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"I don't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones." (John Cage) The most terrible poverty is loneliness and the feeling of being unloved.
-- Mother Teresa "The market is not an invention of capitalism. It has existed for centuries. It is an invention of civilization." (Mikhail Gorbachev, June 8, 1990) One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is
terribly important.
-- Bertrand Russell Lottery: A tax on people who are bad at math.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Health 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 Love is the same as like except you feel sexier.
-- Judith Viorst The man with the best job in the country is the Vice President. All he has to do is get up every
morning and say, "How's the President?"
-- Will Rogers Health
Man is the only animal that blushes--or needs to.
-- Mark Twain You can only find truth with logic if you have already found truth without it.
- Gilbert Keith Chesterton "Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom." (Raymonde Uy) "Experience is not what happens to a man. It is what a man does with what happens to him." (Aldous Huxley) 2,400,000 Americans play the accordian - hopefully not at the same time.
-- inside of a Pepsi cap Health The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax.
-- Albert Einstein We all agree that your theory is crazy, but is it crazy enough?
- Niels Bohr May you be too good for the world and not good enough for your wife. Health
"Friendship is born at the moment when one person says to another, 'What?! You too! Thought I was the only one.'" (Clive Staples Lewis) Researchers have discovered that chocolate produces some of the same reactions in the brain
as marijuana...The researchers also discovered other similarities between the two, but can't
remember what "If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, sir, should keep his friendship in a constant repair." (Samuel Johnson) The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.
-- Thomas Jefferson Worrying is like a rocking chair, it gives you something to do, but it doesn't get you anywhere.
-- Anonymous Health Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the
gentleman.
-- Herbert Spencer What if it was cats who invented technology... would they have tv shows starring rubber sqeak
toys?
-- Douglas Coupland In times of profound change, the learners inherit the earth, while the learned find themselves
beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists.
-- Al Rogers, Global SchoolHouse Netw Health
"Majority rule only works if you're also considering individual rights. Because you can't have five wolves and one sheep voting on what to have for supper." (Larry Flynt) The absolute yearning of one human body for another particular body and its indifference to
substitutes is one of life's major mysteries.
-- Iris Murdoch "If you assume that there's no hope, you guarantee that there will be no hope. If you assume that there is an instinct for freedom, there are opportunities to change things, there's a chance for you t Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the
truth.
- Sherlock Holmes Many a man owes his success to his first wife and his second wife to his success.
-- Jim Backus Health One may have a blazing hearth in one's soul and yet no one ever comes to sit by it. Passersby
see only a wisp of smoke rising from the chimney and continue on their way.
-- Vincent Van Gogh We didn't lose the game; we just ran out of time.
- Vince Lombardi Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.
- George Eliot Health
I recently read that love is entirely a matter of chemistry. That must be why my wife treats me like
toxic waste.
-- David Bissonette 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 Some people talk in their sleep. Lecturers talk while other people sleep.
-- Albert Camus your daughters marry men of substance: gypsies with two bears. If we were not all so interested in ourselves, life would be so uninteresting that none of us would
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-- Schopenhauer Health "Have confidence that if you have done a little thing well, you can do a bigger thing well, too." (David Malcolm Storey) The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other
is ready.
-- Henry David Thoreau Musical people always want one to be perfectly dumb at the very moment when one is longing to
be perfectly deaf.
-- Oscar Wilde Health
Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow in Australia.
-- Charles Schultz Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through
self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.
-- Helen Keller Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before
marriage, which is never advisable.
-- Oscar Wilde The world has achieved brilliance without conscience. Ours is a world of nuclear giants and
ethical infants.
-- General Omar Bradley In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that
no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it's the exact opposite.
-- Paul Dirac Health "If I were still a critic, I would loathe knowing the person I was writing about. There's enough of an incestuous relationship between subject and writer." (Manny Farber, American film theorist) We can do no great things; only small things with great love.
-- Mother Teresa "I do not agree with what you have to say, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) Health
"I've just had eighteen straight whiskies. I think that's the record." (Dylan Thomas, final words) "Have confidence that if you have done a little thing well, you can do a bigger thing well, too." (David Malcolm Storey) A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.
-- Gloria Steinem I love cats because I love my home and after a while they become its visible soul.
-- Jean Cocteau Sir Francis Drake circumsized the world with a 100-foot clipper.
-- Unknown history student Health In America, anybody can be president. That's one of the risks you take.
-- Adlai Stevenson A conclusion is the place where you got tired thinking.
-- Martin H. Fischer "Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to know." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) Health
"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) The real test of friendship is: Can you literally do nothing with the other person? Can you enjoy
together those moments of life that are utterly simple? They are the moments people looks back
on at That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the
lessons that history has to teach.
-- Aldous Huxley Problems worthy of attack prove their worth by fighting back.
- Paul Erdos I believe God is managing affairs and that He doesn't need any advice from me. With God in
charge, I believe everything will work out for the best in the end. So what is there to worry about.
-- Hen Health I hate it in friends when they come too late to help.
-- Euripides Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.
-- Oscar Wilde 'Tis better to have loved and lost
Than never to have loved at all.
-- Alfred, Lord Tennyson, In Memoriam, 1850, line 27, stanza 4 Health
The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious.
-- Albert Einstein "Those who hear not the music think the dancers mad." (Anonymous) "Commit yourself to quality from day one ... it's better to do nothing at all than to do something badly." (Mark McCormack) Blessed are the young for they shall inherit the national debt.
-- Herbert Hoover For I am a bear of very little brain and long words bother me.
-- Winnie the Pooh, character from author A. A. Milne Health All science is concerned with the relationship of cause and effect. Each scientific discovery
increases man's ability to predict the consequences of his actions and thus his ability to control
futur The streets are safe in Philadelphia. It's only the people who make them unsafe.
-- Frank Rizzo, ex-police chief and mayor of Philadelphia It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.
-- Henry James Health
The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.
-- Franklin D. Roosevelt Ask her to wait a moment - I am almost done.
-- Carl Friedrich Gauss, when informed that his wife was dying In every country and every age, the priest has been hostile to Liberty.
-- Thomas Jefferson To keep your marriage brimming, with love in the wedding cup, whenever you're wrong, admit it;
whenever you're right, shut up.
-- Ogden Nash No, that is the great fallacy; the wisdom of old men. They do not grow wise. They grow careful." (Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell To Arms) Health "Beauty without expression is boring." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) "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) If all these sweet young things were laid end to end, I wouldn't be the slightest bit surprised.
-- Dorothy Parker Health
"Eschew the ordinary, disdain the commonplace. If you have a single-minded need for something, let it be the unusual, the esoteric, the bizarre, the unexpected..." (Chuck Jones) Reading computer manuals without the hardware is a frustrating as reading sex manuals without
the software.
-- Arthur C. Clarke "A bore is a man who, when you ask him how he is, tells you." (Bert Leston Taylor) All television is children's television.
-- Richard P. Adler What's new? Most of my wife. Health Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the
truth.
- Sherlock Holmes Never regard study as a duty, but as the enviable opportunity to learn to know the liberating
influence of beauty in the realm of the spirit for your own personal joy and to the profit of the
commun I am beginning to suspect all elaborate and special systems of education. They seem to me to be
built upon the supposition that every child is a kind of idiot who must be taught to think.
-- Anne S Health
