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Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.
-- Oscar Wilde What is the answer? In that case, what is the question?
-- Gertrude Stein, dying words We have been friends together in sunshine and in shade.
-- Caroline Norton No man in the world has more courage than the man who can stop after eating one peanut.
-- Channing Pollack The last good thing written in C++ was the Pachelbel Canon.
-- Jerry Olson Falun The Democrats are the party that says government will make you smarter, taller, richer, and
remove the crabgrass on your lawn. The Republicans are the party that says government doesn't
work and the "True friends, like diamonds, are precious and rare. False friends, like autumn leaves, are found everywhere." (Anonymous) To be able to say how much love, is love but little.
-- Petrarch Falun
"I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it." (Thomas Jefferson, to Archibald Stuart, 1791) The fate of love is that it always seems too little or too much.
-- Anonymous Men have become the tools of their tools.
-- Henry David Thoreau "Things do not change, we change." (Henry David Thoreau) "Experience is not what happens to a man. It is what a man does with what happens to him." (Aldous Huxley) Falun Ordinary riches can be stolen, real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that
cannot be taken from you.
-- Oscar Wilde "A man who flies from his fear may find he has only taken a shortcut to meet it." (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) Winning is a habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.
-- Vince Lombardi Falun
"There is nothing more fearful than ignorance in action." (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1749-1832, Criticisms, Reflections and Maxims) If we were not all so interested in ourselves, life would be so uninteresting that none of us would
be able to endure it.
-- Schopenhauer He who laughs last is generally the last to get the joke.
-- Terry Cohen In the end, everything is a gag.
-- Charlie Chaplin "Today was good. / Today was fun. / Tomorrow is another one." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) Falun Work is a four-letter word.
-- The Smiths (Morrissey) "Listen, or your tongue will make you deaf." (Native American Proverb) "Death solves all problems--no man, no problem." (Josef Stalin) Falun
Worrying is like a rocking chair, it gives you something to do, but it doesn't get you anywhere.
-- Anonymous "I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is." (Alan Watts) "I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it." (Thomas Jefferson, to Archibald Stuart, 1791) Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere.
-- Chinese Proverb I don't know exactly what democracy is. But we need more of it.
-- Anonymous Chinese Student, during protests in Tianamen Square, Beijing, 1989 Falun We do not have censorship. What we have is a limitation on what newspapers can report.
-- Louis Nel, Deputy Minister of Information, South Africa When you do the common things in life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of
the world.
- George Washington Carver Teach a parrot the terms "supply and demand" and you've got an economist.
-- Thomas Carlyle Falun
To heck with marrying a girl who makes biscuits like her mother--I want to marry one who makes dough like her father. Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
-- Bob Perelman You've no idea of what a poor opinion I have of myself, and how little I deserve it.
-- W.S. Gilbert The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
-- Winston Churchill "I am a part of all that I have met." (Alfred Lord Tennyson, 1809-1892, English poet) Falun Immature love says: "I love you because I need you." Mature love says: "I need you because I
love you."
-- Erich Fromm Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday
afternoon.
-- Susan Ertz That's the way things come clear. All of a sudden. And then you realize how obvious they've been
all along.
-- Madeleine L'Engle Falun
One cardinal rule of marriage should never be forgotten: "Give little, give seldom, and above all,
give grudgingly." Otherwise, what could have been a proper marriage could become an orgy of
sexual Men have become the tools of their tools.
- Henry David Thoreau ( It is well, when judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and
superior impartiality.
-- Arnold Bennett God gave men both a penis and a brain, but unfortunately not enough blood supply to run both at
the same time.
- Robin Williams, commenting on the Clinton/Lewinsky affair Practice random acts of kindness and sensless acts of beauty.
-- Adair Lara Falun "Men act and women appear. Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at." (John Berger) A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted
by a little physical antipathy.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche Here's to you and here's to me,
and I hope we never disagree.
But, if that should ever be,
to HELL with you, here's to ME!
-- Anonymous Falun
"The rules for parents are but three... Love, Limit, and Let them be." (Elaine M. Ward) Generations to come will find it difficult to believe that a man such as Gandhi ever walked the
face of this earth.
-- Albert Einstein If we were not all so interested in ourselves, life would be so uninteresting that none of us would
be able to endure it.
-- Schopenhauer "It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so." (Mark Twain) Wherever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.
-- Harry S. Truman Falun "One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.
-- Fr. Jerome Cummings Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not
there, I go to work.
-- Robert Orben Falun
Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not
there, I go to work.
-- Robert Orben Someday is not a day of the week.
-- Anon. Nothing that was worthy in the past departs; no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or
can die.
-- Thomas Carlyle Dogma is the sacrifice of wisdom to consistency.
- Lewis Perelman If a man is considered guilty for what goes on in his mind, give me the electric chair for all my
future crimes.
-- Prince Falun If you want anything done well, do it yourself. This is why most people laugh at their own jokes.
-- Bob Edwards In the end, everything is a gag.
-- Charlie Chaplin Conversation, fastidious Goddess, loves blood better than brick, and feasts most subtly on the
human will.
-- Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway Falun
If we do not maintain Justice, Justice will not maintain us.
-- Francis Bacon "Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (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
time Happy are those who dream dreams and are willing to pay the price to make them come true.
-- Anon. I am returning this otherwise good typing paper to you because someone has printed gibberish all
over it and put your name at the top.
-- English Professor, Ohio University Falun Give me a museum and I'll fill it.
-- Pablo Picasso A person is not given integrity. It results from the relentless pursuit of honesty at all times.
-- Anon. Prejudice is the child of ignorance.
-- William Hazlitt Falun
Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same
direction.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry Gentlemen, it is better to have died a small boy than to fumble this football.
-- John Heisman Marriage is a great institution, but who wants to live in an institution?
-- Marx Groucho, the film "Animal Crackers" "An imbalance between rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics." (Plutarch) He that would have the fruit must climb the tree.
-- Thomas Fuller, M.D. Falun Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do.
-- Dr. Benjamin Spock, American pediatrician, address to new parents A man's feet should be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world.
-- George Santayana All human actions are equivalent... and... all are on principle doomed...
-- Jean-Paul Sartre, "Being and Nothingness" Falun
It was the greatest of the imperfect ventriloquist acts: when his lips moved, her body sang.
-- Tom Robbins If you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it's done.
-- Scott Adams It makes no difference who you vote for - the two parties are really one party representing four
percent of the people.
-- Gore Vidal Logic is in the eye of the logician.
- Gloria Steinem There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as
though everything is a miracle.
- Albert Einstein Falun Virtue is like health: the harmony of the whole man.
-- Thomas Carlyle 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 "Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under." (Henry Louis Mencken) Falun
