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In olden times sacrifices were made at the altar--a practice which is still continued.
-- Helen Rowland One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is
terribly important.
- Bertrand Russell
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A little inaccuracy sometimes saves a ton Fill the unforgiving minute with sixty seconds worth of distance run.
- Rudyard Kipling He who laughs, lasts.
-- Mary Pettibone Poole There is only one nature - the division into science and engineering is a human imposition, not a
natural one. Indeed, the division is a human failure; it reflects our limited capacity to comprehend Matching Green To take what there "is", and use it, without waiting forever in vain for the preconceived - to dig
deep into the actual and get something out of that - this doubtless is the right way to live.
-- H Women's liberationists spread the word that...the only peaceful family is one in which either the
wife is enslaved or the husband is androgynous.
-- R. Emmett Tyell, The Liberal Crack-Up, 1984 Great ability develops and reveals itself increasingly with every new assignment. Baltasar
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Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and
blows up the bonfire.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld Love looks through a telescope; envy, through a microscope.
-- Josh Billings "A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities." (Eda J. Le Shan) If your professor wrote it, it's as near to the truth as you ever need to get.
-- John Watson, University of Canterbury One of the greatest discoveries a man makes, one of his great surprises, is to find he can do
what he was afraid he couldn't do.
-- Henry Ford Matching Green In America, anybody can be president. That's one of the risks you take.
-- Adlai Stevenson Ne'er take a wife till thou hast a house (and a fire) to put her in.
-- Benjamin Franklin We have only one person to blame, and that's each other.
-- Barry Beck, New York Ranger, on who started a fight furing a hockey game Matching Green
"In the future everyone will be famous for fifteen minutes." (Andy Warhol) The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious.
-- Albert Einstein I skate to where the puck is going to be, not to where it has been.
-- Wayne Gretzky Go on, get out. Last words are for fools who haven't said enough.
-- Karl Marx, dying words to his housekeeper Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when
people laugh.
-- George Bernard Shaw Matching Green It is a product of Einstein's genius -- taking a commonplace observation, combining it with some
simple imaginary experiments, and arriving at a revolutionary conclusion.
-- Clifford M. Wills, 1986 Children are the only form of immortality that we can be sure of.
-- Peter Ustinov A team effort is a lot of people doing what I say.
-- Michael Winner Matching Green
"Nietzsche was stupid and abnormal." (Leo Tolstoy, 1828-1910) Marriage is a mutual relationship if both parties know when to be mute. "Those who hear not the music think the dancers mad." (Anonymous) In literature as in love, we are astonished at what is chosen by others.
-- André Maurois Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
- Henry Ford Matching Green "Great indebtedness does not make men grateful, but vengeful; and if a little charity is not forgotten, it turns into a gnawing worm." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Thus Spake Zarathustra) "How wondrous familiar is a fool!" (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) Establishing yourself, furnishing a house, building up a comfortable existence, and having that menace hanging over your head all the time - no, I prefer to live in hotels, cafés, just passing through Matching Green
Marriage is a matter of give and take, but so far I haven't been able to find anybody who'll take what I have to give. -- Cass Daley "... What good are dreams if they come true?" (Frederick Exley, A Fan's Notes) "True friends, like diamonds, are precious and rare. False friends, like autumn leaves, are found everywhere." (Anonymous) Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.
-- Ernest Hemingway Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.
-- John F. Kennedy Matching Green Give me chastity and continence, but not yet.
- Saint Augustine If God does not exist, then everything is permitted.
-- Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Devils Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances
continue to exist, a wonderful living side by side can grow up, if they succeed in loving the
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Women: If they're not turning down your proposals for marriage, they're accusing you of
suspicious behavior in the women's lingerie changing room.
-- Cliff Clavin, character on "Cheers", U.S. Televi When women go wrong, men go right after them.
-- Mae West You cannot think about thinking, without thinking about thinking about something.
-- Seymour Papert Education is not filling a bucket, but lighting a fire.
-- William Yeats One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.
-- Virginia Woolf Matching Green The marriage of Marxism and feminism has been like the marriage of husband and wife depicted
in English common law: Marxism and feminism are one, and that one is Marxism.
-- Heidi Hartmann, The Unha The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because
generally they are the same people.
-- G. K. Chesterton "Hold the fort! I am coming!" (General William Tecumseh Sherman) Matching Green
"Humans beings can always be relied upon to assert, with vigor, their god-given right to be stupid." (Dean Koontz, Seize the Night) We would often be sorry if our wishes were gratified.
-- Aesop I'm an excellent housekeeper. Every time I get a divorce, I keep the house.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Call on God, but row away from the rocks.
-- Indian proverb I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is; I only know that people call
me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat.
-- Rebecca West, Matching Green 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 I'm not dumb, I just have a command of thoroughly useless information.
-- Calvin Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from
history.
-- George Bernard Shaw Matching Green
"Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) Most rock journalism is people who can't write interviewing people who can't talk for people who
can't read.
-- Frank Zappa I'm not a member of any organized political party, I'm a Democrat!
-- Will Rogers Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
-- Albert Einstein "Learn from the mistakes of others--you can never live long enough to make them all yourself." (John Luther) Matching Green "Conforming is only acceptable when you conform with a nonconformist." (John A. Simone Jr.) Goodbye, Everybody!
-- Hart Crane, poet, who committed suicide by jumping overboard during a steamship voyage. We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we
respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart.
-- H. L. Mencken Matching Green
Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering.
-- Anonymous "The masses are far more likely to believe a big lie than several small ones." (Adolf Hitler) "For better or for worse, our company (The News Corporation Ltd.) is a reflection of my thinking, my character, my values." (Keith Rupert Murdoch, media mogul, 1931-) Great innovations should not be forced on slender majorities.
-- Thomas Jefferson "If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they don't want to hear." (George Orwell) Matching Green Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
-- George Bernard Shaw Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.
-- George Orwell The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains.The superior teacher demonstrates. The
great teacher inspires.
-- William Arthur Ward Matching Green
Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of
our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.
-- John Adams Drink to me.
-- Pablo Picasso, dying words "If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they don't want to hear." (George Orwell) If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded.
-- Maya Angelou The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.
- Emile Zola Matching Green I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about "short" and
"cheap"?
-- Phyllis Diller The Democrats are the party that says government will make you smarter, taller, richer, and
remove the crabgrass on your lawn. The Republicans are the party that says government doesn't
work and the Military justice is to justice what military music is to music.
-- George Clemenceau Matching Green
If God wanted women to understand men, football would never have been created.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker I think one of the reasons I'm popular again is because I'm wearing a tie. You have to be different.
-- Tony Bennett, 1995 "Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil) Nothing shows a man's character more than what he laughs at.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Technology is a way of organizing the universe so that man doesn't have to experience it.
-- Max Frisch Matching Green You can't say civilization isn't advancing: in every war they kill you in a new way.
-- Will Rogers Grove giveth and Gates taketh away.
- Bob Metcalfe (inventor of Ethernet) on the trend of hardware speedups not being able to keep
up with software demands 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.
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