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Considering the flames and intolerance, shouldn't USENET be spelled ABUSENET?
-- Michael Meissner Don't anthropomorphize computers -- they hate it.
-- Anonymous "When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of all the other men of her acquaintance for the inattention of just one." (Helen Rowland) "Better to be deprived of food for three days than tea for one." (Chinese Proverb) Let go of your attachment to being right, and suddenly your mind is more open. You're able to
benefit from the unique viewpoints of others, without being crippled by your own judgment.
-- Ralph Mars Corston "Small minds discuss people, average minds discuss events, great minds discuss ideas." (Anonymous) Guide to understanding a net.addict's day:
Slow day: didn't have much to do, so spent three hours on usenet.
Busy day: managed to work in three hours of usenet.
Bad day: barely squeezed in three ho Never try to teach a pig to sing. It's a waste of your time and annoys the pig.
-- Anon. Corston
Govern a family as you would cook a small fish - very gently.
-- Chinese Proverb For best results: wash in cold water separately, hang dry and iron with warm iron. For not so good
results: drag behind car through puddles, blow-dry on roofrack.
-- Laundry instructions on a shirt Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
-- Will Rogers Behind every great fortune there is a crime.
- Honore de Balzac "If you want a thing done well, do it yourself." (Napoleon Bonaparte) Corston "Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect every one who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are ine Imagine if birds were tickled by feathers. You'd see a flock of birds come by, laughing hysterically!
-- Steven Wright This isn't right, this isn't even wrong.
- Wolfgang Pauli (1900-1958), upon reading a young physicist's paper Corston
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 Gravitation can not be held responsible for people falling in love.
-- Albert Einstein Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it.
-- Baskins A husband is what's left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
-- Helen Rowland A memorandum is written not to inform the reader but to protect the writer.
-- Dean Acheson Corston If God had meant us to vote, He would have given us candidates.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker "Every great institution is the lengthened shadow of a single man. His character determines the character of the organization." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) [You reporters] should have printed what he meant, not what he said.
-- Earl Bush, press aide to Richard Daley Corston
Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
-- Soren Kierkegaard Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think.
-- Niels Bohr "REASONABLE, adj. Accessible to the infection of our own opinions. Hospitable to persuasion, dissuasion and evasion." (Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary) Half of the American people never read a newspaper.
Half never voted for President.
One hopes it is the same half.
-- Gore Vidal "The easiest kind of relationship is with ten thousand people, the hardest is with one." (Joan Baez) Corston Curiosity killed the cat, but for a while I was a suspect.
-- Steven Wright Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.
-- Samuel Johnson America is a large, friendly dog in a very small room. Every time it wags its tail, it knocks over a
chair.
-- Arnold Toynbee Corston
"Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something." (Plato, 427 BC-348) Dreams never hurt anybody if you keep working right behind the dreams to make as much of
them become real as you can.
-- Frank W. Woolworth "Learn from the mistakes of others--you can never live long enough to make them all yourself." (John Luther) The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds the most discoveries, is not
"Eureka!", but "That's funny..."
-- Isaac Asimov "Great work is done by people who are not afraid to be great." (Fernando Flores) Corston There is nothing that can be said by mathematical symbols and relations which cannot also be
said by words. The converse, however, is false. Much that can be and is said by words cannot
successfully The days just before marriage are like a snappy introduction to a tedious book. blah "If we did all the things we are capable of, we would literally astound ourselves." (Thomas Alva Edison) Corston
Dear Mrs, Mr, Miss, or Mr and Mrs Daneeka: Words cannot express the deep personal grief I experienced when your husband, son, father or brother was killed, wounded, or reported missing in action. -- C Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-
proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe
is Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from
history.
-- George Bernard Shaw "There are no uninteresting things, only uninteresting people." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) If ever two were one, then surely we.
If ever man were loved by wife, then thee.
