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Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after.
-- Anne Morrow Lindbergh In America, anybody can be president. That's one of the risks you take.
-- Adlai Stevenson In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
- Martin Luther King Jr. I believe that mink are raised for being turned into fur coats and if we didn't wear fur coats those
little animals would never have been born. So is it better not to have been born or to have lived 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 Maidenhead "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) If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one.
-- Mother Teresa Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth. -- John Lyly Maidenhead
"We always get bored with those whom we bore." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) "Think where mans glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends." (William Butler Yeats) "Every Man and every Woman is a Star." (Aleister Crowley) "You know that being an American is more than a matter of where your parents came from. It is a belief that all men are created free and equal and that everyone deserves an even break." (Harry S. Tru Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in
accordance with the dictates of reason.
-- Oscar Wilde Maidenhead Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and
science.
-- Albert Einstein "I don't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones." (John Cage) Maidenhead
True thinkers are characterised by a blending of clearness and mystery.
-- Victor Hugo Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop
questioning.
-- Albert Einstein Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.
-- Philip K. Dick Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering. I hate mankind, for I think myself to be one of them, and I know how bad I am.
-- Samuel Johnson Maidenhead A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.
- John D. Rockefeller Behind every great fortune there is a crime.
- Honore de Balzac America is the only nation in history which miraculously has gone directly from barbarism to
degeneration without the usual intervention of civilization.
-- George Clemenceau Maidenhead
In any organization there will always be one person who knows what is going on. This person
must be fired.
-- Conway's Law When you don't know that you don't know, it's a lot different than when you do know that you
don't know. He knows now that he doesn't know. Last year, he didn't know that.
-- Bill Parcels, New Engla What's new? Most of my wife. "One of the things about acting is it allows you to live other people's lives without having to pay the price. I've never been one of those actors who has touted myself as a fascinating human being. I "I praise loudly. I blame softly." (Catherine the Great) Maidenhead Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
-- George Bernard Shaw The crime bill passed by the Senate would reinstate the Federal death penalty for certain violent
crimes: assassinating the President; hijacking an airliner; and murdering a government poultry
inspe Things are more like they are now than they ever were before.
-- Dwight D. Eisenhower, U.S. President Maidenhead
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 Never eat more than you can lift.
-- Miss Piggy, character on "The Muppet Show," U.S. television show For the memory of love is sweet, though the love itself were in vain. And what I have lost of
pleasure, assuage what I find of pain.
-- Lyster Have you ever noticed? Anybody going slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than
you is a maniac.
-- George Carlin Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and
retaliation. the foundation of such a method is love.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Maidenhead Vote for the man who promises least. He'll be the least disappointing.
-- Bernard Baruch If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe.
- Carl Sagan Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche Maidenhead
There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.
-- George Santayana Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for
appointment by the corrupt few.
-- George bernard Shaw Half of the American people never read a newspaper.
Half never voted for President.
One hopes it is the same half.
-- Gore Vidal If other people are going to talk, conversation becomes impossible.
-- James McNeill Whistler Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.
-- Virginia Woolf Maidenhead "The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves." (William Hazlitt) There are two means of refuge from the misery of life - music and cats.
-- Albert Schweitzer The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
-- General George Patton Maidenhead
Until the day of his death, no man can be sure of his courage.
-- Jean Anouilh "I never resist temptation, because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me." (George Bernard Shaw) He that always gives way to others will end in having no principles of his own.
-- Aesop "If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost." (Aristotle) It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.
-- Harry Truman Maidenhead The time is always right to do what is right.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. You can get more with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone.
-- Al Capone "Dreams are the touchstones of our personality." (Henry David Thoreau) Maidenhead
Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the
gentleman.
-- Herbert Spencer 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? 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 The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.
-- ROBERT FROST Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.
-- Bertrand Russell Maidenhead Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for him. -- Rich Little Show my head to the people, it is worth seeing.
-- Georges Danton, to his executioner Dishonor will not trouble me, once I am dead.
-- Euripides Maidenhead
Saying that Windows95 is equal to Macintosh is like finding a potato that looks like Jesus and
believing you've witnessed the second coming.
-- Guy Kawasaki Marriage still confers one very special privilege - only a married person can get divorced. 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 seek the comfort of another. Someone to share and share the life we choose. Someone to
help us through the neverending attempt to understand ourselves. And in the end, someone to
comfort us along A real leader faces the music, even when he doesn't like the tune.
-- Anonymous Maidenhead 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 Obstacles cannot crush me. Every obstacle yields to stern resolve. He who is fixed to a star does
not change his mind.
-- Leonardo da Vinci, Notebooks Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
-- Oscar Wilde Maidenhead
"The formula for my happiness: a Yes, a No, a straight line, a goal." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Not only is there no God, but try finding a plumber on Sunday.
-- Woody Allen I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible
by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.
- Umberto Eco Few things are harder to put up with than a good example.
- Mark Twain There are some experiences in life which should not be demanded twice from any man, and one
of them is listening to the Brahms Requiem.
-- George Bernard Shaw Maidenhead "Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it." (John Quincy Adams) "One often contradicts an opinion when what is uncongenial is really the tone in which it was conveyed." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.
-- Albert Einstein Maidenhead
Marriage is a lottery in which men stake their liberty and women their happiness.
-- Madame de Rieux To die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture.
-- Anatole France "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) We have only one person to blame, and that's each other.
-- Barry Beck, New York Ranger, on who started a fight furing a hockey game Immature love says: "I love you because I need you." Mature love says: "I need you because I
love you."
-- Erich Fromm Maidenhead There is nothing so wrong in this world that a sensible woman can't set it right in the course of an
afternoon.
-- Giraudoux "If a million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing." (Anatole France) I dislike arguments of any kind. They are always vulgar, and often convincing.
-- Oscar Wilde Maidenhead