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If your professor wrote it, it's as near to the truth as you ever need to get.
-- John Watson, University of Canterbury "Education must have an end in view, for it is not an end in itself." (Sybil Marshall) "Every now and then say, 'What the fu(c)k.' 'What the fu(c)k' gives you freedom. Freedom brings opportunity. Opportunity makes your future." (Curtis Armstrong, Risky Business, 1983) Things are more like they are now than they ever were before.
-- Dwight D. Eisenhower, U.S. President There are trivial truths, and there are great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false.
The opposite of a great truth is also true.
-- Neils Bohr Macclesfield The grand aim of all science is to cover the greatest number of empirical facts by logical
deduction from the smallest number of hypotheses or axioms.
-- Albert Einstein There are three kinds of death in this world. There's heart death, there's brain death, and there's
being off the network.
-- Guy Almes What do I dislike about death? Must be the hours.
-- Woody Allen Macclesfield
Whenever you eliminate the inedible, whatever remains, however unpalatable, must be food.
-- Anonymous The Republicans have a new healthcare proposal: Just say NO to illness!
-- Mark Russell To correct a natural indifference I was placed half-way between misery and the sun. Misery kept
me from believing that all was well under the sun, and the sun taught me that history wasn't
everythin blah "There is a melancholy that stems from greatness." (Sébastien-Roch Nicolas Chamfort, 1740/41-1794) I envy people who drink -- at least they know what to blame everything on.
-- Oscar Levant Macclesfield We didn't lose the game; we just ran out of time.
- Vince Lombardi "The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it." (Abbie Hoffman) All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman and a pretty girl.
-- Charlie Chaplin Macclesfield
When making public policy decisions about new technologies for the Government, I think one
should ask oneself which technologies would best strengthen the hand of a police state. Then, do
not allow As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he.
-- Proverbs 23:7 "Being born is like being kidnapped. And then sold into slavery." (Andy Warhol) I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.
- Francois-Auguste Rodin (1840-1917), when asked how he managed to make his remarkable
statues One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is
terribly important.
-- Bertrand Russell Macclesfield Not much meat on her, but what's there is choice.
-- Spencer Tracy, about Katharine Hepburn The great end of life is not knowledge, but action. What men need is as much knowledge as they
can organize for action; give them more and it may become injurious. Some men are heavy and
stupid from "If you want to make enemies, try to change something." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) Macclesfield
Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before
marriage, which is never advisable.
-- Oscar Wilde "When you have nothing to say, say nothing." (Charles Caleb Colton) I could prove God statistically.
-- George Gallup To keep your marriage brimming
With love in the marriage cup,
Whenever you're wrong, admit it,
Whenever you're right, shut up. -- Nash If Satan ever loses his hair, there'll be hell toupee.
-- Anonymous Macclesfield "Eagles may soar, but weasels don't get sucked into jet engines." (John Benfield) "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) 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 Macclesfield
Happiness is nothing more than health and a poor memory.
-- Albert Schweitzer "The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man." (George Bernard Shaw) When you're experimenting you have to try so many things before you choose what you want,
and you may go days getting nothing but exhaustion.
-- Fred Astaire Destiny is not a matter of chance; but a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, It is a
thing to be acheived.
-- William Jennings Bryant 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 Macclesfield The more I know about people, the better I like my dog.
-- Mark Twain The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
-- Winston Churchill I think men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage. They've experienced pain
and bought jewelry.
-- Rita Rudner Macclesfield
I do not consider it an insult, but rather a compliment to be called an agnostic. I do not pretend to
know where many ignorant men are sure -- that is all that agnosticism means.
- Clarence Darrow, Generations to come will find it difficult to believe that a man such as Gandhi ever walked the
face of this earth.
-- Albert Einstein 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 To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.
-- Karen Sunde Worrying is like a rocking chair, it gives you something to do, but it doesn't get you anywhere.
