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The mistakes are all waiting to be made.
- chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower (1887-1956) on the game's opening position "They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself." (Andy Warhol) Destiny is not a matter of chance; but a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, It is a
thing to be acheived.
-- William Jennings Bryant The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that it has never tried to
contact us.
-- Bill Watterson, in his comic strip Calvin and Hobbes blah bla "I never think of the future. It comes soon enough." (Albert Einstein) Education Count your age with friends but not with years.
-- Anonymous Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.
-- Mother Teresa Conceit causes more conversation than wit.
-- LaRouchefoucauld Education
Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your position falls, your ego goes with
it.
-- Colin Powell 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 Marriage is love. Love is blind. Therefore, marriage is an institution for the blind. Genius has somewhat of the infantine; But of the childish not a touch or taint.
-- Robert Browning I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones.
-- John Cage Education If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolute powerlessness make you pure?
-- Harry Shearer Watching the debate this afternoon it was apparent they loved term limits in the House -- as
Brutus loved Caesar.
-- Bill Moyers I was under medication when I made the decision not to burn the tapes.
-- Richard Nixon, U.S. President Education
I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll "The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of the dream." (Eleanor Roosevelt) 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 He that would have the fruit must climb the tree.
-- Thomas Fuller, M.D. One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good
reputation.
-- Oscar Wilde Education If law school is so hard to get through... how come there are so many lawyers?
-- Calvin Trillin Democracy encourages the majority to decide things about which the majority is blissfully
ignorant.
--John Simon "One may sometimes tell a lie, but the grimace that accompanies it tells the truth." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Education
"People demand freedom only when they have no power." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) More light!
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, dying words Immature love says: "I love you because I need you." Mature love says: "I need you because I
love you."
-- Erich Fromm The Churches must learn humility as well as teach it.
-- George Bernard Shaw, St. Joan Love is blind and marriage is the institution for the blind.
-- James Graham Education Church is only society on earth that exists for the benefit of non-members.
-- William Temple "Someday there will be girls and women whose name will no longer mean the mere opposite of the male, but something in itself, something that makes one think not of any compliment and limit, but only o Books, like friends, should be few and well chosen.
-- Samuel Paterson Education
"The most instructive experiences are those of everyday life." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he.
-- Proverbs 23:7 "A friendship that exacts oneness of opinion and conduct is not worth much." (Mohandas Gandhi, In Search of the Supreme) "It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open one's mouth and remove all doubt." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) "Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution yet." (Mae West) Education The older one grows, the more one likes indecency.
-- Virginia Woolf Even overweight cats instinctively know the cardinal rule: when fat, arrange yourself in slim
poses.
-- John Weitz, American Designer It is well, when judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and
superior impartiality.
-- Arnold Bennett Education
We have a habit in writing articles published in scientific journals to make the work as finished as
possible, to cover up all the tracks, to not worry about the blind alleys or describe how you had Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous; it is nothing if it is not ridiculous.
-- Thornton Wilder "Feeding is a very important ritual for me. I don't trust people who don't like to eat." (Gina Gershon) It depends on your definition of asleep. They were not stretched out. They had their eyes closed.
They were seated at their desks with their heads in a nodding position.
-- John Hogan, Commonwealth When people have no other tyrant, their own public opinion becomes one.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton Education A dollar saved is a quarter earned.
-- John Ciardi "Think off-center." (George Carlin) The highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to make money do more for the
betterment of life.
-- Henry Ford Education
"It is neccessary to have wished for death in order to know how good it is to live." (Alexander Dumas) "In times of change learners inherit the earth; while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists." (Eric Hoffer) See what will happen if you don't stop biting your fingernails?
-- Will Rogers, to his niece on seeing the Venus de Milo Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parent, gobble their food, and tyrannize their
teachers.
-- Socrates "Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh." (George Bernard Shaw) Education There is nothing so wrong in this world that a sensible woman can't set it right in the course of an
afternoon.
-- Giraudoux Those parts of the system that you can hit with a hammer (not advised) are called hardware;
those program instructions that you can only curse at are called software.
-- Unknown author, Levitating T The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
-- Winston Churchill Education
Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the
moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future
generations You've no idea of what a poor opinion I have of myself, and how little I deserve it.
-- W.S. Gilbert Our schools have been scientifically designed to prevent over-education from happening. [...] The
average American (should be) content with their humble role in life, because they're not tempted
to When I give a lecture, I accept that people look at their watches, but what I do not tolerate is
when they look at it and raise it to their ear to find out if it stopped.
-- Marcel Achard "It is a curious thing that God learned Greek when he wished to turn author--and that he did not learn it better." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Education Good Night, Good night! Parting is such sweet sorrow,
that I shall say good night till it be morrow.
-- Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare. Act II, Scene II, lines 220-221 "We're all proud of making little mistakes. It gives us the feeling we don't make any big ones." (Andrew A. Rooney) If it were weren't for pickpockets, I'd have no sex life at all.
-- Rodney Dangerfield Education
A person is not given integrity. It results from the relentless pursuit of honesty at all times.
-- Anon. All marriages are happy--it's the living together afterward that causes all the problems. "A man who flies from his fear may find he has only taken a shortcut to meet it." (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) The only thing you will ever be able to say in the so-called 'social' sciences is: "some do, some
don't."
-- Ernest Rutherford When yer in a funk, people in love are a royal pain in the patookus.
-- Portnoy, character in "Outland," comic strip by Berkely Breathed Education The honest poor can sometimes forget poverty. The honest rich can never forget it.
-- G. K. Chesterton "I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury." (Groucho Marx) Anyway, no drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the
source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity,
ign Education
A straight line is the shortest in morals as in mathematics.
-- Maria Edgeworth "Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution yet." (Mae West) No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman. -- Honore de Balzac When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her.
-- Sacha Guitry "The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none." (Thomas Carlyle, 1795-1881) Education A university professor set an examination question in which he asked what is the difference
between ignorance and apathy. The professor had to give an A+ to a student who answered: I
don't know and If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded.
-- Maya Angelou When we treat man as he is, we make him worse than he is; when we treat him as if he already
were what he potentially could be, we make him what he should be.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Education
Our own heart, and not other men's opinions form our true honor.
-- Coleridge, Samuel Taylor Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to
take away.
- Antoine de Saint Exupery Our marriage would have worked if we hadn't lived together.
-- Joan Thompson He who dies a thousand deaths meets the final hour with the calmness of one who approaches a
well remembered door.
-- Heywood Brown Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.
-- Philip K. Dick Education Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
-- Gail Godwin "...when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth." (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes) How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg? Four. Calling a tail a leg doesn't make it
a leg.
-- Abraham Lincoln Education
