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Hardly a year passes that fails to find a new, oft-times exotic, research method or technique
added to the armamentarium of political inquiry. Anyone who cannot negotiate Chi squares,
assess randomi It is most unwise for people in love to marry.
-- George Bernard Shaw I shall return.
-- General Douglas MacArthur Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which is never advisable. -- Oscar Wilde "Every act of creation is first an act of destruction." (Pablo Picasso) Construction and Maintenance I used to be Snow White, but I drifted.
-- Mae West There's nothing wrong with having nothing to say -- unless you insist on saying it.
-- Anonymous "The great aim of education is not knowledge but action." (Herbert Spencer) Construction and Maintenance
I do not consider it an insult, but rather a compliment to be called an agnostic. I do not pretend to
know where many ignorant men are sure -- that is all that agnosticism means.
- Clarence Darrow, Change is not merely necessary to life, it is life.
-- Alvin Toffler "Mothers spend a lifetime excising from their sons the influence of their fathers." (Arthur Lotti) If a thing is worth doing at all, it is worth doing badly.
-- Gustav Holst, on amateur music-making "Small minds discuss people, average minds discuss events, great minds discuss ideas." (Anonymous) Construction and Maintenance Fill what's empty, empty what's full, and scratch where it itches.
- the Duchess of Windsor, when asked what is the secret of a long and happy life "In literary criticism the critic has no choice but to make over the victim of his attention into something the size and shape of himself." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) You have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth
without producing it.
-- George Bernard Shaw Construction and Maintenance
"Men act and women appear. Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at." (John Berger) Ordinary riches can be stolen, real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that
cannot be taken from you.
-- Oscar Wilde "The purpose of Compulsory Education is to deprive the common people of their commonsense." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) "A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) "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) Construction and Maintenance In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice
that I am not a Republican.
-- H. L. Mencken Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and
blows up the bonfire.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld "As a child, I thought I hated everybody, but when I grew up I realized it was just children I didn't like." (Philip Larkin) Construction and Maintenance
Not to anticipate is already to moan.
-- Leonardo da Vinci We are the echo of the future.
-- W. S. Merwin All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it
is accepted as being self-evident.
- Arthur Schopenhauer Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands, but English women only hope to find in their butlers. -- W. Somerset Maugham It's not as great a day for the bride as she thinks. She's not marrying the best man.
-- Anonymous Construction and Maintenance 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 "Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences." (Isadora Duncan) Do or do not. There is no try.
-- Yoda, character in the movie The Empire Strikes Back Construction and Maintenance
They were doing a full back shot of me in a swimsuit and I thought, Oh my God, I have to be so
brave. See, every woman hates herself from behind.
-- Cindy Crawford, supermodel Spinster: A bachelor's wife. The philosophy exam was a piece of cake -- which was a bit of a surprise, actually, because I
was expecting some questions on a sheet of paper.
-- Smith & Jones Death does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when it does
come, we no longer exist.
-- Epicurus And in the end the love you take is equal to the love you make.
-- The Beatles, The last lyric of their last song Construction and Maintenance A clever man commits no minor blunders.
- Goethe "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) "For better or for worse, our company (The News Corporation Ltd.) is a reflection of my thinking, my character, my values." (Keith Rupert Murdoch, media mogul, 1931-) Construction and Maintenance
Look not mournfully into the Past. It comes not back again. Wisely improve the Present. It is
thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy Future, without fear, and with a manly heart.
-- Henry Wadsworth Lo Victory belongs to the most persevering.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and
blows up the bonfire.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld He that always gives way to others will end in having no principles of his own.
-- Aesop Wedding is destiny, and hanging likewise.
-- John Heywood Construction and Maintenance Paradoxically though it may seem, it is none the less true that life imitates art far more than art
imitates life.
-- Oscar Wilde The theory used to be you marry an older man because they are more mature. The new theory is
that men don't mature. So you might as well marry a younger one.
-- Anonymous Statistics have shown that mortality increases perceptibly in the military during wartime.
-- Alphonse Allais Construction and Maintenance
Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.
-- Oscar Wilde It is much more comfortable to be mad and know it, than to be sane and have one's doubts.
- G. B. Burgin I know I'm not in government anymore. In fact I'm out of work.
-- Ronald Reagan, Former U.S. President, on a speaking tour of Japan, 1989 The west wasn't won on salad.
-- ND Beef Council, billboard advertisement, 1990 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 Construction and Maintenance "And on the seventh day, God stepped back and said 'There is my creation, perfect in every way ... oh, damn it, I left pot all over the place. Now they'll think I want them to smoke it. Now I have to The great man fights the elements in his time that hinder his own greatness, in other words his own freedom and sincerity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Minds are like parachutes - they only function when open.
-- Thomas Dewar Construction and Maintenance
Marriage is a romance in which the heroine dies in the first chapter.
-- Cecilia Egan Once a boy becomes a man, he's a man all his life, but a woman is only sexy until she becomes
your wife.
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show "Great work is done by people who are not afraid to be great." (Fernando Flores) Experience is the name every one gives his mistakes.
-- Elbert Hubbard Silence is as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unhewn marble of a great sculpture.
-- Aldous Huxley Construction and Maintenance I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about "short" and
"cheap"?
-- Phyllis Diller To marry is to halve your rights and double your duties.
-- Arthur Schopenhauer "I'll tell you something: Luxury disgusts me." (Giorgio Armani) Construction and Maintenance
I am not young enough to know everything.
-- Oscar Wilde Opera in English is, in the main, about as sensible as baseball in Italian.
-- H. L. Mencken "Ask five economists and you'll get five different answers (six if one went to Harvard)." (Edgar R. Fiedler) Many a man in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl.
-- Stephen Leacock All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others.
-- Chad A. Gamble, Escape, short story Construction and Maintenance Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.
-- John F. Kennedy "God is Man's stupidest idea." (Marcel Duchamp, French Dadaist) "We have been the cowards lobbing cruise missiles from 2,000 miles away. That's cowardly. Staying in the airplane when it hits the building, say what you want about it, it's not cowardly." (Bill Mahe Construction and Maintenance
It is not necessary to understand things in order to argue about them.
-- Pierre Augustin de Beaumarchais "Experience is not what happens to a man. It is what a man does with what happens to him." (Aldous Huxley) Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day.
-- Thornton Wilder The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.
-- Paul Valery One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: that word is love.
-- Sophocles Construction and Maintenance "Careful?! Was my mother careful when she stabbed me in the heart with a coat hanger while I was still in the womb?" (Trey Parker) Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can
never tell.
-- Joan Crawford All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it
is accepted as being self-evident.
- Arthur Schopenhauer Construction and Maintenance
Knowledge is the intellectual manipulation of carefully verified observations.
-- Sigmund Freud History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.
-- Winston Churchill "I have learned that to be with those I like is enough." (Walt Whitman) The only weapon that becomes sharper with constant use is the tongue.
-- Anonymous "If there is something to pardon in everything, there is also something to condemn." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, The Will to Power, 1888) Construction and Maintenance "All women love the men they fear. All women kiss the hand that rules them." (Lionel Atwill) "In some ways, I never outgrew my adolescence. I wake up in the morning and think, 'Oh my God, I'm late for a math test!' But then I say, 'Wait a minute. I'm 40.'" (Daniel Clowes) "I think people resist freedom because they're afraid of the unknown. But it's ironic....That unknown was once very well known. It's where are souls belong....The only solution is to confront them--co Construction and Maintenance
