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We have a habit in writing articles published in scientific journals to make the work as finished as
possible, to cover up all the tracks, to not worry about the blind alleys or describe how you had A hippo does not have a sting in its tail, but a wise man would still rather be sat on by a bee.
-- Polish proverb Once a boy becomes a man, he's a man all his life, but a woman is only sexy until she becomes
your wife.
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Morality consists in suspecting other people of not being legally married.
-- George Bernard Shaw "True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost." (Charles Caleb Colton) Basketball I want to die in my sleep like my friend.... Not screaming and yelling like the passengers in his
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-- Seen on a bumper sticker "I never resist temptation, because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me." (George Bernard Shaw) "Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains." (Karl Marx) Basketball
We see the brightness of a new page where everything yet can happen.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke, Book of Hours Not knowing when the dawn will come, I open every door.
-- Emily Dickinson The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.
-- Nicholas Murray Butler Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.
-- Louise Hay He can compress the most words into the smallest idea of any man I know.
- Abraham Lincoln Basketball The grass may be greener on the other side of the fence, but you still have to mow it.
-- Anonymous 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
the "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) Basketball
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 The wages of sin are death, but by the time taxes are taken out, it's just sort of a tired feeling.
-- Paula Poundstone All marriages are happy--it's the living together afterward that causes all the problems. The unfortunate thing about this world is that the good habits are much easier to give up than the
bad ones.
-- W. Somerset Maugham The Bible contains six admonishments to homosexuals and 362 admonishments to
heterosexuals. That doesn't mean that God doesn't love heterosexuals. It's just that they need
more supervision.
-- Lynn Basketball I don't know exactly what democracy is. But we need more of it.
-- Anonymous Chinese Student, during protests in Tianamen Square, Beijing, 1989 "Some look at things that are, and ask why. I dream of things that never were and ask why not?" (George Bernard Shaw) There's many a bestseller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.
-- Flannery O'Connor Basketball
"The masses are far more likely to believe a big lie than several small ones." (Adolf Hitler) Not knowing when the dawn will come, I open every door.
-- Emily Dickinson "I would rather die standing than live on my knees!" (Emiliano Zapata) I'd wipe the machines off the face of the earth again, and end the industrial epoch absolutely, like
a black mistake.
-- D. H. Lawrence Hell hath no fury like a bureaucrat scorned.
-- Milton Friedman Basketball The weirder you're going to behave, the more normal you should look. It works in reverse, too.
When I see a kid with three or four rings in his nose, I know there is absolutely nothing
extraordinary Behind every great fortune there is a crime.
- Honore de Balzac "It seems to me that there are two kinds of trickery: the 'fronts' people assume before one another's eyes, and the 'front' a writer puts on the face of reality." (Francois Sagan) Basketball
Love is the answer, but while you're waiting for the answer, sex raises some pretty good
questions.
-- Woody Allen "In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends." (Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.) Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop
questioning.
-- Albert Einstein I have an existential map; it has 'you are here' written all over it.
- Steven Wright A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.
- John D. Rockefeller Basketball Per cubic inch, your current TV set is perhaps the dumbest appliance in your home (and I'm not
even talking about the programs).
-- Nicholas Negroponte Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. blah "It is a grand mistake to think of being great without goodness and I pronounce it as certain that there was never a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous." (Benjamin Fran Basketball
A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.
-- Edward Abbey "Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future." (Paul Boese) Always behave like a duck--keep calm and unruffled on the surface but paddle like the devil
underneath.
-- Jacob Braude Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint on it you can.
-- Danny Kaye There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world; and that is an idea whose time has
come.
-- Victor Hugo Basketball The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
-- B. F. Skinner I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
- e e cummings Obedience is the gateway through which knowledge, yes, and love, too, enter the mind of the
child.
-- Anne Sullivan Basketball
"I have learned that to be with those I like is enough." (Walt Whitman) 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 we are born we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools." (William Shakespeare) Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.
-- Mother Teresa People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid.
- Soren Aabye Kierkegaard Basketball The sun never sets on the British empire because Britain is in the east and the sun sets in the
west.
-- Unknown history student "Is life not a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when
people laugh.
-- George Bernard Shaw Basketball
Effort is only effort when it begins to hurt.
-- Jose Ortega y Gasset "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) A human being is a part of the whole, called by us Universe, a part limited in time and space. He
experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest--a kind of
optic I am going to put myself to sleep now for a bit longer than usual. Call the time Eternity." (Jerzy Kosinski, Polish novelist, from his suicide note) Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer.
-- Mark Twain Basketball I do not consider it an insult, but rather a compliment to be called an agnostic. I do not pretend to
know where many ignorant men are sure -- that is all that agnosticism means.
- Clarence Darrow, What does not kill me makes me stronger.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has not heart; and any man who is over 30, and is
not a conservative, has no brains.
- Sir Winston Churchill Basketball
Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.
-- Oscar Wilde Ridicule is generally made use of to laugh men out of virtue and good sense, by attacking
everything praiseworthy in human life.
-- Joseph Addison When a friend is in trouble, don't annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up
something appropriate and do it.
-- E. W. Howe "I am the lizard king. I can do anything." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) A straight line is the shortest in morals as in mathematics.
-- Maria Edgeworth Basketball For of all sad words of tongue or pen,
The saddest are these: "It might have been!"
-- John Greenleaf Whittier "I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you and education." (Wilson Mizner) "Conforming is only acceptable when you conform with a nonconformist." (John A. Simone Jr.) Basketball
"Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave, and impossible to forget." (G. Randolf) 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 The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the
purpose of satisfying it afterwards.
-- Anatole France Where there is marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.
-- Benjamin Franklin "Work like you don't need the money. Love like you've never been hurt. Dance like nobody's watching." (Satchel Paige) Basketball This is the fourth?
-- Thomas Jefferson, dying words By working faithfully eight hours a day, you might eventually get to be a boss and work twelve
hours a day.
-- ROBERT FROST The better part of one's life consists of his friendships.
-- Abraham Lincoln Basketball
"Those who hear not the music think the dancers mad." (Anonymous) Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when
people laugh.
-- George Bernard Shaw "Education is the process of driving a set of prejudices down your throat." (Martin H. Fischer) "I should reproach him for not giving us enough evidence." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970, what he would say to God if they 'met') We seek the comfort of another. Someone to share and share the life we choose. Someone to
help us through the neverending attempt to understand ourselves. And in the end, someone to
comfort us along Basketball "Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect every one who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are ine 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 Statistics are like a bikini. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.
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