Zboriv: thorny road to freedom - Article about the Peace of Zboriv, which was signed in 1649, between the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth and Ukraine, after Ukrainian Cossack Revolution headed by Bohdan Khmelnytsky.
By the time (the Leaning Tower of Pisa) was 10% built, everyone knew it would be a total
disaster. But the investment was so big they felt compelled to go on. Since its completion, it cost
a fortune When a man takes an oath, Meg, he's holding his ownself in his own hands. Like water. And if he
opens his fingers then- he needn't hope to find himself again.
-- Robert Bolt from A Man For All Seas "Ninety percent of my salary I spent on booze and women ... and the other ten percent I wasted." (Tug McGraw, Major League Baseball pitcher) Never look at the trombones. You'll only encourage them.
-- Richard Strauss, on conducting 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 Zboriv 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 There is a coherent plan in the universe, though I don't know what it's a plan for.
-- Fred Hoyle If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself, tell yourself that you are not a poet
enough to call forth its riches; for to the creator there is no poverty and no poor indifferent p Zboriv
Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the
consequences.
-- Isadora Duncan It is better to die on your feet than live on your knees.
-- Emiliano Zapata If you would thoroughly know anything, teach it to others.
-- Tryon Edwards "To introduce something altogether new would mean to begin all over, to become ignorant again, and to run the old, old risk of failing to learn." (Isaac Asimov) Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get
money from it.
-- Stephen Leacock Zboriv Dreams never hurt anybody if you keep working right behind the dreams to make as much of
them become real as you can.
-- Frank W. Woolworth Each of us has a spark of life inside us, and our highest endeavor ought to be to set off that spark
in one another.
-- Kenny Ausubel I belong to Bridegrooms Anonymous. Whenever I feel like getting married, they send over a lady in a housecoat and hair curlers to burn my toast for me. -- Dick Martin Zboriv
I don't even butter my bread; I consider that cooking.
-- Katherine Cebrian The perfect love affair is one which is conducted entirely by post.
-- George Bernard Shaw [You reporters] should have printed what he meant, not what he said.
-- Earl Bush, press aide to Richard Daley I just need enough to tide me over until I need more.
-- Bill Hoest I'm not indecisive. Am I indecisive?
-- Jim Scheibel, mayor, St. Paul MN Zboriv Education is not filling a bucket, but lighting a fire.
-- William Yeats No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman. -- Honore de Balzac "If I were still a critic, I would loathe knowing the person I was writing about. There's enough of an incestuous relationship between subject and writer." (Manny Farber, American film theorist) Zboriv
Sometimes you get shown the light in the strangest of places if you look at it right.
-- Jerry Garcia A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.
-Robert Frost (1874-1963) Live truth instead of professing it.
-- Elbert Hubbard Luck is the residue of design.
- Branch Rickey - former owner of the Brooklyn Dodger Baseball Team Let go of your attachment to being right, and suddenly your mind is more open. You're able to
benefit from the unique viewpoints of others, without being crippled by your own judgment.
-- Ralph Mars Zboriv Wit is educated insolence.
- Aristotle What luck for the rulers that men do not think.
-- Adolf Hitler Whenever a husband and wife begin to discuss their marriage, they are giving evidence at an
inquest.
-- H. L. Mencken Zboriv
I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
-- Thomas Edison "Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishments." (Anonymous) The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
-- Blaise Pascal, Pens&eactue;es, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer "Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to know." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) "To live is to dream and to die is to awaken." (Anonymous) Zboriv Never practice two vices at once.
-- Tallulah Bankhead "Fools rush in where angels fear to tread." (Alexander Pope) "Ninety percent of my salary I spent on booze and women ... and the other ten percent I wasted." (Tug McGraw, Major League Baseball pitcher) Zboriv
blah "Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the government of himself. Can he, then be trusted with the government of others? Or have we found angels in the form of kings to govern him? The great man fights the elements in his time that hinder his own greatness, in other words his own freedom and sincerity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "REASONABLE, adj. Accessible to the infection of our own opinions. Hospitable to persuasion, dissuasion and evasion." (Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary) We do not have censorship. What we have is a limitation on what newspapers can report.
