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 "Experience is the name that everyone gives to their mistakes." (Oscar Wilde) "The reason why kids are crazy is because nobody can face the responsibility of bringing them up." (John Lennon) This compact disc is made from analog masters recorded without noise reduction. Half the tracks,
in fact, were recorded in a dismal, cheap basement eight-track studio with puddles of water on
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-- Tom Robbins Recreation and Sports "Everyone is a bore to someone. That is unimportant. The thing to avoid is being a bore to oneself." (Gerald Brenan) One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: that word is love.
-- Sophocles "Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country." (Marquis de Lafayette) Recreation and Sports
My other wife is beautiful. To write a good love letter, you ought to begin without knowing what you mean to say, and to
finish without knowing what you have written.
-- Jean Jacques Rousseau "To introduce something altogether new would mean to begin all over, to become ignorant again, and to run the old, old risk of failing to learn." (Isaac Asimov) As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he.
-- Proverbs 23:7 "The only things worth learning are the things you learn after you know it all." (Harry S. Truman) Recreation and Sports "The things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisi Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
-- Henry Ford Imagination is the highest kite one can fly.
-- Lauren Bacall Recreation and Sports
"I would rather die standing than live on my knees!" (Emiliano Zapata) Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
-- George Bernard Shaw As for the virtuous poor, one can pity them, of course, but one cannot possibly admire them.
-- Oscar Wilde University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
-- Henry Kissinger Goodbye, Everybody!
-- Hart Crane, poet, who committed suicide by jumping overboard during a steamship voyage. Recreation and Sports The backbone of surprise is fusing speed with secrecy.
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The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the
purpose of satisfying it afterwards.
-- Anatole France My grandfather once told me that there are two kinds of people: those who work and those who
take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was less competition there.
-- INDIRA The right to swing my fist ends where the other man's nose begins.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the
unpalatable.
-- John Kenneth Galbraith We know the truth, not only by the reason, but also by the heart.
-- Blaise Pascal, Thoughts, Chap. x. 1., Translated by O. W. Wight Recreation and Sports The Democrats are the party that says government will make you smarter, taller, richer, and
remove the crabgrass on your lawn. The Republicans are the party that says government doesn't
work and the 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 Nothing average ever stood as a monument to progress. When progress is looking for a partner it
doesn't turn to those who believe they are only average. It turns instead to those who are forever
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"I have no special gift; I am only passionately curious." (Albert Einstein) Never try to teach a pig to sing. It wastes your time and annoys the pig.
-- Anonymous "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) "A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) 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 Recreation and Sports Asking politicians to vote themselves out of power is like asking rabbits not to multiply, it ain't
natural.
-- Bob Beckel, on term limits, CBS This Morning, 3/30/95 When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.
-- Hunter S. Thompson "A friendship that exacts oneness of opinion and conduct is not worth much." (Mohandas Gandhi, In Search of the Supreme) Recreation and Sports
Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.
-- Samuel Butler Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
-- George Santayana In the end, everything is a gag.
- Charlie Chaplin Is it better for a woman to marry a man who loves her than a man she loves.
-- Anonymous "I like boring things." (Andy Warhol, Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up) Recreation and Sports Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere.
-- Chinese Proverb The first clergyman was the first rascal who met the first fool.
-- Voltaire I still say a church steeple with a lightning rod on top shows a lack of confidence.
-- Doug MacLeod Recreation and Sports
"If man could be crossed with the cat, it would improve man but deteriorate the cat." (Mark Twain) Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the
truth.
- Sherlock Holmes Oregon Democratic Senate candidate Tom Bruggere, in describing his support for
comprehensive health care during a candidates' forum, said he supported "erection-to-
resurrection" coverage. He later a Some people talk in their sleep. Lecturers talk while other people sleep.
-- Albert Camus A good time to keep your mouth shut is when you're in deep water.
-- Sidney Goff Recreation and Sports Courage is the price that Love exacts for granting peace.
-- Amelia Earhart "A thing of beauty is a joy forever." (John Keats) Good hours, excellent pay, fun place to work, paid training, mean boss. Oh well, four out of five
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If men knew all that women think, they'd be twenty times more daring.
-- Alphonse Karr blah "This is the hardest of all: to close the open hand out of love, and keep modest as a giver." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
-- Lucille S. Harper Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside
desperate to get out.
-- Michel de Montaigne Recreation and Sports That is the best -- to laugh with someone because you think the same things are funny.
-- Gloria Vanderbilt I'm like old wine. They don't bring me out very often, but I'm well preserved.
-- Rose Kennedy, (1890-1995) family matriarch, on her 100th birthday, 1991 Per cubic inch, your current TV set is perhaps the dumbest appliance in your home (and I'm not
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-- Nicholas Negroponte Recreation and Sports
Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for
him.
-- Rich Little Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting.
- Karl Wallenda The better part of valor is discretion.
-- William Shakespeare 1564-1616 from King Henry the Fourth, Part I "No one ever owns his youth or the women he loves." (Pedro Almodóvar, Live Flesh) "The biggest argument against democracy is a five minute discussion with the average voter." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) Recreation and Sports If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe.
- Carl Sagan It takes two to speak truth --One to speak, and another to hear.
-- Henry David Thoreau "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 Recreation and Sports
Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes
unpunished.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops." (Henry B. Adams) It depends on your definition of asleep. They were not stretched out. They had their eyes closed.
They were seated at their desks with their heads in a nodding position.
-- John Hogan, Commonwealth I have a daughter who goes to SMU. She could've gone to UCLA here in California, but it's one
more letter she'd have to remember.
-- Shecky Greene "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) Recreation and Sports Whatever you are from nature, keep to it; never desert your own line of talent. Be what nature
intended you for, and you will succeed; be anything else, and you will be ten thousands times
worse tha 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.
-- Winston Churchill "The happy people are failures because they are on such good terms with themselves they don't give a damn." (Agatha Christie) Recreation and Sports
Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow in Australia.
-- Charles Schultz When you have to kill a man, it costs nothing to be polite.
- Sir Winston Churchill If it were weren't for pickpockets, I'd have no sex life at all.
-- Rodney Dangerfield "Commit yourself to quality from day one ... it's better to do nothing at all than to do something badly." (Mark McCormack) "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 "You make 'em, I amuse 'em." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, on children) Many a man that could rule a hundherd millyon sthrangers with an ir'n hand is careful to take off
his shoes in the front hallway whin he comes home late at night.
-- Finley Peter Dunne, Mr. Dooley O Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow.
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