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When a friend is in trouble, don't annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up
something appropriate and do it.
-- E. W. Howe When Baby's cries grew hard to bear I popped him in the Frigidaire. I never would have done so if
I'd known that he'd be frozen stiff. My wife said, "George, I'm so unhappy! Our darling's now
comple "Courage is found in unlikely places." (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
-- Mark Twain Hey, you can't fight in here! This is the war room!
-- Dr. Strangelove Disability Resources You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.
-- Henry Ford It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
-- Mark Twain He early on let her know who is the boss. He looked her right in the eye and clearly said, "You're
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-- Anonymous Disability Resources
Insurance is like marriage. You pay, pay, pay, and you never get anything back.
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show May you live happily ever after with a poor, ugly, shrewish wife. Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are conservatives.
-- John Stuart Mill As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he.
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-- Robert Hutchins, Great Books, 1954 I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury.
-- Groucho Marx There is only one nature - the division into science and engineering is a human imposition, not a
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Usenet is like a herd of performing elephants with diarrhea -- massive, difficult to redirect, awe-
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-- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz Remember your dreams.
-- Maryanne Radmacher-Herhey If you never want to see a man again, say, "I love you, I want to marry you, I want to have children..." - they leave skid marks. -- Rita Rudner Disability Resources "We're an embarrasment to college graduates across America." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) A human being is a part of the whole, called by us Universe, a part limited in time and space. He
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We would often be sorry if our wishes were gratified.
-- Aesop The concept is interesting and well-formed, but in order to earn better than a 'C', the idea must be
feasible.
- A Yale University management professor in response to student Fred Smith's paper prop "He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself." (Thomas Paine) "Those who feel certainty are stupid and those with any imagination or understanding are filled with doubt and indecision." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That is his.
-- Oscar Wilde Disability Resources The last good thing written in C++ was the Pachelbel Canon.
-- Jerry Olson Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
- H. G. Wells I'll sleep when I'm dead.
- Warren Zevon Disability Resources
Matters of religion should never be matters of controversy. We neither argue with a lover about
his taste, not condemn him, if we are just, for knowing so human a passion.
-- George Santayana "Small minds discuss people, average minds discuss events, great minds discuss ideas." (Anonymous) This book fills a much-needed gap.
- Moses Hadas in a review Education ... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth
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-- G. M. Trevelyan "A bore is a man who, when you ask him how he is, tells you." (Bert Leston Taylor) Disability Resources Marriage is bliss. Ignorance is bliss. Ergo...
-- Anonymous "Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." (George Bernard Shaw) Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.
-- Roger Babson Disability Resources
Obstacles cannot crush me. Every obstacle yields to stern resolve. He who is fixed to a star does
not change his mind.
-- Leonardo da Vinci, Notebooks A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents.
-- H. L. Mencken Anything is possible, but only a few things actually happen.
-- Richard Rosen If women didn't exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning.
-- Aristotle Onassis Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
-- Albert Einstein Disability Resources "Well begun is half done." (Aristotle) I've had a perfectly wonderful evening. But this wasn't it.
-- Groucho Marx The older one grows, the more one likes indecency.
-- Virginia Woolf Disability Resources
If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe.
- Carl Sagan "Better to be deprived of food for three days than tea for one." (Chinese Proverb) Parenthetical remarks (however relevant) are unnecessary.
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-- Will Rogers Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
-- George Bernard Shaw Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
-- T.S. Eliot Disability Resources
When you don't know that you don't know, it's a lot different than when you do know that you
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-- Bill Parcels, New Engla "He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches." (George Bernard Shaw) "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) "In every gathering of thirteen, expect one guest will turn out to be a Judas." (Aleister Crowley) Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them
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-- H.L. Mencken Disability Resources A man's reach should exeed his grasp, or else what's a heaven for?
-- Robert Browning "Freedom of press is limited to those who own one." (Henry Louis Mencken) Thank God - every morning when you get up - that you have something to do which must be
done, whether you like it or not. Being forced to work, and forced to do your best, will breed in you
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Stung by the splendour of a sudden thought.
-- Robert Browning It's impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune.
-- Woody Allen blah "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." (Thomas Jefferson) Many a man has finally succeeded only because he has failed after repeated efforts. If he had
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-- Orison Swett Marden Someday is not a day of the week.
-- Anon. Disability Resources Stung by the splendour of a sudden thought.
-- Robert Browning I think every woman is entitled to a middle husband she can forget.
-- Adela Rogers St. John Knowledge is the intellectual manipulation of carefully verified observations.
-- Sigmund Freud Disability Resources
The advantage of a classical education is that it enables you to despise the wealth which it
prevents you from achieving.
-- Russell Green When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her. -- Guitry I don't know anything about luck. I've never banked on it, and I'm afraid of people who do. Luck to
me is something else; hard work and realizing what is opportunity and what isn't.
-- Lucille Ball All courage is a form of constancy. It is always himself that a coward abandons first. After this all
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-- Cormac McCarthy your daughters marry men of substance: gypsies with two bears. Disability Resources blah "There is a melancholy that stems from greatness." (Sébastien-Roch Nicolas Chamfort, 1740/41-1794) Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.
-- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz Honolulu, it's got everything. Sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother.
-- Ken Dodd Disability Resources
I base my fashion sense on what doesn't itch.
-- Gilda Radner No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent.
-- Abraham Lincoln "What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Epperson's law:
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-- Groucho Marx All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others.
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