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If you can't convince them, confuse them.
-- Harry S. Truman Having once decided to achieve a certain task, achieve it at all costs of tedium and distaste. The
gain in self-confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labor is immense.
-- Thomas Arnold Bennet Destiny is but a phrase of the weak human heart - the dark apology for every error. The strong
and virtuous admit no destiny. On earth conscience guides; in heaven God watches. And destiny
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-- Kate Halverson "Do something for the joy of doing it and pray you won't be punished." (Sammy Cahn) Recreation and Sports "I run to see who has the most guts." (Steve Roland Prefontaine) "That government is best which governs the least, because its people discipline themselves." (Thomas Jefferson) "There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) Recreation and Sports
One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.
-- Virginia Woolf Everything has been figured out, except how to live.
- Jean-Paul Sartre My good intentions are completely lethal.
-- Margaret Atwood In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that
no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it's the exact opposite.
-- Paul Dirac A man's feet should be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world.
-- George Santayana Recreation and Sports Go away...I'm alright.
-- H. G. Wells, dying words "Do not go gentle into that good night. Old age should burn and rave at close of day. Rage, rage against the dying of the light." (Dylan Thomas) The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
- Lucille S. Harper Recreation and Sports
"Courage is doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared." (Eddie Rickenbacker) "Some people must go to extremes to get the world in balance for themselves. Some can't bear bright lights, so wherever they go they search for the dark; they turn the lights down, anything to sustain When you gaze long into the abyss, the abyss also gazes into you.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Chance is always powerful. - Let your hook be always cast; in the pool where you least expect it,
there will be a fish.
-- Ovid All television is children's television.
-- Richard P. Adler Recreation and Sports My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed.
-- Christopher Morley We don't like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out.
-- Decca Recording Company, rejecting the Beatles, 1962 Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes
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-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Recreation and Sports
Honor lies in honest toil.
-- Grover Cleveland A man has to live with himself, and he should see to it that he always has good company.
-- Charles Evans Hughes Most married couples, even though they love each other very much in theory, tend to view each
other in practice as large teeming flaw colonies, the result being that they get on each other's
nerves Democracy is the name we give the people whenever we need them.
-- Marquis de Flers Robert and Arman de Caillavet A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel.
-- Robert Frost Recreation and Sports "Talent does what it can; genius does what it must." (Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton) Never moon a werewolf.
-- Mike Binder Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of
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-- Sydney Smith Recreation and Sports
Fill what's empty, empty what's full, and scratch where it itches.
- the Duchess of Windsor, when asked what is the secret of a long and happy life In the late 1600s the finest instruments originated from three rural families whose workshops
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hung Blessed are the young for they shall inherit the national debt.
-- Herbert Hoover "The reason why kids are crazy is because nobody can face the responsibility of bringing them up." (John Lennon) You will marry into an Indian tribe and become one big Hopi family. Recreation and Sports All that is gold does not glitter. Not all those who wander are lost;
-- J.R.R. Tolkein Education ... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth
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-- G. M. Trevelyan It's important to be open-minded, but not SO open-minded that your brains fall out.
-- Rick Radebaugh Recreation and Sports
Outside of the killings, Washington has one of the lowest crime rates in the country.
-- Marion Barry, Mayor, Washington, D.C. A good marriage is at least 80 percent good luck in finding the right person at the right time. The
rest is trust.
-- Nanette Newman, British actress We do not have censorship. What we have is a limitation on what newspapers can report.
-- Louis Nel, Deputy Minister of Information, South Africa "It serves me right for putting all my eggs in one bastard." (Dorothy Parker, 1893-1967, US writer) I don't mind if you don't like my manners. I don't like them myself. They're pretty bad. I grieve over
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-- Humphrey Bogart to Lauren Bacall, in "The Big Sleep" Recreation and Sports If a man is talking in the forest, and there is no woman there to hear him, is he still wrong?
-- Jenny Weber The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may
well be another profound truth.
-- Niels Bohr Recreation and Sports
All courage is a form of constancy. It is always himself that a coward abandons first. After this all
other betrayals come.
-- Cormac McCarthy Actually, the only memory I have of being a Cub Scout was trying to get my hat back. That was all
I did. Run back and forth at my bus stop going "Quit it."
-- Jerry Seinfeld "... What good are dreams if they come true?" (Frederick Exley, A Fan's Notes) I think 'Hail to the Chief' has a nice ring to it.
- John F. Kennedy when asked what is his favorite song "Paper should be edible, nutritious. Inks used for printing or writing should have delicious flavors. Magazines or newspapers read at breakfast should be eaten for lunch. Instead of throwing one's mai Recreation and Sports We are the echo of the future.
-- W. S. Merwin "The order of the world is always right - such is the judgment of God. For God has departed, but he has left his judgment behind, the way the Cheshire Cat left his grin." (Jean Baudrillard) The Democrats are the party that says government will make you smarter, taller, richer, and
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work and the Recreation and Sports
Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them
good.
-- H.L. Mencken Love is shown in your deeds, not in your words.
-- Fr. Jerome Cummings Morality consists in suspecting other people of not being legally married.
-- George Bernard Shaw Soul meets soul on lovers lips.
-- Percy Bysshe Shelley "Growth in wisdom can be measured precisely by decline in bile." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Human, All Too Human) Recreation and Sports Conversation, fastidious Goddess, loves blood better than brick, and feasts most subtly on the
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-- Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts.
-- Albert Einstein It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are
difficult.
-- Seneca Recreation and Sports
We can do not great things - only small things with great love.
-- Mother Theresa "Nothing is permanent but change." (Heraclitus) The church is the great lost and found department.
-- Robert Short Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than the arguments of its opposers.
-- William Penn When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen.
-- Ernest Hemingway Recreation and Sports "One often contradicts an opinion when what is uncongenial is really the tone in which it was conveyed." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains." (Karl Marx) Peculiar travel suggestions are dancing lessons from God.
-- Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., Cat's Cradle Recreation and Sports
"We have so little presumption that we should like to be known in the world, even to those who come after when we are no more. We have so little vanity that the esteem of five people, say six, amuses Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.
-- Samuel Butler If you can count your money, you don't have a billion dollars.
- J. Paul Getty Hark, the Herald Tribune sings,
Advertising wondrous things!
-- Tom Lehrer "I have Social Disease. I have to go out every night. If I stay home one night I start spreading rumors to my dogs." (Andy Warhol, Andy Warhol's Exposures, 1980) Recreation and Sports "Great spirits have always faced voilent protest from mediocre minds." (Albert Einstein) I do not consider it an insult, but rather a compliment to be called an agnostic. I do not pretend to
know where many ignorant men are sure -- that is all that agnosticism means.
- Clarence Darrow, "What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage." Recreation and Sports
UGLINESS, n. A gift of the gods to certain women, entailing virtue without humility.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 English Law prohibits a man from marrying his mother-in-law. This is our idea of useless legislation. blah "The best students always are flunking. Every good teacher knows that." (Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance) "He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself." (Thomas Paine) Call on God, but row away from the rocks.
-- Indian proverb Recreation and Sports It is best to learn as we go, not go as we have learned.
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-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show When you're away, I'm restless, lonely
Wretched, bored, dejected; only
here's the rub, my darling dear,
I feel the same when you are here.
-- Samuel Hoffenstein Recreation and Sports
