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We must believe in free will, we have no choice.
-- Isaac B. Singer Opportunity may knock only once, but temptation leans on the doorbell.
-- Anonymous The best theology would need no advocates; it would prove itself.
-- Karl Barth NEIGHBOR, n. One whom we are commanded to love as ourselves, and who does all he knows
how to make us disobedient.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 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 Oaksey "Great work is done by people who are not afraid to be great." (Fernando Flores) A husband is what's left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
-- Helen Rowland Obedience is the gateway through which knowledge, yes, and love, too, enter the mind of the
child.
-- Anne Sullivan Oaksey
Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country.
-- Typewriting exercise blah "To give anything less than your best is to sacrifice the gift." (Steve Roland Prefontaine) Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.
- H. G. Wells Marriage is like a cage--one sees the birds outside desperate to get in and those inside equally
desparate to get out.
-- Di Peatlins Jealousy is the only vice that gives no pleasure.
-- Anonymous Oaksey I'm worried that the universe will soon need replacing. It's not holding a charge.
-- Edward Chilton Before marraige a man will like awake all night thinking about something you said. After marriage
he will fall asleep before you have finished saying it.
-- Anon. Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not
there, I go to work.
-- Robert Orben Oaksey
We look forward to the time when the power to love of will replace the love of power. Then will our
world know the blessings of peace.
-- William Gladstone "My wallpaper and I are fighting a duel to the death. One or the other of us has to go." (Oscar Wilde, his last recorded words) This book fills a much-needed gap.
- Moses Hadas in a review One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.
-- Virginia Woolf Marriage is like a box of chocolates. You have to squeeze a few bottoms to make sure you like
what you are getting.
-- Anonymous Oaksey It is better to be looked over than overlooked.
-- Mae West "Courage is doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared." (Eddie Rickenbacker) If you were plowing a field, which would you rather use? Two strong oxen or 1024 chickens?
- Seymour Cray (1925-1996), father of supercomputing Oaksey
Most of our obstacles would melt away if, instead of cowering before them, we should make up
our minds to walk boldly through them.
-- Orison Swett Marden We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind her stands his wife. -- Groucho Marx Well, I think that it's a- it's had some difficult times but I think we have- we, I think, have been able
to make some very good progress and it's- I would say that it's- it's- it's delightful that w The best theology would need no advocates; it would prove itself.
-- Karl Barth Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect, and it is shameful to surrender it too soon or to the first
comer: there is nobility in preserving it coolly and proudly through long youth, until at last Oaksey To the ass, or the sow, their own offspring appears the fairest in creation.
-- Latin Proverb The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind
woman.
-- S. T. Coleridge If a relationship is to evolve, it must go through a series of endings.
-- Lisa Moriyama Oaksey
Assassins!
-- Arturo Toscanini, to his orchestra Does anal retentive have a hyphen?
-- Seen on a t-shirt The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with
the wish to teach himself.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." (Thomas Jefferson) We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
-- Aristotle Oaksey An ideal wife is one who remains faithful to you but tries to be just as charming as if she weren't.
-- Sacha Guitry "Jesus died too soon. If he had lived to my age he would have repudiated his doctrine." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) We have a habit in writing articles published in scientific journals to make the work as finished as
possible, to cover up all the tracks, to not worry about the blind alleys or describe how you had Oaksey
The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.
-- Franklin D. Roosevelt "Conform and be dull." (J. Frank Doble) Vote for the man who promises least. He'll be the least disappointing.
-- Bernard Baruch I envy people who drink -- at least they know what to blame everything on.
-- Oscar Levant cannot imagine any condition which would cause this ship to founder. Modern shipbuilding has
gone beyond that.
-- E. I. Smith, Captain of the Titanic Oaksey "The things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisi You have a cough? Go home tonight, eat a whole box of Ex-Lax--tomorrow you'll be afraid to
cough.
-- Pearl Williams Hell is other people.
- Jean-Paul Sartre Oaksey
When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of many men for the inattention of one.
-- Helen Rowland Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside
desperate to get out.
-- Michel de Montaigne "If I work toward an end, meantime I am confined to a process. The rainbow is more beautiful than the pot at the end of it, because the rainbow is now. And the pot never turns out to be quite what I e Smoking kills. If you're killed, you've lost a very important part of your life.
-- Brooke Shields, during an interview to become spokesperson for a federal anti-smoking
campaign I think one of the reasons I'm popular again is because I'm wearing a tie. You have to be different.
-- Tony Bennett, 1995 Oaksey Don't stay in bed, unless you can make money in bed.
- George Burns Many a wife thinks her husband is the world's greatest lover. But she can never catch him at it. "The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) Oaksey
Love is an emotion that is based on an opinion of women that is impossible for those who have
had any experience with them.
-- H. L. Mencken Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it. "The biggest argument against democracy is a five minute discussion with the average voter." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to
take away.
- Antoine de Saint Exupery I hate women because they always know where things are.
-- James Thurber Oaksey There are times when parenthood seems nothing but feeding the mouth that bites you.
-- Peter De Vries "We always get bored with those whom we bore." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) The only way to entertain some folks is to listen to them.
-- Kin Hubbard Oaksey
Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it. If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get
married.
-- Katharine Hepburn Everywhere I go, I'm asked if the universities stifle writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle
enough of them.
-- Flannery O'Connor "Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear." (Ambrose Redmoon) Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely
been detected.
-- Oscar Wilde Oaksey The great end of life is not knowledge, but action. What men need is as much knowledge as they
can organize for action; give them more and it may become injurious. Some men are heavy and
stupid from Usenet is like Tetris for people who still remember how to read.
-- Button from the Computer Museum, Boston, MA "Inside of a ring or out, ain't nothing wrong with going down. It's staying down that's wrong." (Muhammad Ali) Oaksey
In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: It goes on.
-- Robert Frost >From the Far East I send you one single thought, one sole idea--written in red on every
beachhead form Australia to Tokyo--There is no substitute for victory!
-- General Douglas MacArthur Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana.
-- Groucho Marx Mary had a little lamb and the doctor fainted.
-- Anonymous "Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Oaksey The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind
woman.
-- S. T. Coleridge The important thing is not to stop questioning.
-- Albert Einstein "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) Oaksey
A woman's always younger than a man of equal years.
-Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Aurora Leigh Basically, I no longer work for anything but the sensation I have while working.
- Albert Giacometti (sculptor) 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 I believe that mink are raised for being turned into fur coats and if we didn't wear fur coats those
little animals would never have been born. So is it better not to have been born or to have lived Love thy neighbor, but make sure her husband is away first. Oaksey This book fills a much-needed gap.
- Moses Hadas in a review Having children makes you no more a parent than having a piano makes you a pianist.
-- Michael Levine, Lessons at the Halfway Point It was the experience of mystery -- even if mixed with fear -- that engendered religion.
- Albert Einstein Oaksey
