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Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
- Lewis Perelman You can't learn too soon that the most useful thing about a principle is that it can always be
sacrificed to expediency.
-- W. Somerset Maugham "One often contradicts an opinion when what is uncongenial is really the tone in which it was conveyed." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Every act of creation is first an act of destruction.
-- Pablo Picasso Why are women so much more interesting to men than men are to women?
-- Virginia Woolf Arts and Entertainment A person starts to live when he can live outside himself.
-- Albert Einstein In any contest between power and patience, bet on patience.
- W.B. Prescott The best theology would need no advocates; it would prove itself.
-- Karl Barth Arts and Entertainment
Your every voter, as surely as your chief magistrate, exercises a public trust.
-- Grover Cleveland "I consider it the highest compliment when my employees go out and start their own companies in competition with me. I always send them a plant to wish them well. Of course, it's a cactus." (Norman B Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in
accordance with the dictates of reason.
-- Oscar Wilde "All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his." (Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest) The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
-- Lucille S. Harper Arts and Entertainment "The most instructive experiences are those of everyday life." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take her off his hands. -- Guitry Why are women so much more interesting to men than men are to women?
-- Virginia Woolf Arts and Entertainment
The coziness between church and state is good for the state and bad for the church.
-- G. K. Chesterton Nature gave men two ends - one to sit on and one to think with. Ever since then man's success or
failure has been dependent on the one he used most.
-- George R. Kirkpatrick "Of all mankind the great poet is the equable man." (Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass, 1855) I feel that if a person has problems communicating the very least he can do is to shut up.
-- Tom Lehrer I haven't committed a crime. What I did was fail to comply with the law.
-- David Dinkins, New York City Mayor, answering accusations that he failed to pay his taxes. Arts and Entertainment "Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) In the book of life, the answers aren't in the back.
-- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz In any organization there will always be one person who knows what is going on. This person
must be fired.
-- Conway's Law Arts and Entertainment
"Let no one be discouraged by the belief there is nothing one person can do against the enormous array of the world's ills, misery, ignorance, and violence. Few will have the greatness to bend history There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home.
- Ken Olson, president, chairman and founder of Digital Equipment Corp., 1977 "As a child, I thought I hated everybody, but when I grew up I realized it was just children I didn't like." (Philip Larkin) I don't know if God exists, but it would be better for His reputation if He didn't.
-- Jules Renard Fill what's empty, empty what's full, and scratch where it itches.
- the Duchess of Windsor, when asked what is the secret of a long and happy life Arts and Entertainment Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.
-- William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Act i. Sc. 1. The best time to hold your tongue is the time you feel you must say something or bust.
-- Josh Billings If ever I get married again it would have to be under an anaesthetic.
-- Marie Tonkin Arts and Entertainment
"Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parents, gobble their food, and tyrannize their teachers." (Socrates) "It ends not with a bang, but a whimper." (Thomas Stearns Eliot, aka T. S. Eliot, The Hollow Man) "Experience is a good teacher, but she sends in terrific bills." (Minna Antrim) What we anticipate seldom occurs: but what we least expect generally happens.
-- Benjamin Disraeli "Frank and explicit; that is the right line to take when you wish to conceal your own mind and to confuse the minds of others." (Benjamin Disraeli, Sybil) Arts and Entertainment "To avoid criticism: do nothing, say nothing, be nothing." (Elbert Hubbard, American author, 1856-1915) When you gaze long into the abyss, the abyss also gazes into you.
- Friedrich Nietzsche 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 Arts and Entertainment
He who laughs last has not yet heard the bad news.
-- Bertolt Brecht When you see what some girls marry, you realize how they must hate to work for a living.
-- Helen Rowland Second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience. You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.
-- Henry Ford The only thing worse than a man you can't control is a man you can.
-- Margo Kaufman Arts and Entertainment As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; and as far as they are
certain, they do not refer to reality.
-- Albert Einstein Man is the best computer we can put aboard a spacecraft...and the only one that can be mass
produced with unskilled labor.
-- Wernher von Braun Thomas Jefferson--still surv...
-- John Adams, dying words Arts and Entertainment
"Treat a man as he is, and he will remain as he is. Treat a man as he could be, and he will become what he should be." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) The promises of maniacs, like those of women, are not safely relied upon.
-- Joseph Heller, God Knows He who knows only his own side of the case, knows little of that.
-- John Stuart Mill Marriage still confers one very special privilege - only a married person can get divorced. "Today was good. / Today was fun. / Tomorrow is another one." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) Arts and Entertainment He who has a 'why' to live, can bear with almost any 'how'.
- Friedrich Nietzsche The price of freedom is eternal vigilance.
-- Thomas Jefferson "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 Arts and Entertainment
Man is the only animal that blushes--or needs to.
-- Mark Twain There are many things worth living for, there are a few things worth dying for, but there is nothing
worth killing for.
-- Tom Robbins blah "If we did all the things we are capable of, we would literally astound ourselves." (Thomas Alva Edison) Life isn't a matter of milestones, but of moments.
-- Rose Kennedy To the ass, or the sow, their own offspring appears the fairest in creation.
-- Latin Proverb Arts and Entertainment When looking back, usually I'm more sorry for the things I didn't do than for the things I shouldn't
have done.
-- Malcolm Forbes Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.
-- John Lyly The charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that, from age to age, nothing
changes and yet everything is completely different.
-- Aldous Huxley Arts and Entertainment
Courage is the price that Love exacts for granting peace.
-- Amelia Earhart In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.
-- Albert Einstein Marriage is the only war in which you sleep with the enemy.
-- Anonymous Marriage is not just a having a wife, but also worries inherited forever. To marry is to halve your rights and double your duties.
-- Arthur Schopenhauer Arts and Entertainment Wind is to fire like distance is to love; it extinguishes the small and enflames the great.
-- Anonymous A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take
her off his hands.
-- Sacha Guitry There is no sincerer love than the love of food.
-- George Bernard Shaw Arts and Entertainment
Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has not heart; and any man who is over 30, and is
not a conservative, has no brains.
-- Winston Churchill If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one.
-- Mother Teresa Spinster: A bachelor's wife. The man who complains about the way the ball bounces is likely the one who dropped it.
-- Lou Holtz The surest way to make a monkey of a man is to quote him.
-- Robert Benchley Arts and Entertainment "The great aim of education is not knowledge but action." (Herbert Spencer) "A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) He that always gives way to others will end in having no principles of his own.
-- Aesop Arts and Entertainment
Character is what you are in the dark.
-- Dwight L. Moody "My wallpaper and I are fighting a duel to the death. One or the other of us has to go." (Oscar Wilde, his last recorded words) "Are you bored with life? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours." (Dale 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 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 Arts and Entertainment Education is not filling a bucket, but lighting a fire.
-- William Yeats It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.
-- Henry James 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.
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