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You cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.
-- Mark Twain It is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions.
-- Aldous Huxley You have to stay in shape. My grandmother, she started walking five miles a day when she was
60. She's 97 today and we don't know where the hell she is.
-- Ellen DeGeneres Whatever you are from nature, keep to it; never desert your own line of talent. Be what nature
intended you for, and you will succeed; be anything else, and you will be ten thousands times
worse tha Always behave like a duck--keep calm and unruffled on the surface but paddle like the devil
underneath.
-- Jacob Braude Education Fine art and pizza delivery: what we do falls neatly in between.
-- David Letterman Marriage resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated; often moving in
opposite directions, yet always punishing any one who comes between them.
-- Sydney Smith Great innovations should not be forced on slender majorities.
-- Thomas Jefferson Education
We do not remember days; we remember moments.
-- Anonymous And in the end it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
-- Abraham Lincoln Why bother with marriage? Just find a woman you hate and buy her a house. I have always dressed according to certain Basic Guy Fashion Rules, including:
* Both of your socks should always be the same color
* Or they should at least both be fairly dark
-- Dave Barry I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a
woman.
-- Virginia Woolf Education Never moon a werewolf.
-- Mike Binder There is no more lovely, friendly and charming relationship, communion or company than a good
marriage
-- Martin Luther The health of the people is really the foundation upon which all their happiness and all their
powers as a State depend.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Education
There is no realizable power that man cannot, in time, fashion the tools to attain, nor any power
so secure that the naked ape will not abuse it. So it is written in the genetic cards - only physics It is best to learn as we go, not go as we have learned.
-- Leslie Jeanne Sahler A man's reach should exeed his grasp, or else what's a heaven for?
-- Robert Browning Vote for the man who promises least. He'll be the least disappointing.
-- Bernard Baruch Thanksgiving is so called because we are all so thankful that it only comes once a year.
-- P. J. O'Rourke Education ... it is certain that the real function of art is to increase our self-consciousness; to make us more
aware of what we are, and therefore of what the universe in which we live really is. And since
"In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends." (Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.) Half of the American people never read a newspaper.
Half never voted for President.
One hopes it is the same half.
-- Gore Vidal Education
The unfortunate thing about this world is that the good habits are much easier to give up than the
bad ones.
-- W. Somerset Maugham Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.
-- David Starr Jordan "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) Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing.
-- Oscar Wilde The tragedy of life is not that man loses, but that he almost wins.
-- Heywood Brown Education Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.
-- Albert Einstein "I do not suppose I shall be remembered for anything. But I don't think about my work in those terms. It is just as vulgar to work for the sake of posterity as to work for the sake of money." (George The majority of husbands remind me of an orangutan trying to play the violin.
-- Honore de Balzac Education
Before you put on a frown, make absolutely sure there are no smiles available.
-- Jim Beggs 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 The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
-- B. F. Skinner The more faithfully you listen to the voices within you, the better you will hear what is sounding
outside.
-- Dag Hammarskjold We always believe our first love is our last, and our last love our first.
-- Anonymous Education "Thanks to my solid academic training, today I can write hundreds of words on virtually any topic without possessing a shred of information, which is how I got a good job in journalism." (Dave Barry) Women: If they're not turning down your proposals for marriage, they're accusing you of
suspicious behavior in the women's lingerie changing room.
-- Cliff Clavin, character on "Cheers", U.S. Televi "A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops." (Henry B. Adams) Education
Children are the only form of immortality that we can be sure of.
-- Peter Ustinov "The evil that men do lives after them; The good is oft interred with their bones." (William Shakespeare, Julius Cæsar. Act iii. Sc. 2.) Why did Nature create man? Was it to show that she is big enough to make mistakes, or was it
pure ignorance?
-- Holbrook Jackson The Church is an organism that grows best in an alien society.
-- C. Stacey Woods 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 Education Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though it is hard to
realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and
grie "Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution yet." (Mae West) As for courage and will - we cannot measure how much of each lies within us, we can only trust
there will be sufficient to carry through trials which may lie ahead.
-- Andre Norton Education
Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.
-- Albert Einstein Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
- H. G. Wells Silence is argument carried out by other means.
-- Ernesto "Che" Guevara "If you light a man a fire, he will be warm for a day; if you light a man on fire, he will be warm for the rest of his life." (Anonymous) We can do no great things; only small things with great love.
-- Mother Teresa Education "The greater the artist, the greater the doubt. Perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize." (Robert Hughes) "I run to see who has the most guts." (Steve Roland Prefontaine) "Wise men learn more from fools, than fools from the wise." (Anonymous) Education
"I offer images; I conjure memories of freedom that can still be reached ... But, we can only open the doors. We can't drag people through. I can't free them unless they want to be free--more than any "It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what other men say in whole books--what other men do not say in whole books." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols) "If you believe everything you read, you better not read." (Japanese Proverb) In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice
that I am not a Republican.
-- H. L. Mencken If we don't change the direction we are going,
We are likely to end up where we are heading.
-- Chinese saying Education There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of
bread.
- Mahatma Gandhi All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That is his.
-- Oscar Wilde 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 Education
Marriage is a rest period between romances. For most men life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed.
-- Clifton Fadiman I love deadlines. I especially like the whooshing sound they make as they go flying by.
-- Douglas Adams "Murder is the very bed-rock of our social institutions." (Octave Mirbeau, The Torture Garden) Joint Checking Account: a handly little device which permits my wife to beat me to the draw. Education Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte My other wife is beautiful. My wife says if I go fishing one more time she's going to leave me. Gosh, I'm going to miss her. Education
Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
-- H. L. Mencken "We have to be able to criticise what we love, to say what we have to say 'cause if your not trying to make something better, than as far as I can tell, you are just in the way." (Ani Difranco) If we knew what we were doing, it wouldn't be called research, would it?
-- Albert Einstein To realize that you do not understand is a virtue;
Not to realize that you do not understand is a defect.
--Lao-Tzu, "Tao Teh Ching" "The only things worth learning are the things you learn after you know it all." (Harry S. Truman) Education The nourishment is palatable.
-- Millard Fillmore, dying words Is fuel efficiency really what we need most desperately? I say what we really need is a car that
can be shot when it breaks down.
-- Russell Baker It's never too late to have a happy childhood.
-- Tom Robbins, Still Life With Woodpecker Education
"Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains." (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, The Social Contract) 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 "I was born and raised with crocodiles; they are a piece of cake. But kids are so ... unpredictable." (Steve Irwin, "Crocodile Hunter") A memorandum is written not to inform the reader but to protect the writer.
-- Dean Acheson "It seems to me that almost all our sadnesses are moments of tension, which we feel as paralysis because we no longer hear our astonished emotions living." (Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poe Education A teacher is one who makes himself progressively unnecessary.
-- Thomas Carruthers Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions - it only guarantees equality of opportunity.
- Irving Kristol "Man is a strange animal. He generally cannot read the handwriting on the wall until his back is up against it." (Adlai Stevenson) Education
