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Education is not filling a bucket, but lighting a fire.
-- William Yeats "I think you should defend to the death their right to march, and then go down and meet them with baseball bats." (Woody Allen, in regard to the KKK) Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same.
-- Oscar Wilde Nature gave men two ends - one to sit on and one to think with. Ever since then man's success or
failure has been dependent on the one he used most.
-- George R. Kirkpatrick Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.
-- George Bernard Shaw Limousines and Shuttles Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is.
-- Diane Ackerman "Today was good. / Today was fun. / Tomorrow is another one." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) When I have a kid, I wanna put him in one of those strollers for twins, then run around the mall
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-- Steven Wright Limousines and Shuttles
I'd marry again if I found a man who had 15 million and would sign over half of it to me before the
marriage and guarantee he'd be dead within a year.
-- Bette Davis blah "If we did all the things we are capable of, we would literally astound ourselves." (Thomas Alva Edison) Obedience is the gateway through which knowledge, yes, and love, too, enter the mind of the
child.
-- Anne Sullivan It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get back up.
-- Vince Lombardi Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after.
-- Anne Morrow Lindbergh Limousines and Shuttles If ever I get married again it would have to be under an anaesthetic.
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"Most people would rather die than think; in fact, they do so." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) "This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) I'm at the age where food has taken the place of sex in my life. In fact, I've just had a mirror put
over my kitchen table.
-- Rodney Dangerfield The great end of life is not knowledge, but action. What men need is as much knowledge as they
can organize for action; give them more and it may become injurious. Some men are heavy and
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-- Di Peatlins Limousines and Shuttles Oregon Democratic Senate candidate Tom Bruggere, in describing his support for
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extinction from apathy, indifference, and undernourishment.
-- Robert Hutchins, Great Books, 1954 Experience is the worst teacher; it gives the test before presenting the lesson.
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Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
- H. G. Wells You can only find truth with logic if you have already found truth without it.
- Gilbert Keith Chesterton "Those who hear not the music think the dancers mad." (Anonymous) Thank God - every morning when you get up - that you have something to do which must be
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-- Kin Hubbard Limousines and Shuttles "A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward." (Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1882 - 1945, 32nd U.S. President) "It seems to me that almost all our sadnesses are moments of tension, which we feel as paralysis because we no longer hear our astonished emotions living." (Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poe Ah, well, then I suppose I shall have to die beyond my means.
-- Oscar Wilde, dying words Limousines and Shuttles
Most people are more comfortable with old problems than with new solutions.
-- Anonymous Guys are lucky because they get to grow mustaches. I wish I could. It's like having a little pet for
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-- Anita Wise There's no problem so awful that you can't add some guilt to it and make it even worse!
-- Calvin "When we are born we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools." (William Shakespeare) "I never resist temptation, because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me." (George Bernard Shaw) Limousines and Shuttles "To live is to dream and to die is to awaken." (Anonymous) The nice thing about being a celebrity is that if you bore people they think it's their fault.
- Henry Kissinger "Think where mans glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends." (William Butler Yeats) Limousines and Shuttles
What if nothing exists and we're all in somebody's dream? Or what's worse, what if only that fat
guy in the third row exists?
-- Woody Allen I should have no objection to a repetition of the same life from its beginning, only asking the
advantages authors have in a second edition to correct some faults of the first.
-- Benjamin Franklin "If you're in a bad situation, don't worry it'll change. If you're in a good situation, don't worry it'll change." (John A. Simone Sr.) All that is gold does not glitter. Not all those who wander are lost;
-- J.R.R. Tolkein The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
-- Blaise Pascal, Pensées, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer Limousines and Shuttles Be like a postage stamp. Stick to one thing until you get there.
-- Josh Billings Change is not merely necessary to life, it is life.
-- Alvin Toffler Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
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Never judge a book by its movie.
-- J. W. Eagan If God wanted women to understand men, football would never have been created.
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-- Anonymous Limousines and Shuttles My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music.
-- Vladimir Nabokov A woman has got to love a bad man once or twice in her life to be thankful for a good one.
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If it weren't for electricity we'd all be watching television by candlelight.
-- George Gobel "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) blah "An engaged woman is always more agreeable than a disengaged. She is satisfied with herself. Her cares are over, and she feels that she may exert all her powers of pleasing without suspicion." ( Great Spirit, help me never to judge another until I have walked in his moccasins.
-- Sioux Indian Prayer Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.
-- George Orwell Limousines and Shuttles There are two means of refuge from the misery of life - music and cats.
-- Albert Schweitzer "I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter." (Blaise Pascal) It is better to be looked over than overlooked.
-- Mae West Limousines and Shuttles
All that is gold does not glitter. Not all those who wander are lost;
-- J.R.R. Tolkein You can close your eyes to reality, but not to memories.
-- Stanislaw J. Lem It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get back up.
-- Vince Lombardi People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid.
- Soren Aabye Kierkegaard I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.
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-- Fred Rogers, parody of "Row, row, row your boa If your professor wrote it, it's as near to the truth as you ever need to get.
-- John Watson, University of Canterbury If you are going through hell, keep going.
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I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts, then there is no hurt, but only more love.
-- Mother Teresa After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
-- Aldous Huxley I require three things in a man: He must be handsome, ruthless, and stupid.
-- Dorothy Parker Now comes the mystery.
-- Henry Ward Beecher, dying words, March 8, 1887 "Be not afraid of greatness. Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon 'em." (William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night, II:5) Limousines and Shuttles "The evil that men do lives after them; The good is oft interred with their bones." (William Shakespeare, Julius Cæsar. Act iii. Sc. 2.) Now comes the mystery.
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If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get
married.
-- Katharine Hepburn There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.
-- Oscar Wilde "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) "Have confidence that if you have done a little thing well, you can do a bigger thing well, too." (David Malcolm Storey) "I love Los Angeles. I love Hollywood. They're beautiful. Everybody's plastic, but I love plastic. I want to be plastic." (Andy Warhol, Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up) Limousines and Shuttles Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.
-- Aristotle "There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered." (Nelson Mandela, A Long Walk to Freedom) Each religion, by the help of more or less myth which it takes more or less seriously, proposes
some method of fortifying the human soul and enabline it to make its peace with its destiny.
-- George Limousines and Shuttles
