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This isn't right, this isn't even wrong.
- Wolfgang Pauli (1900-1958), upon reading a young physicist's paper I shall return.
-- General Douglas MacArthur The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
-- Winston Churchill Unfortunately, the media have trouble distinguishing between real science and propaganda
cross-dressed as science.
-- Linda Bowles, political columnist Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.
-- G. K. Chesterton Bedale The most savage controversies are about those matters as to which there is no good evidence
either way.
-- Bertrand Russell "People have to talk about something just to keep their voice boxes in working order so they'll have good voice boxes in case there's ever anything really meaningful to say." (Kurt Vonnegut) Most married couples, even though they love each other very much in theory, tend to view each
other in practice as large teeming flaw colonies, the result being that they get on each other's
nerves Bedale
Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.
-- Oscar Wilde If something is boring after two minutes, try it for four. If still boring, then eight. Then sixteen. Then thirty-two. Eventually one discovers that it is not boring at all." (John Cage) Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
-- Abraham Lincoln We have to keep trying things we're not sure we can pull off. If we just do the things we know we
can do... you don't grow as much. You gotta take those chances on making those big mistakes.
-- Cybi It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid.
- George Bernard Shaw Bedale I think there are only three things America will be known for 2,000 years from now when they
study this civilization: the Constitution, jazz music, and baseball.
-- Gerald Early, writer, baseball do It's impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune.
-- Woody Allen To love another person is to help them love God.
-- Søren Kierkegaard Bedale
I don't know which is more discouraging, literature or chickens.
-- E. B. White The highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to make money do more for the
betterment of life.
-- Henry Ford Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure.
-- George E. Woodberry "He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself." (Thomas Paine) I'm worried that the universe will soon need replacing. It's not holding a charge.
-- Edward Chilton Bedale "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) The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing that you will make one.
-- Ellen Hubbard Research is the act of going up alleys to see if they are blind.
-- Plutarch Bedale
blah "You can lead a man to Congress, but you can't make him think." (Milton Berle) "The want of logic annoys. Too much logic bores. Life eludes logic, and everything that logic alone constructs remains artificial and forced." (André Gide) A man who marries a woman to educate her falls a victim to the same fallacy as the woman who
marries a man to reform him.
-- Elbert Hubbard When in doubt, make a fool of yourself. There is a microscopically thin line between being
brilliantly creative and acting like the most gigantic idiot on earth. So what the hell, leap.
-- Cynthia H "Try not to have a good time ... This is supposed to be educational." (Charles Schultz) Bedale "The great aim of education is not knowledge but action." (Herbert Spencer) The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that it has never tried to
contact us.
-- Bill Watterson, in his comic strip Calvin and Hobbes May you live happily ever after with a poor, ugly, shrewish wife. Bedale
Journalism is merely history's first draft.
-- Geoffrey C. Ward There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as
though everything is a miracle.
-- Albert Einstein When a thing has been said and said well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it.
-- Anatole France "I've decided something: Commercial things really do stink. As soon as it becomes commercial for a mass market it really stinks." (Andy Warhol, The Andy Warhol Diaries, 1989) The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman. -- S. T. Coleridge Bedale It may be that the race is not always to the swift, nor the battle to the strong -- but that is the way
to bet.
-- Damon Runyan Disclaimer: Even my wife doesn't agree with everything I say, and she loves me dearly. My employers don't love me nearly as much as she does. Draw your own conclusions. "Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame." (Erica Jong) Bedale
Don't let it end like this. Tell them I said something.
-- Pancho Villa, dying words A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted
by a little physical antipathy.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche The bottom line is that (a) people are never perfect, but love can be, (b) that is the one and only
way that the mediocre and vile can be transformed, and (c) doing that makes it that. We waste
time The full use of your powers along lines of excellence.
- definition of happiness by John F. Kennedy How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create
it herself.
- Anais Nin Bedale The promises of maniacs, like those of women, are not safely relied upon.
-- Joseph Heller, God Knows The English country gentleman galloping after a fox--the unspeakable in full pursuit of the
uneatable.
-- Oscar Wilde Imitation is the sincerest form of television.
-- Fred Allen Bedale
"I'm basically an optimist in life but this doesn't prevent me from deducing as a scientist that we are probably doomed." (Vladimir Chaloupka, physicist, University of Washington, regarding mankind's "Death where is thy sting? Love, where is thy glory?" (William Shakespeare) The difference between false memories and true ones is the same as for jewels: it is always the
false ones that look the most real, the most brilliant.
-- Salvador Dali Study men, not historians.
-- Harry Truman God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.
-- Voltaire Bedale My religion consists of a humble admiration of the unlimitable superior who reveals Himself in the
slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble minds. That deeply emotional
convi 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 "Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Walk beside me and just be my friend." (Albert Camus) Bedale
I feel that if a person has problems communicating the very least he can do is to shut up.
-- Tom Lehrer "The English have all the material requisites for the revolution. What they lack is the spirit of generalization and revolutionary ardour." (Karl Marx) No wonder nobody comes here--it's too crowded.
-- Yogi Berra "Death where is thy sting? Love, where is thy glory?" (William Shakespeare) 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 Bedale "If I work toward an end, meantime I am confined to a process. The rainbow is more beautiful than the pot at the end of it, because the rainbow is now. And the pot never turns out to be quite what I e Elegance of language may not be in the power of all of us; but simplicity and straight forwardness
are. Write much as you would speak; speak as you think. If with your inferior, speak no coarser
tha America is a large, friendly dog in a very small room. Every time it wags its tail, it knocks over a
chair.
-- Arnold Toynbee Bedale
I have always dressed according to certain Basic Guy Fashion Rules, including:
* Both of your socks should always be the same color
* Or they should at least both be fairly dark
-- Dave Barry Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.
-- Oscar Wilde Anyone nit-picking enough to write a letter of correction to an editor doubtless deserves the error
that provoked it.
-- Alvin Toffler "The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) The theory used to be you marry an older man because they are more mature. The new theory is
that men don't mature. So you might as well marry a younger one.
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-- The Knights who so recently said "Nee!", Monty Python, British comedy television show The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
- General George Patton "I was born and raised with crocodiles; they are a piece of cake. But kids are so ... unpredictable." (Steve Irwin, "Crocodile Hunter") Bedale
In every man's heart there is a secret nerve that answers to the vibrations of beauty.
-- Christopher Morley Be nice to people on your way up because you meet them on your way down.
- Jimmy Durante 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 A weed is no more than a flower in disguise.
-- James Lowell Don't be afraid your life will end; be afraid that it will never begin.
-- Grace Hansen Bedale "The devil's agents may be of flesh and blood, may they not?" (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of the Baskervilles) "Eschew the ordinary, disdain the commonplace. If you have a single-minded need for something, let it be the unusual, the esoteric, the bizarre, the unexpected..." (Chuck Jones) "One may sometimes tell a lie, but the grimace that accompanies it tells the truth." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Bedale
We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart. -- H.L. Mencken "The rules for parents are but three... Love, Limit, and Let them be." (Elaine M. Ward) Very little is known of the Canadian country since it is rarely visited by anyone but the Queen and
illiterate sport fishermen.
-- P. J. O'Rourke People think we make $3 million and $4 million a year. They don't realize that most of us only
make $500,000.
-- Pete Incaviglia, baseball player, 1990 Any sufficiently advanced bureaucracy is indistinguishable from molasses.
-- Anon. Bedale Genius is 99 percent perspiration and 1 percent inspiration.
-- Thomas Edison "In large states public education will always be mediocre, for the same reason that in large kitchens the cooking is usually bad." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "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) Bedale
