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Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than the arguments of its opposers.
-- William Penn The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing that you will make one.
-- Ellen Hubbard "You know what charm is: a way of getting the answer yes without having asked any clear question." (Albert Camus, The Fall) "I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter." (Blaise Pascal) "I owe much to my friends; but, all things considered, it strikes me that I owe even more to my enemies. The real person springs life under a sting even better than under a caress." (André Gide) News and Media "When even one American--who has done nothing wrong--is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth--then all Americans are in peril." (Harry S. Truman) "The overman ... Who has organized the chaos of his passions, given style to his character, and become creative. Aware of life's terrors, he affirms life without resentment." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietz Marriage is like a bank account. You put it in, you take it out, you lose interest.
-- Irwin Corey News and Media
"Life is a great surprise. I don't see why death should not be an even greater one." (Vladimir Nabokov) "Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom." (Raymonde Uy) Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering. Love is not blind - it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.
Rabbi Julius Gordon blah bla "I never think of the future. It comes soon enough." (Albert Einstein) News and Media May the road rise to meet you. May the wind always be at your back. May the sun shine warm
upon your face, the rains fall soft upon your fields and, until we meet again, may God hold you in
the palm A baby is God's opinion that the world should go on.
-- Carl Sandburg "If you light a man a fire, he will be warm for a day; if you light a man on fire, he will be warm for the rest of his life." (Anonymous) News and Media
Asking politicians to vote themselves out of power is like asking rabbits not to multiply, it ain't
natural.
-- Bob Beckel, on term limits, CBS This Morning, 3/30/95 A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.
- John D. Rockefeller The only thing that holds a marriage together is the husband bein' big enough to keep his mouth
shut, to step back and see where his wife is wrong.
-- Archie Bunker, character on "All in the Family, Beauty as we feel it is something indescribable; what it is or what it means can never be said.
-- George Santayana Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you
have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not.
-- Aldous Huxley News and Media Experience is not what happens to you; it's what you do with what happens to you.
-- Aldous Huxley We haven't the money, so we've got to think.
-- Lord Rutherford "I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is." (Alan Watts) News and Media
"Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent." (Napoleon Bonaparte) They couldn't hit an elephant at this dist---
-- John B. Sedgwick, general, dying words, 1864 No woman marries for money; they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in
love with him first.
-- Cesare Pavese Live truth instead of professing it.
-- Elbert Hubbard To correct a natural indifference I was placed half-way between misery and the sun. Misery kept
me from believing that all was well under the sun, and the sun taught me that history wasn't
everythin News and Media Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.
-- Roger Babson A weed is no more than a flower in disguise.
-- James Lowell My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you'll be happy; if not, you'll become a
philosopher.
- Socrates News and Media
In any contest between power and patience, bet on patience.
- W.B. Prescott "The overman ... Who has organized the chaos of his passions, given style to his character, and become creative. Aware of life's terrors, he affirms life without resentment." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietz The instinct of nearly all societies is to lock up anybody who is truly free. First, society begins by
trying to beat you up. If this fails, they try to poison you. If this fails too, the finish by l "I think you should defend to the death their right to march, and then go down and meet them with baseball bats." (Woody Allen, in regard to the KKK) "A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities." (Eda J. Le Shan) News and Media As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.
-- Abraham Lincoln "Liberty has never come from the government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of it. The history of liberty is a history of resistance. The history of liberty is a history of limitations of g LOVE, n. A temporary insanity curable by marriage or by removal of the patient from the
influences under which he incurred the disorder... It is sometimes fatal, but more frequently to the
physician News and Media
"He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever." (Chinese Proverb) We are all here for a spell; get all the good laughs you can.
-- Will Rogers Men have a much better time of it than women: for one thing they marry later, for another thing
they die earlier.
-- H. L. Mencken "There is no sin except stupidity." (Oscar Wilde) Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana.
-- Groucho Marx News and Media Chase after the truth like all hell and you'll free yourself, even though you never touch its
coattails.
-- Clarence Darrow If a thing is worth doing at all, it is worth doing badly.
-- Gustav Holst, on amateur music-making "From the start, marriage was instituted for contemptible, practical reasons--an idea of men." (Catherine Deneuve) News and Media
Only the little people pay taxes.
-- Leona Helmsley, hotel owner and prison inmate, 1989 Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though it is hard to
realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and
grie Trying to determine what is going on in the world by reading newspapers is like trying to tell the
time by watching the second hand of a clock.
-- Ben Hecht 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 "Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing." (Oscar Wilde) News and Media And in the end it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
-- Abraham Lincoln To heck with marrying a girl who makes biscuits like her mother--I want to marry one who makes dough like her father. Love is temporary insanity curable by marriage.
-- Ambrose Bierce News and Media
Musical people always want one to be perfectly dumb at the very moment when one is longing to
be perfectly deaf.
-- Oscar Wilde To love another person is to help them love God.
-- Søren Kierkegaard blah "Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure." (Thomas Alva Edison) "Experience is a good teacher, but she sends in terrific bills." (Minna Antrim) Never tell. Not if you love your wife... In fact, if your old lady walks in on you, deny it. Yeah. Just
flat out and she'll believe it: "I'm tellin' ya. This chick came downstairs with a sign around News and Media The Church is an organism that grows best in an alien society.
-- C. Stacey Woods Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.
-- Philip K. Dick There is no course of life so weak and sottish as that which is managed by order, method, and
discipline.
-- Michel de Montaigne News and Media
Integrity is what we do, what we say, and what we say we do.
--Don Galer "It is the nature of a man as he grows older, a small bridge in time, to protest against change, particularly change for the better." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) "Well begun is half done." (Aristotle) Marriage is not just a having a wife, but also worries inherited forever. I still live.
-- Daniel Webster, dying words News and Media "All women love the men they fear. All women kiss the hand that rules them." (Lionel Atwill) "Women might be able to fake orgasms. But men can fake whole relationships." (Sharon Stone) The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.
-- ROBERT FROST News and Media
He who hesitates is a damned fool.
- Mae West "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) Experience is not what happens to you; it's what you do with what happens to you.
-- Aldous Huxley "The devil's agents may be of flesh and blood, may they not?" (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of the Baskervilles) "The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) News and Media People may or may not say what they mean ... but they always say something designed to get
what they want.
-- David Mamet Launch out into the deep. One discovers by living in scorn of consequence.
-- Essie Summers "True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost." (Charles Caleb Colton) News and Media
"Those who hear not the music think the dancers mad." (Anonymous) Everything has been figured out, except how to live.
- Jean-Paul Sartre "Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect every one who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are ine To take what there "is", and use it, without waiting forever in vain for the preconceived - to dig
deep into the actual and get something out of that - this doubtless is the right way to live.
-- H "No man is clever enough to know all the evil he does." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) News and Media In the book of life, the answers aren't in the back.
-- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz "The face is the soul of the body." (Ludwig Wittgenstein) In all recorded history there has not been one economist who has had to worry about where the
next meal would come from.
-- Peter F. Drucker News and Media
