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The principle of give and take is the principle of diplomacy - give one and take ten.
-- Mark Twain Every major horror of history was committed in the name of an altruistic motive.
-- Ayn Rand 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 If you don't double-click me, I can't do anything.
-- John Aniston, on how computers have taken over his life I've had a perfectly wonderful evening. But this wasn't it.
-- Groucho Marx Society and Culture "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) However, never daunted, I will cope with adversity in my usual manner...sulking and nausea.
-- Tom K. Ryan Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow in Australia.
-- Charles Schultz Society and Culture
If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe.
- Carl Sagan Does anal retentive have a hyphen?
-- Seen on a t-shirt "Do something for the joy of doing it and pray you won't be punished." (Sammy Cahn) Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world.
-- George Bernard Shaw The worth of the state, in the long run, is the worth of the individuals composing it.
-- John Stuart Mill Society and Culture Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do.
-- Dr. Benjamin Spock, American pediatrician, address to new parents The best time to hold your tongue is the time you feel you must say something or bust.
-- Josh Billings "I do not suppose I shall be remembered for anything. But I don't think about my work in those terms. It is just as vulgar to work for the sake of posterity as to work for the sake of money." (George Society and Culture
Obedience is the gateway through which knowledge, yes, and love, too, enter the mind of the
child.
-- Anne Sullivan 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 A successful man is one who makes more money than his wife can spend. A successful woman
is one who can find such a man.
-- Lana Turner "You make 'em, I amuse 'em." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, on children) Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same.
-- Oscar Wilde Society and Culture The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when
we created them.
- Albert Einstein Love is what we are born with. Fear is what we learn. The spiritual journey is the unlearning of
fear and prejudices and the acceptance of love back in our hearts. Love is the essential reality
and "I expect nothing. I fear no one. I am free." (Nikos Kazantzakis) Society and Culture
Ah Mozart! He was happily married - but his wife wasn't. -- Borge My grandfather once told me that there are two kinds of people: those who work and those who
take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was less competition there.
-- INDIRA I still believe in liberalism today as much as I ever did, but, oh, there was a happy time when I
believed in liberals...
-- G. K. Chesterton The crime bill passed by the Senate would reinstate the Federal death penalty for certain violent
crimes: assassinating the President; hijacking an airliner; and murdering a government poultry
inspe May you be too good for the world and not good enough for your wife. Society and Culture "The one charm about marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties." (Oscar Wilde) The difference between marriage and death? Dead people are free. One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: that word is love.
-- Sophocles Society and Culture
A baby is God's opinion that the world should go on.
-- Carl Sandburg A man can't be too careful in the choice of his enemies.
- Oscar Wilde Courage is the price that Love exacts for granting peace.
-- Amelia Earhart There's a saying among prospectors: "Go out looking for one thing, and that's all you'll ever find."
-- Robert Flaherty There is no sincerer love than the love of food.
-- George Bernard Shaw Society and Culture The right to swing my fist ends where the other man's nose begins.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes This compact disc is made from analog masters recorded without noise reduction. Half the tracks,
in fact, were recorded in a dismal, cheap basement eight-track studio with puddles of water on
the fl In the sciences, we are now uniquely privileged to sit side by side with the giants on whose
shoulders we stand.
-- Gerald Holton Society and Culture
"When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; when health is lost, something is lost; when character is lost, all is lost." (Billy Graham) "Fear is a darkroom where negatives develop." (Usman Asif) I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
-- Thomas Edison If ever two were one, then surely we.
If ever man were loved by wife, then thee.
-- Anne Bradstreet Sir, I would rather be right than be President.
-- Henry Clay, Speech, 1850, referring to the Compromise Measure Society and Culture To achieve the impossible, it is precisely the unthinkable that must be thought.
-- Tom Robbins, Jitterbug Perfume "Dream as if you'll live forever; live as if you'll die tomorrow." (James Dean) "You can get help from teachers, but you are going to have to learn a lot by yourself, sitting alone in a room." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, On becoming a writer, NY Times 21 Society and Culture
"Eschew the ordinary, disdain the commonplace. If you have a single-minded need for something, let it be the unusual, the esoteric, the bizarre, the unexpected..." (Chuck Jones) You can always amend a big plan, but you can never expand a little one. I don't believe in little
plans. I believe in plans big enough to meet a situation which we can't possibly foresee now.
-- Ha "In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends." (Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.) Never raise your hands to your kids. It leaves your groin unprotected.
-- Red Buttons "I would rather die standing than live on my knees!" (Emiliano Zapata) Society and Culture "I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter." (Blaise Pascal) "One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar." (Helen Keller) A memorandum is written not to inform the reader but to protect the writer.
-- Dean Acheson Society and Culture
If women didn't exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning.
-- Aristotle Onassis English Law prohibits a man from marrying his mother-in-law. This is our idea of useless legislation. Marriage: the only sport in which the trapped animal has to buy the license. Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson "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) Society and Culture "A man is only as faithful as his opportunity." (Chris Rock) All marriages are happy--it's the living together afterward that causes all the problems. Nothing says loving like marrying your cousin! -- Al Bundy Society and Culture
You cannot think about thinking, without thinking about thinking about something.
-- Seymour Papert Sometimes a scream is better than a thesis.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Faith is believing what you know ain't so.
-- Mark Twain 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 Morality consists in suspecting other people of not being legally married.
-- George Bernard Shaw Society and Culture He who laughs last is generally the last to get the joke.
-- Terry Cohen This compact disc is made from analog masters recorded without noise reduction. Half the tracks,
in fact, were recorded in a dismal, cheap basement eight-track studio with puddles of water on
the fl "Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing." (Oscar Wilde) Society and Culture
I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones.
-- John Cage I hope you have not been leading a double life, pretending to be wicked and being really good all
the time. That would be hypocrisy.
-- Oscar Wilde Anyone can do any amount of work provided it isn't the work he's supposed to be doing at the
moment.
-- Robert Benchley Where there is marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.
-- Benjamin Franklin blah "Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together." (Vincent van Gogh) Society and Culture 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 "The only way to have friends is to be one." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) It destroys one's nerves to be amiable everyday to the same human being.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Society and Culture
It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid.
- George Bernard Shaw We look forward to the time when the power to love of will replace the love of power. Then will our
world know the blessings of peace.
-- William Gladstone Duct tape is like the Force. It has a light side, a dark side, and it holds the universe together....
-- Carl Zwanzig He who has a 'why' to live, can bear with almost any 'how'.
- Friedrich Nietzsche "Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) Society and Culture "I've never let my school interfere with my education." (Mark Twain) I hope you have not been leading a double life, pretending to be wicked and being really good all
the time. That would be hypocrisy.
-- Oscar Wilde "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) Society and Culture
