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Men marry because they are tired, women because they are curious; both are disappointed.
-- Oscar Wilde Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.
- Jean-Paul Sartre I don't want to achieve immortality through my work... I want to achieve it by not dying!
-- Woody Allen By all means marry. If you get a good wife you will become happy, and if you get a bad one you
will become a philosopher.
-- Socrates Education is not filling a bucket, but lighting a fire.
-- William Yeats Business and Economy Reality is nothing but a collective hunch.
-- Lily Tomlin "A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities." (Eda J. Le Shan) Cute little babies that fall out of swings - These are a few of my favourite things.
-- Oscar Hammerstein, working lyric for a piece from "The Sound of Music" Business and Economy
Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with
the powerful, not to be neutral.
-- Paulo Freire The hard part about being a bartender is figuring out who is drunk and who is just stupid.
-- Richard Braunstein What would you attempt if you knew you could not fail?
-- Robert Schuller Never go to bed angry. Stay up and fight.
-- Phyllis Diller blah "If we did all the things we are capable of, we would literally astound ourselves." (Thomas Alva Edison) Business and Economy "Beauty without expression is boring." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) I'll sleep when I'm dead.
- Warren Zevon I'm at the age where food has taken the place of sex in my life. In fact, I've just had a mirror put
over my kitchen table.
-- Rodney Dangerfield Business and Economy
Nothing average ever stood as a monument to progress. When progress is looking for a partner it
doesn't turn to those who believe they are only average. It turns instead to those who are forever
sea Marriage is a matter of give and take, but so far I haven't been able to find anybody who'll take what I have to give. -- Cass Daley Sure, it's going to kill a lot of people, but they may be dying of something else anyway.
-- Othal Brand, member of a Texas pesticide review board Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the
really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.
-- Mark Twain Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it.
Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it.
Hatred darkens life; love illumines it.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Business and Economy There are three kinds of death in this world. There's heart death, there's brain death, and there's
being off the network.
-- Guy Almes Sleep is an excellent way of listening to an opera.
- James Stephens I'm an excellent housekeeper. Every time I get a divorce, I keep the house.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Business and Economy
"What dies if freedom lives? What lives if freedom dies?" (Lindsay Anderson, British filmmaker, from if.... (1968) What luck for the rulers that men do not think.
-- Adolf Hitler The mistakes are all waiting to be made.
- chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower (1887-1956) on the game's opening position There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you
yourself have altered.
-- Nelson Mandela, A Long Walk to Freedom A multiple personality is in a certain sense normal.
-- George H. Mead Business and Economy More light!
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, dying words The work of internal government has become the task of controlling the thousands of fifth-rate
men.
-- Henry B. Adams "To pretend, I actually do the thing: I have therefore only pretended to pretend." (Jacques Derrida, French 'deconstructionist') Business and Economy
In a hierarchy, every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence. Therefore:
? In time, every post tends to be occupied by an employee who is incompetent to carry out its
duties.
? Work There is no realizable power that man cannot, in time, fashion the tools to attain, nor any power so secure that the naked ape will not abuse it. So it is written in the genetic cards - only physics a "When I was four years old they tried to test my IQ, they showed me this picture of three oranges and a pear. They asked me which one is different and does not belong, they taught me different was wro A problem is a chance for you to do your best.
-- Buke Ellington Someday is not a day of the week.
-- Anon. Business and Economy The trouble with some women is that they get all excited about nothing -- and then marry him.
-- Cher 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 "The face is the soul of the body." (Ludwig Wittgenstein) Business and Economy
Duct tape is like the Force. It has a light side, a dark side, and it holds the universe together....
-- Carl Zwanzig "I knew I was an unwanted baby when I saw my bath toys were a toaster and a radio." (Joan Rivers) It is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions.
-- Aldous Huxley "Anyone who thinks they're important is usually just a pompous moron who can't deal with his or her own pathetic insignificance and the fact that what they do is meaningless and inconsequential..." ( God help the man who won't marry until he finds a perfect woman, and God help him still more if
he finds her.
