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Most people think life sucks, and then you die. Not me. I beg to differ. I think life sucks, then you
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When you gaze long into the abyss, the abyss also gazes into you.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Ask her to wait a moment - I am almost done.
-- Carl Friedrich Gauss, when informed that his wife was dying In any organization there will always be one person who knows what is going on. This person
must be fired.
-- Conway's Law "He who speaks of what he knows not only works hard to portray his ignorance." (Joseph Muchemi) Business and Economy "In order to preserve your self-respect, it is sometimes necessary to lie and cheat." (Robert Byrne) Despite the high cost of living it remains a popular item.
-- Anonymous Old soldiers never die, they just fade away.
-- General Douglas MacArthur Business and Economy
"To educate educators! But the first ones must educate themselves! And for these I write." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) A coward is a hero with a wife, kids, and a mortgage.
-- Marvin Kitman Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of
the time.
-- E. B. White Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
-- Soren Kierkegaard "I know that God won't give me more trouble than I can handle ... but sometimes I wish he wouldn't trust me so much." (Mother Teresa) Business and Economy The paradox is really the pathos of intellectual life and just as only great souls are exposed to
passions it is only the great thinker who is exposed to what I call paradoxes, which are . . .
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-- James Lowell Men have become the tools of their tools.
- Henry David Thoreau ( Business and Economy
Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future.
-- Paul Boese In any contest between power and patience, bet on patience.
- W.B. Prescott "I hear, I know. I see, I remember. I do, I understand." (Confucius, 551 BC-479) Worrying is like a rocking chair, it gives you something to do, but it doesn't get you anywhere.
-- Anonymous The full use of your powers along lines of excellence.
- definition of happiness by John F. Kennedy Business and Economy In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been
widely regarded as a bad move.
-- Douglas Adams "As a child, I thought I hated everybody, but when I grew up I realized it was just children I didn't like." (Philip Larkin) As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; and as far as they are
certain, they do not refer to reality.
-- Albert Einstein Business and Economy
"People demand freedom only when they have no power." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) There are some things which cannot be learned quickly, and time, which is all we have, must be
paid heavily for their acquiring. They are the very simplest things and, because it takes a man's
life Marriage was all a woman's idea and for man's acceptance of the pretty yoke, it becomes us to
be grateful.
-- Phyllis McGinley Having children makes you no more a parent than having a piano makes you a pianist.
-- Michael Levine, Lessons at the Halfway Point Beneath the rule of men entirely great, / The pen is mightier than the sword.
-- Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton, Richelieu, II. ii Business and Economy "Once spirit was God, then it became man, and now it is even becoming mob." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Problems worthy of attack prove their worth by fighting back.
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Men are strong only so long as they represent a strong idea. They become powerless when they
oppose it.
-- Sigmund Freud Heav'n hath no rage like love to hatred turn'd, Nor Hell a fury, like a woman scorn'd.
-- William Congreve Every act of creation is first an act of destruction.
-- Pablo Picasso A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.
-- G. K. Chesterton "All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) Business and Economy Matters of religion should never be matters of controversy. We neither argue with a lover about
his taste, not condemn him, if we are just, for knowing so human a passion.
-- George Santayana The story of a love is not important - what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps
the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.
-- Helen Hayes "Experience is a good teacher, but she sends in terrific bills." (Minna Antrim) Business and Economy
Don't anthropomorphize computers -- they hate it.
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-- John Barrymore - last words Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get
money from it.
-- Stephen Leacock Going to church doesn't make you a Christian any more than going to a garage makes you an
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-- Billy Sunday "A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward." (Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1882 - 1945, 32nd U.S. President) Business and Economy We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind
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touch, and covered with short brown fuzzy hair.
-- Jonathan S. Haas Business and Economy
The only weapon that becomes sharper with constant use is the tongue.
-- Anonymous "There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) Great ability develops and reveals itself increasingly with every new assignment. Baltasar
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illiterate sport fishermen.
-- P. J. O'Rourke "Politics is my hobby. Smut is my vocation." (Larry Flynt) You can complain because roses have thorns, or you can rejoice because thorns have roses.
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By working faithfully eight hours a day, you might eventually get to be a boss and work twelve
hours a day.
-- ROBERT FROST I love deadlines. I especially like the whooshing sound they make as they go flying by.
-- Douglas Adams A team effort is a lot of people doing what I say.
-- Michael Winner The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.
-- Paul Valery Happy are those who dream dreams and are willing to pay the price to make them come true.
-- Anon. Business and Economy Man is the best computer we can put aboard a spacecraft...and the only one that can be mass
produced with unskilled labor.
-- Wernher von Braun ... it is certain that the real function of art is to increase our self-consciousness; to make us more
aware of what we are, and therefore of what the universe in which we live really is. And since
"The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning, but without understanding." (Louis Brandeis) Business and Economy
He who has a 'why' to live, can bear with almost any 'how'.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Laugh and the world laughs with you. Snore and you sleep alone.
-- Anthony Burgess Each religion, by the help of more or less myth which it takes more or less seriously, proposes
some method of fortifying the human soul and enabline it to make its peace with its destiny.
-- George Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the
unpalatable.
-- John Kenneth Galbraith Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.
-- Louise Hay Business and Economy "Plato was a bore." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) It's impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune.
-- Woody Allen "If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they don't want to hear." (George Orwell) Business and Economy
"To pretend, I actually do the thing: I have therefore only pretended to pretend." (Jacques Derrida, French 'deconstructionist') The wise see knowledge and action as one; they see truly.
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- Paul Erdos Business and Economy Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.
- Napoleon Bonaparte Marriage is a matter of give and take, but so far I haven't been able to find anybody who'll take what I have to give. -- Cass Daley Never go to bed angry. Stay up and fight.
-- Phyllis Diller Business and Economy
My initial response was to sue her for defamation of character, but then I realized that I had no
character.
-- Charles Barkley, on hearing Tonya Harding proclaim herself "the Charles Barkley of fig Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions - it only guarantees equality of opportunity.
- Irving Kristol If you can't annoy somebody, there's little point in writing.
-- Kingsley Amis America is the only nation in history which miraculously has gone directly from barbarism to
degeneration without the usual intervention of civilization.
-- George Clemenceau Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
-- George Bernard Shaw Business and Economy Marriage is a thing which puts a ring on a woman's finger and two under the man's eyes. "A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward." (Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1882 - 1945, 32nd U.S. President) "One may sometimes tell a lie, but the grimace that accompanies it tells the truth." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Business and Economy
