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In the sciences, we are now uniquely privileged to sit side by side with the giants on whose
shoulders we stand.
-- Gerald Holton "I was lousy in school. Real screwed-up. A moron. I was antisocial and didn't bother with the other kids. A really bad student. I didn't have any brains. I didn't know what I was doing there. That's w "By seeing the seed of failure in every success, we remain humble. By seeing the seed of success in every failure we remain hopeful." (Mel Ziegler, founder of Banana Republic) The most terrible poverty is loneliness and the feeling of being unloved.
-- Mother Teresa I think every woman is entitled to a middle husband she can forget.
-- Adela Rogers St. John Accommodation The crime bill passed by the Senate would reinstate the Federal death penalty for certain violent
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inspe Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
-- T.S. Eliot The society of women is the element of good manners.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Accommodation
I've always thought that underpopulated countries in Africa are vastly underpolluted.
-- Lawrence Summers, chief economist of the World Bank, explaining why we should export toxic
wastes to Third Wo Grow old with me! The best is yet to be!
-- Robert Browning Humanity has advanced, when it has advanced, not because it has been sober, responsible, and
cautious, but because it has been playful, rebellious, and immature.
-- Tom Robbins "Women might be able to fake orgasms. But men can fake whole relationships." (Sharon Stone) He who laughs last has not yet heard the bad news.
-- Bertolt Brecht Accommodation If someone had told me I would be Pope one day, I would have studied harder.
-- Pope John Paul I "Children spell love...T-I-M-E." (Dr. Anthony P. Witham) The wages of sin are death, but by the time taxes are taken out, it's just sort of a tired feeling.
-- Paula Poundstone Accommodation
"All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes
unpunished.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.
-- Virginia Woolf Work is the curse of the drinking class.
-- Oscar Wilde "There are no uninteresting things, only uninteresting people." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) Accommodation I have an existential map; it has 'you are here' written all over it.
- Steven Wright "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 Nothing average ever stood as a monument to progress. When progress is looking for a partner it
doesn't turn to those who believe they are only average. It turns instead to those who are forever
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-- Socrates It's impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune.
-- Woody Allen Accommodation blah "The length of this document defends it well against the risk of its being read." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) Experience is the worst teacher; it gives the test before presenting the lesson.
-- Vernon Law "Use what talents you possess; The woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best." (William Blake) Accommodation
Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting.
- Karl Wallenda Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
-- Albert Einstein A team effort is a lot of people doing what I say.
-- Michael Winner "I love to doubt as well as know." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) Television: A medium. So called because it is neither rare nor well done.
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proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe
is I have a daughter who goes to SMU. She could've gone to UCLA here in California, but it's one
more letter she'd have to remember.
-- Shecky Greene I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you an education.
-- Wilson Mizner It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
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--John Simon Be tolerant of the human race. Your whole family belongs to it -- and some of your spouse's
family does too.
-- Anonymous It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
- Oscar Wilde Accommodation I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.
-- Albert Einstein "Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom." (Raymonde Uy) If a relationship is to evolve, it must go through a series of endings.
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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 Love makes the time pass. Time makes love pass.
-- French Proverb "Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) What would you attempt if you knew you could not fail?
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-- Bhagava Gita "Greed, for lack of a better word, is good. Greed is right. Greed works." (Michael Douglas, as Gordon Gekko, Wall Street, 1987) Accommodation
Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside a dog, it's too dark to read.
-- Groucho Marx To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest.
-- Ghandi blah "An engaged woman is always more agreeable than a disengaged. She is satisfied with herself. Her cares are over, and she feels that she may exert all her powers of pleasing without suspicion." ( My Alma mater was books, a good library . . . . I could spend the rest of my life reading, just
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--Malcolm X It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims.
- Aristotle Accommodation There is nothing better for the spirit or the body than a love affair. It elevates the thoughts and
flattens the stomachs.
-- Barbara Howar Faith is believing what you know ain't so.
-- Mark Twain Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried.
-- G. K. Chesterton Accommodation
The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed
desperation.
-- Henry David Thoreau, Walden (1854) When yer in a funk, people in love are a royal pain in the patookus.
-- Portnoy, character in "Outland," comic strip by Berkely Breathed "Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn; my God, do you learn!" (Clive Staples Lewis) An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets, the more interested he is in her. -- Agatha Christie The more faithfully you listen to the voices within you, the better you will hear what is sounding
outside.
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-- Elayne Boosler "Oh, the tiger will love you. There is no sincerer love than the love of food." (George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman) Accommodation
If we knew what we were doing, it wouldn't be called research, would it?
-- Albert Einstein Prejudice is the child of ignorance.
-- William Hazlitt The child is the father of the man.
-- William Wordsworth Education is the state-controlled manufacture of echoes.
-- Norman Douglas If I tell a lie it's only because I think I'm telling the truth.
-- Phil Gaglardi, Minister of Highways, British Columbia, Canada Accommodation Before you put on a frown, make absolutely sure there are no smiles available.
-- Jim Beggs Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
- Lewis Perelman I have never taken any exercise except sleeping and resting.
-- Mark Twain Accommodation
