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If I had only known, I would have been a locksmith.
-- Albert Einstein Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous
and dreadful.
-- Samuel Johnson The important thing is not to stop questioning.
-- Albert Einstein I've sometimes thought of marrying, and then I've thought again.
-- Noel Coward Military justice is to justice what military music is to music.
-- George Clemenceau News and Media Love is an emotion that is based on an opinion of women that is impossible for those who have
had any experience with them.
-- H. L. Mencken The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
- Mark Twain "If you do not know where you are going, any road will take you there." (Sterling Holloway, voice of Chesire Cat, Alice in Wonderland) News and Media
Where there is marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.
-- Benjamin Franklin "Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman and a pretty girl.
-- Charlie Chaplin The only thing you will ever be able to say in the so-called 'social' sciences is: "some do, some
don't."
-- Ernest Rutherford "It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so." (Mark Twain) News and Media Flowers are words which even a baby can understand.
-- Arthur C. Coxe If you are afraid of loneliness, do not marry. -- Chekhov You can't learn too soon that the most useful thing about a principle is that it can always be
sacrificed to expediency.
-- W. Somerset Maugham News and Media
It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get back up.
-- Vince Lombardi "A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) "Have love for your friend up to a limit for it is possible he may turn into your enemy some day; and hate your enemy up to a limit for it is possible he may turn into your friend some day." (Ali bin We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.
-- Mme de Staël Love is what we are born with. Fear is what we learn. The spiritual journey is the unlearning of
fear and prejudices and the acceptance of love back in our hearts. Love is the essential reality
and News and Media "The act of policing is, in order to punish less often, to punish more severely." (Napoleon Bonaparte) The real test of friendship is: Can you literally do nothing with the other person? Can you enjoy
together those moments of life that are utterly simple? They are the moments people looks back
on at Inanimate objects are classified scientifically into three categories-- those that don't work, those
that break down, and those that get lost.
-- Russell Baker News and Media
Hell hath no fury like a bureaucrat scorned.
-- Milton Friedman Men have a much better time of it than women; for one thing, they marry later; for another thing, they die earlier. --H.L. Mencken "You believe that flag burning shows disrespect towards those who have fought to preserve our freedoms. Punishing protestors shows an even more profound disrespect for the ideals that these people die The days just before marriage are like a snappy introduction to a tedious book. To love another person is to see the face of God.
-- Lyric from Les Miserables News and Media There is a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious, makes you so sick at
heart, you can't take part. And you've got to put your body upon the gears and upon the wheels,
upon the lev This book fills a much-needed gap.
- Moses Hadas in a review "I owe much to my friends; but, all things considered, it strikes me that I owe even more to my enemies. The real person springs life under a sting even better than under a caress." (André Gide) News and Media
When we treat man as he is, we make him worse than he is; when we treat him as if he already
were what he potentially could be, we make him what he should be.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "The proper office of a friend is to side with you when you are wrong. Nearly anybody will side with you when you are right." (Mark Twain) Vote for the man who promises least. He'll be the least disappointing.
-- Bernard Baruch "A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) Love may be a dream but marriage is a nightmare.
-- Joan Collins News and Media You have it easily in your power to increase the sum total of this world's happiness now. How? By
giving a few words of sincere appreciation to someone who is lonely or discouraged. Perhaps you
will Giving birth is like taking your lower lip and forcing it over your head.
-- Carol Burnett "Think where mans glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends." (William Butler Yeats) News and Media
Many a wife thinks her husband is the world's greatest lover. But she can never catch him at it. When you do the common things in life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of
the world.
- George Washington Carver "I'm the artist formally known as Beck. I have a genius wig. When I put that wig on, then the true genius emerges. I don't have enough hair to be a genius. I think you have to have hair going everywhe Marriage is a romance in which the heroine dies in the first chapter.
-- Cecilia Egan Oregon Democratic Senate candidate Tom Bruggere, in describing his support for
comprehensive health care during a candidates' forum, said he supported "erection-to-
resurrection" coverage. He later a News and Media Question: If you could live forever, would you and why? Answer: I would not live forever, because
we should not live forever, because if we were supposed to live forever, then we would live
forever, The man who complains about the way the ball bounces is likely the one who dropped it.
