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-- Aaron Levenstein I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and
intellect has intended us to forgo their use.
- Galileo Galilei An economic forecaster is like a cross-eyed javelin thrower: they don't win many accuracy
contests, but they keep the crowd's attention.
-- Anonymous Based on what you know about him in history books, what do you think Abraham Lincoln would
be doing if he were alive today?
1) Writing his memoirs of the Civil War.
2) Advising the President.
3) D There is no realizable power that man cannot, in time, fashion the tools to attain, nor any power
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-- Buddy Hackett Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.
-- Mother Teresa Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards.
-- Soren Kierkegaard Home and Garden
Inanimate objects are classified scientifically into three categories-- those that don't work, those
that break down, and those that get lost.
-- Russell Baker 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 "Furious activity is no substitute for understanding." (H. H. Williams) I was going to change my shirt, but I changed my mind instead.
-- Winnie the Pooh The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.
-- Albert Einstein Home and Garden May the road rise to meet you. May the wind always be at your back. May the sun shine warm
upon your face, the rains fall soft upon your fields and, until we meet again, may God hold you in
the palm If we knew what we were doing, it wouldn't be called research, would it?
-- Albert Einstein "How is it that we never have time to do a job right, but we always have time to do it over?" (Anonymous) Home and Garden
The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
-- Blaise Pascal, Pens&eactue;es, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer Life is not an easy matter.... You cannot live through it without falling into frustration and cynicism
unless you have before you a great idea which raises you above personal misery, above
weakness All television is children's television.
-- Richard P. Adler If you cannot be the master of your language, you must be its slave. If you cannot examine your
thoughts, you have no choice but to think them, however silly they may be.
-- Richard Mitchell, from blah "It is a grand mistake to think of being great without goodness and I pronounce it as certain that there was never a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous." (Benjamin Fran Home and Garden For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of our tasks; the ultimate,
the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.
-- Rainer Maria Ril Asking an incumbent member of Congress to vote for term limits is a bit like asking a chicken to
vote for Colonel Sanders.
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Truth is more of a stranger than fiction.
-- Mark Twain The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One
cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the
marvelous str If your wife wants to learn how to drive, don't stand in her way. Everything is drive-through. In California, they even have a burial service called Jump-In-The-
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-- Wil Shriner The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about.
-- Oscar Wilde Home and Garden "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) They couldn't hit an elephant at this dist---
-- John B. Sedgwick, general, dying words, 1864 Lottery: A tax on people who are bad at math.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Home and Garden
I hate mankind, for I think myself to be one of them, and I know how bad I am.
-- Samuel Johnson I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
-- Mark Twain Love me or hate me, but spare me your indifference.
-- Libbie Fudim "Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise." (Alice Walker) His ignorance is encyclopedic
- Abba Eban Home and Garden "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) For I am a bear of very little brain and long words bother me.
-- Winnie the Pooh, character from author A. A. Milne "I do not agree with what you have to say, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) Home and Garden
It was just him and me. He fought with honor. If it weren't for his honor, he and the others would
have beaten me together. They might have killed me, then. His sense of honor saved my life. I
didn' Better to die ten thousand deaths than wound my honor.
-- Joseph Addison I figure you have the same chance of winning the lottery whether you play or not.
-- Fran Lebowitz "The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves." (William Hazlitt) "Careful?! Was my mother careful when she stabbed me in the heart with a coat hanger while I was still in the womb?" (Trey Parker) Home and Garden Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow.
-- Helen Keller We come to love not by finding a perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person
perfectly.
-- Anonymous Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same.
-- Oscar Wilde Home and Garden
"Pay no attention to what the critics say; there has never been set up a statue in honor of a critic." (Jean Sibelius) You can not apply mathematics as long as words still becloud reality.
-- Hermann Weyl When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.
-- Hunter S. Thompson These people have served a longer sentence than some people who have committed murder.
-- Jeff Greenfield, news analyst, describing the jury in the OJ Simpson murder trial, 1995 Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and
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-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Home and Garden Most convicted felons are just people who were not taken to museums or Broadway musicals as
children.
-- Libby Gelman-Waxner "Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free." (Emma Lazarus) "Most people don't realize that large pieces of coral, which have been painted brown and attached to the skull by common wood screws, can make a child look like a deer." (Jack Handey) Home and Garden
Let go of your attachment to being right, and suddenly your mind is more open. You're able to
benefit from the unique viewpoints of others, without being crippled by your own judgment.
-- Ralph Mars Hardly a year passes that fails to find a new, oft-times exotic, research method or technique
added to the armamentarium of political inquiry. Anyone who cannot negotiate Chi squares,
assess randomi Abstract art: a product of the untalented sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.
-- Al Capp A man's feet should be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world.
-- George Santayana Wind is to fire like distance is to love; it extinguishes the small and enflames the great.
-- Anonymous Home and Garden Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.
-- Samuel Butler Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried.
-- G. K. Chesterton Love is blind and marriage is the institution for the blind.
-- James Graham Home and Garden
Honolulu, it's got everything. Sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother.
-- Ken Dodd Whenever you eliminate the inedible, whatever remains, however unpalatable, must be food.
-- Anonymous I hate work. That's why I got married.
-- Peg Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Marriage still confers one very special privilege - only a married person can get divorced. When you're away, I'm restless, lonely
Wretched, bored, dejected; only
here's the rub, my darling dear,
I feel the same when you are here.
-- Samuel Hoffenstein Home and Garden First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.
- Mahatma Gandhi I don't know why we are here, but I'm pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves.
- Ludwig Wittgenstein 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
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The society of women is the element of good manners.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "Dying is the most embarrassing thing that can ever happen to you, because someone's got to take care of all your details." (Andy Warhol, America, 1985) "All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his." (Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest) CAPITAL, n. The seat of misgovernment. That which provides the fire, the pot, the dinner, the
table and the knife and fork for the anarchist; the part of the repast that himself supplies is the
disg Technology is a way of organizing the universe so that man doesn't have to experience it.
-- Max Frisch Home and Garden Happiness is nothing more than health and a poor memory.
-- Albert Schweitzer The marriage of Marxism and feminism has been like the marriage of husband and wife depicted
in English common law: Marxism and feminism are one, and that one is Marxism.
-- Heidi Hartmann, The Unha "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) Home and Garden
Our schools have been scientifically designed to prevent over-education from happening. [...] The
average American (should be) content with their humble role in life, because they're not tempted
to While we are postponing, life speeds by.
- Seneca (3BC - 65AD) A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in students.
-- John Ciardi There are no days in life so memorable as those which vibrated to some stroke of the
imagination.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Love is not blind - it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.
Rabbi Julius Gordon Home and Garden Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you.
-- John-Paul Sartre "Vegiburgers are wrong." (Mike Kaup) Neither fire nor wind, birth nor death can erase our good deeds.
-- Buddha Home and Garden
