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This isn't right, this isn't even wrong.
- Wolfgang Pauli (1900-1958), upon reading a young physicist's paper I'm not a member of any organized political party, I'm a Democrat!
-- Will Rogers Most people are more comfortable with old problems than with new solutions.
-- Anonymous In great matters men show themselves as they wish to be seen; in small matters, as they are.
-- Gamaliel Bradford The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds the most discoveries, is not
"Eureka!", but "That's funny..."
-- Isaac Asimov Business and Economy It is not good enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.
-- Rene Descartes Honolulu - it's got everything. Sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother. -- Ken Dodd I believe that mink are raised for being turned into fur coats and if we didn't wear fur coats those
little animals would never have been born. So is it better not to have been born or to have lived Business and Economy
Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering. The brain is a wonderful organ. It starts working the moment you get up in the morning, and does
not stop until you get into the office.
-- Robert Frost The absolute yearning of one human body for another particular body and its indifference to
substitutes is one of life's major mysteries.
-- Iris Murdoch "Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily." (Napoleon Bonaparte) UGLINESS, n. A gift of the gods to certain women, entailing virtue without humility.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 Business and Economy Marriage is like a cage--one sees the birds outside desperate to get in and those inside equally
desparate to get out.
-- Di Peatlins "Have love for your friend up to a limit for it is possible he may turn into your enemy some day; and hate your enemy up to a limit for it is possible he may turn into your friend some day." (Ali bin It makes no difference who you vote for - the two parties are really one party representing four
percent of the people.
-- Gore Vidal Business and Economy
A small family is soon provided for.
-- English Proverb The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
-- General George Patton Bachelor: the only man who has never told his wife a lie. America is the only nation in history which miraculously has gone directly from barbarism to
degeneration without the usual intervention of civilization.
-- George Clemenceau Sure, it's going to kill a lot of people, but they may be dying of something else anyway.
-- Othal Brand, member of a Texas pesticide review board Business and Economy Marriage: the only sport in which the trapped animal has to buy the license. Great innovations should not be forced on slender majorities.
-- Thomas Jefferson You can pay attention to the fact, in which case you'll probably become a mathematician, or you
can ignore it, in which case you'll probably become a physicist.
-- Len Evans, professor, Northwestern Business and Economy
Peculiar travel suggestions are dancing lessons from God.
-- Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., Cat's Cradle Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
-- Will Rogers I feel like Zsa Zsa Gabor's sixth husband. I know what I'm supposed to do, but I don't know how
to make it interesting.
-- Milton Berle, when called to the microphone at the 2nd Annual Comedians Hal I'm proud to be paying taxes in the United States. The only thing is - I could be just as proud for
half the money.
-- Arthur Godfrey "Education must have an end in view, for it is not an end in itself." (Sybil Marshall) Business and Economy We haven't the money, so we've got to think.
-- Lord Rutherford The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other
is ready.
-- Henry David Thoreau Great eaters and great sleepers are incapable of anything else that is great.
-- William Shakespeare, Henry IV Business and Economy
A university professor set an examination question in which he asked what is the difference
between ignorance and apathy. The professor had to give an A+ to a student who answered: I
don't know and In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.
-- Albert Einstein In the end, everything is a gag.
- Charlie Chaplin "God's creatures, great and small ... eat them one, eat them all." (John A. Simone Sr.) The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their
attitudes of mind.
-- William James Business and Economy There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you
yourself have altered.
-- Nelson Mandela, A Long Walk to Freedom If ever I get married again it would have to be under an anaesthetic.
-- Marie Tonkin When you gaze long into the abyss, the abyss also gazes into you.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Business and Economy
"I don't think it's the nature of any man to be monogamous. Men are propelled by genetically ordained impulses over which they have no control to distribute their seed." (Marlon Brando) Things are more like they are now than they ever were before.
-- Dwight D. Eisenhower, U.S. President "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 "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) "Give me liberty or give me death." (Patrick Henry) Business and Economy One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.
-- Virginia Woolf To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance
- Oscar Wilde "One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Business and Economy
"If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost." (Aristotle) It is important that students bring a certain ragamuffin, barefoot, irreverence to their studies; they
are not here to worship what is known, but to question it.
-- J. Bronowski, The Ascent of Man Practice random acts of kindness and sensless acts of beauty.
-- Adair Lara "The most beautiful things in the world are the most useless, peacocks and lilies, for instance." (John Ruskin) I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.
- Thomas Jefferson Business and Economy Marriage is a romance in which the heroine dies in the first chapter.
-- Cecilia Egan "Even death is unreliable. Instead of zero it may be some ghastly hallucination, such as the square root of minus one." (Samuel Beckett) If you want to sing out, sing out, and if you want to be free, be free, 'cause there's a million ways
to be, you know that there are...
-- Cat Stevens, from a song lyric Business and Economy
"You exist only in what you do." (Federico Fellini) Your life and my life flow into each other as wave flows into wave, and unless there is peace and
joy and freedom for you, there can be no real peace or joy or freedom for me. To see reality--not
as To love another person is to see the face of God.
-- Lyric from Les Miserables "Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom." (Raymonde Uy) They were doing a full back shot of me in a swimsuit and I thought, Oh my God, I have to be so
brave. See, every woman hates herself from behind.
-- Cindy Crawford, supermodel Business and Economy I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones.
-- John Cage "The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves." (William Hazlitt) "I expect nothing. I fear no one. I am free." (Nikos Kazantzakis) Business and Economy
"Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience." (George Bernard Shaw) "The want of logic annoys. Too much logic bores. Life eludes logic, and everything that logic alone constructs remains artificial and forced." (André Gide) The average, healthy, well-adjusted adult gets up at seven-thirty in the morning feeling just plain
terrible.
-- Jean Kerr Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.
-- John Lehman, Secretary of the Navy, 1981-1987 If I had been around when Rubens was painting, I would have been revered as a fabulous model.
Kate Moss? Well, she would have been the paintbrush...
-- Dawn French Business and Economy Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands... but English women only
hope to find in their butlers.
-- W. Somerset Maugham Where there is love there is life.
-- Gandhi The charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that, from age to age, nothing
changes and yet everything is completely different.
-- Aldous Huxley Business and Economy
Remember your dreams.
-- Maryanne Radmacher-Herhey The good people sleep much better at night than the bad people. Of course, the bad people enjoy
the waking hours much more.
-- Woody Allen Not everything that can be counted counts; and not everything that counts can be counted.
-- Albert Einstein If you haven't got anything nice to say about anybody, come sit next to me.
- Alice Roosevelt Longworth There ought to be one day - just one - when there is open season on senators.
-- Will Rogers Business and Economy Virtue is not left to stand alone. He who practices it will have neighbors.
-- Confucius Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has not heart; and any man who is over 30, and is
not a conservative, has no brains.
- Sir Winston Churchill The hard part about being a bartender is figuring out who is drunk and who is just stupid.
-- Richard Braunstein Business and Economy
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 Question: If you could live forever, would you and why? Answer: I would not live forever, because
we should not live forever, because if we were supposed to live forever, then we would live
forever, "I either want less corruption, or more chance to participate in it." (Ashleigh Brilliant) 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 I know I'm not in government anymore. In fact I'm out of work.
-- Ronald Reagan, Former U.S. President, on a speaking tour of Japan, 1989 Business and Economy What we anticipate seldom occurs: but what we least expect generally happens.
-- Benjamin Disraeli "You believe that flag burning shows disrespect towards those who have fought to preserve our freedoms. Punishing protestors shows an even more profound disrespect for the ideals that these people die A life spent in making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent doing
nothing.
-- George Benard Shaw Business and Economy
