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In answer to the question of why it happened, I offer the modest proposal that our Universe is
simply one of those things which happen from time to time.
-- Edward P. Tryon My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music.
-- Vladimir Nabokov As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.
-- Abraham Lincoln "Ideas are far more powerful than guns. We don't allow our enemies to have guns, why should we allow them to have ideas?" (Josef Stalin) Even overweight cats instinctively know the cardinal rule: when fat, arrange yourself in slim
poses.
-- John Weitz, American Designer News and Media In the early sixties, we were strong, we were virulent...
-- John Connally, Secretary of Treasury under Richard Nixon, in an early 70s speech, as reported
in a contemporary "American Scholar" When one find's oneself in a hole of one's own making, it is a good time to examine the quality of
the workmanship.
-- John Renmerde Effort is only effort when it begins to hurt.
-- Jose Ortega y Gasset News and Media
No one can earn a million dollars honestly.
- William Jennings Bryan Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald "The only things worth learning are the things you learn after you know it all." (Harry S. Truman) Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth. -- John Lyly NEIGHBOR, n. One whom we are commanded to love as ourselves, and who does all he knows
how to make us disobedient.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 News and Media Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman and a pretty girl.
-- Charlie Chaplin "When even one American--who has done nothing wrong--is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth--then all Americans are in peril." (Harry S. Truman) News and Media
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 The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
- Lucille S. Harper The surest way to make a monkey of a man is to quote him.
-- Robert Benchley Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow.
-- Helen Keller I don't know why I did it, I don't know why I enjoyed it, and I don't know why I'll do it again.
-- Bart Simpson, young character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated television show News and Media "How is it that we never have time to do a job right, but we always have time to do it over?" (Anonymous) "Listen, or your tongue will make you deaf." (Native American Proverb) Free will is a golden thread running through the frozen matrix of fixed events.
-- Robert A. Heinlein _The Rolling Stones_ News and Media
Love is what we are born with. Fear is what we learn. The spiritual journey is the unlearning of
fear and prejudices and the acceptance of love back in our hearts. Love is the essential reality
and A behaviorist is someone who pulls habits out of rats.
-- Anonymous "Drugs have done a lot of good. A lot of good songs have been written. 'Penny Lane' is worth 10 dead kids. 'Dark Side of the Moon?' 100 dead kids. At least that many were conceived by people listening "In my opinion, the greatest single failure of American education is that students come away unable to distinguish between a symbol and the thing the symbol stands for." (Paul Lutus) Give her two red roses, each with a note. The first note says "For the woman I love" and the
second, "For my best friend."
-- Anonymous News and Media If you are afraid of loneliness, do not marry. -- Chekhov Honor's a good brooch to wear in a man's hat at all times.
-- Jonson, Ben Bachelor: the only man who has never told his wife a lie. News and Media
Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
-- Bob Perelman Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is enemy action.
- Auric Goldfinger, in Goldfinger by Ian L. Fleming I do not like broccoli. And I haven't liked it since I was a little kid and my mother made me eat it.
And I'm President of the United States and I'm not going to eat any more broccoli.
-- George Bus Every mother generally hopes that her daughter will snag a better husband than she managed to
do...but she's certain that her boy will never get as great a wife as his father did.
-- Anonymous "Video games are bad for you? That's what they said about rock 'n roll." (Shigeru Miyamoto, game designer for Nintendo) News and Media Mathematics, rightly viewed, posses not only truth, but supreme beauty -- a beauty cold and
austere, like that of sculpture.
-- Bertrand Russell A lover tries to stand in well with the pet dog of the house.
-- Moliere Technology makes it possible for people to gain control over everything, except over technology.
-- John Tudor News and Media
Just buy a box of popcorn and a Coca-Cola and sit back and watch.
-- James Carville, Clinton advisor, offering advice for Democrats on the term-limits vote in the
House "Everyone is a bore to someone. That is unimportant. The thing to avoid is being a bore to oneself." (Gerald Brenan) Parents often talk about the younger generations as if they didn't have anything to do with it. "I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter." (Blaise Pascal) A baby is God's opinion that the world should go on.
-- Carl Sandburg News and Media When you've spent half your political life dealing with humdrum issues like the environment... it's
exciting to have a real crisis on your hands.
-- Margaret Thatcher, on the Falklands Conflict "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." "He who cannot give anything away cannot feel anything either." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) News and Media
Goodbye, Everybody!
-- Hart Crane, poet, who committed suicide by jumping overboard during a steamship voyage. My Alma mater was books, a good library . . . . I could spend the rest of my life reading, just
satisfying my curiosity.
--Malcolm X Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "To forget one's purpose is the commonest form of stupidity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Some birds aren't meant to be caged, their feathers are just too bright. And when they fly away,
the part of you that knows it was a sin to lock them up, does rejoice. I guess I just miss my friend. News and Media That's the nature of research--you don't know what in hell you're doing.
-- 'Doc' Edgerton To be or not to be isn't the question. The question is how to prolong being.
-- Tom Robbins The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt News and Media
"I have learned that to be with those I like is enough." (Walt Whitman) Love is a snowmobile racing across the tundra and then suddenly it flips over, pinning you
underneath. At night, the ice weasels come.
-- Matt Groening, Love is Hell Now comes the mystery.
-- Henry Ward Beecher, dying words, March 8, 1887 "Video games are bad for you? That's what they said about rock 'n roll." (Shigeru Miyamoto, game designer for Nintendo) Silence is argument carried out by other means.
- ErnestoCheGuevara News and Media If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolute powerlessness make you pure?
-- Harry Shearer Life isn't a matter of milestones, but of moments.
-- Rose Kennedy Question: Ted Kennedy: "Where was George?"
Answer: Dry, sober, and at home with his wife News and Media
You have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth
without producing it.
-- George Bernard Shaw "There is only one success: to be able to spend your life in your own way, and not to give others absurd maddening claims upon it." (Christopher Darlington Morley) A theory is something nobody believes, except the person who made it. An experiment is
something everybody believes, except the person who made it.
-- Albert Einstein, attributed I love children, especially when they cry, for then someone takes them away.
-- Nancy Mitford Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.
-- B.F. Skinner News and Media I know nothing about sex, because I was always married.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor What luck for the rulers that men do not think.
-- Adolf Hitler Well, I think that it's a- it's had some difficult times but I think we have- we, I think, have been able
to make some very good progress and it's- I would say that it's- it's- it's delightful that w News and Media
"People have to talk about something just to keep their voice boxes in working order so they'll have good voice boxes in case there's ever anything really meaningful to say." (Kurt Vonnegut) "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) "If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library." (Frank Zappa) "A true friend stabs you in the front." (Oscar Wilde) Since Eve ate the apple, much depends on dinner.
-- Lord Byron News and Media I haven't committed a crime. What I did was fail to comply with the law.
-- David Dinkins, New York City Mayor, answering accusations that he failed to pay his taxes. "To be great is to be misunderstood." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Marriage is bliss. Ignorance is bliss. Ergo...
-- Anonymous News and Media
If you can't convince them, confuse them.
-- Harry S. Truman When nations grow old, the arts grow cold and commerce settles on every tree.
-- William Blake Your goals, minus your doubts, equal your reality.
-- Ralph Marston A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in students.
-- John Ciardi "No one lies so boldly as the man who is indignant." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) News and Media Change is not merely necessary to life, it is life.
-- Alvin Toffler You can only find truth with logic if you have already found truth without it.
- Gilbert Keith Chesterton "Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent." (Napoleon Bonaparte) News and Media
