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Nothing can so alienate a voter from the political system as backing a winning candidate.
-- Mark B. Cohen The story of a love is not important - what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps
the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.
-- Helen Hayes There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Honor's a thing too subtle for wisdom; if honor lie in eating, he's right honorable.
-- Beaumont, Francis "I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him." (Galileo Galilei) Recreation and Sports I am ready to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me
is another matter.
- Sir Winston Churchill Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteeen.
-- Albert Einstein I know nothing about sex, because I was always married.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Recreation and Sports
"Man looks in the abyss, there's nothing staring back at him. At that moment, man finds his character. And that is what keeps him out of the abyss." (Hal Holbrook, Wallstreet) Paradoxically though it may seem, it is none the less true that life imitates art far more than art
imitates life.
-- Oscar Wilde Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.
-- Don Stanford Nothing shows a man's character more than what he laughs at.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "Paper should be edible, nutritious. Inks used for printing or writing should have delicious flavors. Magazines or newspapers read at breakfast should be eaten for lunch. Instead of throwing one's mai Recreation and Sports No woman marries for money; they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in
love with him first.
-- Cesare Pavese We must become the change we want to see.
-- Gandhi Colleges are places where pebbles are polished and diamonds are dimmed.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll, (seen attributed to "R.S. Ingersoll" - a typo?) Recreation and Sports
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 In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
- Martin Luther King Jr. Women see better than men. Men see lazily, if they do not expect to act. Women see quite
without any wish to act.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Friends need not agree in everything or go always together, or have no comparable other
friendships of the same intimacy. On the contrary, in friendship union is more about ideal things:
and in that "It seems to me that there are two kinds of trickery: the 'fronts' people assume before one another's eyes, and the 'front' a writer puts on the face of reality." (Francois Sagan) Recreation and Sports I still live.
-- Daniel Webster, dying words Live your questions now, and perhaps even without knowing it, you will live along some distant
day into your answers.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke I haven't committed a crime. What I did was fail to comply with the law.
-- David Dinkins, New York City Mayor, answering accusations that he failed to pay his taxes. Recreation and Sports
A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.
-- Gloria Steinem When one find's oneself in a hole of one's own making, it is a good time to examine the quality of
the workmanship.
-- John Renmerde "I'm basically an optimist in life but this doesn't prevent me from deducing as a scientist that we are probably doomed." (Vladimir Chaloupka, physicist, University of Washington, regarding mankind's "... What good are dreams if they come true?" (Frederick Exley, A Fan's Notes) "Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country." (Marquis de Lafayette) Recreation and Sports There's no problem so awful that you can't add some guilt to it and make it even worse!
-- Calvin The average person thinks he isn't.
- Father Larry Lorenzoni "Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect every one who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are ine Recreation and Sports
I read the book of Job last night - I don't think God comes out well in it.
-- Virginia Woolf An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field.
-- Niels Bohr If ever I get married again it would have to be under an anaesthetic.
-- Marie Tonkin There's many a bestseller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.
-- Flannery O'Connor All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others.
-- Chad A. Gamble, Escape, short story Recreation and Sports Nothing can so alienate a voter from the political system as backing a winning candidate.
-- Mark B. Cohen Children are the only form of immortality that we can be sure of.
-- Peter Ustinov Many a man that could rule a hundherd millyon sthrangers with an ir'n hand is careful to take off
his shoes in the front hallway whin he comes home late at night.
-- Finley Peter Dunne, Mr. Dooley O Recreation and Sports
The first duty of love is to listen.
-- Paul Tillich The power of accurate observation is frequently called cynicism by those who don't have it.
- George Bernard Shaw 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 There is no realizable power that man cannot, in time, fashion the tools to attain, nor any power
so secure that the naked ape will not abuse it. So it is written in the genetic cards - only physics Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and around the hands and feet of the man. Recreation and Sports Whenever I date a guy, I think, is this the man I want my children to spend their weekends with?
-- Rita Rudner Destiny is not a matter of chance; but a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, It is a
thing to be acheived.
-- William Jennings Bryant I am returning this otherwise good typing paper to you because someone has printed gibberish all
over it and put your name at the top.
-- English Professor, Ohio University Recreation and Sports
We got to roll with the punches, play all of our hunches, make the best of whatever comes your
way. Forget that blind ambition, learn to trust your intuition -- plowing straight ahead, come what
may To expect defeat is nine-tenths of defeat itself.
-- Francis Crawford "Freedom of press is limited to those who own one." (Henry Louis Mencken) I was going to change my shirt, but I changed my mind instead.
-- Winnie the Pooh Bachelor: the only man who has never told his wife a lie. Recreation and Sports People need loving the most when they deserve it the least.
-- John Harrigan Substitute "damn" every time you're inclined to write "very"; your editor will delete it and the
writing will be just as it should be.
-- Mark Twain It was just him and me. He fought with honor. If it weren't for his honor, he and the others would
have beaten me together. They might have killed me, then. His sense of honor saved my life. I
didn' Recreation and Sports
More than kisses, letters mingle souls.
-- John Donne "Education is a vacine for violence." (Edward James Olmos) "Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences." (Isadora Duncan) 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 Nothing that was worthy in the past departs; no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or
can die.
-- Thomas Carlyle Recreation and Sports Wife: The perfect acquisition for any gentleman feeling himself to have excessive control over his personal affairs. "I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." (James Madison) Free will is a golden thread running through the frozen matrix of fixed events.
-- Robert A. Heinlein _The Rolling Stones_ Recreation and Sports
"I was a total loner, not by self-design. I just didn't know what the hell to say to people. I was so shy. I used to stammer and lisp and dribble at the mouth." (Sir Anthony Hopkins, on his youth) "No man is clever enough to know all the evil he does." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) "It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) You have it easily in your power to increase the sum total of this world's happiness now. How? By
giving a few words of sincere appreciation to someone who is lonely or discouraged. Perhaps you
will The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense.
-- Tom Clancy Recreation and Sports blah bl "Less is more." (Robert Browning) As life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action
of his time, at the peril of being not to have lived.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. Marriage means commitment. Of course, so does insanity. Recreation and Sports
If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be
closed for any other business.
-- Abraham Lincoln English Law prohibits a man from marrying his mother-in-law. This is our idea of useless legislation. The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.
-- George Bernard Shaw A person is not given integrity. It results from the relentless pursuit of honesty at all times.
-- Anon. "I have no special gift; I am only passionately curious." (Albert Einstein) Recreation and Sports If a man is talking in the forest, and there is no woman there to hear him, is he still wrong?
-- Jenny Weber "Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn; my God, do you learn!" (Clive Staples Lewis) If a politician found he had cannibals among his constituents, he would promise them
missionaries for dinner.
-- H. L. Mencken Recreation and Sports
Love is an attempt to change a piece of the dream-world into reality.
-- Theodor Reik When the mouse laughs at the cat, there is a hole nearby.
-- Nigerian Proverb The Republicans have a new healthcare proposal: Just say NO to illness!
-- Mark Russell Some of us are becoming the men we wanted to marry.
-- Gloria Steinem Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards.
-- Soren Kierkegaard Recreation and Sports The bottom line is that (a) people are never perfect, but love can be, (b) that is the one and only
way that the mediocre and vile can be transformed, and (c) doing that makes it that. We waste
time "Self-confidence is the first requisite for achieving great things." (Samuel Johnson) The democratic theory is that if you accumulate enough ignorance at the polls, you produce
intelligence.
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