Don Fitzmahan story from the Ukraine - Don tells about his visit to the monastery at Pochaiv (Pochayiv / Pochayev, near Kremenets) and driveby tours of Dubno and Kremenets.
There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written or badly written.
-- Oscar Wilde If excessive smoking actually plays a role in the production of lung cancer, it seems to be a minor
one.
-- Dr. W.C. Heuper of the National Cancer Institute, as quoted in the New York Times on Apri If you can count your money, you don't have a billion dollars.
- J. Paul Getty The limits of my language means the limits of my world.
-- Ludwig Wittgenstein And now, in keeping with Channel 40's policy of always bringing you the latest in blood and guts,
in living color, you're about to see another first -- an attempted suicide.
-- Chris Hubbock, who sh Kremenets It is absurd to divide people into good or bad. People are either charming or tedious.
-- Oscar Wilde Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.
-- John F. Kennedy The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. The opposite of a profound truth may
well be another profound truth.
- Niels Bohr Kremenets
They had a dispute about a night out with the boys. But he finally decided to let her go.
-- Anonymous I could prove God statistically.
-- George Gallup "I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." (James Madison) Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
-- George Bernard Shaw It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is
the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be
cr Kremenets "What is most appealing about young folks, after all, is the changes, not the still photograph of finished character but the movie, the soul in flux." (Thomas Pynchon) "Is life not a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) History repeats itself; that's one of the things that's wrong with history.
-- Clarence Darrow Kremenets
"Better is the enemy of good." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
-- Oscar Wilde Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.
-- Bertrand Russell "I expect nothing. I fear no one. I am free." (Nikos Kazantzakis) True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.
-- Henry David Thoreau Kremenets Some birds aren't meant to be caged, their feathers are just too bright. And when they fly away,
the part of you that knows it was a sin to lock them up, does rejoice. I guess I just miss my friend. Anything is possible, but only a few things actually happen.
-- Richard Rosen A man's wife has more power over him than the state has.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Kremenets
Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
- Napoleon Bonaparte "Conform and be dull." (J. Frank Doble) After all, all he did was string together a lot of old, well-known quotations.
-- H. L. Mencken, on Shakespeare I am about to--or I am going to--die; either expression is used.
-- Dominique Bouhours, French grammarian, dying words There is no realizable power that man cannot, in time, fashion the tools to attain, nor any power
so secure that the naked ape will not abuse it. So it is written in the genetic cards - only physics Kremenets 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 "I think all great innovations are built on rejections." (Louis-Ferdinand Céline) Our schools have been scientifically designed to prevent over-education from happening. [...] The
average American (should be) content with their humble role in life, because they're not tempted
to Kremenets
If God wanted women to understand men, football would never have been created.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Old soldiers never die, they just fade away.
-- General Douglas MacArthur All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That is his.
-- Oscar Wilde Beneath the rule of men entirely great, / The pen is mightier than the sword.
-- Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton, Richelieu, II. ii A witty saying proves nothing.
- Voltaire Kremenets "In my opinion, the greatest single failure of American education is that students come away unable to distinguish between a symbol and the thing the symbol stands for." (Paul Lutus) Fill what's empty, empty what's full, and scratch where it itches.
- the Duchess of Windsor, when asked what is the secret of a long and happy life In times of profound change, the learners inherit the earth, while the learned find themselves
beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists.
-- Al Rogers, Global SchoolHouse Netw Kremenets
It was a day like this Marco Polo left for China. What are your plans for today?
--Loesje There is no course of life so weak and sottish as that which is managed by order, method, and
discipline.
-- Michel de Montaigne "I am not afraid of tomorrow, for i have seen yesterday and i love today!" (William Allen White) Tauzin backs term limits -- But he thinks it's a bad idea.
-- Headline, story in the New Orleans Times-Picayune, Feb 20, 1995 The days just before marriage are like a snappy introduction to a tedious book. Kremenets The remarkable thing about television is that it permits several million people to laugh at the same
joke and still feel lonely.
