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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 He who laughs last is generally the last to get the joke.
-- Terry Cohen Most rock journalism is people who can't write interviewing people who can't talk for people who
can't read.
-- Frank Zappa I have been attacked by Rush Limbaugh on the air, an experience somewhat akin to being
gummed by a newt. It doesn't actually hurt, but it leaves you with slimy stuff on your ankle.
-- Molly Ivins "Ask five economists and you'll get five different answers (six if one went to Harvard)." (Edgar R. Fiedler) Arts and Entertainment The days just before marriage are like a snappy introduction to a tedious book. "The concerned investment banker is the one who blows the horn on his Mercedes as he drives through a red light." (Anonymous) When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President; I'm beginning to believe it.
-- Clarence Darrow Arts and Entertainment
The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without
the sympathy of the community.
-- William James "What is most appealing about young folks, after all, is the changes, not the still photograph of finished character but the movie, the soul in flux." (Thomas Pynchon) The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.
-- Franklin D. Roosevelt There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home.
- Ken Olson, president, chairman and founder of Digital Equipment Corp., 1977 "I hear, I know. I see, I remember. I do, I understand." (Confucius, 551 BC-479) Arts and Entertainment Flowers are words which even a baby can understand.
-- Arthur C. Coxe Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.
-- David Starr Jordan He that would have the fruit must climb the tree.
-- Thomas Fuller, M.D. Arts and Entertainment
"We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) I heard someone tried the monkeys-on-typewriters bit trying for the plays of W. Shakespeare, but
all they got was the collected works of Francis Bacon.
- Bill Hirst Inanimate objects are classified scientifically into three categories-- those that don't work, those
that break down, and those that get lost.
-- Russell Baker If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get
married.
-- Katharine Hepburn Discovery consists of looking at the same thing as everyone else does and thinking something
different.
-- Albert Szent-Gyorgyi, 1937 Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine Arts and Entertainment Women are like tea bags; put them in hot water and they get stronger.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt I didn't have time to write a short letter, so I wrote a long one instead.
-- Mark Twain Do not worry about your difficulties in mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater.
-- Albert Einstein Arts and Entertainment
"O' What may man within him hide, though angel on the outward side!" (William Shakespeare) It was a day like this Marco Polo left for China. What are your plans for today?
--Loesje A person is not given integrity. It results from the relentless pursuit of honesty at all times.
-- Anon. Marriage is like a mousetrap. Those on the outside are trying to get in. Those on the inside are trying to get out. Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Arts and Entertainment When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are
legislators.
-- P. J. O'Rourke "Nothing touches a work of art so little as words of criticism: they always result in more or less fortunate misunderstandings." (Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet) In olden times, sacrifices were made at the altar, a practice which is still very much practiced.
-- Helen Rowland Arts and Entertainment
"I'm basically an optimist in life but this doesn't prevent me from deducing as a scientist that we are probably doomed." (Vladimir Chaloupka, physicist, University of Washington, regarding mankind's Whenever you eliminate the inedible, whatever remains, however unpalatable, must be food.
-- Anonymous I once asked my history teacher how we were expected to learn anything useful from his subject,
when it seemed to me to be nothing but a monotonous and sordid succession of robber baron
scumbags dev "Death is only a launching into the region of the strange Untried; it is but the first salutation to the possibilities of the immense Remote, the Wild, the Watery, the Unshored..." (Herman Melville, Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think.
-- Niels Bohr Arts and Entertainment In America, anybody can be president. That's one of the risks you take.
-- Adlai Stevenson Stung by the splendour of a sudden thought.
-- Robert Browning Having a family is like having a bowling alley installed in your brain.
-- Martin Mull Arts and Entertainment
Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is most important that you do it.
-- Gandhi There's too much blood in my caffeine system.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Ah Mozart! He was happily married - but his wife wasn't.
-- Victor Borge I loathe people who keep dogs. They are cowards who haven't got the guts to bite people
themselves.
-- August Strindberg If there is any one proof of a man's incompetence, it is the stagnant mentality of a worker who,
doing some small routine job in a vast undertaking, does not care to look beyond the lever of a
machi Arts and Entertainment Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands... but English women only
hope to find in their butlers.
