"Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time." (E. B. White) I love deadlines. I especially like the whooshing sound they make as they go flying by.
-- Douglas Adams The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.
-- Thomas Jefferson Love is the same as like except you feel sexier.
-- Judith Viorst Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely
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-- Oscar Wilde Travel and Tourism Politics is for people who have a passion for changing life but lack a passion for living it.
-- Tom Robbins We have been friends together in sunshine and in shade.
-- Caroline Norton If a politician found he had cannibals among his constituents, he would promise them
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-- H. L. Mencken Travel and Tourism
"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 I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with
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- Frank Lloyd Wright The most wasted day of all is that in which we have not laughed.
-- Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.
-- Paul Valery Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
-- H. L. Mencken Travel and Tourism "A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward." (Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1882 - 1945, 32nd U.S. President) Morality consists in suspecting other people of not being legally married.
-- George Bernard Shaw Luck is the residue of design.
- Branch Rickey - former owner of the Brooklyn Dodger Baseball Team Travel and Tourism
"An able man shows his spirit by gentle words and resolute actions; he is neither hot nor timid." (Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield, 4th earl of) Familiarity breeds contempt -- and children.
-- Mark Twain 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 Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for him. -- Rich Little "He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself." (Thomas Paine) Travel and Tourism Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you
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-- Marcus Aurelius "Majority rule only works if you're also considering individual rights. Because you can't have five wolves and one sheep voting on what to have for supper." (Larry Flynt) "Whether it is a black cat or a white cat, as long as it can catch the rat, it is a good cat." (Deng Xiao Ping) Travel and Tourism
"See - one side of my face is gentle and kind, incapable of anything but love of my fellow man. The other side, the other profile, is cruel and predatory and evil, incapable of anything but lusts and "There is only one success: to be able to spend your life in your own way, and not to give others absurd maddening claims upon it." (Christopher Darlington Morley) Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.
-- Albert Einstein "In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends." (Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.) "We live in an age when pizza gets to your home before the police." (Jeff Marder) Travel and Tourism Marriage is like a box of chocolates. You have to squeeze a few bottoms to make sure you like
what you are getting.
-- Anonymous "If you do not know where you are going, any road will take you there." (Sterling Holloway, voice of Chesire Cat, Alice in Wonderland) "Love is always a stranger in the house of avarice." (Andreas Capellanus) Travel and Tourism
"If you light a man a fire, he will be warm for a day; if you light a man on fire, he will be warm for the rest of his life." (Anonymous) "Death solves all problems--no man, no problem." (Josef Stalin) "I put on an act sometimes, and people think I'm insensitive. Really, it's like a kind of armor because I'm too sensitive. If there are two hundred people in a room and one of them doesn't like me, I' It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
-- Oscar Wilde Why doesn't she like me? Is it my hair, my overbite, the fact that I've worn the same shirt and
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-- Bart Simpson, young character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated tele Travel and Tourism I love children, especially when they cry, for then someone takes them away.
-- Nancy Mitford One survey found that ten percent of Americans thought Joan of Arc was Noah's wife....
-- Robert Boynton Most rock journalism is people who can't write interviewing people who can't talk for people who
can't read.
-- Frank Zappa Travel and Tourism
The higher up you go, the more mistakes you are allowed. Right at the top, if you make enough of
them, it's considered to be your style.
-- Fred Astaire Love, I find, is like singing. Everybody can do enough to satisfy themselves, though it may not
impress the neighbors as being very much.
-- Zora Neale Hurston Democracy is a process by which the people are free to choose the man who will get the blame.
-- Laurence J. Peter "Some look at things that are, and ask why. I dream of things that never were and ask why not?" (George Bernard Shaw) Discovery consists of looking at the same thing as everyone else does and thinking something
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-- Albert Szent-Gyorgyi, 1937 Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine Travel and Tourism When I give a lecture, I accept that people look at their watches, but what I do not tolerate is
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-- Marcel Achard "I think all great innovations are built on rejections." (Louis-Ferdinand Céline) Discovery consists of looking at the same thing as everyone else does and thinking something
different.
-- Albert Szent-Gyorgyi, 1937 Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine Travel and Tourism
"Beauty without expression is boring." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) "What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage." Ah Mozart! He was happily married - but his wife wasn't. -- Borge The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
-- B. F. Skinner The coziness between church and state is good for the state and bad for the church.
-- G. K. Chesterton Travel and Tourism In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
- Martin Luther King Jr. Whenever you eliminate the inedible, whatever remains, however unpalatable, must be food.
-- Anonymous "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 Travel and Tourism
"A girl can wait for the right man to come along, but in the meantime that still doesn't mean she can't have a wonderful time with all the wrong ones." (Cher) There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him asleep.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson If a thing is worth doing at all, it is worth doing badly.
-- Gustav Holst, on amateur music-making There is more to life than increasing its speed.
-- Gandhi We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
-- Winston Churchill Travel and Tourism "Vegiburgers are wrong." (Mike Kaup) "I do not agree with what you have to say, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) Well, I think that it's a- it's had some difficult times but I think we have- we, I think, have been able
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"Treat a man as he is, and he will remain as he is. Treat a man as he could be, and he will become what he should be." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) "I met someone on the street who said wasn't it great that we're going to have a movie star for president, that it was so Pop, and (laughs) when you think about it like that, it is great, it's so Amer There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in his home.
-- Kenneth H. Olson, President of DEC, Convention of the World Future Society, 1977 How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create
it herself.
- Anais Nin My father was a minister. I had to make up for the lack of sin.
-- Milwuakee mayor, on why he became a politician Travel and Tourism Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by heart and his friends can
only read the title.
-- Virginia Woolf Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop
questioning.
-- Albert Einstein The average person thinks he isn't.
- Father Larry Lorenzoni Travel and Tourism
"Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom." (Raymonde Uy) Ninety percent of everything is crap.
-- Theodore Sturgeon Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.
-- Virginia Woolf People, like nails, lose their effectiveness when they lose direction and begin to bend.
-- Walter Savage Landor The telephone company is urging people to *please* not use the telephone unless it is absolutely
necessary in order to keep the lines open for emergency personnel. We'll be right back after this
bre Travel and Tourism 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 Don't anthropomorphize computers -- they hate it.
-- Anonymous "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." (Thomas Jefferson) Travel and Tourism
"Once spirit was God, then it became man, and now it is even becoming mob." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Blessed are the young for they shall inherit the national debt.
-- Herbert Hoover Outside of the killings, Washington has one of the lowest crime rates in the country.
-- Marion Barry, Mayor, Washington, D.C. blah "Each friend represents a world in us; a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only in meeting them that a new world is born." (Anais Nin) It is better to be looked over than overlooked.
-- Mae West Travel and Tourism Men marry because they are tired, women because they are curious; both are disappointed.
-- Oscar Wilde "Club Secretary: I say, Lawrence. You are a clown!
Lawrence: We can't all be lion tamers." (Thomas Edward Lawrence, Lawrence of Arabia, 1962) "Even death is unreliable. Instead of zero it may be some ghastly hallucination, such as the square root of minus one." (Samuel Beckett) Travel and Tourism
