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"A true friend stabs you in the front." (Oscar Wilde) If everything seems under control, you're just not going fast enough.
- Mario Andretti In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that
no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it's the exact opposite.
-- Paul Dirac The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One
cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the
marvelous str Say goodbye to the oldies, but goodies, because the good old days weren't always good and
tomorrow aint as bad as it seems.
-- Billy Joel Accommodation When I have a kid, I wanna put him in one of those strollers for twins, then run around the mall
looking frantic.
-- Steven Wright "Teacher played hooky. Sent message: 'Receiving instruction. Enjoying myself thoroughly. See you next week.'" (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) "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 Accommodation
Cricket is best described as organised loafing.
-- Anonymous British Radio Broadcaster, 1996 "I was born and raised with crocodiles; they are a piece of cake. But kids are so ... unpredictable." (Steve Irwin, "Crocodile Hunter") Too bad all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving cabs and cutting hair.
-- George Burns "If I work toward an end, meantime I am confined to a process. The rainbow is more beautiful than the pot at the end of it, because the rainbow is now. And the pot never turns out to be quite what I e "The depth and strength of a human character are defined by its moral reserves. People reveal themselves completely only when they are thrown out of the customary conditions of their life, for only th Accommodation The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind
woman.
-- S. T. Coleridge A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn; it can be stabbed to death by a joke
or worried to death by a frown on the right person's brow.
-- Charles Brower Trouble is a part of your life, and if you don't share it, you don't give the person that loves you
enough chance to love you enough.
-- Dinah Shore Accommodation
"I do not agree with what you have to say, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) 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 For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of our tasks; the ultimate,
the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.
-- Rainer Maria Ril "We always get bored with those whom we bore." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can
never tell.
-- Joan Crawford Accommodation "The intellect is always fooled by the heart." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) What is politics, after all, but the compulsion to preside over property and make other peoples'
decisions for them?
-- Tom Robbins, Skinny Legs and All "To err is human; to forgive, divine." (Alexander Pope) Accommodation
"I was a total loner, not by self-design. I just didn't know what the hell to say to people. I was so shy. I used to stammer and lisp and dribble at the mouth." (Sir Anthony Hopkins, on his youth) "Yes, I am a dreamer. For a dreamer is one who can find his way by moonlight, and see the dawn before the rest of the world." (Oscar Wilde) If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded.
-- Maya Angelou Learn to laugh at your troubles and you'll never run out of things to laugh at.
-- Lyn Karol The right to swing my fist ends where the other man's nose begins.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes Accommodation Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think.
-- Niels Bohr I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible
by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.
- Umberto Eco An undefined problem has an infinite number of solutions.
-- Robert A. Humphrey Accommodation
Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth. -- John Lyly "In fact, most deaths are not tragic. Few people die because of a flaw in character, which is the essential element of tragedy. They just die." (John Chancellor, The News Business) Opportunities multiply as they are seized.
-- Sun Tzu "There is only one success: to be able to spend your life in your own way, and not to give others absurd maddening claims upon it." (Christopher Darlington Morley) blah "A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) Accommodation Gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling in love.
-- Albert Einstein Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them
good.
-- H.L. Mencken "If I were still a critic, I would loathe knowing the person I was writing about. There's enough of an incestuous relationship between subject and writer." (Manny Farber, American film theorist) Accommodation
Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future.
-- Paul Boese Everything that can be invented has been invented.
- Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899 My grandfather once told me that there are two kinds of people: those who work and those who
take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was less competition there.
-- INDIRA "Have you ever fed your pocket and starved your soul?" (Ivana Santilli, Too Deep) "It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend." (William Blake) Accommodation 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 "Expecting the world to treat you fairly because you are a good person is like expecting a bull not to attack you because you are a vegetarian." (Dennis Wholey) I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think.
-- Socrates Accommodation
What is politics, after all, but the compulsion to preside over property and make other peoples'
decisions for them?
-- Tom Robbins, Skinny Legs and All "As long as people will accept crap, it will be financially profitable to dispense it." (Dick Cavett) "The reward of a thing well done is having done it." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) He can compress the most words into the smallest idea of any man I know.
- Abraham Lincoln Our marriage would have worked if we hadn't lived together.
-- Joan Thompson Accommodation In the blithe days of honeymoon,
With Kate's allurements smitten,
I lov'd her late, I lov'd her soon,
And call'd her dearest kitten.
But now my kitten's grown a cat,
And cross like other wives.
The second half of a man's life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the
first half.
Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821 - 1881) Research is the act of going up alleys to see if they are blind.
-- Plutarch Accommodation
When you don't know that you don't know, it's a lot different than when you do know that you
don't know. He knows now that he doesn't know. Last year, he didn't know that.
-- Bill Parcels, New Engla "Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously u Imagination is the highest kite one can fly.
-- Lauren Bacall If variety is the spice of life, marriage is the big can of leftover Spam.
-- Johnny Carson I feel that if a person has problems communicating the very least he can do is to shut up.
-- Tom Lehrer Accommodation A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.
-- G. K. Chesterton "I was born lost and take no pleasure in being found..." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) The husband who wants a happy marriage should learn to keep his mouth shut and his checkbook open. -- Groucho Marx Accommodation
Immature love says: "I love you because I need you." Mature love says: "I need you because I
love you."
-- Erich Fromm Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it.
-- Baskins "Murder is the very bed-rock of our social institutions." (Octave Mirbeau, The Torture Garden) "Club Secretary: I say, Lawrence. You are a clown!
Lawrence: We can't all be lion tamers." (Thomas Edward Lawrence, Lawrence of Arabia, 1962) My opinions are my wife's, and she says I'm lucky to have them. Accommodation "If a million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing." (Anatole France) "One often contradicts an opinion when what is uncongenial is really the tone in which it was conveyed." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Mistakes are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) Accommodation
In the past decade or so, the women's magazines have taken to running home-handyperson
articles suggesting that women can learn to fix things just as well as men. These articles are
apparently based "Nothing is permanent but change." (Heraclitus) "The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances." (Viktor E. Frankl) "Majority rule only works if you're also considering individual rights. Because you can't have five wolves and one sheep voting on what to have for supper." (Larry Flynt) "O' What may man within him hide, though angel on the outward side!" (William Shakespeare) Accommodation Why yes -- a bulletproof vest.
-- James Rodges, murderer, on his final request before the firing squad All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others.
-- Chad A. Gamble, Escape, short story "People demand freedom only when they have no power." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Accommodation
That's the nature of research--you don't know what in hell you're doing.
-- 'Doc' Edgerton Do not worry about your difficulties in mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater.
-- Albert Einstein With the catching end the pleasures of the chase.
-- Abraham Lincoln I am ready at any time. Do not keep me waiting.
-- John Brown - last words There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as
though everything is a miracle.
- Albert Einstein Accommodation A problem is a chance for you to do your best.
-- Buke Ellington Did you hear about the scientist whose wife had twins? He baptized one and kept the other as a control. I believe that mink are raised for being turned into fur coats and if we didn't wear fur coats those
little animals would never have been born. So is it better not to have been born or to have lived Accommodation
