"A girl can wait for the right man to come along, but in the meantime that still doesn't mean she can't have a wonderful time with all the wrong ones." (Cher) "I like boring things." (Andy Warhol, Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up) There is nothing that can be said by mathematical symbols and relations which cannot also be
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successfully Golf is a good walk spoiled.
-- Mark Twain 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 Brierley Hill The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
-- B. F. Skinner The Democrats are the party that says government will make you smarter, taller, richer, and
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-- General Douglas MacArthur Brierley Hill
Matters of religion should never be matters of controversy. We neither argue with a lover about
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-- George Santayana "I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it." (Thomas Jefferson, to Archibald Stuart, 1791) Working mothers are guinea pigs in a scientific experiment to show that sleep is not necessary to human life. Chase after the truth like all hell and you'll free yourself, even though you never touch its
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-- Clarence Darrow If law school is so hard to get through... how come there are so many lawyers?
-- Calvin Trillin Brierley Hill Effort is only effort when it begins to hurt.
-- Jose Ortega y Gasset If variety is the spice of life, marriage is the big can of leftover Spam.
-- Johnny Carson Every normal man must be tempted at times to spit upon his hands, hoist the black flag, and
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That is the best -- to laugh with someone because you think the same things are funny.
-- Gloria Vanderbilt "One of the things about acting is it allows you to live other people's lives without having to pay the price. I've never been one of those actors who has touted myself as a fascinating human being. I 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 Parenthetical remarks (however relevant) are unnecessary.
-- Frank L. Visco, How to Write Good "It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend." (William Blake) Brierley Hill "God's creatures, great and small ... eat them one, eat them all." (John A. Simone Sr.) Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature.
-- Samuel Butler Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think.
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One of the greatest discoveries a man makes, one of his great surprises, is to find he can do
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-- Henry Ford Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and
retaliation. the foundation of such a method is love.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. "Now that we have everything we need, we discover that there is almost nothing that we have that we want." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) The eyes are not responsible when the mind does the seeing.
-- Publilius Syrus He can compress the most words into the smallest idea of any man I know.
- Abraham Lincoln Brierley Hill If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded.
-- Maya Angelou For most of history, Anonymous was a woman.
-- Virginia Woolf 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 Brierley Hill
Look not mournfully into the Past. It comes not back again. Wisely improve the Present. It is
thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy Future, without fear, and with a manly heart.
-- Henry Wadsworth Lo You'd be surprised how much it costs to look this cheap.
-- Dolly Parton Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door
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-- Katharine Hepburn Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world.
-- George Bernard Shaw Keep in mind that neither success nor failure is ever final.
-- Roger Babson Brierley Hill Life - a sexually transmitted terminal condition.
-- Walter Prager "Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear." (Ambrose Redmoon) It's no credit to anyone to work to hard.
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Honor's a thing too subtle for wisdom; if honor lie in eating, he's right honorable.
-- Beaumont, Francis Chance is always powerful. - Let your hook be always cast; in the pool where you least expect it,
there will be a fish.
-- Ovid Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do.
-- Dr. Benjamin Spock, American pediatrician, address to new parents And since the stench of death will always attract flies and vermin, the arrival of Geraldo was
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-- Garry Trudeau blah "Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the government of himself. Can he, then be trusted with the government of others? Or have we found angels in the form of kings to govern him? Brierley Hill For most of history, Anonymous was a woman.
-- Virginia Woolf In any organization there will always be one person who knows what is going on. This person
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-- Conway's Law Prejudice is the child of ignorance.
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"Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences." (Isadora Duncan) UGLINESS, n. A gift of the gods to certain women, entailing virtue without humility.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 "Conscience and cowardice are really the same things. Conscience is the trade-name of the firm. That is all." (Oscar Wilde) Ninety percent of everything is crap.
-- Theodore Sturgeon "Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame." (Erica Jong) Brierley Hill Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions - it only guarantees equality of opportunity.
- Irving Kristol Never eat more than you can lift.
-- Miss Piggy, character on "The Muppet Show," U.S. television show I am ready to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me
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"If you believe everything you read, you better not read." (Japanese Proverb) "Failure is not an option!" (Ed Harris, as Gene Kranz, Apollo 13) He who laughs, lasts.
-- Mary Pettibone Poole Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than the arguments of its opposers.
-- William Penn 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 Brierley Hill >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 ARDOR, n. The quality that distinguishes love without knowledge.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 "A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men." (Roald Dahl) Brierley Hill
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-- Harriet Beecher Stowe In the late 1600s the finest instruments originated from three rural families whose workshops
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hung Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.
-- George Washington The difference between sex and death is that with death you can do it alone and no one is going
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-- Woody Allen Change is not merely necessary to life, it is life.
-- Alvin Toffler Brierley Hill A hippo does not have a sting in its tail, but a wise man would still rather be sat on by a bee.
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Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot. "If a man has good corn, or wood, or boards, or pigs to sell, or can make better chairs or knives, crucibles, or church organs, than anybody else, you will find a broad, hard-beaten road to his house, This delivery driver carries no money. His wife has it all. "The first question I ask myself when something doesn't seem to be beautiful is why do I think it's not beautiful. And very shortly you discover that there is no reason." (John Cage) Although the course may change sometimes, rivers always reach the sea.
-- Led Zeppelin, Ten Years Gone Brierley Hill "A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool." (William Shakespeare) "Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Men have become the tools of their tools.
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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 No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman.
-- Honore de Balzac Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do.
-- Dr. Benjamin Spock, American pediatrician, address to new parents I think there are only three things America will be known for 2,000 years from now when they
study this civilization: the Constitution, jazz music, and baseball.
-- Gerald Early, writer, baseball do "It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) Brierley Hill University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
-- Henry Kissinger Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
-- Soren Kierkegaard Marriage has many pains, but celibacy has no pleasures.
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