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"The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it." (Abbie Hoffman) Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with
the powerful, not to be neutral.
-- Paulo Freire "Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom." (Raymonde Uy) Beginning in February 1976 your assistance benefits will be discontinued ... Reason: it has been
reported to our office that you expired on January 1, 1976.
-- excerpt from a letter, Illinois Depart Church is only society on earth that exists for the benefit of non-members.
-- William Temple Menston "Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear." (Ambrose Redmoon) The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.
-- ROBERT FROST Realism is a corruption of reality.
-- Wallace Stevens Menston
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 Anyone nit-picking enough to write a letter of correction to an editor doubtless deserves the error
that provoked it.
-- Alvin Toffler If I were a girl, I'd despair. The supply of good women far exceeds that of the men who deserve
them.
-- Robert Graves What I have to say is far more important than how long my eyelashes are.
-- Alanis Morissette, singer, 1995 If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one.
-- Mother Teresa Menston If a thing is worth doing at all, it is worth doing badly.
-- Gustav Holst, on amateur music-making the social sciences were for all those who had not yet decided what to do with their lives, and for
all those whose premature frustrations led them into the sterile alleys of confrontation.
-- Peter Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly.
-- Simeon Strunsky Menston
Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when
people laugh.
-- George Bernard Shaw Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive.
-- Anaïs Nin In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.
-- Albert Einstein When Michelangelo finished the painting of the Sistine Chapel's ceiling, he spent the rest of his
life trying to remove the paint that had poured into his sleeve.
-- Francois Cavanna "Humans beings can always be relied upon to assert, with vigor, their god-given right to be stupid." (Dean Koontz, Seize the Night) Menston blah "The best students always are flunking. Every good teacher knows that." (Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance) In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.
-- Albert Einstein Eighty percent of married men cheat in America. The rest cheat in Europe.
-- Jackie Mason Menston
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 Disclaimer: Even my wife doesn't agree with everything I say, and she loves me dearly. My employers don't love me nearly as much as she does. Draw your own conclusions. Imagine if birds were tickled by feathers. You'd see a flock of birds come by, laughing hysterically!
-- Steven Wright "Self confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings." (Samuel Johnson) "A true friend stabs you in the front." (Oscar Wilde) Menston 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 "I have an unfortunate personality." (George Orson Welles) "The English have all the material requisites for the revolution. What they lack is the spirit of generalization and revolutionary ardour." (Karl Marx) Menston
You can pretend to be serious; you can't pretend to be witty.
- Sacha Guitry When Baby's cries grew hard to bear I popped him in the Frigidaire. I never would have done so if
I'd known that he'd be frozen stiff. My wife said, "George, I'm so unhappy! Our darling's now
comple Marriage is like a bank account. You put it in, you take it out, you lose interest.
-- Irwin Corey I don't know as much as God, but I know more than He did at my age.
-- Henry Kissinger Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.
-- Don Stanford Menston "It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so." (Mark Twain) I love cats because I love my home and after a while they become its visible soul.
-- Jean Cocteau "Love is always a stranger in the house of avarice." (Andreas Capellanus) Menston
We didn't send you to Washington to make intelligent decisions. We sent you to represent us.
-- Kent York, Baptist minister to US Rep. Bill Sarpalius 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 If you can't sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there and worrying. It's the worry
that gets you, not the loss of sleep.
-- Dale Carnegie Familiarity breeds contempt -- and children.
-- Mark Twain My father was a minister. I had to make up for the lack of sin.
-- Milwuakee mayor, on why he became a politician Menston To decide, to be at the level of choice, is to take responsibility for your life and to be in control of
your life.
-- Abbie M. Dale "It is awfully easy to be hard-boiled about everything in the daytime, but at night it is another thing." (Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises) Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.
-- Roger Babson Menston
Whoever is not a misanthrope at forty can never have loved mankind.
-- Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort I can write better than anybody who can write faster, and I can write faster than anybody who can
write better.
- A. J. Liebling It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is
the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be
cr I can write better than anybody who can write faster, and I can write faster than anybody who can
write better.
- A. J. Liebling "I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough." (M. C. Escher) Menston Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and around the hands and feet of the man. "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) I require three things in a man: He must be handsome, ruthless, and stupid.
-- Dorothy Parker Menston
A man can do what he wants, but not want what he wants.
-- Arthur Schoperhauer "The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore." (Samuel Butler) They're almost inseparable. Sometimes it takes ten people to separate them.
-- Anonymous Be tolerant of the human race. Your whole family belongs to it -- and some of your spouse's
family does too.
-- Anonymous "A conservative is a man who sits and thinks, mostly sits." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) Menston 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 Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think.
-- Niels Bohr "Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." (George Bernard Shaw) Menston
"This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) "Listen, or your tongue will make you deaf." (Native American Proverb) Problems worthy of attack prove their worth by fighting back.
- Paul Erdos Truth is more of a stranger than fiction.
-- Mark Twain "The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none." (Thomas Carlyle, 1795-1881) Menston Government is like a baby. An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of
responsibility at the other.
-- Ronald Reagan, Saturday Evening Post, 1965 Flowers are words which even a baby can understand.
-- Arthur C. Coxe The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
-- B. F. Skinner Menston
"I'll tell you something: Luxury disgusts me." (Giorgio Armani) I've had a perfectly wonderful evening. But this wasn't it.
-- Groucho Marx The sun never sets on the British empire because Britain is in the east and the sun sets in the
west.
-- Unknown history student Stung by the splendour of a sudden thought.
-- Robert Browning There are times when parenthood seems nothing but feeding the mouth that bites you.
-- Peter De Vries Menston Nobody ever died of laughter.
-- Max Beerbohm blah "If we did all the things we are capable of, we would literally astound ourselves." (Thomas Alva Edison) Thank God - every morning when you get up - that you have something to do which must be
done, whether you like it or not. Being forced to work, and forced to do your best, will breed in you
a hundre Menston
Hardly a year passes that fails to find a new, oft-times exotic, research method or technique
added to the armamentarium of political inquiry. Anyone who cannot negotiate Chi squares,
assess randomi It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.
-- Gore Vidal "In some ways, I never outgrew my adolescence. I wake up in the morning and think, 'Oh my God, I'm late for a math test!' But then I say, 'Wait a minute. I'm 40.'" (Daniel Clowes) When a friend is in trouble, don't annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up
something appropriate and do it.
-- E. W. Howe What do I dislike about death? Must be the hours.
-- Woody Allen Menston Silence is argument carried out by other means.
- ErnestoCheGuevara "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) "We're an embarrasment to college graduates across America." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) Menston
