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Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
-- Virginia Woolf The possibility that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause
we believe to be just.
-- Abraham Lincoln "For others do I wait ... for higher ones, stronger ones, more triumphant ones, merrier ones, for such as are built squarely in body and soul: laughing lions must come." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of
bread.
- Mahatma Gandhi The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may
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-- Niels Bohr Mersea Island I don't know exactly what democracy is. But we need more of it.
-- Anonymous Chinese Student, during protests in Tianamen Square, Beijing, 1989 Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech.
- Martin Fraquhar Tupper The theory used to be you marry an older man because they are more mature. The new theory is
that men don't mature. So you might as well marry a younger one.
-- Anonymous Mersea Island
In matrimony, to hesitate is sometimes to be saved.
-- Samuel Butler Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous
and dreadful.
-- Samuel Johnson "Do not do unto others as you expect they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same." (George Bernard Shaw) Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
-- Abraham Lincoln "Fake is as old as the Eden tree." (George Orson Welles) Mersea Island The last good thing written in C++ was the Pachelbel Canon.
-- Jerry Olson "In literary criticism the critic has no choice but to make over the victim of his attention into something the size and shape of himself." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) "Every now and then say, 'What the fu(c)k.' 'What the fu(c)k' gives you freedom. Freedom brings opportunity. Opportunity makes your future." (Curtis Armstrong, Risky Business, 1983) Mersea Island
A government is the only known vessel that leaks from the top.
-- James Reston When I can no longer bear to think of the victims of broken homes, I begin to think of the victims
of intact ones.
-- Peter DeVries Government is like a baby. An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of
responsibility at the other.
-- Ronald Reagan, Saturday Evening Post, 1965 "You know what charm is: a way of getting the answer yes without having asked any clear question." (Albert Camus, The Fall) Organic chemistry is the chemistry of carbon compounds. Biochemistry is the study of carbon
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-- Mike Adams Mersea Island I am ready at any time. Do not keep me waiting.
-- John Brown - last words A small family is soon provided for.
-- English Proverb Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think.
-- Niels Bohr Mersea Island
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 To realize that you do not understand is a virtue;
Not to realize that you do not understand is a defect.
--Lao-Tzu, "Tao Teh Ching" Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
- Napoleon Bonaparte Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.
-- James Baldwin The covers of this book are too far apart.
-- Ambrose Bierce Mersea Island "Pleasant words are a honeycomb, Sweet to the soul and healing to the bones." (Bible, Proverbs 16:24) All courage is a form of constancy. It is always himself that a coward abandons first. After this all
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-- Cormac McCarthy "Do something for the joy of doing it and pray you won't be punished." (Sammy Cahn) Mersea Island
Curiosity killed the cat, but for a while I was a suspect.
-- Steven Wright Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.
-- Sigmund Freud In America, anybody can be president. That's one of the risks you take.
-- Adlai Stevenson Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.
-- Don Stanford Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get
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-- Stephen Leacock Mersea Island Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as
though everything is a miracle.
-- Albert Einstein First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.
- Mahatma Gandhi Mersea Island
"It is awfully easy to be hard-boiled about everything in the daytime, but at night it is another thing." (Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises) Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
-- Albert Einstein A man's wife has more power over him than the state has.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Obedience is the gateway through which knowledge, yes, and love, too, enter the mind of the
child.
-- Anne Sullivan We have a habit in writing articles published in scientific journals to make the work as finished as
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-- Gandhi Saying that Windows95 is equal to Macintosh is like finding a potato that looks like Jesus and
believing you've witnessed the second coming.
-- Guy Kawasaki Jealousy is the only vice that gives no pleasure.
-- Anonymous Mersea Island
He that would have the fruit must climb the tree.
-- Thomas Fuller, M.D. Hell is a half-filled auditorium.
- Robert Frost Your goals, minus your doubts, equal your reality.
-- Ralph Marston We have to keep trying things we're not sure we can pull off. If we just do the things we know we
can do... you don't grow as much. You gotta take those chances on making those big mistakes.
-- Cybi With the catching end the pleasures of the chase.
-- Abraham Lincoln Mersea Island A man who has never made a woman angry is a failure in life.
-- Christopher Morley Every flower must grow through dirt.
-- Anonymous We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.
-- George Bernard Shaw Mersea Island
Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you
together, but do so with all your heart.
-- Marcus Aurelius You cannot think about thinking, without thinking about thinking about something.
-- Seymour Papert My wife submits and I obey; she always lets me have her way. We can lick gravity, but sometimes the paperwork is overwhelming.
-- Wehrner von Braun Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop
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-- Albert Einstein Mersea Island "Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) For centuries, theologians have been explaining the unknowable in terms of the-not-worth-
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- Henry Louis Mencken Marriage is a lottery, but you can't tear up your ticket if you lose.
-- F. M. Knowles Mersea Island
If we don't change the direction we are going,
We are likely to end up where we are heading.
-- Chinese saying Trust everybody, but cut the cards.
-- Finley Peter Dunne "Is life not a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The graveyards are full of indispensable men.
- Charles de Gaulle "Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former." (Albert Einstein) Mersea Island For of all sad words of tongue or pen,
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-- John Greenleaf Whittier Neither fire nor wind, birth nor death can erase our good deeds.
-- Buddha Great Spirit, help me never to judge another until I have walked in his moccasins.
-- Sioux Indian Prayer Mersea Island
Nothing can so alienate a voter from the political system as backing a winning candidate.
-- Mark B. Cohen blah "If we did all the things we are capable of, we would literally astound ourselves." (Thomas Alva Edison) Go on, get out. Last words are for fools who haven't said enough.
-- Karl Marx, dying words to his housekeeper Whoever is not a misanthrope at forty can never have loved mankind.
-- Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort I don't think I'll get married again. I'll just find a woman I don't like and give her a house.
-- Lewis Grizzard Mersea Island "Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it." (John Quincy Adams) Dishonor will not trouble me, once I am dead.
-- Euripides He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose
-- Jim Elliott Mersea Island
"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) Here's to you and here's to me,
and I hope we never disagree.
But, if that should ever be,
to HELL with you, here's to ME!
-- Anonymous More light!
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, dying words "The purpose of Compulsory Education is to deprive the common people of their commonsense." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) What I have to say is far more important than how long my eyelashes are.
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-- Christopher Morley Distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes.
- Henry David Thoreau "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) Mersea Island
