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I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think.
-- Socrates It is absurd to divide people into good or bad. People are either charming or tedious.
-- Oscar Wilde The first duty of a lecturer: to hand you after an hour's discourse a nugget of pure truth to wrap up
between the pages of your notebooks, and keep on the mantlepiece forever.
-- Virginia Woolf I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you an education.
-- Wilson Mizner He who dies a thousand deaths meets the final hour with the calmness of one who approaches a
well remembered door.
-- Heywood Brown Accommodation Anyone nit-picking enough to write a letter of correction to an editor doubtless deserves the error
that provoked it.
-- Alvin Toffler He who has a 'why' to live, can bear with almost any 'how'.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.
-- B.F. Skinner Accommodation
Wherever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.
-- Harry S. Truman "Truth lies not only in a dream, but in many dreams." (Pier Paolo Pasolini, Italian poet, novelist and filmmaker) "Think off-center." (George Carlin) I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them.
- Ian L. Fleming 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 Accommodation Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.
-- Carl Gustav Jung Before I married, I had three theories about raising children and no children. Now, I have three
children and no theories.
-- John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester In every country and every age, the priest has been hostile to Liberty.
-- Thomas Jefferson Accommodation
You have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth
without producing it.
-- George Bernard Shaw Love, I find, is like singing. Everybody can do enough to satisfy themselves, though it may not
impress the neighbors as being very much.
-- Zora Neale Hurston Never eat more than you can lift.
-- Miss Piggy, character on "The Muppet Show," U.S. television show I don't know exactly what democracy is. But we need more of it.
-- Anonymous Chinese Student, during protests in Tianamen Square, Beijing, 1989 He who awaits much can expect little.
-- Gabriel Garcia Marquez Accommodation For the memory of love is sweet, though the love itself were in vain. And what I have lost of
pleasure, assuage what I find of pain.
-- Lyster "Death where is thy sting? Love, where is thy glory?" (William Shakespeare) Once all struggle is grasped, miracles are possible.
-- Mao Tse-tung Accommodation
"Deep down, no one really believes they have a right to live. But this death sentence generally stays tucked away, hidden beneath the difficulty of living. If that difficulty is removed from time to t We all agree that your theory is crazy, but is it crazy enough?
- Niels Bohr "Growth in wisdom can be measured precisely by decline in bile." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Human, All Too Human) "...when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth." (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes) "If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way." (Mark Twain) Accommodation 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 I do not consider it an insult, but rather a compliment to be called an agnostic. I do not pretend to
know where many ignorant men are sure -- that is all that agnosticism means.
- Clarence Darrow, Life - a sexually transmitted terminal condition.
-- Walter Prager Accommodation
Even overweight cats instinctively know the cardinal rule: when fat, arrange yourself in slim
poses.
-- John Weitz, American Designer Genius is 99 percent perspiration and 1 percent inspiration.
-- Thomas Edison Don't be afraid your life will end; be afraid that it will never begin.
-- Grace Hansen A theory is something nobody believes, except the person who made it. An experiment is
something everybody believes, except the person who made it.
-- Albert Einstein, attributed When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life
of another.
-- Helen Keller Accommodation 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 They're almost inseparable. Sometimes it takes ten people to separate them.
-- Anonymous There is nothing so wrong in this world that a sensible woman can't set it right in the course of an
afternoon.
-- Giraudoux Accommodation
"To be great is to be misunderstood." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman and a pretty girl.
-- Charlie Chaplin I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think.
-- Socrates Youth is wasted on the young.
-- George Bernard Shaw Hardly a year passes that fails to find a new, oft-times exotic, research method or technique
added to the armamentarium of political inquiry. Anyone who cannot negotiate Chi squares,
assess randomi Accommodation To look backward for a while is to refresh the eye, to restore it, and to render it more fit for its
prime function of looking forward.
-- Margaret Fairless Barber Despite the high cost of living it remains a popular item.
-- Anonymous All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others.
-- Chad A. Gamble, Escape, short story Accommodation
Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere.
-- Chinese Proverb "Truth lies not only in a dream, but in many dreams." (Pier Paolo Pasolini, Italian poet, novelist and filmmaker) We trained hard - but it seemed that every time we were beginning to form up into teams we were
reorganized. I was to learn later in life that we tend to meet any new situation by reorganizing,
and Heav'n hath no rage like love to hatred turn'd, Nor Hell a fury, like a woman scorn'd.
-- William Congreve Free will is a golden thread running through the frozen matrix of fixed events.
-- Robert A. Heinlein _The Rolling Stones_ Accommodation "These are days you'll remember." If you recall nothing else from your graduation ceremony,
remember you heard the New Jersey Governor quote from 10,000 Maniacs.
-- Christine Todd, NJ Governor, Whea "I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter." (Blaise Pascal) The course of true love never did run smooth.
-- William Shakespeare Accommodation
The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
- Mark Twain When yer in a funk, people in love are a royal pain in the patookus.
-- Portnoy, character in "Outland," comic strip by Berkely Breathed Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteeen.
-- Albert Einstein May you be blessed with a wife so healthy and strong, she can pull the plow when your horse drops dead. The eyes are not responsible when the mind does the seeing.
-- Publilius Syrus Accommodation There are three great friends: an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.
-- Benjamin Franklin Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting.
-- Karl Wallenda Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of
the time.
-- E. B. White Accommodation
"Nobody minds having what is too good for them." (Jane Austen) If I had only known, I would have been a locksmith.
-- Albert Einstein "Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night." (Edger Allen Poe) Marriage is not just a having a wife, but also worries inherited forever. To read a writer is for me not merely to get an idea of what he says, but to go off with him and travel in his company.
Andre Gide Accommodation "One of the great dangers in having a career is getting bored." (Itzhak Perlman) Be tolerant of the human race. Your whole family belongs to it -- and some of your spouse's
family does too.
-- Anonymous A person starts to live when he can live outside himself.
-- Albert Einstein Accommodation
The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
- General George Patton "Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known." (Blaise Pascal) blah bla "I never think of the future. It comes soon enough." (Albert Einstein) Democracy is a process by which the people are free to choose the man who will get the blame.
-- Laurence J. Peter The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything. Except what is worth knowing.
Journalism, conscious of this, and having tradesman-like habits, supplies their demands.
-- Oscar Wilde Accommodation I am free of all prejudice. I hate everyone equally.
-- W. C. Fields The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech.
-- George Bernard Shaw "The reward of a thing well done is having done it." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Accommodation
If it were weren't for pickpockets, I'd have no sex life at all.
-- Rodney Dangerfield Often it does seem a pity that Noah and his party did not miss the boat.
-- Mark Twain Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after.
-- Anne Morrow Lindbergh If your wife wants to learn how to drive, don't stand in her way. Even a band of angels can turn ugly and start looting if enough angels are unemployed and
hanging around the Pearly Gates convinced that all the succubi own all the liquor stores in
Heaven.
-- P. J Accommodation If law school is so hard to get through... how come there are so many lawyers?
-- Calvin Trillin Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half shut afterwards.
-- Benjamin Franklin I've had a perfectly wonderful evening. But this wasn't it.
-- Groucho Marx Accommodation
