sleep. Lecturers talk while other people sleep.
-- Albert Camus 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 "A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men." (Roald Dahl) Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
-- George Santayana Business and Economy Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from
history.
-- George Bernard Shaw Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of
the other person.
-- Mark Twain The society of women is the element of good manners.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Business and Economy
At every crossroads on the path that leads to the future, tradition has placed 10,000 men to guard
the past.
-- Maurice Maeterlink Never judge a book by its movie.
-- J. W. Eagan There is a coherent plan in the universe, though I don't know what it's a plan for.
-- Fred Hoyle It is much more comfortable to be mad and know it, than to be sane and have one's doubts.
- G. B. Burgin "No man is clever enough to know all the evil he does." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) Business and Economy A man sits with a pretty girl for an hour, it seems like a minute. He sits on a hot stove for a
minute, it's longer than any hour. That is relativity.
-- Albert Einstein "Deep down, no one really believes they have a right to live. But this death sentence generally stays tucked away, hidden beneath the difficulty of living. If that difficulty is removed from time to t 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 Business and Economy
I don't know why we are here, but I'm pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves.
- Ludwig Wittgenstein "The devil's agents may be of flesh and blood, may they not?" (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of the Baskervilles) My Alma mater was books, a good library . . . . I could spend the rest of my life reading, just
satisfying my curiosity.
--Malcolm X "Love is always a stranger in the house of avarice." (Andreas Capellanus) Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.
-- Samuel Johnson Business and Economy UGLINESS, n. A gift of the gods to certain women, entailing virtue without humility.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents.
-- H. L. Mencken In a novel, the hero can lay ten girls and marry a virgin for the finish. In a movie, that is not
allowed. The villain can lay anybody he wants, have as much fun and as he wants cheating,
stealing, Business and Economy
"The only things worth learning are the things you learn after you know it all." (Harry S. Truman) There is no realizable power that man cannot, in time, fashion the tools to attain, nor any power so secure that the naked ape will not abuse it. So it is written in the genetic cards - only physics a The more faithfully you listen to the voices within you, the better you will hear what is sounding
outside.
-- Dag Hammarskjold If I have not seen as far as others, it is because giants were standing on my shoulders.
-- Hal Abelson "When we are born we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools." (William Shakespeare) Business and Economy Not everything that can be counted counts; and not everything that counts can be counted.
-- Albert Einstein The most savage controversies are about those matters as to which there is no good evidence
either way.
-- Bertrand Russell It's not the men in my life that count, it's the life in my men.
-- Mae West Business and Economy
Marriage is very much like a violin; after the sweet music is over, the strings are attached. If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile.
-- Lynda Barry Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it
- Henry David Thoreau Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday
afternoon.
-- Susan Ertz Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteeen.
-- Albert Einstein Business and Economy The remarkable thing about television is that it permits several million people to laugh at the same
joke and still feel lonely.
-- T. S. Eliot You can't learn too soon that the most useful thing about a principle is that it can always be
sacrificed to expediency.
-- W. Somerset Maugham The average, healthy, well-adjusted adult gets up at seven-thirty in the morning feeling just plain
terrible.
-- Jean Kerr Business and Economy
Life is ours to be spent, not to be saved.
-- D.H. Lawrence "When a hundred men stand together, each of them loses his mind and gets another one." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) A small family is soon provided for.
-- English Proverb The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without
the sympathy of the community.
-- William James What if nothing exists and we're all in somebody's dream? Or what's worse, what if only that fat
guy in the third row exists?
-- Woody Allen Business and Economy My mother-in-law broke up my marriage. My wife came home from work one day and found me in
bed with her.
-- Lenny Bruce I still say a church steeple with a lightning rod on top shows a lack of confidence.
-- Doug MacLeod Effort is only effort when it begins to hurt.
-- Jose Ortega y Gasset Business and Economy
Mistakes are the portals of discovery.
-- James Joyce All human actions are equivalent... and... all are on principle doomed...
-- Jean-Paul Sartre, "Being and Nothingness" "To introduce something altogether new would mean to begin all over, to become ignorant again, and to run the old, old risk of failing to learn." (Isaac Asimov) Its failings notwithstanding, there is much to be said in favor of journalism in that by giving us the
opinion of the uneducated, it keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community.
-- Oscar W "The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn." (David Russell) Business and Economy I still believe in liberalism today as much as I ever did, but, oh, there was a happy time when I
believed in liberals...
-- G. K. Chesterton Musical people always want one to be perfectly dumb at the very moment when one is longing to
be perfectly deaf.
-- Oscar Wilde "A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools." (Douglas Adams) Business and Economy