-- W. Somerset Maugham Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your position falls, your ego goes with
it.
-- Colin Powell "Video games are bad for you? That's what they said about rock 'n roll." (Shigeru Miyamoto, game designer for Nintendo) Arts and Entertainment
"Kill a man, and you are a murderer. Kill millions of men, and you are a conquerer. Kill everyone, and you are a god." (Jean Rostand) The two most common elements in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity. But not in that order.
-- Brian Pickrell "We're all proud of making little mistakes. It gives us the feeling we don't make any big ones." (Andrew A. Rooney) The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.
-- Nicholas Murray Butler "I have an unfortunate personality." (George Orson Welles) Arts and Entertainment Giving birth is like taking your lower lip and forcing it over your head.
-- Carol Burnett "I would rather die standing than live on my knees!" (Emiliano Zapata) I don't know why I did it, I don't know why I enjoyed it, and I don't know why I'll do it again.
-- Bart Simpson, young character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated television show Arts and Entertainment
"Conscience and cowardice are really the same things. Conscience is the trade-name of the firm. That is all." (Oscar Wilde) "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world, indeed it is the only thing that ever has." (Margaret Mead, 1901-78) "Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) If law school is so hard to get through... how come there are so many lawyers?
-- Calvin Trillin They couldn't hit an elephant at this dist---
-- John B. Sedgwick, general, dying words, 1864 Arts and Entertainment Children should be like waffles--you should be able to throw the first one away.
-- Mary Alice Messenger In the halls of justice, the only justice is in the halls.
-- Lenny Bruce Marital Freedom: The liberty that allows a husband to do exactly that which his wife pleases.
-- Anonymous Arts and Entertainment
The church is the great lost and found department.
-- Robert Short We have to keep trying things we're not sure we can pull off. If we just do the things we know we
can do... you don't grow as much. You gotta take those chances on making those big mistakes.
-- Cybi Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering. The reason most people play golf is to wear clothes they would not be caught dead in otherwise.
-- Roger Simon Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.
-- Roger Babson Arts and Entertainment Despite the high cost of living it remains a popular item.
-- Anonymous If you want to sing out, sing out, and if you want to be free, be free, 'cause there's a million ways
to be, you know that there are...
-- Cat Stevens, from a song lyric Working mothers are guinea pigs in a scientific experiment to show that sleep is not necessary to human life. Arts and Entertainment
Mathematics transfigures the fortuitous concourse of atoms into the tracery of the finger of God.
-- Herbert Westren Turnbull Hell is a half-filled auditorium.
-- Robert Frost If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.
-- Voltaire Each of us has a spark of life inside us, and our highest endeavor ought to be to set off that spark
in one another.
-- Kenny Ausubel To keep your marriage brimming
With love in the marriage cup,
Whenever you're wrong, admit it,
Whenever you're right, shut up. -- Nash Arts and Entertainment "Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishments." (Anonymous) The louder he talked of his honour, the faster we counted our spoons.
-- Emerson, Ralph Waldo Elegance of language may not be in the power of all of us; but simplicity and straight forwardness
are. Write much as you would speak; speak as you think. If with your inferior, speak no coarser
tha Arts and Entertainment
The executive exists to make sensible exceptions to general rules.
-- Elting E. Morison I drink no more than a sponge.
-- Francis Rabelais, Works. Book i. Chap. v. Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your position falls, your ego goes with
it.
-- Colin Powell Marriage is like a box of chocolates. You have to squeeze a few bottoms to make sure you like
what you are getting.
-- Anonymous blah bl "The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning, but without understanding." (Louis Brandeis) Arts and Entertainment There's a saying among prospectors: "Go out looking for one thing, and that's all you'll ever find."
-- Robert Flaherty Although the course may change sometimes, rivers always reach the sea.
-- Led Zeppelin, Ten Years Gone The best time to hold your tongue is the time you feel you must say something or bust.
-- Josh Billings Arts and Entertainment
