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Reality is nothing but a collective hunch.
-- Lily Tomlin The philosophy exam was a piece of cake -- which was a bit of a surprise, actually, because I
was expecting some questions on a sheet of paper.
-- Smith & Jones Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get
money from it.
-- Stephen Leacock If your professor wrote it, it's as near to the truth as you ever need to get.
-- John Watson, University of Canterbury 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 Transport "That government is best which governs the least, because its people discipline themselves." (Thomas Jefferson) True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.
-- Henry David Thoreau Genius is an African who dreams up snow.
-- Vladimir Nabokov Transport
True thinkers are characterised by a blending of clearness and mystery.
-- Victor Hugo The closer I'm bound in love to you, the closer I am to free.
-- Indigo Girls, song lyric Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint on it you can.
-- Danny Kaye Thomas Jefferson--still surv...
-- John Adams, dying words The days just before marriage are like a snappy introduction to a tedious book. Transport "Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains." (Karl Marx) If people turn to look at you on the street, you are not well dressed.
-- Beau Brummel "All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream." (Edger Allen Poe) Transport
Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than the arguments of its opposers.
-- William Penn In every man's heart there is a secret nerve that answers to the vibrations of beauty.
-- Christopher Morley It was very good of God to let Carlyle and Mrs Carlyle marry one another and so make only two people miserable instead of four, besides being very amusing. Silence is argument carried out by other means.
-- Ernesto "Che" Guevara "Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent." (Napoleon Bonaparte) Transport Let go of your attachment to being right, and suddenly your mind is more open. You're able to
benefit from the unique viewpoints of others, without being crippled by your own judgment.
-- Ralph Mars "Bread feeds the body, indeed, but flowers feed also the soul." (The Prophet Mohammad) Considering the flames and intolerance, shouldn't USENET be spelled ABUSENET?
-- Michael Meissner Transport
"Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains." (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, The Social Contract) The love we give away is the only love we keep.
-- Elbert Hubbard I want to die in my sleep like my friend.... Not screaming and yelling like the passengers in his
car.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker 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 "The rules for parents are but three... Love, Limit, and Let them be." (Elaine M. Ward) Transport "The mark of our time is its revulsion against imposed patterns." (Marshall McLuhan) I am ready at any time. Do not keep me waiting.
-- John Brown - last words Tauzin backs term limits -- But he thinks it's a bad idea.
-- Headline, story in the New Orleans Times-Picayune, Feb 20, 1995 Transport
Whatever you are, be a good one.
-- Abraham Lincoln The democratic theory is that if you accumulate enough ignorance at the polls, you produce
intelligence.
-- Philo Vance To look backward for a while is to refresh the eye, to restore it, and to render it more fit for its
prime function of looking forward.
-- Margaret Fairless Barber "I offer images; I conjure memories of freedom that can still be reached ... But, we can only open the doors. We can't drag people through. I can't free them unless they want to be free--more than any The nourishment is palatable.
-- Millard Fillmore, dying words Transport "Freedom of press is limited to those who own one." (Henry Louis Mencken) "It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) At every crossroads on the path that leads to the future, tradition has placed 10,000 men to guard
the past.
-- Maurice Maeterlink Transport
"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 I just want what every married woman wants, someone besides her husband to sleep with.
-- Peg Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show I never hated a man enough to give him his diamonds back.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience. The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.
-- Paul Valery Transport And in the end the love you take is equal to the love you make.
-- The Beatles, The last lyric of their last song No one really listens to anyone else, and if you try it for a while you'll see why.
-- Mignon McLaughlin Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.
-- T. S. Eliot Transport
Lawyers are... operators of the toll bridge which anyone in search of justice must pass.
-- Jane Bryant Quinn The price of freedom is eternal vigilance.
-- Thomas Jefferson They're almost inseparable. Sometimes it takes ten people to separate them.
-- Anonymous "Friendship is born at the moment when one person says to another, 'What?! You too! Thought I was the only one.'" (Clive Staples Lewis) The great man fights the elements in his time that hinder his own greatness, in other words his own freedom and sincerity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Transport "As a child, I thought I hated everybody, but when I grew up I realized it was just children I didn't like." (Philip Larkin) Marriage is not a word. It is a sentence--a life sentence. The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the
purpose of satisfying it afterwards.
-- Anatole France Transport
Grad school is the snooze button on the clock-radio of life.
-- John Rogers, comedian (who holds a graduate degree in physics) "It seems to me that there are two kinds of trickery: the 'fronts' people assume before one another's eyes, and the 'front' a writer puts on the face of reality." (Francois Sagan) When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her.
-- Sacha Guitry If God created us in His image we have certainly returned the compliment.
-- Voltaire It is never too late to be what you might have been.
-- George Eliot Transport "Most people would rather die than think; in fact, they do so." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) "I do not agree with what you have to say, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) Education ... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth
reading.
-- G. M. Trevelyan Transport
When marriage is outlawed, only outlaws will have inlaws. "Plato was a bore." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Mothers spend a lifetime excising from their sons the influence of their fathers." (Arthur Lotti) I've always thought that underpopulated countries in Africa are vastly underpolluted.
-- Lawrence Summers, chief economist of the World Bank, explaining why we should export toxic
wastes to Third Wo "The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing." (John Powell) Transport Question: If you could live forever, would you and why? Answer: I would not live forever, because
we should not live forever, because if we were supposed to live forever, then we would live
forever, Knowledge is the intellectual manipulation of carefully verified observations.
-- Sigmund Freud "When even one American--who has done nothing wrong--is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth--then all Americans are in peril." (Harry S. Truman) Transport
If I have seen farther than others, it is because I was standing on the shoulders of giants.
-- Isaac Newton It makes no difference who you vote for - the two parties are really one party representing four
percent of the people.
-- Gore Vidal blah "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." (Thomas Jefferson) "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 As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.
-- Abraham Lincoln Transport And life is what we make it. Always has been, always will be.
-- Grandma Moses "If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library." (Frank Zappa) "A dress makes no sense unless it inspires men to take it off of you." (Francois Sagan) Transport
No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem.
-- Booker T. Washington We are the echo of the future.
-- W. S. Merwin Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which is never advisable. -- Oscar Wilde I prefer the wicked rather than the foolish. The wicked sometimes rest.
-- Alexandre Dumas pere "I would rather die standing than live on my knees!" (Emiliano Zapata) Transport "True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost." (Charles Caleb Colton) When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.
-- Hunter S. Thompson A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.
-- St. Augustine Transport