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"If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost." (Aristotle) "In some ways, I never outgrew my adolescence. I wake up in the morning and think, 'Oh my God, I'm late for a math test!' But then I say, 'Wait a minute. I'm 40.'" (Daniel Clowes) Miracles occur naturally as expressions of love. The real miracle is the love that inspires them. In
this sense everything that comes from love is a miracle.
-- Marianne Williamson If we do not maintain Justice, Justice will not maintain us.
-- Francis Bacon The first rule of intelligent tinkering is to save all the parts.
-- Paul Ehrlich Accommodation Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end.
-- Semisonic, Closing Time "I'm the artist formally known as Beck. I have a genius wig. When I put that wig on, then the true genius emerges. I don't have enough hair to be a genius. I think you have to have hair going everywhe I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers.
-- Gandhi Accommodation
It destroys one's nerves to be amiable everyday to the same human being.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Sex is like bridge: If you don't have a good partner, you better have a good hand.
-- Charles Pierce The question is not whether we will die, but how we will live.
-- Joan Borysenko Guide to understanding a net.addict's day:
Slow day: didn't have much to do, so spent three hours on usenet.
Busy day: managed to work in three hours of usenet.
Bad day: barely squeezed in three ho Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
-- George Bernard Shaw Accommodation Love is what happens to men and women who don't know each other.
-- W. Somerset Maugham A behaviorist is someone who pulls habits out of rats.
-- Anonymous "It is not the answer that enlightens, but the question." (Eugene Ionesco) Accommodation
When nations grow old, the arts grow cold and commerce settles on every tree.
-- William Blake "The reason why kids are crazy is because nobody can face the responsibility of bringing them up." (John Lennon) Women want mediocre men, and men are working hard to become as mediocre as possible.
-- Margaret Mead Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
-- Albert Einstein It ain't what we don't know that gives us trouble, it's what we know that ain't so.
-- Will Rogers Accommodation I know nothing about sex, because I was always married.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is.
-- Diane Ackerman It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid.
- George Bernard Shaw Accommodation
Marriage has many pains, but celibacy has no pleasures.
-- Samuel Johnson Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you
together, but do so with all your heart.
-- Marcus Aurelius Everything has been figured out, except how to live.
- Jean-Paul Sartre blah "Ability wins us the esteem of the true men; luck that of the people." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) If a man does his best, what else is there?
- General George S. Patton Accommodation The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman. -- S. T. Coleridge "If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they don't want to hear." (George Orwell) If you put garbage in a computer nothing comes out but garbage. But this garbage, having
passed through a very expensive machine, is somehow ennobled and none dare criticize it.
-- Anonymous Accommodation
I drink no more than a sponge.
-- Francis Rabelais, Works. Book i. Chap. v. In marriage, as in war, it is permitted to take every advantage of the enemy. 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 Acting is the most minor of gifts and not a very high-class way to earn a living. After all, Shirley
Temple could do it at the age of four.
-- Katharine Hepburn The full use of your powers along lines of excellence.
- definition of happiness by John F. Kennedy Accommodation the social sciences were for all those who had not yet decided what to do with their lives, and for
all those whose premature frustrations led them into the sterile alleys of confrontation.
-- Peter "Every act of violence increases the recruitment of terrorists. Iraq has been turned into a base of terror." (Noam Chomsky, from The Toronto Star, March 23, 2004) "Pay no attention to what the critics say; there has never been set up a statue in honor of a critic." (Jean Sibelius) Accommodation
We would often be sorry if our wishes were gratified.
-- Aesop If all men were brothers, would you let one marry your sister? Love: An obsessive delusion that is cured by marriage. The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism
is the equal sharing of miseries.
-- Winston Churchill You have a cough? Go home tonight, eat a whole box of Ex-Lax--tomorrow you'll be afraid to
cough.
-- Pearl Williams Accommodation Don't let it end like this. Tell them I said something.
-- Pancho Villa, dying words There is nothing so wrong in this world that a sensible woman can't set it right in the course of an
afternoon.
-- Giraudoux "Try not to have a good time ... This is supposed to be educational." (Charles Schultz) Accommodation
"Everything in my life has been determined by mistakes." (Gene Wilder) Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a
brand new ending.
-- Anonymous There is no sincerer love than the love of food.
-- George Bernard Shaw My mother-in-law broke up my marriage. My wife came home from work one day and found me in
bed with her.
-- Lenny Bruce Saying that Windows95 is equal to Macintosh is like finding a potato that looks like Jesus and
believing you've witnessed the second coming.
-- Guy Kawasaki Accommodation "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 Seeing a murder on television can help work off one's antagonisms. And if you haven't any
antagonisms, the commercials will give you some.
-- Alfred Hitchcock Why yes -- a bulletproof vest.
-- James Rodges, murderer, on his final request before the firing squad Accommodation
The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
- Samuel Johnson "People who cease to believe in God or goodness altogether still believe in the devil. I don't know why. No, I do indeed know why. Evil is always possible. And goodness is eternally difficult." (Anne Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.
-- Roger Babson In every man's heart there is a secret nerve that answers to the vibrations of beauty.
-- Christopher Morley It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince Accommodation Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes
unpunished.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Tear open packet, unfold and use.
-- Directions on moist towelette package "I don't think it's the nature of any man to be monogamous. Men are propelled by genetically ordained impulses over which they have no control to distribute their seed." (Marlon Brando) Accommodation
Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.
- Bertrand Russell The scientific theory I like best is that the rings of Saturn are composed entirely of lost airline
luggage.
-- Mark Russell Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by heart and his friends can
only read the title.
-- Virginia Woolf Every normal man must be tempted at times to spit upon his hands, hoist the black flag, and
begin slitting throats.
- Henry Louis Mencken "The most instructive experiences are those of everyday life." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Accommodation Love is blind -- marriage is the eye-opener.
-- Pauline Thomason I've been trying desperately to save my marriage for the last 35 years. "It serves me right for putting all my eggs in one bastard." (Dorothy Parker, 1893-1967, US writer) Accommodation
If it were weren't for pickpockets, I'd have no sex life at all.
-- Rodney Dangerfield The most wasted day of all is that in which we have not laughed.
-- Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort I have never taken any exercise except sleeping and resting.
-- Mark Twain Ah Mozart! He was happily married - but his wife wasn't.
-- Victor Borge The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
-- Blaise Pascal, Pens&eactue;es, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer Accommodation "As long as people will accept crap, it will be financially profitable to dispense it." (Dick Cavett) In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice
that I am not a Republican.
-- H. L. Mencken Marry not a tennis player. For love means nothing to them. Accommodation
"I have great faith in fools; My friends call it self-confidence." (Edger Allen Poe) The world has achieved brilliance without conscience. Ours is a world of nuclear giants and
ethical infants.
-- General Omar Bradley There's many a bestseller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.
-- Flannery O'Connor A woman's always younger than a man of equal years.
-Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Aurora Leigh You can't shake hands with a clenched fist.
-- Indira Gandhi Accommodation You can't shake hands with a clenched fist.
-- Indira Gandhi Under capitalism man exploits man; under socialism the reverse is true.
-- Polish proverb The best reason I can think of for not running for President of the United States is that you have
to shave twice a day.
-- Adlai Stevenson Accommodation
