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Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure.
-- George E. Woodberry In answer to the question of why it happened, I offer the modest proposal that our Universe is
simply one of those things which happen from time to time.
-- Edward P. Tryon .. I am indebted to the cat for a particular kind of honorable deceit, for a greater control over
myself, for a characteristic aversion to brutal sounds, and for the need to keep silent for long
per "Sometimes I think it's another sign of the sad necessity of our crowded, lonely lives, an urgent hopeless reaching out to touch something real, a deep hunger for something authentic when everything s Happiness is nothing more than health and a poor memory.
-- Albert Schweitzer Society and Culture "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) Fill the unforgiving minute with sixty seconds worth of distance run.
- Rudyard Kipling "People who cease to believe in God or goodness altogether still believe in the devil. I don't know why. No, I do indeed know why. Evil is always possible. And goodness is eternally difficult." (Anne Society and Culture
"Even death is unreliable. Instead of zero it may be some ghastly hallucination, such as the square root of minus one." (Samuel Beckett) Love is what happens to men and women who don't know each other.
-- W. Somerset Maugham Correction: Instead of being arrested, as we stated, for kicking his wife down a flight of stairs and hurling a lighted kerosene lamp after her, the Rev. James P. Wellman died unmarried four years ago blah "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." (Thomas Jefferson) "Beauty awakens the soul to act." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) Society and Culture Guide to understanding a net.addict's day:
Slow day: didn't have much to do, so spent three hours on usenet.
Busy day: managed to work in three hours of usenet.
Bad day: barely squeezed in three ho It is because modern education is so seldom inspired by a great hope that it so seldom achieves
great results. The wish to preserve the past rather that the hope of creating the future dominates
the Is it better for a woman to marry a man who loves her than a man she loves.
-- Anonymous Society and Culture
Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labour in
freedom.
-- Albert Einstein When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.
-- Hunter S. Thompson "... 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) I hate mankind, for I think myself to be one of them, and I know how bad I am.
-- Samuel Johnson A person is not given integrity. It results from the relentless pursuit of honesty at all times.
-- Anon. Society and Culture The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt If I tell a lie it's only because I think I'm telling the truth.
-- Phil Gaglardi, Minister of Highways, British Columbia, Canada The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.
-- Franklin D. Roosevelt Society and Culture
I am become death, shatterer of worlds.
-- Robert J. Oppenheimer, citing from the Bhagavadgita, after witnessing the world's first nuclear
explosion "I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it." (Thomas Jefferson, to Archibald Stuart, 1791) The true spirit of conversation consists in building on another man's observation, not overturning
it.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the
really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.
-- Mark Twain Icky icky icky icky fKANG zoop-boing n zowzyin...
-- The Knights who so recently said "Nee!", Monty Python, British comedy television show Society and Culture Some of us are becoming the men we wanted to marry.
-- Gloria Steinem "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 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 Society and Culture
"Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something." (Plato, 427 BC-348) The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.
-- Thomas Jefferson There's nothing wrong with having nothing to say -- unless you insist on saying it.
-- Anonymous We always believe our first love is our last, and our last love our first.
-- Anonymous By working faithfully eight hours a day, you might eventually get to be a boss and work twelve
hours a day.
-- ROBERT FROST Society and Culture ...the fog is rising.
-- Emily Dickinson, dying words Love is much nicer to be in than an automobile accident, a tight girdle, a higher tax bracket, or a
holding pattern over Philadelphia.
-- Judith Viorst "Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking." (H. Jackson Brown (Jr.) Society and Culture
There is nothing better for the spirit or the body than a love affair. It elevates the thoughts and
flattens the stomachs.
-- Barbara Howar Whenever I date a guy, I think, is this the man I want my children to spend their weekends with?
-- Rita Rudner "Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death." (General Michel Aoun) I'm at the age where food has taken the place of sex in my life. In fact, I've just had a mirror put
over my kitchen table.
-- Rodney Dangerfield Well if this is the wrong number, why did you answer it?
-- James Thurber Society and Culture 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, "Politics is my hobby. Smut is my vocation." (Larry Flynt) "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 Society and Culture
Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside a dog, it's too dark to read.
-- Groucho Marx The English country gentleman galloping after a fox--the unspeakable in full pursuit of the
uneatable.
-- Oscar Wilde "Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise." (Alice Walker) This is a test. It is only a test. Had it been an actual job, you would have received raises,
promotions, and other signs of appreciation.
-- Anonymous Courage is the price that Love exacts for granting peace.
-- Amelia Earhart Society and Culture Prejudice is the child of ignorance.
-- William Hazlitt 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 Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well.
-- Josh Billings Society and Culture
"I was lousy in school. Real screwed-up. A moron. I was antisocial and didn't bother with the other kids. A really bad student. I didn't have any brains. I didn't know what I was doing there. That's w "A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities." (Eda J. Le Shan) Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labour in
freedom.
-- Albert Einstein 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 "The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) Society and Culture "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) The man with the best job in the country is the Vice President. All he has to do is get up every
morning and say, "How's the President?"
-- Will Rogers "Nothing is permanent but change." (Heraclitus) Society and Culture
Marriage is a romance in which the hero dies in the first chapter.
-- Anonymous I don't know why we are here, but I'm pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves.
- Ludwig Wittgenstein "The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn." (David Russell) "Not by wrath does one kill, but by laughter." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Mistakes are the portals of discovery.
-- James Joyce Society and Culture "I am a part of all that I have met." (Alfred Lord Tennyson, 1809-1892, English poet) "Fools rush in where angels fear to tread." (Alexander Pope) He had decided to live forever or die in the attempt.
-- J. Heller Society and Culture
"Work like you don't need the money. Love like you've never been hurt. Dance like nobody's watching." (Satchel Paige) By all means marry. If you get a good wife you will become happy, and if you get a bad one you
will become a philosopher.
-- Socrates To be able to say how much love, is love but little.
-- Petrarch Experience is the worst teacher; it gives the test before presenting the lesson.
-- Vernon Law Only the little people pay taxes.
-- Leona Helmsley, hotel owner and prison inmate, 1989 Society and Culture There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world; and that is an idea whose time has
come.
-- Victor Hugo I should have no objection to a repetition of the same life from its beginning, only asking the
advantages authors have in a second edition to correct some faults of the first.
-- Benjamin Franklin Manuscript: something submitted in haste and returned at leisure.
-- Oliver Herford Society and Culture
It's not as great a day for the bride as she thinks. She's not marrying the best man.
-- Anonymous For I am a bear of very little brain and long words bother me.
-- Winnie the Pooh, character from author A. A. Milne 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 Beware you be not swallowed up in books! An ounce of love is worth a pound of knowledge.
-- John Wesley I never hated a man enough to give him his diamonds back.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Society and Culture When one is trying to do something beyond his known powers it is useless to seek the approval
of friends. Friends are at their best in moments of defeat.
-- Henry Miller In every country and every age, the priest has been hostile to Liberty.
-- Thomas Jefferson Technology is a way of organizing the universe so that man doesn't have to experience it.
-- Max Frisch Society and Culture
