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Laura Moffatt MP - Members of Parliament for the constituency of Crawley.
"Someday there will be girls and women whose name will no longer mean the mere opposite of the male, but something in itself, something that makes one think not of any compliment and limit, but only o I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell this to my children they just about throw up.
-- Barbara Bush, first lady, 1989 I'm not indecisive. Am I indecisive?
-- Jim Scheibel, mayor, St. Paul MN An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field.
-- Niels Bohr Mary had a little lamb and the doctor fainted.
-- Anonymous Government To write a good love letter, you ought to begin without knowing what you mean to say, and to
finish without knowing what you have written.
-- Jean Jacques Rousseau The big difference between sex for money and sex for free is that sex for money usually costs a
lot less.
-- Brendon Behan I loathe people who keep dogs. They are cowards who haven't got the guts to bite people
themselves.
-- August Strindberg Government
"One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries." (A. A. Milne) You can pay attention to the fact, in which case you'll probably become a mathematician, or you
can ignore it, in which case you'll probably become a physicist.
-- Len Evans, professor, Northwestern Love is only the game that is not called on account of darkness.
-- M. Hirschfield He who laughs last has not yet heard the bad news.
-- Bertolt Brecht When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President; I'm beginning to believe it.
-- Clarence Darrow Government The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about.
-- Oscar Wilde He that would have the fruit must climb the tree.
-- Thomas Fuller, M.D. "Pay no attention to what the critics say; there has never been set up a statue in honor of a critic." (Jean Sibelius) Government
Whoever controls the media--the images--controls the culture.
-- Allen Ginsberg If you don't double-click me, I can't do anything.
-- John Aniston, on how computers have taken over his life Opportunities multiply as they are seized.
-- Sun Tzu Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the
unpalatable.
-- John Kenneth Galbraith "The reward of a thing well done is having done it." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Government It's important to be open-minded, but not SO open-minded that your brains fall out.
-- Rick Radebaugh We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.
-- Mme de Staël Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana.
-- Groucho Marx Government
"Mothers spend a lifetime excising from their sons the influence of their fathers." (Arthur Lotti) Experience is not what happens to you; it's what you do with what happens to you.
-- Aldous Huxley Whatever you are, be a good one.
-- Abraham Lincoln Considering the flames and intolerance, shouldn't USENET be spelled ABUSENET?
-- Michael Meissner The love we give away is the only love we keep.
-- Elbert Hubbard Government If you are going to sin, sin against God, not the bureaucracy. God will forgive you but the
bureaucracy won't.
-- Hyman Rickover In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.
-- Albert Einstein "If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, sir, should keep his friendship in a constant repair." (Samuel Johnson) Government
"Careful?! Was my mother careful when she stabbed me in the heart with a coat hanger while I was still in the womb?" (Trey Parker) Usenet is like Tetris for people who still remember how to read.
-- Button from the Computer Museum, Boston, MA I'm for abolishing and doing away with redundancy.
-- J. Curtis McKay, Wisconsin State Elections Board Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous; it is nothing if it is not ridiculous.
-- Thornton Wilder "The monster a child knows best and is most concerned with [is] the monster he feels or fears himself to be. " (Bruno Bettelheim, child psychologist) Government 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 The two most common elements in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity. But not in that order.
-- Brian Pickrell Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end.
-- Semisonic, Closing Time Government
blah "It is a grand mistake to think of being great without goodness and I pronounce it as certain that there was never a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous." (Benjamin Fran That's the way things come clear. All of a sudden. And then you realize how obvious they've been
all along.
-- Madeleine L'Engle You have a cough? Go home tonight, eat a whole box of Ex-Lax--tomorrow you'll be afraid to
cough.
-- Pearl Williams Whenever I'm caught between two evils, I take the one I've never tried.
-- Mae West Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.
- Jean-Paul Sartre Government The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and
science.
-- Albert Einstein The covers of this book are too far apart.
-- Ambrose Bierce There ought to be one day - just one - when there is open season on senators.
-- Will Rogers Government
Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the
unpalatable.
-- John Kenneth Galbraith A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend upon the support of Paul.
-- George Bernard Shaw We love because it's the only true adventure.
-- Nikki Giovanni "For how can one know color in perpetual green, and what good is warmth without cold to give it sweetness?" (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) "Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil) Government Age does not make us childish, as some say; it finds us true children.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe I didn't have time to write a short letter, so I wrote a long one instead.
-- Mark Twain "There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) Government
Love may be a dream but marriage is a nightmare.
-- Joan Collins Dear Mrs, Mr, Miss, or Mr and Mrs Daneeka: Words cannot express the deep personal grief I experienced when your husband, son, father or brother was killed, wounded, or reported missing in action. -- C "I am a part of all that I have met." (Alfred Lord Tennyson, 1809-1892, English poet) When marriage is outlawed, only outlaws will have inlaws. Many a man has finally succeeded only because he has failed after repeated efforts. If he had
never met defeat he would never have known any great victory.
-- Orison Swett Marden Government Luck is the residue of design.
- Branch Rickey - former owner of the Brooklyn Dodger Baseball Team Silence is argument carried out by other means.
- ErnestoCheGuevara One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is
terribly important.
-- Bertrand Russell Government
"I think all great innovations are built on rejections." (Louis-Ferdinand Céline) The wit of a graduate student is like champagne. Canadian champagne.
-- Robertson Davies The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other
is ready.
-- Henry David Thoreau We come to love not by finding a perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person
perfectly.
-- Anonymous No one can earn a million dollars honestly.
- William Jennings Bryan Government This search for what you want is like tracking something that doesn't want to be tracked. It takes
time to get a dance right, to create something memorable.
-- Fred Astaire Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.
-- Samuel Johnson May you learn to perform miracles: earn a living and marry off your daughters. Government
To be able to say how much love, is love but little.
-- Petrarch To love another person is to help them love God.
-- Søren Kierkegaard You can observe a lot by watching.
-- Yogi Berra blah bl "The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning, but without understanding." (Louis Brandeis) Property may be destroyed and money may lose its purchasing power; but, character, health,
knowledge and good judgement will always be in demand under all conditions.
-- Roger Babson Government I'll sleep when I'm dead.
- Warren Zevon He who awaits much can expect little.
-- Gabriel Garcia Marquez The first rule of intelligent tinkering is to save all the parts.
-- Paul Ehrlich Government
I'm an excellent housekeeper. Every time I get a divorce, I keep the house.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor "The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances." (Viktor E. Frankl) It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.
-- Henry James "Beauty without expression is boring." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) "Freedom of press is limited to those who own one." (Henry Louis Mencken) Government Trying to determine what is going on in the world by reading newspapers is like trying to tell the
time by watching the second hand of a clock.
-- Ben Hecht A multiple personality is in a certain sense normal.
-- George H. Mead Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up.
-- Robert Frost Government
