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The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.
-- Paul Valery Everything has been figured out, except how to live.
- Jean-Paul Sartre "See - one side of my face is gentle and kind, incapable of anything but love of my fellow man. The other side, the other profile, is cruel and predatory and evil, incapable of anything but lusts and Good Night, Good night! Parting is such sweet sorrow,
that I shall say good night till it be morrow.
-- Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare. Act II, Scene II, lines 220-221 LOVE, n. A temporary insanity curable by marriage or by removal of the patient from the
influences under which he incurred the disorder... It is sometimes fatal, but more frequently to the
physician Computers and Internet My initial response was to sue her for defamation of character, but then I realized that I had no
character.
-- Charles Barkley, on hearing Tonya Harding proclaim herself "the Charles Barkley of fig Marriage is not a word. It is a sentence--a life sentence. blah "A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) Computers and Internet
Politics is for people who have a passion for changing life but lack a passion for living it.
-- Tom Robbins We love because it's the only true adventure.
-- Nikki Giovanni To be or not to be isn't the question. The question is how to prolong being.
-- Tom Robbins A life spent in making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent doing
nothing.
-- George Benard Shaw Infatuation is when you think that he's as sexy as Robert Redford, as smart as Henry Kissinger,
as noble as Ralph Nader, as funny as Woody Allen, and as athletic as Jimmy Conners. Love is
when you r Computers and Internet "Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain -- and most fools do." (Dale Carnegie) The difference between marriage and death? Dead people are free. The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about.
-- Oscar Wilde Computers and Internet
Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.
-- Bertrand Russell If you are going through hell, keep going.
- Sir Winston Churchill The soul is healed by being with children.
-- Fyodor Dostoyevski Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.
-- Ernest Hemingway Logic is in the eye of the logician.
- Gloria Steinem Computers and Internet By all means marry. If you get a good wife you will become happy, and if you get a bad one you
will become a philosopher.
-- Socrates Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.
- H. G. Wells "What is the difference between exploring and being lost?" (Dan Eldon, photojournalist) Computers and Internet
Opera in English is, in the main, about as sensible as baseball in Italian.
-- H. L. Mencken "I couldn't find the sports car of my dreams, so I built it myself." (Dr. Ferdinand Porsche) "A thing of beauty is a joy forever." (John Keats) A coward is a hero with a wife, kids, and a mortgage.
-- Marvin Kitman We have to keep trying things we're not sure we can pull off. If we just do the things we know we
can do... you don't grow as much. You gotta take those chances on making those big mistakes.
-- Cybi Computers and Internet "How is it that we never have time to do a job right, but we always have time to do it over?" (Anonymous) The only thing worse than a man you can't control is a man you can.
-- Margo Kaufman In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that
no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it's the exact opposite.
-- Paul Dirac Computers and Internet
The backbone of surprise is fusing speed with secrecy.
- Von Clausewitz "I knew I was an unwanted baby when I saw my bath toys were a toaster and a radio." (Joan Rivers) Establishing yourself, furnishing a house, building up a comfortable existence, and having that menace hanging over your head all the time - no, I prefer to live in hotels, cafés, just passing through It's never too late to have a happy childhood.
-- Tom Robbins, Still Life With Woodpecker Peculiar travel suggestions are dancing lessons from God.
-- Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., Cat's Cradle Computers and Internet 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 Imagine if every Thursday your shoes exploded if you tied them the usual way. This happens to
us all the time with computers, and nobody thinks of complaining.
-- Jeff Raskin I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts, then there is no hurt, but only more love.
-- Mother Teresa Computers and Internet
The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without
the sympathy of the community.
-- William James 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 America is a large, friendly dog in a very small room. Every time it wags its tail, it knocks over a
chair.
-- Arnold Toynbee 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 "Goodwill is the only asset that competition cannot undersell or destroy." (Mrshall Field, businessman and philanthropist) Computers and Internet "Majority rule only works if you're also considering individual rights. Because you can't have five wolves and one sheep voting on what to have for supper." (Larry Flynt) "The most instructive experiences are those of everyday life." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "All our best men are laughed at in this nightmare land." (Jack Keroac) Computers and Internet
Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
-- George Bernard Shaw "Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past." (George Orwell) blah "Ability wins us the esteem of the true men; luck that of the people." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) "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 "I think all great innovations are built on rejections." (Louis-Ferdinand Céline) Computers and Internet Thank God - every morning when you get up - that you have something to do which must be
done, whether you like it or not. Being forced to work, and forced to do your best, will breed in you
a hundre 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 fine line between fishing and standing on the shore like an idiot.
-- Steven Wright Computers and Internet
Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it. One of the greatest discoveries a man makes, one of his great surprises, is to find he can do
what he was afraid he couldn't do.
-- Henry Ford One survey found that ten percent of Americans thought Joan of Arc was Noah's wife....
-- Robert Boynton "Once spirit was God, then it became man, and now it is even becoming mob." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Vote for the man who promises least. He'll be the least disappointing.
-- Bernard Baruch Computers and Internet Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than
yourself.
-- William Faulkner It is not necessary to understand things in order to argue about them.
-- Pierre Augustin de Beaumarchais "I heard the old, old, men say 'all that's beautiful drifts away, like the waters.'" (William Butler Yeats) Computers and Internet
Good-bye. I am leaving because I am bored.
-- George Saunders - last words Politics have no relation to morals.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli Elegance of language may not be in the power of all of us; but simplicity and straight forwardness
are. Write much as you would speak; speak as you think. If with your inferior, speak no coarser
tha English Law prohibits a man from marrying his mother-in-law. This is our idea of useless legislation. "Man is a strange animal. He generally cannot read the handwriting on the wall until his back is up against it." (Adlai Stevenson) Computers and Internet There is no one so bound to his own face that he does not cherish the hope of presenting another
to the world.
-- Antonio Machado Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress.
-- Gandhi Everywhere I go, I'm asked if the universities stifle writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle
enough of them.
-- Flannery O'Connor Computers and Internet
One may have a blazing hearth in one's soul and yet no one ever comes to sit by it. Passersby
see only a wisp of smoke rising from the chimney and continue on their way.
-- Vincent Van Gogh Marriage has many pains, but celibacy has no pleasures.
-- Samuel Johnson "Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to know." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) A man should be taller, older, heavier, uglier, and hoarser than his wife.
-- Edgar Watson Howe "Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts." (Henry B. Adams) Computers and Internet Faith is believing what you know ain't so.
-- Mark Twain .. I am indebted to the cat for a particular kind of honorable deceit, for a greater control over
myself, for a characteristic aversion to brutal sounds, and for the need to keep silent for long
per "The easiest kind of relationship is with ten thousand people, the hardest is with one." (Joan Baez) Computers and Internet
As always, victory finds a hundred fathers but defeat is an orphan.
-- Count Galeazzo Ciano, The Ciano Diaries I am not young enough to know everything.
-- Oscar Wilde "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) "Better to be deprived of food for three days than tea for one." (Chinese Proverb) "It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend." (William Blake) Computers and Internet The crime bill passed by the Senate would reinstate the Federal death penalty for certain violent
crimes: assassinating the President; hijacking an airliner; and murdering a government poultry
inspe Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it.
-- Baskins To the ass, or the sow, their own offspring appears the fairest in creation.
-- Latin Proverb Computers and Internet
