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University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
-- Henry Kissinger Age does not protect you from love but love to some extent protects you from age.
-- Jeanne Moreau If law school is so hard to get through... how come there are so many lawyers?
-- Calvin Trillin A man has to live with himself, and he should see to it that he always has good company.
-- Charles Evans Hughes Democracy is a process by which the people are free to choose the man who will get the blame.
-- Laurence J. Peter Building Conservation "If you light a man a fire, he will be warm for a day; if you light a man on fire, he will be warm for the rest of his life." (Anonymous) God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.
-- Voltaire Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.
-- Louise Hay Building Conservation
Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it.
-- George Bernard Shaw Good friends are good for your health.
-- Irwin Sarason "For how can one know color in perpetual green, and what good is warmth without cold to give it sweetness?" (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) A woman has got to love a bad man once or twice in her life to be thankful for a good one.
-- Mae West A memorandum is written not to inform the reader but to protect the writer.
-- Dean Acheson Building Conservation A teacher is one who makes himself progressively unnecessary.
-- Thomas Carruthers A behaviorist is someone who pulls habits out of rats.
-- Anonymous "Be the change that you want to see in the world." (Mohandas Gandhi) Building Conservation
We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.
-- Mme de Staël Good hours, excellent pay, fun place to work, paid training, mean boss. Oh well, four out of five
isn't bad.
-- Help Wanted Ad, PA newspaper, 1994 A good time to keep your mouth shut is when you're in deep water.
-- Sidney Goff "If A equals success, then the formula is: A = X + Y + Z, X is work. Y is play. Z is keep your mouth shut." (Albert Einstein) Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked
where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.
-- D. H. Lawrence Building Conservation In America, anybody can be president. That's one of the risks you take.
-- Adlai Stevenson Hell is paved with good samaritans.
-- William M. Holden Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it
- Henry David Thoreau Building Conservation
"Greed, for lack of a better word, is good. Greed is right. Greed works." (Michael Douglas, as Gordon Gekko, Wall Street, 1987) God help the man who won't marry until he finds a perfect woman, and God help him still more if
he finds her.
-- Benjamin Tillett May your wife be a witch who takes after her mother, and may you all live together in a one-room house. In all recorded history there has not been one economist who has had to worry about where the
next meal would come from.
-- Peter F. Drucker When one is trying to do something beyond his known powers it is useless to seek the approval
of friends. Friends are at their best in moments of defeat.
-- Henry Miller Building Conservation Die? I should say not, dear fellow. No Barrymore would allow such a conventional thing to
happen to him.
-- John Barrymore - last words "Greed, for lack of a better word, is good. Greed is right. Greed works." (Michael Douglas, as Gordon Gekko, Wall Street, 1987) "No one ever owns his youth or the women he loves." (Pedro Almodóvar, Live Flesh) Building Conservation
"Crime like death is not confined to the old and withered alone. The youngest and fairest are too often its chosen victims." (Charles Dickens, 1812-70, Oliver Twist) "No man is clever enough to know all the evil he does." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) "The dancer's body is simply the luminous manifestation of the soul." (Isadora Duncan) Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of
the time.
-- E. B. White If you are afraid of loneliness, do not marry. -- Chekhov Building Conservation When he first ran for office, he appealed to the voters: "I never stole anything in my life. All I ask
is a chance."
-- Anon. 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 All over Washington today, the politicians and the power brokers are happy. In fact, if you listen
closely, you can hear the sound of champagne corks popping.
-- Paul Jacob, Term Limits Executive Di Building Conservation
Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
- Henry Louis Mencken My mother's menu consisted of two choices: Take it or leave it.
-- Buddy Hackett We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we
respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart.
-- H. L. Mencken "Your children are not your children. They are sons and daughters of life's longing for itself. They come through you but not from you. And though they are with you, they belong not to you. You may gi A man who has never made a woman angry is a failure in life.
-- Christopher Morley Building Conservation 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 "If you want a thing done well, do it yourself." (Napoleon Bonaparte) In the halls of justice, the only justice is in the halls.