-- T. S. Eliot Marriage is a matter of give and take, but so far I haven't been able to find anybody who'll take
what I have to give.
-- Cass Daley No other success can compensate for failure in the home.
-- David O. McKay, Encyclopedia of Mormonism, Advice to parents at General Conference of he
LDS Church, April, 1964 Kremenets
It is not necessary that whilst I live I live happily; but it is necessary that so long as I live I should
live honourably.
-- Kant, Immanuel How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it.
-- Alexandre Dumas fils It is better to be looked over than overlooked.
-- Mae West May you be too good for the world and not good enough for your wife. Honolulu - it's got everything. Sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother. -- Ken Dodd Kremenets "I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." (James Madison) Why don't you write books people can read?
-- Nora Joyce, to her husband James "Every act of violence increases the recruitment of terrorists. Iraq has been turned into a base of terror." (Noam Chomsky, from The Toronto Star, March 23, 2004) Kremenets
"We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) "I'm basically an optimist in life but this doesn't prevent me from deducing as a scientist that we are probably doomed." (Vladimir Chaloupka, physicist, University of Washington, regarding mankind's "I would rather die standing than live on my knees!" (Emiliano Zapata) "Friends are those people who know the words to the song in your heart and sing them back to you when you have forgotten the words." (Anonymous) Live TV died in the late 1950s, electronic bulletin boards came along in the mid-1980s, meaning
there was about a 25-year gap when it was difficult to put your foot in your mouth and have
people all Kremenets A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
Robert Frost (1874-1963) Man is the only animal that blushes--or needs to.
-- Mark Twain When you see what some girls marry, you realize how they must hate to work for a living.
-- Helen Rowland Kremenets
"Everywhere one seeks to produce meaning, to make the world signify, to render it visible. We are not, however, in danger of lacking meaning; quite the contrary, we are gorged with meaning and it is k For I am a bear of very little brain and long words bother me.
-- Winnie the Pooh, character from author A. A. Milne A friend is a gift you give yourself.
-- Robert Louis Stevenson "Education is a vacine for violence." (Edward James Olmos) Great ability develops and reveals itself increasingly with every new assignment. Baltasar
Gracian Kremenets Is it better for a woman to marry a man who loves her than a man she loves.
-- Anonymous In the sciences, we are now uniquely privileged to sit side by side with the giants on whose
shoulders we stand.
-- Gerald Holton The theory used to be you marry an older man because they are more mature. The new theory is
that men don't mature. So you might as well marry a younger one.
-- Anonymous Kremenets
They have come up with a perfect understanding. He won't try to run her life, and he won't try to
run his, either.
-- Anonymous We don't like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out.
-- Decca Recording Company, rejecting the Beatles, 1962 Problems worthy of attack prove their worth by fighting back.
- Paul Erdos Saying that Windows95 is equal to Macintosh is like finding a potato that looks like Jesus and
believing you've witnessed the second coming.
-- Guy Kawasaki "Fake is as old as the Eden tree." (George Orson Welles) Kremenets 'Tis better to have loved and lost
Than never to have loved at all.
-- Alfred, Lord Tennyson, In Memoriam, 1850, line 27, stanza 4 "Good taste is the first refuge of the non-creative. It is the last-ditch stand of the artist." (Marshall McLuhan) "If all men knew what others say of them, there would not be four friends in the world." (Blaise Pascal) Kremenets
Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three pillars of learning.
-- Benjamin Disraeli When marriage is outlawed, only outlaws will have inlaws. "From the start, marriage was instituted for contemptible, practical reasons--an idea of men." (Catherine Deneuve) "It is not the answer that enlightens, but the question." (Eugene Ionesco) "Better to be deprived of food for three days than tea for one." (Chinese Proverb) Kremenets It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
- Oscar Wilde Marriage still confers one very special privilege - only a married person can get divorced. When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives mean the most to us, we often find
that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our
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