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The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may
well be another profound truth.
-- Niels Bohr I'd wipe the machines off the face of the earth again, and end the industrial epoch absolutely, like
a black mistake.
-- D. H. Lawrence "I love to doubt as well as know." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) "The easiest kind of relationship is with ten thousand people, the hardest is with one." (Joan Baez) Every St. Patrick's Day every Irishman goes out to find another Irishman to make a speech to.
-- Shane Leslie Recreation and Sports What if it was cats who invented technology... would they have tv shows starring rubber sqeak
toys?
-- Douglas Coupland "Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few." (George Bernard Shaw) The difference between marriage and death? Dead people are free. Recreation and Sports
"The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in students.
-- John Ciardi The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and
science.
-- Albert Einstein "'Contrariwise,' continued Tweedledee, 'if it was so, it might be, and if it were so, it would be; but as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic!'" (Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking Glass) 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 Recreation and Sports "There is only one success: to be able to spend your life in your own way, and not to give others absurd maddening claims upon it." (Christopher Darlington Morley) Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything.
-- Oscar Wilde Recreation and Sports
When you are right, you cannot be too radical; When you are wrong, you cannot be too
conservative.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. To decide, to be at the level of choice, is to take responsibility for your life and to be in control of
your life.
-- Abbie M. Dale "Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh." (George Bernard Shaw) He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.
- Sir Winston Churchill Whatever you are from nature, keep to it; never desert your own line of talent. Be what nature
intended you for, and you will succeed; be anything else, and you will be ten thousands times
worse tha Recreation and Sports If addiction is judged by how long a dumb animal will sit pressing a lever to get a 'fix' of
something, to its own detriment, then I would conclude that netnews is far more addictive than
cocaine.
The majority of husbands remind me of an orangutan trying to play the violin.
-- Honore de Balzac Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by
definition, is unassailable.
-- James Baldwin, Nobody Knows My Name, 1961 Recreation and Sports
blah "Ideas are like stars, you will not succeed in touching them with your hands, but like the seafaring man on the desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and, following them, you reach yo Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly.
-- Simeon Strunsky Be like a postage stamp. Stick to one thing until you get there.
-- Josh Billings "For how can one know color in perpetual green, and what good is warmth without cold to give it sweetness?" (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) "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) Recreation and Sports "I do not suppose I shall be remembered for anything. But I don't think about my work in those terms. It is just as vulgar to work for the sake of posterity as to work for the sake of money." (George We all agree that your theory is crazy, but is it crazy enough?
- Niels Bohr 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
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"Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death." (General Michel Aoun) "I've decided something: Commercial things really do stink. As soon as it becomes commercial for a mass market it really stinks." (Andy Warhol, The Andy Warhol Diaries, 1989) Not much meat on her, but what's there is choice.
-- Spencer Tracy, about Katharine Hepburn Mathematics transfigures the fortuitous concourse of atoms into the tracery of the finger of God.
-- Herbert Westren Turnbull I begin by taking. I shall find scholars later to demonstrate my perfect right.
- Frederick (II) the Great Recreation and Sports Familiarity breeds contempt -- and children.
-- Mark Twain One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good
reputation.
-- Oscar Wilde "A friendship that exacts oneness of opinion and conduct is not worth much." (Mohandas Gandhi, In Search of the Supreme) Recreation and Sports
In the sciences, we are now uniquely privileged to sit side by side with the giants on whose
shoulders we stand.
-- Gerald Holton "I'll tell you something: Luxury disgusts me." (Giorgio Armani) To be or not to be isn't the question. The question is how to prolong being.
-- Tom Robbins Intelligence has nothing to do with politics.
-- Londo Molari "One can do without people but one has need of a friend." (Chinese Proverb) Recreation and Sports If all these sweet young things were laid end to end, I wouldn't be the slightest bit surprised.
-- Dorothy Parker Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the
unpalatable.
-- John Kenneth Galbraith I don't want to achieve immortality through my work... I want to achieve it by not dying!
-- Woody Allen Recreation and Sports
You can't learn too soon that the most useful thing about a principle is that it can always be
sacrificed to expediency.
-- W. Somerset Maugham Well, I think that it's a- it's had some difficult times but I think we have- we, I think, have been able
to make some very good progress and it's- I would say that it's- it's- it's delightful that w Conversation, fastidious Goddess, loves blood better than brick, and feasts most subtly on the
human will.
-- Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway 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 "No one ever owns his youth or the women he loves." (Pedro Almodóvar, Live Flesh) Recreation and Sports "I don't care to belong to a club that accepts people like me as members." (Groucho Marx) "The masses are far more likely to believe a big lie than several small ones." (Adolf Hitler) Manuscript: something submitted in haste and returned at leisure.
-- Oliver Herford Recreation and Sports
Bachelor: the only man who has never told his wife a lie. 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 Use your own best judgment at all times.
-- The entire Nordstrom's Department Stores policy manual A straight line is the shortest in morals as in mathematics.
-- Maria Edgeworth My Alma mater was books, a good library . . . . I could spend the rest of my life reading, just
satisfying my curiosity.
--Malcolm X Recreation and Sports 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 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 Every mother generally hopes that her daughter will snag a better husband than she managed to
do...but she's certain that her boy will never get as great a wife as his father did.
-- Anonymous Recreation and Sports
The telephone company is urging people to *please* not use the telephone unless it is absolutely
necessary in order to keep the lines open for emergency personnel. We'll be right back after this
bre In endowing us with memory, nature has revealed to us a truth utterly unimaginable to the
unreflective creation, the truth of immortality....The most ideal human passion is love, which is
also the m Go on, get out. Last words are for fools who haven't said enough.
-- Karl Marx, dying words to his housekeeper In the early sixties, we were strong, we were virulent...
-- John Connally, Secretary of Treasury under Richard Nixon, in an early 70s speech, as reported
in a contemporary "American Scholar" "Don't let your ego get too close to your position, so that if your position gets shot down, your ego doesn't go with it." (Colin Powell) Recreation and Sports There is no future in any job. The future lies in the man who holds the job.
-- George Crane "A man who tells lies, like me, merely hides the truth. But a man who tells half-lies has forgotten where he put it." (Claude Rains, as Mr. Dryden, Lawrence of Arabia, 1962) Experience is the worst teacher; it gives the test before presenting the lesson.
-- Vernon Law Recreation and Sports
When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her. -- Guitry Practice random acts of kindness and sensless acts of beauty.
-- Adair Lara No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman. -- Honore de Balzac 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 Ask her to wait a moment - I am almost done.
-- Carl Friedrich Gauss, when informed that his wife was dying Recreation and Sports Never try to teach a pig to sing. It wastes your time and annoys the pig.
-- Anonymous "He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself." (Thomas Paine) I don't know which is more discouraging, literature or chickens.
-- E. B. White Recreation and Sports
"Greed, for lack of a better word, is good. Greed is right. Greed works." (Michael Douglas, as Gordon Gekko, Wall Street, 1987) "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) "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) In the past decade or so, the women's magazines have taken to running home-handyperson
articles suggesting that women can learn to fix things just as well as men. These articles are
apparently based To be able to say how much love, is love but little.
-- Petrarch Recreation and Sports No man in the world has more courage than the man who can stop after eating one peanut.
-- Channing Pollack Journalism is merely history's first draft.
-- Geoffrey C. Ward "It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so." (Mark Twain) Recreation and Sports
