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If something is boring after two minutes, try it for four. If still boring, then eight. Then sixteen. Then thirty-two. Eventually one discovers that it is not boring at all." (John Cage) We can say 'Peace on Earth,' we can sing about it, preach about it or pray about it, but if we have
not internalized the mythology to make it happen inside us, then it will not be.
-- Betty Shabazz 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 He who laughs last has not yet heard the bad news.
-- Bertolt Brecht Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure.
-- George E. Woodberry Colleges and Universities ... it is certain that the real function of art is to increase our self-consciousness; to make us more
aware of what we are, and therefore of what the universe in which we live really is. And since
Who the hell wants to hear actors talk?
- H. M. Warner, founder of Warner Brothers, in 1927 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 Colleges and Universities
"Treat a man as he is, and he will remain as he is. Treat a man as he could be, and he will become what he should be." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) I belong to Bridegrooms Anonymous. Whenever I feel like getting married, they send over a lady in a housecoat and hair curlers to burn my toast for me. -- Dick Martin "A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities." (Eda J. Le Shan) I think one of the reasons I'm popular again is because I'm wearing a tie. You have to be different.
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-- Tom Robbins Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by
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-- James Baldwin, Nobody Knows My Name, 1961 Colleges and Universities
This delivery driver carries no money. His wife has it all. A man should be taller, older, heavier, uglier, and hoarser than his wife.
-- Edgar Watson Howe In olden times sacrifices were made at the altar--a practice which is still continued.
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-- Helen Rowland Colleges and Universities If the government wants people to respect the law, it should set a better example.
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"The act of policing is, in order to punish less often, to punish more severely." (Napoleon Bonaparte) To realize that you do not understand is a virtue;
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--Lao-Tzu, "Tao Teh Ching" "I love to doubt as well as know." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) People think we make $3 million and $4 million a year. They don't realize that most of us only
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-- Pete Incaviglia, baseball player, 1990 Many a man has finally succeeded only because he has failed after repeated efforts. If he had
never met defeat he would never have known any great victory.
-- Orison Swett Marden Colleges and Universities At the bottom no one in life can help anyone else in life; this one experiences over and over in
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-- Anatole France Colleges and Universities
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 Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
-- Abraham Lincoln For I am a bear of very little brain and long words bother me.
-- Winnie the Pooh, character from author A. A. Milne "One often contradicts an opinion when what is uncongenial is really the tone in which it was conveyed." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Don't trust anyone over 30 who used to say "Don't trust anyone over 30."
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not good enough to recollect how often we have told it to the same person?
-- François de La Rouch Colleges and Universities
"Common sense and education are highly compatible; in fact, neither is worth much without the other." (Donald G. Smith) People say "I want peace." If you remove I {ego}, and your want {desire}, you are left with peace.
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-- Robert G. Ingersoll, (seen attributed to "R.S. Ingersoll" - a typo?) "Crime like death is not confined to the old and withered alone. The youngest and fairest are too often its chosen victims." (Charles Dickens, 1812-70, Oliver Twist) Colleges and Universities A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.
-- Walter Winchell Man is the best computer we can put aboard a spacecraft...and the only one that can be mass
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-- Wernher von Braun Where there is marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.
-- Benjamin Franklin Colleges and Universities
Meetings are an addictive, highly self-indulgent activity that corporations and other large
organizations habitually engage in only because they cannot actually masturbate.
-- Dave Barry You've no idea of what a poor opinion I have of myself, and how little I deserve it.
-- W.S. Gilbert "Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom." (Raymonde Uy) I've sometimes thought of marrying, and then I've thought again.
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-- Napoleon Bonaparte "Mothers spend a lifetime excising from their sons the influence of their fathers." (Arthur Lotti) Our schools have been scientifically designed to prevent over-education from happening. [...] The
average American (should be) content with their humble role in life, because they're not tempted
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blah "This is the hardest of all: to close the open hand out of love, and keep modest as a giver." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Treat a man as he is, and he will remain as he is. Treat a man as he could be, and he will become what he should be." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) "The White Rabbit put on his spectacles. 'Where shall I begin, please your Majesty?' he asked. 'Begin at the beginning,' the King said gravely, 'and go on till you come to the end: then stop.'" (Lewi We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
-- Aristotle "I think all great innovations are built on rejections." (Louis-Ferdinand Céline) Colleges and Universities "So little done, so much to do." (Cecil Rhodes) If your wife wants to learn how to drive, don't stand in her way. Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else.
-- George Bernard Shaw Colleges and Universities
Eternal boyhood is the dream of a depressing percentage of American males, and the locker
room is the temple where they worship arrested development.
-- Russell Baker "Excellence is in the details. Give attention to the details and excellence will come." (Perry Paxton) "I fear we are not getting rid of God because we still believe in grammar." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) What do you take me for, an idiot?
- General Charles de Gaulle (1890-1970), when a journalist asked him if he was happy Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for the appointment by the corrupt few.
-- George Bernard Shaw Colleges and Universities 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 Be tolerant of the human race. Your whole family belongs to it -- and some of your spouse's
family does too.
-- Anonymous 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 Colleges and Universities
"If it doesn't matter who wins or loses, then why do they keep score?" (Vince Lombardi) I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to.
-- Elvis Presley The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism
is the equal sharing of miseries.
-- Winston Churchill the social sciences were for all those who had not yet decided what to do with their lives, and for
all those whose premature frustrations led them into the sterile alleys of confrontation.
-- Peter Marriage is like a box of chocolates. You have to squeeze a few bottoms to make sure you like
what you are getting.
-- Anonymous Colleges and Universities "There is no sin except stupidity." (Oscar Wilde) The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their
attitudes of mind.
-- William James Marriage is a trip between Niagara Falls and Reno. Colleges and Universities
Drink to me.
-- Pablo Picasso, dying words Trust, but verify.
-- Ronald Reagan Nothing is beneath you if it is in the direction of your life.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson A witty saying proves nothing.
- Voltaire Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside
desperate to get out.
-- Michel de Montaigne Colleges and Universities Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the
moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future
generations The crime bill passed by the Senate would reinstate the Federal death penalty for certain violent
crimes: assassinating the President; hijacking an airliner; and murdering a government poultry
inspe There are three great friends: an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.
-- Benjamin Franklin Colleges and Universities
