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If you are going to sin, sin against God, not the bureaucracy. God will forgive you but the
bureaucracy won't.
-- Hyman Rickover I figure you have the same chance of winning the lottery whether you play or not.
-- Fran Lebowitz There are two major products that come out of Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to
be a coincidence.
-- Jeremy S. Anderson There is more to life than increasing its speed.
-- Gandhi "I don't believe people die. They just go uptown. To Bloomingdales. They just take longer to get back." (Andy Warhol) Trade Unions Some birds aren't meant to be caged, their feathers are just too bright. And when they fly away,
the part of you that knows it was a sin to lock them up, does rejoice. I guess I just miss my friend. There are those who look at things the way they are, and ask why... I dream of things that never
were, and ask why not?
-- Robert Francis Kennedy "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) Trade Unions
Happy are those who dream dreams and are willing to pay the price to make them come true.
-- Anon. Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.
- Napoleon Bonaparte Every act of creation is first an act of destruction.
-- Pablo Picasso A man's reach should exeed his grasp, or else what's a heaven for?
-- Robert Browning For most of history, Anonymous was a woman.
-- Virginia Woolf Trade Unions Better to have loved a short man than never to have loved a tall.
-- David Chambless "My daughter has never forgiven me. for what, I don't know, because for years, she won't speak to me. She blackens my name in the press and makes me think abortion is an excellent idea." (Klaus Kinsk Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by the traffic from
both sides.
-- Margaret Thatcher Trade Unions
There ought to be one day - just one - when there is open season on senators.
-- Will Rogers In the late 1600s the finest instruments originated from three rural families whose workshops
were side by side in the Italian village of Cremona. First were the Amatis, and outside their shop
hung "Politics is my hobby. Smut is my vocation." (Larry Flynt) "The only man who behaved sensibly was my tailor; he took my measurement anew every time he saw me, while all the rest went on with their old measurements and expected them to fit me." (George Bernar "'Contrariwise,' continued Tweedledee, 'if it was so, it might be, and if it were so, it would be; but as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic!'" (Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking Glass) Trade Unions "Education must have an end in view, for it is not an end in itself." (Sybil Marshall) "Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time." (E. B. White) "This is the first age that's paid much attention to the future, which is a little ironic since we may not have one." (Arthur C. Clarke) Trade Unions
Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
- H. G. Wells If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe.
- Carl Sagan "Eschew the ordinary, disdain the commonplace. If you have a single-minded need for something, let it be the unusual, the esoteric, the bizarre, the unexpected..." (Chuck Jones) It depends on your definition of asleep. They were not stretched out. They had their eyes closed.
They were seated at their desks with their heads in a nodding position.
-- John Hogan, Commonwealth No one finds life worth living; he must make it worth living.
-- Anon. Trade Unions We have art to save ourselves from the truth.
- Friedrich Nietzsche The democratic theory is that if you accumulate enough ignorance at the polls, you produce
intelligence.
-- Philo Vance The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat.
-- Lily Tomlin Trade Unions
Great ability develops and reveals itself increasingly with every new assignment. Baltasar
Gracian Harpo, she's a lovely person. She deserves a good husband. Marry her before she finds one.
-- Oscar Levant, to Harpo Marx upon meeting Harpo's fiancee The gods too are fond of a joke.
-- Aristotle blah "Some of the worlds greatest feats were accomplished by people not smart enough to know they were impossible. unattributed" (Anonymous) Many a man in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl.
-- Stephen Leacock Trade Unions If ever two were one, then surely we.
If ever man were loved by wife, then thee.
-- Anne Bradstreet Life is the flower for which love is the honey.
-- Victor Hugo "The reward of a thing well done is having done it." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Trade Unions
"The most beautiful things in the world are the most useless, peacocks and lilies, for instance." (John Ruskin) Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it.
Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it.
Hatred darkens life; love illumines it.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Life is like music; it must be composed by ear, feeling, and instinct, not by rule.
-- Samuel Butler To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.
-- Oscar Wilde The charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that, from age to age, nothing
changes and yet everything is completely different.
-- Aldous Huxley Trade Unions "Being born is like being kidnapped. And then sold into slavery." (Andy Warhol) May your wife be a witch who takes after her mother, and may you all live together in a one-room house. Universities incline wits to sophistry and affectation.
-- Francis Bacon Trade Unions
When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.
-- Hunter S. Thompson 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 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 "Avoid providing material for the drama that is always stretched tight between parents and children; it uses up much of the children's strength and wastes the love of the elders, which acts and warms Hell is paved with good samaritans.
-- William M. Holden Trade Unions blah "Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure." (Thomas Alva Edison) It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
- Oscar Wilde The gods gave man fire and he invented fire engines. They gave him love and he invented marriage. Trade Unions
When we treat man as he is, we make him worse than he is; when we treat him as if he already
were what he potentially could be, we make him what he should be.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Being in therapy is great. I spend an hour just talking about myself. It's kinda like being the guy on
a date.
-- Caroline Rhea Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else.
-- George Bernard Shaw "The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) There is no realizable power that man cannot, in time, fashion the tools to attain, nor any power
so secure that the naked ape will not abuse it. So it is written in the genetic cards - only physics Trade Unions "The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of the dream." (Eleanor Roosevelt) Love cures people, both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.
-- Dr. Karl Menninger Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands, but English women only hope to find in their butlers. -- W. Somerset Maugham Trade Unions
There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called
marriage.
-- James Holt McGavran If I were a girl, I'd despair. The supply of good women far exceeds that of the men who deserve
them.
-- Robert Graves I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day.
-- Vincent Van Gogh The only reward of virtue is virtue.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson blah "Ideas are like stars, you will not succeed in touching them with your hands, but like the seafaring man on the desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and, following them, you reach yo Trade Unions Show my head to the people, it is worth seeing.
-- Georges Danton, to his executioner "The devil's agents may be of flesh and blood, may they not?" (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of the Baskervilles) "What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Trade Unions
A straight line is the shortest in morals as in mathematics.
-- Maria Edgeworth "No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous." (Henry B. Adams) Intelligence has nothing to do with politics.
-- Londo Molari A beauty is a woman you notice; A charmer is one who notices you.
-- Adlai Stevenson "Feeding is a very important ritual for me. I don't trust people who don't like to eat." (Gina Gershon) Trade Unions A grouch escapes so many little annoyances that it almost pays to be one.
-- Kin Hubbard Too bad all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving cabs and cutting hair.
-- George Burns If you can't sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there and worrying. It's the worry
that gets you, not the loss of sleep.
-- Dale Carnegie Trade Unions
Politics doesn't make strange bedfellows, marriage does.
-- Groucho Marx Acting is the most minor of gifts and not a very high-class way to earn a living. After all, Shirley
Temple could do it at the age of four.
-- Katharine Hepburn The wages of sin are death, but by the time taxes are taken out, it's just sort of a tired feeling.
-- Paula Poundstone 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 The soul is healed by being with children.
-- Fyodor Dostoyevski Trade Unions Love is an attempt to change a piece of the dream-world into reality.
-- Theodor Reik Conversation, fastidious Goddess, loves blood better than brick, and feasts most subtly on the
human will.
-- Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway Whether you think that you can, or that you can't, you are usually right.
-- Henry Ford Trade Unions
