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"The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves." (William Hazlitt) Every normal man must be tempted at times to spit upon his hands, hoist the black flag, and
begin slitting throats.
- Henry Louis Mencken When making public policy decisions about new technologies for the Government, I think one
should ask oneself which technologies would best strengthen the hand of a police state. Then, do
not allow Drink to me.
-- Pablo Picasso, dying words "Commit yourself to quality from day one ... it's better to do nothing at all than to do something badly." (Mark McCormack) Society and Culture 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 "Not by wrath does one kill, but by laughter." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) No wonder nobody comes here--it's too crowded.
-- Yogi Berra Society and Culture
The scientific theory I like best is that the rings of Saturn are composed entirely of lost airline
luggage.
-- Mark Russell Men are strong only so long as they represent a strong idea. They become powerless when they
oppose it.
-- Sigmund Freud "Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time." (E. B. White) Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 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 Society and Culture The less a man thinks or knows about his virtues, the better we like him.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson "For better or for worse, our company (The News Corporation Ltd.) is a reflection of my thinking, my character, my values." (Keith Rupert Murdoch, media mogul, 1931-) A hippo does not have a sting in its tail, but a wise man would still rather be sat on by a bee.
-- Polish proverb Society and Culture
You cannot think about thinking, without thinking about thinking about something.
-- Seymour Papert Stung by the splendour of a sudden thought.
-- Robert Browning There is nothing that can be said by mathematical symbols and relations which cannot also be
said by words. The converse, however, is false. Much that can be and is said by words cannot
successfully The optimist sees opportunity in every danger; the pessimist sees danger in every opportunity.
-- Winston Churchill I think 'Hail to the Chief' has a nice ring to it.
- John F. Kennedy when asked what is his favorite song Society and Culture Until the day of his death, no man can be sure of his courage.
-- Jean Anouilh "Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country." (Marquis de Lafayette) Stung by the splendour of a sudden thought.
-- Robert Browning Society and Culture
Never judge someone by who he's in love with; judge him by his friends. People fall in love with
the most appalling people. Take a cool, appraising glance at his pals.
-- Cynthia Heimel A conference is a gathering of important people who singly can do nothing, but together can
decide that nothing can be done.
-- Fred Allen Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you
together, but do so with all your heart.
-- Marcus Aurelius It makes no difference who you vote for - the two parties are really one party representing four
percent of the people.
-- Gore Vidal I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.
- Thomas Jefferson Society and Culture "Mothers spend a lifetime excising from their sons the influence of their fathers." (Arthur Lotti) blah "Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together." (Vincent van Gogh) "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) Society and Culture
Jealousy is the only vice that gives no pleasure.
-- Anonymous Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when
people laugh.
-- George Bernard Shaw Honolulu - it's got everything. Sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother. -- Ken Dodd If your professor wrote it, it's as near to the truth as you ever need to get.
-- John Watson, University of Canterbury A great deal of talent is lost to the world for want of a little courage. Every day sends to their
graves obscure men whom timidity prevented from making a first effort.
-- Sydney Smith Society and Culture Anyone who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without
feminine upheaval. Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex,
the ugl "The want of logic annoys. Too much logic bores. Life eludes logic, and everything that logic alone constructs remains artificial and forced." (André Gide) Old soldiers never die, they just fade away.
-- General Douglas MacArthur Society and Culture
Every St. Patrick's Day every Irishman goes out to find another Irishman to make a speech to.
-- Shane Leslie When yer in a funk, people in love are a royal pain in the patookus.
-- Portnoy, character in "Outland," comic strip by Berkely Breathed Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech.
- Martin Fraquhar Tupper your daughters marry men of substance: gypsies with two bears. The power of accurate observation is frequently called cynicism by those who don't have it.
- George Bernard Shaw Society and Culture Trust, but verify.
-- Ronald Reagan Men marry because they are tired, women because they are curious; both are disappointed.
-- Oscar Wilde The important thing is not to stop questioning.
-- Albert Einstein Society and Culture
A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.
- John D. Rockefeller "Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Walk beside me and just be my friend." (Albert Camus) Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parent, gobble their food, and tyrannize their
teachers.
-- Socrates Love is blind -- marriage is the eye-opener.
-- Pauline Thomason I'm not into working out. My philosophy: No pain, no pain.
-- Carol Leifer Society and Culture "Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains." (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, The Social Contract) Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business.
-- Tom Robbins History is more or less bunk.
-- Henry Ford Society and Culture
If it weren't for electricity we'd all be watching television by candlelight.
-- George Gobel "Employees make the best dates. You don't have to pick them up and they're always tax-deductible." (Andy Warhol, Andy Warhol's Exposures, 1980) Every flower must grow through dirt.
-- Anonymous Opera in English is, in the main, about as sensible as baseball in Italian.
-- H. L. Mencken It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.
-- Andre Gide Society and Culture Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside a dog, it's too dark to read.
-- Groucho Marx "The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore." (Samuel Butler) In olden times, sacrifices were made at the altar, a practice which is still very much practiced.
-- Helen Rowland Society and Culture
"Those who hear not the music think the dancers mad." (Anonymous) "Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it." (John Quincy Adams) 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 Most convicted felons are just people who were not taken to museums or Broadway musicals as
children.
-- Libby Gelman-Waxner Life is the flower for which love is the honey.
-- Victor Hugo Society and Culture Love is the dawn of marriage, and marriage is the sunset of love.
-- French saying To expect defeat is nine-tenths of defeat itself.
-- Francis Crawford No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent.
-- Abraham Lincoln Society and Culture
The principle of give and take is the principle of diplomacy - give one and take ten.
-- Mark Twain Where there is an unknowable there is a promise.
-- Thornton Wilder I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a
woman.
-- Virginia Woolf I love cats because I love my home and after a while they become its visible soul.
-- Jean Cocteau blah blah blah blah blah "This is the way the world ends: not with a bang, but a whimper." (Thomas Stearns Eliot, aka T. S. Eliot) _end]
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"Hello Kitty is an icon that doesn't stand for a Society and Culture "The things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisi Give me a museum and I'll fill it.
-- Pablo Picasso Diplomacy is the art of saying "Nice doggie" until you can find a rock.
-- Wynn Catlin, also attributed to Will Rogers Society and Culture
Not knowing when the dawn will come, I open every door.
-- Emily Dickinson You cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.
-- Mark Twain Virtue is not left to stand alone. He who practices it will have neighbors.
-- Confucius "To pretend, I actually do the thing: I have therefore only pretended to pretend." (Jacques Derrida, French 'deconstructionist') Love one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that.
-- Michael Leunig Society and Culture It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.
-- Gore Vidal Love, I find, is like singing. Everybody can do enough to satisfy themselves, though it may not
impress the neighbors as being very much.
-- Zora Neale Hurston "The dancer's body is simply the luminous manifestation of the soul." (Isadora Duncan) Society and Culture
