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"There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) I have a great diet. You're allowed to eat anything you want, but you must eat it with naked fat
people.
-- Ed Bluestone Good-bye. I am leaving because I am bored.
-- George Saunders - last words A person is not given integrity. It results from the relentless pursuit of honesty at all times.
-- Anon. A grouch escapes so many little annoyances that it almost pays to be one.
-- Kin Hubbard Environment A good time to keep your mouth shut is when you're in deep water.
-- Sidney Goff Faith is believing what you know ain't so.
-- Mark Twain "... and then the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom." (Anais Nin) Environment
"Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) The time is always right to do what is right.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. There is a coherent plan in the universe, though I don't know what it's a plan for.
-- Fred Hoyle "Let no one be discouraged by the belief there is nothing one person can do against the enormous array of the world's ills, misery, ignorance, and violence. Few will have the greatness to bend history The second day of a diet is always easier than the first. By the second day you're off it.
-- Jackie Gleason Environment 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 "Who is more foolish? The fool or the fool that follows it?" (Alec Guinness) "Thanks to my solid academic training, today I can write hundreds of words on virtually any topic without possessing a shred of information, which is how I got a good job in journalism." (Dave Barry) Environment
Organic chemistry is the chemistry of carbon compounds. Biochemistry is the study of carbon
compounds that crawl.
-- Mike Adams Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
-- George Bernard Shaw Where there is love there is life.
-- Gandhi For the memory of love is sweet, though the love itself were in vain. And what I have lost of
pleasure, assuage what I find of pain.
-- Lyster Faith is believing what you know ain't so.
-- Mark Twain Environment This world is a comedy for those who think and a tragedy for those who feel.
-- Horace Walpole The mind has exactly the same power as the hands: not merely to grasp the world, but to change
it.
-- Colin Wilson "If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they don't want to hear." (George Orwell) Environment
To teach is to learn twice.
-- Joseph Joubert He had decided to live forever or die in the attempt.
-- J. Heller The crime bill passed by the Senate would reinstate the Federal death penalty for certain violent
crimes: assassinating the President; hijacking an airliner; and murdering a government poultry
inspe If you want to recapture your youth, just cut off his allowance.
-- Al Bernstein History repeats itself; that's one of the things that's wrong with history.
-- Clarence Darrow Environment Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
-- Aldous Huxley University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
-- Henry Kissinger You've achieved success in your field when you don't know whether what you're doing is work or
play.
-- WARREN BEATTY Environment
A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
-- Michel de Montaigne There is a coherent plan in the universe, though I don't know what it's a plan for.
-- Fred Hoyle 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 "Truth lies not only in a dream, but in many dreams." (Pier Paolo Pasolini, Italian poet, novelist and filmmaker) If something is boring after two minutes, try it for four. If still boring, then eight. Then sixteen. Then thirty-two. Eventually one discovers that it is not boring at all." (John Cage) Environment blah "It is a grand mistake to think of being great without goodness and I pronounce it as certain that there was never a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous." (Benjamin Fran "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." (Thomas Jefferson) "Someday there will be girls and women whose name will no longer mean the mere opposite of the male, but something in itself, something that makes one think not of any compliment and limit, but only o Environment
Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure.
-- George E. Woodberry "The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing." (John Powell) "If you're in a bad situation, don't worry it'll change. If you're in a good situation, don't worry it'll change." (John A. Simone Sr.) "I couldn't find the sports car of my dreams, so I built it myself." (Dr. Ferdinand Porsche) "Gifts must affect the receiver to the point of shock." (Walter Benjamin) Environment "A thing of beauty is a joy forever." (John Keats) A hippo does not have a sting in its tail, but a wise man would still rather be sat on by a bee.
-- Polish proverb He who conquers himself is the mightiest warrior.
-- Confucius Environment
The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.
-- Nicholas Murray Butler "If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount.
-- Clare Boothe Luce My opinions are my wife's, and she says I'm lucky to have them. "Work like you don't need the money. Love like you've never been hurt. Dance like nobody's watching." (Satchel Paige) Environment "Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known." (Blaise Pascal) The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and
science.
-- Albert Einstein Bachelors know more about women than married men; if they didn't, they'd be married too.
-- H. L. Mencken Environment
It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
- Oscar Wilde He who laughs last thinks slowest.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker "He who cannot give anything away cannot feel anything either." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Martyrdom... is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability. George Bernard
Shaw (1856 - 1950), The Devil's Disciple (1901) act 3 He can compress the most words into the smallest idea of any man I know.
- Abraham Lincoln Environment A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in students.
-- John Ciardi "In the future everyone will be famous for fifteen minutes." (Andy Warhol) "Truth lies not only in a dream, but in many dreams." (Pier Paolo Pasolini, Italian poet, novelist and filmmaker) Environment
I have an existential map; it has 'you are here' written all over it.
- Steven Wright I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.
-- Francois-Auguste Rodin, when asked how he managed to make his remarkable statues "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 Silence is argument carried out by other means.
-- Ernesto "Che" Guevara May you learn to perform miracles: earn a living and marry off your daughters. Environment "A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool." (William Shakespeare) "Beauty awakens the soul to act." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) It is no use walking anywhere to preach unless our walking is our preaching.
-- St. Francis of Assisi Environment
If addiction is judged by how long a dumb animal will sit pressing a lever to get a 'fix' of
something, to its own detriment, then I would conclude that netnews is far more addictive than
cocaine.
"I have great faith in fools; My friends call it self-confidence." (Edger Allen Poe) I still say a church steeple with a lightning rod on top shows a lack of confidence.
-- Doug MacLeod There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.
-- Oscar Wilde God help the man who won't marry until he finds a perfect woman, and God help him still more if
he finds her.
-- Benjamin Tillett Environment Love cures people, both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.
-- Dr. Karl Menninger "All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) The only thing worse than a man you can't control is a man you can.
-- Margo Kaufman Environment
Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside a dog, it's too dark to read.
-- Groucho Marx Unfortunately, the media have trouble distinguishing between real science and propaganda
cross-dressed as science.
-- Linda Bowles, political columnist A multiple personality is in a certain sense normal.
-- George H. Mead If all these sweet young things were laid end to end, I wouldn't be the slightest bit surprised.
-- Dorothy Parker "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) Environment "A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities." (Eda J. Le Shan) A weed is no more than a flower in disguise.
-- James Lowell "I heard the old, old, men say 'all that's beautiful drifts away, like the waters.'" (William Butler Yeats) Environment
