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I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with
typewriters.
- Frank Lloyd Wright Integrity is what we do, what we say, and what we say we do.
--Don Galer Beauty as we feel it is something indescribable; what it is or what it means can never be said.
-- George Santayana It is best to learn as we go, not go as we have learned.
-- Leslie Jeanne Sahler Courage is the price that Love exacts for granting peace.
-- Amelia Earhart Helmshore Good judgement comes from experience, and experience--well, that comes from poor judgement.
-- Cousin Woodman I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them.
- Ian L. Fleming I have noticed that nothing I have never said ever did me any harm.
-- Calvin Coolidge Helmshore
It's impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune.
-- Woody Allen And life is what we make it. Always has been, always will be.
-- Grandma Moses "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 There is no one so bound to his own face that he does not cherish the hope of presenting another
to the world.
-- Antonio Machado ARDOR, n. The quality that distinguishes love without knowledge.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 Helmshore Live TV died in the late 1950s, electronic bulletin boards came along in the mid-1980s, meaning
there was about a 25-year gap when it was difficult to put your foot in your mouth and have
people all Not only is the universe stranger than we imagine, it is stranger than we can imagine.
Sir Arthur Eddington (1882 - 1944) "Pay no attention to what the critics say; there has never been set up a statue in honor of a critic." (Jean Sibelius) Helmshore
blah "You shall find out how salt is the taste of another man's bread, and how hard is the way up and down another man's stairs." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) A man's reach should exeed his grasp, or else what's a heaven for?
-- Robert Browning "Not by wrath does one kill, but by laughter." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) It is not because it is difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that things are
difficult.
-- Lucius Anneaus Seneca "I've just had eighteen straight whiskies. I think that's the record." (Dylan Thomas, final words) Helmshore "The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it." (Abbie Hoffman) "Ideas are far more powerful than guns. We don't allow our enemies to have guns, why should we allow them to have ideas?" (Josef Stalin) Genius is 99 percent perspiration and 1 percent inspiration.
-- Thomas Edison Helmshore
If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one.
-- Mother Teresa With the catching end the pleasures of the chase.
-- Abraham Lincoln There is more to life than increasing its speed.
-- Gandhi "The key to wisdom is knowing all the right questions." (John A. Simone Jr.) A weed is no more than a flower in disguise.
-- James Lowell Helmshore I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day.
-- Vincent Van Gogh To marry is to halve your rights and double your duties.
-- Arthur Schopenhauer "I am the lizard king. I can do anything." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) Helmshore
"Life is a great surprise. I don't see why death should not be an even greater one." (Vladimir Nabokov) "To err is human; to forgive, divine." (Alexander Pope) Experience is not what happens to you; it's what you do with what happens to you.
-- Aldous Huxley Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are conservatives.
-- John Stuart Mill I think that I shall never see
A billboard lovely as a tree.
Indeed, unless the billboards fall,
I'll never see a tree at all.
-- Ogden Nash, Song of the Open Road, 1945 Helmshore Men have become the tools of their tools.
- Henry David Thoreau ( Each religion, by the help of more or less myth which it takes more or less seriously, proposes
some method of fortifying the human soul and enabline it to make its peace with its destiny.
-- George Coffee is a beverage that puts one to sleep when not drank.
-- Alphonse Allais Helmshore
"Plato was a bore." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman.
-- Honore de Balzac We live at a time when man believes himself fabulously capable of creation, but he does not
know what to create.
-- Jose Ortega y Gasset Discovery consists of looking at the same thing as everyone else does and thinking something
different.
-- Albert Szent-Gyorgyi, 1937 Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine "Paper should be edible, nutritious. Inks used for printing or writing should have delicious flavors. Magazines or newspapers read at breakfast should be eaten for lunch. Instead of throwing one's mai Helmshore Sometimes you get shown the light in the strangest of places if you look at it right.
-- Jerry Garcia Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end.
-- Semisonic, Closing Time I like nonsense -- it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living. It's a way
of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope...and that enables you to laugh at all Helmshore
More than kisses, letters mingle souls.
-- John Donne This search for what you want is like tracking something that doesn't want to be tracked. It takes
time to get a dance right, to create something memorable.
-- Fred Astaire Call on God, but row away from the rocks.
-- Indian proverb Hardly a year passes that fails to find a new, oft-times exotic, research method or technique
added to the armamentarium of political inquiry. Anyone who cannot negotiate Chi squares,
assess randomi Each religion, by the help of more or less myth which it takes more or less seriously, proposes
some method of fortifying the human soul and enabline it to make its peace with its destiny.
-- George Helmshore Church is only society on earth that exists for the benefit of non-members.
-- William Temple We can say 'Peace on Earth,' we can sing about it, preach about it or pray about it, but if we have
not internalized the mythology to make it happen inside us, then it will not be.
-- Betty Shabazz We can never be sure that the opinion we are endeavoring to stifle is a false opinion; and if we
were sure, stifling it would be an evil still.
-- John Stuart Mill Helmshore
"Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing." (Oscar Wilde) Doctors are the same as lawyers; the only difference is that lawyers merely rob you, whereas
doctors rob you and kill you too.
-- Anton Chekhov "Murderers have been known to find that young girls give them more trouble than anybody else." (Jean Cocteau, Les Enfants Terribles) Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for
appointment by the corrupt few.
-- George bernard Shaw "True friends, like diamonds, are precious and rare. False friends, like autumn leaves, are found everywhere." (Anonymous) Helmshore ... it is certain that the real function of art is to increase our self-consciousness; to make us more
aware of what we are, and therefore of what the universe in which we live really is. And since
There is a coherent plan in the universe, though I don't know what it's a plan for.
-- Fred Hoyle The right to swing my fist ends where the other man's nose begins.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes Helmshore
Ridicule is generally made use of to laugh men out of virtue and good sense, by attacking
everything praiseworthy in human life.
-- Joseph Addison University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
- Henry Kissinger Don't anthropomorphize computers -- they hate it.
-- Anonymous When I have a kid, I wanna put him in one of those strollers for twins, then run around the mall
looking frantic.
-- Steven Wright He who knows only his own side of the case, knows little of that.
-- John Stuart Mill Helmshore May the road rise to meet you. May the wind always be at your back. May the sun shine warm
upon your face, the rains fall soft upon your fields and, until we meet again, may God hold you in
the palm Everything that can be invented has been invented.
- Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899 "Most people would rather die than think; in fact, they do so." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Helmshore
If ever I get married again it would have to be under an anaesthetic.
-- Marie Tonkin Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche There are three types of people in this world: Those who can count, and those who can't.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.
-- Dietrich Bonhoeffer Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards.
-- Soren Kierkegaard Helmshore If one advances confidently in the direction of one's dreams, and endeavours to live the life which
one has imagined, one will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
-- Henry David Thoreau "Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past." (George Orwell) It's important to be open-minded, but not SO open-minded that your brains fall out.
-- Rick Radebaugh Helmshore
Never be possessive. If a female friend lets on that she is going out with another man, be kind
and understanding. If she says she would like to go out with the Dallas Cowboys, including the
coachin When people have no other tyrant, their own public opinion becomes one.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
-- General George Patton Prayer gives a man the opportunity of getting to know a gentleman he hardly ever meets. I do not
mean his maker, but himself.
-- Dean Inge One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is
terribly important.
-- Bertrand Russell Helmshore A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties; no
religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear
of Mathematicians are like Frenchmen: whatever you say to them they translate into their own
language and forthwith it is something entirely different.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Trouble is a part of your life, and if you don't share it, you don't give the person that loves you
enough chance to love you enough.
-- Dinah Shore Helmshore
