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"Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night." (Edger Allen Poe) "The concerned investment banker is the one who blows the horn on his Mercedes as he drives through a red light." (Anonymous) Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with
the powerful, not to be neutral.
-- Paulo Freire The higher up you go, the more mistakes you are allowed. Right at the top, if you make enough of
them, it's considered to be your style.
-- Fred Astaire When a person can no longer laugh at himself, it is time for others to laugh at him.
-- Thomas Szasz, The Second Sin, 1973 Maps and Views I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about 'short' and 'cheap'? -- Phyllis Diller I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.
- Francois-Auguste Rodin (1840-1917), when asked how he managed to make his remarkable
statues The wise see knowledge and action as one; they see truly.
-- Bhagava Gita Maps and Views
"We always get bored with those whom we bore." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) In all recorded history there has not been one economist who has had to worry about where the
next meal would come from.
-- Peter F. Drucker Love one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that.
-- Michael Leunig Education ... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth
reading.
-- G. M. Trevelyan It was the experience of mystery -- even if mixed with fear -- that engendered religion.
- Albert Einstein Maps and Views When looking back, usually I'm more sorry for the things I didn't do than for the things I shouldn't
have done.
-- Malcolm Forbes Neither fire nor wind, birth nor death can erase our good deeds.
-- Buddha We need the iron qualities that go with true manhood. We need the positive virtues of resolution,
of courage, of indomitable will, of power to do without shrinking the rough work that must always
be Maps and Views
"A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) "Paper should be edible, nutritious. Inks used for printing or writing should have delicious flavors. Magazines or newspapers read at breakfast should be eaten for lunch. Instead of throwing one's mai It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
- Mark Twain "If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they don't want to hear." (George Orwell) If you don't double-click me, I can't do anything.
-- John Aniston, on how computers have taken over his life Maps and Views "Experience is a good teacher, but she sends in terrific bills." (Minna Antrim) No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent.
-- Abraham Lincoln Miracles occur naturally as expressions of love. The real miracle is the love that inspires them. In
this sense everything that comes from love is a miracle.
-- Marianne Williamson Maps and Views
It is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions.
-- Aldous Huxley He believes that marriage and a career don't mix. So after the wedding he plans to quit his job.
-- Anonymous If God wanted women to understand men, football would never have been created.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Someday is not a day of the week.
-- Anon. "Do not do unto others as you expect they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same." (George Bernard Shaw) Maps and Views People think we make $3 million and $4 million a year. They don't realize that most of us only
make $500,000.
-- Pete Incaviglia, baseball player, 1990 I must follow the people. Am I not their leader?
-- Benjamin Disraeli Familiarity breeds contempt -- and children.
-- Mark Twain Maps and Views
I just want what every married woman wants, someone besides her husband to sleep with.
-- Peg Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show You can only find truth with logic if you have already found truth without it.
- Gilbert Keith Chesterton blah "A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) blah "Each friend represents a world in us; a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only in meeting them that a new world is born." (Anais Nin) "Inside of a ring or out, ain't nothing wrong with going down. It's staying down that's wrong." (Muhammad Ali) Maps and Views You are educated when you have the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your
temper or self-confidence.
-- Robert Frost As for courage and will - we cannot measure how much of each lies within us, we can only trust
there will be sufficient to carry through trials which may lie ahead.
-- Andre Norton Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
-- Soren Kierkegaard Maps and Views
"Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil) Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.
-- Salvador Dali With the catching end the pleasures of the chase.
-- Abraham Lincoln "If you do not know where you are going, any road will take you there." (Sterling Holloway, voice of Chesire Cat, Alice in Wonderland) "It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure on the world." (John Steinbeck Maps and Views Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.
-- Don Stanford Blessed is he who has learned to laugh at himself, for he shall never cease to be entertained.
-- John Powell "From the start, marriage was instituted for contemptible, practical reasons--an idea of men." (Catherine Deneuve) Maps and Views
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 "I consider it the highest compliment when my employees go out and start their own companies in competition with me. I always send them a plant to wish them well. Of course, it's a cactus." (Norman B "A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool." (William Shakespeare) "Ugliness is in a way superior to beauty because it lasts." (Serge Gainsbourg) Love is like pi - natural, irrational, and very important.
-- Lisa Hoffman Maps and Views Women and Cats will do as they please. Men and dogs had better get used to it.
-- Robert Heinlein, Time Enough for Love, Lazarus Long Although the course may change sometimes, rivers always reach the sea.
-- Led Zeppelin, Ten Years Gone Ah, well, then I suppose I shall have to die beyond my means.
-- Oscar Wilde, dying words Maps and Views
It was just him and me. He fought with honor. If it weren't for his honor, he and the others would
have beaten me together. They might have killed me, then. His sense of honor saved my life. I
didn' To write a good love letter, you ought to begin without knowing what you mean to say, and to
finish without knowing what you have written.
-- Jean Jacques Rousseau What we anticipate seldom occurs: but what we least expect generally happens.
-- Benjamin Disraeli The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
-- Blaise Pascal, Pensées, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer The last good thing written in C++ was the Pachelbel Canon.
-- Jerry Olson Maps and Views To keep your marriage brimming
With love in the marriage cup,
Whenever you're wrong, admit it,
Whenever you're right, shut up. -- Nash We are not retreating - we are advancing in another Direction.
- General Douglas MacArthur Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business.
-- Tom Robbins Maps and Views
Most rock journalism is people who can't write interviewing people who can't talk for people who
can't read.
-- Frank Zappa "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 The only thing worse than a man you can't control is a man you can.
-- Margo Kaufman You can get more with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone.
-- Al Capone 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, Maps and Views Work expands to fill the time available.
-- PARKINSON'S LAW Men have a much better time of it than women; for one thing, they marry later; for another thing, they die earlier. --H.L. Mencken "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 Maps and Views
"Think off-center." (George Carlin) Good hours, excellent pay, fun place to work, paid training, mean boss. Oh well, four out of five
isn't bad.
-- Help Wanted Ad, PA newspaper, 1994 People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war or before an election.
-- Otto von Bismarck When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen.
-- Ernest Hemingway Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.
-- John F. Kennedy Maps and Views blah "Each friend represents a world in us; a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only in meeting them that a new world is born." (Anais Nin) "Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Courage is doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared." (Eddie Rickenbacker) Maps and Views
... 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
When a girl marries she exchanges the attention of many men for the inattention of one.
-- Helen Rowland "My wallpaper and I are fighting a duel to the death. One or the other of us has to go." (Oscar Wilde, his last recorded words) I hate it in friends when they come too late to help.
-- Euripides Anyone can do any amount of work provided it isn't the work he's supposed to be doing at the
moment.
-- Robert Benchley Maps and Views Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.
-- Sigmund Freud Life isn't a matter of milestones, but of moments.
-- Rose Kennedy "Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few." (George Bernard Shaw) Maps and Views
