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LOVE, n. A temporary insanity curable by marriage or by removal of the patient from the
influences under which he incurred the disorder... It is sometimes fatal, but more frequently to the
physician "Listen, or your tongue will make you deaf." (Native American Proverb) Show my head to the people, it is worth seeing.
-- Georges Danton, to his executioner "I don't think it's the nature of any man to be monogamous. Men are propelled by genetically ordained impulses over which they have no control to distribute their seed." (Marlon Brando) 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 Business and Economy A good time to keep your mouth shut is when you're in deep water.
-- Sidney Goff He who has a 'why' to live, can bear with almost any 'how'.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Vote early and vote often.
- Al Capone Business and Economy
If someone offers you a breath mint, accept it.
-- H. Jackson Brown, Jr., Life's Little Treasure Book, on wisdom There is nothing better for the spirit or the body than a love affair. It elevates the thoughts and
flattens the stomachs.
-- Barbara Howar Let the refining and improving of your own life keep you so busy that you have little time to
criticize others.
-- H. Jackson Brown Marriage has many pains, but celibacy has no pleasures.
-- Samuel Johnson The man who complains about the way the ball bounces is likely the one who dropped it.
-- Lou Holtz Business and Economy What if it was cats who invented technology... would they have tv shows starring rubber sqeak
toys?
-- Douglas Coupland Conversation, fastidious Goddess, loves blood better than brick, and feasts most subtly on the
human will.
-- Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway Watching the debate this afternoon it was apparent they loved term limits in the House -- as
Brutus loved Caesar.
-- Bill Moyers Business and Economy
"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) Football incorporates the two worst elements of American society: violence punctuated by
committee meetings.
-- George F. Will, journalist, political commentator, 1994 We can do not great things - only small things with great love.
-- Mother Theresa Logic is in the eye of the logician.
- Gloria Steinem Teach a parrot the terms "supply and demand" and you've got an economist.
-- Thomas Carlyle Business and Economy Show my head to the people, it is worth seeing.
-- Georges Danton, to his executioner "There are no uninteresting things, only uninteresting people." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) We do not have censorship. What we have is a limitation on what newspapers can report.
-- Louis Nel, Deputy Minister of Information, South Africa Business and Economy
"Once spirit was God, then it became man, and now it is even becoming mob." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) What I look forward to is continued immaturity followed by death.
-- Dave Barry Democracy is a process by which the people are free to choose the man who will get the blame.
-- Laurence J. Peter The scientific theory I like best is that the rings of Saturn are composed entirely of lost airline
luggage.
-- Mark Russell There is no realizable power that man cannot, in time, fashion the tools to attain, nor any power
so secure that the naked ape will not abuse it. So it is written in the genetic cards - only physics Business and Economy then the world 's mine oyster
-- William Shakespeare, The Merry Wives of Windsor To heck with marrying a girl who makes biscuits like her mother--I want to marry one who makes dough like her father. "If A equals success, then the formula is: A = X + Y + Z, X is work. Y is play. Z is keep your mouth shut." (Albert Einstein) Business and Economy
Immature love says: "I love you because I need you." Mature love says: "I need you because I
love you."
-- Erich Fromm The west wasn't won on salad.
-- ND Beef Council, billboard advertisement, 1990 The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.
-- ROBERT FROST "Ah! Don't say you agree with me. When people agree with me I always feel that I must be wrong." (Oscar Wilde) Grad school is the snooze button on the clock-radio of life.
-- John Rogers, comedian (who holds a graduate degree in physics) Business and Economy I am free of all prejudice. I hate everyone equally.
-- W. C. Fields True, we love life, not because we are used to living, but because we are used to loving. There is
always some madness in love, but there is also always some reason in madness.
-- Friedrich Nietzsch Everything has been figured out, except how to live.
- Jean-Paul Sartre Business and Economy
Saying that Windows95 is equal to Macintosh is like finding a potato that looks like Jesus and
believing you've witnessed the second coming.
-- Guy Kawasaki Why is it that our memory is good enough to retain the least triviality that happens to us, and yet
not good enough to recollect how often we have told it to the same person?
