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A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems.
- Paul Erdos Chase after the truth like all hell and you'll free yourself, even though you never touch its
coattails.
-- Clarence Darrow They will say you are on the wrong road, if it is your own.
-- Antonio Porchi It is not good enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.
-- Rene Descartes You got to be careful if you don't know where you're going, because you might not get there.
-- Yogi Berra Centelles Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for the appointment by the corrupt few.
-- George Bernard Shaw Wagner's music is better than it sounds.
- Mark Twain Have you ever noticed? Anybody going slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than
you is a maniac.
-- George Carlin Centelles
The first clergyman was the first rascal who met the first fool.
-- Voltaire It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get back up.
-- Vince Lombardi Technology makes it possible for people to gain control over everything, except over technology.
-- John Tudor Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to
take away.
- Antoine de Saint Exupery "Are you bored with life? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours." (Dale Centelles The artist alone sees spirits. But after he has told of their appearing to him, everybody sees them.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what other men say in whole books--what other men do not say in whole books." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols) Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three pillars of learning.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Centelles
"Conscience and cowardice are really the same things. Conscience is the trade-name of the firm. That is all." (Oscar Wilde) blah "Ability wins us the esteem of the true men; luck that of the people." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) A lover tries to stand in well with the pet dog of the house.
-- Moliere Marriage is an institution--but who wants to live in an institution? Work expands to fill the time available.
-- PARKINSON'S LAW Centelles 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 When making public policy decisions about new technologies for the Government, I think one
should ask oneself which technologies would best strengthen the hand of a police state. Then, do
not allow It was a day like this Marco Polo left for China. What are your plans for today?
--Loesje Centelles
A life spent in making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent doing
nothing.
-- George Benard Shaw "Those that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." (Benjamin Franklin) We have drugs to make women speak, but none to keep them silent.
-- Anatole France "In literary criticism the critic has no choice but to make over the victim of his attention into something the size and shape of himself." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) Problems worthy of attack prove their worth by fighting back.
- Paul Erdos Centelles "Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain -- and most fools do." (Dale Carnegie) "People have to talk about something just to keep their voice boxes in working order so they'll have good voice boxes in case there's ever anything really meaningful to say." (Kurt Vonnegut) Nuns: Women who marry God. If they divorce Him, do they get half the universe? Centelles
I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts, then there is no hurt, but only more love.
-- Mother Teresa 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 "I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." (James Madison) If we let people see that kind of thing, there would never again be any war.
-- Pentagon official, on why US military censored graphic footage from the Gulf War 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 Centelles If I had only known, I would have been a locksmith.
-- Albert Einstein First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.
- Mahatma Gandhi When you're experimenting you have to try so many things before you choose what you want,
and you may go days getting nothing but exhaustion.
-- Fred Astaire Centelles
Old soldiers never die, they just fade away.
-- General Douglas MacArthur Who, being loved, is poor?
-- Oscar Wilde "Brevity is the soul of wit." (William Shakespeare) The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their
attitudes of mind.
-- William James 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. Centelles Youth is wasted on the young.
-- George Bernard Shaw The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about.
-- Oscar Wilde Fill the unforgiving minute with sixty seconds worth of distance run.
- Rudyard Kipling Centelles
The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn.
-- Cicero The world has achieved brilliance without conscience. Ours is a world of nuclear giants and
ethical infants.
-- General Omar Bradley Ninety percent of the game is half mental.
-- Yogi Berra Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.
-- George Washington 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 Centelles Love matches are made by people who are content, for a month of honey, to condemn
themselves to a life of vinegar.
-- Countess of Blessington The trouble with some women is that they get all excited about nothing -- and then marry him.
-- Cher I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you an education.
-- Wilson Mizner Centelles
Statistics have shown that mortality increases perceptibly in the military during wartime.
-- Alphonse Allais When you are right, you cannot be too radical; When you are wrong, you cannot be too
conservative.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. blah "A subject for a great poet would be God's boredom after the seventh day of creation." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance.
-- Oscar Wilde I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll Centelles Love is a perky elf dancing a merry little jig and then suddenly he turns on you with a miniature
machine gun.
-- Matt Groening, Love is Hell All science is concerned with the relationship of cause and effect. Each scientific discovery
increases man's ability to predict the consequences of his actions and thus his ability to control
futur "The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do." (Anonymous) Centelles
"O' What may man within him hide, though angel on the outward side!" (William Shakespeare) 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 The only Zen you find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there.
-- Robert M. Pirsig Sex is like bridge: If you don't have a good partner, you better have a good hand.
-- Charles Pierce The paradox is really the pathos of intellectual life and just as only great souls are exposed to
passions it is only the great thinker who is exposed to what I call paradoxes, which are . . .
grand Centelles I have an existential map; it has 'you are here' written all over it.
- Steven Wright Why are women so much more interesting to men than men are to women?
-- Virginia Woolf Who, being loved, is poor?
-- Oscar Wilde Centelles
The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense.
-- Tom Clancy The more we do, the more we can do; the more busy we are the more leisure we have.
-- William Hazlitt A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend upon the support of Paul.
-- George Bernard Shaw A weed is no more than a flower in disguise.
-- James Lowell 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 Centelles Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.
-- Carl Gustav Jung The real test of friendship is: Can you literally do nothing with the other person? Can you enjoy
together those moments of life that are utterly simple? They are the moments people looks back
on at "A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities." (Eda J. Le Shan) Centelles
Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution.
-- Mae West 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 The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
-- Lucille S. Harper "As is our confidence, so is our capacity." (William Hazlitt) My wife doesn't care what I do away from home, as long as I don't enjoy it. Centelles What kills a skunk is the publicity it gives itself.
-- Abraham Lincoln "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." It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are
difficult.
-- Seneca Centelles
