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In olden times sacrifices were made at the altar--a practice which is still continued.
-- Helen Rowland "I'm basically an optimist in life but this doesn't prevent me from deducing as a scientist that we are probably doomed." (Vladimir Chaloupka, physicist, University of Washington, regarding mankind's 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 If addiction is judged by how long a dumb animal will sit pressing a lever to get a 'fix' of
something, to its own detriment, then I would conclude that netnews is far more addictive than
cocaine.
Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.
-- Aristotle Stony Stratford The days just before marriage are like a snappy introduction to a tedious book. "Twelve magicians and two carnies have been shot dead doing the bullet catch. That's cool enough, but every night when we close our show with that trick and the loaded gun gets pointed in my face, it Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and
blows up the bonfire.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld Stony Stratford
"The formula for my happiness: a Yes, a No, a straight line, a goal." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) We see the brightness of a new page where everything yet can happen.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke, Book of Hours The only weapon that becomes sharper with constant use is the tongue.
-- Anonymous Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end.
-- Semisonic, Closing Time Some of us are becoming the men we wanted to marry.
-- Gloria Steinem Stony Stratford "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) "Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously u blah "The best students always are flunking. Every good teacher knows that." (Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance) Stony Stratford
Art and science have their meeting point in method.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton If you can't annoy somebody, there's little point in writing.
-- Kingsley Amis "Think off-center." (George Carlin) 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 Fine art and pizza delivery: what we do falls neatly in between.
-- David Letterman Stony Stratford Friends may come and go, but enemies accumulate.
-- Thomas Jones "Defeat the fear of death and welcome the death of fear." (G. Gordon Liddy) No, that is the great fallacy; the wisdom of old men. They do not grow wise. They grow careful." (Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell To Arms) Stony Stratford
A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.
-- Fr. Jerome Cummings "I met someone on the street who said wasn't it great that we're going to have a movie star for president, that it was so Pop, and (laughs) when you think about it like that, it is great, it's so Amer "It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure on the world." (John Steinbeck It's no credit to anyone to work to hard.
-- Ed Howe The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.
-- Harper Lee Stony Stratford If you were plowing a field, which would you rather use? Two strong oxen or 1024 chickens?
- Seymour Cray (1925-1996), father of supercomputing Considering the flames and intolerance, shouldn't USENET be spelled ABUSENET?
-- Michael Meissner Suicide is belated acquiescence in the opinion of one's wife's relatives. Stony Stratford
You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try.
-- Beverly Sills After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
-- Aldous Huxley "It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) As always, victory finds a hundred fathers but defeat is an orphan.
-- Count Galeazzo Ciano, The Ciano Diaries Parents are the bones upon which children sharpen their teeth.
-- Peter Ustinov Stony Stratford "If you want a thing done well, do it yourself." (Napoleon Bonaparte) A government is the only known vessel that leaks from the top.
-- James Reston Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous
and dreadful.
-- Samuel Johnson Stony Stratford
If your professor wrote it, it's as near to the truth as you ever need to get.
-- John Watson, University of Canterbury Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more
experiments you make the better. What if they are a little course, and you may get your coat
soiled or torn? The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is
not read.
-- Oscar Wilde Integrity is what we do, what we say, and what we say we do.
--Don Galer May you be too good for the world and not good enough for your wife. Stony Stratford For a male and female to live continuously together is...biologically speaking, an extremely
unnatural condition.
-- Robert Briffault You can pretend to be serious; you can't pretend to be witty.
- Sacha Guitry Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them
down people's throats.
-- Howard Aiken Stony Stratford
"I have great faith in fools; My friends call it self-confidence." (Edger Allen Poe) You can pay attention to the fact, in which case you'll probably become a mathematician, or you
can ignore it, in which case you'll probably become a physicist.
-- Len Evans, professor, Northwestern Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get
money from it.
-- Stephen Leacock I think of my wife and I think of Lot, and I think of the lucky break he got. Faith is believing what you know ain't so.
-- Mark Twain Stony Stratford Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald A man is incomplete until he is married. After that, he is finished.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four Americans is suffering from some form of
mental illness. Think of your three best friends. If they're okay, then it's you.
-- Rita Mae Brown Stony Stratford
I don't know which is more discouraging, literature or chickens.
-- E. B. White Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for
him.
-- Rich Little The absolute yearning of one human body for another particular body and its indifference to
substitutes is one of life's major mysteries.
-- Iris Murdoch Always go to the bathroom when you have a chance.
-- King George V God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.
-- Voltaire Stony Stratford Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution.
-- Mae West "Plato was a bore." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Victory goes to the player who makes the next-to-last mistake.
- Chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower Stony Stratford
Marriage is not a ritual or an end. It is a long, intricate, intimate dance together and nothing
matters more than your own sense of balance and your choice of partner.
-- Amy Bloom I am about to--or I am going to--die; either expression is used.
-- Dominique Bouhours, French grammarian, dying words "Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect every one who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are ine "Eagles may soar, but weasels don't get sucked into jet engines." (John Benfield) The absolute yearning of one human body for another particular body and its indifference to
substitutes is one of life's major mysteries.
-- Iris Murdoch Stony Stratford May you learn to perform miracles: earn a living and marry off your daughters. Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous
and dreadful.
-- Samuel Johnson The world has achieved brilliance without conscience. Ours is a world of nuclear giants and
ethical infants.
-- General Omar Bradley Stony Stratford
Jealousy is the only vice that gives no pleasure.
-- Anonymous A really busy person never knows how much he weighs.
-- Ed Howe Be nice to people on your way up because you meet them on your way down.
- Jimmy Durante There is nothing so wrong in this world that a sensible woman can't set it right in the course of an
afternoon.
-- Giraudoux Every child is born a genius.
-- R. Buckminster Fuller Stony Stratford "You make 'em, I amuse 'em." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, on children) The second day of a diet is always easier than the first. By the second day you're off it.
-- Jackie Gleason As life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action
of his time, at the peril of being not to have lived.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. Stony Stratford
"I know that God won't give me more trouble than I can handle ... but sometimes I wish he wouldn't trust me so much." (Mother Teresa) If God had meant us to vote, He would have given us candidates.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Fanaticism consists of redoubling your efforts when you have forgotten your aim.
-- George Santayana "Do not go gentle into that good night. Old age should burn and rave at close of day. Rage, rage against the dying of the light." (Dylan Thomas) Truth can be a dangerous thing. It is quite patient and relentless.
-- R. Scott Richards Stony Stratford I am about to--or I am going to--die; either expression is used.
-- Dominique Bouhours, French grammarian, dying words A university professor set an examination question in which he asked what is the difference
between ignorance and apathy. The professor had to give an A+ to a student who answered: I
don't know and All science is concerned with the relationship of cause and effect. Each scientific discovery
increases man's ability to predict the consequences of his actions and thus his ability to control
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