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"A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward." (Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1882 - 1945, 32nd U.S. President) Although the course may change sometimes, rivers always reach the sea.
-- Led Zeppelin, Ten Years Gone Public office is the last refuge of a scoundrel.
-- Boies Penrose, 1931 Nobody ever died of laughter.
-- Max Beerbohm Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day.
-- Thornton Wilder Activism Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you.
- Carl Gustav Jung When Baby's cries grew hard to bear I popped him in the Frigidaire. I never would have done so if
I'd known that he'd be frozen stiff. My wife said, "George, I'm so unhappy! Our darling's now
comple Victory belongs to the most persevering.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte Activism
"Use what talents you possess; The woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best." (William Blake) "I am not afraid of tomorrow, for i have seen yesterday and i love today!" (William Allen White) "When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of all the other men of her acquaintance for the inattention of just one." (Helen Rowland) The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
-- Mark Twain "It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open one's mouth and remove all doubt." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) Activism Many a man has finally succeeded only because he has failed after repeated efforts. If he had
never met defeat he would never have known any great victory.
-- Orison Swett Marden Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are conservatives.
-- John Stuart Mill Distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes.
- Henry David Thoreau Activism
When I give a lecture, I accept that people look at their watches, but what I do not tolerate is
when they look at it and raise it to their ear to find out if it stopped.
-- Marcel Achard "We always get bored with those whom we bore." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) Often it does seem a pity that Noah and his party did not miss the boat.
-- Mark Twain Twenty years fron now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones
you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in
your Dew knot trussed yore spell chequer two fined awl yore mistakes.
-- Brendan Hills Activism The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow
extinction from apathy, indifference, and undernourishment.
-- Robert Hutchins, Great Books, 1954 Mathematics, rightly viewed, posses not only truth, but supreme beauty -- a beauty cold and
austere, like that of sculpture.
-- Bertrand Russell "No one ever owns his youth or the women he loves." (Pedro Almodóvar, Live Flesh) Activism
Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing.
-- Oscar Wilde Dreams never hurt anybody if you keep working right behind the dreams to make as much of
them become real as you can.
-- Frank W. Woolworth One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is
terribly important.
-- Bertrand Russell "True friends, like diamonds, are precious and rare. False friends, like autumn leaves, are found everywhere." (Anonymous) When you gaze long into the abyss, the abyss also gazes into you.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Activism An economic forecaster is like a cross-eyed javelin thrower: they don't win many accuracy
contests, but they keep the crowd's attention.
-- Anonymous Immature love says: "I love you because I need you." Mature love says: "I need you because I
love you."
-- Erich Fromm "He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself." (Thomas Paine) Activism
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 With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die.
-- Abraham Lincoln If law school is so hard to get through... how come there are so many lawyers?
-- Calvin Trillin The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism
is the equal sharing of miseries.
-- Winston Churchill "If you assume that there's no hope, you guarantee that there will be no hope. If you assume that there is an instinct for freedom, there are opportunities to change things, there's a chance for you t Activism Morality consists in suspecting other people of not being legally married.
-- George Bernard Shaw May you be blessed with a wife so healthy and strong, she can pull the plow when your horse drops dead. "Over grown military establishments are under any form of government inauspicious to liberty, and are to be regarded as particularly hostile to republican liberty." (George Washington) Activism
The difference between false memories and true ones is the same as for jewels: it is always the
false ones that look the most real, the most brilliant.
-- Salvador Dali "Fools rush in where angels fear to tread." (Alexander Pope) "I learned more from the one restaurant that didn't work than from all the ones that were successes." (Wolfgang Puck, restauranteur) My darling wife was always glum. I drowned her in a cask of rum, And so made sure that she would stay, In better spirits night and day. Can you imagine what I would do if I could do all I can?
-- The Artist Formerly Known As Prince Activism "Liberty has never come from the government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of it. The history of liberty is a history of resistance. The history of liberty is a history of limitations of g "The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet." (Andy Warhol) "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) Activism
I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury.
-- Groucho Marx The instinct of nearly all societies is to lock up anybody who is truly free. First, society begins by
trying to beat you up. If this fails, they try to poison you. If this fails too, the finish by l A girl must marry for love and keep on marrying until she finds it.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about "short" and
"cheap"?
-- Phyllis Diller My good intentions are completely lethal.
-- Margaret Atwood Activism Jealousy is the only vice that gives no pleasure.
-- Anonymous Many a wife thinks her husband is the world's greatest lover. But she can never catch him at it. Generations to come will find it difficult to believe that a man such as Gandhi ever walked the
face of this earth.
-- Albert Einstein Activism
I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is; I only know that people call
me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat.
-- Rebecca West, Marriage is like a box of chocolates. You have to squeeze a few bottoms to make sure you like
what you are getting.
-- Anonymous He that always gives way to others will end in having no principles of his own.
-- Aesop Marriage is an institution in which a man loses his Bachelor's Degree and the woman gets her Masters. A life spent in making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent doing
nothing.
-- George Benard Shaw Activism When marriage is outlawed, only outlaws will have inlaws. "The most beautiful things in the world are the most useless, peacocks and lilies, for instance." (John Ruskin) You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try.
-- Beverly Sills Activism
Every child is born a genius.
-- R. Buckminster Fuller Two souls with but a single thought,
Two hearts that beat as one.
-- Fredrich Halm After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
-- Aldous Huxley Generations to come will find it difficult to believe that a man such as Gandhi ever walked the
face of this earth.
-- Albert Einstein "If you're in a bad situation, don't worry it'll change. If you're in a good situation, don't worry it'll change." (John A. Simone Sr.) Activism 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 Nothing says loving like marrying your cousin! -- Al Bundy Just buy a box of popcorn and a Coca-Cola and sit back and watch.
-- James Carville, Clinton advisor, offering advice for Democrats on the term-limits vote in the
House Activism
We are all here for a spell; get all the good laughs you can.
-- Will Rogers Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.
-- James Matthew Barrie He who conquers himself is the mightiest warrior.
-- Confucius I have never taken any exercise except sleeping and resting.
-- Mark Twain "What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage." Activism Food, one assumes, provides nourishment; but Americans eat it fully aware that small amounts of
poison have been added to improve its appearance and delay its putrefaction.
-- John Cage "I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him." (Galileo Galilei) Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of
the other person.
-- Mark Twain Activism
A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn; it can be stabbed to death by a joke
or worried to death by a frown on the right person's brow.
-- Charles Brower There are not enough Indians in the world to defeat the Seventh Cavalry.
-- George Armstrong Custer "Well begun is half done." (Aristotle) When a girl marries she exchanges the attention of many men for the inattention of one.
-- Helen Rowland Do not assume that she who seeks to comfort you now, lives untroubled among the simple and
quiet words that sometimes do you good. Her life may also have much sadness and difficulty, that
remains fa Activism "In every gathering of thirteen, expect one guest will turn out to be a Judas." (Aleister Crowley) I'd marry again if I found a man who had 15 million and would sign over half of it to me before the
marriage and guarantee he'd be dead within a year.
-- Bette Davis The advantage of a classical education is that it enables you to despise the wealth which it
prevents you from achieving.
-- Russell Green Activism
