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For of all sad words of tongue or pen,
The saddest are these: "It might have been!"
-- John Greenleaf Whittier Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with
the powerful, not to be neutral.
-- Paulo Freire Change before you have to.
-- Jack Welch Adolescence is a period of rapid changes. Between the ages of 12 and 17, for example, a parent
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-- Anonymous Love is the delusion that one man or woman differs from another.
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-- Virginia Woolf "Wise men learn more from fools, than fools from the wise." (Anonymous) I criticize by creation - not by finding fault.
- Cicero Health
"Better to be deprived of food for three days than tea for one." (Chinese Proverb) "Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former." (Albert Einstein) "I had discovered that a person does not have to be this or be that or be anything, not even oneself. One is free." (Walker Percy, The Moviegoer) "Is man merely a mistake of God's? Or God merely a mistake of man's?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage." Health Love is friendship set on fire.
- Jeremy Taylor He who laughs last thinks slowest.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try.
-- Beverly Sills Health
Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche When nations grow old, the arts grow cold and commerce settles on every tree.
-- William Blake I will try to follow the advice that a university president once gave a prospective commencement
speaker. "Think of yourself as the body at an Irish wake" he said. "They need you in order to have
th There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.
-- Benjamin Disraeli "Every great institution is the lengthened shadow of a single man. His character determines the character of the organization." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Health Guys are lucky because they get to grow mustaches. I wish I could. It's like having a little pet for
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-- Anita Wise >From the moment I picked your book up until I laid it down I was convulsed with laughter. Some
day I intend reading it.
-- Groucho Marx Computers will not be perfected until they can compute how much more than the estimate the job
will cost.
-- Anon Health
Boredom is the feeling that everything is a waste of time; serenity, that nothing is.
-- Thomas Szasz "What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to a human soul." (Joseph Addison) Trying to determine what is going on in the world by reading newspapers is like trying to tell the
time by watching the second hand of a clock.
-- Ben Hecht Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
-- Harriet Beecher Stowe Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
-- T.S. Eliot Health They had a dispute about a night out with the boys. But he finally decided to let her go.
-- Anonymous Luck is the residue of design.
- Branch Rickey - former owner of the Brooklyn Dodger Baseball Team May you be blessed with a wife so healthy and strong, she can pull the plow when your horse drops dead. Health
Guide to understanding a net.addict's day:
Slow day: didn't have much to do, so spent three hours on usenet.
Busy day: managed to work in three hours of usenet.
Bad day: barely squeezed in three ho I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a
woman.
-- Virginia Woolf Thank God - every morning when you get up - that you have something to do which must be
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-- Tom Robbins Health For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of our tasks; the ultimate,
the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.
-- Rainer Maria Ril I married beneath me. All women do.
-- Lady Nancy Astor, attributed For centuries, theologians have been explaining the unknowable in terms of the-not-worth-
knowing.
- Henry Louis Mencken Health
"I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough." (M. C. Escher) Now comes the mystery.
-- Henry Ward Beecher, dying words, March 8, 1887 It is important that students bring a certain ragamuffin, barefoot, irreverence to their studies; they
are not here to worship what is known, but to question it.
-- J. Bronowski, The Ascent of Man To achieve the impossible, it is precisely the unthinkable that must be thought.
-- Tom Robbins, Jitterbug Perfume How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create
it herself.
- Anais Nin Health "O' What may man within him hide, though angel on the outward side!" (William Shakespeare) The limits of my language means the limits of my world.
-- Ludwig Wittgenstein Happy are those who dream dreams and are willing to pay the price to make them come true.
-- Anon. Health
Man is the only animal that blushes--or needs to.
-- Mark Twain "A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities." (Eda J. Le Shan) In a novel, the hero can lay ten girls and marry a virgin for the finish. In a movie, that is not
allowed. The villain can lay anybody he wants, have as much fun and as he wants cheating,
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-- Winston Churchill Value your words. Each one may be the last.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec Health Do you not know, my son, with what little understanding the world is ruled?
-- Pope Julius III In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
- Martin Luther King Jr. "You know what charm is: a way of getting the answer yes without having asked any clear question." (Albert Camus, The Fall) Health
A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn; it can be stabbed to death by a joke
or worried to death by a frown on the right person's brow.
-- Charles Brower Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure.
-- George E. Woodberry The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything.
-- Oscar Wilde Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.
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-- Percy Bysshe Shelley Health Goodbye, Everybody!
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-- Mother Teresa A leader in the Democratic Party is a boss, in the Republican Party he is a leader.
Harry S. Truman Health
Always behave like a duck--keep calm and unruffled on the surface but paddle like the devil
underneath.
-- Jacob Braude "Men act and women appear. Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at." (John Berger) A kitten is chiefly remarkable for rushing about like mad at nothing whatever, and generally
stopping before it gets there.
-- Agnes Repplier "Be not afraid of greatness. Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon 'em." (William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night, II:5) Love begins with a smile, grows with a kiss, and ends with a teardrop.
-- Anonymous Health "Greed, for lack of a better word, is good. Greed is right. Greed works." (Michael Douglas, as Gordon Gekko, Wall Street, 1987) In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.
-- Albert Einstein There are times when parenthood seems nothing but feeding the mouth that bites you.
-- Peter De Vries Health
Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
-- Harriet Beecher Stowe Marriage is a lottery, but you can't tear up your ticket if you lose.
-- F. M. Knowles "The purpose of Compulsory Education is to deprive the common people of their commonsense." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) I told my wife that a husband is like a fine wine; he gets better with age. The next day, she locked
me in the cellar.
-- Anonymous An ideal wife is one who remains faithful to you but tries to be just as charming as if she weren't.
-- Sacha Guitry Health "Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Losing a wife can be hard. In my case, it was almost impossible. A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.
-Robert Frost (1874-1963) Health
Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.
-- Louise Hay "Character is determined more by the lack of certain experiences than by those one has had." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) In the blithe days of honeymoon,
With Kate's allurements smitten,
I lov'd her late, I lov'd her soon,
And call'd her dearest kitten.
But now my kitten's grown a cat,
And cross like other wives.
Did you hear about the scientist whose wife had twins? He baptized one and kept the other as a control. Never be possessive. If a female friend lets on that she is going out with another man, be kind
and understanding. If she says she would like to go out with the Dallas Cowboys, including the
coachin Health There are some things which cannot be learned quickly, and time, which is all we have, must be
paid heavily for their acquiring. They are the very simplest things and, because it takes a man's
life "Marriage excuses no one the freak's roll-call." (Joe Orton, What the Butler Saw) Nobody ever died of laughter.
-- Max Beerbohm Health
