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"A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) Books had instant replay long before televised sports.
-- Bern Williams "The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore." (Samuel Butler) There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.
-- Oscar Wilde Bigamy is one way of avoiding the painful publicity of divorce and the expense of alimony.
-- Oliver Herford Science and Environment Imagine if every Thursday your shoes exploded if you tied them the usual way. This happens to
us all the time with computers, and nobody thinks of complaining.
-- Jeff Raskin The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
-- Mark Twain Working mothers are guinea pigs in a scientific experiment to show that sleep is not necessary to human life. Science and Environment
Show my head to the people, it is worth seeing.
-- Georges Danton, to his executioner "'Contrariwise,' continued Tweedledee, 'if it was so, it might be, and if it were so, it would be; but as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic!'" (Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking Glass) The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
-- Mark Twain He can compress the most words into the smallest idea of any man I know.
- Abraham Lincoln Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering. Science and Environment Virtue is not left to stand alone. He who practices it will have neighbors.
-- Confucius "Over grown military establishments are under any form of government inauspicious to liberty, and are to be regarded as particularly hostile to republican liberty." (George Washington) Women are like tea bags; put them in hot water and they get stronger.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt Science and Environment
Motivation will almost always beat mere talent.
-- Norman R. Augustine Whether you think that you can, or that you can't, you are usually right.
-- Henry Ford Radio news is bearable. This is due to the fact that while the news is being broadcast the disc
jockey is not allowed to talk.
-- Fran Lebowitz Creativity is the sudden cessation of stupidity.
-- Edward H. Land That is the best -- to laugh with someone because you think the same things are funny.
-- Gloria Vanderbilt Science and Environment It is never too late to be what you might have been.
-- George Eliot "Education is a vacine for violence." (Edward James Olmos) When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I only think about how to solve the
problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
- Buckminster Science and Environment
"I was a total loner, not by self-design. I just didn't know what the hell to say to people. I was so shy. I used to stammer and lisp and dribble at the mouth." (Sir Anthony Hopkins, on his youth) It is with true love as it is with ghosts; everyone talks about it, but few have seen it.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld 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 If you don't know how to do something, you don't know how to do it with a computer.
-- Anon. 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 Science and Environment A woman seldom asks advice before she has bought her wedding clothes.
-- Joseph Addison "A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool." (William Shakespeare) "If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost." (Aristotle) Science and Environment
"Oh, the tiger will love you. There is no sincerer love than the love of food." (George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman) Whoever controls the media--the images--controls the culture.
-- Allen Ginsberg Television: A medium. So called because it is neither rare nor well done.
-- Ernie Kovacs It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.
-- Gore Vidal My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you'll be happy; if not, you'll become a
philosopher.
- Socrates Science and Environment Oregon Democratic Senate candidate Tom Bruggere, in describing his support for
comprehensive health care during a candidates' forum, said he supported "erection-to-
resurrection" coverage. He later a The only Zen you find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there.
-- Robert M. Pirsig A small family is soon provided for.
-- English Proverb Science and Environment
"I should reproach him for not giving us enough evidence." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970, what he would say to God if they 'met') I find television very educating. Every time sombody turns on the set, I go into the other room and
read a book.
-- Groucho Marx A friend is a gift you give yourself.
-- Robert Louis Stevenson "We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then is not an act but a habit." (Aristotle) "College professors are the people who can't hack it in the real world." (William Thomas) Science and Environment Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.
- Jean-Paul Sartre "Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death." (General Michel Aoun) Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions - it only guarantees equality of opportunity.
- Irving Kristol Science and Environment
"Eagles may soar, but weasels don't get sucked into jet engines." (John Benfield) You have to walk carefully in the beginning of love; the running across fields into your lover's
arms can only come later when you're sure they won't laugh if you trip.
-- Jonathan Carroll, Outside I'm for abolishing and doing away with redundancy.
-- J. Curtis McKay, Wisconsin State Elections Board "Plato was a bore." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The Middle Eastern states aren't nations; they're quarrels with borders.
-- P. J. O'Rourke Science and Environment For centuries, theologians have been explaining the unknowable in terms of the-not-worth-
knowing.
- Henry Louis Mencken If you put garbage in a computer nothing comes out but garbage. But this garbage, having
passed through a very expensive machine, is somehow ennobled and none dare criticize it.
-- Anonymous The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.
-- ee cummings Science and Environment
"One will rarely err if extreme actions be ascribed to vanity, ordinary actions to habit, and mean actions to fear." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) blah "A subject for a great poet would be God's boredom after the seventh day of creation." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
- Martin Luther King Jr. 'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
-- ee cummings The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One
cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the
marvelous str Science and Environment I'm astounded by people who want to 'know' the universe when it's hard enough to find your way
around Chinatown.
-- Woody Allen "Ideas are far more powerful than guns. We don't allow our enemies to have guns, why should we allow them to have ideas?" (Josef Stalin) There's nothing remarkable about it. All one has to do is hit the right keys at the right time and the
instrument plays itself.
-- Johann Sebastian Bach Science and Environment
We're our own dragons as well as our own heroes, and we have to rescue ourselves from
ourselves.
-- Tom Robbins Repentance is not so much remorse for what we have done as the fear of the consequences.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld, Maxims, 1665 .. I am indebted to the cat for a particular kind of honorable deceit, for a greater control over
myself, for a characteristic aversion to brutal sounds, and for the need to keep silent for long
per A conclusion is the place where you got tired thinking.
-- Martin H. Fischer You can get more with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone.
-- Al Capone Science and Environment "Contrariwise," continued Tweedledee, "if it was so, it might be, and if it were so, it would be; but
as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic!"
-- Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland What if it was cats who invented technology... would they have tv shows starring rubber sqeak
toys?
-- Douglas Coupland Everything in the world may be endured except continued prosperity.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Science and Environment
Whether you think that you can, or that you can't, you are usually right.
-- Henry Ford Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.
-- John Lehman, Secretary of the Navy, 1981-1987 "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 Viewed from the summit of reason, all life looks like a malignant disease and the world like a
madhouse.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe While we are postponing, life speeds by.
- Seneca (3BC - 65AD) Science and Environment Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end.
-- Igor Stravinsky I used to be Snow White, but I drifted.
-- Mae West Statistics are like a bikini. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.
-- Aaron Levenstein Science and Environment
Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way
around the laws.
- Plato Launch out into the deep. One discovers by living in scorn of consequence.
-- Essie Summers "Pleasant words are a honeycomb, Sweet to the soul and healing to the bones." (Bible, Proverbs 16:24) Peculiar travel suggestions are dancing lessons from God.
-- Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., Cat's Cradle If women didn't exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning.
-- Aristotle Onassis Science and Environment "Dreams are the touchstones of our personality." (Henry David Thoreau) I couldn't remember when I had been so disappointed. Except perhaps the time I found out that
M&Ms really do melt in your hand...
-- Peter Oakley He early on let her know who is the boss. He looked her right in the eye and clearly said, "You're
the boss."
-- Anonymous Science and Environment
