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Mary had a little lamb and the doctor fainted.
-- Anonymous 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 "It is not the answer that enlightens, but the question." (Eugene Ionesco) The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains.The superior teacher demonstrates. The
great teacher inspires.
-- William Arthur Ward "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world, indeed it is the only thing that ever has." (Margaret Mead, 1901-78) Business and Economy The theory used to be you marry an older man because they are more mature. The new theory is that men don't mature. So you might as well marry a younger one. The mind has exactly the same power as the hands: not merely to grasp the world, but to change
it.
-- Colin Wilson If we don't change the direction we are going,
We are likely to end up where we are heading.
-- Chinese saying Business and Economy
"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) "It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure on the world." (John Steinbeck In olden times sacrifices were made at the altar--a practice which is still continued.
-- Helen Rowland There is nothing so wrong in this world that a sensible woman can't set it right in the course of an
afternoon.
-- Giraudoux The more we do, the more we can do; the more busy we are the more leisure we have.
-- William Hazlitt Business and Economy The best defense is a good offense.
-- Anonymous Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting.
- Karl Wallenda Never eat more than you can lift.
-- Miss Piggy, character on "The Muppet Show," U.S. television show Business and Economy
The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and
science.
-- Albert Einstein There's nothing remarkable about it. All one has to do is hit the right keys at the right time and the
instrument plays itself.
-- Johann Sebastian Bach A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take her off his hands. -- Guitry There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as
though everything is a miracle.
- Albert Einstein Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot. Business and Economy We have been friends together in sunshine and in shade.
-- Caroline Norton Organic chemistry is the chemistry of carbon compounds. Biochemistry is the study of carbon
compounds that crawl.
-- Mike Adams "Furious activity is no substitute for understanding." (H. H. Williams) Business and Economy
My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music.
-- Vladimir Nabokov In medieval times, people thought that evil spirits could enter a person through an open mouth.
These days they more often leave that way.
-- David Deckert It was the greatest of the imperfect ventriloquist acts: when his lips moved, her body sang.
-- Tom Robbins Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them
down people's throats.
-- Howard Aiken You can't shake hands with a clenched fist.
-- Indira Gandhi Business and Economy Where there is an unknowable there is a promise.
-- Thornton Wilder The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same
time, and still retain the ability to function.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald A conclusion is the place where you got tired thinking.
-- Martin H. Fischer Business and Economy
Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than
yourself.
-- William Faulkner Motivation will almost always beat mere talent.
-- Norman R. Augustine The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt "Never frighten a little man. He'll kill you." (Robert A. Heinlein) To look backward for a while is to refresh the eye, to restore it, and to render it more fit for its
prime function of looking forward.
-- Margaret Fairless Barber Business and Economy I don't mind if you don't like my manners. I don't like them myself. They're pretty bad. I grieve over
them on long winter evenings.
-- Humphrey Bogart to Lauren Bacall, in "The Big Sleep" People only see what they are prepared to see.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson If I tell a lie it's only because I think I'm telling the truth.
-- Phil Gaglardi, Minister of Highways, British Columbia, Canada Business and Economy
"A man is only as faithful as his opportunity." (Chris Rock) Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than the arguments of its opposers.
-- William Penn Live TV died in the late 1950s, electronic bulletin boards came along in the mid-1980s, meaning
there was about a 25-year gap when it was difficult to put your foot in your mouth and have
people all And now, in keeping with Channel 40's policy of always bringing you the latest in blood and guts,
in living color, you're about to see another first -- an attempted suicide.
-- Chris Hubbock, who sh Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
-- Aldous Huxley Business and Economy Nothing can so alienate a voter from the political system as backing a winning candidate.
-- Mark B. Cohen "The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of the dream." (Eleanor Roosevelt) If the French were really intelligent, they'd speak English.
-- Wilfred Sheed Business and Economy
"Conscience and cowardice are really the same things. Conscience is the trade-name of the firm. That is all." (Oscar Wilde) An act of love that fails is just as much a part of the divine life as an act of love that succeeds, for
love is measured by fullness, not by reception.
-- Harold Loukes At the bottom no one in life can help anyone else in life; this one experiences over and over in
every conflict and every perplexity: that one is alone. That isn't as bad as it may first appear; and Well if this is the wrong number, why did you answer it?
-- James Thurber It is never too late to be what you might have been.
-- George Eliot Business and Economy What would you attempt if you knew you could not fail?
-- Robert Schuller "Ninety percent of my salary I spent on booze and women ... and the other ten percent I wasted." (Tug McGraw, Major League Baseball pitcher) Egotist: a person more interested in himself than in me.
- Ambrose Bierce Business and Economy
"This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) This is the fourth?
-- Thomas Jefferson, dying words Elegance of language may not be in the power of all of us; but simplicity and straight forwardness
are. Write much as you would speak; speak as you think. If with your inferior, speak no coarser
tha blah "The length of this document defends it well against the risk of its being read." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) The higher up you go, the more mistakes you are allowed. Right at the top, if you make enough of
them, it's considered to be your style.
-- Fred Astaire Business and Economy Executive ability is deciding quickly and getting someone else to do the work.
-- John G. Pollard Hell is other people.
- Jean-Paul Sartre We are not in a position in which we have nothing to work with. We already have capacities,
talents, direction, missions, callings.
-- Abraham Maslow Business and Economy
Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands... but English women only
hope to find in their butlers.
-- W. Somerset Maugham The less their ability, the more their conceit.
Ahad HaAm "Freedom of press is limited to those who own one." (Henry Louis Mencken) Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.
-- George Washington While we are postponing, life speeds by.
- Seneca (3BC - 65AD) Business and Economy The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. The opposite of a profound truth may
well be another profound truth.
- Niels Bohr The power of accurate observation is frequently called cynicism by those who don't have it.
- George Bernard Shaw Winning is a habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.
-- Vince Lombardi Business and Economy
"Freedom of press is limited to those who own one." (Henry Louis Mencken) "Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former." (Albert Einstein) "If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, sir, should keep his friendship in a constant repair." (Samuel Johnson) There's a fine line between fishing and standing on the shore like an idiot.
-- Steven Wright I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell this to my children they just about throw up.
-- Barbara Bush, first lady, 1989 Business and Economy Facts are the enemy of truth.
- Don Quixote - Man of La Mancha We love because it's the only true adventure.
-- Nikki Giovanni "The things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisi Business and Economy
Great eaters and great sleepers are incapable of anything else that is great.
-- William Shakespeare, Henry IV Love is blind and marriage is the institution for the blind.
-- James Graham Basic research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
-- Wernher Von Braun Hey, you can't fight in here! This is the war room!
-- Dr. Strangelove 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 Business and Economy Not everything that can be counted counts; and not everything that counts can be counted.
-- Albert Einstein When a girl marries she exchanges the attention of many men for the inattention of one.
-- Helen Rowland Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
-- Gail Godwin Business and Economy
