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-- Henry Ford Diplomacy is the art of saying "Nice doggie" until you can find a rock.
-- Wynn Catlin, also attributed to Will Rogers "The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it." (Abbie Hoffman) Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
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- Robin Williams, commenting on the Clinton/Lewinsky affair Every major horror of history was committed in the name of an altruistic motive.
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There's nothing wrong with having nothing to say -- unless you insist on saying it.
-- Anonymous No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem.
-- Booker T. Washington There are some things which cannot be learned quickly, and time, which is all we have, must be
paid heavily for their acquiring. They are the very simplest things and, because it takes a man's
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-- Thornton Wilder It is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions.
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-- Dorothy Parker, upon hearing that President Coolidge had died The less a man thinks or knows about his virtues, the better we like him.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson A witty saying proves nothing.
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- Alice Roosevelt Longworth I'm worried that the universe will soon need replacing. It's not holding a charge.
-- Edward Chilton "The concerned investment banker is the one who blows the horn on his Mercedes as he drives through a red light." (Anonymous) In the late 1600s the finest instruments originated from three rural families whose workshops
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-- Sigmund Freud Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains or slavery? Forbid it,
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-- Nelson Mandela, A Long Walk to Freedom "Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains." (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, The Social Contract) All that is gold does not glitter. Not all those who wander are lost;
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Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the
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-- Mark Twain "The English have all the material requisites for the revolution. What they lack is the spirit of generalization and revolutionary ardour." (Karl Marx) I used to be Snow White, but I drifted.
-- Mae West "I don't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones." (John Cage) The absolute yearning of one human body for another particular body and its indifference to
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-- Iris Murdoch Services This novel is not to be tossed lightly aside, but hurled with great force.
-- Dorothy Parker Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with
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-- Paulo Freire Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
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The wages of sin are death, but by the time taxes are taken out, it's just sort of a tired feeling.
-- Paula Poundstone "Murder is the very bed-rock of our social institutions." (Octave Mirbeau, The Torture Garden) "Employees make the best dates. You don't have to pick them up and they're always tax-deductible." (Andy Warhol, Andy Warhol's Exposures, 1980) As for courage and will - we cannot measure how much of each lies within us, we can only trust
there will be sufficient to carry through trials which may lie ahead.
-- Andre Norton There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in his home.
-- Kenneth H. Olson, President of DEC, Convention of the World Future Society, 1977 Services Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it
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-- John Adams, dying words "... What good are dreams if they come true?" (Frederick Exley, A Fan's Notes) Services
Correction: Instead of being arrested, as we stated, for kicking his wife down a flight of stairs and hurling a lighted kerosene lamp after her, the Rev. James P. Wellman died unmarried four years ago There is nothing so wrong in this world that a sensible woman can't set it right in the course of an
afternoon.
-- Giraudoux If you don't know how to do something, you don't know how to do it with a computer.
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-- Sigmund Freud Whining is not only graceless, but can be dangerous. It can alert a brute that a victim is in the
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"To live in the hearts we leave behind is not to die." (Thomas Campbell) The gods too are fond of a joke.
- Aristotle 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 There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in his home.
-- Kenneth H. Olson, President of DEC, Convention of the World Future Society, 1977 A scar nobly got, or a noble scar, is a good livery of honour; so belike is that.
-- Shakespeare, William Services The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.
-- Franklin D. Roosevelt A lover tries to stand in well with the pet dog of the house.
-- Moliere I don't know why I did it, I don't know why I enjoyed it, and I don't know why I'll do it again.
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The first clergyman was the first rascal who met the first fool.
-- Voltaire "Employees make the best dates. You don't have to pick them up and they're always tax-deductible." (Andy Warhol, Andy Warhol's Exposures, 1980) "Who is more foolish? The fool or the fool that follows it?" (Alec Guinness) People, like nails, lose their effectiveness when they lose direction and begin to bend.
-- Walter Savage Landor We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next door neighbour.
-- G. K. Chesterton Services "Learn from the mistakes of others--you can never live long enough to make them all yourself." (John Luther) Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche This isn't right, this isn't even wrong.
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Blessed is he who has learned to laugh at himself, for he shall never cease to be entertained.
-- John Powell When I can no longer bear to think of the victims of broken homes, I begin to think of the victims
of intact ones.
-- Peter DeVries The difference between a man who faces death for the sake of an idea and an imitator who goes
in search of martyrdom is that the former expresses his idea most fully in death while the latter
really Sir, I would rather be right than be President.
-- Henry Clay, Speech, 1850, referring to the Compromise Measure To realize that you do not understand is a virtue;
Not to realize that you do not understand is a defect.
--Lao-Tzu, "Tao Teh Ching" Services Knowledge is the intellectual manipulation of carefully verified observations.
-- Sigmund Freud I still say a church steeple with a lightning rod on top shows a lack of confidence.
-- Doug MacLeod Wherever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.
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Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances
continue to exist, a wonderful living side by side can grow up, if they succeed in loving the
distance Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.
-- George Orwell By all means marry. If you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher. -- Socrates Airplane travel is nature's way of making you look like your passport photo.
-- Al Gore, U.S. Vice President With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die.
-- Abraham Lincoln Services Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald He didn't say that. He was reading what was given to him in a speech.
-- Richard Darman, director of OMB, explaining why President Bush wasn't following up on his
campaign pledge that there would be I've always thought that underpopulated countries in Africa are vastly underpolluted.
-- Lawrence Summers, chief economist of the World Bank, explaining why we should export toxic
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