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While we are postponing, life speeds by.
- Seneca (3BC - 65AD) "Who is more foolish? The fool or the fool that follows it?" (Alec Guinness) Your goals, minus your doubts, equal your reality.
-- Ralph Marston "Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past." (George Orwell) All science is concerned with the relationship of cause and effect. Each scientific discovery
increases man's ability to predict the consequences of his actions and thus his ability to control
futur Flaxton I hate work. That's why I got married.
-- Peg Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show America is the only nation in history which miraculously has gone directly from barbarism to
degeneration without the usual intervention of civilization.
-- George Clemenceau One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.
-- Virginia Woolf Flaxton
Teach a parrot the terms "supply and demand" and you've got an economist.
-- Thomas Carlyle Luck is the residue of design.
- Branch Rickey - former owner of the Brooklyn Dodger Baseball Team All you need is love.
-- The Beatles, song title Love begins with a smile, grows with a kiss, and ends with a teardrop.
-- Anonymous We can never be sure that the opinion we are endeavoring to stifle is a false opinion; and if we
were sure, stifling it would be an evil still.
-- John Stuart Mill Flaxton 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 Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.
- Jean-Paul Sartre "The proper office of a friend is to side with you when you are wrong. Nearly anybody will side with you when you are right." (Mark Twain) Flaxton
I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible
by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.
- Umberto Eco "Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom." (Raymonde Uy) Whoever controls the media--the images--controls the culture.
-- Allen Ginsberg A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.
-- Fr. Jerome Cummings My Alma mater was books, a good library . . . . I could spend the rest of my life reading, just
satisfying my curiosity.
--Malcolm X Flaxton Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution.
-- Mae West Ne'er take a wife till thou hast a house (and a fire) to put her in.
-- Benjamin Franklin Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous
and dreadful.
-- Samuel Johnson Flaxton
Anything is possible, but only a few things actually happen.
-- Richard Rosen Show my head to the people, it is worth seeing.
-- Georges Danton, to his executioner "What dies if freedom lives? What lives if freedom dies?" (Lindsay Anderson, British filmmaker, from if.... (1968) "I am interested in anything about revolt, disorder , chaos--especially activity that seems to have no meaning. It seems to me to be the road toward freedom ... Rather than starting inside, I start ou "I was born and raised with crocodiles; they are a piece of cake. But kids are so ... unpredictable." (Steve Irwin, "Crocodile Hunter") Flaxton Life is ours to be spent, not to be saved.
-- D.H. Lawrence Teach a parrot the terms "supply and demand" and you've got an economist.
-- Thomas Carlyle "Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) Flaxton
The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains that I
have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time.
- George Bernard Shaw As always, victory finds a hundred fathers but defeat is an orphan.
-- Count Galeazzo Ciano, The Ciano Diaries Multimedia? As far as I'm concerned, it's reading with the radio on!
-- Rory Bremner "A celebrity is a person who works hard all his life to become well known, then wears dark glasses to avoid being recognized." (Fred Allen) You don't have to suffer to be a poet; adolescence is enough suffering for anyone.
-- John Ciardi Flaxton Never raise your hands to your kids. It leaves your groin unprotected.
-- Red Buttons 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 May your wife be a witch who takes after her mother, and may you all live together in a one-room house. Flaxton
The sun never sets on the British empire because Britain is in the east and the sun sets in the
west.
-- Unknown history student Marriage was all a woman's idea and for man's acceptance of the pretty yoke, it becomes us to
be grateful.
-- Phyllis McGinley "Being born is like being kidnapped. And then sold into slavery." (Andy Warhol) I think one of the reasons I'm popular again is because I'm wearing a tie. You have to be different.
-- Tony Bennett, 1995 I read the book of Job last night - I don't think God comes out well in it.
-- Virginia Woolf Flaxton Basic research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
-- Wernher Von Braun May you live happily ever after with a poor, ugly, shrewish wife. "A celebrity is a person who works hard all his life to become well known, then wears dark glasses to avoid being recognized." (Fred Allen) Flaxton
"Of all mankind the great poet is the equable man." (Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass, 1855) We are not in a position in which we have nothing to work with. We already have capacities,
talents, direction, missions, callings.
-- Abraham Maslow The multitude is always in the wrong.
-- Wentworth Dillon, Earl of Roscommon, 1684 After finding no qualified candidates for the position of principal, the school board is extremely
pleased to announce the appointment of David Steele to the post.
-- Philip Streifer, Superintendent Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
- H. G. Wells Flaxton Military justice is to justice what military music is to music.
-- George Clemenceau "As long as people will accept crap, it will be financially profitable to dispense it." (Dick Cavett) It is a product of Einstein's genius -- taking a commonplace observation, combining it with some
simple imaginary experiments, and arriving at a revolutionary conclusion.
-- Clifford M. Wills, 1986 Flaxton
What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is
the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset.
-- Crowf Diplomat: A man who can convince his wife she would look stout in a fur coat. As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.
-- Abraham Lincoln Blessed is he who has learned to laugh at himself, for he shall never cease to be entertained.
-- John Powell The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious.
-- Albert Einstein Flaxton To decide, to be at the level of choice, is to take responsibility for your life and to be in control of
your life.
-- Abbie M. Dale Mistress: Something between a mister and a mattress.
-- Anonymous To be or not to be isn't the question. The question is how to prolong being.
-- Tom Robbins Flaxton
It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is
the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be
cr America's one of the finest countries anyone ever stole.
-- Bobcat Goldthwait We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind
her stands his wife.
-- Groucho Marx A person should never be ashamed to own that he is wrong, which is but saying in other words
that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.
-- Alexander Pope "As a child, I thought I hated everybody, but when I grew up I realized it was just children I didn't like." (Philip Larkin) Flaxton Establishing yourself, furnishing a house, building up a comfortable existence, and having that menace hanging over your head all the time - no, I prefer to live in hotels, cafés, just passing through Imagine if every Thursday your shoes exploded if you tied them the usual way. This happens to
us all the time with computers, and nobody thinks of complaining.
-- Jeff Raskin The great tragedy of science, the slaying of a beautiful theory by an ugly fact.
-- Thomas Henry Huxley Flaxton
He who hesitates is a damned fool.
- Mae West "I was lousy in school. Real screwed-up. A moron. I was antisocial and didn't bother with the other kids. A really bad student. I didn't have any brains. I didn't know what I was doing there. That's w We had a lot in common. I loved him and he loved him.
-- Shelley Winters "He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever." (Chinese Proverb) The sun never sets on the British empire because Britain is in the east and the sun sets in the
west.
-- Unknown history student Flaxton I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible
by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.
- Umberto Eco The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
-- Blaise Pascal, Pensées, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it. Flaxton
The sun never sets on the British empire because Britain is in the east and the sun sets in the
west.
-- Unknown history student It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince Society is like a stew. If you don't stir it up every once in a while then a layer of scum floats to the
top.
-- Ed Abbey For best results: wash in cold water separately, hang dry and iron with warm iron. For not so good
results: drag behind car through puddles, blow-dry on roofrack.
-- Laundry instructions on a shirt When looking back, usually I'm more sorry for the things I didn't do than for the things I shouldn't
have done.
-- Malcolm Forbes Flaxton >From error to error one discovers the entire truth.
-- Sigmund Freud We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind
her stands his wife.
-- Groucho Marx "The sickness of our times for me has been just this damn thing that everything has been getting smaller and smaller and less and less important, that the romantic spirit has dried up, that there is n Flaxton
