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The Churches must learn humility as well as teach it.
-- George Bernard Shaw, St. Joan Effort is only effort when it begins to hurt.
-- Jose Ortega y Gasset Love makes the time pass. Time makes love pass.
-- French Proverb Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get
money from it.
-- Stephen Leacock "Everywhere one seeks to produce meaning, to make the world signify, to render it visible. We are not, however, in danger of lacking meaning; quite the contrary, we are gorged with meaning and it is k Government His ignorance is encyclopedic
- Abba Eban Man is the only animal that blushes--or needs to.
-- Mark Twain "Education must have an end in view, for it is not an end in itself." (Sybil Marshall) Government
Silence is argument carried out by other means.
- ErnestoCheGuevara Live your questions now, and perhaps even without knowing it, you will live along some distant
day into your answers.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke Most married couples, even though they love each other very much in theory, tend to view each
other in practice as large teeming flaw colonies, the result being that they get on each other's
nerves Why bother with marriage? Just find a woman you hate and buy her a house. Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot. Government You are educated when you have the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your
temper or self-confidence.
-- Robert Frost A good marriage is at least 80 percent good luck in finding the right person at the right time. The
rest is trust.
-- Nanette Newman, British actress There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called
marriage.
-- James Holt McGavran Government
There is a theory which states that if ever anybody discovers exactly what the Universe is for and
why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and
inex If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man
will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability.
-- Henry Ford The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains.The superior teacher demonstrates. The
great teacher inspires.
-- William Arthur Ward He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose
-- Jim Elliott There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as
though everything is a miracle.
-- Albert Einstein Government "Our lives are repetitious shams--every single day a simulacrum of the previous day. So for Man, he is out to pepper his daily activities with different things--he's fighting against boredom." (Matth A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.
- Frank Lloyd Wright "One of the great dangers in having a career is getting bored." (Itzhak Perlman) Government
I still say a church steeple with a lightning rod on top shows a lack of confidence.
-- Doug MacLeod "The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore." (Samuel Butler) Marriage is an institution in which a man loses his Bachelor's Degree and the woman gets her Masters. We need the iron qualities that go with true manhood. We need the positive virtues of resolution,
of courage, of indomitable will, of power to do without shrinking the rough work that must always
be If a relationship is to evolve, it must go through a series of endings.
-- Lisa Moriyama Government "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) Hardly a year passes that fails to find a new, oft-times exotic, research method or technique
added to the armamentarium of political inquiry. Anyone who cannot negotiate Chi squares,
assess randomi Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.
-- Carl Gustav Jung Government
"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) Not to anticipate is already to moan.
-- Leonardo da Vinci The first rule of intelligent tinkering is to save all the parts.
-- Paul Ehrlich "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." (Albert Einstein) A witty saying proves nothing.
- Voltaire Government An economist is a man who states the obvious in terms of the incomprehensible.
-- Alfred A. Knopf Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them
good.
-- H.L. Mencken Those parts of the system that you can hit with a hammer (not advised) are called hardware;
those program instructions that you can only curse at are called software.
-- Unknown author, Levitating T Government
Fine art and pizza delivery: what we do falls neatly in between.
-- David Letterman Live your questions now, and perhaps even without knowing it, you will live along some distant
day into your answers.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke The closer I'm bound in love to you, the closer I am to free.
-- Indigo Girls, song lyric Whatever women do they must do it twice as well as men to be thought half as good. Luckily this
is not difficult.
-- Charlotte Whitton In a hierarchy, every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence. Therefore:
? In time, every post tends to be occupied by an employee who is incompetent to carry out its
duties.
? Work Government "Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) I skate to where the puck is going to be, not to where it has been.
-- Wayne Gretzky All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others.
-- Chad A. Gamble, Escape, short story Government
"It is not the answer that enlightens, but the question." (Eugene Ionesco) Man is the only animal that blushes--or needs to.
-- Mark Twain The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about.
-- Oscar Wilde One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good
reputation.
-- Oscar Wilde "The key to wisdom is knowing all the right questions." (John A. Simone Jr.) Government You got to be careful if you don't know where you're going, because you might not get there.
-- Yogi Berra Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.
-- G. K. Chesterton It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.
-- Harry Truman Government
A great deal of talent is lost to the world for want of a little courage. Every day sends to their
graves obscure men whom timidity prevented from making a first effort.
-- Sydney Smith Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.
-- Albert Einstein A baby is God's opinion that the world should go on.
-- Carl Sandburg "I consider it the highest compliment when my employees go out and start their own companies in competition with me. I always send them a plant to wish them well. Of course, it's a cactus." (Norman B Unfortunately, the media have trouble distinguishing between real science and propaganda
cross-dressed as science.
-- Linda Bowles, political columnist Government The perfect love affair is one which is conducted entirely by post.
-- George Bernard Shaw "Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains." (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, The Social Contract) We got to roll with the punches, play all of our hunches, make the best of whatever comes your
way. Forget that blind ambition, learn to trust your intuition -- plowing straight ahead, come what
may Government
Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly.
-- Simeon Strunsky Tear open packet, unfold and use.
-- Directions on moist towelette package "There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered." (Nelson Mandela, A Long Walk to Freedom) The worth of the state, in the long run, is the worth of the individuals composing it.
-- John Stuart Mill We have children because we want immortality and this is the most reliable way of getting it.
-- Woodrow Wyatt Government "An imbalance between rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics." (Plutarch) No woman marries for money; they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in
love with him first.
-- Cesare Pavese A teacher is one who makes himself progressively unnecessary.
-- Thomas Carruthers Government
I begin by taking. I shall find scholars later to demonstrate my perfect right.
- Frederick (II) the Great I married beneath me. All women do.
-- Lady Nancy Astor, attributed The most terrible poverty is loneliness and the feeling of being unloved.
-- Mother Teresa It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
-- Mark Twain "All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream." (Edger Allen Poe) Government "It serves me right for putting all my eggs in one bastard." (Dorothy Parker, 1893-1967, US writer) Men have a much better time of it than women; for one thing, they marry later; for another thing, they die earlier. --H.L. Mencken To love someone deeply gives you strength. Being loved by someone deeply gives you courage.
-- Lao Tzu Government
To teach is to learn twice.
-- Joseph Joubert If something is boring after two minutes, try it for four. If still boring, then eight. Then sixteen. Then thirty-two. Eventually one discovers that it is not boring at all." (John Cage) I could prove God statistically.
-- George Gallup In endowing us with memory, nature has revealed to us a truth utterly unimaginable to the
unreflective creation, the truth of immortality....The most ideal human passion is love, which is
also the m People, like nails, lose their effectiveness when they lose direction and begin to bend.
-- Walter Savage Landor Government I guess the only way to stop divorce is to stop marriage.
-- Will Rogers Each religion, by the help of more or less myth which it takes more or less seriously, proposes
some method of fortifying the human soul and enabline it to make its peace with its destiny.
-- George There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you
yourself have altered.
-- Nelson Mandela, A Long Walk to Freedom Government
