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My Alma mater was books, a good library . . . . I could spend the rest of my life reading, just
satisfying my curiosity.
--Malcolm X Neither fire nor wind, birth nor death can erase our good deeds.
-- Buddha Mathematics, rightly viewed, posses not only truth, but supreme beauty -- a beauty cold and
austere, like that of sculpture.
-- Bertrand Russell Considering the flames and intolerance, shouldn't USENET be spelled ABUSENET?
-- Michael Meissner The health of the people is really the foundation upon which all their happiness and all their
powers as a State depend.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Crafts Experience teaches only the teachable.
-- Aldous Huxley There are those who look at things the way they are, and ask why... I dream of things that never
were, and ask why not?
-- Robert Francis Kennedy Change before you have to.
-- Jack Welch Crafts
"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 significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when
we created them.
- Albert Einstein "I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him." (Galileo Galilei) My wife submits and I obey; she always lets me have her way. If I have not seen as far as others, it is because giants were standing on my shoulders.
-- Hal Abelson Crafts Give me a museum and I'll fill it.
-- Pablo Picasso "Liberty has never come from the government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of it. The history of liberty is a history of resistance. The history of liberty is a history of limitations of g Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife.
-- P. J. O'Rourke Crafts
Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
-- Bob Perelman The trouble with children is that they are not returnable.
-- Quentin Crisp 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 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 Airplane travel is nature's way of making you look like your passport photo.
-- Al Gore, U.S. Vice President Crafts If you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it's done.
-- Scott Adams Silence is as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unhewn marble of a great sculpture.
-- Aldous Huxley The innkeeper loves the drunkard, but not for a son-in-law.
-- Yiddish Proverb Crafts
"O' What may man within him hide, though angel on the outward side!" (William Shakespeare) "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) If I have seen farther than others, it is because I was standing on the shoulders of giants.
-- Isaac Newton The only reward of virtue is virtue.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson ...the fog is rising.
-- Emily Dickinson, dying words Crafts Anyone can be passionate, but it takes real lovers to be silly.
-- Rose Franken I hate work. That's why I got married.
-- Peg Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Even overweight cats instinctively know the cardinal rule: when fat, arrange yourself in slim
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-- John Weitz, American Designer Crafts
"Children spell love...T-I-M-E." (Dr. Anthony P. Witham) Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else.
-- George Bernard Shaw "One will rarely err if extreme actions be ascribed to vanity, ordinary actions to habit, and mean actions to fear." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Nietzsche was stupid and abnormal." (Leo Tolstoy, 1828-1910) "I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." (James Madison) Crafts Propel, propel, propel your craft softly down liquid solution. Ecstatically, ecstatically, ecstatically,
ecstatically, Existence is simply illusion.
-- Fred Rogers, parody of "Row, row, row your boa Ambition is not a vice of little people.
-- Michel de Montaigne Soul meets soul on lovers lips.
-- Percy Bysshe Shelley Crafts
Honor lies in honest toil.
-- Grover Cleveland In the past decade or so, the women's magazines have taken to running home-handyperson
articles suggesting that women can learn to fix things just as well as men. These articles are
apparently based blah "The length of this document defends it well against the risk of its being read." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) When I give a lecture, I accept that people look at their watches, but what I do not tolerate is
when they look at it and raise it to their ear to find out if it stopped.
-- Marcel Achard "...when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth." (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes) Crafts ...the fog is rising.
-- Emily Dickinson, dying words The Churches must learn humility as well as teach it.
-- George Bernard Shaw, St. Joan Good-bye. I am leaving because I am bored.
-- George Saunders - last words Crafts
A man should be taller, older, heavier, uglier, and hoarser than his wife.
-- Edgar Watson Howe The President has kept all of the promises he intended to keep.
- Clinton aide George Stephanopolous speaking on Larry King Live Always talk to your wife while you're making love... if there's a phone handy. Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.
-- Roger Babson Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell 'em, "Certainly, I can!" Then get busy and find
out how to do it.
-- Theodore Roosevelt Crafts All science is concerned with the relationship of cause and effect. Each scientific discovery
increases man's ability to predict the consequences of his actions and thus his ability to control
futur Food, one assumes, provides nourishment; but Americans eat it fully aware that small amounts of
poison have been added to improve its appearance and delay its putrefaction.
-- John Cage "Courage is doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared." (Eddie Rickenbacker) Crafts
The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but
newspapers.
-- Thomas Jefferson It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims.
- Aristotle Thank heaven. A bachelor's life is no life for a single man.
-- Samuel Goldwyn, immigrant-turned-famous-movie-producer, when told his son was getting
married The average Ph.D thesis is nothing but the transference of bones from one graveyard to another.
-- Frank J. Dobie, A Texan in England, 1945 People, like nails, lose their effectiveness when they lose direction and begin to bend.
-- Walter Savage Landor Crafts "He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches." (George Bernard Shaw) 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 I am not young enough to know everything.
-- Oscar Wilde Crafts
There is a courtesy of the heart; it is allied to love. From it springs the purest courtesy in the
outward behavior.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld Peculiar travel suggestions are dancing lessons from God.
-- Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., Cat's Cradle If pleasures are greatest in anticipation, just remember that this is also true of trouble.
-- Elbert Hubbard "Boredom is a vital problem for the moralist, since at least half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Crafts In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice
that I am not a Republican.
-- H. L. Mencken "What is tolerance? -- it is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error; let us pardon reciprocally each other's folly -- that is the first law of nature." (Francois Marie Ar He had occasional flashes of silence that made his conversation perfectly delightful.
-- Sydney Smith, referring to Macaulay Crafts
I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity.
-- Albert Einstein Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it.
Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it.
Hatred darkens life; love illumines it.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. "I praise loudly. I blame softly." (Catherine the Great) The mind has exactly the same power as the hands: not merely to grasp the world, but to change
it.
-- Colin Wilson 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 Crafts Work expands to fill the time available.
-- PARKINSON'S LAW If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself, tell yourself that you are not a poet
enough to call forth its riches; for to the creator there is no poverty and no poor indifferent p "Let no one be discouraged by the belief there is nothing one person can do against the enormous array of the world's ills, misery, ignorance, and violence. Few will have the greatness to bend history Crafts
"The act of policing is, in order to punish less often, to punish more severely." (Napoleon Bonaparte) Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche Why don't you write books people can read?
-- Nora Joyce, to her husband James "I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." (James Madison) Peculiar travel suggestions are dancing lessons from God.
-- Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., Cat's Cradle Crafts "I'm the artist formally known as Beck. I have a genius wig. When I put that wig on, then the true genius emerges. I don't have enough hair to be a genius. I think you have to have hair going everywhe "Politics is my hobby. Smut is my vocation." (Larry Flynt) Establishing yourself, furnishing a house, building up a comfortable existence, and having that menace hanging over your head all the time - no, I prefer to live in hotels, cafés, just passing through Crafts
