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Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you
have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not.
-- Aldous Huxley Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door
and just visit now and then.
-- Katharine Hepburn Well if this is the wrong number, why did you answer it?
-- James Thurber Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.
-- B.F. Skinner One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is
terribly important.
- Bertrand Russell
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A little inaccuracy sometimes saves a ton Science and Environment I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.
- Francois-Auguste Rodin (1840-1917), when asked how he managed to make his remarkable
statues I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.
-- Francois-Auguste Rodin, when asked how he managed to make his remarkable statues He can compress the most words into the smallest idea of any man I know.
- Abraham Lincoln Science and Environment
"Nietzsche was stupid and abnormal." (Leo Tolstoy, 1828-1910) "I don't think it's the nature of any man to be monogamous. Men are propelled by genetically ordained impulses over which they have no control to distribute their seed." (Marlon Brando) If you haven't got anything nice to say about anybody, come sit next to me.
- Alice Roosevelt Longworth I am not young enough to know everything.
-- Oscar Wilde If you talk to God, you are praying; if God talks to you, you have schizophrenia.
-- Thomas Szasz Science and Environment The second day of a diet is always easier than the first. By the second day you're off it.
-- Jackie Gleason Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot.
-- Anonymous Marriage is a romance in which the hero dies in the first chapter.
-- Anonymous Science and Environment
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 What would you attempt if you knew you could not fail?
-- Robert Schuller He had decided to live forever or die in the attempt.
-- J. Heller You can't learn too soon that the most useful thing about a principle is that it can always be
sacrificed to expediency.
-- W. Somerset Maugham Life is not an easy matter.... You cannot live through it without falling into frustration and cynicism
unless you have before you a great idea which raises you above personal misery, above
weakness Science and Environment Success is peace of mind which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you did your best
to become the best you are capable of becoming.
-- John R. Wooden, Practical Modern Basketball If a thing is worth doing at all, it is worth doing badly.
-- Gustav Holst, on amateur music-making A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.
-- Fr. Jerome Cummings Science and Environment
If it weren't for marriage, men would spend their lives thinking they had no faults at all.
-- Anonymous Love cures people, both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.
-- Dr. Karl Menninger Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them
good.
-- H.L. Mencken University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
-- Henry Kissinger A man is incomplete until he is married. After that, he is finished.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Science and Environment "A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Silence is argument carried out by other means.
-- Ernesto "Che" Guevara My mother's menu consisted of two choices: Take it or leave it.
-- Buddy Hackett Science and Environment
In olden times, sacrifices were made at the altar, a practice which is still very much practiced.
-- Helen Rowland 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 "This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life
of another.
-- Helen Keller Marriage certificate is just another word for a work permit. Science and Environment Joy is but the sign that creative emotion is fulfilling its purpose.
-- Charles Du Bos I like two kinds of men: domestic and foreign.
-- Mae West Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside
desperate to get out.
-- Michel de Montaigne Science and Environment
May you be blessed with a wife so healthy and strong, she can pull the plow when your horse drops dead. Everything is drive-through. In California, they even have a burial service called Jump-In-The-
Box.
-- Wil Shriner Marriage is the only war in which you sleep with the enemy.
-- Anonymous "You know what charm is: a way of getting the answer yes without having asked any clear question." (Albert Camus, The Fall) Go on, get out. Last words are for fools who haven't said enough.
-- Karl Marx, dying words to his housekeeper Science and Environment "To err is human; to forgive, divine." (Alexander Pope) Learn to laugh at your troubles and you'll never run out of things to laugh at.
-- Lyn Karol 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 Science and Environment
Universities incline wits to sophistry and affectation.
-- Francis Bacon We have only one person to blame, and that's each other.
-- Barry Beck, New York Ranger, on who started a fight furing a hockey game Marital Freedom: The liberty that allows a husband to do exactly that which his wife pleases.
-- Anonymous "The dancer's body is simply the luminous manifestation of the soul." (Isadora Duncan) "A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) Science and Environment "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 Women: If they're not turning down your proposals for marriage, they're accusing you of
suspicious behavior in the women's lingerie changing room.
-- Cliff Clavin, character on "Cheers", U.S. Televi "We're an embarrasment to college graduates across America." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) Science and Environment
"If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost." (Aristotle) Courage is the price that Love exacts for granting peace.
-- Amelia Earhart Logic is in the eye of the logician.
- Gloria Steinem "A celebrity is a person who works hard all his life to become well known, then wears dark glasses to avoid being recognized." (Fred Allen) Assassins!
-- Arturo Toscanini, to his orchestra Science and Environment A person is not given integrity. It results from the relentless pursuit of honesty at all times.
-- Anon. I have come to the conclusion never again to think of marrying, and for this reason, I can never
be satisfied with anyone who would be blockhead enough to have me.
-- Abraham Lincoln, in a letter to "Friends can help each other. A true friend is someone who lets you have total freedom to be yourself--and especially to feel. Or, not feel. Whatever you happen to be feeling at the moment is fine wit Science and Environment
Chance is always powerful. - Let your hook be always cast; in the pool where you least expect it,
there will be a fish.
-- Ovid Say goodbye to the oldies, but goodies, because the good old days weren't always good and
tomorrow aint as bad as it seems.
-- Billy Joel Good friends are good for your health.
-- Irwin Sarason Usenet is like a herd of performing elephants with diarrhea -- massive, difficult to redirect, awe-
inspiring, entertaining, and a source of mind-boggling amounts of excrement when you least
expect i It is absurd to divide people into good or bad. People are either charming or tedious.
-- Oscar Wilde Science and Environment No, that is the great fallacy; the wisdom of old men. They do not grow wise. They grow careful." (Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell To Arms) Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
- H. G. Wells The real questions are the ones that obtrude upon your consciousness whether you like it or not,
the ones that make your mind start vibrating like a jackhammer, the ones that you 'come to terms
with Science and Environment
"Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave, and impossible to forget." (G. Randolf) Many a man owes his success to his first wife and his second wife to his success.
-- Jim Backus "I was born lost and take no pleasure in being found..." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) "I love to doubt as well as know." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) I don't mind if you don't like my manners. I don't like them myself. They're pretty bad. I grieve over
them on long winter evenings.
-- Humphrey Bogart to Lauren Bacall, in "The Big Sleep" Science and Environment Use your own best judgment at all times.
-- The entire Nordstrom's Department Stores policy manual I belong to Bridegrooms Anonymous. Whenever I feel like getting married, they send over a lady in a housecoat and hair curlers to burn my toast for me. -- Dick Martin Great innovations should not be forced on slender majorities.
-- Thomas Jefferson Science and Environment
After all, all he did was string together a lot of old, well-known quotations.
-- H. L. Mencken, on Shakespeare 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 Imagination is the highest kite one can fly.
-- Lauren Bacall I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible
by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.
- Umberto Eco blah "Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together." (Vincent van Gogh) Science and Environment If I had been around when Rubens was painting, I would have been revered as a fabulous model.
Kate Moss? Well, she would have been the paintbrush...
-- Dawn French May you live happily ever after with a poor, ugly, shrewish wife. I find television very educating. Every time sombody turns on the set, I go into the other room and
read a book.
-- Groucho Marx Science and Environment
