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Friends may come and go, but enemies accumulate.
-- Thomas Jones "It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure on the world." (John Steinbeck Trust, but verify.
-- Ronald Reagan "A man who flies from his fear may find he has only taken a shortcut to meet it." (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) It's important to be open-minded, but not SO open-minded that your brains fall out.
-- Rick Radebaugh Government "The most beautiful things in the world are the most useless, peacocks and lilies, for instance." (John Ruskin) Before marriage, a man will lie awake all night thinking about something you said; after marriage,
he'll fall asleep before you finish saying it.
-- Helen Roland Well, I think that it's a- it's had some difficult times but I think we have- we, I think, have been able
to make some very good progress and it's- I would say that it's- it's- it's delightful that w Government
A problem is a chance for you to do your best.
-- Buke Ellington In the late 1600s the finest instruments originated from three rural families whose workshops
were side by side in the Italian village of Cremona. First were the Amatis, and outside their shop
hung No man in the world has more courage than the man who can stop after eating one peanut.
-- Channing Pollack I am free of all prejudice. I hate everyone equally.
-- W. C. Fields We didn't send you to Washington to make intelligent decisions. We sent you to represent us.
-- Kent York, Baptist minister to US Rep. Bill Sarpalius Government The optimist sees opportunity in every danger; the pessimist sees danger in every opportunity.
-- Winston Churchill All human actions are equivalent... and... all are on principle doomed...
-- Jean-Paul Sartre, "Being and Nothingness" I don't know anything about luck. I've never banked on it, and I'm afraid of people who do. Luck to
me is something else; hard work and realizing what is opportunity and what isn't.
-- Lucille Ball Government
Look not mournfully into the Past. It comes not back again. Wisely improve the Present. It is
thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy Future, without fear, and with a manly heart.
-- Henry Wadsworth Lo Life is like a dogsled team. If you ain't the lead dog, the scenery never changes.
-- Lewis Grizzard You can pretend to be serious; you can't pretend to be witty.
- Sacha Guitry "Conscience and cowardice are really the same things. Conscience is the trade-name of the firm. That is all." (Oscar Wilde) The streets are safe in Philadelphia. It's only the people who make them unsafe.
-- Frank Rizzo, ex-police chief and mayor of Philadelphia Government "A wise man among the ignorant is as a beautiful girl in the company of blind men." (Saadi) "Talent does what it can; genius does what it must." (Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton) In view of all the deadly computer viruses that have been spreading lately, Weekend Update
would like to remind you: when you link up to another computer, you're linking up to every
computer that th Government
Destiny is not a matter of chance; but a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, It is a
thing to be acheived.
-- William Jennings Bryant "It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) Knowledge is the intellectual manipulation of carefully verified observations.
-- Sigmund Freud I do not believe in an afterlife, although I am bringing a change of underwear.
-- Woody Allen Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche Government The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains.The superior teacher demonstrates. The
great teacher inspires.
-- William Arthur Ward Neither fire nor wind, birth nor death can erase our good deeds.
-- Buddha Who, being loved, is poor?
-- Oscar Wilde Government
Parents often talk about the younger generations as if they didn't have anything to do with it. Government is like a baby. An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of
responsibility at the other.
-- Ronald Reagan, Saturday Evening Post, 1965 There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home.
- Ken Olson, president, chairman and founder of Digital Equipment Corp., 1977 "A man must dream a long time in order to act with grandeur, and dreaming is nursed in darkness." (Jean Genet) This novel is not to be tossed lightly aside, but hurled with great force.
-- Dorothy Parker Government Marriage: the only sport in which the trapped animal has to buy the license. "Work like you don't need the money. Love like you've never been hurt. Dance like nobody's watching." (Satchel Paige) "Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies." (Gore Vidal) Government
See what will happen if you don't stop biting your fingernails?
-- Will Rogers, to his niece on seeing the Venus de Milo The only weapon that becomes sharper with constant use is the tongue.
-- Anonymous Wives are people who feel they don't dance enough.
-- Groucho Marx It was a day like this Marco Polo left for China. What are your plans for today?
--Loesje Don't marry for money; you can borrow it cheaper. Government "All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are
difficult.
-- Seneca "One can do without people but one has need of a friend." (Chinese Proverb) Government
A scar nobly got, or a noble scar, is a good livery of honour; so belike is that.
-- Shakespeare, William "The reason why kids are crazy is because nobody can face the responsibility of bringing them up." (John Lennon) It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is
the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be
cr Church is only society on earth that exists for the benefit of non-members.
-- William Temple There is a theory which states that if ever anybody discovers exactly what the Universe is for and
why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and
inex Government Coffee is a beverage that puts one to sleep when not drank.
-- Alphonse Allais Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through
self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.
-- Helen Keller The gods gave man fire and he invented fire engines. They gave him love and he invented marriage. Government
Compromise: An amiable arrangement between husband and wife whereby they agree to let her
have her own way.
-- Anonymous What kills a skunk is the publicity it gives itself.
-- Abraham Lincoln I once asked my history teacher how we were expected to learn anything useful from his subject,
when it seemed to me to be nothing but a monotonous and sordid succession of robber baron
scumbags dev If you put garbage in a computer nothing comes out but garbage. But this garbage, having
passed through a very expensive machine, is somehow ennobled and none dare criticize it.
-- Anonymous Going to church doesn't make you a Christian any more than going to a garage makes you an
automobile.
-- Billy Sunday Government A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties; no
religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear
of They were doing a full back shot of me in a swimsuit and I thought, Oh my God, I have to be so
brave. See, every woman hates herself from behind.
-- Cindy Crawford, supermodel It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is
the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be
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Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is.
-- Diane Ackerman The wit of a graduate student is like champagne. Canadian champagne.
-- Robertson Davies "If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, sir, should keep his friendship in a constant repair." (Samuel Johnson) "I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." (James Madison) We look forward to the time when the power to love of will replace the love of power. Then will our
world know the blessings of peace.
-- William Gladstone Government Whenever I'm caught between two evils, I take the one I've never tried.
-- Mae West "The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet." (Andy Warhol) Jake liked his women the way he liked his kiwi fruit: sweet yet tart, firm-fleshed yet yielding to the
touch, and covered with short brown fuzzy hair.
-- Jonathan S. Haas Government
A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents.
-- H. L. Mencken "Freedom of press is limited to those who own one." (Henry Louis Mencken) "Your children are not your children. They are sons and daughters of life's longing for itself. They come through you but not from you. And though they are with you, they belong not to you. You may gi Creativity is the sudden cessation of stupidity.
-- Edward H. Land "Every Man and every Woman is a Star." (Aleister Crowley) Government "The purpose of Compulsory Education is to deprive the common people of their commonsense." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish.
-- Albert Einstein 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 Government
The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing that you will make one.
-- Ellen Hubbard "Some people wear their heart up on their sleeve. I wear mine underneath my right pant leg, strapped to my boot." (Ani Difranco) "The only man who behaved sensibly was my tailor; he took my measurement anew every time he saw me, while all the rest went on with their old measurements and expected them to fit me." (George Bernar Parents are the bones upon which children sharpen their teeth.
-- Peter Ustinov Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop
questioning.
-- Albert Einstein Government Love is the answer, but while you're waiting for the answer, sex raises some pretty good
questions.
-- Woody Allen A straight line is the shortest in morals as in mathematics.
-- Maria Edgeworth Egotist: a person more interested in himself than in me.
- Ambrose Bierce Government
