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"The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances." (Viktor E. Frankl) MARRIAGE, n. The state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress and two
slaves, making in all, two.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 If you don't know how to do something, you don't know how to do it with a computer.
-- Anon. A woman's always younger than a man of equal years.
-Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Aurora Leigh Life is like music; it must be composed by ear, feeling, and instinct, not by rule.
-- Samuel Butler Education A government is the only known vessel that leaks from the top.
-- James Reston When a girl marries she exchanges the attention of many men for the inattention of one.
-- Helen Rowland "The evil that men do lives after them; The good is oft interred with their bones." (William Shakespeare, Julius Cæsar. Act iii. Sc. 2.) Education
"Do not go gentle into that good night. Old age should burn and rave at close of day. Rage, rage against the dying of the light." (Dylan Thomas) Usenet is like Tetris for people who still remember how to read.
-- Button from the Computer Museum, Boston, MA It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.
-- Abraham Lincoln Before marraige a man will like awake all night thinking about something you said. After marriage
he will fall asleep before you have finished saying it.
-- Anon. "A man must dream a long time in order to act with grandeur, and dreaming is nursed in darkness." (Jean Genet) Education The surest way to make a monkey of a man is to quote him.
-- Robert Benchley The planting of trees is the least self-centered of all that we can do. It is a purer act of faith than
the procreation of children.
-- Thornton Wilder Happiness is nothing more than health and a poor memory.
-- Albert Schweitzer Education
I don't know why I did it, I don't know why I enjoyed it, and I don't know why I'll do it again.
-- Bart Simpson, young character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated television show The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
-- Blaise Pascal, Pensées, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer It is most unwise for people in love to marry.
-- George Bernard Shaw Feminists are OK, I just wouldn't want my sister to marry one It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince Education Great ability develops and reveals itself increasingly with every new assignment. Baltasar
Gracian The less a man thinks or knows about his virtues, the better we like him.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Spinster: A bachelor's wife. Education
I was going to change my shirt, but I changed my mind instead.
-- Winnie the Pooh He didn't say that. He was reading what was given to him in a speech.
-- Richard Darman, director of OMB, explaining why President Bush wasn't following up on his
campaign pledge that there would be Beginning in February 1976 your assistance benefits will be discontinued ... Reason: it has been
reported to our office that you expired on January 1, 1976.
-- excerpt from a letter, Illinois Depart The great tragedy of science, the slaying of a beautiful theory by an ugly fact.
-- Thomas Henry Huxley "It is not the answer that enlightens, but the question." (Eugene Ionesco) Education "If it doesn't matter who wins or loses, then why do they keep score?" (Vince Lombardi) You can't shake hands with a clenched fist.
-- Indira Gandhi "God is Man's stupidest idea." (Marcel Duchamp, French Dadaist) Education
One of the greatest discoveries a man makes, one of his great surprises, is to find he can do
what he was afraid he couldn't do.
-- Henry Ford "Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains." (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, The Social Contract) Everything is drive-through. In California, they even have a burial service called Jump-In-The-
Box.
-- Wil Shriner I don't know which is more discouraging, literature or chickens.
-- E. B. White The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.
-- G. K. Chesterton Education "Fools rush in where angels fear to tread." (Alexander Pope) May your wife be a witch who takes after her mother, and may you all live together in a one-room house. Man and wife make one fool. Education
"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) "If there is something to pardon in everything, there is also something to condemn." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, The Will to Power, 1888) None but a good man is really a living man, and the more good any man does, the more he really
lives. All the rest is death, or belongs to it.
-- Herman Melville Life is like music; it must be composed by ear, feeling, and instinct, not by rule.
-- Samuel Butler Marriage is a mutual relationship if both parties know when to be mute. Education Age does not make us childish, as some say; it finds us true children.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "The biggest argument against democracy is a five minute discussion with the average voter." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind her stands his wife. -- Groucho Marx Education
When I was a kid my favorite relative was Uncle Caveman. After school we'd all go play in his
cave, and every once in a while he would eat one of us. It wasn't until later that I found out that
Uncl Never look at the trombones. You'll only encourage them.
-- Richard Strauss, on conducting "The only man who behaved sensibly was my tailor; he took my measurement anew every time he saw me, while all the rest went on with their old measurements and expected them to fit me." (George Bernar "Think off-center." (George Carlin) "There is no quality in this world that is not what it is merely by contrast. Nothing exists in itself." (Herman Melville) Education You can get more with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone.
-- Al Capone Books had instant replay long before televised sports.
-- Bern Williams If you would thoroughly know anything, teach it to others.
-- Tryon Edwards Education
If people turn to look at you on the street, you are not well dressed.
-- Beau Brummel Marriage is an institution in which a man loses his Bachelor's Degree and the woman gets her Masters. A man's feet should be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world.
-- George Santayana Always behave like a duck--keep calm and unruffled on the surface but paddle like the devil
underneath.
-- Jacob Braude "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) Education Life is a succession of lessons enforced by immediate reward, or, oftener, by immediate
chastisement.
-- Ernest Dimnet "Fear is the dark room where the Devil develops his negatives." (Gary Busey) I'm not into working out. My philosophy: No pain, no pain.
-- Carol Leifer Education
"The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing that you will make one.
-- Ellen Hubbard Hell is other people.
- Jean-Paul Sartre Whenever you eliminate the inedible, whatever remains, however unpalatable, must be food.
-- Anonymous 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 Education If I had only known, I would have been a locksmith.
-- Albert Einstein Teach a parrot the terms "supply and demand" and you've got an economist.
-- Thomas Carlyle blah blah blah blah blah "This is the way the world ends: not with a bang, but a whimper." (Thomas Stearns Eliot, aka T. S. Eliot) _end]
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"Hello Kitty is an icon that doesn't stand for a Education
Only positive consequences encourage good future performances.
-- Kenneth H. Blanchard Any sufficiently advanced bureaucracy is indistinguishable from molasses.
-- Anon. Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for the appointment by the corrupt few.
-- George Bernard Shaw During the first period of a man's life the greatest danger is not to take the risk.
-- Soren Kierkegaard "I'll tell you something: Luxury disgusts me." (Giorgio Armani) Education Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through
self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.
-- Helen Keller Men have become the tools of their tools.
- Henry David Thoreau ( "Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known." (Blaise Pascal) Education
You are educated when you have the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your
temper or self-confidence.
-- Robert Frost Genius is 99 percent perspiration and 1 percent inspiration.
-- Thomas Edison When you have to kill a man, it costs nothing to be polite.
- Sir Winston Churchill 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 If you want anything done well, do it yourself. This is why most people laugh at their own jokes.
-- Bob Edwards Education "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) There is no course of life so weak and sottish as that which is managed by order, method, and
discipline.
-- Michel de Montaigne Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.
-- B.F. Skinner Education
