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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 There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.
-- Oscar Wilde 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 "Friendship is born at the moment when one person says to another, 'What?! You too! Thought I was the only one.'" (Clive Staples Lewis) Did you ever notice when you blow in a dog's face he gets mad at you? But when you take him in
a car he sticks his head out the window.
-- Steve Bluestone Science and Environment There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house
as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends.
-- Homer, Odyssey, ninth century "Conform and be dull." (J. Frank Doble) You have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth
without producing it.
-- George Bernard Shaw Science and Environment
Do not let yourselves be discouraged or embittered by the smallness of the success you are likely
to achieve in trying to make life better. You certainly would not be able, in a single generation, to We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind her stands his wife. -- Groucho Marx The time is always right to do what is right.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. "You make 'em, I amuse 'em." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, on children) We can lick gravity, but sometimes the paperwork is overwhelming.
-- Wehrner von Braun Science and Environment Hell is a half-filled auditorium.
-- Robert Frost Silence is as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unhewn marble of a great sculpture.
-- Aldous Huxley "We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then is not an act but a habit." (Aristotle) Science and Environment
"Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." (George Bernard Shaw) I think one of the reasons I'm popular again is because I'm wearing a tie. You have to be different.
-- Tony Bennett, 1995 "Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former." (Albert Einstein) With this ring I thee wed, with my body I thee worship, and with all my worldly good I thee endow.
-- Wedding Vow, Book of Common Prayer "A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities." (Eda J. Le Shan) Science and Environment You've achieved success in your field when you don't know whether what you're doing is work or
play.
-- WARREN BEATTY Nature gave men two ends - one to sit on and one to think with. Ever since then man's success or
failure has been dependent on the one he used most.
-- George R. Kirkpatrick "Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear." (Ambrose Redmoon) Science and Environment
Love is temporary insanity curable by marriage.
-- Ambrose Bierce Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.
-- Aristotle "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 Now is the time for all good men to come to.
-- Walt Kelly Whether you think that you can, or that you can't, you are usually right.
-- Henry Ford Science and Environment "There is nothing more fearful than ignorance in action." (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1749-1832, Criticisms, Reflections and Maxims) 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 "One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Science and Environment
"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) If you can count your money, you don't have a billion dollars.
- J. Paul Getty "We always get bored with those whom we bore." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) Flowers are words which even a baby can understand.
-- Arthur C. Coxe Mother-in-law: A woman who destroys her son-in-law's peace of mind by giving him a piece of
hers.
-- Anonymous Science and Environment There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld Those parts of the system that you can hit with a hammer (not advised) are called hardware;
those program instructions that you can only curse at are called software.
-- Unknown author, Levitating T There ought to be one day - just one - when there is open season on senators.
-- Will Rogers Science and Environment
Live out of your imagination, not your history.
-- Stephen Covey "Have you ever fed your pocket and starved your soul?" (Ivana Santilli, Too Deep) The mind has exactly the same power as the hands: not merely to grasp the world, but to change
it.
-- Colin Wilson Losing a wife can be hard. In my case, it was almost impossible. Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has not heart; and any man who is over 30, and is
not a conservative, has no brains.
- Sir Winston Churchill Science and Environment Considering the flames and intolerance, shouldn't USENET be spelled ABUSENET?
-- Michael Meissner "In every gathering of thirteen, expect one guest will turn out to be a Judas." (Aleister Crowley) A man's reach should exeed his grasp, or else what's a heaven for?
-- Robert Browning Science and Environment
Thus the metric system did not really catch on in the States, unless you count the increasing
popularity of the nine-millimeter bullet.
-- Dave Barry He who awaits much can expect little.
-- Gabriel Garcia Marquez The more I know about people, the better I like my dog.
-- Mark Twain Never tell. Not if you love your wife... In fact, if your old lady walks in on you, deny it. Yeah. Just
flat out and she'll believe it: "I'm tellin' ya. This chick came downstairs with a sign around Life is a sexually transmitted terminal disease.
-- Colin Greene Science and Environment "This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) "Every act of violence increases the recruitment of terrorists. Iraq has been turned into a base of terror." (Noam Chomsky, from The Toronto Star, March 23, 2004) Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering. Science and Environment
I hope you have not been leading a double life, pretending to be wicked and being really good all
the time. That would be hypocrisy.
-- Oscar Wilde A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties; no
religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear
of Love is an attempt to change a piece of the dream-world into reality.
-- Theodor Reik "Courage is doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared." (Eddie Rickenbacker) Change is not merely necessary to life, it is life.
-- Alvin Toffler Science and Environment To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.
-- Oscar Wilde A friend is a gift you give yourself.
-- Robert Louis Stevenson They couldn't hit an elephant at this dist---
-- John B. Sedgwick, general, dying words, 1864 Science and Environment
He who limps is still walking.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec "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) Every act of creation is first an act of destruction.
-- Pablo Picasso Teach a parrot the terms "supply and demand" and you've got an economist.
-- Thomas Carlyle A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn; it can be stabbed to death by a joke
or worried to death by a frown on the right person's brow.
-- Charles Brower Science and Environment "Common sense and education are highly compatible; in fact, neither is worth much without the other." (Donald G. Smith) "The formula for my happiness: a Yes, a No, a straight line, a goal." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Marriage is the only war in which you sleep with the enemy.
-- Anonymous Science and Environment
"When a hundred men stand together, each of them loses his mind and gets another one." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with
the wish to teach himself.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton "Try not to have a good time ... This is supposed to be educational." (Charles Schultz) "I have learned that to be with those I like is enough." (Walt Whitman) Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteeen.
-- Albert Einstein Science and Environment I'll sleep when I'm dead.
- Warren Zevon Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of
our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.
-- John Adams "The one charm about marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties." (Oscar Wilde) Science and Environment
"Learn from the mistakes of others--you can never live long enough to make them all yourself." (John Luther) "Well begun is half done." (Aristotle) Cute little babies that fall out of swings - These are a few of my favourite things.
-- Oscar Hammerstein, working lyric for a piece from "The Sound of Music" Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business.
-- Tom Robbins "I couldn't find the sports car of my dreams, so I built it myself." (Dr. Ferdinand Porsche) Science and Environment Talk to a man about himself and he will listen for hours.
-- Benjamin Disraeli I've never had major knee surgery on any other part of my body.
-- Winston Bennett, University of Kentucky basketball forward "The happy people are failures because they are on such good terms with themselves they don't give a damn." (Agatha Christie) Science and Environment
