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Creativity is the sudden cessation of stupidity.
-- Edward H. Land The whole problem can be stated quite simply by asking, "Is there a meaning to music?" My
answer would be, "Yes." And "Can you state in so many words what the meaning is?" My answer
to that would be Of course, it is very important to be sober when you take an exam. Many worthwile careers in the
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-- Wernher von Braun "In the future everyone will be famous for fifteen minutes." (Andy Warhol) Recreation and Sports Hardly a year passes that fails to find a new, oft-times exotic, research method or technique
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-- Jean Kerr We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh.
-- Agnes Repplier Recreation and Sports
Some people talk in their sleep. Lecturers talk while other people sleep.
-- Albert Camus 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 My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed.
-- Christopher Morley After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
-- Aldous Huxley "The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing." (John Powell) Recreation and Sports Until the day of his death, no man can be sure of his courage.
-- Jean Anouilh Men have become the tools of their tools.
-- Henry David Thoreau Even death is not to be feared by one who has lived wisely.
-- Buddha Recreation and Sports
In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice
that I am not a Republican.
-- H. L. Mencken Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than
yourself.
-- William Faulkner "If I could drop dead right now, I'd be the happiest man alive." (Samuel Goldwyn) As always, victory finds a hundred fathers but defeat is an orphan.
-- Count Galeazzo Ciano, The Ciano Diaries "College: two hundred people reading same book. An obvious mistake. Two hundred people can read two hundred books." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) Recreation and Sports "If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) Love is a snowmobile racing across the tundra and then suddenly it flips over, pinning you
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-- Matt Groening, Love is Hell Talk to a man about himself and he will listen for hours.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Recreation and Sports
Lottery: A tax on people who are bad at math.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker "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) Sure, it's going to kill a lot of people, but they may be dying of something else anyway.
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-- George Washington Recreation and Sports I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible
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- Umberto Eco Sex is the mathematics urge sublimated.
-- M. C. Reed "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) Recreation and Sports
I am ready to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me
is another matter.
- Sir Winston Churchill Thank God - every morning when you get up - that you have something to do which must be
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a hundre When I have a kid, I wanna put him in one of those strollers for twins, then run around the mall
looking frantic.
-- Steven Wright The Middle Eastern states aren't nations; they're quarrels with borders.
-- P. J. O'Rourke "Freedom of press is limited to those who own one." (Henry Louis Mencken) Recreation and Sports Guys are lucky because they get to grow mustaches. I wish I could. It's like having a little pet for
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-- Anita Wise "Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom." (Raymonde Uy) Marriage is like a box of chocolates. You have to squeeze a few bottoms to make sure you like
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-- Anonymous Recreation and Sports
It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
-- Oscar Wilde You probably wouldn't worry about what people think of you if you could know how seldom they
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-- Olin Miller "Good taste is the first refuge of the non-creative. It is the last-ditch stand of the artist." (Marshall McLuhan) "Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing." (Oscar Wilde) "The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves." (William Hazlitt) Recreation and Sports The only thing you take with you when you're gone is what you leave behind.
-- John Allston Love is what we are born with. Fear is what we learn. The spiritual journey is the unlearning of
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and No man in the world has more courage than the man who can stop after eating one peanut.
-- Channing Pollack Recreation and Sports
Politics is for people who have a passion for changing life but lack a passion for living it.
-- Tom Robbins We must believe in free will, we have no choice.
-- Isaac B. Singer Repentance is not so much remorse for what we have done as the fear of the consequences.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld, Maxims, 1665 Marriage is the sole cause of divorce. The difference between sex and death is that with death you can do it alone and no one is going
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-- Woody Allen Recreation and Sports "All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream." (Edger Allen Poe) Shotgun wedding: a case of wife or death Outside of the killings, Washington has one of the lowest crime rates in the country.
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The first clergyman was the first rascal who met the first fool.
-- Voltaire A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.
-- Fr. Jerome Cummings In any contest between power and patience, bet on patience.
- W.B. Prescott Few things are harder to put up with than a good example.
- Mark Twain Epperson's law:
When a man says it's a silly, childish game, it's probably something his wife can beat him at. Recreation and Sports Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of
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-- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart I don't want everyone to like me; I should think less of myself if some people did.
-- Henry James Any sufficiently advanced bureaucracy is indistinguishable from molasses.
-- Anon. Recreation and Sports
Marriage is an institution in which a man loses his Bachelor's Degree and the woman gets her Masters. My wife ran off with my best friend last week. I miss him! Idealism increases in direct proportion to one's distance from the problem.
-- John Galsworthy "Now that we have everything we need, we discover that there is almost nothing that we have that we want." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) I know a dead parrot when I see one, and I'm looking at one right now.... This is an ex-parrot.
-- John Cleese, Monty Python, British comedy television show Recreation and Sports The cynics are right nine times out of ten.
- Henry Louis Mencken "You can get help from teachers, but you are going to have to learn a lot by yourself, sitting alone in a room." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, On becoming a writer, NY Times 21 Whenever I date a guy, I think, is this the man I want my children to spend their weekends with?
-- Rita Rudner Recreation and Sports
"The one charm about marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties." (Oscar Wilde) blah "It is a grand mistake to think of being great without goodness and I pronounce it as certain that there was never a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous." (Benjamin Fran Dew knot trussed yore spell chequer two fined awl yore mistakes.
-- Brendan Hills Grad school is the snooze button on the clock-radio of life.
-- John Rogers, comedian (who holds a graduate degree in physics) The IRS spends God knows how much of your tax money on these toll-free information hot lines
staffed by IRS employees, whose idea of a dynamite tax tip is that you should print neatly. If you
ask th Recreation and Sports Men are strong only so long as they represent a strong idea. They become powerless when they
oppose it.
-- Sigmund Freud "You know what charm is: a way of getting the answer yes without having asked any clear question." (Albert Camus, The Fall) The marriage of Marxism and feminism has been like the marriage of husband and wife depicted in English common law: Marxism and feminism are one, and that one is Marxism. --Heidi Hartmann [The Unhappy Recreation and Sports
The best defense is a good offense.
-- Anonymous Your life and my life flow into each other as wave flows into wave, and unless there is peace and
joy and freedom for you, there can be no real peace or joy or freedom for me. To see reality--not
as I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
-- Thomas Edison A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.
-Robert Frost (1874-1963) The remarkable thing about television is that it permits several million people to laugh at the same
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-- T. S. Eliot Recreation and Sports I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood. If it
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ha Grow old with me! The best is yet to be!
-- Robert Browning All over Washington today, the politicians and the power brokers are happy. In fact, if you listen
closely, you can hear the sound of champagne corks popping.
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