-- Benjamin Tillett Business and Economy "Wise men learn more from fools, than fools from the wise." (Anonymous) "I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough." (M. C. Escher) In answer to the question of why it happened, I offer the modest proposal that our Universe is
simply one of those things which happen from time to time.
-- Edward P. Tryon Business and Economy
"How can we know the dancer from the dance?" (William Butler Yeats) Logic is in the eye of the logician.
- Gloria Steinem It is important that students bring a certain ragamuffin, barefoot, irreverence to their studies; they
are not here to worship what is known, but to question it.
-- J. Bronowski, The Ascent of Man People need loving the most when they deserve it the least.
-- John Harrigan "Babies are necessary to grown-ups. A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities. In a world that is cutting down its trees to build highways, losing its eart Business and Economy "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 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 Many a wife thinks her husband is the world's greatest lover. But she can never catch him at it. Business and Economy
The most savage controversies are about those matters as to which there is no good evidence
either way.
-- Bertrand Russell Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the
consequences.
-- Isadora Duncan Guide to understanding a net.addict's day:
Slow day: didn't have much to do, so spent three hours on usenet.
Busy day: managed to work in three hours of usenet.
Bad day: barely squeezed in three ho We come to love not by finding a perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person
perfectly.
-- Anonymous "Brevity is the soul of wit." (William Shakespeare) Business and Economy Marriage is bliss. Ignorance is bliss. Ergo... In answer to the question of why it happened, I offer the modest proposal that our Universe is
simply one of those things which happen from time to time.
-- Edward P. Tryon "He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches." (George Bernard Shaw) Business and Economy
I'm astounded by people who want to 'know' the universe when it's hard enough to find your way
around Chinatown.
-- Woody Allen If someone had told me I would be Pope one day, I would have studied harder.
-- Pope John Paul I "Have love for your friend up to a limit for it is possible he may turn into your enemy some day; and hate your enemy up to a limit for it is possible he may turn into your friend some day." (Ali bin They're almost inseparable. Sometimes it takes ten people to separate them.
-- Anonymous Happiness is nothing more than health and a poor memory.
-- Albert Schweitzer Business and Economy "Dying is the most embarrassing thing that can ever happen to you, because someone's got to take care of all your details." (Andy Warhol, America, 1985) "Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains." (Karl Marx) "The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances." (Viktor E. Frankl) Business and Economy
You can pay attention to the fact, in which case you'll probably become a mathematician, or you
can ignore it, in which case you'll probably become a physicist.
-- Len Evans, professor, Northwestern Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.
-- Dietrich Bonhoeffer Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with
the powerful, not to be neutral.
-- Paulo Freire We must believe in free will, we have no choice.
-- Isaac B. Singer Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before
marriage, which is never advisable.
-- Oscar Wilde Business and Economy "... What good are dreams if they come true?" (Frederick Exley, A Fan's Notes) Many a man has finally succeeded only because he has failed after repeated efforts. If he had
never met defeat he would never have known any great victory.
-- Orison Swett Marden Effort is only effort when it begins to hurt.
-- Jose Ortega y Gasset Business and Economy
I married beneath me. All women do.
-- Lady Nancy Astor, attributed Of course there's a lot of knowledge in universities: the freshmen bring a little in; the seniors don't
take much away, so knowledge sort of accumulates...
-- Anonymous As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; and as far as they are
certain, they do not refer to reality.
-- Albert Einstein "The mark of our time is its revulsion against imposed patterns." (Marshall McLuhan) When Baby's cries grew hard to bear I popped him in the Frigidaire. I never would have done so if
I'd known that he'd be frozen stiff. My wife said, "George, I'm so unhappy! Our darling's now
comple Business and Economy Love is only the game that is not called on account of darkness.
-- M. Hirschfield "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) If we do not maintain Justice, Justice will not maintain us.
-- Francis Bacon Business and Economy
