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"See - one side of my face is gentle and kind, incapable of anything but love of my fellow man. The other side, the other profile, is cruel and predatory and evil, incapable of anything but lusts and "Great work is done by people who are not afraid to be great." (Fernando Flores) "Babies are necessary to grown-ups. A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities. In a world that is cutting down its trees to build highways, losing its eart "There are no uninteresting things, only uninteresting people." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) We never reflect how pleasant it is to ask for nothing.
-- Seneca Education A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
Robert Frost (1874-1963) If women didn't exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning.
-- Aristotle Onassis War is a profession by which a man cannot live honorably; an employment by which the soldier, if
he would reap any profit, is obliged to be false, rapacious, and cruel.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli Education
Love is the dawn of marriage, and marriage is the sunset of love.
-- French saying Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
- Lewis Perelman blah bl "Less is more." (Robert Browning) "I am a part of all that I have met." (Alfred Lord Tennyson, 1809-1892, English poet) "When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; when health is lost, something is lost; when character is lost, all is lost." (Billy Graham) Education Always bear in mind that your own resolution to success is more important than any other one
thing.
-- Abraham Lincoln "One of the great dangers in having a career is getting bored." (Itzhak Perlman) "I do not suppose I shall be remembered for anything. But I don't think about my work in those terms. It is just as vulgar to work for the sake of posterity as to work for the sake of money." (George Education
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson What is the answer? In that case, what is the question?
-- Gertrude Stein, dying words Only positive consequences encourage good future performances.
-- Kenneth H. Blanchard "Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains." (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, The Social Contract) My mother's menu consisted of two choices: Take it or leave it.
-- Buddy Hackett Education 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 The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds the most discoveries, is not
"Eureka!", but "That's funny..."
-- Isaac Asimov What I have to say is far more important than how long my eyelashes are.
-- Alanis Morissette, singer, 1995 Education
Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.
-- Roger Babson I heard someone tried the monkeys-on-typewriters bit trying for the plays of W. Shakespeare, but
all they got was the collected works of Francis Bacon.
- Bill Hirst The mathematician lives long and lives young; the wings of his soul do not early drop off, nor do
its pores become clogged with the earthy particles blown from the dusty highways of vulgar life.
-- Marriage is a lottery in which men stake their liberty and women their happiness.
-- Madame de Rieux The closer I'm bound in love to you, the closer I am to free.
-- Indigo Girls, song lyric Education "They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself." (Andy Warhol) The fantasy which serves as a support for the figure of the Stalinist Communist is therefore
exactly the same as the fantasy which is at work in the Tom and Jerry cartoons.
-- Slavoj Zizek Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which is never advisable. -- Oscar Wilde Education
"I am convinced that it is not the fear of death, of our lives ending that haunts our sleep so much as the fear ... that as far as the world is concerned, we might as well never have lived." (Rabbi H Beware you be not swallowed up in books! An ounce of love is worth a pound of knowledge.
-- John Wesley Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.
-- George Orwell I'm not indecisive. Am I indecisive?
-- Jim Scheibel, mayor, St. Paul MN Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.
-- George Bernard Shaw Education A man's wife has more power over him than the state has.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson "If a million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing." (Anatole France) When a girl marries she exchanges the attention of many men for the inattention of one.
-- Helen Rowland Education
"Dying is the most embarrassing thing that can ever happen to you, because someone's got to take care of all your details." (Andy Warhol, America, 1985) The last good thing written in C++ was the Pachelbel Canon.
-- Jerry Olson Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than the arguments of its opposers.
-- William Penn When you steal from one author, it's plagiarism; if you steal from many, it's research.
-- Wilson Mizner I think 'Hail to the Chief' has a nice ring to it.
- John F. Kennedy when asked what is his favorite song Education Early to rise and early to bed.
Makes a male healthy, wealthy and dead.
-- James Thurber If you want a place in the sun, you've got to put up with a few blisters.
-- Abigail Van Buren Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
-- George Santayana Education
I don't feel good.
-- Luther Burbank, dying words Twenty years fron now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones
you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in
your The person who is slowest in making a promise is most faithful in its performance.
-- Jean-Jacques Rousseau There is a theory which states that if ever anybody discovers exactly what the Universe is for and
why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and
inex Parenthetical remarks (however relevant) are unnecessary.
-- Frank L. Visco, How to Write Good Education The covers of this book are too far apart.
-- Ambrose Bierce The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain.
-- Lord Byron Argue for your limitations, and sure enough they're yours.
- Richard Bach Education
Live truth instead of professing it.
-- Elbert Hubbard Marriage has many pains, but celibacy has no pleasures.
-- Samuel Johnson "The feminists used to say that chivalry and ladyhood were ways of keeping women down and preventing them from standing toe to toe with the guys. Now you've got a lot of women saying that if a guy is If you want anything done well, do it yourself. This is why most people laugh at their own jokes.
-- Bob Edwards We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.
-- Mme de Staël Education Women's liberationists spread the word that...the only peaceful family is one in which either the
wife is enslaved or the husband is androgynous.
-- R. Emmett Tyell, The Liberal Crack-Up, 1984 To decide, to be at the level of choice, is to take responsibility for your life and to be in control of
your life.
-- Abbie M. Dale In endowing us with memory, nature has revealed to us a truth utterly unimaginable to the
unreflective creation, the truth of immortality....The most ideal human passion is love, which is
also the m Education
I do not like broccoli. And I haven't liked it since I was a little kid and my mother made me eat it.
And I'm President of the United States and I'm not going to eat any more broccoli.
-- George Bus The remarkable thing about television is that it permits several million people to laugh at the same
joke and still feel lonely.
-- T. S. Eliot 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 blah "Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure." (Thomas Alva Edison) Unfortunately, the media have trouble distinguishing between real science and propaganda
cross-dressed as science.
-- Linda Bowles, political columnist Education I didn't have time to write a short letter, so I wrote a long one instead.
-- Mark Twain "The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves." (William Hazlitt) He that would have the fruit must climb the tree.
-- Thomas Fuller, M.D. Education
What we anticipate seldom occurs: but what we least expect generally happens.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Going to church doesn't make you a Christian any more than going to a garage makes you an
automobile.
-- Billy Sunday Every major horror of history was committed in the name of an altruistic motive.
-- Ayn Rand As for the virtuous poor, one can pity them, of course, but one cannot possibly admire them.
-- Oscar Wilde I didn't accept it. I received it.
-- Richard Allen, National Security Advisor to President Reagan, explaining the $1000 in cash and
two watches he was given by two Japanese journalists after he hel Education Love is what we are born with. Fear is what we learn. The spiritual journey is the unlearning of
fear and prejudices and the acceptance of love back in our hearts. Love is the essential reality
and A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties; no
religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear
of I'm not a member of any organized political party, I'm a Democrat!
-- Will Rogers Education
blah "Some of the worlds greatest feats were accomplished by people not smart enough to know they were impossible. unattributed" (Anonymous) When a cat is dropped, it always lands on its feet, and when toast is dropped, it always lands with
the buttered side down. I propose to strap buttered toast to the back of a cat; the 2 will hover,
Love is blind -- marriage is the eye-opener.
-- Pauline Thomason The average Ph.D thesis is nothing but the transference of bones from one graveyard to another.
-- Frank J. Dobie, A Texan in England, 1945 I am going to put myself to sleep now for a bit longer than usual. Call the time Eternity." (Jerzy Kosinski, Polish novelist, from his suicide note) Education A really busy person never knows how much he weighs.
-- Ed Howe "We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) blah "Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure." (Thomas Alva Edison) Education
