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"The market is not an invention of capitalism. It has existed for centuries. It is an invention of civilization." (Mikhail Gorbachev, June 8, 1990) 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 The husband who wants a happy marriage should learn to keep his mouth shut and his checkbook open. -- Groucho Marx What sets worlds in motion is the interplay of differences, their attractions and repulsions; life is
plurality, death is uniformity.
-- Octavio Paz Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked
where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.
-- D. H. Lawrence Shap MARRIAGE, n. The state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress and two
slaves, making in all, two.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure.
-- George E. Woodberry Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you.
-- John-Paul Sartre Shap
"The market is not an invention of capitalism. It has existed for centuries. It is an invention of civilization." (Mikhail Gorbachev, June 8, 1990) 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 "Transport of the mails, transport of the human voice, transport of flickering pictures--in this century as in others our highest accomplishments still have the single aim of bringing men together." The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
-- Mark Twain The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet.
-- Andy Warhol Shap Food, one assumes, provides nourishment; but Americans eat it fully aware that small amounts of
poison have been added to improve its appearance and delay its putrefaction.
-- John Cage "They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself." (Andy Warhol) Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. Shap
Love is shown in your deeds, not in your words.
-- Fr. Jerome Cummings If a man is talking in the forest, and there is no woman there to hear him, is he still wrong?
-- Jenny Weber What sets worlds in motion is the interplay of differences, their attractions and repulsions; life is
plurality, death is uniformity.
-- Octavio Paz There's a saying among prospectors: "Go out looking for one thing, and that's all you'll ever find."
-- Robert Flaherty There's a fine line between fishing and standing on the shore like an idiot.
-- Steven Wright Shap He who laughs last is generally the last to get the joke.
-- Terry Cohen "Do something for the joy of doing it and pray you won't be punished." (Sammy Cahn) The difference between sex and death is that with death you can do it alone and no one is going
to make fun of you.
-- Woody Allen Shap
Silence is argument carried out by other means.
- ErnestoCheGuevara Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you
together, but do so with all your heart.
-- Marcus Aurelius In the blithe days of honeymoon,
With Kate's allurements smitten,
I lov'd her late, I lov'd her soon,
And call'd her dearest kitten.
But now my kitten's grown a cat,
And cross like other wives.
"You know what charm is: a way of getting the answer yes without having asked any clear question." (Albert Camus, The Fall) Vote for the man who promises least. He'll be the least disappointing.
-- Bernard Baruch Shap When ideas fail, words come in very handy.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is most important that you do it.
-- Gandhi Live your questions now, and perhaps even without knowing it, you will live along some distant
day into your answers.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke Shap
"I think all great innovations are built on rejections." (Louis-Ferdinand Céline) 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 Life is like a dogsled team. If you ain't the lead dog, the scenery never changes.
-- Lewis Grizzard Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
-- H. L. Mencken In a cat's eyes, all things belong to cats.
-- English Proverb Shap Grow old with me! The best is yet to be!
-- Robert Browning Men. You can't live with them. You don't have to.
-- Seen on a t-shirt blah "Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure." (Thomas Alva Edison) Shap
"It seems to me that almost all our sadnesses are moments of tension, which we feel as paralysis because we no longer hear our astonished emotions living." (Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poe Wagner's music is better than it sounds.
- Mark Twain Don't be afraid your life will end; be afraid that it will never begin.
-- Grace Hansen I have always dressed according to certain Basic Guy Fashion Rules, including:
* Both of your socks should always be the same color
* Or they should at least both be fairly dark
-- Dave Barry "I do not agree with what you have to say, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) Shap Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere.
-- Chinese Proverb A multiple personality is in a certain sense normal.
-- George H. Mead The great advantage of being in a rut is that when one is in a rut, one knows exactly where one
is.
-- Arnold Bennett Shap
Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of
humor is just common sense, dancing.
-- Clive James Humanity has advanced, when it has advanced, not because it has been sober, responsible, and
cautious, but because it has been playful, rebellious, and immature.
-- Tom Robbins When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.
-- Hunter S. Thompson "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 There's nothing wrong with having nothing to say -- unless you insist on saying it.
-- Anonymous Shap Love is friendship set on fire.
- Jeremy Taylor A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel.
-- Robert Frost Laywers, I suppose, were children once.
-- Charles Lamb Shap
"Our lives are repetitious shams--every single day a simulacrum of the previous day. So for Man, he is out to pepper his daily activities with different things--he's fighting against boredom." (Matth Silence is argument carried out by other means.
-- Ernesto "Che" Guevara blah "Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together." (Vincent van Gogh) The hard part about being a bartender is figuring out who is drunk and who is just stupid.
-- Richard Braunstein Television: A medium. So called because it is neither rare nor well done.
-- Ernie Kovacs Shap "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) Women: If they're not turning down your proposals for marriage, they're accusing you of
suspicious behavior in the women's lingerie changing room.
-- Cliff Clavin, character on "Cheers", U.S. Televi For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of our tasks; the ultimate,
the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.
-- Rainer Maria Ril Shap
You can't learn too soon that the most useful thing about a principle is that it can always be
sacrificed to expediency.
-- W. Somerset Maugham If someone offers you a breath mint, accept it.
-- H. Jackson Brown, Jr., Life's Little Treasure Book, on wisdom What luck for the rulers that men do not think.
-- Adolf Hitler A man's wife has more power over him than the state has.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson And life is what we make it. Always has been, always will be.
-- Grandma Moses Shap I am ready to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me
is another matter.
- Sir Winston Churchill Correction: Instead of being arrested, as we stated, for kicking his wife down a flight of stairs and hurling a lighted kerosene lamp after her, the Rev. James P. Wellman died unmarried four years ago Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parent, gobble their food, and tyrannize their
teachers.
-- Socrates Shap
I don't know anything about luck. I've never banked on it, and I'm afraid of people who do. Luck to
me is something else; hard work and realizing what is opportunity and what isn't.
-- Lucille Ball We didn't send you to Washington to make intelligent decisions. We sent you to represent us.
-- Kent York, Baptist minister to US Rep. Bill Sarpalius A dollar saved is a quarter earned.
-- John Ciardi We would often be sorry if our wishes were gratified.
-- Aesop "And on the seventh day, God stepped back and said 'There is my creation, perfect in every way ... oh, damn it, I left pot all over the place. Now they'll think I want them to smoke it. Now I have to Shap "One of the good things about low self-esteem is never having rain hit you in the face." (John A. Simone Jr.) Mother-in-law: A woman who destroys her son-in-law's peace of mind by giving him a piece of
hers.
-- Anonymous "When we are born we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools." (William Shakespeare) Shap
I don't worry about terrorism. I was married for two years.
-- Sam Kinison You can't say civilization isn't advancing: in every war they kill you in a new way.
-- Will Rogers 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 Obedience is the gateway through which knowledge, yes, and love, too, enter the mind of the
child.
-- Anne Sullivan People only see what they are prepared to see.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Shap Thank God - every morning when you get up - that you have something to do which must be
done, whether you like it or not. Being forced to work, and forced to do your best, will breed in you
a hundre If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be
closed for any other business.
-- Abraham Lincoln You have to walk carefully in the beginning of love; the running across fields into your lover's
arms can only come later when you're sure they won't laugh if you trip.
-- Jonathan Carroll, Outside Shap
