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In the spider-web of facts, many a truth is strangled.
-- Paul Eldridge No other success can compensate for failure in the home.
-- David O. McKay, Encyclopedia of Mormonism, Advice to parents at General Conference of he
LDS Church, April, 1964 Genius is an African who dreams up snow.
-- Vladimir Nabokov "If all men knew what others say of them, there would not be four friends in the world." (Blaise Pascal) Every normal man must be tempted at times to spit upon his hands, hoist the black flag, and
begin slitting throats.
- Henry Louis Mencken Science and Environment Life is like music; it must be composed by ear, feeling, and instinct, not by rule.
-- Samuel Butler I loathe people who keep dogs. They are cowards who haven't got the guts to bite people
themselves.
-- August Strindberg I figure you have the same chance of winning the lottery whether you play or not.
-- Fran Lebowitz Science and Environment
Creativity is piercing the mundane to find the marvelous.
-- Bill Moyers Everything in the world may be endured except continued prosperity.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe In any contest between power and patience, bet on patience.
- W.B. Prescott "Every Man and every Woman is a Star." (Aleister Crowley) A wasted youth is better by far than a wise and productive old age.
-- Meat Loaf, from the song "Wasted Youth" on the album Bat Out of Hell II Science and Environment Basically, I no longer work for anything but the sensation I have while working.
- Albert Giacometti (sculptor) To heck with marrying a girl who makes biscuits like her mother--I want to marry one who makes dough like her father. Washington is a city of Southern efficiency and Northern charm.
-- John F. Kennedy Science and Environment
If someone offers you a breath mint, accept it.
-- H. Jackson Brown, Jr., Life's Little Treasure Book, on wisdom Gravitation can not be held responsible for people falling in love.
-- Albert Einstein I'd marry again if I found a man who had 15 million and would sign over half of it to me before the
marriage and guarantee he'd be dead within a year.
-- Bette Davis Sometimes you get shown the light in the strangest of places if you look at it right.
-- Jerry Garcia Silence is argument carried out by other means.
-- Ernesto "Che" Guevara Science and Environment How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it.
-- Alexandre Dumas fils Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of
the time.
-- E. B. White Peculiar travel suggestions are dancing lessons from God.
-- Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., Cat's Cradle Science and Environment
Thank heaven. A bachelor's life is no life for a single man.
-- Samuel Goldwyn, immigrant-turned-famous-movie-producer, when told his son was getting
married As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.
-- Abraham Lincoln 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 Church is only society on earth that exists for the benefit of non-members.
-- William Temple In marriage, the bridge gets a shower. But for the groom, it's curtains! Science and Environment Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.
-- Albert Einstein Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana.
-- Groucho Marx Self-reliance is the only road to true freedom, and being one's own person is its ultimate reward.
-- Patricia Sampson Science and Environment
Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it. Love is not blind - it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.
Rabbi Julius Gordon Although the course may change sometimes, rivers always reach the sea.
-- Led Zeppelin, Ten Years Gone Why don't you write books people can read?
-- Nora Joyce, to her husband James Everyone believes very easily whatever they fear or desire.
-- Jean de La Fontaine Science and Environment "Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future." (Paul Boese) The possibility that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause
we believe to be just.
-- Abraham Lincoln "All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) Science and Environment
The course of true love never did run smooth.
-- William Shakespeare "Crime like death is not confined to the old and withered alone. The youngest and fairest are too often its chosen victims." (Charles Dickens, 1812-70, Oliver Twist) Under capitalism man exploits man; under socialism the reverse is true.
-- Polish proverb A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
-- Michel de Montaigne "To educate educators! But the first ones must educate themselves! And for these I write." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Science and Environment The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet.
-- Andy Warhol Seeing a murder on television can help work off one's antagonisms. And if you haven't any
antagonisms, the commercials will give you some.
-- Alfred Hitchcock "Employees make the best dates. You don't have to pick them up and they're always tax-deductible." (Andy Warhol, Andy Warhol's Exposures, 1980) Science and Environment
The full use of your powers along lines of excellence.
- definition of happiness by John F. Kennedy Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering. Goodbye, Everybody!
-- Hart Crane, poet, who committed suicide by jumping overboard during a steamship voyage. One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is
terribly important.
- Bertrand Russell
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A little inaccuracy sometimes saves a ton "It is a curious thing that God learned Greek when he wished to turn author--and that he did not learn it better." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Science and Environment "Children begin by loving their parents. After a time they judge them. Rarely, if ever, do they forgive them." (Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance) But at my back I always hear Time's winged chariot hurrying near.
- Andrew Marvell You'd be surprised how much it costs to look this cheap.
-- Dolly Parton Science and Environment
Maybe this world is another planet's hell.
-- Aldous Huxley "In the future everyone will be famous for fifteen minutes." (Andy Warhol) "I offer images; I conjure memories of freedom that can still be reached ... But, we can only open the doors. We can't drag people through. I can't free them unless they want to be free--more than any In the blithe days of honeymoon,
With Kate's allurements smitten,
I lov'd her late, I lov'd her soon,
And call'd her dearest kitten.
But now my kitten's grown a cat,
And cross like other wives.
"For better or for worse, our company (The News Corporation Ltd.) is a reflection of my thinking, my character, my values." (Keith Rupert Murdoch, media mogul, 1931-) Science and Environment If you can't annoy somebody, there's little point in writing.
-- Kingsley Amis blah "A subject for a great poet would be God's boredom after the seventh day of creation." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Anyone who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without
feminine upheaval. Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex,
the ugl Science and Environment
There are times when parenthood seems nothing but feeding the mouth that bites you.
-- Peter De Vries Morality consists in suspecting other people of not being legally married.
-- George Bernard Shaw "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) "Death is always and under all circumstances a tragedy, for if it is not, then it means that life itself has become one." (Theodore Roosevelt) Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.
-- Louise Hay Science and Environment "Well begun is half done." (Aristotle) When a girl marries she exchanges the attention of many men for the inattention of one.
-- Helen Rowland "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) Science and Environment
America is a large, friendly dog in a very small room. Every time it wags its tail, it knocks over a
chair.
-- Arnold Toynbee A multiple personality is in a certain sense normal.
-- George H. Mead If addiction is judged by how long a dumb animal will sit pressing a lever to get a 'fix' of
something, to its own detriment, then I would conclude that netnews is far more addictive than
cocaine.
"People drag their progeny around with them like a ball and chain, like some terrible deadweight that hinders their every move - and that, as often as not, effectively winds up killing them." (Michel There is a theory which states that if ever anybody discovers exactly what the Universe is for and
why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and
inex Science and Environment Trust, but verify.
-- Ronald Reagan Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day.
-- Thornton Wilder The better part of valor is discretion.
-- William Shakespeare 1564-1616 from King Henry the Fourth, Part I Science and Environment
The Republicans have a new healthcare proposal: Just say NO to illness!
-- Mark Russell In the end, everything is a gag.
-- Charlie Chaplin "To make the individual uncomfortable, that is my task." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds the most discoveries, is not
"Eureka!", but "That's funny..."
-- Isaac Asimov The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
-- Blaise Pascal, Pensées, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer Science and Environment "Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
-- General George Patton He who kisses the joy is it flies lives in eternity's sunrise
-- William Blake Science and Environment
