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"What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage." Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
-- Harriet Beecher Stowe "The concerned investment banker is the one who blows the horn on his Mercedes as he drives through a red light." (Anonymous) The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
- General George Patton My wife doesn't care what I do away from home, as long as I don't enjoy it. Guides and Directories Every major horror of history was committed in the name of an altruistic motive.
-- Ayn Rand Thus the metric system did not really catch on in the States, unless you count the increasing
popularity of the nine-millimeter bullet.
-- Dave Barry All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That is his.
-- Oscar Wilde Guides and Directories
The trouble with some women is that they get all excited about nothing -- and then marry him.
-- Cher It's impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune.
-- Woody Allen If you don't double-click me, I can't do anything.
-- John Aniston, on how computers have taken over his life If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.
-- Virginia Woolf The multitude is always in the wrong.
-- Wentworth Dillon, Earl of Roscommon, 1684 Guides and Directories A kitten is chiefly remarkable for rushing about like mad at nothing whatever, and generally
stopping before it gets there.
-- Agnes Repplier Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for
appointment by the corrupt few.
-- George bernard Shaw One of the greatest discoveries a man makes, one of his great surprises, is to find he can do
what he was afraid he couldn't do.
-- Henry Ford Guides and Directories
If I were a girl, I'd despair. The supply of good women far exceeds that of the men who deserve
them.
-- Robert Graves All over Washington today, the politicians and the power brokers are happy. In fact, if you listen
closely, you can hear the sound of champagne corks popping.
-- Paul Jacob, Term Limits Executive Di Always bear in mind that your own resolution to success is more important than any other one
thing.
-- Abraham Lincoln In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.
-- Albert Einstein In the early sixties, we were strong, we were virulent...
-- John Connally, Secretary of Treasury under Richard Nixon, in an early 70s speech, as reported
in a contemporary "American Scholar" Guides and Directories "An imbalance between rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics." (Plutarch) "I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you and education." (Wilson Mizner) The covers of this book are too far apart.
-- Ambrose Bierce Guides and Directories
"Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts." (Henry B. Adams) Imagine if every Thursday your shoes exploded if you tied them the usual way. This happens to
us all the time with computers, and nobody thinks of complaining.
-- Jeff Raskin The grass may be greener on the other side of the fence, but you still have to mow it.
-- Anonymous "An imbalance between rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics." (Plutarch) A grouch escapes so many little annoyances that it almost pays to be one.
-- Kin Hubbard Guides and Directories 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, "The only things worth learning are the things you learn after you know it all." (Harry S. Truman) "What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage." Guides and Directories
Joy is but the sign that creative emotion is fulfilling its purpose.
-- Charles Du Bos Everyone is a genius at least once a year; a real genius has his original ideas closer together.
- Georg Lichtenberg Life is a succession of lessons enforced by immediate reward, or, oftener, by immediate
chastisement.
-- Ernest Dimnet You can't say civilization isn't advancing: in every war they kill you in a new way.
-- Will Rogers "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." (Thomas Jefferson) Guides and Directories blah "You shall find out how salt is the taste of another man's bread, and how hard is the way up and down another man's stairs." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) "If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library." (Frank Zappa) "I do not suppose I shall be remembered for anything. But I don't think about my work in those terms. It is just as vulgar to work for the sake of posterity as to work for the sake of money." (George Guides and Directories
Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.
- George Eliot The child is the father of the man.
-- William Wordsworth "If a man has good corn, or wood, or boards, or pigs to sell, or can make better chairs or knives, crucibles, or church organs, than anybody else, you will find a broad, hard-beaten road to his house, The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet.
-- Andy Warhol There are some things which cannot be learned quickly, and time, which is all we have, must be
paid heavily for their acquiring. They are the very simplest things and, because it takes a man's
life Guides and Directories "May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house." (George Carlin) He who laughs, lasts.
-- Mary Pettibone Poole You've achieved success in your field when you don't know whether what you're doing is work or
play.
-- WARREN BEATTY Guides and Directories
To be able to say how much love, is love but little.
-- Petrarch Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-
proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe
is Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you help them to become what they are
capable of being.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "I'll endorse with my name any of the following; clothing AC-DC, cigarettes, small tapes, sound equipment, ROCK N' ROLL RECORDS, anything, film, and film equipment, Food, Helium, Whips, MONEY!!" (And I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts, then there is no hurt, but only more love.
-- Mother Teresa Guides and Directories Cricket is best described as organised loafing.
-- Anonymous British Radio Broadcaster, 1996 When I give a lecture, I accept that people look at their watches, but what I do not tolerate is
when they look at it and raise it to their ear to find out if it stopped.
-- Marcel Achard If I had only known, I would have been a locksmith.
-- Albert Einstein Guides and Directories
For most of history, Anonymous was a woman.
-- Virginia Woolf Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot.
-- Anonymous "A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) LOVE, n. A temporary insanity curable by marriage or by removal of the patient from the
influences under which he incurred the disorder... It is sometimes fatal, but more frequently to the
physician Hell is paved with good samaritans.
-- William M. Holden Guides and Directories We come to love not by finding a perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person
perfectly.
-- Anonymous "Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The bottom line is that (a) people are never perfect, but love can be, (b) that is the one and only
way that the mediocre and vile can be transformed, and (c) doing that makes it that. We waste
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Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.
-- George Washington The telephone company is urging people to *please* not use the telephone unless it is absolutely
necessary in order to keep the lines open for emergency personnel. We'll be right back after this
bre I was under medication when I made the decision not to burn the tapes.
-- Richard Nixon, U.S. President When I give a lecture, I accept that people look at their watches, but what I do not tolerate is
when they look at it and raise it to their ear to find out if it stopped.
-- Marcel Achard Executive ability is deciding quickly and getting someone else to do the work.
-- John G. Pollard Guides and Directories Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure.
-- George E. Woodberry Conscience is the inner voice which warns us that someone may be looking.
-- H. L. Mencken "Kill a man, and you are a murderer. Kill millions of men, and you are a conquerer. Kill everyone, and you are a god." (Jean Rostand) Guides and Directories
Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.
-- Roger Babson Sleep is an excellent way of listening to an opera.
- James Stephens The first rule of intelligent tinkering is to save all the parts.
-- Paul Ehrlich Giving a man space is like giving a dog a computer: the chances are he will not use it wisely.
-- Bette-Jane Raphael A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.
-- Fr. Jerome Cummings Guides and Directories "All women love the men they fear. All women kiss the hand that rules them." (Lionel Atwill) Marriage was all a woman's idea and for man's acceptance of the pretty yoke, it becomes us to
be grateful.
-- Phyllis McGinley I love deadlines. I especially like the whooshing sound they make as they go flying by.
-- Douglas Adams Guides and Directories
The first duty of love is to listen.
-- Paul Tillich I don't know why we are here, but I'm pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves.
- Ludwig Wittgenstein In the early sixties, we were strong, we were virulent...
-- John Connally, Secretary of Treasury under Richard Nixon, in an early 70s speech, as reported
in a contemporary "American Scholar" "It seems to me that almost all our sadnesses are moments of tension, which we feel as paralysis because we no longer hear our astonished emotions living." (Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poe "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) Guides and Directories Life is a succession of lessons enforced by immediate reward, or, oftener, by immediate
chastisement.
-- Ernest Dimnet Love makes the time pass. Time makes love pass.
-- French Proverb "I know that God won't give me more trouble than I can handle ... but sometimes I wish he wouldn't trust me so much." (Mother Teresa) Guides and Directories
