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Knowledge is the intellectual manipulation of carefully verified observations.
-- Sigmund Freud The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed
desperation.
-- Henry David Thoreau, Walden (1854) I shall return.
-- General Douglas MacArthur If God had meant us to vote, He would have given us candidates.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is; I only know that people call
me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat.
-- Rebecca West, Disability Resources There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in his home.
-- Kenneth H. Olson, President of DEC, Convention of the World Future Society, 1977 "I learned more from the one restaurant that didn't work than from all the ones that were successes." (Wolfgang Puck, restauranteur) "Have you ever fed your pocket and starved your soul?" (Ivana Santilli, Too Deep) Disability Resources
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 Anyone nit-picking enough to write a letter of correction to an editor doubtless deserves the error
that provoked it.
-- Alvin Toffler There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home.
- Ken Olson, president, chairman and founder of Digital Equipment Corp., 1977 It was just him and me. He fought with honor. If it weren't for his honor, he and the others would
have beaten me together. They might have killed me, then. His sense of honor saved my life. I
didn' I drink no more than a sponge.
-- Francis Rabelais, Works. Book i. Chap. v. Disability Resources "Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death." (General Michel Aoun) The real test of friendship is: Can you literally do nothing with the other person? Can you enjoy
together those moments of life that are utterly simple? They are the moments people looks back
on at He that always gives way to others will end in having no principles of his own.
-- Aesop Disability Resources
Now, now my good man, this is no time for making enemies.
- Voltaire (1694-1778) on his deathbed in response to a priest asking that he renounce Satan. Never tell. Not if you love your wife... In fact, if your old lady walks in on you, deny it. Yeah. Just
flat out and she'll believe it: "I'm tellin' ya. This chick came downstairs with a sign around Confidence is the feeling you have before you understand the situation.
--Anon. "In married life three is company and two is none." (Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest) In a hierarchy, every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence. Therefore:
? In time, every post tends to be occupied by an employee who is incompetent to carry out its
duties.
? Work Disability Resources God gave men both a penis and a brain, but unfortunately not enough blood supply to run both at
the same time.
- Robin Williams, commenting on the Clinton/Lewinsky affair If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded.
-- Maya Angelou blah "Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together." (Vincent van Gogh) Disability Resources
The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.
-- Franklin D. Roosevelt My wife says if I go fishing one more time she's going to leave me. Gosh, I'm going to miss her. The only one of your children who does not grow up and move away is your husband. Good friends are good for your health.
-- Irwin Sarason Until the day of his death, no man can be sure of his courage.
-- Jean Anouilh Disability Resources The trouble with children is that they are not returnable.
-- Quentin Crisp "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) In literature as in love, we are astonished at what is chosen by others.
-- André Maurois Disability Resources
"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) A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel.
-- Robert Frost "To avoid criticism: do nothing, say nothing, be nothing." (Elbert Hubbard, American author, 1856-1915) Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has not heart; and any man who is over 30, and is
not a conservative, has no brains.
- Sir Winston Churchill He who laughs last didn't get it.
-- Helen Giangregorio Disability Resources "Things do not change, we change." (Henry David Thoreau) Live truth instead of professing it.
-- Elbert Hubbard A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in students.
-- John Ciardi Disability Resources
Propel, propel, propel your craft softly down liquid solution. Ecstatically, ecstatically, ecstatically,
ecstatically, Existence is simply illusion.
-- Fred Rogers, parody of "Row, row, row your boa There's too much blood in my caffeine system.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker It is always right that a man should be able to render a reason for the faith that is within him.
-- Sydney Smith "It wasn't until I started reading and found books they wouldn't let us read in school that I discovered you could be insane and happy and have a good life without being like everybody else." (John W "Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom." (Raymonde Uy) Disability Resources If you can't convince them, confuse them.
-- Harry S. Truman Good Night, Good night! Parting is such sweet sorrow,
that I shall say good night till it be morrow.
-- Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare. Act II, Scene II, lines 220-221 Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parent, gobble their food, and tyrannize their
teachers.
-- Socrates Disability Resources
Whether you think that you can, or that you can't, you are usually right.
-- Henry Ford If all these sweet young things were laid end to end, I wouldn't be the slightest bit surprised.
-- Dorothy Parker I just want what every married woman wants, someone besides her husband to sleep with.
-- Peg Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt 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 Disability Resources The great thing in this world is not so much where we stand as in what direction we are going.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes "You know that being an American is more than a matter of where your parents came from. It is a belief that all men are created free and equal and that everyone deserves an even break." (Harry S. Tru No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem.
-- Booker T. Washington Disability Resources
Many a man owes his success to his first wife and his second wife to his success.
-- Jim Backus Opportunity may knock only once, but temptation leans on the doorbell.
-- Anonymous The question is not whether we will die, but how we will live.
-- Joan Borysenko Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is.
-- Diane Ackerman Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of
the other person.
-- Mark Twain Disability Resources Curiosity killed the cat, but for a while I was a suspect.
-- Steven Wright The great advantage of being in a rut is that when one is in a rut, one knows exactly where one
is.
-- Arnold Bennett 2,400,000 Americans play the accordian - hopefully not at the same time.
-- inside of a Pepsi cap Disability Resources
"Sometimes I think it's another sign of the sad necessity of our crowded, lonely lives, an urgent hopeless reaching out to touch something real, a deep hunger for something authentic when everything s We have drugs to make women speak, but none to keep them silent.
-- Anatole France By working faithfully eight hours a day, you might eventually get to be a boss and work twelve
hours a day.
-- ROBERT FROST "Inside of a ring or out, ain't nothing wrong with going down. It's staying down that's wrong." (Muhammad Ali) If we were not all so interested in ourselves, life would be so uninteresting that none of us would
be able to endure it.
-- Schopenhauer Disability Resources "I don't believe people die. They just go uptown. To Bloomingdales. They just take longer to get back." (Andy Warhol) "Every great institution is the lengthened shadow of a single man. His character determines the character of the organization." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Silence is argument carried out by other means.
-- Ernesto "Che" Guevara Disability Resources
Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.
-- Don Stanford "Be the change that you want to see in the world." (Mohandas Gandhi) As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he.
-- Proverbs 23:7 Marriage is more than four bare legs in a bed.
-- Hoshang N. Akhtar Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances
continue to exist, a wonderful living side by side can grow up, if they succeed in loving the
distance Disability Resources In times of profound change, the learners inherit the earth, while the learned find themselves
beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists.
-- Al Rogers, Global SchoolHouse Netw I hate it in friends when they come too late to help.
-- Euripides I've been trying desperately to save my marriage for the last 35 years. Disability Resources
I do not consider it an insult, but rather a compliment to be called an agnostic. I do not pretend to
know where many ignorant men are sure -- that is all that agnosticism means.
- Clarence Darrow, Women want mediocre men, and men are working hard to become as mediocre as possible.
-- Margaret Mead Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars
-- Les Brown Practice random acts of kindness and sensless acts of beauty.
-- Adair Lara "Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishments." (Anonymous) Disability Resources Smoking kills. If you're killed, you've lost a very important part of your life.
-- Brooke Shields, during an interview to become spokesperson for a federal anti-smoking
campaign "Mistakes are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) He would make a lovely corpse.
- Charles Dickens Disability Resources
