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All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusion is called a philosopher.
- Ambrose Bierce Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with
the powerful, not to be neutral.
-- Paulo Freire The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense.
-- Tom Clancy The philosophy exam was a piece of cake -- which was a bit of a surprise, actually, because I
was expecting some questions on a sheet of paper.
-- Smith & Jones I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell this to my children they just about throw up.
-- Barbara Bush, first lady, 1989 Brocton Football incorporates the two worst elements of American society: violence punctuated by
committee meetings.
-- George F. Will, journalist, political commentator, 1994 "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) "A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities." (Eda J. Le Shan) Brocton
"Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts." (Henry B. Adams) "All women love the men they fear. All women kiss the hand that rules them." (Lionel Atwill) Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do.
-- Dr. Benjamin Spock, American pediatrician, address to new parents Whenever a husband and wife begin to discuss their marriage, they are giving evidence at an
inquest.
-- H. L. Mencken There is no realizable power that man cannot, in time, fashion the tools to attain, nor any power
so secure that the naked ape will not abuse it. So it is written in the genetic cards - only physics Brocton I find television very educating. Every time sombody turns on the set, I go into the other room and
read a book.
-- Groucho Marx The promises of maniacs, like those of women, are not safely relied upon.
-- Joseph Heller, God Knows Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.
-- George Washington Brocton
Before marraige a man will like awake all night thinking about something you said. After marriage
he will fall asleep before you have finished saying it.
-- Anon. If stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out?
- Will Rogers I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than
knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.
-- Albert Einstein The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious.
-- Albert Einstein You can't say civilization isn't advancing: in every war they kill you in a new way.
-- Will Rogers Brocton For most of history, Anonymous was a woman.
-- Virginia Woolf Women: If they're not turning down your proposals for marriage, they're accusing you of
suspicious behavior in the women's lingerie changing room.
-- Cliff Clavin, character on "Cheers", U.S. Televi It is not good enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.
-- Rene Descartes Brocton
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 blah bl "The better the state is established, the fainter is humanity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) War is a profession by which a man cannot live honorably; an employment by which the soldier, if
he would reap any profit, is obliged to be false, rapacious, and cruel.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli 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
really "Transport of the mails, transport of the human voice, transport of flickering pictures--in this century as in others our highest accomplishments still have the single aim of bringing men together." Brocton We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next door neighbour.
-- G. K. Chesterton I think of my wife and I think of Lot, and I think of the lucky break he got. "Pay no attention to what the critics say; there has never been set up a statue in honor of a critic." (Jean Sibelius) Brocton
A coward is a hero with a wife, kids, and a mortgage.
-- Marvin Kitman A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take her off his hands. -- Guitry Having children makes you no more a parent than having a piano makes you a pianist.
-- Michael Levine, Lessons at the Halfway Point Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.
-- Albert Einstein Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting.
- Karl Wallenda Brocton "All women love the men they fear. All women kiss the hand that rules them." (Lionel Atwill) "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 One may have a blazing hearth in one's soul and yet no one ever comes to sit by it. Passersby
see only a wisp of smoke rising from the chimney and continue on their way.
-- Vincent Van Gogh Brocton
If a politician found he had cannibals among his constituents, he would promise them
missionaries for dinner.
-- H. L. Mencken A beauty is a woman you notice; A charmer is one who notices you.
-- Adlai Stevenson Victory belongs to the most persevering.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte "When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; when health is lost, something is lost; when character is lost, all is lost." (Billy Graham) He who receives an idea from me receives instruction for himself without lessening mine; as he
who lights his taper at mine receives light without darkening me.
-- Thomas Jefferson Brocton This world is a comedy for those who think and a tragedy for those who feel.
-- Horace Walpole "We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars." (Oscar Wilde) I'm not a member of any organized political party, I'm a Democrat!
-- Will Rogers Brocton
Every normal man must be tempted at times to spit upon his hands, hoist the black flag, and
begin slitting throats.
- Henry Louis Mencken All you need is love.
-- The Beatles, song title Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
- Henry Ford You will marry into an Indian tribe and become one big Hopi family. The husband who wants a happy marriage should learn to keep his mouth shut and his checkbook open. -- Groucho Marx Brocton "Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself." (Thomas Paine) Guide to understanding a net.addict's day:
Slow day: didn't have much to do, so spent three hours on usenet.
Busy day: managed to work in three hours of usenet.
Bad day: barely squeezed in three ho Brocton
We think caged birds sing, when indeed they cry.
-- John Webster Wife: The perfect acquisition for any gentleman feeling himself to have excessive control over his personal affairs. "If you assume that there's no hope, you guarantee that there will be no hope. If you assume that there is an instinct for freedom, there are opportunities to change things, there's a chance for you t "I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you and education." (Wilson Mizner) I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity.
-- Albert Einstein Brocton If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself, tell yourself that you are not a poet
enough to call forth its riches; for to the creator there is no poverty and no poor indifferent p Seeing a murder on television can help work off one's antagonisms. And if you haven't any
antagonisms, the commercials will give you some.
-- Alfred Hitchcock "True friends, like diamonds, are precious and rare. False friends, like autumn leaves, are found everywhere." (Anonymous) Brocton
Live your questions now, and perhaps even without knowing it, you will live along some distant
day into your answers.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke I haven't committed a crime. What I did was fail to comply with the law.
-- David Dinkins, New York City Mayor, answering accusations that he failed to pay his taxes. Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of
humor is just common sense, dancing.
-- Clive James Husbands are awkward things to deal with; even keeping them in hot water will not make them
tender.
-- Mary Buckley Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after.
-- Anne Morrow Lindbergh Brocton "College: two hundred people reading same book. An obvious mistake. Two hundred people can read two hundred books." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) Democracy is the name we give the people whenever we need them.
-- Marquis de Flers Robert and Arman de Caillavet "Courage is doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared." (Eddie Rickenbacker) Brocton
"If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way." (Mark Twain) As for the virtuous poor, one can pity them, of course, but one cannot possibly admire them.
-- Oscar Wilde And in the end it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
-- Abraham Lincoln "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) Fill what's empty, empty what's full, and scratch where it itches.
- the Duchess of Windsor, when asked what is the secret of a long and happy life Brocton I must follow the people. Am I not their leader?
-- Benjamin Disraeli Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount.
-- Clare Boothe Luce "We have so little presumption that we should like to be known in the world, even to those who come after when we are no more. We have so little vanity that the esteem of five people, say six, amuses Brocton
The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
- Mark Twain Diplomacy is the art of saying "Nice doggie" until you can find a rock.
-- Wynn Catlin, also attributed to Will Rogers Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
-- H. L. Mencken Actually, the only memory I have of being a Cub Scout was trying to get my hat back. That was all
I did. Run back and forth at my bus stop going "Quit it."
-- Jerry Seinfeld I don't even butter my bread; I consider that cooking.
-- Katherine Cebrian Brocton Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it.
-- Baskins The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.
-- Albert Einstein Always bear in mind that your own resolution to success is more important than any other one
thing.
-- Abraham Lincoln Brocton
