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... it is certain that the real function of art is to increase our self-consciousness; to make us more
aware of what we are, and therefore of what the universe in which we live really is. And since
"Some people must go to extremes to get the world in balance for themselves. Some can't bear bright lights, so wherever they go they search for the dark; they turn the lights down, anything to sustain People only see what they are prepared to see.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
- Martin Luther King Jr. "I know we're not saints or virgins or lunatics; we know all the lust and lavatory jokes, and most of the dirty people; we can catch buses and count our change and cross the roads and talk real senten Girona Per cubic inch, your current TV set is perhaps the dumbest appliance in your home (and I'm not
even talking about the programs).
-- Nicholas Negroponte I think that I shall never see
A billboard lovely as a tree.
Indeed, unless the billboards fall,
I'll never see a tree at all.
-- Ogden Nash, Song of the Open Road, 1945 Wherever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.
-- Harry S. Truman Girona
"Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former." (Albert Einstein) Democracy encourages the majority to decide things about which the majority is blissfully
ignorant.
--John Simon I have noticed that nothing I have never said ever did me any harm.
-- Calvin Coolidge Marriage is a romance in which the heroine dies in the first chapter.
-- Cecilia Egan A good time to keep your mouth shut is when you're in deep water.
-- Sidney Goff Girona I would have made a good Pope.
-- Richard Nixon, U.S. President I recently read that love is entirely a matter of chemistry. That must be why my wife treats me like
toxic waste.
-- David Bissonette "Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under." (Henry Louis Mencken) Girona
"I am not afraid of tomorrow, for i have seen yesterday and i love today!" (William Allen White) "Fools rush in where angels fear to tread." (Alexander Pope) In any organization there will always be one person who knows what is going on. This person
must be fired.
-- Conway's Law If we knew what we were doing, it wouldn't be called research, would it?
-- Albert Einstein Work is the refuge of people who have nothing better to do.
-- Oscar Wilde Girona Nothing can so alienate a voter from the political system as backing a winning candidate.
-- Mark B. Cohen Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it. It's not the men in my life that count, it's the life in my men.
-- Mae West Girona
It is best to learn as we go, not go as we have learned.
-- Leslie Jeanne Sahler Better to die ten thousand deaths than wound my honor.
-- Joseph Addison This compact disc is made from analog masters recorded without noise reduction. Half the tracks,
in fact, were recorded in a dismal, cheap basement eight-track studio with puddles of water on
the fl "Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time." (E. B. White) Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.
-- Virginia Woolf Girona "Like as the waves make towards the pebbl'd shore, so do our minutes, hasten to their end." (William Shakespeare) Youth is wasted on the young.
-- George Bernard Shaw Go on, get out. Last words are for fools who haven't said enough.
-- Karl Marx, dying words to his housekeeper Girona
The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.
-- Harper Lee "If you meet a woman that smokes cigars ... marry her." (Arthur Lotti) The husband who wants a happy marriage should learn to keep his mouth shut and his checkbook open. -- Groucho Marx How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg? Four. Calling a tail a leg doesn't make it
a leg.
-- Abraham Lincoln "Friendship is born at the moment when one person says to another, 'What?! You too! Thought I was the only one.'" (Clive Staples Lewis) Girona Man is a natural polygamist. He always has one woman leading him by the nose and another
hanging on to his coattails.
-- H. L. Mencken There is nothing that can be said by mathematical symbols and relations which cannot also be
said by words. The converse, however, is false. Much that can be and is said by words cannot
successfully "Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains." (Karl Marx) Girona
This search for what you want is like tracking something that doesn't want to be tracked. It takes
time to get a dance right, to create something memorable.
-- Fred Astaire The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything.
-- Oscar Wilde Integrity is what we do, what we say, and what we say we do.
