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Prejudice is the child of ignorance.
-- William Hazlitt Ordinary riches can be stolen, real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that
cannot be taken from you.
-- Oscar Wilde "Self confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings." (Samuel Johnson) The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.
-- George Bernard Shaw Dishonor will not trouble me, once I am dead.
-- Euripides Movies To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive, and the true success is to labour.
-- Robert L. Stevenson That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the
lessons that history has to teach.
-- Aldous Huxley "People have to talk about something just to keep their voice boxes in working order so they'll have good voice boxes in case there's ever anything really meaningful to say." (Kurt Vonnegut) Movies
Live TV died in the late 1950s, electronic bulletin boards came along in the mid-1980s, meaning
there was about a 25-year gap when it was difficult to put your foot in your mouth and have
people all Marriage is like a mousetrap. Those on the outside are trying to get in. Those on the inside are trying to get out. "The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Facts are the enemy of truth.
- Don Quixote - Man of La Mancha blah bl "The better the state is established, the fainter is humanity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Movies The nourishment is palatable.
-- Millard Fillmore, dying words The difference between a man who faces death for the sake of an idea and an imitator who goes
in search of martyrdom is that the former expresses his idea most fully in death while the latter
really "Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil) Movies
Life is a sexually transmitted terminal disease.
-- Colin Greene 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 "One can do without people but one has need of a friend." (Chinese Proverb) There is only one nature - the division into science and engineering is a human imposition, not a
natural one. Indeed, the division is a human failure; it reflects our limited capacity to comprehend 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. Movies "God is dead: but considering the state Man is in, there will perhaps be caves, for ages yet, in which his shadow will be shown." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, The Joyful Wisdom) "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." (Thomas Jefferson) Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is enemy action.
- Auric Goldfinger, in Goldfinger by Ian L. Fleming Movies
My father taught me to work; he did not teach me to love it.
-- Abraham Lincoln Curiosity killed the cat, but for a while I was a suspect.
-- Steven Wright I love children, especially when they cry, for then someone takes them away.
-- Nancy Mitford "Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn; my God, do you learn!" (Clive Staples Lewis) Hell is paved with good samaritans.
-- William M. Holden Movies 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.
-- Al Rogers, Global SchoolHouse Netw Victory belongs to the most persevering.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte If you want anything done well, do it yourself. This is why most people laugh at their own jokes.
-- Bob Edwards Movies
The person who is slowest in making a promise is most faithful in its performance.
-- Jean-Jacques Rousseau "One of the great dangers in having a career is getting bored." (Itzhak Perlman) "Never frighten a little man. He'll kill you." (Robert A. Heinlein) Grove giveth and Gates taketh away.
- Bob Metcalfe (inventor of Ethernet) on the trend of hardware speedups not being able to keep
up with software demands It makes no difference who you vote for - the two parties are really one party representing four
percent of the people.
-- Gore Vidal Movies Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.
-- John F. Kennedy This world is a comedy for those who think and a tragedy for those who feel.
-- Horace Walpole Blessed are the young for they shall inherit the national debt.
-- Herbert Hoover Movies
You can observe a lot by watching.
-- Yogi Berra "There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered." (Nelson Mandela, A Long Walk to Freedom) A man can do what he wants, but not want what he wants.
-- Arthur Schoperhauer They think they can make fuel from horse manure.... Now, I don't know if your car will be able to
get 30 miles to the gallon, but it's sure gonna put a stop to siphoning.
-- Billie Holliday A beauty is a woman you notice; A charmer is one who notices you.
-- Adlai Stevenson Movies Destiny is not a matter of chance; but a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, It is a
thing to be acheived.
-- William Jennings Bryant Hey, you can't fight in here! This is the war room!
-- Dr. Strangelove "To educate educators! But the first ones must educate themselves! And for these I write." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Movies
Love is much nicer to be in than an automobile accident, a tight girdle, a higher tax bracket, or a
holding pattern over Philadelphia.
-- Judith Viorst If you talk to God, you are praying; if God talks to you, you have schizophrenia.
-- Thomas Szasz Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried.
-- G. K. Chesterton "Like as the waves make towards the pebbl'd shore, so do our minutes, hasten to their end." (William Shakespeare) It is a product of Einstein's genius -- taking a commonplace observation, combining it with some
simple imaginary experiments, and arriving at a revolutionary conclusion.
-- Clifford M. Wills, 1986 Movies "For others do I wait ... for higher ones, stronger ones, more triumphant ones, merrier ones, for such as are built squarely in body and soul: laughing lions must come." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) If ever two were one, then surely we.
If ever man were loved by wife, then thee.
-- Anne Bradstreet May you live happily ever after with a poor, ugly, shrewish wife. Movies
The best theology would need no advocates; it would prove itself.
-- Karl Barth Children are the only form of immortality that we can be sure of.
-- Peter Ustinov I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think.
-- Socrates A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted
by a little physical antipathy.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche "Great work is done by people who are not afraid to be great." (Fernando Flores) Movies It's not the men in my life that count, it's the life in my men.
-- Mae West "The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do." (Anonymous) "One will rarely err if extreme actions be ascribed to vanity, ordinary actions to habit, and mean actions to fear." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Movies
If we were not all so interested in ourselves, life would be so uninteresting that none of us would
be able to endure it.
-- Schopenhauer It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
-- Mark Twain For centuries, theologians have been explaining the unknowable in terms of the-not-worth-
knowing.
- Henry Louis Mencken "Men act and women appear. Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at." (John Berger) Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
-- George Santayana Movies Soul meets soul on lovers lips.
-- Percy Bysshe Shelley "Like as the waves make towards the pebbl'd shore, so do our minutes, hasten to their end." (William Shakespeare) "I have no special gift; I am only passionately curious." (Albert Einstein) Movies
When people go to work, they shouldn't have to leave their hearts at home.
-- Betty Bender "It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure on the world." (John Steinbeck Marriage is a matter of give and take, but so far I haven't been able to find anybody who'll take what I have to give. -- Cass Daley "There are no uninteresting things, only uninteresting people." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) Each of us has a spark of life inside us, and our highest endeavor ought to be to set off that spark
in one another.
-- Kenny Ausubel Movies Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the
moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future
generations Our schools have been scientifically designed to prevent over-education from happening. [...] The
average American (should be) content with their humble role in life, because they're not tempted
to Gravitation can not be held responsible for people falling in love.
-- Albert Einstein Movies
A White House well filled, a little peanut field well tilled, and a wife who will go to the Bronx are
great riches.
-- Poor Jimmy's Almanac Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love,
but no friendship.
-- Oscar Wilde Substitute "damn" every time you're inclined to write "very"; your editor will delete it and the
writing will be just as it should be.
-- Mark Twain Someone once asked me why women don't gamble as much as men do and I gave the
commonsensical reply that we don't have as much money. That was a true but incomplete
answer. In fact, women's total ins Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get
money from it.
-- Stephen Leacock Movies Everyone believes very easily whatever they fear or desire.
-- Jean de La Fontaine "Who is more foolish? The fool or the fool that follows it?" (Alec Guinness) "Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." (George Bernard Shaw) Movies
