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I will try to follow the advice that a university president once gave a prospective commencement
speaker. "Think of yourself as the body at an Irish wake" he said. "They need you in order to have
th If it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do not say it.
-- Marcus Aurelius The only weapon that becomes sharper with constant use is the tongue.
-- Anonymous "In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) I was under medication when I made the decision not to burn the tapes.
-- Richard Nixon, U.S. President Levenshulme "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 Grad school is the snooze button on the clock-radio of life.
-- John Rogers, comedian (who holds a graduate degree in physics) Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.
-- Bertrand Russell Levenshulme
I find television very educating. Every time sombody turns on the set, I go into the other room and
read a book.
-- Groucho Marx Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same.
-- Oscar Wilde Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
- H. G. Wells "Being born is like being kidnapped. And then sold into slavery." (Andy Warhol) I'm proud to be paying taxes in the United States. The only thing is - I could be just as proud for
half the money.
-- Arthur Godfrey Levenshulme A man in the house is worth two in the street.
-- Mae West Jake liked his women the way he liked his kiwi fruit: sweet yet tart, firm-fleshed yet yielding to the
touch, and covered with short brown fuzzy hair.
-- Jonathan S. Haas "A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward." (Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1882 - 1945, 32nd U.S. President) Levenshulme
A woman seldom asks advice before she has bought her wedding clothes.
-- Joseph Addison The fantasy which serves as a support for the figure of the Stalinist Communist is therefore
exactly the same as the fantasy which is at work in the Tom and Jerry cartoons.
-- Slavoj Zizek Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.
-- William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Act i. Sc. 1. Now, now my good man, this is no time for making enemies.
- Voltaire (1694-1778) on his deathbed in response to a priest asking that he renounce Satan. As life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action
of his time, at the peril of being not to have lived.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. Levenshulme "When a hundred men stand together, each of them loses his mind and gets another one." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) If you put garbage in a computer nothing comes out but garbage. But this garbage, having
passed through a very expensive machine, is somehow ennobled and none dare criticize it.
-- Anonymous We look forward to the time when the power to love of will replace the love of power. Then will our
world know the blessings of peace.
-- William Gladstone Levenshulme
He who laughs, lasts.
-- Mary Pettibone Poole The instinct of nearly all societies is to lock up anybody who is truly free. First, society begins by
trying to beat you up. If this fails, they try to poison you. If this fails too, the finish by l Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you.
- Carl Gustav Jung "I owe much to my friends; but, all things considered, it strikes me that I owe even more to my enemies. The real person springs life under a sting even better than under a caress." (André Gide) Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
- Henry Ford Levenshulme Once a boy becomes a man, he's a man all his life, but a woman is only sexy until she becomes
your wife.
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you help them to become what they are
capable of being.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "To err is human; to forgive, divine." (Alexander Pope) Levenshulme
Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so you apologize for truth.
-- Benjamin Disraeli I don't want everyone to like me; I should think less of myself if some people did.
-- Henry James English Law prohibits a man from marrying his mother-in-law. This is our idea of useless legislation. "There is nothing more fearful than ignorance in action." (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1749-1832, Criticisms, Reflections and Maxims) The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four Americans is suffering from some form of
mental illness. Think of your three best friends. If they're okay, then it's you.
-- Rita Mae Brown Levenshulme Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not
there, I go to work.
- Robert Orben Sex is God's joke on human beings.
-- Bette Davis A true gentleman is one who is never unintentionally rude.
-- Oscar Wilde Levenshulme
Truth can be a dangerous thing. It is quite patient and relentless.
-- R. Scott Richards "A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities." (Eda J. Le Shan) "Have love for your friend up to a limit for it is possible he may turn into your enemy some day; and hate your enemy up to a limit for it is possible he may turn into your friend some day." (Ali bin "Experience is not what happens to a man. It is what a man does with what happens to him." (Aldous Huxley) Ninety percent of everything is crap.
-- Theodore Sturgeon Levenshulme We are not in a position in which we have nothing to work with. We already have capacities,
talents, direction, missions, callings.
-- Abraham Maslow Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried.
-- G. K. Chesterton "What is most appealing about young folks, after all, is the changes, not the still photograph of finished character but the movie, the soul in flux." (Thomas Pynchon) Levenshulme
Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork
picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art.
-- Tom Stoppard You can pay attention to the fact, in which case you'll probably become a mathematician, or you
can ignore it, in which case you'll probably become a physicist.
-- Len Evans, professor, Northwestern Television: A medium. So called because it is neither rare nor well done.
-- Ernie Kovacs To achieve the impossible, it is precisely the unthinkable that must be thought.
-- Tom Robbins, Jitterbug Perfume A dollar saved is a quarter earned.
-- John Ciardi Levenshulme 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 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 Laundry increases exponentially in the number of children.
-- Miriam Robbins Levenshulme
Not everything that can be counted counts; and not everything that counts can be counted.
-- Albert Einstein Live your questions now, and perhaps even without knowing it, you will live along some distant
day into your answers.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke "A true friend stabs you in the front." (Oscar Wilde) "If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost." (Aristotle) Men marry because they are tired, women because they are curious; both are disappointed.
-- Oscar Wilde Levenshulme "A man is only as faithful as his opportunity." (Chris Rock) Black holes are where God divided by zero.
- Steven Wright Generations to come will find it difficult to believe that a man such as Gandhi ever walked the
face of this earth.
-- Albert Einstein Levenshulme
"Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night." (Edger Allen Poe) "Against stupidity the very gods themselves contend in vain." (Johann Christian Friedrich von Schiller, 1759-1805, The Maid of Orleans. Act iii. Sc. 6.) "Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect every one who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are ine "It ends not with a bang, but a whimper." (Thomas Stearns Eliot, aka T. S. Eliot, The Hollow Man) "One pretty good definition of college is that it's a place where people are made to read difficult books." (Jonathan Franzen) Levenshulme "Character is determined more by the lack of certain experiences than by those one has had." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Giving a man space is like giving a dog a computer: the chances are he will not use it wisely.
-- Bette-Jane Raphael Sometimes a scream is better than a thesis.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Levenshulme
In olden times, sacrifices were made at the altar, a practice which is still very much practiced.
-- Helen Rowland "Friends are those people who know the words to the song in your heart and sing them back to you when you have forgotten the words." (Anonymous) Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
-- Henry Ford "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 Experience is the worst teacher; it gives the test before presenting the lesson.
-- Vernon Law Levenshulme My good intentions are completely lethal.
-- Margaret Atwood The difference between false memories and true ones is the same as for jewels: it is always the
false ones that look the most real, the most brilliant.
-- Salvador Dali Whoever is not a misanthrope at forty can never have loved mankind.
-- Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort Levenshulme
A man sits with a pretty girl for an hour, it seems like a minute. He sits on a hot stove for a
minute, it's longer than any hour. That is relativity.
-- Albert Einstein Love may be a dream but marriage is a nightmare.
-- Joan Collins Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though it is hard to
realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and
grie The only thing worse than a man you can't control is a man you can.
-- Margo Kaufman Eighty percent of married men cheat in America. The rest cheat in Europe.
-- Jackie Mason Levenshulme Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.
-- George Orwell The louder he talked of his honour, the faster we counted our spoons.
-- Emerson, Ralph Waldo If I had only known, I would have been a locksmith.
-- Albert Einstein Levenshulme
