Is fuel efficiency really what we need most desperately? I say what we really need is a car that
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-- Russell Baker He who awaits much can expect little.
-- Gabriel Garcia Marquez Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.
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The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain.
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-- Oscar Wilde "I'll tell you something: Luxury disgusts me." (Giorgio Armani) One survey found that ten percent of Americans thought Joan of Arc was Noah's wife....
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"In order to attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd." (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1547-1616) "College: two hundred people reading same book. An obvious mistake. Two hundred people can read two hundred books." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) "Love is always a stranger in the house of avarice." (Andreas Capellanus) Education is an admirable thing, but nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
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Sir Francis Drake circumsized the world with a 100-foot clipper.
-- Unknown history student I was nauseous and tingly all over... I was either in love or I had smallpox.
-- Woody Allen Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world.
-- George Bernard Shaw Sir, I would rather be right than be President.
-- Henry Clay, Speech, 1850, referring to the Compromise Measure If you can't get rid of the skeleton in your closet, you'd best teach it to dance.
- George Bernard Shaw Computers and Internet Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald It ain't what we don't know that gives us trouble, it's what we know that ain't so.
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"Hold the fort! I am coming!" (General William Tecumseh Sherman) A true gentleman is one who is never unintentionally rude.
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who lights his taper at mine receives light without darkening me.
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Honor lies in honest toil.
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write better.
- A. J. Liebling Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.
-- George Orwell The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this
is true.
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without any wish to act.
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The only thing worse than a man you can't control is a man you can.
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If excessive smoking actually plays a role in the production of lung cancer, it seems to be a minor
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-- Benjamin Disraeli By working faithfully eight hours a day, you might eventually get to be a boss and work twelve
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-- ROBERT FROST Computers and Internet
There are trivial truths, and there are great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false.
The opposite of a great truth is also true.
-- Neils Bohr A hippo does not have a sting in its tail, but a wise man would still rather be sat on by a bee.
-- Polish proverb The west wasn't won on salad.
-- ND Beef Council, billboard advertisement, 1990 "To live in the hearts we leave behind is not to die." (Thomas Campbell) "Majority rule only works if you're also considering individual rights. Because you can't have five wolves and one sheep voting on what to have for supper." (Larry Flynt) Computers and Internet I sometimes think that God, in creating man, overestimated His ability.
-- Oscar Wilde It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid.
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-- Honore de Balzac Computers and Internet
Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. Washington is a city of Southern efficiency and Northern charm.
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-- Colin Powell "The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do." (Anonymous) Computers and Internet
The price of freedom is eternal vigilance.
-- Thomas Jefferson 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 All human actions are equivalent... and... all are on principle doomed...
-- Jean-Paul Sartre, "Being and Nothingness" Some of us are becoming the men we wanted to marry.
-- Gloria Steinem Feeding the hungry is a greater work than raising the dead.
-- Saint John Chrysostom Computers and Internet In a hierarchy, every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence. Therefore:
? In time, every post tends to be occupied by an employee who is incompetent to carry out its
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? Work Govern a family as you would cook a small fish - very gently.
-- Chinese Proverb Question: Ted Kennedy: "Where was George?"
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