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When you gaze long into the abyss, the abyss also gazes into you.
- Friedrich Nietzsche blah "This is the hardest of all: to close the open hand out of love, and keep modest as a giver." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Although the course may change sometimes, rivers always reach the sea.
-- Led Zeppelin, Ten Years Gone Being a woman is of special interest only to aspiring male transsexuals. To actual women it is
merely a good excuse not to play football.
-- Fran Lebowitz If you want a place in the sun, you've got to put up with a few blisters.
-- Abigail Van Buren Business and Economy Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. The best time to hold your tongue is the time you feel you must say something or bust.
-- Josh Billings Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.
-- G. K. Chesterton Business and Economy
Love is stronger than justice.
-- Sting Whenever I dwell for any length of time on my own shortcomings, they gradually begin to seem
mild harmless, rather engaging little things, not at all like the staring defects in other people's
chara Considering the flames and intolerance, shouldn't USENET be spelled ABUSENET?
-- Michael Meissner Love makes the time pass. Time makes love pass.
-- French Proverb Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it.
Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it.
Hatred darkens life; love illumines it.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Business and Economy "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) When you see what some girls marry, you realize how they must hate to work for a living.
-- Helen Rowland There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Business and Economy
"One can do without people but one has need of a friend." (Chinese Proverb) The bottom line is that (a) people are never perfect, but love can be, (b) that is the one and only
way that the mediocre and vile can be transformed, and (c) doing that makes it that. We waste
time Is fuel efficiency really what we need most desperately? I say what we really need is a car that
can be shot when it breaks down.
-- Russell Baker Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it. "Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time." (E. B. White) Business and Economy .. I am indebted to the cat for a particular kind of honorable deceit, for a greater control over
myself, for a characteristic aversion to brutal sounds, and for the need to keep silent for long
per 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 "The first question I ask myself when something doesn't seem to be beautiful is why do I think it's not beautiful. And very shortly you discover that there is no reason." (John Cage) Business and Economy
"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) Is there life before death?
-- Belfast Graffito If I had only known, I would have been a locksmith.
-- Albert Einstein My wife ran off with my best friend last week. I miss him! "A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities." (Eda J. Le Shan) Business and Economy What I have to say is far more important than how long my eyelashes are.
-- Alanis Morissette, singer, 1995 "Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Love is a snowmobile racing across the tundra and then suddenly it flips over, pinning you
underneath. At night, the ice weasels come.
-- Matt Groening, Love is Hell Business and Economy
Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died.
-- Erma Bombeck 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 I take my wife everywhere I go. She always finds her way back.
-- Henny Youngman I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
-- Mark Twain Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
- Gail Godwin Business and Economy "REASONABLE, adj. Accessible to the infection of our own opinions. Hospitable to persuasion, dissuasion and evasion." (Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary) The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism
is the equal sharing of miseries.
-- Winston Churchill Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by heart and his friends can
only read the title.
-- Virginia Woolf Business and Economy
Cute little babies that fall out of swings - These are a few of my favourite things.
-- Oscar Hammerstein, working lyric for a piece from "The Sound of Music" Marriage is a romance in which the heroine dies in the first chapter.
-- Cecilia Egan "Dying is the most embarrassing thing that can ever happen to you, because someone's got to take care of all your details." (Andy Warhol, America, 1985) Life is a sexually transmitted terminal disease.
-- Colin Greene If you are going to sin, sin against God, not the bureaucracy. God will forgive you but the
bureaucracy won't.
-- Hyman Rickover Business and Economy If something is boring after two minutes, try it for four. If still boring, then eight. Then sixteen. Then thirty-two. Eventually one discovers that it is not boring at all." (John Cage) All marriages are happy--it's the living together afterward that causes all the problems. Nothing has really happened until it has been recorded.
-- Virginia Woolf Business and Economy
If you can't convince them, confuse them.
-- Harry S. Truman Time is at once the most valuable and most perishable of all our possessions.
-- John Randolph blah "If we did all the things we are capable of, we would literally astound ourselves." (Thomas Alva Edison) People may or may not say what they mean ... but they always say something designed to get
what they want.
-- David Mamet Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of
the other person.
-- Mark Twain Business and Economy I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury.
-- Groucho Marx Every normal man must be tempted at times to spit upon his hands, hoist the black flag, and
begin slitting throats.
- Henry Louis Mencken Truth can be a dangerous thing. It is quite patient and relentless.
-- R. Scott Richards Business and Economy
Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame.
- Benjamin Franklin In a hierarchy, every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence. Therefore:
? In time, every post tends to be occupied by an employee who is incompetent to carry out its
duties.
? Work If we knew what we were doing, it wouldn't be called research, would it?
-- Albert Einstein Character may be manifested in the great moments, but it is made in the small ones.
-- Phillip Brooks An ideal wife is one who remains faithful to you but tries to be just as charming as if she weren't.
-- Sacha Guitry Business and Economy The world has suffered more from the ravages of ill-advised marriages than from virginity.
-- Ambrose Bierce All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it
is accepted as being self-evident.
- Arthur Schopenhauer We do not remember days; we remember moments.
-- Anonymous Business and Economy
It is better to be looked over than overlooked.
-- Mae West "I never resist temptation, because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me." (George Bernard Shaw) A friend is a gift you give yourself.
-- Robert Louis Stevenson A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend upon the support of Paul.
-- George Bernard Shaw "Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience." (George Bernard Shaw) Business and Economy He is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death.
- H. H. Munro (Saki) "Most people would rather die than think; in fact, they do so." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) "Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death." (General Michel Aoun) Business and Economy
Let the refining and improving of your own life keep you so busy that you have little time to
criticize others.
-- H. Jackson Brown Art and science have their meeting point in method.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton To marry is to halve your rights and double your duties.
-- Arthur Schopenhauer "Things do not change, we change." (Henry David Thoreau) Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you.
- Carl Gustav Jung Business and Economy We can do not great things - only small things with great love.
-- Mother Theresa The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
- Samuel Johnson The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.
-- Thomas Jefferson Business and Economy
Multimedia? As far as I'm concerned, it's reading with the radio on!
-- Rory Bremner I have a great diet. You're allowed to eat anything you want, but you must eat it with naked fat
people.
-- Ed Bluestone Fanaticism consists of redoubling your efforts when you have forgotten your aim.
-- George Santayana You can close your eyes to reality, but not to memories.
-- Stanislaw J. Lem I begin by taking. I shall find scholars later to demonstrate my perfect right.
- Frederick (II) the Great Business and Economy Never marry for money. Ye'll borrow it cheaper.
-- Scottish Proverb The sun never sets on the British empire because Britain is in the east and the sun sets in the
west.
-- Unknown history student Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same
direction.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry Business and Economy
