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Dogma is the sacrifice of wisdom to consistency.
- Lewis Perelman "To be great is to be misunderstood." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) An act of love that fails is just as much a part of the divine life as an act of love that succeeds, for
love is measured by fullness, not by reception.
-- Harold Loukes Hey, you can't fight in here! This is the war room!
-- Dr. Strangelove Considering the flames and intolerance, shouldn't USENET be spelled ABUSENET?
-- Michael Meissner Legal and Reference But at my back I always hear Time's winged chariot hurrying near.
- Andrew Marvell "Against stupidity the very gods themselves contend in vain." (Johann Christian Friedrich von Schiller, 1759-1805, The Maid of Orleans. Act iii. Sc. 6.) "So little done, so much to do." (Cecil Rhodes) Legal and Reference
The course of true love never did run smooth.
-- William Shakespeare To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance
- Oscar Wilde I was nauseous and tingly all over... I was either in love or I had smallpox.
-- Woody Allen Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.
- Jean-Paul Sartre A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted
by a little physical antipathy.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche Legal and Reference Prejudice is the child of ignorance.
-- William Hazlitt When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I only think about how to solve the
problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
- Buckminster The course of true love never did run smooth.
-- William Shakespeare Legal and Reference
"Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) If I had only known, I would have been a locksmith.
-- Albert Einstein If one advances confidently in the direction of one's dreams, and endeavours to live the life which
one has imagined, one will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
-- Henry David Thoreau It's true that I did get the girl, but then my grandfather always said, "Even a blind chicken finds a
few grains of corn now and then."
-- Lyle Lovett, musician, upon marying actress Julia Roberts, "In some ways, I never outgrew my adolescence. I wake up in the morning and think, 'Oh my God, I'm late for a math test!' But then I say, 'Wait a minute. I'm 40.'" (Daniel Clowes) Legal and Reference "People drag their progeny around with them like a ball and chain, like some terrible deadweight that hinders their every move - and that, as often as not, effectively winds up killing them." (Michel "A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool." (William Shakespeare) I admire the serene assurance of those who have religious faith. It is wonderful to observe the
calm confidence of a Christian with four aces.
-- Mark Twain Legal and Reference
A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take her off his hands. -- Guitry Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
-- Oscar Wilde Oregon Democratic Senate candidate Tom Bruggere, in describing his support for
comprehensive health care during a candidates' forum, said he supported "erection-to-
resurrection" coverage. He later a We always believe our first love is our last, and our last love our first.
-- Anonymous Never judge someone by who he's in love with; judge him by his friends. People fall in love with
the most appalling people. Take a cool, appraising glance at his pals.
-- Cynthia Heimel Legal and Reference In great matters men show themselves as they wish to be seen; in small matters, as they are.
-- Gamaliel Bradford Death does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when it does
come, we no longer exist.
-- Epicurus He who kisses the joy is it flies lives in eternity's sunrise
-- William Blake Legal and Reference
Wind is to fire like distance is to love; it extinguishes the small and enflames the great.
-- Anonymous Never practice two vices at once.
-- Tallulah Bankhead Work is a four-letter word.
-- The Smiths (Morrissey) "Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Miracles occur naturally as expressions of love. The real miracle is the love that inspires them. In
this sense everything that comes from love is a miracle.
-- Marianne Williamson Legal and Reference Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the
unpalatable.
-- John Kenneth Galbraith "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) "I put on an act sometimes, and people think I'm insensitive. Really, it's like a kind of armor because I'm too sensitive. If there are two hundred people in a room and one of them doesn't like me, I' Legal and Reference
One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is
terribly important.
-- Bertrand Russell Never moon a werewolf.
-- Mike Binder If ever two were one, then surely we.
If ever man were loved by wife, then thee.
-- Anne Bradstreet To correct a natural indifference I was placed half-way between misery and the sun. Misery kept
me from believing that all was well under the sun, and the sun taught me that history wasn't
everythin 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 Legal and Reference "What is the difference between exploring and being lost?" (Dan Eldon, photojournalist) You got to be careful if you don't know where you're going, because you might not get there.
-- Yogi Berra Good-bye. I am leaving because I am bored.
-- George Saunders - last words Legal and Reference
I dislike arguments of any kind. They are always vulgar, and often convincing.
-- Oscar Wilde Beauty as we feel it is something indescribable; what it is or what it means can never be said.
-- George Santayana 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 In the sciences, we are now uniquely privileged to sit side by side with the giants on whose
shoulders we stand.
-- Gerald Holton Ninety percent of the game is half mental.
-- Yogi Berra Legal and Reference I don't know exactly what democracy is. But we need more of it.
-- Anonymous Chinese Student, during protests in Tianamen Square, Beijing, 1989 A coward is a hero with a wife, kids, and a mortgage.
-- Marvin Kitman "Talent does what it can; genius does what it must." (Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton) Legal and Reference
In every man's heart there is a secret nerve that answers to the vibrations of beauty.
-- Christopher Morley If it weren't for marriage, men and women would have to fight with total strangers.
-- Anonymous No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman.
-- Honore de Balzac Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that he sometimes has to eat them.
-- Adlai Stevenson Although the course may change sometimes, rivers always reach the sea.
-- Led Zeppelin, Ten Years Gone Legal and Reference Is fuel efficiency really what we need most desperately? I say what we really need is a car that
can be shot when it breaks down.
-- Russell Baker This is a test. It is only a test. Had it been an actual job, you would have received raises,
promotions, and other signs of appreciation.
-- Anonymous "Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain -- and most fools do." (Dale Carnegie) Legal and Reference
"A conservative is a man who sits and thinks, mostly sits." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) Whoever controls the media--the images--controls the culture.
-- Allen Ginsberg "If you meet a woman that smokes cigars ... marry her." (Arthur Lotti) Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
-- Albert Einstein I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.
- Thomas Jefferson Legal and Reference There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you
yourself have altered.
-- Nelson Mandela, A Long Walk to Freedom When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life
of another.
-- Helen Keller If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one.
-- Mother Teresa Legal and Reference
Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars
-- Les Brown Author: A fool, who, not content with having bored those who have lived with him, insists on
tormenting the generations to come.
-- Montesquieu Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.
-- G. K. Chesterton "Employees make the best dates. You don't have to pick them up and they're always tax-deductible." (Andy Warhol, Andy Warhol's Exposures, 1980) "Once spirit was God, then it became man, and now it is even becoming mob." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Legal and Reference There are not enough Indians in the world to defeat the Seventh Cavalry.
-- George Armstrong Custer "The key to wisdom is knowing all the right questions." (John A. Simone Jr.) Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.
-- Albert Einstein Legal and Reference
Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your position falls, your ego goes with
it.
-- Colin Powell Children are a poor man's riches.
-- English proverb You'd be surprised how much it costs to look this cheap.
-- Dolly Parton It is well, when judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and
superior impartiality.
-- Arnold Bennett The multitude is always in the wrong.
-- Wentworth Dillon, Earl of Roscommon, 1684 Legal and Reference Why is it that our memory is good enough to retain the least triviality that happens to us, and yet
not good enough to recollect how often we have told it to the same person?
-- François de La Rouch A good marriage is like a casserole, only those responsible for it really know what goes in it.
-- Anonymous Work is a four-letter word.
-- The Smiths (Morrissey) Legal and Reference
