The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
-- B. F. Skinner The only weapon that becomes sharper with constant use is the tongue.
-- Anonymous You can close your eyes to reality, but not to memories.
-- Stanislaw J. Lem An undefined problem has an infinite number of solutions.
-- Robert A. Humphrey As always, victory finds a hundred fathers but defeat is an orphan.
-- Count Galeazzo Ciano, The Ciano Diaries Travel and Tourism It is a product of Einstein's genius -- taking a commonplace observation, combining it with some
simple imaginary experiments, and arriving at a revolutionary conclusion.
-- Clifford M. Wills, 1986 "Children spell love...T-I-M-E." (Dr. Anthony P. Witham) "I am interested in anything about revolt, disorder , chaos--especially activity that seems to have no meaning. It seems to me to be the road toward freedom ... Rather than starting inside, I start ou Travel and Tourism
This book fills a much-needed gap.
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me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat.
-- Rebecca West, Most people think life sucks, and then you die. Not me. I beg to differ. I think life sucks, then you
get cancer, then your dog dies, your wife leaves you, the cancer goes into remission, you get a
Travel and Tourism Old soldiers never die, they just fade away.
-- General Douglas MacArthur "Liberty has never come from the government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of it. The history of liberty is a history of resistance. The history of liberty is a history of limitations of g Often it does seem a pity that Noah and his party did not miss the boat.
-- Mark Twain Travel and Tourism
Marriage is very much like a violin; after the sweet music is over, the strings are attached. The Bible contains six admonishments to homosexuals and 362 admonishments to
heterosexuals. That doesn't mean that God doesn't love heterosexuals. It's just that they need
more supervision.
-- Lynn You can pay attention to the fact, in which case you'll probably become a mathematician, or you
can ignore it, in which case you'll probably become a physicist.
-- Len Evans, professor, Northwestern "So little done, so much to do." (Cecil Rhodes) Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure.
-- George E. Woodberry Travel and Tourism If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile.
-- Lynda Barry If you want to recapture your youth, just cut off his allowance.
-- Al Bernstein "I run to see who has the most guts." (Steve Roland Prefontaine) Travel and Tourism
Blessed are the young for they shall inherit the national debt.
-- Herbert Hoover Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.
-- John Lyly "When you resort to attacking the messenger and not the message, you have lost the debate." (Addison Whithecomb) Honorable, adj. Afflicted with an impediment in one's reach. In legislative bodies, it is customary
to mention all members as honorable; as, ``the honorable gentleman is a scurvy cur.'
-- Bierce, A Ridicule is generally made use of to laugh men out of virtue and good sense, by attacking
everything praiseworthy in human life.
-- Joseph Addison Travel and Tourism Honor's a good brooch to wear in a man's hat at all times.
-- Jonson, Ben Sure, it's going to kill a lot of people, but they may be dying of something else anyway.
-- Othal Brand, member of a Texas pesticide review board I never hated a man enough to give him his diamonds back.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Travel and Tourism
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 You can observe a lot by watching.
-- Yogi Berra "Dear World, I am leaving because I am bored. I feel I have lived long enough. I am leaving you with your worries in this sweet cesspool. Good luck." (George Sanders, suicide note) The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this
is true.
-- James Branch Cabell, The Silver Stallion There's many a bestseller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.
-- Flannery O'Connor Travel and Tourism Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when
people laugh.
-- George Bernard Shaw "It serves me right for putting all my eggs in one bastard." (Dorothy Parker, 1893-1967, US writer) What do I dislike about death? Must be the hours.
-- Woody Allen Travel and Tourism
Insurance is like marriage. You pay, pay, pay, and you never get anything back.
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show "I am convinced that it is not the fear of death, of our lives ending that haunts our sleep so much as the fear ... that as far as the world is concerned, we might as well never have lived." (Rabbi H "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) Usenet is like a herd of performing elephants with diarrhea -- massive, difficult to redirect, awe-
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-- Oscar Wilde The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains.The superior teacher demonstrates. The
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-- William Arthur Ward Stung by the splendour of a sudden thought.
-- Robert Browning Travel and Tourism
Politics have no relation to morals.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli A Code of Honor: Never approach a friend's girlfriend or wife with mischief as your goal. There
are just too many women in the world to justify that sort of dishonorable behavior. Unless she's
reall I think that I shall never see
A billboard lovely as a tree.
Indeed, unless the billboards fall,
I'll never see a tree at all.
-- Ogden Nash, Song of the Open Road, 1945 Coffee is a beverage that puts one to sleep when not drank.
-- Alphonse Allais "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) Travel and Tourism Military justice is to justice what military music is to music.
-- George Clemenceau I skate to where the puck is going to be, not to where it has been.
-- Wayne Gretzky Sure, it's going to kill a lot of people, but they may be dying of something else anyway.
-- Othal Brand, member of a Texas pesticide review board Travel and Tourism
"The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves." (William Hazlitt) My Alma mater was books, a good library . . . . I could spend the rest of my life reading, just
satisfying my curiosity.
--Malcolm X "A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men." (Roald Dahl) Value your words. Each one may be the last.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec >From error to error one discovers the entire truth.
-- Sigmund Freud Travel and Tourism To teach is to learn twice.
-- Joseph Joubert You got to be careful if you don't know where you're going, because you might not get there.
-- Yogi Berra As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; and as far as they are
certain, they do not refer to reality.
-- Albert Einstein Travel and Tourism
Most married couples, even though they love each other very much in theory, tend to view each
other in practice as large teeming flaw colonies, the result being that they get on each other's
nerves "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) Character is what you are in the dark.
-- Dwight L. Moody That's the way things come clear. All of a sudden. And then you realize how obvious they've been
all along.
-- Madeleine L'Engle What do you take me for, an idiot?
- General Charles de Gaulle (1890-1970), when a journalist asked him if he was happy Travel and Tourism "It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) No wonder nobody comes here--it's too crowded.
-- Yogi Berra If addiction is judged by how long a dumb animal will sit pressing a lever to get a 'fix' of
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cocaine.
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Just buy a box of popcorn and a Coca-Cola and sit back and watch.
-- James Carville, Clinton advisor, offering advice for Democrats on the term-limits vote in the
House Men have a much better time of it than women; for one thing, they marry later; for another thing, they die earlier. --H.L. Mencken Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. "Better to be deprived of food for three days than tea for one." (Chinese Proverb) I'm at the age where food has taken the place of sex in my life. In fact, I've just had a mirror put
over my kitchen table.
-- Rodney Dangerfield Travel and Tourism 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 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 first duty of a lecturer: to hand you after an hour's discourse a nugget of pure truth to wrap up
between the pages of your notebooks, and keep on the mantlepiece forever.
-- Virginia Woolf Travel and Tourism
By working faithfully eight hours a day, you might eventually get to be a boss and work twelve
hours a day.
-- ROBERT FROST Many a man owes his success to his first wife and his second wife to his success.
-- Jim Backus Golf is a good walk spoiled.
-- Mark Twain "I never learned from a man who agreed with me." (Robert A. Heinlein) The marriage of Marxism and feminism has been like the marriage of husband and wife depicted
in English common law: Marxism and feminism are one, and that one is Marxism.
-- Heidi Hartmann, The Unha Travel and Tourism "Education is the process of driving a set of prejudices down your throat." (Martin H. Fischer) Love is only the game that is not called on account of darkness.
-- M. Hirschfield Love is what happens to men and women who don't know each other.
-- W. Somerset Maugham Travel and Tourism
