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"This is the first age that's paid much attention to the future, which is a little ironic since we may not have one." (Arthur C. Clarke) "Twelve magicians and two carnies have been shot dead doing the bullet catch. That's cool enough, but every night when we close our show with that trick and the loaded gun gets pointed in my face, it "Growth in wisdom can be measured precisely by decline in bile." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Human, All Too Human) Character may be manifested in the great moments, but it is made in the small ones.
-- Phillip Brooks I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
-- Thomas Edison News and Media "Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parents, gobble their food, and tyrannize their teachers." (Socrates) The gods too are fond of a joke.
- Aristotle "One pretty good definition of college is that it's a place where people are made to read difficult books." (Jonathan Franzen) News and Media
The remarkable thing about television is that it permits several million people to laugh at the same
joke and still feel lonely.
-- T. S. Eliot Coffee is a beverage that puts one to sleep when not drank.
-- Alphonse Allais cannot imagine any condition which would cause this ship to founder. Modern shipbuilding has
gone beyond that.
-- E. I. Smith, Captain of the Titanic Hell hath no fury like a bureaucrat scorned.
-- Milton Friedman "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 News and Media Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.
-- James Baldwin "Ninety percent of my salary I spent on booze and women ... and the other ten percent I wasted." (Tug McGraw, Major League Baseball pitcher) All courage is a form of constancy. It is always himself that a coward abandons first. After this all
other betrayals come.
-- Cormac McCarthy News and Media
When a girl marries she exchanges the attention of many men for the inattention of one.
-- Helen Rowland Adolescence is a period of rapid changes. Between the ages of 12 and 17, for example, a parent
ages as much as 20 years.
-- Anonymous The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt 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 The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
- Mark Twain News and Media I think there are only three things America will be known for 2,000 years from now when they
study this civilization: the Constitution, jazz music, and baseball.
-- Gerald Early, writer, baseball do The man who complains about the way the ball bounces is likely the one who dropped it.
-- Lou Holtz "See - one side of my face is gentle and kind, incapable of anything but love of my fellow man. The other side, the other profile, is cruel and predatory and evil, incapable of anything but lusts and News and Media
Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.
-- G. K. Chesterton To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest.
-- Ghandi "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) Never marry for money. Ye'll borrow it cheaper.
-- Scottish Proverb The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed
desperation.
-- Henry David Thoreau, Walden (1854) News and Media There ought to be one day - just one - when there is open season on senators.
-- Will Rogers The wit of a graduate student is like champagne. Canadian champagne.
-- Robertson Davies Cliches should be avoided like the plague.
-- Anon. News and Media
"Life is a great surprise. I don't see why death should not be an even greater one." (Vladimir Nabokov) "I put on an act sometimes, and people think I'm insensitive. Really, it's like a kind of armor because I'm too sensitive. If there are two hundred people in a room and one of them doesn't like me, I' Education is an admirable thing, but nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
-- Oscar Wilde When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen.
-- Ernest Hemingway Life - a sexually transmitted terminal condition.
-- Walter Prager News and Media I stopped believing in Santa Claus when I was six. Mother took me to see him in a department
store and he asked for my autograph.
-- Shirley Temple Black What's new? Most of my wife. 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 News and Media
Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.
-- Albert Einstein The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat.
-- Lily Tomlin Sure, it's going to kill a lot of people, but they may be dying of something else anyway.
-- Othal Brand, member of a Texas pesticide review board 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. News and Media An undefined problem has an infinite number of solutions.
-- Robert A. Humphrey Not only is there no God, but try finding a plumber on Sunday.
-- Woody Allen "In married life three is company and two is none." (Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest) News and Media
I haven't committed a crime. What I did was fail to comply with the law.
-- David Dinkins, New York City Mayor, answering accusations that he failed to pay his taxes. A little girl at the wedding afterwards asked her mother why the bride changed her mind. "What
do you mean?" responded her mother. "Well, she went down the aisle with one man, and came
back with ano I don't feel good.
-- Luther Burbank, dying words Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day.
-- Thornton Wilder "The White Rabbit put on his spectacles. 'Where shall I begin, please your Majesty?' he asked. 'Begin at the beginning,' the King said gravely, 'and go on till you come to the end: then stop.'" (Lewi News and Media When you are right, you cannot be too radical; When you are wrong, you cannot be too
conservative.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Creativity is allowing oneself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.
-- Scott Adams, The Dilbert Principle "People who cease to believe in God or goodness altogether still believe in the devil. I don't know why. No, I do indeed know why. Evil is always possible. And goodness is eternally difficult." (Anne News and Media
It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is
the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be
cr "The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn." (David Russell) When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I only think about how to solve the
problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
-- Buckminster Sir Francis Drake circumsized the world with a 100-foot clipper.
-- Unknown history student "There cannot be a God because, if there were one, I would not believe that I was not He." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) News and Media When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen.
-- Ernest Hemingway Government is like a baby. An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of
responsibility at the other.
-- Ronald Reagan, Saturday Evening Post, 1965 "If A equals success, then the formula is: A = X + Y + Z, X is work. Y is play. Z is keep your mouth shut." (Albert Einstein) News and Media
Luck is the residue of design.
- Branch Rickey - former owner of the Brooklyn Dodger Baseball Team There are trivial truths, and there are great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false.
The opposite of a great truth is also true.
-- Neils Bohr It is never too late to be what you might have been.
-- George Eliot Democracy encourages the majority to decide things about which the majority is blissfully
ignorant.
--John Simon A team effort is a lot of people doing what I say.
-- Michael Winner News and Media I love children, especially when they cry, for then someone takes them away.
-- Nancy Mitford "If I could drop dead right now, I'd be the happiest man alive." (Samuel Goldwyn) "I'm basically an optimist in life but this doesn't prevent me from deducing as a scientist that we are probably doomed." (Vladimir Chaloupka, physicist, University of Washington, regarding mankind's News and Media
Life is the flower for which love is the honey.
-- Victor Hugo "To educate educators! But the first ones must educate themselves! And for these I write." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The mathematician lives long and lives young; the wings of his soul do not early drop off, nor do
its pores become clogged with the earthy particles blown from the dusty highways of vulgar life.
-- The principle of give and take is the principle of diplomacy - give one and take ten.
-- Mark Twain Statistics have shown that mortality increases perceptibly in the military during wartime.
-- Alphonse Allais News and Media 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 The average Ph.D thesis is nothing but the transference of bones from one graveyard to another.
-- Frank J. Dobie, A Texan in England, 1945 "We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) News and Media
"I heard the old, old, men say 'all that's beautiful drifts away, like the waters.'" (William Butler Yeats) He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.
- Sir Winston Churchill Bigamy is one way of avoiding the painful publicity of divorce and the expense of alimony.
-- Oliver Herford "I would rather die standing than live on my knees!" (Emiliano Zapata) You can close your eyes to reality, but not to memories.
-- Stanislaw J. Lem News and Media "I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter." (Blaise Pascal) You can't say civilization isn't advancing: in every war they kill you in a new way.
-- Will Rogers "Every act of creation is first an act of destruction." (Pablo Picasso) News and Media