-- Lou Holtz Love is not blind - it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.
Rabbi Julius Gordon News and Media
Marriage is an institution in which a man loses his Bachelor's Degree and the woman gets her Masters. Doctors are the same as lawyers; the only difference is that lawyers merely rob you, whereas
doctors rob you and kill you too.
-- Anton Chekhov Marriage is a romance in which the heroine dies in the first chapter.
-- Cecilia Egan "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." (Albert Einstein) "What is most appealing about young folks, after all, is the changes, not the still photograph of finished character but the movie, the soul in flux." (Thomas Pynchon) News and Media A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence
University education.
-- George Bernard Shaw Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not
there, I go to work.
-- Robert Orben We got to roll with the punches, play all of our hunches, make the best of whatever comes your
way. Forget that blind ambition, learn to trust your intuition -- plowing straight ahead, come what
may News and Media
If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.
-- Voltaire Politics is for people who have a passion for changing life but lack a passion for living it.
-- Tom Robbins I must follow the people. Am I not their leader?
-- Benjamin Disraeli "Not only is there no guarantee of the temporal immortality of the human soul, that is to say of its eternal survival after death; but, in any case, this assumption completely fails to accomplish the I think every woman is entitled to a middle husband she can forget.
-- Adela Rogers St. John News and Media "If you believe everything you read, you better not read." (Japanese Proverb) "I don't believe people die. They just go uptown. To Bloomingdales. They just take longer to get back." (Andy Warhol) A husband is what's left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
-- Helen Rowland News and Media
I've always thought that underpopulated countries in Africa are vastly underpolluted.
-- Lawrence Summers, chief economist of the World Bank, explaining why we should export toxic
wastes to Third Wo "One of the things about acting is it allows you to live other people's lives without having to pay the price. I've never been one of those actors who has touted myself as a fascinating human being. I My wife doesn't care what I do away from home, as long as I don't enjoy it. 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
He who knows nothing, knows nothing. But he who knows he knows nothing knows something. And he who knows someone whose friend's wife's brother knows nothing, he knows something. Or something like that News and Media "You can get help from teachers, but you are going to have to learn a lot by yourself, sitting alone in a room." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, On becoming a writer, NY Times 21 Better to have loved a short man than never to have loved a tall.
-- David Chambless Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
-- Harriet Beecher Stowe News and Media
"Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom." (Raymonde Uy) Be willing to make decisions. That's the most important quality in a good leader. Don't fall victim
to what I call the 'ready-aim-aim-aim-aim syndrome.' You must be willing to fire.
-- Gen. George "You can get help from teachers, but you are going to have to learn a lot by yourself, sitting alone in a room." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, On becoming a writer, NY Times 21 "Twelve magicians and two carnies have been shot dead doing the bullet catch. That's cool enough, but every night when we close our show with that trick and the loaded gun gets pointed in my face, it To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest.
-- Ghandi News and Media The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet.
-- Andy Warhol Celestial navigation is based on the premise that the Earth is the center of the universe. The
premise is wrong, but the navigation works. An incorrect model can be a useful tool.
-- Kelvin Throop I You have to walk carefully in the beginning of love; the running across fields into your lover's
arms can only come later when you're sure they won't laugh if you trip.
-- Jonathan Carroll, Outside News and Media
The Internet is so big, so powerful and pointless that for some people it is a complete substitute
for life.
-- Andrew Brown "The dancer's body is simply the luminous manifestation of the soul." (Isadora Duncan) I don't know if God exists, but it would be better for His reputation if He didn't.
-- Jules Renard Computers can figure out all kinds of problems, except the things in the world that just don't add
up.
-- Anon Now, now my good man, this is no time for making enemies.
- Voltaire (1694-1778) on his deathbed in response to a priest asking that he renounce Satan. News and Media "Listen, or your tongue will make you deaf." (Native American Proverb) Very little is known of the Canadian country since it is rarely visited by anyone but the Queen and
illiterate sport fishermen.
-- P. J. O'Rourke We know the truth, not only by the reason, but also by the heart.
-- Blaise Pascal, Thoughts, Chap. x. 1., Translated by O. W. Wight News and Media
