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philosopher.
- Socrates "If you believe everything you read, you better not read." (Japanese Proverb) Why bother with marriage? Just find a woman you hate and buy her a house. We do not have censorship. What we have is a limitation on what newspapers can report.
-- Louis Nel, Deputy Minister of Information, South Africa Business and Economy This compact disc is made from analog masters recorded without noise reduction. Half the tracks,
in fact, were recorded in a dismal, cheap basement eight-track studio with puddles of water on
the fl Music is the art of thinking with sounds.
-- Jules Combarieu If excessive smoking actually plays a role in the production of lung cancer, it seems to be a minor
one.
-- Dr. W.C. Heuper of the National Cancer Institute, as quoted in the New York Times on Apri Business and Economy
Mathematics transfigures the fortuitous concourse of atoms into the tracery of the finger of God.
-- Herbert Westren Turnbull "A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) Success is peace of mind which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you did your best
to become the best you are capable of becoming.
-- John R. Wooden, Practical Modern Basketball They think they can make fuel from horse manure.... Now, I don't know if your car will be able to
get 30 miles to the gallon, but it's sure gonna put a stop to siphoning.
-- Billie Holliday The weirder you're going to behave, the more normal you should look. It works in reverse, too.
When I see a kid with three or four rings in his nose, I know there is absolutely nothing
extraordinary Business and Economy Better watch out that you won't become a television set in your next life.
--Loesje We don't like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out.
-- Decca Recording Company, rejecting the Beatles, 1962 It is important that students bring a certain ragamuffin, barefoot, irreverence to their studies; they
are not here to worship what is known, but to question it.
-- J. Bronowski, The Ascent of Man Business and Economy
The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat.
-- Lily Tomlin Never look at the trombones. You'll only encourage them.
-- Richard Strauss, on conducting For most of history, Anonymous was a woman.
-- Virginia Woolf Love is an attempt to change a piece of the dream-world into reality.
-- Theodor Reik We never live; we are always in the expectation of living.
-- Voltaire Business and Economy I'll sleep when I'm dead.
- Warren Zevon Peculiar travel suggestions are dancing lessons from God.
-- Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., Cat's Cradle A man's feet should be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world.
-- George Santayana Business and Economy
"I either want less corruption, or more chance to participate in it." (Ashleigh Brilliant) More light!
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, dying words Eternal boyhood is the dream of a depressing percentage of American males, and the locker
room is the temple where they worship arrested development.
-- Russell Baker Don't marry for money; you can borrow it cheaper. Oregon Democratic Senate candidate Tom Bruggere, in describing his support for
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time, and still retain the ability to function.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald However, never daunted, I will cope with adversity in my usual manner...sulking and nausea.
-- Tom K. Ryan Diplomacy is the art of saying "Nice doggie" until you can find a rock.
-- Wynn Catlin, also attributed to Will Rogers Business and Economy
Books had instant replay long before televised sports.
-- Bern Williams The work of internal government has become the task of controlling the thousands of fifth-rate
men.
-- Henry B. Adams Better to have loved a short man than never to have loved a tall.
-- David Chambless Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid.
- George Bernard Shaw Business and Economy Conceit causes more conversation than wit.
-- LaRouchefoucauld "Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh." (George Bernard Shaw) Wives are people who feel they don't dance enough.
-- Groucho Marx Business and Economy
In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that
no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it's the exact opposite.
-- Paul Dirac A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.
-- St. Augustine Anyone can be passionate, but it takes real lovers to be silly.
-- Rose Franken "As long as people will accept crap, it will be financially profitable to dispense it." (Dick Cavett) There's no problem so awful that you can't add some guilt to it and make it even worse!
-- Calvin Business and Economy The first rule of intelligent tinkering is to save all the parts.
-- Paul Ehrlich Time is at once the most valuable and most perishable of all our possessions.
-- John Randolph "A conservative is a man who sits and thinks, mostly sits." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) Business and Economy
Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect, and it is shameful to surrender it too soon or to the first
comer: there is nobility in preserving it coolly and proudly through long youth, until at last "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) "People expect a certain reaction from a business, and when you pleasantly exceed those expectations, you've somehow passed an important psychological threshold." (Richard Thalheimer, president, The We didn't lose the game; we just ran out of time.
- Vince Lombardi I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
-- Thomas Edison Business and Economy "Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country." (Marquis de Lafayette) I've been trying desperately to save my marriage for the last 35 years. If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolute powerlessness make you pure?
-- Harry Shearer Business and Economy
Marriage means commitment. Of course, so does insanity. Matters of religion should never be matters of controversy. We neither argue with a lover about
his taste, not condemn him, if we are just, for knowing so human a passion.
-- George Santayana Why doesn't she like me? Is it my hair, my overbite, the fact that I've worn the same shirt and
shorts for the last four years?
-- Bart Simpson, young character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated tele "Experience is the name that everyone gives to their mistakes." (Oscar Wilde) We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.
-- George Bernard Shaw Business and Economy Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands, but English women only hope to find in their butlers. -- W. Somerset Maugham The less a man thinks or knows about his virtues, the better we like him.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Women: If they're not turning down your proposals for marriage, they're accusing you of
suspicious behavior in the women's lingerie changing room.
-- Cliff Clavin, character on "Cheers", U.S. Televi Business and Economy
Never look at the trombones. You'll only encourage them.
-- Richard Strauss, on conducting I must follow the people. Am I not their leader?
-- Benjamin Disraeli I like nonsense -- it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living. It's a way
of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope...and that enables you to laugh at all "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) For best results: wash in cold water separately, hang dry and iron with warm iron. For not so good
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-- Laundry instructions on a shirt Business and Economy If a thing is worth doing at all, it is worth doing badly.
-- Gustav Holst, on amateur music-making Love one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that.
-- Michael Leunig Truth can be a dangerous thing. It is quite patient and relentless.
-- R. Scott Richards Business and Economy
Marriage is a rest period between romances. "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' A narcissist is someone better-looking than you are.
-- Gore Vidal "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) "And on the seventh day, God stepped back and said 'There is my creation, perfect in every way ... oh, damn it, I left pot all over the place. Now they'll think I want them to smoke it. Now I have to Business and Economy I hate women because they always know where things are.
-- James Thurber "When marrying, ask yourself this question: Do you believe that you will be able to converse well with this person into your old age? Everything else in marriage is transitory." (Friedrich Wilhelm Ni Curiosity will conquer fear even more than bravery will.
-- James Stephens Business and Economy
He that always gives way to others will end in having no principles of his own.
-- Aesop Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.
-- Erica Jong Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
- Gail Godwin I think there are only three things America will be known for 2,000 years from now when they
study this civilization: the Constitution, jazz music, and baseball.
-- Gerald Early, writer, baseball do Of the seven dwarves, only Dopey had a shaven face. This should tell us something about the
custom of shaving.
-- Tom Robbins, Skinny Legs and All Business and Economy The only thing that holds a marriage together is the husband bein' big enough to keep his mouth
shut, to step back and see where his wife is wrong.
-- Archie Bunker, character on "All in the Family, It's not the men in my life that count, it's the life in my men.
-- Mae West In a cat's eyes, all things belong to cats.
-- English Proverb Business and Economy
