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Never regard study as a duty, but as the enviable opportunity to learn to know the liberating
influence of beauty in the realm of the spirit for your own personal joy and to the profit of the
commun If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded.
-- Maya Angelou An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets the more interested
he is in her.
-- Agatha Christie Whoever controls the media--the images--controls the culture.
-- Allen Ginsberg Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way
around the laws.
- Plato Government Weaseling out of things is good. It's what separates us from the other animals....except weasels.
-- Homer Simpson, character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated television show If ever I get married again it would have to be under an anaesthetic.
-- Marie Tonkin You can close your eyes to reality, but not to memories.
-- Stanislaw J. Lem Government
He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.
- Sir Winston Churchill When women go wrong, men go right after them.
-- Mae West I criticize by creation - not by finding fault.
- Cicero The fate of love is that it always seems too little or too much.
-- Anonymous The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing that you will make one.
-- Ellen Hubbard Government When you don't know that you don't know, it's a lot different than when you do know that you
don't know. He knows now that he doesn't know. Last year, he didn't know that.
-- Bill Parcels, New Engla Did you hear about the scientist whose wife had twins? He baptized one and kept the other as a control. I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll Government
Better to have loved a short man than never to have loved a tall.
-- David Chambless Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.
-- Mother Teresa We are all here for a spell; get all the good laughs you can.
-- Will Rogers Children should be like waffles--you should be able to throw the first one away.
-- Mary Alice Messenger Thank heaven. A bachelor's life is no life for a single man.
-- Samuel Goldwyn, immigrant-turned-famous-movie-producer, when told his son was getting
married Government 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 University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
- Henry Kissinger Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end.
-- Igor Stravinsky Government
"For better or for worse, our company (The News Corporation Ltd.) is a reflection of my thinking, my character, my values." (Keith Rupert Murdoch, media mogul, 1931-) Everyone is a genius at least once a year; a real genius has his original ideas closer together.
- Georg Lichtenberg "Humans beings can always be relied upon to assert, with vigor, their god-given right to be stupid." (Dean Koontz, Seize the Night) The only reward of virtue is virtue.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in students.
-- John Ciardi Government There is more stupidity than hydrogen in the universe, and it has a longer shelf life.
- Frank Zappa What sets worlds in motion is the interplay of differences, their attractions and repulsions; life is
plurality, death is uniformity.
-- Octavio Paz Now, now my good man, this is no time for making enemies.
- Voltaire (1694-1778) on his deathbed in response to a priest asking that he renounce Satan. Government
Why bother with marriage? Just find a woman you hate and buy her a house. Someone once asked me why women don't gamble as much as men do and I gave the
commonsensical reply that we don't have as much money. That was a true but incomplete
answer. In fact, women's total ins Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.
-- George Washington Of course there's a lot of knowledge in universities: the freshmen bring a little in; the seniors don't
take much away, so knowledge sort of accumulates...
-- Anonymous Most of our obstacles would melt away if, instead of cowering before them, we should make up
our minds to walk boldly through them.
-- Orison Swett Marden Government Never marry for money. Ye'll borrow it cheaper.
-- Scottish Proverb The good people sleep much better at night than the bad people. Of course, the bad people enjoy
the waking hours much more.
-- Woody Allen I'm not indecisive. Am I indecisive?
-- Jim Scheibel, mayor, St. Paul MN Government
Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried.
-- G. K. Chesterton The Democrats are the party that says government will make you smarter, taller, richer, and
remove the crabgrass on your lawn. The Republicans are the party that says government doesn't
work and the I figure you have the same chance of winning the lottery whether you play or not.
-- Fran Lebowitz Thank God - every morning when you get up - that you have something to do which must be
done, whether you like it or not. Being forced to work, and forced to do your best, will breed in you
a hundre Love is the answer, but while you're waiting for the answer, sex raises some pretty good
questions.
-- Woody Allen Government The optimist sees opportunity in every danger; the pessimist sees danger in every opportunity.
-- Winston Churchill The scientific theory I like best is that the rings of Saturn are composed entirely of lost airline
luggage.
-- Mark Russell If law school is so hard to get through... how come there are so many lawyers?
-- Calvin Trillin Government
You don't have to suffer to be a poet; adolescence is enough suffering for anyone.
-- John Ciardi "Majority rule only works if you're also considering individual rights. Because you can't have five wolves and one sheep voting on what to have for supper." (Larry Flynt) I was a pilot flying an airplane and it just so happened that where I was flying made what I was
doing spying.
-- Francis Gary Power, U-2 reconnaissance pilot held by the Soviets for spying, in an i "So little done, so much to do." (Cecil Rhodes) In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.
-- Albert Einstein Government If all men were brothers, would you let one marry your sister? Life isn't a matter of milestones, but of moments.
-- Rose Kennedy 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 Government
In the halls of justice, the only justice is in the halls.
-- Lenny Bruce Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure.
-- George E. Woodberry "Is life not a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "I learned more from the one restaurant that didn't work than from all the ones that were successes." (Wolfgang Puck, restauranteur) Marriage is a thing which puts a ring on a woman's finger and two under the man's eyes. Government "Inside of a ring or out, ain't nothing wrong with going down. It's staying down that's wrong." (Muhammad Ali) Each of us has a spark of life inside us, and our highest endeavor ought to be to set off that spark
in one another.
-- Kenny Ausubel "All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his." (Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest) Government
Computers can figure out all kinds of problems, except the things in the world that just don't add
up.
-- Anon Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands... but English women only
hope to find in their butlers.
-- W. Somerset Maugham 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. blah blah blah blah blah "This is the way the world ends: not with a bang, but a whimper." (Thomas Stearns Eliot, aka T. S. Eliot) _end]
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"Hello Kitty is an icon that doesn't stand for a By the time (the Leaning Tower of Pisa) was 10% built, everyone knew it would be a total
disaster. But the investment was so big they felt compelled to go on. Since its completion, it cost
a fortune Government The backbone of surprise is fusing speed with secrecy.
- Von Clausewitz If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe.
- Carl Sagan Neither fire nor wind, birth nor death can erase our good deeds.
-- Buddha Government
There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld True thinkers are characterised by a blending of clearness and mystery.
-- Victor Hugo A little girl at the wedding afterwards asked her mother why the bride changed her mind. "What
do you mean?" responded her mother. "Well, she went down the aisle with one man, and came
back with ano Sir Francis Drake circumsized the world with a 100-foot clipper.
-- Unknown history student Prayer gives a man the opportunity of getting to know a gentleman he hardly ever meets. I do not
mean his maker, but himself.
-- Dean Inge Government "Conscience and cowardice are really the same things. Conscience is the trade-name of the firm. That is all." (Oscar Wilde) A narcissist is someone better-looking than you are.
-- Gore Vidal 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 Government
"This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) Live TV died in the late 1950s, electronic bulletin boards came along in the mid-1980s, meaning
there was about a 25-year gap when it was difficult to put your foot in your mouth and have
people all The louder he talked of his honour, the faster we counted our spoons.
-- Emerson, Ralph Waldo Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly.
-- Simeon Strunsky "Well begun is half done." (Aristotle) Government "Give me liberty or give me death." (Patrick Henry) Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of
genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.
-- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart "Hold the fort! I am coming!" (General William Tecumseh Sherman) Government
