It's important to be open-minded, but not SO open-minded that your brains fall out.
-- Rick Radebaugh "He who cannot give anything away cannot feel anything either." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "It wasn't until I started reading and found books they wouldn't let us read in school that I discovered you could be insane and happy and have a good life without being like everybody else." (John W The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.
-- George Bernard Shaw "In my opinion, the greatest single failure of American education is that students come away unable to distinguish between a symbol and the thing the symbol stands for." (Paul Lutus) Worcestershire May you grow so rich your widow's second husband never has to worry about a living, God forbid. "Those who feel certainty are stupid and those with any imagination or understanding are filled with doubt and indecision." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) I have an existential map; it has 'you are here' written all over it.
- Steven Wright Worcestershire
"Think off-center." (George Carlin) The fantasy which serves as a support for the figure of the Stalinist Communist is therefore
exactly the same as the fantasy which is at work in the Tom and Jerry cartoons.
-- Slavoj Zizek Marriage means commitment. Of course, so does insanity. Television: A medium. So called because it is neither rare nor well done.
-- Ernie Kovacs War is a profession by which a man cannot live honorably; an employment by which the soldier, if
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-- Niccolo Machiavelli Worcestershire Everybody can be great... because anybody can serve. You don't have to have a college degree
to serve. You don't have to make your subject and verb agree to serve. you only need a heart full
of grac Conceit causes more conversation than wit.
-- LaRouchefoucauld Thank God - every morning when you get up - that you have something to do which must be
done, whether you like it or not. Being forced to work, and forced to do your best, will breed in you
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"In large states public education will always be mediocre, for the same reason that in large kitchens the cooking is usually bad." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) If everything seems under control, you're just not going fast enough.
- Mario Andretti The important thing is not to stop questioning.
-- Albert Einstein "Death solves all problems--no man, no problem." (Josef Stalin) "The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Worcestershire Thank heaven. A bachelor's life is no life for a single man.
-- Samuel Goldwyn, immigrant-turned-famous-movie-producer, when told his son was getting
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that provoked it.
-- Alvin Toffler Worcestershire
Very little is known of the Canadian country since it is rarely visited by anyone but the Queen and
illiterate sport fishermen.
-- P. J. O'Rourke When yer in a funk, people in love are a royal pain in the patookus.
-- Portnoy, character in "Outland," comic strip by Berkely Breathed What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is
the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset.
-- Crowf Victory goes to the player who makes the next-to-last mistake.
- Chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower "Ah! Don't say you agree with me. When people agree with me I always feel that I must be wrong." (Oscar Wilde) Worcestershire "Liberty has never come from the government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of it. The history of liberty is a history of resistance. The history of liberty is a history of limitations of g The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing that you will make one.
-- Ellen Hubbard What sets worlds in motion is the interplay of differences, their attractions and repulsions; life is
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-- Octavio Paz Worcestershire
If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate.
-- Steven Wright "Self-confidence is the first requisite for achieving great things." (Samuel Johnson) "Fake is as old as the Eden tree." (George Orson Welles) The less their ability, the more their conceit.
Ahad HaAm "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) Worcestershire .. I am indebted to the cat for a particular kind of honorable deceit, for a greater control over
myself, for a characteristic aversion to brutal sounds, and for the need to keep silent for long
per We never live; we are always in the expectation of living.
-- Voltaire The grass may be greener on the other side of the fence, but you still have to mow it.
-- Anonymous Worcestershire
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 >From the moment I picked your book up until I laid it down I was convulsed with laughter. Some
day I intend reading it.
-- Groucho Marx I didn't have time to write a short letter, so I wrote a long one instead.
-- Mark Twain 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 "Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Walk beside me and just be my friend." (Albert Camus) Worcestershire "...when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth." (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes) Question: Ted Kennedy: "Where was George?"
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"I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it." (Thomas Jefferson, to Archibald Stuart, 1791) Thank heaven. A bachelor's life is no life for a single man.
-- Samuel Goldwyn, immigrant-turned-famous-movie-producer, when told his son was getting
married An ideal wife is one who remains faithful to you but tries to be just as charming as if she weren't.
-- Sacha Guitry We have to keep trying things we're not sure we can pull off. If we just do the things we know we
can do... you don't grow as much. You gotta take those chances on making those big mistakes.
-- Cybi "Every now and then say, 'What the fu(c)k.' 'What the fu(c)k' gives you freedom. Freedom brings opportunity. Opportunity makes your future." (Curtis Armstrong, Risky Business, 1983) Worcestershire The worth of the state, in the long run, is the worth of the individuals composing it.
-- John Stuart Mill A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.
-- St. Augustine "I either want less corruption, or more chance to participate in it." (Ashleigh Brilliant) Worcestershire
If it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do not say it.
-- Marcus Aurelius I don't want to achieve immortality through my work... I want to achieve it by not dying!
-- Woody Allen I would have made a good Pope.
-- Richard Nixon, U.S. President 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 If you don't know how to do something, you don't know how to do it with a computer.
-- Anon. Worcestershire "In every gathering of thirteen, expect one guest will turn out to be a Judas." (Aleister Crowley) He would make a lovely corpse.
- Charles Dickens Research is the act of going up alleys to see if they are blind.
-- Plutarch Worcestershire
"If there is something to pardon in everything, there is also something to condemn." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, The Will to Power, 1888) Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.
-- John F. Kennedy The voice of the intellect is a soft one, but it does not rest till it has gained a hearing.
-- Sigmund Freud The executive exists to make sensible exceptions to general rules.
-- Elting E. Morison "What is most appealing about young folks, after all, is the changes, not the still photograph of finished character but the movie, the soul in flux." (Thomas Pynchon) Worcestershire We must become the change we want to see.
-- Gandhi The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
-- Mark Twain There is only one nature - the division into science and engineering is a human imposition, not a
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Diplomacy is the art of saying "Nice doggie" until you can find a rock.
-- Wynn Catlin, also attributed to Will Rogers I don't worry about terrorism. I was married for two years.
-- Sam Kinison "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 Journalism consists largely in saying "Lord Jones died" to people who never knew Lord Jones
was alive.
-- G. K. Chesterton The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with
the wish to teach himself.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton Worcestershire If you talk to God, you are praying; if God talks to you, you have schizophrenia.
-- Thomas Szasz 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 "No one lies so boldly as the man who is indignant." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Worcestershire
Laugh and the world laughs with you. Snore and you sleep alone.
-- Anthony Burgess God gave men both a penis and a brain, but unfortunately not enough blood supply to run both at
the same time.
- Robin Williams, commenting on the Clinton/Lewinsky affair For most of history, Anonymous was a woman.
-- Virginia Woolf 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 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 Worcestershire Church is only society on earth that exists for the benefit of non-members.
-- William Temple The only thing that holds a marriage together is the husband bein' big enough to keep his mouth
shut, to step back and see where his wife is wrong.
-- Archie Bunker, character on "All in the Family, Why doesn't she like me? Is it my hair, my overbite, the fact that I've worn the same shirt and
shorts for the last four years?
-- Bart Simpson, young character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated tele Worcestershire
