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Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.
-- George Orwell Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it.
-- George Bernard Shaw Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three pillars of learning.
-- Benjamin Disraeli If we knew what we were doing, it wouldn't be called research, would it?
-- Albert Einstein "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) Cheddar The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is
not read.
-- Oscar Wilde "It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what other men say in whole books--what other men do not say in whole books." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols) "Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishments." (Anonymous) Cheddar
When you're experimenting you have to try so many things before you choose what you want,
and you may go days getting nothing but exhaustion.
-- Fred Astaire "I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it." (Thomas Jefferson, to Archibald Stuart, 1791) Anyone who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without
feminine upheaval. Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex,
the ugl Military justice is to justice what military music is to music.
-- George Clemenceau I think one of the reasons I'm popular again is because I'm wearing a tie. You have to be different.
-- Tony Bennett, 1995 Cheddar "Every act of violence increases the recruitment of terrorists. Iraq has been turned into a base of terror." (Noam Chomsky, from The Toronto Star, March 23, 2004) Having children makes you no more a parent than having a piano makes you a pianist.
-- Michael Levine, Lessons at the Halfway Point "Excellence is in the details. Give attention to the details and excellence will come." (Perry Paxton) Cheddar
"The masses are far more likely to believe a big lie than several small ones." (Adolf Hitler) English Law prohibits a man from marrying his mother-in-law. This is our idea of useless legislation. "Dreams are the touchstones of our personality." (Henry David Thoreau) "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 Computers can figure out all kinds of problems, except the things in the world that just don't add
up.
-- Anon Cheddar One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is
terribly important.
-- Bertrand Russell If I tell a lie it's only because I think I'm telling the truth.
-- Phil Gaglardi, Minister of Highways, British Columbia, Canada The only thing you take with you when you're gone is what you leave behind.
-- John Allston Cheddar
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. Good friends are good for your health.
-- Irwin Sarason 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 large states public education will always be mediocre, for the same reason that in large kitchens the cooking is usually bad." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Anyone who thinks they're important is usually just a pompous moron who can't deal with his or her own pathetic insignificance and the fact that what they do is meaningless and inconsequential..." ( Cheddar Always bear in mind that your own resolution to success is more important than any other one
thing.
-- Abraham Lincoln I have an existential map; it has 'you are here' written all over it.
- Steven Wright I skate to where the puck is going to be, not to where it has been.
-- Wayne Gretzky Cheddar
And in the end it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
-- Abraham Lincoln A weed is no more than a flower in disguise.
-- James Lowell "I never resist temptation, because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me." (George Bernard Shaw) Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and around the hands and feet of the man. Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly.
-- Simeon Strunsky Cheddar blah "The length of this document defends it well against the risk of its being read." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than the arguments of its opposers.
-- William Penn If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.
-- Virginia Woolf Cheddar
If the government wants people to respect the law, it should set a better example.
-- Anon. Just buy a box of popcorn and a Coca-Cola and sit back and watch.
-- James Carville, Clinton advisor, offering advice for Democrats on the term-limits vote in the
House I love deadlines. I especially like the whooshing sound they make as they go flying by.
-- Douglas Adams After all, all he did was string together a lot of old, well-known quotations.
-- H. L. Mencken, on Shakespeare "The reward of a thing well done is having done it." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Cheddar Music is the art of thinking with sounds.
-- Jules Combarieu Work expands to fill the time available.
-- PARKINSON'S LAW Although the course may change sometimes, rivers always reach the sea.
-- Led Zeppelin, Ten Years Gone Cheddar
If women didn't exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning.
-- Aristotle Onassis I know I'm not in government anymore. In fact I'm out of work.
-- Ronald Reagan, Former U.S. President, on a speaking tour of Japan, 1989 I begin by taking. I shall find scholars later to demonstrate my perfect right.
- Frederick (II) the Great A lover tries to stand in well with the pet dog of the house.
-- Moliere A husband is what's left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
-- Helen Rowland Cheddar When he first ran for office, he appealed to the voters: "I never stole anything in my life. All I ask
is a chance."
-- Anon. There is more to life than increasing its speed.
-- Gandhi Luck is the residue of design.
- Branch Rickey - former owner of the Brooklyn Dodger Baseball Team Cheddar
Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife.
-- P. J. O'Rourke "Vegiburgers are wrong." (Mike Kaup) The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing that you will make one.
-- Ellen Hubbard "I owe much to my friends; but, all things considered, it strikes me that I owe even more to my enemies. The real person springs life under a sting even better than under a caress." (André Gide) "Friends are those people who know the words to the song in your heart and sing them back to you when you have forgotten the words." (Anonymous) Cheddar The louder he talked of his honour, the faster we counted our spoons.
-- Emerson, Ralph Waldo Learn to laugh at your troubles and you'll never run out of things to laugh at.
-- Lyn Karol When we treat man as he is, we make him worse than he is; when we treat him as if he already
were what he potentially could be, we make him what he should be.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Cheddar
Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
-- H. L. Mencken "One often contradicts an opinion when what is uncongenial is really the tone in which it was conveyed." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about.
-- Oscar Wilde Lawyers are... operators of the toll bridge which anyone in search of justice must pass.
-- Jane Bryant Quinn Lottery: A tax on people who are bad at math.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Cheddar "Boredom is a vital problem for the moralist, since at least half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Tauzin backs term limits -- But he thinks it's a bad idea.
-- Headline, story in the New Orleans Times-Picayune, Feb 20, 1995 People may or may not say what they mean ... but they always say something designed to get
what they want.
-- David Mamet Cheddar
You don't have to suffer to be a poet; adolescence is enough suffering for anyone.
-- John Ciardi "We're all proud of making little mistakes. It gives us the feeling we don't make any big ones." (Andrew A. Rooney) 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 Sex is like bridge: If you don't have a good partner, you better have a good hand.
-- Charles Pierce "Try not to have a good time ... This is supposed to be educational." (Charles Schultz) Cheddar "A girl can wait for the right man to come along, but in the meantime that still doesn't mean she can't have a wonderful time with all the wrong ones." (Cher) America is a large, friendly dog in a very small room. Every time it wags its tail, it knocks over a
chair.
-- Arnold Toynbee "Every now and then say, 'What the fu(c)k.' 'What the fu(c)k' gives you freedom. Freedom brings opportunity. Opportunity makes your future." (Curtis Armstrong, Risky Business, 1983) Cheddar
Now is the time for all good men to come to.
-- Walt Kelly When a thing has been said and said well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it.
-- Anatole France Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.
- Jean-Paul Sartre "If I work toward an end, meantime I am confined to a process. The rainbow is more beautiful than the pot at the end of it, because the rainbow is now. And the pot never turns out to be quite what I e Hell is a half-filled auditorium.
- Robert Frost Cheddar The only way to entertain some folks is to listen to them.
-- Kin Hubbard Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is.
-- Diane Ackerman People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid.
- Soren Aabye Kierkegaard Cheddar
