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-- Dave Barry The more we do, the more we can do; the more busy we are the more leisure we have.
-- William Hazlitt "It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what other men say in whole books--what other men do not say in whole books." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols) There is no one so bound to his own face that he does not cherish the hope of presenting another
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-- Michel de Montaigne A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.
-Robert Frost (1874-1963) Computers and Internet
Friends applaud, the Comedy is over.
-- Ludwig von Beethoven, dying words "Beauty without expression is boring." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it.
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-- Michel de Montaigne Computers and Internet
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-- Roger Babson Computers and Internet Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you
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-- Aldous Huxley Hell is a half-filled auditorium.
-- Robert Frost If you want to recapture your youth, just cut off his allowance.
-- Al Bernstein Computers and Internet
I love cats because I love my home and after a while they become its visible soul.
-- Jean Cocteau All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.
-- Edgar Allan Poe Dishonor will not trouble me, once I am dead.
-- Euripides "This is the first age that's paid much attention to the future, which is a little ironic since we may not have one." (Arthur C. Clarke) "Ideas are far more powerful than guns. We don't allow our enemies to have guns, why should we allow them to have ideas?" (Josef Stalin) Computers and Internet I belong to Bridegrooms Anonymous. Whenever I feel like getting married, they send over a lady in a housecoat and hair curlers to burn my toast for me. -- Dick Martin It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are
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-- Seneca Property may be destroyed and money may lose its purchasing power; but, character, health,
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-- Roger Babson Computers and Internet
"In my opinion, the greatest single failure of American education is that students come away unable to distinguish between a symbol and the thing the symbol stands for." (Paul Lutus) Love may be a dream but marriage is a nightmare.
-- Joan Collins The perfect love affair is one which is conducted entirely by post.
-- George Bernard Shaw Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
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-- Jerry Seinfeld Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it.
-- George Bernard Shaw Computers and Internet
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 I date this girl for two years--and then the nagging starts: "I wanna know your name."
-- Mike Binder The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same
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-- F. Scott Fitzgerald I could prove God statistically.
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-- Billy Sunday Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.
-- Aristotle Computers and Internet
Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.
-- Dietrich Bonhoeffer The great end of life is not knowledge, but action. What men need is as much knowledge as they
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-- Dominique Bouhours, French grammarian, dying words "Some look at things that are, and ask why. I dream of things that never were and ask why not?" (George Bernard Shaw) If ever two were one, then surely we.
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-- Anne Bradstreet Computers and Internet "The only way to have friends is to be one." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow
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-- Robert Hutchins, Great Books, 1954 "Pay no attention to what the critics say; there has never been set up a statue in honor of a critic." (Jean Sibelius) Computers and Internet
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-- Dan Quayle, Former Vice-President The philosophy exam was a piece of cake -- which was a bit of a surprise, actually, because I
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-- Smith & Jones Marriage is very much like a violin; after the sweet music is over, the strings are attached. Computers and Internet There is a coherent plan in the universe, though I don't know what it's a plan for.
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It is always right that a man should be able to render a reason for the faith that is within him.
-- Sydney Smith Nothing says lovin' like marrying your cousin!
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-- Wilson Mizner NEIGHBOR, n. One whom we are commanded to love as ourselves, and who does all he knows
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-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 If your professor wrote it, it's as near to the truth as you ever need to get.
-- John Watson, University of Canterbury Computers and Internet You got to be careful if you don't know where you're going, because you might not get there.
-- Yogi Berra If the government wants people to respect the law, it should set a better example.
-- Anon. If stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out?
- Will Rogers Computers and Internet
The only one of your children who does not grow up and move away is your husband. Only the little people pay taxes.
-- Leona Helmsley, hotel owner and prison inmate, 1989 Mathematics, rightly viewed, posses not only truth, but supreme beauty -- a beauty cold and
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-- Bertrand Russell If a man is considered guilty for what goes on in his mind, give me the electric chair for all my
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-- Prince In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.
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-- Anon. Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
- Henry Ford Computers and Internet
I don't want to achieve immortality through my work... I want to achieve it by not dying!
-- Woody Allen "As a child, I thought I hated everybody, but when I grew up I realized it was just children I didn't like." (Philip Larkin) They gave me a book of checks. They didn't ask for any deposits.
-- Joe Early, Congressman (D-Mass), at a press conference to answer questions about the
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-- Mark Twain How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg? Four. Calling a tail a leg doesn't make it
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-- Abraham Lincoln Computers and Internet If you can't get rid of the skeleton in your closet, you'd best teach it to dance.
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