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bre The worth of the state, in the long run, is the worth of the individuals composing it.
-- John Stuart Mill "A man who flies from his fear may find he has only taken a shortcut to meet it." (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.
-- Paul Valery "To pretend, I actually do the thing: I have therefore only pretended to pretend." (Jacques Derrida, French 'deconstructionist') Business and Economy Here's to you and here's to me,
and I hope we never disagree.
But, if that should ever be,
to HELL with you, here's to ME!
-- Anonymous Soul meets soul on lovers lips.
-- Percy Bysshe Shelley Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame.
- Benjamin Franklin Business and Economy
"One of the great dangers in having a career is getting bored." (Itzhak Perlman) Why is it that our memory is good enough to retain the least triviality that happens to us, and yet
not good enough to recollect how often we have told it to the same person?
-- François de La Rouch There ought to be one day - just one - when there is open season on senators.
-- Will Rogers Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
-- Harriet Beecher Stowe "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" Business and Economy Did you ever notice when you blow in a dog's face he gets mad at you? But when you take him in
a car he sticks his head out the window.
-- Steve Bluestone If men knew all that women think, they'd be twenty times more daring.
-- Alphonse Karr The Bible contains six admonishments to homosexuals and 362 admonishments to
heterosexuals. That doesn't mean that God doesn't love heterosexuals. It's just that they need
more supervision.
-- Lynn Business and Economy
Never regard study as a duty, but as the enviable opportunity to learn to know the liberating
influence of beauty in the realm of the spirit for your own personal joy and to the profit of the
commun "All women love the men they fear. All women kiss the hand that rules them." (Lionel Atwill) When one is trying to do something beyond his known powers it is useless to seek the approval
of friends. Friends are at their best in moments of defeat.
-- Henry Miller In a great romance, each person plays a part the other really likes.
-- Elizabeth Ashley The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with
the wish to teach himself.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton Business and Economy "I do not agree with what you have to say, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) "I knew I was an unwanted baby when I saw my bath toys were a toaster and a radio." (Joan Rivers) Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature.
-- Samuel Butler Business and Economy
Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.
-- David Starr Jordan "I am convinced that it is not the fear of death, of our lives ending that haunts our sleep so much as the fear ... that as far as the world is concerned, we might as well never have lived." (Rabbi H When a thing has been said and said well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it.
-- Anatole France I find television very educating. Every time sombody turns on the set, I go into the other room and
read a book.
-- Groucho Marx Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside a dog, it's too dark to read.
-- Groucho Marx Business and Economy If I have seen farther than others, it is because I was standing on the shoulders of giants.
-- Isaac Newton Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so you apologize for truth.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Marriage is a rest period between romances. Business and Economy
I'm at the age where food has taken the place of sex in my life. In fact, I've just had a mirror put
over my kitchen table.
-- Rodney Dangerfield Anyway, no drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the
source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity,
ign The majority of husbands remind me of an orangutan trying to play the violin.
-- Honore de Balzac "... and then the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom." (Anais Nin) "Paper should be edible, nutritious. Inks used for printing or writing should have delicious flavors. Magazines or newspapers read at breakfast should be eaten for lunch. Instead of throwing one's mai Business and Economy It is because modern education is so seldom inspired by a great hope that it so seldom achieves
great results. The wish to preserve the past rather that the hope of creating the future dominates
the It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
-- Mark Twain Wagner's music is better than it sounds.
- Mark Twain Business and Economy
I couldn't remember when I had been so disappointed. Except perhaps the time I found out that
M&Ms really do melt in your hand...
-- Peter Oakley All science is concerned with the relationship of cause and effect. Each scientific discovery
increases man's ability to predict the consequences of his actions and thus his ability to control
futur In the early sixties, we were strong, we were virulent...
-- John Connally, Secretary of Treasury under Richard Nixon, in an early 70s speech, as reported
in a contemporary "American Scholar" "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 Die? I should say not, dear fellow. No Barrymore would allow such a conventional thing to
happen to him.
-- John Barrymore - last words Business and Economy My darling wife was always glum. I drowned her in a cask of rum, And so made sure that she would stay, In better spirits night and day. "The biggest argument against democracy is a five minute discussion with the average voter." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) "Growth in wisdom can be measured precisely by decline in bile." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Human, All Too Human) Business and Economy
"In order to preserve your self-respect, it is sometimes necessary to lie and cheat." (Robert Byrne) "Do you know that places only yield up their secrets, their most profound mysteries, to those who are just passing through?" (Salman Rushdie, The Moor's Last Sigh) You have to kiss a lot of toads before you find a handsome prince.
-- American Proverb "It is neccessary to have wished for death in order to know how good it is to live." (Alexander Dumas) I regret that I have but one life to give for my country.
-- Nathan Hale Business and Economy I owe the government $3400 in taxes. So I sent them two hammers and a toilet seat.
-- Michael McShane Miracles occur naturally as expressions of love. The real miracle is the love that inspires them. In
this sense everything that comes from love is a miracle.
-- Marianne Williamson "Education is a vacine for violence." (Edward James Olmos) Business and Economy
What I have to say is far more important than how long my eyelashes are.
-- Alanis Morissette, singer, 1995 There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as
though everything is a miracle.
- Albert Einstein The most savage controversies are about those matters as to which there is no good evidence
either way.
-- Bertrand Russell The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and
science.
-- Albert Einstein The first rule of intelligent tinkering is to save all the parts.
-- Paul Ehrlich Business and Economy Second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience. It doesn't much signify whom one marries, for one is sure to find out next morning it was
someone else.
-- Rogers CAPITAL, n. The seat of misgovernment. That which provides the fire, the pot, the dinner, the
table and the knife and fork for the anarchist; the part of the repast that himself supplies is the
disg Business and Economy
"It is not the answer that enlightens, but the question." (Eugene Ionesco) Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get
money from it.
-- Stephen Leacock "One can do without people but one has need of a friend." (Chinese Proverb) Every flower must grow through dirt.
-- Anonymous Whatever you are, be a good one.
-- Abraham Lincoln Business and Economy Behind every great fortune there is a crime.
- Honore de Balzac Why yes -- a bulletproof vest.
-- James Rodges, murderer, on his final request before the firing squad "It is not the answer that enlightens, but the question." (Eugene Ionesco) Business and Economy
Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance.
-- Oscar Wilde A human being is a part of the whole, called by us Universe, a part limited in time and space. He
experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest--a kind of
optic "Contrariwise," continued Tweedledee, "if it was so, it might be, and if it were so, it would be; but
as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic!"
-- Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland "To forget one's purpose is the commonest form of stupidity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "It ends not with a bang, but a whimper." (Thomas Stearns Eliot, aka T. S. Eliot, The Hollow Man) Business and Economy 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 The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this
is true.
-- James Branch Cabell, The Silver Stallion "I am a part of all that I have met." (Alfred Lord Tennyson, 1809-1892, English poet) Business and Economy
The sun never sets on the British empire because Britain is in the east and the sun sets in the
west.
-- Unknown history student "You can get help from teachers, but you are going to have to learn a lot by yourself, sitting alone in a room." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, On becoming a writer, NY Times 21 I don't even butter my bread; I consider that cooking.
-- Katherine Cebrian I hate women because they always know where things are.
-- James Thurber I have lost friends, some by death, others through sheer inability to cross the street.
-- Virginia Woolf Business and Economy Never raise your hands to your kids. It leaves your groin unprotected.
-- Red Buttons "Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under." (Henry Louis Mencken) Blessed is he who has learned to laugh at himself, for he shall never cease to be entertained.
-- John Powell Business and Economy
