"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) Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Democracy encourages the majority to decide things about which the majority is blissfully
ignorant.
--John Simon The open-minded see the truth in different things: the narrow-minded see only the differences.
-- Author Unknown In a great romance, each person plays a part the other really likes.
-- Elizabeth Ashley Economic Development My opinions are my wife's, and she says I'm lucky to have them. Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
-- Oscar Wilde Democracy is a government where you can say what you think even if you don't think.
-- Anon. Economic Development
You can't shake hands with a clenched fist.
-- Indira Gandhi Trying to determine what is going on in the world by reading newspapers is like trying to tell the
time by watching the second hand of a clock.
-- Ben Hecht "Furious activity is no substitute for understanding." (H. H. Williams) Prejudice is the child of ignorance.
-- William Hazlitt Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the
moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future
generations Economic Development For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of our tasks; the ultimate,
the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.
-- Rainer Maria Ril "All our best men are laughed at in this nightmare land." (Jack Keroac) Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.
-- G. K. Chesterton Economic Development
Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by the traffic from
both sides.
-- Margaret Thatcher "God is Man's stupidest idea." (Marcel Duchamp, French Dadaist) "Women might be able to fake orgasms. But men can fake whole relationships." (Sharon Stone) Imitation is the sincerest form of television.
-- Fred Allen "Where there's a marriage without love there will be love without marriage." (Benjamin Franklin) Economic Development "Experience is not what happens to a man. It is what a man does with what happens to him." (Aldous Huxley) The real questions are the ones that obtrude upon your consciousness whether you like it or not,
the ones that make your mind start vibrating like a jackhammer, the ones that you 'come to terms
with The average person thinks he isn't.
- Father Larry Lorenzoni Economic Development
"Failure is not an option!" (Ed Harris, as Gene Kranz, Apollo 13) There are three great friends: an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.
-- Benjamin Franklin As for courage and will - we cannot measure how much of each lies within us, we can only trust
there will be sufficient to carry through trials which may lie ahead.
-- Andre Norton You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.
-- Albert Camus I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.
- Thomas Jefferson Economic Development I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury.
-- Groucho Marx Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
-- H. L. Mencken Look at life through the windshield, not the rear-view mirror.
-- Byrd Baggett Economic Development
In view of all the deadly computer viruses that have been spreading lately, Weekend Update
would like to remind you: when you link up to another computer, you're linking up to every
computer that th Saying that men talk about baseball in order to avoid talking about their feelings is the same as
saying that women talk about their feelings in order to avoid talking about baseball.
-- Deborah Tan "Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future." (Paul Boese) 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 God is managing affairs and that He doesn't need any advice from me. With God in
charge, I believe everything will work out for the best in the end. So what is there to worry about.
-- Hen Economic Development It ain't what we don't know that gives us trouble, it's what we know that ain't so.
-- Will Rogers I don't know exactly what democracy is. But we need more of it.
-- Anonymous Chinese Student, during protests in Tianamen Square, Beijing, 1989 Jake liked his women the way he liked his kiwi fruit: sweet yet tart, firm-fleshed yet yielding to the
touch, and covered with short brown fuzzy hair.
-- Jonathan S. Haas Economic Development
Worrying is like a rocking chair, it gives you something to do, but it doesn't get you anywhere.
-- Anonymous Sir, I would rather be right than be President.
-- Henry Clay, Speech, 1850, referring to the Compromise Measure I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and
intellect has intended us to forgo their use.
- Galileo Galilei And I shall love thee still my dear, Until my wife is wise. When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her.
-- Sacha Guitry Economic Development "I'll endorse with my name any of the following; clothing AC-DC, cigarettes, small tapes, sound equipment, ROCK N' ROLL RECORDS, anything, film, and film equipment, Food, Helium, Whips, MONEY!!" (And I was nauseous and tingly all over... I was either in love or I had smallpox.
-- Woody Allen Opera in English is, in the main, about as sensible as baseball in Italian.
-- H. L. Mencken Economic Development
It was just him and me. He fought with honor. If it weren't for his honor, he and the others would
have beaten me together. They might have killed me, then. His sense of honor saved my life. I
didn' "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) I was a pilot flying an airplane and it just so happened that where I was flying made what I was
doing spying.
-- Francis Gary Power, U-2 reconnaissance pilot held by the Soviets for spying, in an i "Let no one be discouraged by the belief there is nothing one person can do against the enormous array of the world's ills, misery, ignorance, and violence. Few will have the greatness to bend history You can get more with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone.
-- Al Capone Economic Development "Expecting the world to treat you fairly because you are a good person is like expecting a bull not to attack you because you are a vegetarian." (Dennis Wholey) It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
-- Oscar Wilde "I'm the artist formally known as Beck. I have a genius wig. When I put that wig on, then the true genius emerges. I don't have enough hair to be a genius. I think you have to have hair going everywhe Economic Development
Before marriage, a man will lie awake all night thinking about something you said; after marriage,
he'll fall asleep before you finish saying it.
-- Helen Roland "True friends, like diamonds, are precious and rare. False friends, like autumn leaves, are found everywhere." (Anonymous) Familiarity breeds contempt -- and children.
-- Mark Twain "Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain -- and most fools do." (Dale Carnegie) I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll Economic Development Sometimes a scream is better than a thesis.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Adolescence is a period of rapid changes. Between the ages of 12 and 17, for example, a parent
ages as much as 20 years.
-- Anonymous An undefined problem has an infinite number of solutions.
-- Robert A. Humphrey Economic Development
Sometimes a scream is better than a thesis.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Work expands to fill the time available.
-- PARKINSON'S LAW "I like boring things." (Andy Warhol, Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up) Change is not merely necessary to life, it is life.
-- Alvin Toffler What sets worlds in motion is the interplay of differences, their attractions and repulsions; life is
plurality, death is uniformity.
-- Octavio Paz Economic Development How could they tell?
-- Dorothy Parker, upon hearing that President Coolidge had died The difference between marriage and death? Dead people are free. If love is the answer, could you rephrase the question?
-- Lily Tomlin Economic Development
The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds the most discoveries, is not
"Eureka!", but "That's funny..."
-- Isaac Asimov "Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time." (E. B. White) Matters of religion should never be matters of controversy. We neither argue with a lover about
his taste, not condemn him, if we are just, for knowing so human a passion.
-- George Santayana Effort is only effort when it begins to hurt.
-- Jose Ortega y Gasset Give me chastity and continence, but not yet.
- Saint Augustine Economic Development When ideas fail, words come in very handy.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "A friendship that exacts oneness of opinion and conduct is not worth much." (Mohandas Gandhi, In Search of the Supreme) "The masses are far more likely to believe a big lie than several small ones." (Adolf Hitler) Economic Development
Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
- Will Durant "A true friend stabs you in the front." (Oscar Wilde) Go away...I'm alright.
-- H. G. Wells, dying words "In order to preserve your self-respect, it is sometimes necessary to lie and cheat." (Robert Byrne) The highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to make money do more for the
betterment of life.
-- Henry Ford Economic Development What luck for the rulers that men do not think.
-- Adolf Hitler "People have to talk about something just to keep their voice boxes in working order so they'll have good voice boxes in case there's ever anything really meaningful to say." (Kurt Vonnegut) "For how can one know color in perpetual green, and what good is warmth without cold to give it sweetness?" (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) Economic Development
