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History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte When he first ran for office, he appealed to the voters: "I never stole anything in my life. All I ask
is a chance."
-- Anon. You cannot think about thinking, without thinking about thinking about something.
-- Seymour Papert I am about to--or I am going to--die; either expression is used.
-- Dominique Bouhours, French grammarian, dying words "Do not do unto others as you expect they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same." (George Bernard Shaw) Business and Economy In marriage, as in war, it is permitted to take every advantage of the enemy. The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn.
-- Cicero "There cannot be a God because, if there were one, I would not believe that I was not He." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Business and Economy
If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.
-- Virginia Woolf A leader in the Democratic Party is a boss, in the Republican Party he is a leader.
Harry S. Truman "I never resist temptation, because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me." (George Bernard Shaw) A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.
-- Gloria Steinem Politics is for people who have a passion for changing life but lack a passion for living it.
-- Tom Robbins Business and Economy The difference between pornography and erotica is lighting.
-- Gloria Leonard Bachelor: the only man who has never told his wife a lie. Men have become the tools of their tools.
-- Henry David Thoreau Business and Economy
Colleges are places where pebbles are polished and diamonds are dimmed.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll, (seen attributed to "R.S. Ingersoll" - a typo?) "He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever." (Chinese Proverb) Thomas Jefferson--still surv...
-- John Adams, dying words >From the Far East I send you one single thought, one sole idea--written in red on every
beachhead form Australia to Tokyo--There is no substitute for victory!
-- General Douglas MacArthur "An imbalance between rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics." (Plutarch) Business and Economy "The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves." (William Hazlitt) 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 Every flower must grow through dirt.
-- Anonymous Business and Economy
You can only find truth with logic if you have already found truth without it.
- Gilbert Keith Chesterton The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything.
-- Oscar Wilde .. I am indebted to the cat for a particular kind of honorable deceit, for a greater control over
myself, for a characteristic aversion to brutal sounds, and for the need to keep silent for long
per "Life is a great surprise. I don't see why death should not be an even greater one." (Vladimir Nabokov) I used to be Snow White, but I drifted.
-- Mae West Business and Economy Husbands are awkward things to deal with; even keeping them in hot water will not make them
tender.
-- Mary Buckley A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence
University education.
-- George Bernard Shaw Chance is always powerful. - Let your hook be always cast; in the pool where you least expect it,
there will be a fish.
-- Ovid Business and Economy
"You know what charm is: a way of getting the answer yes without having asked any clear question." (Albert Camus, The Fall) If your professor wrote it, it's as near to the truth as you ever need to get.
-- John Watson, University of Canterbury Not only is the universe stranger than we imagine, it is stranger than we can imagine.
Sir Arthur Eddington (1882 - 1944) "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." (Thomas Jefferson) Love is temporary insanity curable by marriage.
-- Ambrose Bierce Business and Economy In a great romance, each person plays a part the other really likes.
-- Elizabeth Ashley To die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture.
-- Anatole France It is well, when judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and
superior impartiality.
-- Arnold Bennett Business and Economy
"Try not to have a good time ... This is supposed to be educational." (Charles Schultz) I'm at the age where food has taken the place of sex in my life. In fact, I've just had a mirror put
over my kitchen table.
-- Rodney Dangerfield "If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library." (Frank Zappa) He can compress the most words into the smallest idea of any man I know.
- Abraham Lincoln Winning is a habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.
-- Vince Lombardi Business and Economy "Death is always and under all circumstances a tragedy, for if it is not, then it means that life itself has become one." (Theodore Roosevelt) Defeat never comes to any man until he admits it.
-- Josephus Daniels People need loving the most when they deserve it the least.
-- John Harrigan Business and Economy
"What is the difference between exploring and being lost?" (Dan Eldon, photojournalist) Biography lends to death a new terror.
-- Oscar Wilde "Murderers have been known to find that young girls give them more trouble than anybody else." (Jean Cocteau, Les Enfants Terribles) "God's creatures, great and small ... eat them one, eat them all." (John A. Simone Sr.) I'm an excellent housekeeper. Every time I get a divorce, I keep the house.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Business and Economy They had a dispute about a night out with the boys. But he finally decided to let her go.
-- Anonymous The surest way to make a monkey of a man is to quote him.
-- Robert Benchley "'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) Business and Economy
"Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) He that always gives way to others will end in having no principles of his own.
-- Aesop To achieve the impossible, it is precisely the unthinkable that must be thought.
-- Tom Robbins, Jitterbug Perfume "Most people don't realize that large pieces of coral, which have been painted brown and attached to the skull by common wood screws, can make a child look like a deer." (Jack Handey) If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.
-- Virginia Woolf Business and Economy I believe in getting into hot water; it keeps you clean.
-- G. K. Chesterton Jake liked his women the way he liked his kiwi fruit: sweet yet tart, firm-fleshed yet yielding to the
touch, and covered with short brown fuzzy hair.
-- Jonathan S. Haas "The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves." (William Hazlitt) Business and Economy
Per cubic inch, your current TV set is perhaps the dumbest appliance in your home (and I'm not
even talking about the programs).
-- Nicholas Negroponte Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get
money from it.
-- Stephen Leacock Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than
the wisest man can answer.
-- Charles Caleb Colton "Avoid providing material for the drama that is always stretched tight between parents and children; it uses up much of the children's strength and wastes the love of the elders, which acts and warms I think there are only three things America will be known for 2,000 years from now when they
study this civilization: the Constitution, jazz music, and baseball.
-- Gerald Early, writer, baseball do Business and Economy Although the course may change sometimes, rivers always reach the sea.
-- Led Zeppelin, Ten Years Gone To teach is to learn twice.
-- Joseph Joubert If you talk to God, you are praying; if God talks to you, you have schizophrenia.
-- Thomas Szasz Business and Economy
Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.
-- Aristotle The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this
is true.
-- James Branch Cabell, The Silver Stallion Always talk to your wife while you're making love... if there's a phone handy. "The face is the soul of the body." (Ludwig Wittgenstein) Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it. Business and Economy Why are women so much more interesting to men than men are to women?
-- Virginia Woolf I used to be Snow White, but I drifted.
-- Mae West When a thing has been said and said well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it.
-- Anatole France Business and Economy
You have to stay in shape. My grandmother, she started walking five miles a day when she was
60. She's 97 today and we don't know where the hell she is.
-- Ellen DeGeneres A man's feet should be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world.
-- George Santayana "Everybody knows that if you are too careful, you become so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something." (Gertrude Stein) Anyone can be passionate, but it takes real lovers to be silly.
-- Rose Franken As always, victory finds a hundred fathers but defeat is an orphan.
-- Count Galeazzo Ciano, The Ciano Diaries Business and Economy 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 "People demand freedom only when they have no power." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The real test of friendship is: Can you literally do nothing with the other person? Can you enjoy
together those moments of life that are utterly simple? They are the moments people looks back
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