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"The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) "If A equals success, then the formula is: A = X + Y + Z, X is work. Y is play. Z is keep your mouth shut." (Albert Einstein) 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 We have been friends together in sunshine and in shade.
-- Caroline Norton Love begins with a smile, grows with a kiss, and ends with a teardrop.
-- Anonymous Burcombe "Great work is done by people who are not afraid to be great." (Fernando Flores) "College: two hundred people reading same book. An obvious mistake. Two hundred people can read two hundred books." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) Having children makes you no more a parent than having a piano makes you a pianist.
-- Michael Levine, Lessons at the Halfway Point Burcombe
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 This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold
of a hammer.
-- Will Rogers Not only is there no God, but try finding a plumber on Sunday.
-- Woody Allen "Death is only a launching into the region of the strange Untried; it is but the first salutation to the possibilities of the immense Remote, the Wild, the Watery, the Unshored..." (Herman Melville, I owe the government $3400 in taxes. So I sent them two hammers and a toilet seat.
-- Michael McShane Burcombe This delivery driver carries no money. His wife has it all. There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home.
- Ken Olson, president, chairman and founder of Digital Equipment Corp., 1977 "Every Man and every Woman is a Star." (Aleister Crowley) Burcombe
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-- excerpt from a letter, Illinois Depart 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" "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 The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.
-- Franklin D. Roosevelt The closer I'm bound in love to you, the closer I am to free.
-- Indigo Girls, song lyric Burcombe Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country.
-- Typewriting exercise A human being is a part of the whole, called by us Universe, a part limited in time and space. He
experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest--a kind of
optic It destroys one's nerves to be amiable everyday to the same human being.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Burcombe
I've sometimes thought of marrying, and then I've thought again.
-- Noel Coward You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it come true.
-- Richard Bach Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is.
-- Diane Ackerman "Of all mankind the great poet is the equable man." (Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass, 1855) For the memory of love is sweet, though the love itself were in vain. And what I have lost of
pleasure, assuage what I find of pain.
-- Lyster Burcombe Marriage is love. Love is blind. Therefore, marriage is an institution for the blind. "As a child, I thought I hated everybody, but when I grew up I realized it was just children I didn't like." (Philip Larkin) I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones.
-- John Cage Burcombe
Marriage is a lottery, but you can't tear up your ticket if you lose.
-- F. M. Knowles It was the experience of mystery -- even if mixed with fear -- that engendered religion.
- Albert Einstein University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
-- Henry Kissinger If all these sweet young things were laid end to end, I wouldn't be the slightest bit surprised.
-- Dorothy Parker Most married couples, even though they love each other very much in theory, tend to view each
other in practice as large teeming flaw colonies, the result being that they get on each other's
nerves Burcombe Reality is nothing but a collective hunch.
-- Lily Tomlin An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field.
-- Niels Bohr Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Burcombe
Talk to a man about himself and he will listen for hours.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Nothing has really happened until it has been recorded.
-- Virginia Woolf "It serves me right for putting all my eggs in one bastard." (Dorothy Parker, 1893-1967, US writer) Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the
unpalatable.
-- John Kenneth Galbraith 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
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-- Seneca It is better to die on your feet than live on your knees.
-- Emiliano Zapata Burcombe
Sleep is an excellent way of listening to an opera.
- James Stephens "One may sometimes tell a lie, but the grimace that accompanies it tells the truth." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The difference between marriage and death? Dead people are free. If you are going to sin, sin against God, not the bureaucracy. God will forgive you but the
bureaucracy won't.
-- Hyman Rickover You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try.
-- Beverly Sills Burcombe "The act of policing is, in order to punish less often, to punish more severely." (Napoleon Bonaparte) "No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous." (Henry B. Adams) "Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Burcombe
Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. I think of my wife and I think of Lot, and I think of the lucky break he got. The fate of love is that it always seems too little or too much.
-- Anonymous "Truth lies not only in a dream, but in many dreams." (Pier Paolo Pasolini, Italian poet, novelist and filmmaker) Of the seven dwarves, only Dopey had a shaven face. This should tell us something about the
custom of shaving.
-- Tom Robbins, Skinny Legs and All Burcombe I hate women because they always know where things are.
-- James Thurber Life is like a dogsled team. If you ain't the lead dog, the scenery never changes.
-- Lewis Grizzard The only thing you will ever be able to say in the so-called 'social' sciences is: "some do, some
don't."
-- Ernest Rutherford Burcombe
Every man knows his follies and often they are the most interesting thing he has got.
-- Josh Billings Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure.
-- George E. Woodberry The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat.
-- Lily Tomlin I've just learned about his illness. Let's hope it's nothing trivial.
- Irvin S. Cobb Well if this is the wrong number, why did you answer it?
-- James Thurber Burcombe We need the iron qualities that go with true manhood. We need the positive virtues of resolution,
of courage, of indomitable will, of power to do without shrinking the rough work that must always
be Show my head to the people, it is worth seeing.
-- Georges Danton, to his executioner Every calling is great when greatly pursued.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes Burcombe
Ninety percent of everything is crap.
-- Theodore Sturgeon "Paper should be edible, nutritious. Inks used for printing or writing should have delicious flavors. Magazines or newspapers read at breakfast should be eaten for lunch. Instead of throwing one's mai Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.
-- George Orwell "I fear we are not getting rid of God because we still believe in grammar." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The most savage controversies are about those matters as to which there is no good evidence
either way.
-- Bertrand Russell Burcombe I'd marry again if I found a man who had 15 million and would sign over half of it to me before the
marriage and guarantee he'd be dead within a year.
-- Bette Davis A man who has never made a woman angry is a failure in life.
-- Christopher Morley Children should be like waffles--you should be able to throw the first one away.
-- Mary Alice Messenger Burcombe
People, like nails, lose their effectiveness when they lose direction and begin to bend.
-- Walter Savage Landor "Some people must go to extremes to get the world in balance for themselves. Some can't bear bright lights, so wherever they go they search for the dark; they turn the lights down, anything to sustain Question: If you could live forever, would you and why? Answer: I would not live forever, because
we should not live forever, because if we were supposed to live forever, then we would live
forever, We have been friends together in sunshine and in shade.
-- Caroline Norton I think men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage. They've experienced pain
and bought jewelry.
-- Rita Rudner Burcombe Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.
-- John F. Kennedy There is nothing better for the spirit or the body than a love affair. It elevates the thoughts and
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-- Barbara Howar I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
-- Thomas Edison Burcombe
