Although the course may change sometimes, rivers always reach the sea.
-- Led Zeppelin, Ten Years Gone "Experience is the name that everyone gives to their mistakes." (Oscar Wilde) "Death is only a launching into the region of the strange Untried; it is but the first salutation to the possibilities of the immense Remote, the Wild, the Watery, the Unshored..." (Herman Melville, A memorandum is written not to inform the reader but to protect the writer.
-- Dean Acheson Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife. -- PJ O'Rourke Colleges and Universities The only reward of virtue is virtue.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson To the ass, or the sow, their own offspring appears the fairest in creation.
-- Latin Proverb The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
-- Winston Churchill Colleges and Universities
You can't shake hands with a clenched fist.
-- Indira Gandhi The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One
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-- G. K. Chesterton Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education
without natural ability.
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-- Bertrand Russell Colleges and Universities Men have become the tools of their tools.
- Henry David Thoreau ( What would you attempt if you knew you could not fail?
-- Robert Schuller Love is the delusion that one man or woman differs from another.
-- H. L. Mencken Colleges and Universities
"I had discovered that a person does not have to be this or be that or be anything, not even oneself. One is free." (Walker Percy, The Moviegoer) blah "The length of this document defends it well against the risk of its being read." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) If all these sweet young things were laid end to end, I wouldn't be the slightest bit surprised.
-- Dorothy Parker The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
- Samuel Johnson It takes two to speak truth --One to speak, and another to hear.
-- Henry David Thoreau Colleges and Universities Life isn't a matter of milestones, but of moments.
-- Rose Kennedy I've never had major knee surgery on any other part of my body.
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- A Yale University management professor in response to student Fred Smith's paper prop Colleges and Universities
When you are right, you cannot be too radical; When you are wrong, you cannot be too
conservative.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. And in the end the love you take is equal to the love you make.
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-- Groucho Marx Wit is educated insolence.
- Aristotle Colleges and Universities "Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next door neighbour.
-- G. K. Chesterton "Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains." (Karl Marx) Colleges and Universities
"To introduce something altogether new would mean to begin all over, to become ignorant again, and to run the old, old risk of failing to learn." (Isaac Asimov) "A dress makes no sense unless it inspires men to take it off of you." (Francois Sagan) I don't know why I did it, I don't know why I enjoyed it, and I don't know why I'll do it again.
-- Bart Simpson, young character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated television show "The sickness of our times for me has been just this damn thing that everything has been getting smaller and smaller and less and less important, that the romantic spirit has dried up, that there is n Whoever controls the media--the images--controls the culture.
-- Allen Ginsberg Colleges and Universities A person is not given integrity. It results from the relentless pursuit of honesty at all times.
-- Anon. The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their
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-- William James I'm not into working out. My philosophy: No pain, no pain.
-- Carol Leifer Colleges and Universities
CAPITAL, n. The seat of misgovernment. That which provides the fire, the pot, the dinner, the
table and the knife and fork for the anarchist; the part of the repast that himself supplies is the
disg To die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture.
-- Anatole France "I expect nothing. I fear no one. I am free." (Nikos Kazantzakis) If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one.
-- Mother Teresa "The intellect is always fooled by the heart." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) Colleges and Universities Only positive consequences encourage good future performances.
-- Kenneth H. Blanchard Nothing can so alienate a voter from the political system as backing a winning candidate.
-- Mark B. Cohen In endowing us with memory, nature has revealed to us a truth utterly unimaginable to the
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"Beauty without expression is boring." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) May you be too good for the world and not good enough for your wife. Sometimes a scream is better than a thesis.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Give the people not hell, but hope and courage.
-- John Murray That is the best -- to laugh with someone because you think the same things are funny.
-- Gloria Vanderbilt Colleges and Universities Truth can be a dangerous thing. It is quite patient and relentless.
-- R. Scott Richards Marriage isn't a word... it's a sentence.
-- King Vidor, in the 1928 film, The Crawl "Thanks to my solid academic training, today I can write hundreds of words on virtually any topic without possessing a shred of information, which is how I got a good job in journalism." (Dave Barry) Colleges and Universities
The soul is healed by being with children.
-- Fyodor Dostoyevski "... adults are just obsolete children and the hell with them." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, quoted in his obituary, Time) Love is blind and marriage is the institution for the blind.
-- James Graham "The evil that is in the world almost always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence if they lack understanding." (Albert Camus) "Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former." (Albert Einstein) Colleges and Universities This delivery driver carries no money. His wife has it all. A wasted youth is better by far than a wise and productive old age.
-- Meat Loaf, from the song "Wasted Youth" on the album Bat Out of Hell II Marriage is the only war in which you sleep with the enemy.
-- Anonymous Colleges and Universities
"Humans beings can always be relied upon to assert, with vigor, their god-given right to be stupid." (Dean Koontz, Seize the Night) Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands... but English women only
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-- W. Somerset Maugham Experience is the name every one gives his mistakes.
-- Elbert Hubbard "What is the difference between exploring and being lost?" (Dan Eldon, photojournalist) To achieve the impossible, it is precisely the unthinkable that must be thought.
-- Tom Robbins, Jitterbug Perfume Colleges and Universities Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
-- H. L. Mencken I have been attacked by Rush Limbaugh on the air, an experience somewhat akin to being
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-- Molly Ivins A real leader faces the music, even when he doesn't like the tune.
-- Anonymous Colleges and Universities
I like nonsense -- it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living. It's a way
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-- Aldous Huxley When a friend is in trouble, don't annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up
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-- E. W. Howe "One may sometimes tell a lie, but the grimace that accompanies it tells the truth." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Colleges and Universities Always go to the bathroom when you have a chance.
-- King George V A kitten is chiefly remarkable for rushing about like mad at nothing whatever, and generally
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-- Agnes Repplier Logic is in the eye of the logician.
- Gloria Steinem Colleges and Universities
The real test of friendship is: Can you literally do nothing with the other person? Can you enjoy
together those moments of life that are utterly simple? They are the moments people looks back
on at More light!
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, dying words My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed.
-- Christopher Morley "Employees make the best dates. You don't have to pick them up and they're always tax-deductible." (Andy Warhol, Andy Warhol's Exposures, 1980) Say goodbye to the oldies, but goodies, because the good old days weren't always good and
tomorrow aint as bad as it seems.
-- Billy Joel Colleges and Universities "What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage." "People have to talk about something just to keep their voice boxes in working order so they'll have good voice boxes in case there's ever anything really meaningful to say." (Kurt Vonnegut) The more faithfully you listen to the voices within you, the better you will hear what is sounding
outside.
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