--Don Galer "In order to keep anything cultural, logical, or ideological, you have to reinvent the reality of it." (Ani Difranco) "Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishments." (Anonymous) Girona "Where there's a marriage without love there will be love without marriage." (Benjamin Franklin) "Talent does what it can; genius does what it must." (Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton) This is a test. It is only a test. Had it been an actual job, you would have received raises,
promotions, and other signs of appreciation.
-- Anonymous Girona
I've always thought that underpopulated countries in Africa are vastly underpolluted.
-- Lawrence Summers, chief economist of the World Bank, explaining why we should export toxic
wastes to Third Wo Democracy is a process by which the people are free to choose the man who will get the blame.
-- Laurence J. Peter You can't shake hands with a clenched fist.
-- Indira Gandhi I have an existential map; it has 'you are here' written all over it.
- Steven Wright Fighting is essentially a masculine idea; a woman's weapon is her tongue.
-- Hermione Gingold Girona "Conforming is only acceptable when you conform with a nonconformist." (John A. Simone Jr.) "Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past." (George Orwell) Defeat never comes to any man until he admits it.
-- Josephus Daniels Girona
Love makes the time pass. Time makes love pass.
-- French Proverb If a man is talking in the forest, and there is no woman there to hear him, is he still wrong?
-- Jenny Weber I worship the quicksand he walks in.
- Art Buchwald I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll "The sickness of our times for me has been just this damn thing that everything has been getting smaller and smaller and less and less important, that the romantic spirit has dried up, that there is n Girona "I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him." (Galileo Galilei) It was very good of God to let Carlyle and Mrs Carlyle marry one another and so make only two people miserable instead of four, besides being very amusing. "The depth and strength of a human character are defined by its moral reserves. People reveal themselves completely only when they are thrown out of the customary conditions of their life, for only th Girona
The fickleness of the women I love is only equalled by the infernal consistency of the women who
love me.
-- George Bernard Shaw Opportunities multiply as they are seized.
-- Sun Tzu There's a fine line between fishing and standing on the shore like an idiot.
-- Steven Wright Blessed is he who has learned to laugh at himself, for he shall never cease to be entertained.
-- John Powell "The things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisi Girona If I had only known, I would have been a locksmith.
-- Albert Einstein There are only two things a child will share willingly communicable diseases and his mother's
age.
-- Modern Maturity A human being is a part of the whole, called by us Universe, a part limited in time and space. He
experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest--a kind of
optic Girona
Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education
without natural ability.
Cicero (106 BC - 43 BC) Asking an incumbent member of Congress to vote for term limits is a bit like asking a chicken to
vote for Colonel Sanders.
-- Bob Inglis, 1995 "For how can one know color in perpetual green, and what good is warmth without cold to give it sweetness?" (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) The scientific theory I like best is that the rings of Saturn are composed entirely of lost airline
luggage.
-- Mark Russell This compact disc is made from analog masters recorded without noise reduction. Half the tracks,
in fact, were recorded in a dismal, cheap basement eight-track studio with puddles of water on
the fl Girona "If you're in a bad situation, don't worry it'll change. If you're in a good situation, don't worry it'll change." (John A. Simone Sr.) It is best to learn as we go, not go as we have learned.
-- Leslie Jeanne Sahler Work is the curse of the drinking class.
-- Oscar Wilde Girona
The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.
-- Thomas Jefferson Marriage is the process of finding out what kind of man your wife would have preferred. Whenever a husband and wife begin to discuss their marriage, they are giving evidence at an
inquest.
-- H. L. Mencken When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of many men for the inattention of one.
-- Helen Rowland "A man who flies from his fear may find he has only taken a shortcut to meet it." (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) Girona The man with the best job in the country is the Vice President. All he has to do is get up every
morning and say, "How's the President?"
-- Will Rogers The world has achieved brilliance without conscience. Ours is a world of nuclear giants and
ethical infants.
-- General Omar Bradley "Dream as if you'll live forever; live as if you'll die tomorrow." (James Dean) Girona
