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"Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains." (Karl Marx) One of the greatest discoveries a man makes, one of his great surprises, is to find he can do what he was afraid he couldn't do. -- Henry Ford "Be the change that you want to see in the world." (Mohandas Gandhi) "There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) This world is a comedy for those who think and a tragedy for those who feel. -- Horace Walpole Guides and Directories As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy. -- Abraham Lincoln "I think all great innovations are built on rejections." (Louis-Ferdinand Céline) 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 Guides and Directories Second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience. "Ideas are far more powerful than guns. We don't allow our enemies to have guns, why should we allow them to have ideas?" (Josef Stalin) What's another word for "Thesaurus?" -- Steven Wright "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 I think one of the reasons I'm popular again is because I'm wearing a tie. You have to be different. -- Tony Bennett, 1995 Guides and Directories "Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Walk beside me and just be my friend." (Albert Camus) Why doesn't she like me? Is it my hair, my overbite, the fact that I've worn the same shirt and shorts for the last four years? -- Bart Simpson, young character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated tele "All women love the men they fear. All women kiss the hand that rules them." (Lionel Atwill) Guides and Directories Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few. -- George bernard Shaw Not everything that can be counted counts; and not everything that counts can be counted. -- Albert Einstein The nation's honor is dearer than the nation's comfort; yes, than the nation's life itself. -- Woodrow Wilson A man's reach should exeed his grasp, or else what's a heaven for? -- Robert Browning The nourishment is palatable. -- Millard Fillmore, dying words Guides and Directories Multimedia? As far as I'm concerned, it's reading with the radio on! -- Rory Bremner When a girl marries she exchanges the attention of many men for the inattention of one. -- Helen Rowland I still say a church steeple with a lightning rod on top shows a lack of confidence. -- Doug MacLeod Guides and Directories Man is a natural polygamist. He always has one woman leading him by the nose and another hanging on to his coattails. -- H. L. Mencken "By seeing the seed of failure in every success, we remain humble. By seeing the seed of success in every failure we remain hopeful." (Mel Ziegler, founder of Banana Republic) "Ideas are far more powerful than guns. We don't allow our enemies to have guns, why should we allow them to have ideas?" (Josef Stalin) "How is it that we never have time to do a job right, but we always have time to do it over?" (Anonymous) If something is boring after two minutes, try it for four. If still boring, then eight. Then sixteen. Then thirty-two. Eventually one discovers that it is not boring at all." (John Cage) Guides and Directories "Great indebtedness does not make men grateful, but vengeful; and if a little charity is not forgotten, it turns into a gnawing worm." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Thus Spake Zarathustra) "Good taste is the first refuge of the non-creative. It is the last-ditch stand of the artist." (Marshall McLuhan) Wit is educated insolence. - Aristotle Guides and Directories Bachelors know more about women than married men; if they didn't, they'd be married too. -- H. L. Mencken Wind is to fire like distance is to love; it extinguishes the small and enflames the great. -- Anonymous My opinions are my wife's, and she says I'm lucky to have them. The most wasted day of all is that in which we have not laughed. -- Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort 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 Guides and Directories The only way to entertain some folks is to listen to them. -- Kin Hubbard No one finds life worth living; he must make it worth living. -- Anon. Your life and my life flow into each other as wave flows into wave, and unless there is peace and joy and freedom for you, there can be no real peace or joy or freedom for me. To see reality--not as Guides and Directories It depends on your definition of asleep. They were not stretched out. They had their eyes closed. They were seated at their desks with their heads in a nodding position. -- John Hogan, Commonwealth Hardly a year passes that fails to find a new, oft-times exotic, research method or technique added to the armamentarium of political inquiry. Anyone who cannot negotiate Chi squares, assess randomi I hope you have not been leading a double life, pretending to be wicked and being really good all the time. That would be hypocrisy. -- Oscar Wilde It depends on your definition of asleep. They were not stretched out. They had their eyes closed. They were seated at their desks with their heads in a nodding position. -- John Hogan, Commonwealth If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability. -- Henry Ford Guides and Directories If you can count your money, you don't have a billion dollars. - J. Paul Getty By working faithfully eight hours a day, you might eventually get to be a boss and work twelve hours a day. -- ROBERT FROST When a thing has been said and said well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it. -- Anatole France Guides and Directories "And on the seventh day, God stepped back and said 'There is my creation, perfect in every way ... oh, damn it, I left pot all over the place. Now they'll think I want them to smoke it. Now I have to Computers can figure out all kinds of problems, except the things in the world that just don't add up. -- Anon Go away...I'm alright. -- H. G. Wells, dying words You'd be surprised how much it costs to look this cheap. -- Dolly Parton Neither fire nor wind, birth nor death can erase our good deeds. -- Buddha Guides and Directories I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart. - e e cummings "Are you bored with life? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours." (Dale "Someday there will be girls and women whose name will no longer mean the mere opposite of the male, but something in itself, something that makes one think not of any compliment and limit, but only o Guides and Directories Marriage is an institution in which a man loses his Bachelor's Degree and the woman gets her Masters. Nothing can so alienate a voter from the political system as backing a winning candidate. -- Mark B. Cohen "People demand freedom only when they have no power." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Look not mournfully into the Past. It comes not back again. Wisely improve the Present. It is thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy Future, without fear, and with a manly heart. -- Henry Wadsworth Lo Diplomat: A man who can convince his wife she would look stout in a fur coat. Guides and Directories Ninety percent of everything is crap. -- Theodore Sturgeon I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman. -- Virginia Woolf Self-reliance is the only road to true freedom, and being one's own person is its ultimate reward. -- Patricia Sampson Guides and Directories Books, like friends, should be few and well chosen. -- Samuel Paterson A man can't be too careful in the choice of his enemies. - Oscar Wilde There are trivial truths, and there are great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false. The opposite of a great truth is also true. -- Neils Bohr "Every Man and every Woman is a Star." (Aleister Crowley) 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 Guides and Directories If Satan ever loses his hair, there'll be hell toupee. -- Anonymous "Transport of the mails, transport of the human voice, transport of flickering pictures--in this century as in others our highest accomplishments still have the single aim of bringing men together." Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that he sometimes has to eat them. -- Adlai Stevenson Guides and Directories Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them good. -- H.L. Mencken "The reason why kids are crazy is because nobody can face the responsibility of bringing them up." (John Lennon) "People demand freedom only when they have no power." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) A team effort is a lot of people doing what I say. -- Michael Winner "They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself." (Andy Warhol) Guides and Directories Use your own best judgment at all times. -- The entire Nordstrom's Department Stores policy manual Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind. -- William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Act i. Sc. 1. The husband who wants a happy marriage should learn to keep his mouth shut and his checkbook open. -- Groucho Marx Guides and Directories The sun never sets on the British empire because Britain is in the east and the sun sets in the west. -- Unknown history student "Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts." (Henry B. Adams) I hate work. That's why I got married. -- Peg Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Marriage is a rest period between romances. Mathematics transfigures the fortuitous concourse of atoms into the tracery of the finger of God. -- Herbert Westren Turnbull Guides and Directories If I have seen farther than others, it is because I was standing on the shoulders of giants. -- Isaac Newton "Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free." (Emma Lazarus) then the world 's mine oyster -- William Shakespeare, The Merry Wives of Windsor Guides and Directories
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