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We all agree that your theory is crazy, but is it crazy enough?
- Niels Bohr The voice of the intellect is a soft one, but it does not rest till it has gained a hearing.
-- Sigmund Freud "It is neccessary to have wished for death in order to know how good it is to live." (Alexander Dumas) "Courage is doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared." (Eddie Rickenbacker) Everyone believes very easily whatever they fear or desire.
-- Jean de La Fontaine Bewerley In the spider-web of facts, many a truth is strangled.
-- Paul Eldridge 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 "I would rather die standing than live on my knees!" (Emiliano Zapata) Bewerley
The only one of your children who does not grow up and move away is your husband. "Use what talents you possess; The woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best." (William Blake) We must believe in free will, we have no choice.
-- Isaac B. Singer "Politics is my hobby. Smut is my vocation." (Larry Flynt) The open-minded see the truth in different things: the narrow-minded see only the differences.
-- Author Unknown Bewerley There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Love is like the measles. The older you get it, the worse the attack.
-- Mary Roberts Rhinehart The mind has exactly the same power as the hands: not merely to grasp the world, but to change
it.
-- Colin Wilson Bewerley
"I run to see who has the most guts." (Steve Roland Prefontaine) 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 I couldn't remember when I had been so disappointed. Except perhaps the time I found out that
M&Ms really do melt in your hand...
-- Peter Oakley Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do.
-- Dr. Benjamin Spock, American pediatrician, address to new parents "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 Bewerley "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 What is politics, after all, but the compulsion to preside over property and make other peoples'
decisions for them?
-- Tom Robbins, Skinny Legs and All He can compress the most words into the smallest idea of any man I know.
- Abraham Lincoln Bewerley
Those parts of the system that you can hit with a hammer (not advised) are called hardware;
those program instructions that you can only curse at are called software.
-- Unknown author, Levitating T "I have no special gift; I am only passionately curious." (Albert Einstein) How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it.
-- Alexandre Dumas fils If we may believe our logicians, man is distinguished from all other creatures by the
faculty of laughter.
-- Joseph Addison Don't look back -- something might be gaining on you.
-- Satchel Paige Bewerley Don't anthropomorphize computers -- they hate it.
-- Anonymous Not everything that can be counted counts; and not everything that counts can be counted.
-- Albert Einstein "If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they don't want to hear." (George Orwell) Bewerley
"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 "What is most appealing about young folks, after all, is the changes, not the still photograph of finished character but the movie, the soul in flux." (Thomas Pynchon) They're almost inseparable. Sometimes it takes ten people to separate them.
-- Anonymous Love me or hate me, but spare me your indifference.
-- Libbie Fudim Someday is not a day of the week.
-- Anon. Bewerley Why are women so much more interesting to men than men are to women?
-- Virginia Woolf Truth must necessarily be stranger than fiction, for fiction is the creation of the human mind and
therefore congenial to it.
-- G. K. Chesterton I have spread my dreams under your feet;
Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.
-- William Butler Yeats, from "He wishes for the cloths of heaven" Bewerley
Worrying is like a rocking chair, it gives you something to do, but it doesn't get you anywhere.
-- Anonymous If we may believe our logicians, man is distinguished from all other creatures by the
faculty of laughter.
-- Joseph Addison Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through
self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.
-- Helen Keller Never moon a werewolf.
-- Mike Binder "A thing of beauty is a joy forever." (John Keats) Bewerley "We're an embarrasment to college graduates across America." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) 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 Grove giveth and Gates taketh away.
- Bob Metcalfe (inventor of Ethernet) on the trend of hardware speedups not being able to keep
up with software demands Bewerley
Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
- Gail Godwin Democracy is a government where you can say what you think even if you don't think.
-- Anon. In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been
widely regarded as a bad move.
-- Douglas Adams Love is what we are born with. Fear is what we learn. The spiritual journey is the unlearning of
fear and prejudices and the acceptance of love back in our hearts. Love is the essential reality
and I take my wife everywhere I go. She always finds her way back.
-- Henny Youngman Bewerley The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.
-- Harper Lee "When thou art at Rome, do as they do at Rome." (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1547-1616) This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold
of a hammer.
-- Will Rogers Bewerley
Some birds aren't meant to be caged, their feathers are just too bright. And when they fly away,
the part of you that knows it was a sin to lock them up, does rejoice. I guess I just miss my friend. A conclusion is the place where you got tired thinking.
-- Martin H. Fischer Epperson's law:
When a man says it's a silly, childish game, it's probably something his wife can beat him at. The majority of husbands remind me of an orangutan trying to play the violin.
-- Honore de Balzac Marriage is a romance in which the heroine dies in the first chapter.
-- Cecilia Egan Bewerley 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 If a man does his best, what else is there?
- General George S. Patton Democracy is a process by which the people are free to choose the man who will get the blame.
-- Laurence J. Peter Bewerley
Whenever you eliminate the inedible, whatever remains, however unpalatable, must be food.
-- Anonymous "God's creatures, great and small ... eat them one, eat them all." (John A. Simone Sr.) I heard someone tried the monkeys-on-typewriters bit trying for the plays of W. Shakespeare, but
all they got was the collected works of Francis Bacon.
- Bill Hirst Love is blind and marriage is the institution for the blind.
-- James Graham "The purpose of Compulsory Education is to deprive the common people of their commonsense." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) Bewerley Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love,
but no friendship.
-- Oscar Wilde Grad school is the snooze button on the clock-radio of life.
-- John Rogers, comedian (who holds a graduate degree in physics) The big difference between sex for money and sex for free is that sex for money usually costs a
lot less.
-- Brendon Behan Bewerley
We have only one person to blame, and that's each other.
-- Barry Beck, New York Ranger, on who started a fight furing a hockey game The wages of sin are death, but by the time taxes are taken out, it's just sort of a tired feeling.
-- Paula Poundstone "The biggest argument against democracy is a five minute discussion with the average voter." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) "Character is determined more by the lack of certain experiences than by those one has had." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) When women go wrong, men go right after them.
-- Mae West Bewerley "I hear, I know. I see, I remember. I do, I understand." (Confucius, 551 BC-479) Look not mournfully into the Past. It comes not back again. Wisely improve the Present. It is
thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy Future, without fear, and with a manly heart.
-- Henry Wadsworth Lo In the past decade or so, the women's magazines have taken to running home-handyperson
articles suggesting that women can learn to fix things just as well as men. These articles are
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"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) If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?
-- Abraham Lincoln The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the
purpose of satisfying it afterwards.
-- Anatole France The older one grows, the more one likes indecency.
-- Virginia Woolf I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood. If it
does need additional interpretation by someone other than the creator, then I question whether it
ha Bewerley 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 hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax.
-- Albert Einstein Marriage is very much like a violin; after the sweet music is over, the strings are attached. Bewerley
