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Is there life before death?
-- Belfast Graffito Many a man that could rule a hundherd millyon sthrangers with an ir'n hand is careful to take off
his shoes in the front hallway whin he comes home late at night.
-- Finley Peter Dunne, Mr. Dooley O I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about 'short' and 'cheap'? -- Phyllis Diller Cricket is best described as organised loafing.
-- Anonymous British Radio Broadcaster, 1996 Matters of religion should never be matters of controversy. We neither argue with a lover about
his taste, not condemn him, if we are just, for knowing so human a passion.
-- George Santayana Business to Business Old soldiers never die, they just fade away.
-- General Douglas MacArthur There is a theory which states that if ever anybody discovers exactly what the Universe is for and
why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and
inex Beware of men on airplanes. The minute a man reaches thirty thousand feet, he immediately
becomes consumed by distasteful sexual fantasies which involve doing uncomfortable things in
those tiny toil Business to Business
Working mothers are guinea pigs in a scientific experiment to show that sleep is not necessary to human life. The trouble with children is that they are not returnable.
-- Quentin Crisp The difference between marriage and death? Dead people are free. Marriage is bliss. Ignorance is bliss. Ergo...
-- Anonymous >From the Far East I send you one single thought, one sole idea--written in red on every
beachhead form Australia to Tokyo--There is no substitute for victory!
-- General Douglas MacArthur Business to Business What's new? Most of my wife. Opportunities multiply as they are seized.
-- Sun Tzu "Video games are bad for you? That's what they said about rock 'n roll." (Shigeru Miyamoto, game designer for Nintendo) Business to Business
"I love to doubt as well as know." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) These people have served a longer sentence than some people who have committed murder.
-- Jeff Greenfield, news analyst, describing the jury in the OJ Simpson murder trial, 1995 Half of the American people never read a newspaper.
Half never voted for President.
One hopes it is the same half.
-- Gore Vidal "Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few." (George Bernard Shaw) Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife.
-- P. J. O'Rourke Business to Business "Education is the process of driving a set of prejudices down your throat." (Martin H. Fischer) "The market is not an invention of capitalism. It has existed for centuries. It is an invention of civilization." (Mikhail Gorbachev, June 8, 1990) "People who cease to believe in God or goodness altogether still believe in the devil. I don't know why. No, I do indeed know why. Evil is always possible. And goodness is eternally difficult." (Anne Business to Business
"Gifts must affect the receiver to the point of shock." (Walter Benjamin) "Experience is the name that everyone gives to their mistakes." (Oscar Wilde) "Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country." (Marquis de Lafayette) I shall return.
-- General Douglas MacArthur Often it does seem a pity that Noah and his party did not miss the boat.
-- Mark Twain Business to Business "Great indebtedness does not make men grateful, but vengeful; and if a little charity is not forgotten, it turns into a gnawing worm." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Thus Spake Zarathustra) We had a lot in common. I loved him and he loved him.
-- Shelley Winters 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 Business to Business
Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.
-- Mother Teresa "No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous." (Henry B. Adams) What is the answer? In that case, what is the question?
-- Gertrude Stein, dying words An understanding heart is everything is a teacher, and cannot be esteemed highly enough. One
looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our
human Whenever I'm caught between two evils, I take the one I've never tried.
-- Mae West Business to Business Wind is to fire like distance is to love; it extinguishes the small and enflames the great.
-- Anonymous Democracy is the name we give the people whenever we need them.
-- Marquis de Flers Robert and Arman de Caillavet We see the brightness of a new page where everything yet can happen.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke, Book of Hours Business to Business
Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from
history.
-- George Bernard Shaw I'm proud to be paying taxes in the United States. The only thing is - I could be just as proud for
half the money.
-- Arthur Godfrey MARRIAGE, n. The state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress and two
slaves, making in all, two.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 If we may believe our logicians, man is distinguished from all other creatures by the
faculty of laughter.
-- Joseph Addison "It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so." (Mark Twain) Business to Business "Life is a great surprise. I don't see why death should not be an even greater one." (Vladimir Nabokov) 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 It is better to be looked over than overlooked.
-- Mae West Business to Business
I don't mind if you don't like my manners. I don't like them myself. They're pretty bad. I grieve over
them on long winter evenings.
-- Humphrey Bogart to Lauren Bacall, in "The Big Sleep" Watching the debate this afternoon it was apparent they loved term limits in the House -- as
Brutus loved Caesar.
-- Bill Moyers 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 Hey, you can't fight in here! This is the war room!
-- Dr. Strangelove "Babies are necessary to grown-ups. A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities. In a world that is cutting down its trees to build highways, losing its eart Business to Business Good judgement comes from experience, and experience--well, that comes from poor judgement.
-- Cousin Woodman Blessed are the young for they shall inherit the national debt.
-- Herbert Hoover "The dancer's body is simply the luminous manifestation of the soul." (Isadora Duncan) Business to Business
"Do not go gentle into that good night. Old age should burn and rave at close of day. Rage, rage against the dying of the light." (Dylan Thomas) "Education must have an end in view, for it is not an end in itself." (Sybil Marshall) The gods too are fond of a joke.
-- Aristotle We all agree that your theory is crazy, but is it crazy enough?
- Niels Bohr Love is stronger than justice.
-- Sting Business to Business I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones.
-- John Cage "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 Two souls with but a single thought,
Two hearts that beat as one.
-- Fredrich Halm Business to Business
Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.
-- Roger Babson A baby is God's opinion that the world should go on.
-- Carl Sandburg You cannot think about thinking, without thinking about thinking about something.
-- Seymour Papert As for the virtuous poor, one can pity them, of course, but one cannot possibly admire them.
-- Oscar Wilde University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
- Henry Kissinger Business to Business Being in therapy is great. I spend an hour just talking about myself. It's kinda like being the guy on
a date.
-- Caroline Rhea "The dancer's body is simply the luminous manifestation of the soul." (Isadora Duncan) If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile.
-- Lynda Barry Business to Business
Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through
self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.
-- Helen Keller Good judgement comes from experience, and experience--well, that comes from poor judgement.
-- Cousin Woodman Logic is in the eye of the logician.
- Gloria Steinem My wife has a split personality, and I hate both of them. There is a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious, makes you so sick at
heart, you can't take part. And you've got to put your body upon the gears and upon the wheels,
upon the lev Business to Business Computers can figure out all kinds of problems, except the things in the world that just don't add
up.
-- Anon The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
-- General George Patton One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is
terribly important.
-- Bertrand Russell Business to Business
"Do not do unto others as you expect they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same." (George Bernard Shaw) I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.
- Thomas Watson, Chairman of IBM, 1943 "I want my food dead. Not sick, not dying, dead." (Oscar Wilde) An understanding heart is everything is a teacher, and cannot be esteemed highly enough. One
looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our
human Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for
appointment by the corrupt few.
-- George bernard Shaw Business to Business Marriage is very much like a violin; after the sweet music is over, the strings are attached. "So little done, so much to do." (Cecil Rhodes) Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way
around the laws.
- Plato Business to Business