-- Lenny Bruce Building Conservation
Stung by the splendour of a sudden thought.
-- Robert Browning "It is awfully easy to be hard-boiled about everything in the daytime, but at night it is another thing." (Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises) The grand aim of all science is to cover the greatest number of empirical facts by logical
deduction from the smallest number of hypotheses or axioms.
-- Albert Einstein Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education
without natural ability.
Cicero (106 BC - 43 BC) There are not enough Indians in the world to defeat the Seventh Cavalry.
-- George Armstrong Custer Building Conservation There are times when parenthood seems nothing but feeding the mouth that bites you.
-- Peter De Vries Life isn't a matter of milestones, but of moments.
-- Rose Kennedy May you be blessed with a wife so healthy and strong, she can pull the plow when your horse drops dead. Building Conservation
"Brevity is the soul of wit." (William Shakespeare) There is nothing more notable in Socrates than that he found time, when he was an old man, to
learn music and dancing, and thought it time well spent.
-- Michel de Montaigne The world has suffered more from the ravages of ill-advised marriages than from virginity.
-- Ambrose Bierce I'm for abolishing and doing away with redundancy.
-- J. Curtis McKay, Wisconsin State Elections Board "Drugs have done a lot of good. A lot of good songs have been written. 'Penny Lane' is worth 10 dead kids. 'Dark Side of the Moon?' 100 dead kids. At least that many were conceived by people listening Building Conservation Few things are harder to put up with than a good example.
- Mark Twain Based on what you know about him in history books, what do you think Abraham Lincoln would
be doing if he were alive today?
1) Writing his memoirs of the Civil War.
2) Advising the President.
3) D Courage: doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared.
-- Eddie Rickenbacker Building Conservation
"An able man shows his spirit by gentle words and resolute actions; he is neither hot nor timid." (Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield, 4th earl of) Insurance is like marriage. You pay, pay, pay, and you never get anything back.
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show We need the iron qualities that go with true manhood. We need the positive virtues of resolution,
of courage, of indomitable will, of power to do without shrinking the rough work that must always
be Creativity is piercing the mundane to find the marvelous.
-- Bill Moyers 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 Building Conservation I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.
- Thomas Watson, Chairman of IBM, 1943 "Conforming is only acceptable when you conform with a nonconformist." (John A. Simone Jr.) The average Ph.D thesis is nothing but the transference of bones from one graveyard to another.
-- Frank J. Dobie, A Texan in England, 1945 Building Conservation
'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
-- ee cummings "In order to attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd." (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1547-1616) We are not retreating - we are advancing in another Direction.
- General Douglas MacArthur To take what there "is", and use it, without waiting forever in vain for the preconceived - to dig
deep into the actual and get something out of that - this doubtless is the right way to live.
-- H Beware of men on airplanes. The minute a man reaches thirty thousand feet, he immediately
becomes consumed by distasteful sexual fantasies which involve doing uncomfortable things in
those tiny toil Building Conservation I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
- e e cummings People say "I want peace." If you remove I {ego}, and your want {desire}, you are left with peace.
-- Satya Sai Baba "I don't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones." (John Cage) Building Conservation
They were doing a full back shot of me in a swimsuit and I thought, Oh my God, I have to be so
brave. See, every woman hates herself from behind.
-- Cindy Crawford, supermodel "All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his." (Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest) I believe God is managing affairs and that He doesn't need any advice from me. With God in
charge, I believe everything will work out for the best in the end. So what is there to worry about.
-- Hen "I've decided something: Commercial things really do stink. As soon as it becomes commercial for a mass market it really stinks." (Andy Warhol, The Andy Warhol Diaries, 1989) Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the
unpalatable.
-- John Kenneth Galbraith Building Conservation Whoever controls the media--the images--controls the culture.
-- Allen Ginsberg It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.
-- Harry Truman Courage: doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared.
-- Eddie Rickenbacker Building Conservation
