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Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.
-- Dietrich Bonhoeffer In all recorded history there has not been one economist who has had to worry about where the
next meal would come from.
-- Peter F. Drucker I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
- e e cummings Republican boys date Democratic girls. They plan to marry Republican girls, but feel they're
entitled to a little fun first.
-- Anonymous May you be blessed with a wife so healthy and strong, she can pull the plow when your horse drops dead. Business and Economy Remember your dreams.
-- Maryanne Radmacher-Herhey "I expect nothing. I fear no one. I am free." (Nikos Kazantzakis) 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 Business and Economy
Don't marry for money; you can borrow it cheaper. The worth of the state, in the long run, is the worth of the individuals composing it.
-- John Stuart Mill Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands... but English women only
hope to find in their butlers.
-- W. Somerset Maugham It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.
-- Andre Gide Some of us are becoming the men we wanted to marry.
-- Gloria Steinem Business and Economy It is better to be looked over than overlooked.
-- Mae West A lover tries to stand in well with the pet dog of the house.
-- Moliere 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 Business and Economy
You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it come true.
-- Richard Bach Opportunities multiply as they are seized.
-- Sun Tzu What is politics, after all, but the compulsion to preside over property and make other peoples'
decisions for them?
-- Tom Robbins, Skinny Legs and All Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that he sometimes has to eat them.
-- Adlai Stevenson You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.
-- Henry Ford Business and Economy Radio news is bearable. This is due to the fact that while the news is being broadcast the disc
jockey is not allowed to talk.
-- Fran Lebowitz Do not assume that she who seeks to comfort you now, lives untroubled among the simple and
quiet words that sometimes do you good. Her life may also have much sadness and difficulty, that
remains fa The trouble with children is that they are not returnable.
-- Quentin Crisp Business and Economy
>From error to error one discovers the entire truth.
-- Sigmund Freud blah blah blah blah blah "This is the way the world ends: not with a bang, but a whimper." (Thomas Stearns Eliot, aka T. S. Eliot) _end]
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"Hello Kitty is an icon that doesn't stand for a "I was a total loner, not by self-design. I just didn't know what the hell to say to people. I was so shy. I used to stammer and lisp and dribble at the mouth." (Sir Anthony Hopkins, on his youth) We didn't send you to Washington to make intelligent decisions. We sent you to represent us.
-- Kent York, Baptist minister to US Rep. Bill Sarpalius "Brevity is the soul of wit." (William Shakespeare) Business and Economy blah "You shall find out how salt is the taste of another man's bread, and how hard is the way up and down another man's stairs." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) Like a prune, you are not getting any better looking, but you are getting sweeter.
-- N. D. Stice If stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out?
- Will Rogers Business and Economy
The difference between false memories and true ones is the same as for jewels: it is always the
false ones that look the most real, the most brilliant.
-- Salvador Dali It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.
-- Andre Gide Marriage is a matter of give and take, but so far I haven't been able to find anybody who'll take what I have to give. -- Cass Daley "I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him." (Galileo Galilei) "Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few." (George Bernard Shaw) Business and Economy The price of freedom is eternal vigilance.
-- Thomas Jefferson "Truth lies not only in a dream, but in many dreams." (Pier Paolo Pasolini, Italian poet, novelist and filmmaker) 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. Business and Economy
If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.
-- Voltaire Correction: Instead of being arrested, as we stated, for kicking his wife down a flight of stairs and hurling a lighted kerosene lamp after her, the Rev. James P. Wellman died unmarried four years ago I think there are only three things America will be known for 2,000 years from now when they
study this civilization: the Constitution, jazz music, and baseball.
-- Gerald Early, writer, baseball do How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg? Four. Calling a tail a leg doesn't make it
a leg.
-- Abraham Lincoln A person is not given integrity. It results from the relentless pursuit of honesty at all times.
-- Anon. Business and Economy If you want anything done well, do it yourself. This is why most people laugh at their own jokes.
-- Bob Edwards Shotgun wedding: a case of wife or death "If you believe everything you read, you better not read." (Japanese Proverb) Business and Economy
"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 The work of internal government has become the task of controlling the thousands of fifth-rate
men.
-- Henry B. Adams If you were plowing a field, which would you rather use? Two strong oxen or 1024 chickens?
- Seymour Cray (1925-1996), father of supercomputing By the time (the Leaning Tower of Pisa) was 10% built, everyone knew it would be a total
disaster. But the investment was so big they felt compelled to go on. Since its completion, it cost
a fortune The mathematician lives long and lives young; the wings of his soul do not early drop off, nor do
its pores become clogged with the earthy particles blown from the dusty highways of vulgar life.
-- Business and Economy Having a family is like having a bowling alley installed in your brain.
-- Martin Mull Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day.
-- Thornton Wilder The advice your son rejected is now being given by him to your grandson. Business and Economy
The most terrible poverty is loneliness and the feeling of being unloved.
-- Mother Teresa Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
-- Virginia Woolf All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it
is accepted as being self-evident.
- Arthur Schopenhauer Doctors are the same as lawyers; the only difference is that lawyers merely rob you, whereas
doctors rob you and kill you too.
-- Anton Chekhov Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint on it you can.
-- Danny Kaye Business and Economy He believes that marriage and a career don't mix. So after the wedding he plans to quit his job.
-- Anonymous "I should reproach him for not giving us enough evidence." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970, what he would say to God if they 'met') Half of the American people never read a newspaper.
Half never voted for President.
One hopes it is the same half.
-- Gore Vidal Business and Economy
"I was a total loner, not by self-design. I just didn't know what the hell to say to people. I was so shy. I used to stammer and lisp and dribble at the mouth." (Sir Anthony Hopkins, on his youth) Radio news is bearable. This is due to the fact that while the news is being broadcast the disc
jockey is not allowed to talk.
-- Fran Lebowitz Feminists are OK, I just wouldn't want my sister to marry one "It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) "Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains." (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, The Social Contract) Business and Economy A person starts to live when he can live outside himself.
-- Albert Einstein A man in the house is worth two in the street.
-- Mae West The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is
not read.
-- Oscar Wilde Business and Economy
There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in his home.
-- Kenneth H. Olson, President of DEC, Convention of the World Future Society, 1977 By working faithfully eight hours a day, you might eventually get to be a boss and work twelve
hours a day.
-- ROBERT FROST The two most common elements in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity. But not in that order.
-- Brian Pickrell The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed
desperation.
-- Henry David Thoreau, Walden (1854) It's never too late to have a happy childhood.
-- Tom Robbins, Still Life With Woodpecker Business and Economy There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him asleep.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson blah "Some of the worlds greatest feats were accomplished by people not smart enough to know they were impossible. unattributed" (Anonymous) To keep your marriage brimming, with love in the wedding cup, whenever you're wrong, admit it;
whenever you're right, shut up.
-- Ogden Nash Business and Economy
"Hold a true friend with both your hands." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I support efforts to limit the terms of members of Congress, especially members of the House and
members of the Senate.
-- Dan Quayle, Former Vice-President "Life is a great surprise. I don't see why death should not be an even greater one." (Vladimir Nabokov) "Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing." (Oscar Wilde) My wife submits and I obey; she always lets me have her way. Business and Economy I still believe in liberalism today as much as I ever did, but, oh, there was a happy time when I
believed in liberals...
-- G. K. Chesterton then the world 's mine oyster
-- William Shakespeare, The Merry Wives of Windsor 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 Business and Economy
