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"See - one side of my face is gentle and kind, incapable of anything but love of my fellow man. The other side, the other profile, is cruel and predatory and evil, incapable of anything but lusts and Friends need not agree in everything or go always together, or have no comparable other
friendships of the same intimacy. On the contrary, in friendship union is more about ideal things:
and in that Give me chastity and continence, but not yet.
- Saint Augustine The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
- Samuel Johnson "God is dead: but considering the state Man is in, there will perhaps be caves, for ages yet, in which his shadow will be shown." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, The Joyful Wisdom) Traded Endowments Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.
-- Philip K. Dick The whole problem can be stated quite simply by asking, "Is there a meaning to music?" My
answer would be, "Yes." And "Can you state in so many words what the meaning is?" My answer
to that would be Discovery consists of looking at the same thing as everyone else does and thinking something
different.
-- Albert Szent-Gyorgyi, 1937 Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine Traded Endowments
"It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend." (William Blake) "When even one American--who has done nothing wrong--is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth--then all Americans are in peril." (Harry S. Truman) Guide to understanding a net.addict's day:
Slow day: didn't have much to do, so spent three hours on usenet.
Busy day: managed to work in three hours of usenet.
Bad day: barely squeezed in three ho We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
-- Winston Churchill We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
-- Winston Churchill Traded Endowments The good people sleep much better at night than the bad people. Of course, the bad people enjoy
the waking hours much more.
-- Woody Allen 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? Show my head to the people, it is worth seeing.
-- Georges Danton, to his executioner Traded Endowments
"Conform and be dull." (J. Frank Doble) Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do.
-- Dr. Benjamin Spock, American pediatrician, address to new parents "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) If God wanted women to understand men, football would never have been created.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Marriage still confers one very special privilege - only a married person can get divorced. Traded Endowments 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 I guess the only way to stop divorce is to stop marriage.
-- Will Rogers My Alma mater was books, a good library . . . . I could spend the rest of my life reading, just
satisfying my curiosity.
--Malcolm X Traded Endowments
"Great work is done by people who are not afraid to be great." (Fernando Flores) It is absurd to divide people into good or bad. People are either charming or tedious.
-- Oscar Wilde No woman marries for money; they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in
love with him first.
-- Cesare Pavese "The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves." (William Hazlitt) When the mouse laughs at the cat, there is a hole nearby.
-- Nigerian Proverb Traded Endowments Substitute "damn" every time you're inclined to write "very"; your editor will delete it and the
writing will be just as it should be.
-- Mark Twain "Friendship is born at the moment when one person says to another, 'What?! You too! Thought I was the only one.'" (Clive Staples Lewis) Trust, but verify.
-- Ronald Reagan Traded Endowments
You have to walk carefully in the beginning of love; the running across fields into your lover's
arms can only come later when you're sure they won't laugh if you trip.
-- Jonathan Carroll, Outside We are all here for a spell; get all the good laughs you can.
-- Will Rogers 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 "Defeat the fear of death and welcome the death of fear." (G. Gordon Liddy) What if it was cats who invented technology... would they have tv shows starring rubber sqeak
toys?
-- Douglas Coupland Traded Endowments "Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution yet." (Mae West) Each religion, by the help of more or less myth which it takes more or less seriously, proposes
some method of fortifying the human soul and enabline it to make its peace with its destiny.
-- George "Those that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." (Benjamin Franklin) Traded Endowments
In a hierarchy, every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence. Therefore:
? In time, every post tends to be occupied by an employee who is incompetent to carry out its
duties.
? Work Art and science have their meeting point in method.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton You can only find truth with logic if you have already found truth without it.
- Gilbert Keith Chesterton Whoever controls the media--the images--controls the culture.
-- Allen Ginsberg Abstract art: a product of the untalented sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.
-- Al Capp Traded Endowments "A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) I require three things in a man: He must be handsome, ruthless, and stupid.
-- Dorothy Parker Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go.
- Oscar Wilde Traded Endowments
Politics is for people who have a passion for changing life but lack a passion for living it.
-- Tom Robbins "One can do without people but one has need of a friend." (Chinese Proverb) To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.
-- Oscar Wilde "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) First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.
- Mahatma Gandhi Traded Endowments Friends need not agree in everything or go always together, or have no comparable other
friendships of the same intimacy. On the contrary, in friendship union is more about ideal things:
and in that Anything is possible, but only a few things actually happen.
-- Richard Rosen It is a product of Einstein's genius -- taking a commonplace observation, combining it with some
simple imaginary experiments, and arriving at a revolutionary conclusion.
-- Clifford M. Wills, 1986 Traded Endowments
The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax.
-- Albert Einstein In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
- Martin Luther King Jr. In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.
-- Albert Einstein Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains or slavery? Forbid it,
Almighty God! I know not what course others may take but as for me; give me liberty or give me
de A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties; no
religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear
of Traded Endowments Jealousy is the only vice that gives no pleasure.
-- Anonymous Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
-- George Santayana Experience is the worst teacher; it gives the test before presenting the lesson.
-- Vernon Law Traded Endowments
For best results: wash in cold water separately, hang dry and iron with warm iron. For not so good
results: drag behind car through puddles, blow-dry on roofrack.
-- Laundry instructions on a shirt When Michelangelo finished the painting of the Sistine Chapel's ceiling, he spent the rest of his
life trying to remove the paint that had poured into his sleeve.
-- Francois Cavanna Life is not an easy matter.... You cannot live through it without falling into frustration and cynicism
unless you have before you a great idea which raises you above personal misery, above
weakness "'Contrariwise,' continued Tweedledee, 'if it was so, it might be, and if it were so, it would be; but as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic!'" (Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking Glass) 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 Traded Endowments "Nothing touches a work of art so little as words of criticism: they always result in more or less fortunate misunderstandings." (Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet) When you are right, you cannot be too radical; When you are wrong, you cannot be too
conservative.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. "The order of the world is always right - such is the judgment of God. For God has departed, but he has left his judgment behind, the way the Cheshire Cat left his grin." (Jean Baudrillard) Traded Endowments
If you talk to God, you are praying; if God talks to you, you have schizophrenia.
-- Thomas Szasz "The concerned investment banker is the one who blows the horn on his Mercedes as he drives through a red light." (Anonymous) We're our own dragons as well as our own heroes, and we have to rescue ourselves from
ourselves.
-- Tom Robbins It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
- Mark Twain "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world, indeed it is the only thing that ever has." (Margaret Mead, 1901-78) Traded Endowments What if nothing exists and we're all in somebody's dream? Or what's worse, what if only that fat
guy in the third row exists?
-- Woody Allen The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing that you will make one.
-- Ellen Hubbard Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them
down people's throats.
-- Howard Aiken Traded Endowments
"The only way to have friends is to be one." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Great innovations should not be forced on slender majorities.
-- Thomas Jefferson "The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none." (Thomas Carlyle, 1795-1881) For I am a bear of very little brain and long words bother me.
-- Winnie the Pooh, character from author A. A. Milne "He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever." (Chinese Proverb) Traded Endowments If you can't get rid of the skeleton in your closet, you'd best teach it to dance.
- George Bernard Shaw Ask her to wait a moment - I am almost done.
-- Carl Friedrich Gauss, when informed that his wife was dying Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald Traded Endowments
