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Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with
the powerful, not to be neutral.
-- Paulo Freire What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is
the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset.
-- Crow If other people are going to talk, conversation becomes impossible.
-- James McNeill Whistler "College: two hundred people reading same book. An obvious mistake. Two hundred people can read two hundred books." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) I don't want to achieve immortality through my work... I want to achieve it by not dying!
-- Woody Allen Society and Culture Many a wife thinks her husband is the world's greatest lover. But she can never catch him at it. Having a family is like having a bowling alley installed in your brain.
-- Martin Mull Silence is argument carried out by other means.
-- Ernesto "Che" Guevara Society and Culture
Marriage was all a woman's idea and for man's acceptance of the pretty yoke, it becomes us to
be grateful.
-- Phyllis McGinley Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday
afternoon.
-- Susan Ertz More than kisses, letters mingle souls.
-- John Donne >From the Far East I send you one single thought, one sole idea--written in red on every
beachhead form Australia to Tokyo--There is no substitute for victory!
-- General Douglas MacArthur Give me a museum and I'll fill it.
-- Pablo Picasso Society and Culture Like a prune, you are not getting any better looking, but you are getting sweeter.
-- N. D. Stice It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.
-- Albert Einstein Of course, it is very important to be sober when you take an exam. Many worthwile careers in the
street-cleansing, fruit-picking and subway-guitar-playing industries have been founded on a lack
of u Society and Culture
There are trivial truths, and there are great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false.
The opposite of a great truth is also true.
-- Neils Bohr An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets, the more interested he is in her. -- Agatha Christie The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
-- Winston Churchill 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 "If you assume that there's no hope, you guarantee that there will be no hope. If you assume that there is an instinct for freedom, there are opportunities to change things, there's a chance for you t Society and Culture Two souls with but a single thought,
Two hearts that beat as one.
-- Fredrich Halm "Failure is not an option!" (Ed Harris, as Gene Kranz, Apollo 13) Paradoxically though it may seem, it is none the less true that life imitates art far more than art
imitates life.
-- Oscar Wilde Society and Culture
"I praise loudly. I blame softly." (Catherine the Great) "I feel I have to protect myself against things. So I'm pretty careful to lose most of them." (George Orson Welles) A husband is what is left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
- Helen Rowland "Careful?! Was my mother careful when she stabbed me in the heart with a coat hanger while I was still in the womb?" (Trey Parker) "The order of the world is always right - such is the judgment of God. For God has departed, but he has left his judgment behind, the way the Cheshire Cat left his grin." (Jean Baudrillard) Society and Culture Books had instant replay long before televised sports.
-- Bern Williams Why yes -- a bulletproof vest.
-- James Rodges, murderer, on his final request before the firing squad You cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.
-- Mark Twain Society and Culture
He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.
- Sir Winston Churchill A woman seldom asks advice before she has bought her wedding clothes.
-- Joseph Addison To love someone deeply gives you strength. Being loved by someone deeply gives you courage.
-- Lao Tzu Work expands to fill the time available.
-- PARKINSON'S LAW "The formula for my happiness: a Yes, a No, a straight line, a goal." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Society and Culture No one finds life worth living; he must make it worth living.
-- Anon. There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld Argue for your limitations, and sure enough they're yours.
- Richard Bach Society and Culture
It is dangerous for a national candidate to say things that people might remember.
-- Eugene McCarthy Trust, but verify.
-- Ronald Reagan 'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
-- ee cummings A team effort is a lot of people doing what I say.
-- Michael Winner "The greater the artist, the greater the doubt. Perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize." (Robert Hughes) Society and Culture No one finds life worth living; he must make it worth living.
-- Anon. In America, anybody can be president. That's one of the risks you take.
-- Adlai Stevenson The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed
desperation.
-- Henry David Thoreau, Walden (1854) Society and Culture
"I would rather die standing than live on my knees!" (Emiliano Zapata) Being in therapy is great. I spend an hour just talking about myself. It's kinda like being the guy on
a date.
-- Caroline Rhea Talk to a man about himself and he will listen for hours.
-- Benjamin Disraeli I was a pilot flying an airplane and it just so happened that where I was flying made what I was
doing spying.
-- Francis Gary Power, U-2 reconnaissance pilot held by the Soviets for spying, in an i I don't know exactly what democracy is. But we need more of it.
-- Anonymous Chinese Student, during protests in Tianamen Square, Beijing, 1989 Society and Culture You can only find truth with logic if you have already found truth without it.
- Gilbert Keith Chesterton Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by the traffic from
both sides.
-- Margaret Thatcher Do not worry about your difficulties in mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater.
-- Albert Einstein Society and Culture
"I don't believe people die. They just go uptown. To Bloomingdales. They just take longer to get back." (Andy Warhol) In a great romance, each person plays a part the other really likes.
-- Elizabeth Ashley I have a great diet. You're allowed to eat anything you want, but you must eat it with naked fat
people.
-- Ed Bluestone The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may
well be another profound truth.
-- Niels Bohr Beginning in February 1976 your assistance benefits will be discontinued ... Reason: it has been
reported to our office that you expired on January 1, 1976.
-- excerpt from a letter, Illinois Depart Society and Culture If someone had told me I would be Pope one day, I would have studied harder.
-- Pope John Paul I "God's creatures, great and small ... eat them one, eat them all." (John A. Simone Sr.) Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.
-- William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Act i. Sc. 1. Society and Culture
Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.
-- George Washington "Today was good. / Today was fun. / Tomorrow is another one." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) Gentlemen, it is better to have died a small boy than to fumble this football.
-- John Heisman Conceit causes more conversation than wit.
-- LaRouchefoucauld Diplomat: A man who can convince his wife she would look stout in a fur coat. Society and Culture "I know we're not saints or virgins or lunatics; we know all the lust and lavatory jokes, and most of the dirty people; we can catch buses and count our change and cross the roads and talk real senten The mind has exactly the same power as the hands: not merely to grasp the world, but to change
it.
-- Colin Wilson 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.
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There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.
-- Benjamin Disraeli "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world, indeed it is the only thing that ever has." (Margaret Mead, 1901-78) "Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Walk beside me and just be my friend." (Albert Camus) Love looks through a telescope; envy, through a microscope.
-- Josh Billings "If you assume that there's no hope, you guarantee that there will be no hope. If you assume that there is an instinct for freedom, there are opportunities to change things, there's a chance for you t Society and Culture There is no course of life so weak and sottish as that which is managed by order, method, and
discipline.
-- Michel de Montaigne Not everything that can be counted counts; and not everything that counts can be counted.
-- Albert Einstein A multiple personality is in a certain sense normal.
-- George H. Mead Society and Culture
You never see a man walking down the street with a woman who has a little pot belly and a bald
spot.
-- Elayne Boosler "The sickness of our times for me has been just this damn thing that everything has been getting smaller and smaller and less and less important, that the romantic spirit has dried up, that there is n You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it come true.
-- Richard Bach The story of a love is not important - what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps
the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.
-- Helen Hayes A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
-- Robert Frost Society and Culture Most people think life sucks, and then you die. Not me. I beg to differ. I think life sucks, then you
get cancer, then your dog dies, your wife leaves you, the cancer goes into remission, you get a
They gave me a book of checks. They didn't ask for any deposits.
-- Joe Early, Congressman (D-Mass), at a press conference to answer questions about the
House Bank scandal Military justice is to justice what military music is to music.
-- George Clemenceau Society and Culture
