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I didn't accept it. I received it. -- Richard Allen, National Security Advisor to President Reagan, explaining the $1000 in cash and two watches he was given by two Japanese journalists after he hel No other success can compensate for failure in the home. -- David O. McKay, Encyclopedia of Mormonism, Advice to parents at General Conference of he LDS Church, April, 1964 "Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom." (Raymonde Uy) "People expect a certain reaction from a business, and when you pleasantly exceed those expectations, you've somehow passed an important psychological threshold." (Richard Thalheimer, president, The The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams. -- Eleanor Roosevelt Manton We had a lot in common. I loved him and he loved him. -- Shelley Winters Before you put on a frown, make absolutely sure there are no smiles available. -- Jim Beggs In any contest between power and patience, bet on patience. - W.B. Prescott Manton I just need enough to tide me over until I need more. -- Bill Hoest The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with the wish to teach himself. -- Edward Bulwer-Lytton "Some people wear their heart up on their sleeve. I wear mine underneath my right pant leg, strapped to my boot." (Ani Difranco) I am ready to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter. - Sir Winston Churchill "The mark of our time is its revulsion against imposed patterns." (Marshall McLuhan) Manton The great tragedy of science, the slaying of a beautiful theory by an ugly fact. -- Thomas Henry Huxley "Club Secretary: I say, Lawrence. You are a clown! Lawrence: We can't all be lion tamers." (Thomas Edward Lawrence, Lawrence of Arabia, 1962) I regret that I have but one life to give for my country. -- Nathan Hale Manton Whenever I'm caught between two evils, I take the one I've never tried. -- Mae West Don't anthropomorphize computers -- they hate it. -- Anonymous This is the fourth? -- Thomas Jefferson, dying words Faith is believing what you know ain't so. -- Mark Twain Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and blows up the bonfire. -- François de La Rouchefoucauld Manton All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others. -- Chad A. Gamble, Escape, short story 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 Victory belongs to the most persevering. -- Napoleon Bonaparte Manton "The devil's agents may be of flesh and blood, may they not?" (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of the Baskervilles) Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations "Hold the fort! I am coming!" (General William Tecumseh Sherman) Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve. -- George Bernard Shaw There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called marriage. -- James Holt McGavran Manton "The overman ... Who has organized the chaos of his passions, given style to his character, and become creative. Aware of life's terrors, he affirms life without resentment." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietz Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for the appointment by the corrupt few. -- George Bernard Shaw "Do something for the joy of doing it and pray you won't be punished." (Sammy Cahn) Manton Whoever controls the media--the images--controls the culture. -- Allen Ginsberg "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 Wilhelm Nietzsche) blah "A subject for a great poet would be God's boredom after the seventh day of creation." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them good. -- H.L. Mencken It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating. - Oscar Wilde Manton "Have you ever fed your pocket and starved your soul?" (Ivana Santilli, Too Deep) And in the end the love you take is equal to the love you make. -- The Beatles, The last lyric of their last song "Pleasant words are a honeycomb, Sweet to the soul and healing to the bones." (Bible, Proverbs 16:24) Manton How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create it herself. - Anais Nin If God wanted women to understand men, football would never have been created. -- Seen on a bumper sticker "It serves me right for putting all my eggs in one bastard." (Dorothy Parker, 1893-1967, US writer) Marriage is a thing which puts a ring on a woman's finger and two under the man's eyes. Keep in mind that neither success nor failure is ever final. -- Roger Babson Manton "For how can one know color in perpetual green, and what good is warmth without cold to give it sweetness?" (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) To love someone deeply gives you strength. Being loved by someone deeply gives you courage. -- Lao Tzu "Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known." (Blaise Pascal) Manton We can never be sure that the opinion we are endeavoring to stifle is a false opinion; and if we were sure, stifling it would be an evil still. -- John Stuart Mill Hark, the Herald Tribune sings, Advertising wondrous things! -- Tom Lehrer The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains that I have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time. -- George Bernard Shaw In the past decade or so, the women's magazines have taken to running home-handyperson articles suggesting that women can learn to fix things just as well as men. These articles are apparently based The remarkable thing about television is that it permits several million people to laugh at the same joke and still feel lonely. -- T. S. Eliot Manton Work is the refuge of people who have nothing better to do. -- Oscar Wilde "That's the true sign. If the lover has not yet achieved his prize, his eyes will follow the woman, while she appears indifferent. But once he's gained his goal, it's the woman's eyes that follow him, Airplane travel is nature's way of making you look like your passport photo. -- Al Gore, U.S. Vice President Manton We had a lot in common. I loved him and he loved him. -- Shelley Winters Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for him. -- Rich Little Chase after the truth like all hell and you'll free yourself, even though you never touch its coattails. -- Clarence Darrow Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them down people's throats. -- Howard Aiken If you are going through hell, keep going. - Sir Winston Churchill Manton Character may be manifested in the great moments, but it is made in the small ones. -- Phillip Brooks Egotist: a person more interested in himself than in me. - Ambrose Bierce The optimist sees opportunity in every danger; the pessimist sees danger in every opportunity. -- Winston Churchill Manton "You make 'em, I amuse 'em." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, on children) The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience. -- Harper Lee You cannot create experience. You must undergo it. -- Albert Camus Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards. -- Soren Kierkegaard Victory goes to the player who makes the next-to-last mistake. - Chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower Manton 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 Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present. -- Roger Babson I am in total control, but don't tell my wife. Manton Life is ours to be spent, not to be saved. -- D.H. Lawrence Truth can be a dangerous thing. It is quite patient and relentless. -- R. Scott Richards Mathematics transfigures the fortuitous concourse of atoms into the tracery of the finger of God. -- Herbert Westren Turnbull "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, Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from history. -- George Bernard Shaw Manton "It is not the answer that enlightens, but the question." (Eugene Ionesco) 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 "To forget one's purpose is the commonest form of stupidity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Manton I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones. -- John Cage A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take her off his hands. -- Sacha Guitry "Even death is unreliable. Instead of zero it may be some ghastly hallucination, such as the square root of minus one." (Samuel Beckett) Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning. -- Albert Einstein Nothing is wrong with California that a rise in the ocean level wouldn't cure. - Ross MacDonald Manton The backbone of surprise is fusing speed with secrecy. - Von Clausewitz Executive ability is deciding quickly and getting someone else to do the work. -- John G. Pollard Everything is drive-through. In California, they even have a burial service called Jump-In-The- Box. -- Wil Shriner Manton
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