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future crimes.
-- Prince I'm worried that the universe will soon need replacing. It's not holding a charge.
-- Edward Chilton The price of freedom is eternal vigilance.
-- Thomas Jefferson You cannot think about thinking, without thinking about thinking about something.
-- Seymour Papert Education It's important to be open-minded, but not SO open-minded that your brains fall out.
-- Rick Radebaugh Now join your hands, and with your hands your hearts.
-- William Shakespeare, King Henry the Sixth Cricket is best described as organised loafing.
-- Anonymous British Radio Broadcaster, 1996 Education
Try praising your wife, even if it does frighten her at first.
-- Billy Sunday He who receives an idea from me receives instruction for himself without lessening mine; as he
who lights his taper at mine receives light without darkening me.
-- Thomas Jefferson "I either want less corruption, or more chance to participate in it." (Ashleigh Brilliant) 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 How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create
it herself.
- Anais Nin Education "Self confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings." (Samuel Johnson) 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 Creativity is allowing oneself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.
-- Scott Adams, The Dilbert Principle Education
When you do the common things in life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of
the world.
- George Washington Carver "Murderers have been known to find that young girls give them more trouble than anybody else." (Jean Cocteau, Les Enfants Terribles) Truth is more of a stranger than fiction.
-- Mark Twain "Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Conform and be dull." (J. Frank Doble) Education The possibility that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause
we believe to be just.
-- Abraham Lincoln My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music.
-- Vladimir Nabokov "Ideas are far more powerful than guns. We don't allow our enemies to have guns, why should we allow them to have ideas?" (Josef Stalin) Education
Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
- Henry Louis Mencken The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything.
-- Oscar Wilde Don't let it end like this. Tell them I said something.
-- Pancho Villa, dying words Never look at the trombones. You'll only encourage them.
-- Richard Strauss, on conducting Call on God, but row away from the rocks.
-- Indian proverb Education There's too much blood in my caffeine system.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker I was under medication when I made the decision not to burn the tapes.
-- Richard Nixon, U.S. President "Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former." (Albert Einstein) Education
Imagination is the highest kite one can fly.
-- Lauren Bacall Mathematics transfigures the fortuitous concourse of atoms into the tracery of the finger of God.
-- Herbert Westren Turnbull Why did Nature create man? Was it to show that she is big enough to make mistakes, or was it
pure ignorance?
-- Holbrook Jackson "The last Christian died on the cross." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than
knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.
-- Albert Einstein Education After finding no qualified candidates for the position of principal, the school board is extremely
pleased to announce the appointment of David Steele to the post.
-- Philip Streifer, Superintendent "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 It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims.
- Aristotle Education
The only weapon that becomes sharper with constant use is the tongue.
-- Anonymous If a politician found he had cannibals among his constituents, he would promise them
missionaries for dinner.
-- H. L. Mencken "There is only one thing more painful than learning from experience and that is not learning from experience." (Archibald McLeish) "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 "Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies." (Gore Vidal) Education "I knew I was an unwanted baby when I saw my bath toys were a toaster and a radio." (Joan Rivers) If you can count your money, you don't have a billion dollars.
- J. Paul Getty >From error to error one discovers the entire truth.
-- Sigmund Freud Education
The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may
well be another profound truth.
-- Niels Bohr blah "If we did all the things we are capable of, we would literally astound ourselves." (Thomas Alva Edison) "So little done, so much to do." (Cecil Rhodes) We need a president who's fluent in at least one language.
-- Buck Henry blah "It is a grand mistake to think of being great without goodness and I pronounce it as certain that there was never a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous." (Benjamin Fran Education Ah Mozart! He was happily married - but his wife wasn't. -- Borge An eye for an eye only leads to more blindness.
-- Margaret Atwood "Education must have an end in view, for it is not an end in itself." (Sybil Marshall) Education
I didn't have time to write a short letter, so I wrote a long one instead.
-- Mark Twain You can observe a lot by watching.
-- Yogi Berra A baby is God's opinion that the world should go on.
-- Carl Sandburg Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more
experiments you make the better. What if they are a little course, and you may get your coat
soiled or torn? Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands, but English women only hope to find in their butlers. -- W. Somerset Maugham Education The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
- Mark Twain "The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves." (William Hazlitt) "Twelve magicians and two carnies have been shot dead doing the bullet catch. That's cool enough, but every night when we close our show with that trick and the loaded gun gets pointed in my face, it Education
Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it. To love another person is to help them love God.
-- Søren Kierkegaard "The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do." (Anonymous) "The proper office of a friend is to side with you when you are wrong. Nearly anybody will side with you when you are right." (Mark Twain) I figure you have the same chance of winning the lottery whether you play or not.
-- Fran Lebowitz Education Work is the curse of the drinking class.
-- Oscar Wilde You never see a man walking down the street with a woman who has a little pot belly and a bald
spot.
-- Elayne Boosler Now, now my good man, this is no time for making enemies.
- Voltaire (1694-1778) on his deathbed in response to a priest asking that he renounce Satan. Education
We haven't the money, so we've got to think.
-- Lord Rutherford A sweetheart is a bottle of wine, a wife is a wine bottle.
-- Baudelaire The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.
-- G. K. Chesterton Love is an emotion that is based on an opinion of women that is impossible for those who have
had any experience with them.
-- H. L. Mencken If God had meant us to vote, He would have given us candidates.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Education Good hours, excellent pay, fun place to work, paid training, mean boss. Oh well, four out of five
isn't bad.
-- Help Wanted Ad, PA newspaper, 1994 Of course, it is very important to be sober when you take an exam. Many worthwile careers in the
street-cleansing, fruit-picking and subway-guitar-playing industries have been founded on a lack
of u You are educated when you have the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your
temper or self-confidence.
-- Robert Frost Education
Wit is educated insolence.
- Aristotle Thus the metric system did not really catch on in the States, unless you count the increasing
popularity of the nine-millimeter bullet.
-- Dave Barry I am free of all prejudice. I hate everyone equally.
-- W. C. Fields Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount.
-- Clare Boothe Luce Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them
good.
-- H.L. Mencken Education A friend is a gift you give yourself.
-- Robert Louis Stevenson It is not because it is difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that things are
difficult.
-- Lucius Anneaus Seneca When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives mean the most to us, we often find
that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our
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