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Silence is argument carried out by other means.
- ErnestoCheGuevara He who laughs last is generally the last to get the joke.
-- Terry Cohen "How wondrous familiar is a fool!" (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) "The key to wisdom is knowing all the right questions." (John A. Simone Jr.) 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 Society and Culture I'd wipe the machines off the face of the earth again, and end the industrial epoch absolutely, like
a black mistake.
-- D. H. Lawrence Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
-- Virginia Woolf, Bernard, in The Waves, 1931; repr. 1943, p. 189 "In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Society and Culture
"A man must dream a long time in order to act with grandeur, and dreaming is nursed in darkness." (Jean Genet) "I'm basically an optimist in life but this doesn't prevent me from deducing as a scientist that we are probably doomed." (Vladimir Chaloupka, physicist, University of Washington, regarding mankind's Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it, misdiagnosing it, and then misapplying the
wrong remedies.
-- Groucho Marx "One of the things about acting is it allows you to live other people's lives without having to pay the price. I've never been one of those actors who has touted myself as a fascinating human being. I Airplane travel is nature's way of making you look like your passport photo.
-- Al Gore, U.S. Vice President Society and Culture Mary had a little lamb and the doctor fainted.
-- Anonymous We have art to save ourselves from the truth.
- Friedrich Nietzsche I am ready to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me
is another matter.
- Sir Winston Churchill Society and Culture
I stopped believing in Santa Claus when I was six. Mother took me to see him in a department
store and he asked for my autograph.
-- Shirley Temple Black "Yes, I am a dreamer. For a dreamer is one who can find his way by moonlight, and see the dawn before the rest of the world." (Oscar Wilde) Before I married, I had three theories about raising children and no children. Now, I have three
children and no theories.
-- John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester Before marriage, a man will lie awake all night thinking about something you said; after marriage,
he'll fall asleep before you finish saying it.
-- Helen Roland We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh.
-- Agnes Repplier Society and Culture My wife doesn't care what I do away from home, as long as I don't enjoy it. 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 blah "A subject for a great poet would be God's boredom after the seventh day of creation." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Society and Culture
In the early sixties, we were strong, we were virulent...
-- John Connally, Secretary of Treasury under Richard Nixon, in an early 70s speech, as reported
in a contemporary "American Scholar" "I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." (James Madison) Many a man that could rule a hundherd millyon sthrangers with an ir'n hand is careful to take off
his shoes in the front hallway whin he comes home late at night.
-- Finley Peter Dunne, Mr. Dooley O You have to kiss a lot of toads before you find a handsome prince.
-- American Proverb Each religion, by the help of more or less myth which it takes more or less seriously, proposes
some method of fortifying the human soul and enabline it to make its peace with its destiny.
-- George Society and Culture Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by
definition, is unassailable.
-- James Baldwin, Nobody Knows My Name, 1961 Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.
-- Dietrich Bonhoeffer The difference between a man who faces death for the sake of an idea and an imitator who goes
in search of martyrdom is that the former expresses his idea most fully in death while the latter
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It is not good enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.
-- Rene Descartes If excessive smoking actually plays a role in the production of lung cancer, it seems to be a minor
one.
-- Dr. W.C. Heuper of the National Cancer Institute, as quoted in the New York Times on Apri The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their
attitudes of mind.
-- William James blah "Some of the worlds greatest feats were accomplished by people not smart enough to know they were impossible. unattributed" (Anonymous) It is amazing at how small a price may the wedding ring be placed upon a worthless hand; but, by
the beauty of our law, what heaps of gold are indispensable to take it off!
-- Douglas Jerold, 1858 Society and Culture "Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) "We're an embarrasment to college graduates across America." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) 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
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If all economists were laid end to end, they would not reach a conclusion.
-- George Bernard Shaw "If you believe everything you read, you better not read." (Japanese Proverb) Sleep is that golden chain that ties health and our bodies together.
-- Thomas Dekker Obstacles cannot crush me. Every obstacle yields to stern resolve. He who is fixed to a star does
not change his mind.
-- Leonardo da Vinci, Notebooks Dishonor will not trouble me, once I am dead.
-- Euripides Society and Culture "Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously u At the bottom no one in life can help anyone else in life; this one experiences over and over in
every conflict and every perplexity: that one is alone. That isn't as bad as it may first appear; and 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 Society and Culture
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 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 I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.
- Thomas Watson, Chairman of IBM, 1943 Dear Mrs, Mr, Miss, or Mr and Mrs Daneeka: Words cannot express the deep personal grief I experienced when your husband, son, father or brother was killed, wounded, or reported missing in action. -- C Trust, but verify.
-- Ronald Reagan Society and Culture Man's mind stretched to a new idea never goes back to its original dimensions.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely
been detected.
-- Oscar Wilde Every man knows his follies and often they are the most interesting thing he has got.
-- Josh Billings Society and Culture
Defeat never comes to any man until he admits it.
-- Josephus Daniels It is with true love as it is with ghosts; everyone talks about it, but few have seen it.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld "The rules for parents are but three... Love, Limit, and Let them be." (Elaine M. Ward) Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after.
-- Anne Morrow Lindbergh The Republicans have a new healthcare proposal: Just say NO to illness!
-- Mark Russell Society and Culture I skate to where the puck is going to be, not to where it has been.
-- Wayne Gretzky Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure.
-- George E. Woodberry "I never learned from a man who agreed with me." (Robert A. Heinlein) Society and Culture
Defeat never comes to any man until he admits it.
-- Josephus Daniels "Courageous, untroubled, mocking and violent--that is what Wisdom wants us to be. Wisdom is a woman, and loves only a warrior." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) 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 Why bother with marriage? Just find a woman you hate and buy her a house. Technology is a way of organizing the universe so that man doesn't have to experience it.
-- Max Frisch Society and Culture Grove giveth and Gates taketh away.
- Bob Metcalfe (inventor of Ethernet) on the trend of hardware speedups not being able to keep
up with software demands I was going to change my shirt, but I changed my mind instead.
-- Winnie the Pooh Ninety percent of the game is half mental.
-- Yogi Berra Society and Culture
"When a hundred men stand together, each of them loses his mind and gets another one." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I've just learned about his illness. Let's hope it's nothing trivial.
- Irvin S. Cobb Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson "A bore is a man who, when you ask him how he is, tells you." (Bert Leston Taylor) "If A equals success, then the formula is: A = X + Y + Z, X is work. Y is play. Z is keep your mouth shut." (Albert Einstein) Society and Culture My other wife is beautiful. Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.
-- G. K. Chesterton Creativity is allowing oneself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.
-- Scott Adams, The Dilbert Principle Society and Culture
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 There are two means of refuge from the misery of life - music and cats.
-- Albert Schweitzer Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous
and dreadful.
-- Samuel Johnson "Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise." (Alice Walker) Fill the unforgiving minute with sixty seconds worth of distance run.
- Rudyard Kipling Society and Culture Success is peace of mind which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you did your best
to become the best you are capable of becoming.
-- John R. Wooden, Practical Modern Basketball I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury.
-- Groucho Marx Nothing is wrong with California that a rise in the ocean level wouldn't cure.
- Ross MacDonald Society and Culture
