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In matrimony, to hesitate is sometimes to be saved.
-- Samuel Butler True, we love life, not because we are used to living, but because we are used to loving. There is
always some madness in love, but there is also always some reason in madness.
-- Friedrich Nietzsch The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that it has never tried to
contact us.
-- Bill Watterson, in his comic strip Calvin and Hobbes 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 Grad school is the snooze button on the clock-radio of life.
-- John Rogers, comedian (who holds a graduate degree in physics) Business and Economy Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
- H. G. Wells He that would have the fruit must climb the tree.
-- Thomas Fuller, M.D. "I expect nothing. I fear no one. I am free." (Nikos Kazantzakis) Business and Economy
"We must view young people not as empty bottles to be filled but as candles to be lit." (Robert Shaffer) I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than
knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.
-- Albert Einstein Being in therapy is great. I spend an hour just talking about myself. It's kinda like being the guy on
a date.
-- Caroline Rhea The unfortunate thing about this world is that the good habits are much easier to give up than the
bad ones.
-- W. Somerset Maugham The mistakes are all waiting to be made.
- chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower (1887-1956) on the game's opening position Business and Economy The right to swing my fist ends where the other man's nose begins.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes "Think off-center." (George Carlin) Life is not an easy matter.... You cannot live through it without falling into frustration and cynicism
unless you have before you a great idea which raises you above personal misery, above
weakness Business and Economy
"God is dead: but considering the state Man is in, there will perhaps be caves, for ages yet, in which his shadow will be shown." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, The Joyful Wisdom) No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem.
-- Booker T. Washington "Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom." (Raymonde Uy) Why did Nature create man? Was it to show that she is big enough to make mistakes, or was it
pure ignorance?
-- Holbrook Jackson Beneath the rule of men entirely great, / The pen is mightier than the sword.
-- Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton, Richelieu, II. ii Business and Economy Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot.
-- Anonymous blah "To give anything less than your best is to sacrifice the gift." (Steve Roland Prefontaine) "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) Business and Economy
Church is only society on earth that exists for the benefit of non-members.
-- William Temple "Everything in my life has been determined by mistakes." (Gene Wilder) Imitation is the sincerest form of television.
-- Fred Allen My wife submits and I obey; she always lets me have her way. When you steal from one author, it's plagiarism; if you steal from many, it's research.
-- Wilson Mizner Business and Economy The unfortunate thing about this world is that the good habits are much easier to give up than the
bad ones.
-- W. Somerset Maugham I think, therefore I'm single.
-- Female philosopher Bigamy is one way of avoiding the painful publicity of divorce and the expense of alimony.
-- Oliver Herford Business and Economy
"God is Man's stupidest idea." (Marcel Duchamp, French Dadaist) I am ready at any time. Do not keep me waiting.
-- John Brown - last words Never practice two vices at once.
-- Tallulah Bankhead "Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under." (Henry Louis Mencken) "When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of all the other men of her acquaintance for the inattention of just one." (Helen Rowland) Business and Economy Honor the ocean of love.
-- George de Benneville "The formula for my happiness: a Yes, a No, a straight line, a goal." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind her stands his wife. -- Groucho Marx Business and Economy
The world has achieved brilliance without conscience. Ours is a world of nuclear giants and
ethical infants.
-- General Omar Bradley "I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." (James Madison) Love me or hate me, but spare me your indifference.
-- Libbie Fudim "The one charm about marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties." (Oscar Wilde) It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince Business and Economy Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you
have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not.
-- Aldous Huxley 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 cannot imagine any condition which would cause this ship to founder. Modern shipbuilding has
gone beyond that.
-- E. I. Smith, Captain of the Titanic Business and Economy
"I was born lost and take no pleasure in being found..." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) The telephone company is urging people to *please* not use the telephone unless it is absolutely
necessary in order to keep the lines open for emergency personnel. We'll be right back after this
bre Argue for your limitations, and sure enough they're yours.
- Richard Bach I regret that I have but one life to give for my country.
-- Nathan Hale In a novel, the hero can lay ten girls and marry a virgin for the finish. In a movie, that is not
allowed. The villain can lay anybody he wants, have as much fun and as he wants cheating,
stealing, Business and Economy "Things do not change, we change." (Henry David Thoreau) Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do.
-- Dr. Benjamin Spock, American pediatrician, address to new parents I stopped believing in Santa Claus when I was six. Mother took me to see him in a department
store and he asked for my autograph.
-- Shirley Temple Black Business and Economy
Never go to bed angry. Stay up and fight.
-- Phyllis Diller "Genius without education is like silver in the mine." (Benjamin Franklin) Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering. "The reward of a thing well done is having done it." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) "Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise." (Alice Walker) Business and Economy It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are
difficult.
-- Seneca Celestial navigation is based on the premise that the Earth is the center of the universe. The
premise is wrong, but the navigation works. An incorrect model can be a useful tool.
-- Kelvin Throop I "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 Business and Economy
"Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country." (Marquis de Lafayette) "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) You can close your eyes to reality, but not to memories.
-- Stanislaw J. Lem There is nothing more notable in Socrates than that he found time, when he was an old man, to
learn music and dancing, and thought it time well spent.
-- Michel de Montaigne The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.
-- ee cummings Business and Economy "Furious activity is no substitute for understanding." (H. H. Williams) Journalism is merely history's first draft.
-- Geoffrey C. Ward Death does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when it does
come, we no longer exist.
-- Epicurus Business and Economy
"I put on an act sometimes, and people think I'm insensitive. Really, it's like a kind of armor because I'm too sensitive. If there are two hundred people in a room and one of them doesn't like me, I' The first duty of a lecturer: to hand you after an hour's discourse a nugget of pure truth to wrap up
between the pages of your notebooks, and keep on the mantlepiece forever.
-- Virginia Woolf "The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances." (Viktor E. Frankl) Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for him. -- Rich Little An understanding heart is everything is a teacher, and cannot be esteemed highly enough. One
looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our
human Business and Economy I am returning this otherwise good typing paper to you because someone has printed gibberish all
over it and put your name at the top.
-- English Professor, Ohio University "I have no special gift; I am only passionately curious." (Albert Einstein) Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.
-- John Lehman, Secretary of the Navy, 1981-1987 Business and Economy
I drink no more than a sponge.
-- Francis Rabelais, Works. Book i. Chap. v. Of course there's a lot of knowledge in universities: the freshmen bring a little in; the seniors don't
take much away, so knowledge sort of accumulates...
-- Anonymous "No one lies so boldly as the man who is indignant." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) 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 I am about to--or I am going to--die; either expression is used.
-- Dominique Bouhours, French grammarian, dying words Business and Economy Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.
-- Ernest Hemingway Always talk to your wife while you're making love... if there's a phone handy. If I were a girl, I'd despair. The supply of good women far exceeds that of the men who deserve
them.
-- Robert Graves Business and Economy
