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- Golda Meir (1898-1978) to a visiting diplomat We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.
-- Mme de Staël The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat.
-- Lily Tomlin Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parent, gobble their food, and tyrannize their
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-- Socrates A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.
- John D. Rockefeller Directories A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel.
-- Robert Frost A problem is a chance for you to do your best.
-- Buke Ellington While we are postponing, life speeds by.
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"The dancer's body is simply the luminous manifestation of the soul." (Isadora Duncan) Sometimes a scream is better than a thesis.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.
-- Henry David Thoreau "I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him." (Galileo Galilei) He who knows only his own side of the case, knows little of that.
-- John Stuart Mill Directories For centuries, theologians have been explaining the unknowable in terms of the-not-worth-
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- Henry Louis Mencken The sun never sets on the British empire because Britain is in the east and the sun sets in the
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-- Unknown history student I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known.
-- Walt Disney Directories
He who knows nothing, knows nothing. But he who knows he knows nothing knows something. And he who knows someone whose friend's wife's brother knows nothing, he knows something. Or something like that It is no use walking anywhere to preach unless our walking is our preaching.
-- St. Francis of Assisi Bigamy is one way of avoiding the painful publicity of divorce and the expense of alimony.
-- Oliver Herford Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.
-- John Lyly "I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." (James Madison) Directories Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting.
-- Karl Wallenda Anything is possible, but only a few things actually happen.
-- Richard Rosen The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds the most discoveries, is not
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-- Isaac Asimov Directories
Even a band of angels can turn ugly and start looting if enough angels are unemployed and
hanging around the Pearly Gates convinced that all the succubi own all the liquor stores in
Heaven.
-- P. J Love thy neighbor, but make sure her husband is away first. Marriage is bliss. Ignorance is bliss. Ergo... There are no days in life so memorable as those which vibrated to some stroke of the
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-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Is it better for a woman to marry a man who loves her than a man she loves.
-- Anonymous Directories The child is the father of the man.
-- William Wordsworth "To introduce something altogether new would mean to begin all over, to become ignorant again, and to run the old, old risk of failing to learn." (Isaac Asimov) One may have a blazing hearth in one's soul and yet no one ever comes to sit by it. Passersby
see only a wisp of smoke rising from the chimney and continue on their way.
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"Self-confidence is the first requisite for achieving great things." (Samuel Johnson) "Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former." (Albert Einstein) "Education is a vacine for violence." (Edward James Olmos) "People demand freedom only when they have no power." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Mathematicians are like Frenchmen: whatever you say to them they translate into their own
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percent of the people.
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The first clergyman was the first rascal who met the first fool.
-- Voltaire I have been attacked by Rush Limbaugh on the air, an experience somewhat akin to being
gummed by a newt. It doesn't actually hurt, but it leaves you with slimy stuff on your ankle.
-- Molly Ivins We come to love not by finding a perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person
perfectly.
-- Anonymous "To be great is to be misunderstood." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it. Directories May you live happily ever after with a poor, ugly, shrewish wife. We are all here for a spell; get all the good laughs you can.
-- Will Rogers "A girl can wait for the right man to come along, but in the meantime that still doesn't mean she can't have a wonderful time with all the wrong ones." (Cher) Directories
I guess the only way to stop divorce is to stop marriage.
-- Will Rogers 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 Remember your dreams.
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computer that th I'm not a member of any organized political party, I'm a Democrat!
-- Will Rogers Directories You can always amend a big plan, but you can never expand a little one. I don't believe in little
plans. I believe in plans big enough to meet a situation which we can't possibly foresee now.
-- Ha "I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it." (Thomas Jefferson, to Archibald Stuart, 1791) "Pay no attention to what the critics say; there has never been set up a statue in honor of a critic." (Jean Sibelius) Directories
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-- Albert Schweitzer If love is the answer, could you rephrase the question?
-- Lily Tomlin Love is much nicer to be in than an automobile accident, a tight girdle, a higher tax bracket, or a
holding pattern over Philadelphia.
-- Judith Viorst If everybody is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking.
-- George S. Patton, Jr. Directories The only thing you take with you when you're gone is what you leave behind.
-- John Allston It is the final proof of God's omnipotence that he need not exist in order to save us.
-- Peter De Vries I'm at the age where food has taken the place of sex in my life. In fact, I've just had a mirror put
over my kitchen table.
-- Rodney Dangerfield Directories
Smoking kills. If you're killed, you've lost a very important part of your life.
-- Brooke Shields, during an interview to become spokesperson for a federal anti-smoking
campaign "I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it." (Thomas Jefferson, to Archibald Stuart, 1791) I will try to follow the advice that a university president once gave a prospective commencement
speaker. "Think of yourself as the body at an Irish wake" he said. "They need you in order to have
th Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive.
-- Anaïs Nin Meetings are an addictive, highly self-indulgent activity that corporations and other large
organizations habitually engage in only because they cannot actually masturbate.
-- Dave Barry Directories I don't know anything about luck. I've never banked on it, and I'm afraid of people who do. Luck to
me is something else; hard work and realizing what is opportunity and what isn't.
-- Lucille Ball Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.
-- Francis Bacon Better to have loved a short man than never to have loved a tall.
-- David Chambless Directories
The older one grows, the more one likes indecency.
-- Virginia Woolf The mistakes are all waiting to be made.
- chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower (1887-1956) on the game's opening position 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 Honor's a thing too subtle for wisdom; if honor lie in eating, he's right honorable.
-- Beaumont, Francis Saying that men talk about baseball in order to avoid talking about their feelings is the same as
saying that women talk about their feelings in order to avoid talking about baseball.
-- Deborah Tan Directories Some of us are becoming the men we wanted to marry.
-- Gloria Steinem Be willing to make decisions. That's the most important quality in a good leader. Don't fall victim
to what I call the 'ready-aim-aim-aim-aim syndrome.' You must be willing to fire.
-- Gen. George I don't mind if you don't like my manners. I don't like them myself. They're pretty bad. I grieve over
them on long winter evenings.
-- Humphrey Bogart to Lauren Bacall, in "The Big Sleep" Directories
"Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking." (H. Jackson Brown (Jr.) We have children because we want immortality and this is the most reliable way of getting it.
-- Woodrow Wyatt History is more or less bunk.
-- Henry Ford Author: A fool, who, not content with having bored those who have lived with him, insists on
tormenting the generations to come.
-- Montesquieu The possibility that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause
we believe to be just.
-- Abraham Lincoln Directories If you were plowing a field, which would you rather use? Two strong oxen or 1024 chickens?
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