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What is the answer? In that case, what is the question?
-- Gertrude Stein, dying words I do not like broccoli. And I haven't liked it since I was a little kid and my mother made me eat it.
And I'm President of the United States and I'm not going to eat any more broccoli.
-- George Bus Motivation will almost always beat mere talent.
-- Norman R. Augustine Not only is there no God, but try finding a plumber on Sunday.
-- Woody Allen "Mothers spend a lifetime excising from their sons the influence of their fathers." (Arthur Lotti) Hetton-Le-Hole The difference between 'involvement' and 'commitment' is like an eggs-and-ham breakfast: the
chicken was 'involved' - the pig was 'committed'.
- unknown "Oh, the tiger will love you. There is no sincerer love than the love of food." (George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman) Sir Francis Drake circumsized the world with a 100-foot clipper.
-- Unknown history student Hetton-Le-Hole
Those parts of the system that you can hit with a hammer (not advised) are called hardware;
those program instructions that you can only curse at are called software.
-- Unknown author, Levitating T The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains that I
have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time.
-- George Bernard Shaw "A man who tells lies, like me, merely hides the truth. But a man who tells half-lies has forgotten where he put it." (Claude Rains, as Mr. Dryden, Lawrence of Arabia, 1962) You cannot think about thinking, without thinking about thinking about something.
-- Seymour Papert More light!
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, dying words Hetton-Le-Hole "One often contradicts an opinion when what is uncongenial is really the tone in which it was conveyed." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) History repeats itself; that's one of the things that's wrong with history.
-- Clarence Darrow No matter who you vote for, the Government always gets in.
-- Anon. Hetton-Le-Hole
"I was born and raised with crocodiles; they are a piece of cake. But kids are so ... unpredictable." (Steve Irwin, "Crocodile Hunter") Life is like a dogsled team. If you ain't the lead dog, the scenery never changes.
-- Lewis Grizzard Epperson's law:
When a man says it's a silly, childish game, it's probably something his wife can beat him at. I admire the serene assurance of those who have religious faith. It is wonderful to observe the
calm confidence of a Christian with four aces.
-- Mark Twain Trust everybody, but cut the cards.
-- Finley Peter Dunne Hetton-Le-Hole 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 "Dreams are the touchstones of our personality." (Henry David Thoreau) "Pleasant words are a honeycomb, Sweet to the soul and healing to the bones." (Bible, Proverbs 16:24) Hetton-Le-Hole
If you don't know how to do something, you don't know how to do it with a computer.
-- Anon. "It seems to me that almost all our sadnesses are moments of tension, which we feel as paralysis because we no longer hear our astonished emotions living." (Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poe I would have made a good Pope.
-- Richard Nixon, U.S. President In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.
-- Albert Einstein 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 Hetton-Le-Hole Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and
retaliation. the foundation of such a method is love.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Marriage isn't a word... it's a sentence.
-- King Vidor, in the 1928 film, The Crawl A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend upon the support of Paul.
-- George Bernard Shaw Hetton-Le-Hole
Before marriage, a man will lie awake all night thinking about something you said; after marriage,
he'll fall asleep before you finish saying it.
-- Helen Roland A man sits with a pretty girl for an hour, it seems like a minute. He sits on a hot stove for a
minute, it's longer than any hour. That is relativity.
-- Albert Einstein The hard part about being a bartender is figuring out who is drunk and who is just stupid.
-- Richard Braunstein A woman's always younger than a man of equal years.
-Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Aurora Leigh "A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools." (Douglas Adams) Hetton-Le-Hole Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you
together, but do so with all your heart.
-- Marcus Aurelius Love is a perky elf dancing a merry little jig and then suddenly he turns on you with a miniature
machine gun.
-- Matt Groening, Love is Hell I know nothing about sex, because I was always married.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Hetton-Le-Hole
I'm not dumb, I just have a command of thoroughly useless information.
-- Calvin We have been friends together in sunshine and in shade.
-- Caroline Norton Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive.
-- Anaïs Nin "Conform and be dull." (J. Frank Doble) "Nothing is permanent but change." (Heraclitus) Hetton-Le-Hole Minds are like parachutes - they only function when open.
-- Thomas Dewar It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are
difficult.
-- Seneca "The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet." (Andy Warhol) Hetton-Le-Hole
If we don't change the direction we are going,
We are likely to end up where we are heading.
-- Chinese saying If you are afraid of loneliness, do not marry. -- Chekhov Martyrdom... is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability. George Bernard
Shaw (1856 - 1950), The Devil's Disciple (1901) act 3 "To make a living, craftiness is better than learnedness." (Pierre-Augustin de Beaumarchais) A beauty is a woman you notice; A charmer is one who notices you.
-- Adlai Stevenson Hetton-Le-Hole A grouch escapes so many little annoyances that it almost pays to be one.
-- Kin Hubbard Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than
the wisest man can answer.
-- Charles Caleb Colton "I expect nothing. I fear no one. I am free." (Nikos Kazantzakis) Hetton-Le-Hole
"They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself." (Andy Warhol) Always go to the bathroom when you have a chance.
-- King George V Republican boys date Democratic girls. They plan to marry Republican girls, but feel they're
entitled to a little fun first.
-- Anonymous Music is the art of thinking with sounds.
-- Jules Combarieu The man who complains about the way the ball bounces is likely the one who dropped it.
-- Lou Holtz Hetton-Le-Hole "People drag their progeny around with them like a ball and chain, like some terrible deadweight that hinders their every move - and that, as often as not, effectively winds up killing them." (Michel Coffee is a beverage that puts one to sleep when not drank.
-- Alphonse Allais "You believe that flag burning shows disrespect towards those who have fought to preserve our freedoms. Punishing protestors shows an even more profound disrespect for the ideals that these people die Hetton-Le-Hole
All virtue is summed up in dealing justly.
-- Aristotle The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing that you will make one.
-- Ellen Hubbard When I have a kid, I wanna put him in one of those strollers for twins, then run around the mall
looking frantic.
-- Steven Wright This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold
of a hammer.
-- Will Rogers "I owe much to my friends; but, all things considered, it strikes me that I owe even more to my enemies. The real person springs life under a sting even better than under a caress." (André Gide) Hetton-Le-Hole 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 Gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling in love.
-- Albert Einstein "It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure on the world." (John Steinbeck Hetton-Le-Hole
America is a large, friendly dog in a very small room. Every time it wags its tail, it knocks over a
chair.
-- Arnold Toynbee 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 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 A conference is a gathering of important people who singly can do nothing, but together can
decide that nothing can be done.
-- Fred Allen Doctors are the same as lawyers; the only difference is that lawyers merely rob you, whereas
doctors rob you and kill you too.
-- Anton Chekhov Hetton-Le-Hole It is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions.
-- Aldous Huxley "It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure on the world." (John Steinbeck If stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out?
- Will Rogers Hetton-Le-Hole
This delivery driver carries no money. His wife has it all. Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you help them to become what they are
capable of being.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Success is peace of mind which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you did your best
to become the best you are capable of becoming.
-- John R. Wooden, Practical Modern Basketball If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.
-- Virginia Woolf Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte Hetton-Le-Hole To decide, to be at the level of choice, is to take responsibility for your life and to be in control of
your life.
-- Abbie M. Dale The nice thing about being a celebrity is that if you bore people they think it's their fault.
- Henry Kissinger We have a habit in writing articles published in scientific journals to make the work as finished as
possible, to cover up all the tracks, to not worry about the blind alleys or describe how you had Hetton-Le-Hole
