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When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I only think about how to solve the
problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
-- Buckminster Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them
good.
-- H.L. Mencken When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I only think about how to solve the
problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
- Buckminster Work is a four-letter word.
-- The Smiths (Morrissey) "As long as people will accept crap, it will be financially profitable to dispense it." (Dick Cavett) Health If you can count your money, you don't have a billion dollars.
- J. Paul Getty If you want to sing out, sing out, and if you want to be free, be free, 'cause there's a million ways
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-- Cat Stevens, from a song lyric The male is a domestic animal which, if treated with firmness, can be trained to do most things.
-- Jilly Cooper Health
Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
-- Harriet Beecher Stowe A life spent in making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent doing
nothing.
-- George Benard Shaw "A friendship that exacts oneness of opinion and conduct is not worth much." (Mohandas Gandhi, In Search of the Supreme) A man's reach should exeed his grasp, or else what's a heaven for?
-- Robert Browning History repeats itself; that's one of the things that's wrong with history.
-- Clarence Darrow Health The gods too are fond of a joke.
-- Aristotle Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get
money from it.
-- Stephen Leacock The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because
generally they are the same people.
-- G. K. Chesterton Health
Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame.
-- G. K. Chesterton "A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools." (Douglas Adams) Why bother with marriage? Just find a woman you hate and buy her a house. You can always amend a big plan, but you can never expand a little one. I don't believe in little
plans. I believe in plans big enough to meet a situation which we can't possibly foresee now.
-- Ha At the bottom no one in life can help anyone else in life; this one experiences over and over in
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- Francois-Auguste Rodin (1840-1917), when asked how he managed to make his remarkable
statues Not knowing when the dawn will come, I open every door.
-- Emily Dickinson "What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to a human soul." (Joseph Addison) Health
"Great spirits have always faced voilent protest from mediocre minds." (Albert Einstein) "Some look at things that are, and ask why. I dream of things that never were and ask why not?" (George Bernard Shaw) You can not apply mathematics as long as words still becloud reality.
-- Hermann Weyl 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 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 Health "Experience is not what happens to a man. It is what a man does with what happens to him." (Aldous Huxley) It's never too late to have a happy childhood.
-- Tom Robbins, Still Life With Woodpecker Now comes the mystery.
-- Henry Ward Beecher, dying words, March 8, 1887 Health
I was nauseous and tingly all over... I was either in love or I had smallpox.
-- Woody Allen Confidence is the feeling you have before you understand the situation.
--Anon. No, that is the great fallacy; the wisdom of old men. They do not grow wise. They grow careful." (Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell To Arms) cannot imagine any condition which would cause this ship to founder. Modern shipbuilding has
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-- E. I. Smith, Captain of the Titanic Going to church doesn't make you a Christian any more than going to a garage makes you an
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-- Billy Sunday Health Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.
- Jean-Paul Sartre "It seems to me that there are two kinds of trickery: the 'fronts' people assume before one another's eyes, and the 'front' a writer puts on the face of reality." (Francois Sagan) "When even one American--who has done nothing wrong--is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth--then all Americans are in peril." (Harry S. Truman) Health
Sure, it's going to kill a lot of people, but they may be dying of something else anyway.
-- Othal Brand, member of a Texas pesticide review board Can you imagine what I would do if I could do all I can?
-- The Artist Formerly Known As Prince If God does not exist, then everything is permitted.
-- Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Devils "Bread feeds the body, indeed, but flowers feed also the soul." (The Prophet Mohammad) For most men life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed.
-- Clifton Fadiman Health Neither fire nor wind, birth nor death can erase our good deeds.
-- Buddha You have to walk carefully in the beginning of love; the running across fields into your lover's
arms can only come later when you're sure they won't laugh if you trip.
-- Jonathan Carroll, Outside Often it does seem a pity that Noah and his party did not miss the boat.
-- Mark Twain Health
Some birds aren't meant to be caged, their feathers are just too bright. And when they fly away,
the part of you that knows it was a sin to lock them up, does rejoice. I guess I just miss my friend. Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands, but English women only hope to find in their butlers. -- W. Somerset Maugham 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 Winning is a habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.
-- Vince Lombardi Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.
-- Philip K. Dick Health I never miss a chance to have sex or appear on television.
-- Gore Vidal "Well begun is half done." (Aristotle) That is the best -- to laugh with someone because you think the same things are funny.
-- Gloria Vanderbilt Health
Not much meat on her, but what's there is choice.
-- Spencer Tracy, about Katharine Hepburn Ambition is not a vice of little people.
-- Michel de Montaigne I still live.
-- Daniel Webster, dying words "I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury." (Groucho Marx) "Every act of creation is first an act of destruction." (Pablo Picasso) Health Marriage is the only war in which you sleep with the enemy.
-- Anonymous The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
-- Winston Churchill A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.
-- St. Augustine Health
"It is the nature of a man as he grows older, a small bridge in time, to protest against change, particularly change for the better." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) The optimist sees opportunity in every danger; the pessimist sees danger in every opportunity.
-- Winston Churchill Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
-- Aldous Huxley Keep in mind that neither success nor failure is ever final.
-- Roger Babson Husbands are like fires. They go out if unattended.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Health I still believe in liberalism today as much as I ever did, but, oh, there was a happy time when I
believed in liberals...
-- G. K. Chesterton Love is what we are born with. Fear is what we learn. The spiritual journey is the unlearning of
fear and prejudices and the acceptance of love back in our hearts. Love is the essential reality
and He who knows only his own side of the case, knows little of that.
-- John Stuart Mill Health
What we anticipate seldom occurs: but what we least expect generally happens.
-- Benjamin Disraeli I don't mind if you don't like my manners. I don't like them myself. They're pretty bad. I grieve over
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-- Humphrey Bogart to Lauren Bacall, in "The Big Sleep" I heard someone tried the monkeys-on-typewriters bit trying for the plays of W. Shakespeare, but
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- Bill Hirst To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance
- Oscar Wilde For best results: wash in cold water separately, hang dry and iron with warm iron. For not so good
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-- Laundry instructions on a shirt Health Women see better than men. Men see lazily, if they do not expect to act. Women see quite
without any wish to act.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Twenty years fron now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones
you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in
your A person should never be ashamed to own that he is wrong, which is but saying in other words
that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.
-- Alexander Pope Health
"People expect a certain reaction from a business, and when you pleasantly exceed those expectations, you've somehow passed an important psychological threshold." (Richard Thalheimer, president, The "I don't believe people die. They just go uptown. To Bloomingdales. They just take longer to get back." (Andy Warhol) At the bottom no one in life can help anyone else in life; this one experiences over and over in
every conflict and every perplexity: that one is alone. That isn't as bad as it may first appear; and cannot imagine any condition which would cause this ship to founder. Modern shipbuilding has
gone beyond that.
-- E. I. Smith, Captain of the Titanic "The dancer's body is simply the luminous manifestation of the soul." (Isadora Duncan) Health To the ass, or the sow, their own offspring appears the fairest in creation.
-- Latin Proverb Wit is educated insolence.
- Aristotle The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.
-- Albert Einstein Health
