"Everything in my life has been determined by mistakes." (Gene Wilder) NEIGHBOR, n. One whom we are commanded to love as ourselves, and who does all he knows
how to make us disobedient.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe We don't like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out.
-- Decca Recording Company, rejecting the Beatles, 1962 Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains or slavery? Forbid it,
Almighty God! I know not what course others may take but as for me; give me liberty or give me
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-- Friedrich Nietzsche Just buy a box of popcorn and a Coca-Cola and sit back and watch.
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I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible
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- Umberto Eco Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are conservatives.
-- John Stuart Mill Familiarity breeds contempt -- and children.
-- Mark Twain You got to be careful if you don't know where you're going, because you might not get there.
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Musical people always want one to be perfectly dumb at the very moment when one is longing to
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-- Oscar Wilde I have always dressed according to certain Basic Guy Fashion Rules, including:
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* Or they should at least both be fairly dark
-- Dave Barry When you're experimenting you have to try so many things before you choose what you want,
and you may go days getting nothing but exhaustion.
-- Fred Astaire "One often contradicts an opinion when what is uncongenial is really the tone in which it was conveyed." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you.
- Carl Gustav Jung Clubs and Venues If there is any one proof of a man's incompetence, it is the stagnant mentality of a worker who,
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No woman marries for money; they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in
love with him first.
-- Cesare Pavese You can take all the sincerity in Hollywood, place it in the navel of a firefly and still have room
enough for three caraway seeds and a producer's heart.
-- Fred Allen Love begins with a smile, grows with a kiss, and ends with a teardrop.
-- Anonymous Trust everybody, but cut the cards.
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Gravitation can not be held responsible for people falling in love.
-- Albert Einstein People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid.
- Soren Aabye Kierkegaard Love is temporary insanity curable by marriage.
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-- H. L. Mencken I like two kinds of men: domestic and foreign.
-- Mae West Clubs and Venues "College professors are the people who can't hack it in the real world." (William Thomas) "Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) "College: two hundred people reading same book. An obvious mistake. Two hundred people can read two hundred books." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) Clubs and Venues
Marriage: the only sport in which the trapped animal has to buy the license. "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) Reading computer manuals without the hardware is a frustrating as reading sex manuals without
the software.
-- Arthur C. Clarke "People expect a certain reaction from a business, and when you pleasantly exceed those expectations, you've somehow passed an important psychological threshold." (Richard Thalheimer, president, The A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.
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-- Percy Bysshe Shelley The surest way to make a monkey of a man is to quote him.
-- Robert Benchley A coward is a hero with a wife, kids, and a mortgage.
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Have you ever noticed? Anybody going slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than
you is a maniac.
-- George Carlin This novel is not to be tossed lightly aside, but hurled with great force.
-- Dorothy Parker I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones.
-- John Cage The President has kept all of the promises he intended to keep.
- Clinton aide George Stephanopolous speaking on Larry King Live Love is the delusion that one man or woman differs from another.
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-- Arnold Toynbee If the headache would only precede the intoxication, alcoholism would be a virtue.
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"Defeat the fear of death and welcome the death of fear." (G. Gordon Liddy) "The purpose of Compulsory Education is to deprive the common people of their commonsense." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) Chase after the truth like all hell and you'll free yourself, even though you never touch its
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Die? I should say not, dear fellow. No Barrymore would allow such a conventional thing to
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-- John Barrymore - last words Change before you have to.
-- Jack Welch Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though it is hard to
realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and
grie There is a coherent plan in the universe, though I don't know what it's a plan for.
-- Fred Hoyle When I was a kid my favorite relative was Uncle Caveman. After school we'd all go play in his
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-- John G. Pollard Clubs and Venues
"One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar." (Helen Keller) Curiosity will conquer fear even more than bravery will.
-- James Stephens What a difference there is between what we say and what we think.
-- Racine There is only one nature - the division into science and engineering is a human imposition, not a
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-- François de La Rouchefoucauld Obedience is the gateway through which knowledge, yes, and love, too, enter the mind of the
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One may have a blazing hearth in one's soul and yet no one ever comes to sit by it. Passersby
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-- Vincent Van Gogh A man should be taller, older, heavier, uglier, and hoarser than his wife.
-- Edgar Watson Howe Love is shown in your deeds, not in your words.
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-- Scottish Proverb Clubs and Venues I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day.
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