-- Louis Nel, Deputy Minister of Information, South Africa blah "Ideas are like stars, you will not succeed in touching them with your hands, but like the seafaring man on the desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and, following them, you reach yo Zboriv He believes that marriage and a career don't mix. So after the wedding he plans to quit his job.
-- Anonymous Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.
-- Albert Einstein If your professor wrote it, it's as near to the truth as you ever need to get.
-- John Watson, University of Canterbury Zboriv
Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though it is hard to
realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and
grie I do not like broccoli. And I haven't liked it since I was a little kid and my mother made me eat it.
And I'm President of the United States and I'm not going to eat any more broccoli.
-- George Bus The unfortunate thing about this world is that the good habits are much easier to give up than the
bad ones.
-- W. Somerset Maugham Statistics have shown that mortality increases perceptibly in the military during wartime.
-- Alphonse Allais "This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) Zboriv The trouble with children is that they are not returnable.
-- Quentin Crisp How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it.
-- Alexandre Dumas fils Why don't you write books people can read?
-- Nora Joyce, to her husband James Zboriv
Colleges are places where pebbles are polished and diamonds are dimmed.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll, (seen attributed to "R.S. Ingersoll" - a typo?) I didn't have time to write a short letter, so I wrote a long one instead.
-- Mark Twain Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteeen.
-- Albert Einstein "Be the change that you want to see in the world." (Mohandas Gandhi) "The meeting of two personalites is like the contact of two chemical substances. If there is any reaction, both are transformed." (Carl Gustav Jung) Zboriv Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.
-- Mother Teresa Books had instant replay long before televised sports.
-- Bern Williams "We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then is not an act but a habit." (Aristotle) Zboriv
"God is a gentleman. He prefers blondes." (Joe Orton, Loot) If your wife wants to learn how to drive, don't stand in her way. Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
- Will Durant Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars
-- Les Brown Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of
our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.
-- John Adams Zboriv Mathematics transfigures the fortuitous concourse of atoms into the tracery of the finger of God.
-- Herbert Westren Turnbull I love cats because I love my home and after a while they become its visible soul.
-- Jean Cocteau It is because modern education is so seldom inspired by a great hope that it so seldom achieves
great results. The wish to preserve the past rather that the hope of creating the future dominates
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"For others do I wait ... for higher ones, stronger ones, more triumphant ones, merrier ones, for such as are built squarely in body and soul: laughing lions must come." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Now, now my good man, this is no time for making enemies.
- Voltaire (1694-1778) on his deathbed in response to a priest asking that he renounce Satan. Laugh and the world laughs with you. Snore and you sleep alone.
-- Anthony Burgess "Do you know that places only yield up their secrets, their most profound mysteries, to those who are just passing through?" (Salman Rushdie, The Moor's Last Sigh) "Dear World, I am leaving because I am bored. I feel I have lived long enough. I am leaving you with your worries in this sweet cesspool. Good luck." (George Sanders, suicide note) Zboriv In great matters men show themselves as they wish to be seen; in small matters, as they are.
-- Gamaliel Bradford Democracy is a form of government in which it is permitted to wonder aloud what the country
could do under first-class management.
-- Senator Soaper Honor's a good brooch to wear in a man's hat at all times.
-- Jonson, Ben Zboriv
A team effort is a lot of people doing what I say.
-- Michael Winner "Listen, or your tongue will make you deaf." (Native American Proverb) A man can't get rich if he takes proper care of his family.
-- Navaho saying Honorable, adj. Afflicted with an impediment in one's reach. In legislative bodies, it is customary
to mention all members as honorable; as, ``the honorable gentleman is a scurvy cur.'
-- Bierce, A Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.
-- Samuel Johnson Zboriv We didn't lose the game; we just ran out of time.
- Vince Lombardi I have noticed that nothing I have never said ever did me any harm.
-- Calvin Coolidge I figure you have the same chance of winning the lottery whether you play or not.
-- Fran Lebowitz Zboriv
