It was the experience of mystery -- even if mixed with fear -- that engendered religion.
- Albert Einstein History repeats itself; that's one of the things that's wrong with history.
-- Clarence Darrow Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the
truth.
- Sherlock Holmes Everything in the world may be endured except continued prosperity.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.
- Emile Zola News and Media "I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." (James Madison) A hippo does not have a sting in its tail, but a wise man would still rather be sat on by a bee.
-- Polish proverb "Love is always a stranger in the house of avarice." (Andreas Capellanus) News and Media
"Give me liberty or give me death." (Patrick Henry) I still say a church steeple with a lightning rod on top shows a lack of confidence.
-- Doug MacLeod Women want mediocre men, and men are working hard to become as mediocre as possible.
-- Margaret Mead 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 In view of all the deadly computer viruses that have been spreading lately, Weekend Update
would like to remind you: when you link up to another computer, you're linking up to every
computer that th News and Media Love is blind and marriage is the institution for the blind.
-- James Graham Someday is not a day of the week.
-- Anon. A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties; no
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They gave me a book of checks. They didn't ask for any deposits.
-- Joe Early, Congressman (D-Mass), at a press conference to answer questions about the
House Bank scandal Nothing shows a man's character more than what he laughs at.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Nuns: Women who marry God. If they divorce Him, do they get half the universe? My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me!
-- Henry Ford "Learn from the mistakes of others--you can never live long enough to make them all yourself." (John Luther) News and Media I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a
woman.
-- Virginia Woolf Twenty years fron now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones
you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in
your All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That is his.
-- Oscar Wilde News and Media
"I feel I have to protect myself against things. So I'm pretty careful to lose most of them." (George Orson Welles) Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson 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 There are two major products that come out of Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to
be a coincidence.
-- Jeremy S. Anderson Not knowing when the dawn will come, I open every door.
-- Emily Dickinson News and Media Under capitalism man exploits man; under socialism the reverse is true.
-- Polish proverb Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the
really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.
-- Mark Twain blah "To give anything less than your best is to sacrifice the gift." (Steve Roland Prefontaine) News and Media
We must become the change we want to see.
-- Gandhi "A man who flies from his fear may find he has only taken a shortcut to meet it." (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) "Death solves all problems--no man, no problem." (Josef Stalin) Everyone believes very easily whatever they fear or desire.
-- Jean de La Fontaine My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed.
-- Christopher Morley News and Media The true spirit of conversation consists in building on another man's observation, not overturning
it.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton "To make the individual uncomfortable, that is my task." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity.
-- Albert Einstein News and Media
Statistics have shown that mortality increases perceptibly in the military during wartime.
-- Alphonse Allais I still say a church steeple with a lightning rod on top shows a lack of confidence.
-- Doug MacLeod "There is only one thing more painful than learning from experience and that is not learning from experience." (Archibald McLeish) I take my wife everywhere I go. She always finds her way back.
-- Henny Youngman Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple, learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a
dozen.
-- John Steinbeck News and Media "The want of logic annoys. Too much logic bores. Life eludes logic, and everything that logic alone constructs remains artificial and forced." (André Gide) 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 Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when
people laugh.
-- George Bernard Shaw News and Media
Character may be manifested in the great moments, but it is made in the small ones.
-- Phillip Brooks "Ugliness is in a way superior to beauty because it lasts." (Serge Gainsbourg) It is with true love as it is with ghosts; everyone talks about it, but few have seen it.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld Love is the same as like except you feel sexier.
-- Judith Viorst We seek the comfort of another. Someone to share and share the life we choose. Someone to
help us through the neverending attempt to understand ourselves. And in the end, someone to
comfort us along News and Media Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can
never tell.
-- Joan Crawford Just buy a box of popcorn and a Coca-Cola and sit back and watch.
-- James Carville, Clinton advisor, offering advice for Democrats on the term-limits vote in the
House One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is
terribly important.
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"A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) When a cat is dropped, it always lands on its feet, and when toast is dropped, it always lands with
the buttered side down. I propose to strap buttered toast to the back of a cat; the 2 will hover,
Obstacles cannot crush me. Every obstacle yields to stern resolve. He who is fixed to a star does
not change his mind.
-- Leonardo da Vinci, Notebooks What would you attempt if you knew you could not fail?
-- Robert Schuller A behaviorist is someone who pulls habits out of rats.
-- Anonymous News and Media Love is shown in your deeds, not in your words.
-- Fr. Jerome Cummings Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
- Lewis Perelman Everything is drive-through. In California, they even have a burial service called Jump-In-The-
Box.
-- Wil Shriner News and Media
Spinster: A bachelor's wife. I'm not dumb, I just have a command of thoroughly useless information.
-- Calvin One may have a blazing hearth in one's soul and yet no one ever comes to sit by it. Passersby
see only a wisp of smoke rising from the chimney and continue on their way.
-- Vincent Van Gogh My Alma mater was books, a good library . . . . I could spend the rest of my life reading, just
satisfying my curiosity.
--Malcolm X Honorable, adj. Afflicted with an impediment in one's reach. In legislative bodies, it is customary
to mention all members as honorable; as, ``the honorable gentleman is a scurvy cur.'
-- Bierce, A News and Media Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. If everything seems under control, you're just not going fast enough.
- Mario Andretti "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) News and Media
If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile.
-- Lynda Barry "Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh." (George Bernard Shaw) My opinions are my wife's, and she says I'm lucky to have them. One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is
terribly important.
- Bertrand Russell
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-- Roger Babson News and Media One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is
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A little inaccuracy sometimes saves a ton A weed is no more than a flower in disguise.
-- James Lowell Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of
existence.
-- Sydney Smith News and Media
"I should reproach him for not giving us enough evidence." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970, what he would say to God if they 'met') For a male and female to live continuously together is...biologically speaking, an extremely
unnatural condition.
-- Robert Briffault If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?
-- Abraham Lincoln "If it doesn't matter who wins or loses, then why do they keep score?" (Vince Lombardi) "God's creatures, great and small ... eat them one, eat them all." (John A. Simone Sr.) News and Media I prefer the wicked rather than the foolish. The wicked sometimes rest.
-- Alexandre Dumas pere There are not enough Indians in the world to defeat the Seventh Cavalry.
-- George Armstrong Custer Who the hell wants to hear actors talk?
- H. M. Warner, founder of Warner Brothers, in 1927 News and Media
