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would like to remind you: when you link up to another computer, you're linking up to every
computer that th I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood. If it
does need additional interpretation by someone other than the creator, then I question whether it
ha For the memory of love is sweet, though the love itself were in vain. And what I have lost of
pleasure, assuage what I find of pain.
-- Lyster "Education is a vacine for violence." (Edward James Olmos) There is a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious, makes you so sick at
heart, you can't take part. And you've got to put your body upon the gears and upon the wheels,
upon the lev Recreation and Sports "Friendship is born at the moment when one person says to another, 'What?! You too! Thought I was the only one.'" (Clive Staples Lewis) "In fact, most deaths are not tragic. Few people die because of a flaw in character, which is the essential element of tragedy. They just die." (John Chancellor, The News Business) Democracy is a form of government in which it is permitted to wonder aloud what the country
could do under first-class management.
-- Senator Soaper Recreation and Sports
Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of
genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.
-- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Nothing is beneath you if it is in the direction of your life.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson "I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it." (Thomas Jefferson, to Archibald Stuart, 1791) Nothing is wrong with California that a rise in the ocean level wouldn't cure.
- Ross MacDonald Having children makes you no more a parent than having a piano makes you a pianist.
-- Michael Levine, Lessons at the Halfway Point Recreation and Sports We do not remember days; we remember moments.
-- Anonymous "I love to doubt as well as know." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) blah bl "The better the state is established, the fainter is humanity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Recreation and Sports
You have to kiss a lot of toads before you find a handsome prince.
-- American Proverb Work is a four-letter word.
-- The Smiths (Morrissey) I want to die in my sleep like my friend.... Not screaming and yelling like the passengers in his
car.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere.
-- Chinese Proverb The highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to make money do more for the
betterment of life.
-- Henry Ford Recreation and Sports One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is
terribly important.
- Bertrand Russell
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A little inaccuracy sometimes saves a ton "The key to wisdom is knowing all the right questions." (John A. Simone Jr.) We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next door neighbour.
-- G. K. Chesterton Recreation and Sports
In the end, everything is a gag.
- Charlie Chaplin We see the brightness of a new page where everything yet can happen.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke, Book of Hours The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.
-- Albert Einstein "Who is more foolish? The fool or the fool that follows it?" (Alec Guinness) "I owe much to my friends; but, all things considered, it strikes me that I owe even more to my enemies. The real person springs life under a sting even better than under a caress." (André Gide) Recreation and Sports "The biggest argument against democracy is a five minute discussion with the average voter." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) "Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) the social sciences were for all those who had not yet decided what to do with their lives, and for
all those whose premature frustrations led them into the sterile alleys of confrontation.
-- Peter Recreation and Sports
"We already have the statistics for the future: the growth percentages of pollution, overpopulation, desertification. The future is already in place." (Günther Grass, Winner of the Nobel Prize for Li Love is not blind - it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.
Rabbi Julius Gordon And gain is gain, however small.
-- Robert Browning Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe People may or may not say what they mean ... but they always say something designed to get
what they want.
-- David Mamet Recreation and Sports I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you an education.
-- Wilson Mizner "Never frighten a little man. He'll kill you." (Robert A. Heinlein) Silence is as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unhewn marble of a great sculpture.
-- Aldous Huxley Recreation and Sports
I criticize by creation - not by finding fault.
- Cicero "I always thought a dog-lover was a dog who loved another dog." (James Thurber) There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world; and that is an idea whose time has
come.
-- Victor Hugo "A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "There is only one success: to be able to spend your life in your own way, and not to give others absurd maddening claims upon it." (Christopher Darlington Morley) Recreation and Sports Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked
where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.
-- D. H. Lawrence "'Contrariwise,' continued Tweedledee, 'if it was so, it might be, and if it were so, it would be; but as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic!'" (Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking Glass) When a thing has been said and said well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it.
-- Anatole France Recreation and Sports
"Growth in wisdom can be measured precisely by decline in bile." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Human, All Too Human) Dew knot trussed yore spell chequer two fined awl yore mistakes.
-- Brendan Hills People only see what they are prepared to see.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson I don't mind if you don't like my manners. I don't like them myself. They're pretty bad. I grieve over
them on long winter evenings.
-- Humphrey Bogart to Lauren Bacall, in "The Big Sleep" Love looks through a telescope; envy, through a microscope.
-- Josh Billings Recreation and Sports Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by
definition, is unassailable.
-- James Baldwin, Nobody Knows My Name, 1961 A problem is a chance for you to do your best.
-- Buke Ellington The person who is slowest in making a promise is most faithful in its performance.
-- Jean-Jacques Rousseau Recreation and Sports
"Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country." (Marquis de Lafayette) Goodbye, Everybody!
-- Hart Crane, poet, who committed suicide by jumping overboard during a steamship voyage. Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you
have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not.
-- Aldous Huxley "Majority rule only works if you're also considering individual rights. Because you can't have five wolves and one sheep voting on what to have for supper." (Larry Flynt) When you do the common things in life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of
the world.
- George Washington Carver Recreation and Sports If there is any one proof of a man's incompetence, it is the stagnant mentality of a worker who,
doing some small routine job in a vast undertaking, does not care to look beyond the lever of a
machi We got to roll with the punches, play all of our hunches, make the best of whatever comes your
way. Forget that blind ambition, learn to trust your intuition -- plowing straight ahead, come what
may "Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences." (Isadora Duncan) Recreation and Sports
The great tragedy of science, the slaying of a beautiful theory by an ugly fact.
-- Thomas Henry Huxley I've been trying desperately to save my marriage for the last 35 years. All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it
is accepted as being self-evident.
- Arthur Schopenhauer Since Eve ate the apple, much depends on dinner.
-- Lord Byron The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman. -- S. T. Coleridge Recreation and Sports If it weren't for marriage, men and women would have to fight with total strangers.
-- Anonymous If you can't get rid of the skeleton in your closet, you'd best teach it to dance.
- George Bernard Shaw When I was a kid my favorite relative was Uncle Caveman. After school we'd all go play in his
cave, and every once in a while he would eat one of us. It wasn't until later that I found out that
Uncl Recreation and Sports
"Death solves all problems--no man, no problem." (Josef Stalin) A White House well filled, a little peanut field well tilled, and a wife who will go to the Bronx are
great riches.
-- Poor Jimmy's Almanac Mathematicians are like Frenchmen: whatever you say to them they translate into their own
language and forthwith it is something entirely different.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Creativity is allowing oneself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.
-- Scott Adams, The Dilbert Principle I would have made a good Pope.
-- Richard Nixon, U.S. President Recreation and Sports If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.
-- Voltaire Hark, the Herald Tribune sings,
Advertising wondrous things!
-- Tom Lehrer Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day.
-- Thornton Wilder Recreation and Sports
...the fog is rising.
-- Emily Dickinson, dying words Marriage is more than four bare legs in a bed.
-- Hoshang N. Akhtar The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is
not read.
-- Oscar Wilde The health of the people is really the foundation upon which all their happiness and all their
powers as a State depend.
-- Benjamin Disraeli We are all here for a spell; get all the good laughs you can.
-- Will Rogers Recreation and Sports Courage: doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared.
-- Eddie Rickenbacker "Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to know." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Recreation and Sports
