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There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.
-- Oscar Wilde Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the
really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.
-- Mark Twain I once asked my history teacher how we were expected to learn anything useful from his subject,
when it seemed to me to be nothing but a monotonous and sordid succession of robber baron
scumbags dev Great Spirit, help me never to judge another until I have walked in his moccasins.
-- Sioux Indian Prayer The great advantage of being in a rut is that when one is in a rut, one knows exactly where one
is.
-- Arnold Bennett Education "It is the nature of a man as he grows older, a small bridge in time, to protest against change, particularly change for the better." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
-- George Santayana Love is only the game that is not called on account of darkness.
-- M. Hirschfield Education
If it weren't for electricity we'd all be watching television by candlelight.
-- George Gobel Marriage is a thing which puts a ring on a woman's finger and two under the man's eyes. Work is the refuge of people who have nothing better to do.
-- Oscar Wilde Creativity is piercing the mundane to find the marvelous.
-- Bill Moyers That's the way things come clear. All of a sudden. And then you realize how obvious they've been
all along.
-- Madeleine L'Engle Education This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold
of a hammer.
-- Will Rogers "Failure is not an option!" (Ed Harris, as Gene Kranz, Apollo 13) The difference between sex and death is that with death you can do it alone and no one is going
to make fun of you.
-- Woody Allen Education
"In fact, most deaths are not tragic. Few people die because of a flaw in character, which is the essential element of tragedy. They just die." (John Chancellor, The News Business) You can only find truth with logic if you have already found truth without it.
- Gilbert Keith Chesterton The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
-- Winston Churchill In the sciences, we are now uniquely privileged to sit side by side with the giants on whose
shoulders we stand.
-- Gerald Holton "An imbalance between rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics." (Plutarch) Education Women want mediocre men, and men are working hard to become as mediocre as possible.
-- Margaret Mead Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.
-- G. K. Chesterton "The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do." (Anonymous) Education
"The concerned investment banker is the one who blows the horn on his Mercedes as he drives through a red light." (Anonymous) Everywhere I go, I'm asked if the universities stifle writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle
enough of them.
-- Flannery O'Connor And in the end the love you take is equal to the love you make.
-- The Beatles, The last lyric of their last song Chase after the truth like all hell and you'll free yourself, even though you never touch its
coattails.
-- Clarence Darrow What is politics, after all, but the compulsion to preside over property and make other peoples'
decisions for them?
-- Tom Robbins, Skinny Legs and All Education "People demand freedom only when they have no power." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
-- Aldous Huxley I will try to follow the advice that a university president once gave a prospective commencement
speaker. "Think of yourself as the body at an Irish wake" he said. "They need you in order to have
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We have a habit in writing articles published in scientific journals to make the work as finished as
possible, to cover up all the tracks, to not worry about the blind alleys or describe how you had "I fear we are not getting rid of God because we still believe in grammar." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) A conclusion is the place where you got tired thinking.
-- Martin H. Fischer "If you believe everything you read, you better not read." (Japanese Proverb) We never live; we are always in the expectation of living.
-- Voltaire Education Half of the American people never read a newspaper.
Half never voted for President.
One hopes it is the same half.
-- Gore Vidal Health food makes me sick.
-- Calvin Trillin Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them
good.
-- H.L. Mencken Education
There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home.
- Ken Olson, president, chairman and founder of Digital Equipment Corp., 1977 Per cubic inch, your current TV set is perhaps the dumbest appliance in your home (and I'm not
even talking about the programs).
-- Nicholas Negroponte Most people think life sucks, and then you die. Not me. I beg to differ. I think life sucks, then you
get cancer, then your dog dies, your wife leaves you, the cancer goes into remission, you get a
I require three things in a man: He must be handsome, ruthless, and stupid.
-- Dorothy Parker Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country.
-- Typewriting exercise Education "I don't think it's the nature of any man to be monogamous. Men are propelled by genetically ordained impulses over which they have no control to distribute their seed." (Marlon Brando) My religion consists of a humble admiration of the unlimitable superior who reveals Himself in the
slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble minds. That deeply emotional
convi A man sits with a pretty girl for an hour, it seems like a minute. He sits on a hot stove for a
minute, it's longer than any hour. That is relativity.
-- Albert Einstein Education
I am about to--or I am going to--die; either expression is used.
-- Dominique Bouhours, French grammarian, dying words What's another word for "Thesaurus?"
-- Steven Wright "I run to see who has the most guts." (Steve Roland Prefontaine) Life is like a movie--since there aren't any commercial breaks, you have to get up and go to the
bathroom in the middle of it.
-- Nick Mirov Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
-- Henry Ford Education "As long as people will accept crap, it will be financially profitable to dispense it." (Dick Cavett) "Better to be deprived of food for three days than tea for one." (Chinese Proverb) "The greater the artist, the greater the doubt. Perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize." (Robert Hughes) Education
"In large states public education will always be mediocre, for the same reason that in large kitchens the cooking is usually bad." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) What do you take me for, an idiot?
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"Hello Kitty is an icon that doesn't stand for a Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a
brand new ending.
-- Anonymous It is better to be looked over than overlooked.
-- Mae West Education A kitten is chiefly remarkable for rushing about like mad at nothing whatever, and generally
stopping before it gets there.
-- Agnes Repplier The gods too are fond of a joke.
- Aristotle One may have a blazing hearth in one's soul and yet no one ever comes to sit by it. Passersby
see only a wisp of smoke rising from the chimney and continue on their way.
-- Vincent Van Gogh Education
In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
- Martin Luther King Jr. If all these sweet young things were laid end to end, I wouldn't be the slightest bit surprised.
-- Dorothy Parker Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.
-- Samuel Butler This world is a comedy for those who think and a tragedy for those who feel.
-- Horace Walpole "Women might be able to fake orgasms. But men can fake whole relationships." (Sharon Stone) Education I think every woman is entitled to a middle husband she can forget.
-- Adela Rogers St. John This is a test. It is only a test. Had it been an actual job, you would have received raises,
promotions, and other signs of appreciation.
-- Anonymous Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting.
-- Karl Wallenda Education
It was very good of God to let Carlyle and Mrs Carlyle marry one another and so make only two people miserable instead of four, besides being very amusing. "This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) "Expecting the world to treat you fairly because you are a good person is like expecting a bull not to attack you because you are a vegetarian." (Dennis Wholey) "Talent does what it can; genius does what it must." (Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton) Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering.
-- Anonymous Education In literature as in love, we are astonished at what is chosen by others.
-- André Maurois We're our own dragons as well as our own heroes, and we have to rescue ourselves from
ourselves.
-- Tom Robbins "May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house." (George Carlin) Education
"Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts." (Henry B. Adams) "Fear is a darkroom where negatives develop." (Usman Asif) If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.
-- Virginia Woolf Do or do not. There is no try.
-- Yoda, character in the movie The Empire Strikes Back A friend is a gift you give yourself.
-- Robert Louis Stevenson Education "In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends." (Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.) There is no one so bound to his own face that he does not cherish the hope of presenting another
to the world.
-- Antonio Machado "To educate educators! But the first ones must educate themselves! And for these I write." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Education
