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-- Anonymous "May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house." (George Carlin) The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense.
-- Tom Clancy 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 Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the
gentleman.
-- Herbert Spencer I'm at the age where food has taken the place of sex in my life. In fact, I've just had a mirror put
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-- Rodney Dangerfield What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is
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-- Crowf Business and Economy
"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 "If all men knew what others say of them, there would not be four friends in the world." (Blaise Pascal) Luck is the residue of design.
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-- Bertrand Russell Business and Economy Prejudice is the child of ignorance.
-- William Hazlitt Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died.
-- Erma Bombeck When people have no other tyrant, their own public opinion becomes one.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton Business and Economy
If you are afraid of loneliness, don't marry.
-- Chekhov Women: If they're not turning down your proposals for marriage, they're accusing you of
suspicious behavior in the women's lingerie changing room.
-- Cliff Clavin, character on "Cheers", U.S. Televi Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes
unpunished.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe You will marry into an Indian tribe and become one big Hopi family. And gain is gain, however small.
-- Robert Browning Business and Economy The bottom line is that (a) people are never perfect, but love can be, (b) that is the one and only
way that the mediocre and vile can be transformed, and (c) doing that makes it that. We waste
time If you can count your money, you don't have a billion dollars.
- J. Paul Getty I love children, especially when they cry, for then someone takes them away.
-- Nancy Mitford Business and Economy
I don't even butter my bread; I consider that cooking.
-- Katherine Cebrian "It is not the answer that enlightens, but the question." (Eugene Ionesco) Everywhere I go, I'm asked if the universities stifle writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle
enough of them.
-- Flannery O'Connor When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I only think about how to solve the
problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
- Buckminster Virtue is not left to stand alone. He who practices it will have neighbors.
-- Confucius Business and Economy The philosophy exam was a piece of cake -- which was a bit of a surprise, actually, because I
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-- Smith & Jones "...when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth." (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes) It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are
difficult.
-- Seneca Business and Economy
It is dangerous for a national candidate to say things that people might remember.
-- Eugene McCarthy I have been attacked by Rush Limbaugh on the air, an experience somewhat akin to being
gummed by a newt. It doesn't actually hurt, but it leaves you with slimy stuff on your ankle.
-- Molly Ivins The bottom line is that (a) people are never perfect, but love can be, (b) that is the one and only
way that the mediocre and vile can be transformed, and (c) doing that makes it that. We waste
time Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous; it is nothing if it is not ridiculous.
-- Thornton Wilder "May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house." (George Carlin) Business and Economy Before you put on a frown, make absolutely sure there are no smiles available.
-- Jim Beggs No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman.
-- Honore de Balzac Meetings are an addictive, highly self-indulgent activity that corporations and other large
organizations habitually engage in only because they cannot actually masturbate.
-- Dave Barry Business and Economy
We all agree that your theory is crazy, but is it crazy enough?
- Niels Bohr Smoking kills. If you're killed, you've lost a very important part of your life.
-- Brooke Shields, during an interview to become spokesperson for a federal anti-smoking
campaign No one really listens to anyone else, and if you try it for a while you'll see why.
-- Mignon McLaughlin A good time to keep your mouth shut is when you're in deep water.
-- Sidney Goff I still live.
-- Daniel Webster, dying words Business and Economy What is politics, after all, but the compulsion to preside over property and make other peoples'
decisions for them?
-- Tom Robbins, Skinny Legs and All It's true that I did get the girl, but then my grandfather always said, "Even a blind chicken finds a
few grains of corn now and then."
-- Lyle Lovett, musician, upon marying actress Julia Roberts, "When we are born we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools." (William Shakespeare) Business and Economy
"Thanks to my solid academic training, today I can write hundreds of words on virtually any topic without possessing a shred of information, which is how I got a good job in journalism." (Dave Barry) The highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to make money do more for the
betterment of life.
-- Henry Ford What is the answer? In that case, what is the question?
-- Gertrude Stein, dying words Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
- Henry Louis Mencken Victory goes to the player who makes the next-to-last mistake.
- Chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower Business and Economy Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress.
-- Gandhi "It serves me right for putting all my eggs in one bastard." (Dorothy Parker, 1893-1967, US writer) It is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions.
-- Aldous Huxley Business and Economy
A sweetheart is a bottle of wine, a wife is a wine bottle.
-- Baudelaire The voice of the intellect is a soft one, but it does not rest till it has gained a hearing.
-- Sigmund Freud In the blithe days of honeymoon,
With Kate's allurements smitten,
I lov'd her late, I lov'd her soon,
And call'd her dearest kitten.
But now my kitten's grown a cat,
And cross like other wives.
There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in his home.
-- Kenneth H. Olson, President of DEC, Convention of the World Future Society, 1977 Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
-- Oscar Wilde Business and Economy It is not necessary that whilst I live I live happily; but it is necessary that so long as I live I should
live honourably.
-- Kant, Immanuel "Greed, for lack of a better word, is good. Greed is right. Greed works." (Michael Douglas, as Gordon Gekko, Wall Street, 1987) Say goodbye to the oldies, but goodies, because the good old days weren't always good and
tomorrow aint as bad as it seems.
-- Billy Joel Business and Economy
And gain is gain, however small.
-- Robert Browning If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt We have children because we want immortality and this is the most reliable way of getting it.
-- Woodrow Wyatt I feel that if a person has problems communicating the very least he can do is to shut up.
-- Tom Lehrer Your goals, minus your doubts, equal your reality.
-- Ralph Marston Business and Economy A good cook is like a sorceress who dispenses happiness.
-- Elsa Schiapirelli "I think it's about time we voted for senators with breasts. After all, we've been voting for boobs
long enough."
-- Arizona senatorial candidate Claire Sargent, on women candidates We do not remember days; we remember moments.
-- Anonymous Business and Economy
Morality consists in suspecting other people of not being legally married.
-- George Bernard Shaw I am about to--or I am going to--die; either expression is used.
-- Dominique Bouhours, French grammarian, dying words The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. The opposite of a profound truth may
well be another profound truth.
- Niels Bohr "Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Immature love says: "I love you because I need you." Mature love says: "I need you because I
love you."
-- Erich Fromm Business and Economy Its failings notwithstanding, there is much to be said in favor of journalism in that by giving us the
opinion of the uneducated, it keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community.
-- Oscar W Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to
take away.
- Antoine de Saint Exupery "All our best men are laughed at in this nightmare land." (Jack Keroac) Business and Economy
I am ready at any time. Do not keep me waiting.
-- John Brown - last words If all these sweet young things were laid end to end, I wouldn't be the slightest bit surprised.
-- Dorothy Parker Seeing a murder on television can help work off one's antagonisms. And if you haven't any
antagonisms, the commercials will give you some.
-- Alfred Hitchcock The full use of your powers along lines of excellence.
- definition of happiness by John F. Kennedy "A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops." (Henry B. Adams) Business and Economy Talk to a man about himself and he will listen for hours.
-- Benjamin Disraeli "Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death." (General Michel Aoun) In the book of life, the answers aren't in the back.
-- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz Business and Economy
