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Question: If you could live forever, would you and why? Answer: I would not live forever, because
we should not live forever, because if we were supposed to live forever, then we would live
forever, There's nothing wrong with having nothing to say -- unless you insist on saying it.
-- Anonymous The price of freedom is eternal vigilance.
-- Thomas Jefferson "Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishments." (Anonymous) I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude. we are for the most part
more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers.
-- Thoreau Science and Environment A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
-- Michel de Montaigne Everything is drive-through. In California, they even have a burial service called Jump-In-The-
Box.
-- Wil Shriner "Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) Science and Environment
"If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, sir, should keep his friendship in a constant repair." (Samuel Johnson) "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) Whoever controls the media--the images--controls the culture.
-- Allen Ginsberg A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take
her off his hands.
-- Sacha Guitry Everyone is a genius at least once a year; a real genius has his original ideas closer together.
- Georg Lichtenberg Science and Environment In the early sixties, we were strong, we were virulent...
-- John Connally, Secretary of Treasury under Richard Nixon, in an early 70s speech, as reported
in a contemporary "American Scholar" "The intellect is always fooled by the heart." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) "The overman ... Who has organized the chaos of his passions, given style to his character, and become creative. Aware of life's terrors, he affirms life without resentment." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietz Science and Environment
"From the start, marriage was instituted for contemptible, practical reasons--an idea of men." (Catherine Deneuve) "If I could drop dead right now, I'd be the happiest man alive." (Samuel Goldwyn) Viewed from the summit of reason, all life looks like a malignant disease and the world like a
madhouse.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe God help the man who won't marry until he finds a perfect woman, and God help him still more if
he finds her.
-- Benjamin Tillett "Everything in my life has been determined by mistakes." (Gene Wilder) Science and Environment He who kisses the joy is it flies lives in eternity's sunrise
-- William Blake The only way to entertain some folks is to listen to them.
-- Kin Hubbard I feel like Zsa Zsa Gabor's sixth husband. I know what I'm supposed to do, but I don't know how
to make it interesting.
-- Milton Berle, when called to the microphone at the 2nd Annual Comedians Hal Science and Environment
Usenet is like a herd of performing elephants with diarrhea -- massive, difficult to redirect, awe-
inspiring, entertaining, and a source of mind-boggling amounts of excrement when you least
expect i Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not
there, I go to work.
-- Robert Orben Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.
-- Francis Bacon 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 a "The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves." (William Hazlitt) Science and Environment "You exist only in what you do." (Federico Fellini) Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife.
-- P. J. O'Rourke If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts.
-- Albert Einstein Science and Environment
Women see better than men. Men see lazily, if they do not expect to act. Women see quite
without any wish to act.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson 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 Only positive consequences encourage good future performances.
-- Kenneth H. Blanchard "A man who tells lies, like me, merely hides the truth. But a man who tells half-lies has forgotten where he put it." (Claude Rains, as Mr. Dryden, Lawrence of Arabia, 1962) A small family is soon provided for.
-- English Proverb Science and Environment "I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is." (Alan Watts) No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem.
-- Booker T. Washington We do not remember days; we remember moments.
-- Anonymous Science and Environment
Never regard study as a duty, but as the enviable opportunity to learn to know the liberating
influence of beauty in the realm of the spirit for your own personal joy and to the profit of the
commun One cardinal rule of marriage should never be forgotten: "Give little, give seldom, and above all,
give grudgingly." Otherwise, what could have been a proper marriage could become an orgy of
sexual If we knew what we were doing, it wouldn't be called research, would it?
-- Albert Einstein Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.
-- Bertrand Russell "Vegiburgers are wrong." (Mike Kaup) Science and Environment "Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known." (Blaise Pascal) This is the miracle that happens every time to those who really love; the more they give, the more
they possess.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke What I look forward to is continued immaturity followed by death.
-- Dave Barry Science and Environment
Hey, you can't fight in here! This is the war room!
-- Dr. Strangelove "All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream." (Edger Allen Poe) In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice
that I am not a Republican.
-- H. L. Mencken If your wife wants to learn how to drive, don't stand in her way. "Those who feel certainty are stupid and those with any imagination or understanding are filled with doubt and indecision." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Science and Environment We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh.
-- Agnes Repplier Chase after the truth like all hell and you'll free yourself, even though you never touch its
coattails.
-- Clarence Darrow The gods gave man fire and he invented fire engines. They gave him love and he invented marriage. Science and Environment
Honolulu, it's got everything. Sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother.
-- Ken Dodd Let go of your attachment to being right, and suddenly your mind is more open. You're able to
benefit from the unique viewpoints of others, without being crippled by your own judgment.
-- Ralph Mars Great Spirit, help me never to judge another until I have walked in his moccasins.
-- Sioux Indian Prayer "We must view young people not as empty bottles to be filled but as candles to be lit." (Robert Shaffer) Is fuel efficiency really what we need most desperately? I say what we really need is a car that
can be shot when it breaks down.
-- Russell Baker Science and Environment "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) I guess the only way to stop divorce is to stop marriage.
-- Will Rogers In the past decade or so, the women's magazines have taken to running home-handyperson
articles suggesting that women can learn to fix things just as well as men. These articles are
apparently based Science and Environment
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 "Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) Hell hath no fury like a bureaucrat scorned.
-- Milton Friedman Every major horror of history was committed in the name of an altruistic motive.
-- Ayn Rand "Ideas are far more powerful than guns. We don't allow our enemies to have guns, why should we allow them to have ideas?" (Josef Stalin) Science and Environment "Courage is doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared." (Eddie Rickenbacker) Here's to you and here's to me,
and I hope we never disagree.
But, if that should ever be,
to HELL with you, here's to ME!
-- Anonymous Destiny is not a matter of chance; but a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, It is a
thing to be acheived.
-- William Jennings Bryant Science and Environment
"The reward of a thing well done is having done it." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Wedding is destiny, and hanging likewise.
-- John Heywood The bottom line is that (a) people are never perfect, but love can be, (b) that is the one and only
way that the mediocre and vile can be transformed, and (c) doing that makes it that. We waste
time I'll sleep when I'm dead.
- Warren Zevon A man who marries a woman to educate her falls a victim to the same fallacy as the woman who
marries a man to reform him.
-- Elbert Hubbard Science and Environment As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.
-- Abraham Lincoln The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism
is the equal sharing of miseries.
-- Winston Churchill A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence
University education.
-- George Bernard Shaw Science and Environment
It's not as great a day for the bride as she thinks. She's not marrying the best man.
-- Anonymous If you are afraid of loneliness, do not marry. -- Chekhov "A girl can wait for the right man to come along, but in the meantime that still doesn't mean she can't have a wonderful time with all the wrong ones." (Cher) Military justice is to justice what military music is to music.
-- George Clemenceau I still live.
-- Daniel Webster, dying words Science and Environment Love is an ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.
-- Lord Dewar Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish.
-- Albert Einstein We can say 'Peace on Earth,' we can sing about it, preach about it or pray about it, but if we have
not internalized the mythology to make it happen inside us, then it will not be.
-- Betty Shabazz Science and Environment
