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It is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions.
-- Aldous Huxley Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with
the powerful, not to be neutral.
-- Paulo Freire Egotist: a person more interested in himself than in me.
- Ambrose Bierce It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.
-- Harry Truman We can do no great things; only small things with great love.
-- Mother Teresa South East The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.
-- Harper Lee Diplomacy is the art of saying "Nice doggie" until you can find a rock.
-- Wynn Catlin, also attributed to Will Rogers Sometimes a scream is better than a thesis.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson South East
The gods gave man fire and he invented fire engines. They gave him love and he invented marriage. "Drugs have done a lot of good. A lot of good songs have been written. 'Penny Lane' is worth 10 dead kids. 'Dark Side of the Moon?' 100 dead kids. At least that many were conceived by people listening blah "Ability wins us the esteem of the true men; luck that of the people." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) "Your children are not your children. They are sons and daughters of life's longing for itself. They come through you but not from you. And though they are with you, they belong not to you. You may gi "Pleasant words are a honeycomb, Sweet to the soul and healing to the bones." (Bible, Proverbs 16:24) South East America is the only nation in history which miraculously has gone directly from barbarism to
degeneration without the usual intervention of civilization.
-- George Clemenceau Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect, and it is shameful to surrender it too soon or to the first
comer: there is nobility in preserving it coolly and proudly through long youth, until at last A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents.
-- H. L. Mencken South East
"I think all great innovations are built on rejections." (Louis-Ferdinand Céline) Ah Mozart! He was happily married - but his wife wasn't. -- Borge Friends may come and go, but enemies accumulate.
-- Thomas Jones Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
-- Soren Kierkegaard Biography lends to death a new terror.
-- Oscar Wilde South East Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than
the wisest man can answer.
-- Charles Caleb Colton Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
-- Gail Godwin "When even one American--who has done nothing wrong--is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth--then all Americans are in peril." (Harry S. Truman) South East
Love, I find, is like singing. Everybody can do enough to satisfy themselves, though it may not
impress the neighbors as being very much.
-- Zora Neale Hurston Grad school is the snooze button on the clock-radio of life.
-- John Rogers, comedian (who holds a graduate degree in physics) Since Eve ate the apple, much depends on dinner.
-- Lord Byron Marriage is a matter of give and take, but so far I haven't been able to find anybody who'll take what I have to give. -- Cass Daley Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so you apologize for truth.
-- Benjamin Disraeli South East "A man who flies from his fear may find he has only taken a shortcut to meet it." (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) The full use of your powers along lines of excellence.
- definition of happiness by John F. Kennedy If all men were brothers, would you let one marry your sister? South East
Bride: A woman with a fine prospect of happiness behind her. Love is the delusion that one man or woman differs from another.
-- H. L. Mencken One may have a blazing hearth in one's soul and yet no one ever comes to sit by it. Passersby
see only a wisp of smoke rising from the chimney and continue on their way.
-- Vincent Van Gogh We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart. -- H.L. Mencken The great thing in this world is not so much where we stand as in what direction we are going.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes South East When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen.
-- Ernest Hemingway If we were not all so interested in ourselves, life would be so uninteresting that none of us would
be able to endure it.
-- Schopenhauer A university professor set an examination question in which he asked what is the difference
between ignorance and apathy. The professor had to give an A+ to a student who answered: I
don't know and South East
"There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) 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 I didn't have time to write a short letter, so I wrote a long one instead.
-- Mark Twain "God is Man's stupidest idea." (Marcel Duchamp, French Dadaist) I never hated a man enough to give him his diamonds back.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor South East It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.
-- Henry James Be nice to people on your way up because you meet them on your way down.
- Jimmy Durante We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
-- Aristotle South East
Marriage isn't a word... it's a sentence.
-- King Vidor, in the 1928 film, The Crawl Researchers have discovered that chocolate produces some of the same reactions in the brain
as marijuana...The researchers also discovered other similarities between the two, but can't
remember what Hell hath no fury like a bureaucrat scorned.
-- Milton Friedman Politics doesn't make strange bedfellows, marriage does.
-- Groucho Marx Why doesn't she like me? Is it my hair, my overbite, the fact that I've worn the same shirt and
shorts for the last four years?
-- Bart Simpson, young character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated tele South East If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile.
-- Lynda Barry The difference between false memories and true ones is the same as for jewels: it is always the
false ones that look the most real, the most brilliant.
-- Salvador Dali Man is the only animal that blushes--or needs to.
-- Mark Twain South East
If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe.
- Carl Sagan "Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains." (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, The Social Contract) "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) I hate mankind, for I think myself to be one of them, and I know how bad I am.
-- Samuel Johnson The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when
we created them.
- Albert Einstein South East At every crossroads on the path that leads to the future, tradition has placed 10,000 men to guard
the past.
-- Maurice Maeterlink Be nice to people on your way up because you meet them on your way down.
- Jimmy Durante Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer.
-- Mark Twain South East
Where there is marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.
-- Benjamin Franklin "I have no special gift; I am only passionately curious." (Albert Einstein) If you don't double-click me, I can't do anything.
-- John Aniston, on how computers have taken over his life Paradoxically though it may seem, it is none the less true that life imitates art far more than art
imitates life.
-- Oscar Wilde A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents.
-- H. L. Mencken South East A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.
-- Edward Abbey "College: two hundred people reading same book. An obvious mistake. Two hundred people can read two hundred books." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.
-- William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Act i. Sc. 1. South East
Marriage is the process of finding out what kind of man your wife would have preferred. "I'm so insane, I voted for Eisenhower."
"Oh yeah, well I'm so insane, I voted for Eisenhower TWICE!"
-- Ken Kesey from "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" The democratic theory is that if you accumulate enough ignorance at the polls, you produce
intelligence.
-- Philo Vance "Today was good. / Today was fun. / Tomorrow is another one." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate.
-- Steven Wright South East We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.
-- Mme de Staël "Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave, and impossible to forget." (G. Randolf) "People expect a certain reaction from a business, and when you pleasantly exceed those expectations, you've somehow passed an important psychological threshold." (Richard Thalheimer, president, The South East
When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of many men for the inattention of one.
-- Helen Rowland Women: If they're not turning down your proposals for marriage, they're accusing you of
suspicious behavior in the women's lingerie changing room.
-- Cliff Clavin, character on "Cheers", U.S. Televi "Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past." (George Orwell) Having children makes you no more a parent than having a piano makes you a pianist.
-- Michael Levine, Lessons at the Halfway Point Life is like a movie--since there aren't any commercial breaks, you have to get up and go to the
bathroom in the middle of it.
-- Nick Mirov South East I can write better than anybody who can write faster, and I can write faster than anybody who can
write better.
- A. J. Liebling The secret of success is to know something nobody else knows.
- Aristotle Onassis "Your children are not your children. They are sons and daughters of life's longing for itself. They come through you but not from you. And though they are with you, they belong not to you. You may gi South East
