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In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice
that I am not a Republican.
-- H. L. Mencken "I fear we are not getting rid of God because we still believe in grammar." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) There is no realizable power that man cannot, in time, fashion the tools to attain, nor any power
so secure that the naked ape will not abuse it. So it is written in the genetic cards - only physics "... What good are dreams if they come true?" (Frederick Exley, A Fan's Notes) "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) Arts and Entertainment There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.
-- Oscar Wilde Losing a wife can be hard. In my case, it was almost impossible. Look at life through the windshield, not the rear-view mirror.
-- Byrd Baggett Arts and Entertainment
Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Character may be manifested in the great moments, but it is made in the small ones.
-- Phillip Brooks To heck with marrying a girl who makes biscuits like her mother--I want to marry one who makes dough like her father. The real questions are the ones that obtrude upon your consciousness whether you like it or not,
the ones that make your mind start vibrating like a jackhammer, the ones that you 'come to terms
with We have art to save ourselves from the truth.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Arts and Entertainment Considering the flames and intolerance, shouldn't USENET be spelled ABUSENET?
-- Michael Meissner I hope you have not been leading a double life, pretending to be wicked and being really good all
the time. That would be hypocrisy.
-- Oscar Wilde Hardly a year passes that fails to find a new, oft-times exotic, research method or technique
added to the armamentarium of political inquiry. Anyone who cannot negotiate Chi squares,
assess randomi Arts and Entertainment
Creativity is allowing oneself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.
-- Scott Adams, The Dilbert Principle I think of my wife and I think of Lot, and I think of the lucky break he got. A good cook is like a sorceress who dispenses happiness.
-- Elsa Schiapirelli Don't let it end like this. Tell them I said something.
-- Pancho Villa, dying words Men marry because they are tired, women because they are curious; both are disappointed.
-- Oscar Wilde Arts and Entertainment The full use of your powers along lines of excellence.
- definition of happiness by John F. Kennedy There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.
-- George Santayana What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Arts and Entertainment
"Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences." (Isadora Duncan) Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in
accordance with the dictates of reason.
-- Oscar Wilde Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.
-- Albert Einstein We're our own dragons as well as our own heroes, and we have to rescue ourselves from
ourselves.
-- Tom Robbins If you can count your money, you don't have a billion dollars.
- J. Paul Getty Arts and Entertainment The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
- General George Patton Reality is nothing but a collective hunch.
-- Lily Tomlin All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman and a pretty girl.
-- Charlie Chaplin Arts and Entertainment
Egotist: a person more interested in himself than in me.
- Ambrose Bierce Art and science have their meeting point in method.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton It's no credit to anyone to work to hard.
-- Ed Howe "It is not the answer that enlightens, but the question." (Eugene Ionesco) I would have made a good Pope.
-- Richard Nixon, U.S. President Arts and Entertainment Researchers have discovered that chocolate produces some of the same reactions in the brain
as marijuana...The researchers also discovered other similarities between the two, but can't
remember what In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice
that I am not a Republican.
-- H. L. Mencken I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible
by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.
- Umberto Eco Arts and Entertainment
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 I'd marry again if I found a man who had 15 million and would sign over half of it to me before the
marriage and guarantee he'd be dead within a year.
-- Bette Davis Give me chastity and continence, but not yet.
- Saint Augustine "Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts." (Henry B. Adams) Love is an ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.
-- Lord Dewar Arts and Entertainment "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) Why doesn't she like me? Is it my hair, my overbite, the fact that I've worn the same shirt and
shorts for the last four years?
-- Bart Simpson, young character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated tele Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of
humor is just common sense, dancing.
-- Clive James Arts and Entertainment
"Courage is doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared." (Eddie Rickenbacker) Feminists are OK, I just wouldn't want my sister to marry one There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house
as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends.
-- Homer, Odyssey, ninth century "The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of the dream." (Eleanor Roosevelt) When you do the common things in life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of
the world.
- George Washington Carver Arts and Entertainment "Frank and explicit; that is the right line to take when you wish to conceal your own mind and to confuse the minds of others." (Benjamin Disraeli, Sybil) The only thing worse than a man you can't control is a man you can.
-- Margo Kaufman We see the brightness of a new page where everything yet can happen.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke, Book of Hours Arts and Entertainment
Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the
moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future
generations "Pay no attention to what the critics say; there has never been set up a statue in honor of a critic." (Jean Sibelius) Nothing average ever stood as a monument to progress. When progress is looking for a partner it
doesn't turn to those who believe they are only average. It turns instead to those who are forever
sea "The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet." (Andy Warhol) "There is only one thing more painful than learning from experience and that is not learning from experience." (Archibald McLeish) Arts and Entertainment Too bad all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving cabs and cutting hair.
-- George Burns "There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) Sometimes you get shown the light in the strangest of places if you look at it right.
-- Jerry Garcia Arts and Entertainment
Men are strong only so long as they represent a strong idea. They become powerless when they
oppose it.
-- Sigmund Freud "True friends, like diamonds, are precious and rare. False friends, like autumn leaves, are found everywhere." (Anonymous) I don't even butter my bread; I consider that cooking.
-- Katherine Cebrian A wasted youth is better by far than a wise and productive old age.
-- Meat Loaf, from the song "Wasted Youth" on the album Bat Out of Hell II "Don't let your ego get too close to your position, so that if your position gets shot down, your ego doesn't go with it." (Colin Powell) Arts and Entertainment All that is gold does not glitter. Not all those who wander are lost;
-- J.R.R. Tolkein 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 Lawyers are... operators of the toll bridge which anyone in search of justice must pass.
-- Jane Bryant Quinn Arts and Entertainment
Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech.
- Martin Fraquhar Tupper If we knew what we were doing, it wouldn't be called research, would it?
-- Albert Einstein Marriage is a rest period between romances. Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside
desperate to get out.
-- Michel de Montaigne The philosophy exam was a piece of cake -- which was a bit of a surprise, actually, because I
was expecting some questions on a sheet of paper.
-- Smith & Jones Arts and Entertainment When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life
of another.
-- Helen Keller I once asked my history teacher how we were expected to learn anything useful from his subject,
when it seemed to me to be nothing but a monotonous and sordid succession of robber baron
scumbags dev "I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him." (Galileo Galilei) Arts and Entertainment
When one is trying to do something beyond his known powers it is useless to seek the approval
of friends. Friends are at their best in moments of defeat.
-- Henry Miller Experience teaches only the teachable.
-- Aldous Huxley Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them
down people's throats.
-- Howard Aiken It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.
-- Henry James "Twelve magicians and two carnies have been shot dead doing the bullet catch. That's cool enough, but every night when we close our show with that trick and the loaded gun gets pointed in my face, it Arts and Entertainment What if nothing exists and we're all in somebody's dream? Or what's worse, what if only that fat
guy in the third row exists?
-- Woody Allen This delivery driver carries no money. His wife has it all. God gave men both a penis and a brain, but unfortunately not enough blood supply to run both at
the same time.
- Robin Williams, commenting on the Clinton/Lewinsky affair Arts and Entertainment
