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"If you assume that there's no hope, you guarantee that there will be no hope. If you assume that there is an instinct for freedom, there are opportunities to change things, there's a chance for you t The less their ability, the more their conceit.
Ahad HaAm Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell 'em, "Certainly, I can!" Then get busy and find
out how to do it.
-- Theodore Roosevelt Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you
have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not.
-- Aldous Huxley Trust, but verify.
-- Ronald Reagan Travel and Tourism "It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open one's mouth and remove all doubt." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.
-- Henry James Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
- Lewis Perelman Travel and Tourism
Jake liked his women the way he liked his kiwi fruit: sweet yet tart, firm-fleshed yet yielding to the
touch, and covered with short brown fuzzy hair.
-- Jonathan S. Haas "Is man merely a mistake of God's? Or God merely a mistake of man's?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) However, never daunted, I will cope with adversity in my usual manner...sulking and nausea.
-- Tom K. Ryan Love looks through a telescope; envy, through a microscope.
-- Josh Billings It's never too late to have a happy childhood.
-- Tom Robbins, Still Life With Woodpecker Travel and Tourism I feel that if a person has problems communicating the very least he can do is to shut up.
-- Tom Lehrer "College professors are the people who can't hack it in the real world." (William Thomas) 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 Travel and Tourism
[You reporters] should have printed what he meant, not what he said.
-- Earl Bush, press aide to Richard Daley I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.
- Francois-Auguste Rodin (1840-1917), when asked how he managed to make his remarkable
statues "Everyone is a bore to someone. That is unimportant. The thing to avoid is being a bore to oneself." (Gerald Brenan) I begin by taking. I shall find scholars later to demonstrate my perfect right.
- Frederick (II) the Great I am free of all prejudice. I hate everyone equally.
-- W. C. Fields Travel and Tourism "Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it." (John Quincy Adams) "One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries." (A. A. Milne) "Anyone who thinks they're important is usually just a pompous moron who can't deal with his or her own pathetic insignificance and the fact that what they do is meaningless and inconsequential..." ( Travel and Tourism
The gods too are fond of a joke.
-- Aristotle Basic research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
-- Wernher Von Braun This book fills a much-needed gap.
- Moses Hadas in a review History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte The man with the best job in the country is the Vice President. All he has to do is get up every
morning and say, "How's the President?"
-- Will Rogers Travel and Tourism The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything. Except what is worth knowing.
Journalism, conscious of this, and having tradesman-like habits, supplies their demands.
-- Oscar Wilde Victory belongs to the most persevering.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte Change before you have to.
-- Jack Welch Travel and Tourism
The possibility that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause
we believe to be just.
-- Abraham Lincoln No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman. -- Honore de Balzac When one find's oneself in a hole of one's own making, it is a good time to examine the quality of
the workmanship.
-- John Renmerde "I learned more from the one restaurant that didn't work than from all the ones that were successes." (Wolfgang Puck, restauranteur) All television is children's television.
-- Richard P. Adler Travel and Tourism "I was lousy in school. Real screwed-up. A moron. I was antisocial and didn't bother with the other kids. A really bad student. I didn't have any brains. I didn't know what I was doing there. That's w Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way
around the laws.
- Plato "What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to a human soul." (Joseph Addison) Travel and Tourism
"I'm so insane, I voted for Eisenhower."
"Oh yeah, well I'm so insane, I voted for Eisenhower TWICE!"
-- Ken Kesey from "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" "Education is the process of driving a set of prejudices down your throat." (Martin H. Fischer) Nothing can so alienate a voter from the political system as backing a winning candidate.
-- Mark B. Cohen I'm not indecisive. Am I indecisive?
-- Jim Scheibel, mayor, St. Paul MN "Beauty awakens the soul to act." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) Travel and Tourism Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well.
-- Josh Billings "True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost." (Charles Caleb Colton) The coziness between church and state is good for the state and bad for the church.
-- G. K. Chesterton Travel and Tourism
Democracy is a form of government in which it is permitted to wonder aloud what the country
could do under first-class management.
-- Senator Soaper "Man looks in the abyss, there's nothing staring back at him. At that moment, man finds his character. And that is what keeps him out of the abyss." (Hal Holbrook, Wallstreet) I would have made a good Pope.
-- Richard Nixon, U.S. President I had some words with my wife, and she had some paragraphs with me. "Beauty without expression is boring." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Travel and Tourism I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.
-- Francois-Auguste Rodin, when asked how he managed to make his remarkable statues Don't stay in bed, unless you can make money in bed.
- George Burns "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) Travel and Tourism
blah "It is a grand mistake to think of being great without goodness and I pronounce it as certain that there was never a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous." (Benjamin Fran It was very good of God to let Carlyle and Mrs Carlyle marry one another and so make only two people miserable instead of four, besides being very amusing. "Self-confidence is the first requisite for achieving great things." (Samuel Johnson) Weaseling out of things is good. It's what separates us from the other animals....except weasels.
-- Homer Simpson, character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated television show There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you
yourself have altered.
-- Nelson Mandela, A Long Walk to Freedom Travel and Tourism I am beginning to suspect all elaborate and special systems of education. They seem to me to be
built upon the supposition that every child is a kind of idiot who must be taught to think.
-- Anne S Very little is known of the Canadian country since it is rarely visited by anyone but the Queen and
illiterate sport fishermen.
-- P. J. O'Rourke "The English have all the material requisites for the revolution. What they lack is the spirit of generalization and revolutionary ardour." (Karl Marx) Travel and Tourism
Disclaimer: Even my wife doesn't agree with everything I say, and she loves me dearly. My employers don't love me nearly as much as she does. Draw your own conclusions. Music makes one feel so romantic - at least it always gets on one's nerves - which is the same
thing nowadays.
-- Oscar Wilde Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it
- Henry David Thoreau I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to.
-- Elvis Presley 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 Travel and Tourism Learn to laugh at your troubles and you'll never run out of things to laugh at.
-- Lyn Karol Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions - it only guarantees equality of opportunity.
- Irving Kristol A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.
- Lao-Tzu Travel and Tourism
To be able to say how much love, is love but little.
-- Petrarch If I have not seen as far as others, it is because giants were standing on my shoulders.
-- Hal Abelson To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.
-- Karen Sunde "Dying is the most embarrassing thing that can ever happen to you, because someone's got to take care of all your details." (Andy Warhol, America, 1985) "Transport of the mails, transport of the human voice, transport of flickering pictures--in this century as in others our highest accomplishments still have the single aim of bringing men together." Travel and Tourism If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile.
-- Lynda Barry If we knew what we were doing, it wouldn't be called research, would it?
-- Albert Einstein You can only find truth with logic if you have already found truth without it.
- Gilbert Keith Chesterton Travel and Tourism
"Beauty without expression is boring." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) There is no one so bound to his own face that he does not cherish the hope of presenting another
to the world.
-- Antonio Machado The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the
purpose of satisfying it afterwards.
-- Anatole France I like nonsense -- it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living. It's a way
of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope...and that enables you to laugh at all "Freedom of press is limited to those who own one." (Henry Louis Mencken) Travel and Tourism "Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution yet." (Mae West) Never go to bed angry. Stay up and fight.
-- Phyllis Diller I begin by taking. I shall find scholars later to demonstrate my perfect right.
- Frederick (II) the Great Travel and Tourism
