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Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife.
-- P. J. O'Rourke No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent.
-- Abraham Lincoln The world has achieved brilliance without conscience. Ours is a world of nuclear giants and
ethical infants.
-- General Omar Bradley Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.
-- Albert Einstein If we do not maintain Justice, Justice will not maintain us.
-- Francis Bacon Science and Environment "Dreams are the touchstones of our personality." (Henry David Thoreau) "Greed, for lack of a better word, is good. Greed is right. Greed works." (Michael Douglas, as Gordon Gekko, Wall Street, 1987) Talent does what it can; genius does what it must.
- Edward George Bulwer-Lytton Science and Environment
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 "Fake is as old as the Eden tree." (George Orson Welles) Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the
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and you may go days getting nothing but exhaustion.
-- Fred Astaire Science and Environment Marriage is the one subject on which all women agree and all men disagree.
-- Oscar Wilde Why don't you write books people can read?
-- Nora Joyce, to her husband James Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Science and Environment
One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture and, if
possible, speak a few reasonable words.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 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 "Some people wear their heart up on their sleeve. I wear mine underneath my right pant leg, strapped to my boot." (Ani Difranco) Genius is an African who dreams up snow.
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to make it interesting.
-- Milton Berle, when called to the microphone at the 2nd Annual Comedians Hal Science and Environment If law school is so hard to get through... how come there are so many lawyers?
-- Calvin Trillin The grass may be greener on the other side of the fence, but you still have to mow it.
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-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Science and Environment
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 Every major horror of history was committed in the name of an altruistic motive.
-- Ayn Rand Love is temporary insanity curable by marriage.
-- Ambrose Bierce "The depth and strength of a human character are defined by its moral reserves. People reveal themselves completely only when they are thrown out of the customary conditions of their life, for only th Never practice two vices at once.
-- Tallulah Bankhead Science and Environment "Your children are not your children. They are sons and daughters of life's longing for itself. They come through you but not from you. And though they are with you, they belong not to you. You may gi "I think all great innovations are built on rejections." (Louis-Ferdinand Céline) It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are
difficult.
-- Seneca Science and Environment
And in the end it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
-- Abraham Lincoln "The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning, but without understanding." (Louis Brandeis) "When once you have tasted flight you will always walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward: for there you have been and there you will always be." (Henry Van Dyke) I hate mankind, for I think myself to be one of them, and I know how bad I am.
-- Samuel Johnson "An imbalance between rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics." (Plutarch) Science and Environment Love thy neighbor, but make sure her husband is away first. Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-
proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe
is "Genius without education is like silver in the mine." (Benjamin Franklin) Science and Environment
If you cannot be the master of your language, you must be its slave. If you cannot examine your
thoughts, you have no choice but to think them, however silly they may be.
-- Richard Mitchell, from Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is.
-- Diane Ackerman Immature love says: "I love you because I need you." Mature love says: "I need you because I
love you."
-- Erich Fromm Diplomacy is the art of saying "Nice doggie" until you can find a rock.
-- Wynn Catlin, also attributed to Will Rogers The streets are safe in Philadelphia. It's only the people who make them unsafe.
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-- Kate Halverson I will try to follow the advice that a university president once gave a prospective commencement
speaker. "Think of yourself as the body at an Irish wake" he said. "They need you in order to have
th The average Ph.D thesis is nothing but the transference of bones from one graveyard to another.
-- Frank J. Dobie, A Texan in England, 1945 Science and Environment
Mathematics, rightly viewed, posses not only truth, but supreme beauty -- a beauty cold and
austere, like that of sculpture.
-- Bertrand Russell "When you resort to attacking the messenger and not the message, you have lost the debate." (Addison Whithecomb) The less their ability, the more their conceit.
Ahad HaAm Imagine if birds were tickled by feathers. You'd see a flock of birds come by, laughing hysterically!
-- Steven Wright Experience teaches only the teachable.
-- Aldous Huxley Science and Environment Paradoxically though it may seem, it is none the less true that life imitates art far more than art
imitates life.
-- Oscar Wilde Old soldiers never die, they just fade away.
-- General Douglas MacArthur Of the seven dwarves, only Dopey had a shaven face. This should tell us something about the
custom of shaving.
-- Tom Robbins, Skinny Legs and All Science and Environment
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 Boredom is the feeling that everything is a waste of time; serenity, that nothing is.
-- Thomas Szasz Democracy is the name we give the people whenever we need them.
-- Marquis de Flers Robert and Arman de Caillavet Ninety percent of everything is crap.
-- Theodore Sturgeon [You reporters] should have printed what he meant, not what he said.
-- Earl Bush, press aide to Richard Daley Science and Environment Very little is known of the Canadian country since it is rarely visited by anyone but the Queen and
illiterate sport fishermen.
-- P. J. O'Rourke She felt in italics and thought in capitals.
-- Henry James "Not by wrath does one kill, but by laughter." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Science and Environment
He who laughs last thinks slowest.
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money from it.
-- Stephen Leacock There are three great friends: an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.
-- Benjamin Franklin "If A equals success, then the formula is: A = X + Y + Z, X is work. Y is play. Z is keep your mouth shut." (Albert Einstein) Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote.
-- George Jean Nathan Science and Environment Hell is a half-filled auditorium.
-- Robert Frost "In order to attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd." (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1547-1616) Health food makes me sick.
-- Calvin Trillin Science and Environment
Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow.
-- Helen Keller Nothing has really happened until it has been recorded.
-- Virginia Woolf Duct tape is like the Force. It has a light side, a dark side, and it holds the universe together....
-- Carl Zwanzig "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) Propel, propel, propel your craft softly down liquid solution. Ecstatically, ecstatically, ecstatically,
ecstatically, Existence is simply illusion.
-- Fred Rogers, parody of "Row, row, row your boa Science and Environment "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) No wonder nobody comes here--it's too crowded.
-- Yogi Berra In the book of life, the answers aren't in the back.
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blah bl "Less is more." (Robert Browning) "Children begin by loving their parents. After a time they judge them. Rarely, if ever, do they forgive them." (Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance) "Now that we have everything we need, we discover that there is almost nothing that we have that we want." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) This is a test. It is only a test. Had it been an actual job, you would have received raises,
promotions, and other signs of appreciation.
-- Anonymous The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense.
-- Tom Clancy Science and Environment Basic research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
-- Wernher Von Braun The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.
-- Paul Valery "If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way." (Mark Twain) Science and Environment
