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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 "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) Everyone is a genius at least once a year; a real genius has his original ideas closer together.
- Georg Lichtenberg 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 It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage.
-- Jane Austen Crediton I've just learned about his illness. Let's hope it's nothing trivial.
- Irvin S. Cobb Marriage is like a cage--one sees the birds outside desperate to get in and those inside equally
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-- Di Peatlins To be or not to be isn't the question. The question is how to prolong being.
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In marriage, as in war, it is permitted to take every advantage of the enemy. "The biggest argument against democracy is a five minute discussion with the average voter." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) The greatest homage to truth is to use it.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson "When you resort to attacking the messenger and not the message, you have lost the debate." (Addison Whithecomb) 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 Crediton I love deadlines. I especially like the whooshing sound they make as they go flying by.
-- Douglas Adams The unfortunate thing about this world is that the good habits are much easier to give up than the
bad ones.
-- W. Somerset Maugham "Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) Crediton
blah "An engaged woman is always more agreeable than a disengaged. She is satisfied with herself. Her cares are over, and she feels that she may exert all her powers of pleasing without suspicion." ( "Everywhere one seeks to produce meaning, to make the world signify, to render it visible. We are not, however, in danger of lacking meaning; quite the contrary, we are gorged with meaning and it is k If something is boring after two minutes, try it for four. If still boring, then eight. Then sixteen. Then thirty-two. Eventually one discovers that it is not boring at all." (John Cage) I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you an education.
-- Wilson Mizner Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than
the wisest man can answer.
-- Charles Caleb Colton Crediton cannot imagine any condition which would cause this ship to founder. Modern shipbuilding has
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-- E. I. Smith, Captain of the Titanic It is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions.
-- Aldous Huxley An understanding heart is everything is a teacher, and cannot be esteemed highly enough. One
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The second half of a man's life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the
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Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821 - 1881) "If you want to make enemies, try to change something." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) A man has to live with himself, and he should see to it that he always has good company.
-- Charles Evans Hughes "Thanks to my solid academic training, today I can write hundreds of words on virtually any topic without possessing a shred of information, which is how I got a good job in journalism." (Dave Barry) The tragedy of life is not that man loses, but that he almost wins.
-- Heywood Brown Crediton I have lost friends, some by death, others through sheer inability to cross the street.
-- Virginia Woolf Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you help them to become what they are
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-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "A man is only as faithful as his opportunity." (Chris Rock) Crediton
Who, being loved, is poor?
-- Oscar Wilde "I couldn't find the sports car of my dreams, so I built it myself." (Dr. Ferdinand Porsche) In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
- Martin Luther King Jr. They have come up with a perfect understanding. He won't try to run her life, and he won't try to
run his, either.
-- Anonymous The hard part about being a bartender is figuring out who is drunk and who is just stupid.
-- Richard Braunstein Crediton "No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous." (Henry B. Adams) University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
-- Henry Kissinger The first half of our life is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
-- Clarence Darrow Crediton
The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other
is ready.
-- Henry David Thoreau Worrying is like a rocking chair, it gives you something to do, but it doesn't get you anywhere.
-- Anonymous 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 The best reason I can think of for not running for President of the United States is that you have
to shave twice a day.
-- Adlai Stevenson "Everywhere one seeks to produce meaning, to make the world signify, to render it visible. We are not, however, in danger of lacking meaning; quite the contrary, we are gorged with meaning and it is k Crediton "Kill a man, and you are a murderer. Kill millions of men, and you are a conquerer. Kill everyone, and you are a god." (Jean Rostand) Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a losttradition.
-- Jacques Barzun "You can get help from teachers, but you are going to have to learn a lot by yourself, sitting alone in a room." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, On becoming a writer, NY Times 21 Crediton
Spinster: A bachelor's wife. The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it.
-- Anonymous "Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former." (Albert Einstein) I've had a perfectly wonderful evening. But this wasn't it.
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-- Charlie Chaplin Youth is wasted on the young.
-- George Bernard Shaw Go away...I'm alright.
-- H. G. Wells, dying words Crediton
"Some people wear their heart up on their sleeve. I wear mine underneath my right pant leg, strapped to my boot." (Ani Difranco) Wise men make proverbs, but fools repeat them.
- Samuel Palmer "If you believe everything you read, you better not read." (Japanese Proverb) "Genius without education is like silver in the mine." (Benjamin Franklin) Every major horror of history was committed in the name of an altruistic motive.
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Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.
-- Albert Einstein A person is not given integrity. It results from the relentless pursuit of honesty at all times.
-- Anon. I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts, then there is no hurt, but only more love.
-- Mother Teresa What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is
the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset.
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-- Leona Helmsley, hotel owner and prison inmate, 1989 The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
- Samuel Johnson Crediton
There's nothing wrong with having nothing to say -- unless you insist on saying it.
-- Anonymous Never be possessive. If a female friend lets on that she is going out with another man, be kind
and understanding. If she says she would like to go out with the Dallas Cowboys, including the
coachin Very little is known of the Canadian country since it is rarely visited by anyone but the Queen and
illiterate sport fishermen.
-- P. J. O'Rourke A woman's always younger than a man of equal years.
-Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Aurora Leigh To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive, and the true success is to labour.
-- Robert L. Stevenson Crediton Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
-- Albert Einstein "Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) By the time (the Leaning Tower of Pisa) was 10% built, everyone knew it would be a total
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"Good taste is the first refuge of the non-creative. It is the last-ditch stand of the artist." (Marshall McLuhan) When you have to kill a man, it costs nothing to be polite.
- Sir Winston Churchill If you want to sing out, sing out, and if you want to be free, be free, 'cause there's a million ways
to be, you know that there are...
-- Cat Stevens, from a song lyric Someday is not a day of the week.
-- Anon. In the late 1600s the finest instruments originated from three rural families whose workshops
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hung Crediton Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte Duct tape is like the Force. It has a light side, a dark side, and it holds the universe together....
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