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If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded.
-- Maya Angelou "In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards.
-- Soren Kierkegaard It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely uneducated.
-- Alec Bourne, A Doctor's Creed A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.
-- G. K. Chesterton Education The graveyards are full of indispensable men.
- Charles de Gaulle The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind
woman.
-- S. T. Coleridge As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; and as far as they are
certain, they do not refer to reality.
-- Albert Einstein Education
Whenever you eliminate the inedible, whatever remains, however unpalatable, must be food.
-- Anonymous >From the moment I picked your book up until I laid it down I was convulsed with laughter. Some
day I intend reading it.
-- Groucho Marx Ridicule is generally made use of to laugh men out of virtue and good sense, by attacking
everything praiseworthy in human life.
-- Joseph Addison Morality consists in suspecting other people of not being legally married.
-- George Bernard Shaw "When I was four years old they tried to test my IQ, they showed me this picture of three oranges and a pear. They asked me which one is different and does not belong, they taught me different was wro Education The last good thing written in C++ was the Pachelbel Canon.
-- Jerry Olson Losing a wife can be hard. In my case, it was almost impossible. Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Education
The average Ph.D thesis is nothing but the transference of bones from one graveyard to another.
-- Frank J. Dobie, A Texan in England, 1945 "The only thing we have to fear is fear itself." (Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1882 - 1945, 32nd U.S. President) "Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) An undefined problem has an infinite number of solutions.
-- Robert A. Humphrey To be able to say how much love, is love but little.
-- Petrarch Education I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.
- Thomas Jefferson "I have the terrible feeling that, because I am wearing a white beard and am sitting in the back of the theatre, you expect me to tell you the truth about something. These are the cheap seats, not Mou Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance.
-- Oscar Wilde Education
Success is just a matter of attitude.
-- Darcy E. Gibbons The grand aim of all science is to cover the greatest number of empirical facts by logical
deduction from the smallest number of hypotheses or axioms.
-- Albert Einstein The louder he talked of his honour, the faster we counted our spoons.
-- Emerson, Ralph Waldo "Those who feel certainty are stupid and those with any imagination or understanding are filled with doubt and indecision." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) If ever two were one, then surely we.
If ever man were loved by wife, then thee.
-- Anne Bradstreet Education The difference between 'involvement' and 'commitment' is like an eggs-and-ham breakfast: the
chicken was 'involved' - the pig was 'committed'.
- unknown Discovery consists of looking at the same thing as everyone else does and thinking something
different.
-- Albert Szent-Gyorgyi, 1937 Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine I am free of all prejudice. I hate everyone equally.
-- W. C. Fields Education
Neither fire nor wind, birth nor death can erase our good deeds.
-- Buddha "The purpose of Compulsory Education is to deprive the common people of their commonsense." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) Basically, I no longer work for anything but the sensation I have while working.
- Albert Giacometti (sculptor) Good hours, excellent pay, fun place to work, paid training, mean boss. Oh well, four out of five
isn't bad.
-- Help Wanted Ad, PA newspaper, 1994 "My wallpaper and I are fighting a duel to the death. One or the other of us has to go." (Oscar Wilde, his last recorded words) Education It is dangerous for a national candidate to say things that people might remember.
-- Eugene McCarthy "I think people resist freedom because they're afraid of the unknown. But it's ironic....That unknown was once very well known. It's where are souls belong....The only solution is to confront them--co "Women might be able to fake orgasms. But men can fake whole relationships." (Sharon Stone) Education
"A wise man among the ignorant is as a beautiful girl in the company of blind men." (Saadi) My father taught me to work; he did not teach me to love it.
-- Abraham Lincoln We can do no great things; only small things with great love.
-- Mother Teresa 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 "Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Education 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.
-- Crow Sometimes a scream is better than a thesis.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson To be able to say how much love, is love but little.
-- Petrarch Education
We come to love not by finding a perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person
perfectly.
-- Anonymous Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting.
- Karl Wallenda Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the
truth.
- Sherlock Holmes Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
- Henry Louis Mencken Where there is love there is life.
-- Gandhi Education Saying that men talk about baseball in order to avoid talking about their feelings is the same as
saying that women talk about their feelings in order to avoid talking about baseball.
-- Deborah Tan Marriage is a lottery in which men stake their liberty and women their happiness.
-- Madame de Rieux "The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances." (Viktor E. Frankl) Education
It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
-- Mark Twain Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is enemy action.
- Auric Goldfinger, in Goldfinger by Ian L. Fleming This delivery driver carries no money. His wife has it all. "The sickness of our times for me has been just this damn thing that everything has been getting smaller and smaller and less and less important, that the romantic spirit has dried up, that there is n The Republicans have a new healthcare proposal: Just say NO to illness!
-- Mark Russell Education "Common sense and education are highly compatible; in fact, neither is worth much without the other." (Donald G. Smith) If it were weren't for pickpockets, I'd have no sex life at all.
-- Rodney Dangerfield "You know what charm is: a way of getting the answer yes without having asked any clear question." (Albert Camus, The Fall) Education
A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn; it can be stabbed to death by a joke
or worried to death by a frown on the right person's brow.
-- Charles Brower "Mistakes are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a losttradition.
-- Jacques Barzun After all, all he did was string together a lot of old, well-known quotations.
-- H. L. Mencken, on Shakespeare What is the answer? In that case, what is the question?
-- Gertrude Stein, dying words Education In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: It goes on.
-- Robert Frost "One may sometimes tell a lie, but the grimace that accompanies it tells the truth." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) These people have served a longer sentence than some people who have committed murder.
-- Jeff Greenfield, news analyst, describing the jury in the OJ Simpson murder trial, 1995 Education
"The dancer's body is simply the luminous manifestation of the soul." (Isadora Duncan) To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.
-- Karen Sunde If love is the answer, could you rephrase the question?
-- Lily Tomlin Flowers are words which even a baby can understand.
-- Arthur C. Coxe We have been friends together in sunshine and in shade.
-- Caroline Norton Education Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.
-- Samuel Butler Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect, and it is shameful to surrender it too soon or to the first
comer: there is nobility in preserving it coolly and proudly through long youth, until at last "I never learned from a man who agreed with me." (Robert A. Heinlein) Education
"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) To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive, and the true success is to labour.
-- Robert L. Stevenson "The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Only the little people pay taxes.
-- Leona Helmsley, hotel owner and prison inmate, 1989 "The easiest kind of relationship is with ten thousand people, the hardest is with one." (Joan Baez) Education We come to love not by finding a perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person
perfectly.
-- Anonymous "As long as people will accept crap, it will be financially profitable to dispense it." (Dick Cavett) The paradox is really the pathos of intellectual life and just as only great souls are exposed to
passions it is only the great thinker who is exposed to what I call paradoxes, which are . . .
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