-- Anonymous Macclesfield Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche Sir, I would rather be right than be President.
-- Henry Clay, Speech, 1850, referring to the Compromise Measure The only way to entertain some folks is to listen to them.
-- Kin Hubbard Macclesfield
Don't trust anyone over 30 who used to say "Don't trust anyone over 30."
-- Anonymous A man should be taller, older, heavier, uglier, and hoarser than his wife.
-- Edgar Watson Howe The better part of one's life consists of his friendships.
-- Abraham Lincoln No one really listens to anyone else, and if you try it for a while you'll see why.
-- Mignon McLaughlin The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
- General George Patton Macclesfield The remarkable thing about television is that it permits several million people to laugh at the same
joke and still feel lonely.
-- T. S. Eliot Marriage is a great institution, but who wants to live in an institution?
-- Marx Groucho, the film "Animal Crackers" The grand aim of all science is to cover the greatest number of empirical facts by logical
deduction from the smallest number of hypotheses or axioms.
-- Albert Einstein Macclesfield
"Commit yourself to quality from day one ... it's better to do nothing at all than to do something badly." (Mark McCormack) The great tragedy of science, the slaying of a beautiful theory by an ugly fact.
-- Thomas Henry Huxley Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more
experiments you make the better. What if they are a little course, and you may get your coat
soiled or torn? I like nonsense -- it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living. It's a way
of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope...and that enables you to laugh at all When Baby's cries grew hard to bear I popped him in the Frigidaire. I never would have done so if
I'd known that he'd be frozen stiff. My wife said, "George, I'm so unhappy! Our darling's now
comple Macclesfield Experience teaches only the teachable.
-- Aldous Huxley "Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it." (John Quincy Adams) To write a good love letter, you ought to begin without knowing what you mean to say, and to
finish without knowing what you have written.
-- Jean Jacques Rousseau Macclesfield
Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.
-- G. K. Chesterton Your every voter, as surely as your chief magistrate, exercises a public trust.
-- Grover Cleveland Usenet is like a herd of performing elephants with diarrhea -- massive, difficult to redirect, awe-
inspiring, entertaining, and a source of mind-boggling amounts of excrement when you least
expect i Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through
self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.
-- Helen Keller It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.
-- Andre Gide Macclesfield I just want what every married woman wants, someone besides her husband to sleep with.
-- Peg Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show For most men life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed.
-- Clifton Fadiman "I offer images; I conjure memories of freedom that can still be reached ... But, we can only open the doors. We can't drag people through. I can't free them unless they want to be free--more than any Macclesfield
"What is tolerance? -- it is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error; let us pardon reciprocally each other's folly -- that is the first law of nature." (Francois Marie Ar The scientific theory I like best is that the rings of Saturn are composed entirely of lost airline
luggage.
-- Mark Russell I'm astounded by people who want to 'know' the universe when it's hard enough to find your way
around Chinatown.
-- Woody Allen Beneath the rule of men entirely great, / The pen is mightier than the sword.
-- Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton, Richelieu, II. ii 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 Macclesfield I read the book of Job last night - I don't think God comes out well in it.
-- Virginia Woolf Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
-- Gail Godwin "If I could drop dead right now, I'd be the happiest man alive." (Samuel Goldwyn) Macclesfield
It doesn't much signify whom one marries, for one is sure to find out next morning it was
someone else.
-- Rogers I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think.
-- Socrates I am beginning to suspect all elaborate and special systems of education. They seem to me to be
built upon the supposition that every child is a kind of idiot who must be taught to think.
-- Anne S Never try to teach a pig to sing. It wastes your time and annoys the pig.
-- Anonymous An economic forecaster is like a cross-eyed javelin thrower: they don't win many accuracy
contests, but they keep the crowd's attention.
-- Anonymous Macclesfield When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.
-- Hunter S. Thompson Nothing says lovin' like marrying your cousin!
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show "It is far better to be alone, than to be in bad company." (George Washington) Macclesfield
