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-- Tom Robbins "REASONABLE, adj. Accessible to the infection of our own opinions. Hospitable to persuasion, dissuasion and evasion." (Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary) The fate of love is that it always seems too little or too much.
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-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Business and Economy
Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.
- Albert Einstein The higher up you go, the more mistakes you are allowed. Right at the top, if you make enough of
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-- Fred Astaire Creativity is the sudden cessation of stupidity.
-- Edward H. Land I'll sleep when I'm dead.
- Warren Zevon I couldn't remember when I had been so disappointed. Except perhaps the time I found out that
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-- Peter Oakley Business and Economy Shotgun wedding: a case of wife or death Never look at the trombones. You'll only encourage them.
-- Richard Strauss, on conducting Whoever is not a misanthrope at forty can never have loved mankind.
-- Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort Business and Economy
Discovery consists of looking at the same thing as everyone else does and thinking something
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-- Albert Szent-Gyorgyi, 1937 Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine If it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do not say it.
-- Marcus Aurelius The majority of husbands remind me of an orangutan trying to play the violin.
-- Honore de Balzac Conscience is the inner voice which warns us that someone may be looking.
-- H. L. Mencken I'm not indecisive. Am I indecisive?
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-- Lily Tomlin Football incorporates the two worst elements of American society: violence punctuated by
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-- George F. Will, journalist, political commentator, 1994 If ever I get married again it would have to be under an anaesthetic.
-- Marie Tonkin Business and Economy
"I was born and raised with crocodiles; they are a piece of cake. But kids are so ... unpredictable." (Steve Irwin, "Crocodile Hunter") Distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes.
- Henry David Thoreau Property may be destroyed and money may lose its purchasing power; but, character, health,
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-- Roger Babson A true gentleman is one who is never unintentionally rude.
-- Oscar Wilde You can't say civilization isn't advancing: in every war they kill you in a new way.
-- Will Rogers Business and Economy Boredom is the feeling that everything is a waste of time; serenity, that nothing is.
-- Thomas Szasz Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
-- Albert Einstein Beware of men on airplanes. The minute a man reaches thirty thousand feet, he immediately
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People, like nails, lose their effectiveness when they lose direction and begin to bend.
-- Walter Savage Landor The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it.
-- Anonymous I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you an education.
-- Wilson Mizner ... it is certain that the real function of art is to increase our self-consciousness; to make us more
aware of what we are, and therefore of what the universe in which we live really is. And since
My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed.
-- Christopher Morley Business and Economy Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
- H. G. Wells Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has not heart; and any man who is over 30, and is
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-- Winston Churchill "Even death is unreliable. Instead of zero it may be some ghastly hallucination, such as the square root of minus one." (Samuel Beckett) Business and Economy
There's nothing wrong with having nothing to say -- unless you insist on saying it.
-- Anonymous "Teacher played hooky. Sent message: 'Receiving instruction. Enjoying myself thoroughly. See you next week.'" (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die.
-- Abraham Lincoln I don't want everyone to like me; I should think less of myself if some people did.
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-- George Saunders - last words Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.
-- George Bernard Shaw Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.
-- Francis Bacon Business and Economy
By all means marry. If you get a good wife you will become happy, and if you get a bad one you
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-- Socrates Now, now my good man, this is no time for making enemies.
- Voltaire (1694-1778) on his deathbed in response to a priest asking that he renounce Satan. I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones.
-- John Cage Better watch out that you won't become a television set in your next life.
--Loesje Integrity is what we do, what we say, and what we say we do.
--Don Galer Business and Economy blah "An engaged woman is always more agreeable than a disengaged. She is satisfied with herself. Her cares are over, and she feels that she may exert all her powers of pleasing without suspicion." ( Blessed are the young for they shall inherit the national debt.
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-- Will Rogers Why do grandparents and grandchildren get along so well? They have the same enemy-- the
mother.
-- Claudette Colbert Learn to laugh at your troubles and you'll never run out of things to laugh at.
-- Lyn Karol Always do right; this will gratify some people and astonish the rest.
-- Mark Twain Business and Economy All that is gold does not glitter. Not all those who wander are lost;
-- J.R.R. Tolkein His ignorance is encyclopedic
- Abba Eban Your goals, minus your doubts, equal your reality.
-- Ralph Marston Business and Economy
"Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) "A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men." (Roald Dahl) "Of all mankind the great poet is the equable man." (Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass, 1855) Of the seven dwarves, only Dopey had a shaven face. This should tell us something about the
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-- Tom Robbins, Skinny Legs and All I'd wipe the machines off the face of the earth again, and end the industrial epoch absolutely, like
a black mistake.
-- D. H. Lawrence Business and Economy I don't know exactly what democracy is. But we need more of it.
-- Anonymous Chinese Student, during protests in Tianamen Square, Beijing, 1989 A little girl at the wedding afterwards asked her mother why the bride changed her mind. "What
do you mean?" responded her mother. "Well, she went down the aisle with one man, and came
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"Talent does what it can; genius does what it must." (Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton) I feel that if a person has problems communicating the very least he can do is to shut up.
-- Tom Lehrer The true spirit of conversation consists in building on another man's observation, not overturning
it.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton Infatuation is when you think that he's as sexy as Robert Redford, as smart as Henry Kissinger,
as noble as Ralph Nader, as funny as Woody Allen, and as athletic as Jimmy Conners. Love is
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-- General Douglas MacArthur Business and Economy Colleges are places where pebbles are polished and diamonds are dimmed.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll, (seen attributed to "R.S. Ingersoll" - a typo?) When a friend is in trouble, don't annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up
something appropriate and do it.
-- E. W. Howe I don't even butter my bread; I consider that cooking.
-- Katherine Cebrian Business and Economy
Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is enemy action.
- Auric Goldfinger, in Goldfinger by Ian L. Fleming Golf is a good walk spoiled.
-- Mark Twain "The formula for my happiness: a Yes, a No, a straight line, a goal." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "I had discovered that a person does not have to be this or be that or be anything, not even oneself. One is free." (Walker Percy, The Moviegoer) If you were plowing a field, which would you rather use? Two strong oxen or 1024 chickens?
- Seymour Cray (1925-1996), father of supercomputing Business and Economy Just buy a box of popcorn and a Coca-Cola and sit back and watch.
-- James Carville, Clinton advisor, offering advice for Democrats on the term-limits vote in the
House Epperson's law:
When a man says it's a silly, childish game, it's probably something his wife can beat him at. Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
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