-- Anne Bradstreet Corston 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 "Kill a man, and you are a murderer. Kill millions of men, and you are a conquerer. Kill everyone, and you are a god." (Jean Rostand) Hell is a half-filled auditorium.
- Robert Frost Corston
blah "It is a grand mistake to think of being great without goodness and I pronounce it as certain that there was never a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous." (Benjamin Fran 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 For the majority of People, smoking has a beneficial effect.
-- Dr. Ian G. Macdonald, Los Angeles surgeon, quoted in Newsweek , Nov.18th 1963. A person starts to live when he can live outside himself.
-- Albert Einstein In a great romance, each person plays a part the other really likes.
-- Elizabeth Ashley Corston "Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise." (Alice Walker) "Truth lies not only in a dream, but in many dreams." (Pier Paolo Pasolini, Italian poet, novelist and filmmaker) You have to walk carefully in the beginning of love; the running across fields into your lover's
arms can only come later when you're sure they won't laugh if you trip.
-- Jonathan Carroll, Outside Corston
"Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom." (Raymonde Uy) Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by heart and his friends can
only read the title.
-- Virginia Woolf Ridicule is generally made use of to laugh men out of virtue and good sense, by attacking
everything praiseworthy in human life.
-- Joseph Addison "Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent." (Napoleon Bonaparte) Idealism increases in direct proportion to one's distance from the problem.
-- John Galsworthy Corston "The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none." (Thomas Carlyle, 1795-1881) There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called marriage. -- James Holt McGavran "You are rewarding a teacher poorly if you remain always a pupil." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Corston
Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.
-- John Lyly Sometimes you get shown the light in the strangest of places if you look at it right.
-- Jerry Garcia The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the
purpose of satisfying it afterwards.
-- Anatole France CAPITAL, n. The seat of misgovernment. That which provides the fire, the pot, the dinner, the
table and the knife and fork for the anarchist; the part of the repast that himself supplies is the
disg See what will happen if you don't stop biting your fingernails?
-- Will Rogers, to his niece on seeing the Venus de Milo Corston To keep your marriage brimming
With love in the marriage cup,
Whenever you're wrong, admit it,
Whenever you're right, shut up. -- Nash I shall return.
-- General Douglas MacArthur blah "There is a melancholy that stems from greatness." (Sébastien-Roch Nicolas Chamfort, 1740/41-1794) Corston
"Man looks in the abyss, there's nothing staring back at him. At that moment, man finds his character. And that is what keeps him out of the abyss." (Hal Holbrook, Wallstreet) The world has achieved brilliance without conscience. Ours is a world of nuclear giants and
ethical infants.
-- General Omar Bradley Never judge someone by who he's in love with; judge him by his friends. People fall in love with
the most appalling people. Take a cool, appraising glance at his pals.
-- Cynthia Heimel "Ninety percent of my salary I spent on booze and women ... and the other ten percent I wasted." (Tug McGraw, Major League Baseball pitcher) The bottom line is that (a) people are never perfect, but love can be, (b) that is the one and only
way that the mediocre and vile can be transformed, and (c) doing that makes it that. We waste
time Corston Never marry for money. Ye'll borrow it cheaper.
-- Scottish Proverb You've achieved success in your field when you don't know whether what you're doing is work or
play.
-- WARREN BEATTY I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones.
-- John Cage Corston
The real test of friendship is: Can you literally do nothing with the other person? Can you enjoy
together those moments of life that are utterly simple? They are the moments people looks back
on at It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage.
-- Jane Austen Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote.
-- George Jean Nathan Men. You can't live with them. You don't have to.
-- Seen on a t-shirt "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') Corston I think of my wife and I think of Lot, and I think of the lucky break he got. A scar nobly got, or a noble scar, is a good livery of honour; so belike is that.
-- Shakespeare, William If something is boring after two minutes, try it for four. If still boring, then eight. Then sixteen. Then thirty-two. Eventually one discovers that it is not boring at all." (John Cage) Corston
