"Talent does what it can; genius does what it must." (Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton) The grand aim of all science is to cover the greatest number of empirical facts by logical
deduction from the smallest number of hypotheses or axioms.
-- Albert Einstein To take what there "is", and use it, without waiting forever in vain for the preconceived - to dig
deep into the actual and get something out of that - this doubtless is the right way to live.
-- H To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest.
-- Ghandi "A thing of beauty is a joy forever." (John Keats) Emergency Services "The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of the dream." (Eleanor Roosevelt) All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it
is accepted as being self-evident.
- Arthur Schopenhauer One may have a blazing hearth in one's soul and yet no one ever comes to sit by it. Passersby
see only a wisp of smoke rising from the chimney and continue on their way.
-- Vincent Van Gogh Emergency Services
"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) All courage is a form of constancy. It is always himself that a coward abandons first. After this all
other betrayals come.
-- Cormac McCarthy "The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do." (Anonymous) "The monster a child knows best and is most concerned with [is] the monster he feels or fears himself to be. " (Bruno Bettelheim, child psychologist) Always bear in mind that your own resolution to success is more important than any other one
thing.
-- Abraham Lincoln Emergency Services You will marry into an Indian tribe and become one big Hopi family. 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 "'Contrariwise,' continued Tweedledee, 'if it was so, it might be, and if it were so, it would be; but as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic!'" (Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking Glass) Emergency Services
"It seems to me that there are two kinds of trickery: the 'fronts' people assume before one another's eyes, and the 'front' a writer puts on the face of reality." (Francois Sagan) A man can't get rich if he takes proper care of his family.
-- Navaho saying The democratic theory is that if you accumulate enough ignorance at the polls, you produce
intelligence.
-- Philo Vance Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday
afternoon.
-- Susan Ertz Use your own best judgment at all times.
-- The entire Nordstrom's Department Stores policy manual Emergency Services Politics doesn't make strange bedfellows, marriage does.
-- Groucho Marx Men are strong only so long as they represent a strong idea. They become powerless when they
oppose it.
-- Sigmund Freud I like two kinds of men: domestic and foreign.
-- Mae West Emergency Services
The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.
-- Franklin D. Roosevelt Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.
-- George Orwell "The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of the dream." (Eleanor Roosevelt) Be like a postage stamp. Stick to one thing until you get there.
-- Josh Billings Usenet is like Tetris for people who still remember how to read.
-- Button from the Computer Museum, Boston, MA Emergency Services Character is what you are in the dark.
-- Dwight L. Moody He who has lost honor can lose nothing more.
-- Publilius Syrus In great matters men show themselves as they wish to be seen; in small matters, as they are.
-- Gamaliel Bradford Emergency Services
Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has not heart; and any man who is over 30, and is
not a conservative, has no brains.
-- Winston Churchill "Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this
is true.
-- James Branch Cabell, The Silver Stallion 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 The wise see knowledge and action as one; they see truly.
-- Bhagava Gita Emergency Services Never be possessive. If a female friend lets on that she is going out with another man, be kind
and understanding. If she says she would like to go out with the Dallas Cowboys, including the
coachin Marriage resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated; often moving in
opposite directions, yet always punishing any one who comes between them.
-- Sydney Smith "The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet." (Andy Warhol) Emergency Services
May you live happily ever after with a poor, ugly, shrewish wife. The streets are safe in Philadelphia. It's only the people who make them unsafe.
-- Frank Rizzo, ex-police chief and mayor of Philadelphia 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 The gods too are fond of a joke.
- Aristotle 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 Emergency Services If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded.
-- Maya Angelou We are the echo of the future.
-- W. S. Merwin Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife. -- PJ O'Rourke Emergency Services
Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you.
- Carl Gustav Jung "Common sense and education are highly compatible; in fact, neither is worth much without the other." (Donald G. Smith) The only thing that holds a marriage together is the husband bein' big enough to keep his mouth
shut, to step back and see where his wife is wrong.
-- Archie Bunker, character on "All in the Family, "I learned more from the one restaurant that didn't work than from all the ones that were successes." (Wolfgang Puck, restauranteur) Marriage resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated; often moving in
opposite directions, yet always punishing any one who comes between them.
-- Sydney Smith Emergency Services I don't know if God exists, but it would be better for His reputation if He didn't.
-- Jules Renard He who dies a thousand deaths meets the final hour with the calmness of one who approaches a
well remembered door.
-- Heywood Brown If you are afraid of loneliness, do not marry. -- Chekhov Emergency Services
"Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their
attitudes of mind.
-- William James Happy are those who dream dreams and are willing to pay the price to make them come true.
-- Anon. If you are afraid of loneliness, don't marry.
-- Chekhov The cynics are right nine times out of ten.
- Henry Louis Mencken Emergency Services A wasted youth is better by far than a wise and productive old age.
-- Meat Loaf, from the song "Wasted Youth" on the album Bat Out of Hell II While we are postponing, life speeds by.
- Seneca (3BC - 65AD) "Do not go gentle into that good night. Old age should burn and rave at close of day. Rage, rage against the dying of the light." (Dylan Thomas) Emergency Services
I've just learned about his illness. Let's hope it's nothing trivial.
- Irvin S. Cobb A problem is a chance for you to do your best.
-- Buke Ellington blah "Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the government of himself. Can he, then be trusted with the government of others? Or have we found angels in the form of kings to govern him? If everybody is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking.
-- George S. Patton, Jr. There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house
as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends.
-- Homer, Odyssey, ninth century Emergency Services "Beauty awakens the soul to act." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.
- Thomas Jefferson "A celebrity is a person who works hard all his life to become well known, then wears dark glasses to avoid being recognized." (Fred Allen) Emergency Services
blah "Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure." (Thomas Alva Edison) The mind has exactly the same power as the hands: not merely to grasp the world, but to change
it.
-- Colin Wilson Knowledge is the intellectual manipulation of carefully verified observations.
-- Sigmund Freud Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than
the wisest man can answer.
-- Charles Caleb Colton It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
-- Oscar Wilde Emergency Services The only one of your children who does not grow up and move away is your husband. Reason can answer questions, but imagination has to ask them.
-- Ralph N. Gerard We are the echo of the future.
-- W. S. Merwin Emergency Services
Nature gave men two ends - one to sit on and one to think with. Ever since then man's success or
failure has been dependent on the one he used most.
-- George R. Kirkpatrick The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
-- Winston Churchill It destroys one's nerves to be amiable everyday to the same human being.
-- Benjamin Disraeli "One pretty good definition of college is that it's a place where people are made to read difficult books." (Jonathan Franzen) Not only is the universe stranger than we imagine, it is stranger than we can imagine.
Sir Arthur Eddington (1882 - 1944) Emergency Services "He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches." (George Bernard Shaw) What if nothing exists and we're all in somebody's dream? Or what's worse, what if only that fat
guy in the third row exists?
-- Woody Allen Everybody can be great... because anybody can serve. You don't have to have a college degree
to serve. You don't have to make your subject and verb agree to serve. you only need a heart full
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