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-- Dr. Strangelove You have to walk carefully in the beginning of love; the running across fields into your lover's
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-- Jonathan Carroll, Outside Victory belongs to the most persevering.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same
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-- F. Scott Fitzgerald You cannot think about thinking, without thinking about thinking about something.
-- Seymour Papert Arts and Entertainment When a girl marries she exchanges the attention of many men for the inattention of one.
-- Helen Rowland When you steal from one author, it's plagiarism; if you steal from many, it's research.
-- Wilson Mizner "What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to a human soul." (Joseph Addison) Arts and Entertainment
The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about.
-- Oscar Wilde 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 Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you
together, but do so with all your heart.
-- Marcus Aurelius The instinct of nearly all societies is to lock up anybody who is truly free. First, society begins by
trying to beat you up. If this fails, they try to poison you. If this fails too, the finish by l The first half of our life is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
-- Clarence Darrow Arts and Entertainment Don't be so humble - you are not that great.
- Golda Meir (1898-1978) to a visiting diplomat Having children makes you no more a parent than having a piano makes you a pianist.
-- Michael Levine, Lessons at the Halfway Point If you are all wrapped up in yourself, you are overdressed
-- Kate Halverson Arts and Entertainment
Experience is the worst teacher; it gives the test before presenting the lesson.
-- Vernon Law "The feminists used to say that chivalry and ladyhood were ways of keeping women down and preventing them from standing toe to toe with the guys. Now you've got a lot of women saying that if a guy is "When you have nothing to say, say nothing." (Charles Caleb Colton) Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.
- George Eliot Wind is to fire like distance is to love; it extinguishes the small and enflames the great.
-- Anonymous Arts and Entertainment We are not in a position in which we have nothing to work with. We already have capacities,
talents, direction, missions, callings.
-- Abraham Maslow The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.
-- ROBERT FROST The male is a domestic animal which, if treated with firmness, can be trained to do most things.
-- Jilly Cooper Arts and Entertainment
A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.
-- Gloria Steinem He who knows only his own side of the case, knows little of that.
-- John Stuart Mill Republican boys date Democratic girls. They plan to marry Republican girls, but feel they're entitled to a little fun first. Who, being loved, is poor?
-- Oscar Wilde Computers can figure out all kinds of problems, except the things in the world that just don't add
up.
-- Anon Arts and Entertainment "Ninety percent of my salary I spent on booze and women ... and the other ten percent I wasted." (Tug McGraw, Major League Baseball pitcher) Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday
afternoon.
-- Susan Ertz It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.
-- Abraham Lincoln Arts and Entertainment
"An imbalance between rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics." (Plutarch) Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes
unpunished.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "Beauty awakens the soul to act." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) We trained hard - but it seemed that every time we were beginning to form up into teams we were
reorganized. I was to learn later in life that we tend to meet any new situation by reorganizing,
and Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which is never advisable. -- Oscar Wilde Arts and Entertainment Journalism consists largely in saying "Lord Jones died" to people who never knew Lord Jones
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-- G. K. Chesterton If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe.
- Carl Sagan Asking politicians to vote themselves out of power is like asking rabbits not to multiply, it ain't
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-- Bob Beckel, on term limits, CBS This Morning, 3/30/95 Arts and Entertainment
The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four Americans is suffering from some form of
mental illness. Think of your three best friends. If they're okay, then it's you.
-- Rita Mae Brown Friends need not agree in everything or go always together, or have no comparable other
friendships of the same intimacy. On the contrary, in friendship union is more about ideal things:
and in that "...when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth." (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes) My religion consists of a humble admiration of the unlimitable superior who reveals Himself in the
slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble minds. That deeply emotional
convi "No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave." (Calvin Coolidge) Arts and Entertainment "Ideas are far more powerful than guns. We don't allow our enemies to have guns, why should we allow them to have ideas?" (Josef Stalin) There are two means of refuge from the misery of life - music and cats.
-- Albert Schweitzer 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 Arts and Entertainment
I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts, then there is no hurt, but only more love.
-- Mother Teresa It is most unwise for people in love to marry.
-- George Bernard Shaw "Better to be deprived of food for three days than tea for one." (Chinese Proverb) If pleasures are greatest in anticipation, just remember that this is also true of trouble.
-- Elbert Hubbard A lover tries to stand in well with the pet dog of the house.
-- Moliere Arts and Entertainment Every act of creation is first an act of destruction.
-- Pablo Picasso Generations to come will find it difficult to believe that a man such as Gandhi ever walked the
face of this earth.
-- Albert Einstein Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte Arts and Entertainment
If variety is the spice of life, marriage is the big can of leftover Spam.
-- Johnny Carson To die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture.
-- Anatole France In olden times, sacrifices were made at the altar, a practice which is still very much practiced.
-- Helen Rowland We can do no great things; only small things with great love.
-- Mother Teresa I am not young enough to know everything.
-- Oscar Wilde Arts and Entertainment Basically, I no longer work for anything but the sensation I have while working.
- Albert Giacometti (sculptor) "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) A beauty is a woman you notice; A charmer is one who notices you.
-- Adlai Stevenson Arts and Entertainment
If we were not all so interested in ourselves, life would be so uninteresting that none of us would
be able to endure it.
-- Schopenhauer It is with true love as it is with ghosts; everyone talks about it, but few have seen it.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld "No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave." (Calvin Coolidge) "There is only one success: to be able to spend your life in your own way, and not to give others absurd maddening claims upon it." (Christopher Darlington Morley) Beginning in February 1976 your assistance benefits will be discontinued ... Reason: it has been
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-- Ronald Reagan We can do not great things - only small things with great love.
-- Mother Theresa In the late 1600s the finest instruments originated from three rural families whose workshops
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This isn't right, this isn't even wrong.
- Wolfgang Pauli (1900-1958), upon reading a young physicist's paper Marriage is love. Love is blind. Therefore, marriage is an institution for the blind. To realize that you do not understand is a virtue;
Not to realize that you do not understand is a defect.
--Lao-Tzu, "Tao Teh Ching" "May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house." (George Carlin) Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth. -- John Lyly Arts and Entertainment "The mark of our time is its revulsion against imposed patterns." (Marshall McLuhan) "If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) May you be too good for the world and not good enough for your wife. Arts and Entertainment
Working mothers are guinea pigs in a scientific experiment to show that sleep is not necessary to human life. In endowing us with memory, nature has revealed to us a truth utterly unimaginable to the
unreflective creation, the truth of immortality....The most ideal human passion is love, which is
also the m Love me or hate me, but spare me your indifference.
-- Libbie Fudim 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 Women are like tea bags; put them in hot water and they get stronger.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt Arts and Entertainment The greatest homage to truth is to use it.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Man is the best computer we can put aboard a spacecraft...and the only one that can be mass
produced with unskilled labor.
-- Wernher von Braun Suicide is belated acquiescence in the opinion of one's wife's relatives. Arts and Entertainment
