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-- Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., Cat's Cradle The difference between pornography and erotica is lighting.
-- Gloria Leonard We trained hard - but it seemed that every time we were beginning to form up into teams we were
reorganized. I was to learn later in life that we tend to meet any new situation by reorganizing,
and I stopped believing in Santa Claus when I was six. Mother took me to see him in a department
store and he asked for my autograph.
-- Shirley Temple Black "Have you ever fed your pocket and starved your soul?" (Ivana Santilli, Too Deep) Education One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is
terribly important.
- Bertrand Russell
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A little inaccuracy sometimes saves a ton I will try to follow the advice that a university president once gave a prospective commencement
speaker. "Think of yourself as the body at an Irish wake" he said. "They need you in order to have
th The big difference between sex for money and sex for free is that sex for money usually costs a
lot less.
-- Brendon Behan Education
If you can't convince them, confuse them.
-- Harry S. Truman 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 Curiosity will conquer fear even more than bravery will.
-- James Stephens "Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame." (Erica Jong) Life isn't a matter of milestones, but of moments.
-- Rose Kennedy Education The average person thinks he isn't.
- Father Larry Lorenzoni Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
-- Bob Perelman Democracy is the name we give the people whenever we need them.
-- Marquis de Flers Robert and Arman de Caillavet Education
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-- The Knights who so recently said "Nee!", Monty Python, British comedy television show Who, being loved, is poor?
-- Oscar Wilde Statistics have shown that mortality increases perceptibly in the military during wartime.
-- Alphonse Allais Every act of creation is first an act of destruction.
-- Pablo Picasso They will say you are on the wrong road, if it is your own.
-- Antonio Porchi Education In every country and every age, the priest has been hostile to Liberty.
-- Thomas Jefferson "If I could drop dead right now, I'd be the happiest man alive." (Samuel Goldwyn) Why don't you write books people can read?
-- Nora Joyce, to her husband James Education
"I like boring things." (Andy Warhol, Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up) Be willing to make decisions. That's the most important quality in a good leader. Don't fall victim
to what I call the 'ready-aim-aim-aim-aim syndrome.' You must be willing to fire.
-- Gen. George "Education is the process of driving a set of prejudices down your throat." (Martin H. Fischer) We have to keep trying things we're not sure we can pull off. If we just do the things we know we
can do... you don't grow as much. You gotta take those chances on making those big mistakes.
-- Cybi Give the people not hell, but hope and courage.
-- John Murray Education I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think.
-- Socrates Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.
-- G. K. Chesterton Smoking kills. If you're killed, you've lost a very important part of your life.
-- Brooke Shields, during an interview to become spokesperson for a federal anti-smoking
campaign Education
Keep in mind that neither success nor failure is ever final.
-- Roger Babson Matters of religion should never be matters of controversy. We neither argue with a lover about
his taste, not condemn him, if we are just, for knowing so human a passion.
-- George Santayana People think we make $3 million and $4 million a year. They don't realize that most of us only
make $500,000.
-- Pete Incaviglia, baseball player, 1990 God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.
-- Voltaire Democracy is a government where you can say what you think even if you don't think.
-- Anon. Education "You can get help from teachers, but you are going to have to learn a lot by yourself, sitting alone in a room." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, On becoming a writer, NY Times 21 Life isn't a matter of milestones, but of moments.
-- Rose Kennedy "If I work toward an end, meantime I am confined to a process. The rainbow is more beautiful than the pot at the end of it, because the rainbow is now. And the pot never turns out to be quite what I e Education
The husband who wants a happy marriage should learn to keep his mouth shut and his checkbook open. -- Groucho Marx Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
-- Virginia Woolf The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
-- Winston Churchill And now, in keeping with Channel 40's policy of always bringing you the latest in blood and guts,
in living color, you're about to see another first -- an attempted suicide.
-- Chris Hubbock, who sh The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may
well be another profound truth.
-- Niels Bohr Education If I had only known, I would have been a locksmith.
-- Albert Einstein Fill the unforgiving minute with sixty seconds worth of distance run.
- Rudyard Kipling Every St. Patrick's Day every Irishman goes out to find another Irishman to make a speech to.
-- Shane Leslie Education
The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
-- Mark Twain I could prove God statistically.
-- George Gallup Facts are the enemy of truth.
- Don Quixote - Man of La Mancha I have an existential map; it has 'you are here' written all over it.
- Steven Wright "They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself." (Andy Warhol) Education The scientific theory I like best is that the rings of Saturn are composed entirely of lost airline
luggage.
-- Mark Russell Truth is more of a stranger than fiction.
-- Mark Twain "We have been the cowards lobbing cruise missiles from 2,000 miles away. That's cowardly. Staying in the airplane when it hits the building, say what you want about it, it's not cowardly." (Bill Mahe Education
Oregon Democratic Senate candidate Tom Bruggere, in describing his support for
comprehensive health care during a candidates' forum, said he supported "erection-to-
resurrection" coverage. He later a To decide, to be at the level of choice, is to take responsibility for your life and to be in control of
your life.
-- Abbie M. Dale Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.
-- Oscar Wilde Compromise: An amiable arrangement between husband and wife whereby they agree to let her
have her own way.
-- Anonymous "I couldn't find the sports car of my dreams, so I built it myself." (Dr. Ferdinand Porsche) Education Joint Checking Account: a handly little device which permits my wife to beat me to the draw. Love is an emotion that is based on an opinion of women that is impossible for those who have
had any experience with them.
-- H. L. Mencken "True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost." (Charles Caleb Colton) Education
"Everything in my life has been determined by mistakes." (Gene Wilder) I'm an excellent housekeeper. Every time I get a divorce, I keep the house.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor "In large states public education will always be mediocre, for the same reason that in large kitchens the cooking is usually bad." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Fanaticism consists of redoubling your efforts when you have forgotten your aim.
-- George Santayana then the world 's mine oyster
-- William Shakespeare, The Merry Wives of Windsor Education War is a profession by which a man cannot live honorably; an employment by which the soldier, if
he would reap any profit, is obliged to be false, rapacious, and cruel.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli "The brighter you are, the more you have to learn." (Don Herold) A man should be taller, older, heavier, uglier, and hoarser than his wife.
-- Edgar Watson Howe Education
Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door
and just visit now and then.
-- Katharine Hepburn Now comes the mystery.
-- Henry Ward Beecher, dying words, March 8, 1887 Marriage is like a mousetrap. Those on the outside are trying to get in. Those on the inside are trying to get out. The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
- General George Patton "He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself." (Thomas Paine) Education Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot. Society is like a stew. If you don't stir it up every once in a while then a layer of scum floats to the
top.
-- Ed Abbey Fill the unforgiving minute with sixty seconds worth of distance run.
- Rudyard Kipling Education
Obstacles cannot crush me. Every obstacle yields to stern resolve. He who is fixed to a star does
not change his mind.
-- Leonardo da Vinci, Notebooks Tauzin backs term limits -- But he thinks it's a bad idea.
-- Headline, story in the New Orleans Times-Picayune, Feb 20, 1995 Democracy is a government where you can say what you think even if you don't think.
-- Anon. Washington is a city of Southern efficiency and Northern charm.
-- John F. Kennedy Show my head to the people, it is worth seeing.
-- Georges Danton, to his executioner Education However, never daunted, I will cope with adversity in my usual manner...sulking and nausea.
-- Tom K. Ryan Marriage is the one subject on which all women agree and all men disagree.
-- Oscar Wilde The days just before marriage are like a snappy introduction to a tedious book. Education
