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University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
- Henry Kissinger Marriage is a lottery in which men stake their liberty and women their happiness.
-- Madame de Rieux "They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself." (Andy Warhol) "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 "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) Business and Economy The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech.
-- George Bernard Shaw 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 History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.
-- Winston Churchill Business and Economy
I'm for abolishing and doing away with redundancy.
-- J. Curtis McKay, Wisconsin State Elections Board Great innovations should not be forced on slender majorities.
-- Thomas Jefferson The Church is an organism that grows best in an alien society.
-- C. Stacey Woods "The key to wisdom is knowing all the right questions." (John A. Simone Jr.) The grand aim of all science is to cover the greatest number of empirical facts by logical
deduction from the smallest number of hypotheses or axioms.
-- Albert Einstein Business and Economy Politics doesn't make strange bedfellows, marriage does.
-- Groucho Marx I'm like old wine. They don't bring me out very often, but I'm well preserved.
-- Rose Kennedy, (1890-1995) family matriarch, on her 100th birthday, 1991 I shall return.
-- General Douglas MacArthur Business and Economy
My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music.
-- Vladimir Nabokov Work is the curse of the drinking class.
-- Oscar Wilde Our elections are free - it's in the results where eventually we pay.
-- Bill Stern Marriage is an institution--but who wants to live in an institution? The west wasn't won on salad.
-- ND Beef Council, billboard advertisement, 1990 Business and Economy The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. The opposite of a profound truth may
well be another profound truth.
- Niels Bohr Anyone who considers arithmetical methods of producing random digits is, of course, in a state of
sin.
-- John Von Neuman "What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Business and Economy
"An able man shows his spirit by gentle words and resolute actions; he is neither hot nor timid." (Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield, 4th earl of) I must follow the people. Am I not their leader?
-- Benjamin Disraeli 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 There is nothing more notable in Socrates than that he found time, when he was an old man, to
learn music and dancing, and thought it time well spent.
-- Michel de Montaigne 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 Business and Economy "There is nothing more fearful than ignorance in action." (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1749-1832, Criticisms, Reflections and Maxims) "Being born is like being kidnapped. And then sold into slavery." (Andy Warhol) I begin by taking. I shall find scholars later to demonstrate my perfect right.
- Frederick (II) the Great Business and Economy
"Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences." (Isadora Duncan) Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.
-- Albert Einstein Even overweight cats instinctively know the cardinal rule: when fat, arrange yourself in slim
poses.
-- John Weitz, American Designer For centuries, theologians have been explaining the unknowable in terms of the-not-worth-
knowing.
- Henry Louis Mencken The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
- General George Patton Business and Economy A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
-- Robert Frost "A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) The west wasn't won on salad.
-- ND Beef Council, billboard advertisement, 1990 Business and Economy
"The purpose of Compulsory Education is to deprive the common people of their commonsense." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) A man in the house is worth two in the street.
-- Mae West "Common sense and education are highly compatible; in fact, neither is worth much without the other." (Donald G. Smith) Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.
-- Samuel Johnson Love is like the measles. The older you get it, the worse the attack.
-- Mary Roberts Rhinehart Business and Economy In all recorded history there has not been one economist who has had to worry about where the
next meal would come from.
-- Peter F. Drucker University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
- Henry Kissinger It is never too late to be what you might have been.
-- George Eliot Business and Economy
If stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out?
- Will Rogers "The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it." (Abbie Hoffman) It is best to learn as we go, not go as we have learned.
-- Leslie Jeanne Sahler Technology makes it possible for people to gain control over everything, except over technology.
-- John Tudor "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world, indeed it is the only thing that ever has." (Margaret Mead, 1901-78) Business and Economy If I had only known, I would have been a locksmith.
-- Albert Einstein The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it.
-- Anonymous Marriage was all a woman's idea and for man's acceptance of the pretty yoke, it becomes us to
be grateful.
-- Phyllis McGinley Business and Economy
"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) I've been trying desperately to save my marriage for the last 35 years. An ideal wife is one who remains faithful to you but tries to be just as charming as if she weren't.
-- Sacha Guitry The open-minded see the truth in different things: the narrow-minded see only the differences.
-- Author Unknown One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: that word is love.
-- Sophocles Business and Economy Minds are like parachutes - they only function when open.
-- Thomas Dewar Why do grandparents and grandchildren get along so well? They have the same enemy-- the
mother.
-- Claudette Colbert In every man's heart there is a secret nerve that answers to the vibrations of beauty.
-- Christopher Morley Business and Economy
A husband is what's left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
-- Helen Rowland 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 blah "Ideas are like stars, you will not succeed in touching them with your hands, but like the seafaring man on the desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and, following them, you reach yo I don't want to achieve immortality through my work... I want to achieve it by not dying!
-- Woody Allen Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than
the wisest man can answer.
-- Charles Caleb Colton Business and Economy It is dangerous for a national candidate to say things that people might remember.
-- Eugene McCarthy You have to walk carefully in the beginning of love; the running across fields into your lover's
arms can only come later when you're sure they won't laugh if you trip.
-- Jonathan Carroll, Outside "I've just had eighteen straight whiskies. I think that's the record." (Dylan Thomas, final words) Business and Economy
Fanaticism consists of redoubling your efforts when you have forgotten your aim.
-- George Santayana Before you put on a frown, make absolutely sure there are no smiles available.
-- Jim Beggs If you don't know how to do something, you don't know how to do it with a computer.
-- Anon. After all, all he did was string together a lot of old, well-known quotations.
-- H. L. Mencken, on Shakespeare "One of the good things about low self-esteem is never having rain hit you in the face." (John A. Simone Jr.) Business and Economy Wherever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.
-- Harry S. Truman Soul meets soul on lovers lips.
-- Percy Bysshe Shelley "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 Business and Economy
A kitten is chiefly remarkable for rushing about like mad at nothing whatever, and generally
stopping before it gets there.
-- Agnes Repplier When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President; I'm beginning to believe it.
-- Clarence Darrow And in the end it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
-- Abraham Lincoln Conversation, fastidious Goddess, loves blood better than brick, and feasts most subtly on the
human will.
-- Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway There's nothing remarkable about it. All one has to do is hit the right keys at the right time and the
instrument plays itself.
-- Johann Sebastian Bach Business and Economy The only thing you take with you when you're gone is what you leave behind.
-- John Allston The open-minded see the truth in different things: the narrow-minded see only the differences.
-- Author Unknown All courage is a form of constancy. It is always himself that a coward abandons first. After this all
other betrayals come.
-- Cormac McCarthy Business and Economy
