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We can lick gravity, but sometimes the paperwork is overwhelming.
-- Wehrner von Braun Life is a succession of lessons enforced by immediate reward, or, oftener, by immediate
chastisement.
-- Ernest Dimnet 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 When you've spent half your political life dealing with humdrum issues like the environment... it's
exciting to have a real crisis on your hands.
-- Margaret Thatcher, on the Falklands Conflict There is more stupidity than hydrogen in the universe, and it has a longer shelf life.
- Frank Zappa Government "Everywhere one seeks to produce meaning, to make the world signify, to render it visible. We are not, however, in danger of lacking meaning; quite the contrary, we are gorged with meaning and it is k True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.
-- Henry David Thoreau 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 Government
To love another person is to help them love God.
-- Søren Kierkegaard "I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough." (M. C. Escher) The price of freedom is eternal vigilance.
-- Thomas Jefferson And since the stench of death will always attract flies and vermin, the arrival of Geraldo was
perhaps inevitable.
-- Garry Trudeau "Deep down, no one really believes they have a right to live. But this death sentence generally stays tucked away, hidden beneath the difficulty of living. If that difficulty is removed from time to t Government Always behave like a duck--keep calm and unruffled on the surface but paddle like the devil
underneath.
-- Jacob Braude Better watch out that you won't become a television set in your next life.
--Loesje Nothing that was worthy in the past departs; no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or
can die.
-- Thomas Carlyle Government
We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind
her stands his wife.
-- Groucho Marx People may or may not say what they mean ... but they always say something designed to get
what they want.
-- David Mamet If love is the answer, could you rephrase the question?
-- Lily Tomlin "Courage is found in unlikely places." (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) In great matters men show themselves as they wish to be seen; in small matters, as they are.
-- Gamaliel Bradford Government Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.
-- Sigmund Freud I've sometimes thought of marrying, and then I've thought again.
-- Noel Coward The Democrats are the party that says government will make you smarter, taller, richer, and
remove the crabgrass on your lawn. The Republicans are the party that says government doesn't
work and the Government
The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
-- Lucille S. Harper Music is the art of thinking with sounds.
-- Jules Combarieu There is a coherent plan in the universe, though I don't know what it's a plan for.
-- Fred Hoyle You never see a man walking down the street with a woman who has a little pot belly and a bald
spot.
-- Elayne Boosler And I shall love thee still my dear, Until my wife is wise. Government You've no idea of what a poor opinion I have of myself, and how little I deserve it.
-- W.S. Gilbert Now comes the mystery.
-- Henry Ward Beecher, dying words, March 8, 1887 I married beneath me. All women do.
-- Lady Nancy Astor, attributed Government
Life is like a movie--since there aren't any commercial breaks, you have to get up and go to the
bathroom in the middle of it.
-- Nick Mirov 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 It is important that students bring a certain ragamuffin, barefoot, irreverence to their studies; they
are not here to worship what is known, but to question it.
-- J. Bronowski, The Ascent of Man The gods gave man fire and he invented fire engines. They gave him love and he invented marriage. We are not retreating - we are advancing in another Direction.
- General Douglas MacArthur Government First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.
- Mahatma Gandhi "Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country." (Marquis de Lafayette) The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.
-- G. K. Chesterton Government
It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.
-- Gore Vidal My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you'll be happy; if not, you'll become a
philosopher.
- Socrates Shotgun wedding: a case of wife or death Familiarity breeds contempt -- and children.
-- Mark Twain The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. The opposite of a profound truth may
well be another profound truth.
- Niels Bohr Government If variety is the spice of life, marriage is the big can of leftover Spam.
-- Johnny Carson Giving a man space is like giving a dog a computer: the chances are he will not use it wisely.
-- Bette-Jane Raphael "Kill a man, and you are a murderer. Kill millions of men, and you are a conquerer. Kill everyone, and you are a god." (Jean Rostand) Government
To achieve the impossible, it is precisely the unthinkable that must be thought.
-- Tom Robbins, Jitterbug Perfume The hard part about being a bartender is figuring out who is drunk and who is just stupid.
-- Richard Braunstein "The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do." (Anonymous) More than kisses, letters mingle souls.
-- John Donne Good-bye. I am leaving because I am bored.
-- George Saunders - last words Government There's a fine line between fishing and standing on the shore like an idiot.
-- Steven Wright Democracy is a form of government in which it is permitted to wonder aloud what the country
could do under first-class management.
-- Senator Soaper I haven't committed a crime. What I did was fail to comply with the law.
-- David Dinkins, New York City Mayor, answering accusations that he failed to pay his taxes. Government
"The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) A true gentleman is one who is never unintentionally rude.
-- Oscar Wilde The love we give away is the only love we keep.
-- Elbert Hubbard I didn't accept it. I received it.
-- Richard Allen, National Security Advisor to President Reagan, explaining the $1000 in cash and
two watches he was given by two Japanese journalists after he hel There are some experiences in life which should not be demanded twice from any man, and one
of them is listening to the Brahms Requiem.
-- George Bernard Shaw Government Teach a parrot the terms "supply and demand" and you've got an economist.
-- Thomas Carlyle A woman has got to love a bad man once or twice in her life to be thankful for a good one.
-- Mae West Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than the arguments of its opposers.
-- William Penn Government
May you be too good for the world and not good enough for your wife. Age does not protect you from love but love to some extent protects you from age.
-- Jeanne Moreau "Now that we have everything we need, we discover that there is almost nothing that we have that we want." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of
our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.
-- John Adams This compact disc is made from analog masters recorded without noise reduction. Half the tracks,
in fact, were recorded in a dismal, cheap basement eight-track studio with puddles of water on
the fl Government "Think off-center." (George Carlin) "A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems.
- Paul Erdos Government
I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts, then there is no hurt, but only more love.
-- Mother Teresa Blessed are the young for they shall inherit the national debt.
-- Herbert Hoover "I had discovered that a person does not have to be this or be that or be anything, not even oneself. One is free." (Walker Percy, The Moviegoer) The marriage of Marxism and feminism has been like the marriage of husband and wife depicted
in English common law: Marxism and feminism are one, and that one is Marxism.
-- Heidi Hartmann, The Unha And in the end the love you take is equal to the love you make.
-- The Beatles, The last lyric of their last song Government The great advantage of being in a rut is that when one is in a rut, one knows exactly where one
is.
-- Arnold Bennett "My wallpaper and I are fighting a duel to the death. One or the other of us has to go." (Oscar Wilde, his last recorded words) I am free of all prejudice. I hate everyone equally.
-- W. C. Fields Government
Everyone is a genius at least once a year; a real genius has his original ideas closer together.
- Georg Lichtenberg "Every great institution is the lengthened shadow of a single man. His character determines the character of the organization." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) The course of true love never did run smooth.
-- William Shakespeare An act of love that fails is just as much a part of the divine life as an act of love that succeeds, for
love is measured by fullness, not by reception.
-- Harold Loukes If a politician found he had cannibals among his constituents, he would promise them
missionaries for dinner.
-- H. L. Mencken Government "Club Secretary: I say, Lawrence. You are a clown!
Lawrence: We can't all be lion tamers." (Thomas Edward Lawrence, Lawrence of Arabia, 1962) "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) In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
- Martin Luther King Jr. Government