-- François de La Rouch Man is the best computer we can put aboard a spacecraft...and the only one that can be mass
produced with unskilled labor.
-- Wernher von Braun 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 Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. Business and Economy Can you imagine what I would do if I could do all I can?
-- The Artist Formerly Known As Prince "One of the great dangers in having a career is getting bored." (Itzhak Perlman) "Every act of violence increases the recruitment of terrorists. Iraq has been turned into a base of terror." (Noam Chomsky, from The Toronto Star, March 23, 2004) Business and Economy
No matter who you vote for, the Government always gets in.
-- Anon. To correct a natural indifference I was placed half-way between misery and the sun. Misery kept
me from believing that all was well under the sun, and the sun taught me that history wasn't
everythin I never miss a chance to have sex or appear on television.
-- Gore Vidal The principle of give and take is the principle of diplomacy - give one and take ten.
-- Mark Twain "Crime like death is not confined to the old and withered alone. The youngest and fairest are too often its chosen victims." (Charles Dickens, 1812-70, Oliver Twist) Business and Economy 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 Imagine if every Thursday your shoes exploded if you tied them the usual way. This happens to
us all the time with computers, and nobody thinks of complaining.
-- Jeff Raskin "I expect nothing. I fear no one. I am free." (Nikos Kazantzakis) Business and Economy
We come to love not by finding a perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person
perfectly.
-- Anonymous When you steal from one author, it's plagiarism; if you steal from many, it's research.
-- Wilson Mizner He who has lost honor can lose nothing more.
-- Publilius Syrus The Middle Eastern states aren't nations; they're quarrels with borders.
-- P. J. O'Rourke "Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences." (Isadora Duncan) Business and Economy For of all sad words of tongue or pen,
The saddest are these: "It might have been!"
-- John Greenleaf Whittier For best results: wash in cold water separately, hang dry and iron with warm iron. For not so good
results: drag behind car through puddles, blow-dry on roofrack.
-- Laundry instructions on a shirt But at my back I always hear Time's winged chariot hurrying near.
- Andrew Marvell Business and Economy
Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-
proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe
is Men have become the tools of their tools.
- Henry David Thoreau ( I'm not into working out. My philosophy: No pain, no pain.
-- Carol Leifer Remember your dreams.
-- Maryanne Radmacher-Herhey Marriage is a matter of give and take, but so far I haven't been able to find anybody who'll take
what I have to give.
-- Cass Daley Business and Economy There are many things worth living for, there are a few things worth dying for, but there is nothing
worth killing for.
-- Tom Robbins "Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I base my fashion sense on what doesn't itch.
-- Gilda Radner Business and Economy
"Dear World, I am leaving because I am bored. I feel I have lived long enough. I am leaving you with your worries in this sweet cesspool. Good luck." (George Sanders, suicide note) A university professor set an examination question in which he asked what is the difference
between ignorance and apathy. The professor had to give an A+ to a student who answered: I
don't know and "Hold the fort! I am coming!" (General William Tecumseh Sherman) I like nonsense -- it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living. It's a way
of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope...and that enables you to laugh at all "By seeing the seed of failure in every success, we remain humble. By seeing the seed of success in every failure we remain hopeful." (Mel Ziegler, founder of Banana Republic) Business and Economy Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are conservatives.
-- John Stuart Mill If you don't double-click me, I can't do anything.
-- John Aniston, on how computers have taken over his life "Nobody minds having what is too good for them." (Jane Austen) Business and Economy
Truth can be a dangerous thing. It is quite patient and relentless.
-- R. Scott Richards "... adults are just obsolete children and the hell with them." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, quoted in his obituary, Time) All virtue is summed up in dealing justly.
-- Aristotle "Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance, or a stranger." (Franklin P. Jones) Wise men make proverbs, but fools repeat them.
- Samuel Palmer Business and Economy Courage is the price that Love exacts for granting peace.
-- Amelia Earhart You can't say civilization isn't advancing: in every war they kill you in a new way.
-- Will Rogers Launch out into the deep. One discovers by living in scorn of consequence.
-- Essie Summers Business and Economy
