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To expect defeat is nine-tenths of defeat itself.
-- Francis Crawford Always go to the bathroom when you have a chance.
-- King George V "He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself." (Thomas Paine) Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.
-- G. K. Chesterton As life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action
of his time, at the peril of being not to have lived.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. News and Media A man can do what he wants, but not want what he wants.
-- Arthur Schoperhauer A good marriage is at least 80 percent good luck in finding the right person at the right time. The
rest is trust.
-- Nanette Newman, British actress When you gaze long into the abyss, the abyss also gazes into you.
- Friedrich Nietzsche News and Media
A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.
-- Edward Abbey I am become death, shatterer of worlds.
-- Robert J. Oppenheimer, citing from the Bhagavadgita, after witnessing the world's first nuclear
explosion "Twelve magicians and two carnies have been shot dead doing the bullet catch. That's cool enough, but every night when we close our show with that trick and the loaded gun gets pointed in my face, it There is more to life than increasing its speed.
-- Gandhi There is no more lovely, friendly and charming relationship, communion or company than a good
marriage
-- Martin Luther News and Media "A thing of beauty is a joy forever." (John Keats) Smoking kills. If you're killed, you've lost a very important part of your life.
-- Brooke Shields, during an interview to become spokesperson for a federal anti-smoking
campaign Thank heaven. A bachelor's life is no life for a single man.
-- Samuel Goldwyn, immigrant-turned-famous-movie-producer, when told his son was getting
married News and Media
"Those who hear not the music think the dancers mad." (Anonymous) We love because it's the only true adventure.
-- Nikki Giovanni Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.
- Napoleon Bonaparte "Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them." (Samuel Butler) Love is blind and marriage is the institution for the blind.
-- James Graham News and Media "Jesus died too soon. If he had lived to my age he would have repudiated his doctrine." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do." (Anonymous) As for the virtuous poor, one can pity them, of course, but one cannot possibly admire them.
-- Oscar Wilde News and Media
Author: A fool, who, not content with having bored those who have lived with him, insists on
tormenting the generations to come.
-- Montesquieu To be or not to be isn't the question. The question is how to prolong being.
-- Tom Robbins Children should be like waffles--you should be able to throw the first one away.
-- Mary Alice Messenger "By seeing the seed of failure in every success, we remain humble. By seeing the seed of success in every failure we remain hopeful." (Mel Ziegler, founder of Banana Republic) There is more to life than increasing its speed.
-- Gandhi News and Media Radio news is bearable. This is due to the fact that while the news is being broadcast the disc
jockey is not allowed to talk.
-- Fran Lebowitz "One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar." (Helen Keller) "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 News and Media
The closer I'm bound in love to you, the closer I am to free.
-- Indigo Girls, song lyric I begin by taking. I shall find scholars later to demonstrate my perfect right.
- Frederick (II) the Great If you don't double-click me, I can't do anything.
-- John Aniston, on how computers have taken over his life Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
- Gail Godwin Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot. News and Media Duct tape is like the Force. It has a light side, a dark side, and it holds the universe together....
-- Carl Zwanzig A man can do what he wants, but not want what he wants.
-- Arthur Schoperhauer "... and then the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom." (Anais Nin) News and Media
Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.
- H. G. Wells And in the end the love you take is equal to the love you make.
-- The Beatles, The last lyric of their last song "A girl can wait for the right man to come along, but in the meantime that still doesn't mean she can't have a wonderful time with all the wrong ones." (Cher) When a thing has been said and said well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it.
-- Anatole France In any organization there will always be one person who knows what is going on. This person
must be fired.
-- Conway's Law News and Media To look backward for a while is to refresh the eye, to restore it, and to render it more fit for its
prime function of looking forward.
-- Margaret Fairless Barber Many a wife thinks her husband is the world's greatest lover. But she can never catch him at it. How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create
it herself.
- Anais Nin News and Media
The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and
science.
-- Albert Einstein Executive ability is deciding quickly and getting someone else to do the work.
-- John G. Pollard Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork
picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art.
-- Tom Stoppard 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 Why don't you write books people can read?
-- Nora Joyce, to her husband James News and Media It may be that the race is not always to the swift, nor the battle to the strong -- but that is the way
to bet.
-- Damon Runyan You can't buy love, but you can pay heavily for it.
-- Henny Youngman 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 News and Media
Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it
- Henry David Thoreau If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt I still live.
-- Daniel Webster, dying words "Sometimes I think it's another sign of the sad necessity of our crowded, lonely lives, an urgent hopeless reaching out to touch something real, a deep hunger for something authentic when everything s Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and around the hands and feet of the man. News and Media Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.
-- James Matthew Barrie You can't say civilization isn't advancing: in every war they kill you in a new way.
-- Will Rogers A government is the only known vessel that leaks from the top.
-- James Reston News and Media
A husband is what's left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
-- Helen Rowland If you want to recapture your youth, just cut off his allowance.
-- Al Bernstein Organic chemistry is the chemistry of carbon compounds. Biochemistry is the study of carbon
compounds that crawl.
-- Mike Adams Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you
have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not.
-- Aldous Huxley "Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise." (Alice Walker) News and Media "Courage is doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared." (Eddie Rickenbacker) "Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.
- Thomas Jefferson News and Media
If you want to recapture your youth, just cut off his allowance.
-- Al Bernstein Suicide is belated acquiescence in the opinion of one's wife's relatives. Love is an ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.
-- Lord Dewar "The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it." (Abbie Hoffman) When I was a kid my favorite relative was Uncle Caveman. After school we'd all go play in his
cave, and every once in a while he would eat one of us. It wasn't until later that I found out that
Uncl News and Media In the sciences, we are now uniquely privileged to sit side by side with the giants on whose
shoulders we stand.
-- Gerald Holton "Pleasant words are a honeycomb, Sweet to the soul and healing to the bones." (Bible, Proverbs 16:24) Having children makes you no more a parent than having a piano makes you a pianist.
-- Michael Levine, Lessons at the Halfway Point News and Media
The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One
cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the
marvelous str A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.
-Robert Frost (1874-1963) Truth can be a dangerous thing. It is quite patient and relentless.
-- R. Scott Richards "Twelve magicians and two carnies have been shot dead doing the bullet catch. That's cool enough, but every night when we close our show with that trick and the loaded gun gets pointed in my face, it It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
-- Oscar Wilde News and Media I loathe people who keep dogs. They are cowards who haven't got the guts to bite people
themselves.
-- August Strindberg I should have no objection to a repetition of the same life from its beginning, only asking the
advantages authors have in a second edition to correct some faults of the first.
-- Benjamin Franklin "I've decided something: Commercial things really do stink. As soon as it becomes commercial for a mass market it really stinks." (Andy Warhol, The Andy Warhol Diaries, 1989) News and Media
