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All science is concerned with the relationship of cause and effect. Each scientific discovery
increases man's ability to predict the consequences of his actions and thus his ability to control
futur "Every act of violence increases the recruitment of terrorists. Iraq has been turned into a base of terror." (Noam Chomsky, from The Toronto Star, March 23, 2004) "I am the lizard king. I can do anything." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) blah "Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure." (Thomas Alva Edison) "True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost." (Charles Caleb Colton) Sport Love is a snowmobile racing across the tundra and then suddenly it flips over, pinning you
underneath. At night, the ice weasels come.
-- Matt Groening, Love is Hell When a man takes an oath, Meg, he's holding his ownself in his own hands. Like water. And if he
opens his fingers then- he needn't hope to find himself again.
-- Robert Bolt from A Man For All Seas blah bl "The better the state is established, the fainter is humanity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Sport
"The reward of a thing well done is having done it." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) blah "Ability wins us the esteem of the true men; luck that of the people." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) The principle of give and take is the principle of diplomacy - give one and take ten.
-- Mark Twain NEIGHBOR, n. One whom we are commanded to love as ourselves, and who does all he knows
how to make us disobedient.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 Morality consists in suspecting other people of not being legally married.
-- George Bernard Shaw Sport There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.
-- George Santayana "Whether it is a black cat or a white cat, as long as it can catch the rat, it is a good cat." (Deng Xiao Ping) We always believe our first love is our last, and our last love our first.
-- Anonymous Sport
An economist is a man who states the obvious in terms of the incomprehensible.
-- Alfred A. Knopf In the halls of justice, the only justice is in the halls.
-- Lenny Bruce The average, healthy, well-adjusted adult gets up at seven-thirty in the morning feeling just plain
terrible.
-- Jean Kerr If someone had told me I would be Pope one day, I would have studied harder.
-- Pope John Paul I Marriage: the only sport in which the trapped animal has to buy the license. Sport To keep your marriage brimming, with love in the wedding cup, whenever you're wrong, admit it;
whenever you're right, shut up.
-- Ogden Nash As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he.
-- Proverbs 23:7 Marriage was all a woman's idea and for man's acceptance of the pretty yoke, it becomes us to
be grateful.
-- Phyllis McGinley Sport
All human actions are equivalent... and... all are on principle doomed...
-- Jean-Paul Sartre, "Being and Nothingness" "The meeting of two personalites is like the contact of two chemical substances. If there is any reaction, both are transformed." (Carl Gustav Jung) If pleasures are greatest in anticipation, just remember that this is also true of trouble.
-- Elbert Hubbard The backbone of surprise is fusing speed with secrecy.
- Von Clausewitz I was nauseous and tingly all over... I was either in love or I had smallpox.
-- Woody Allen Sport "The happy people are failures because they are on such good terms with themselves they don't give a damn." (Agatha Christie) "I've just had eighteen straight whiskies. I think that's the record." (Dylan Thomas, final words) Beneath the rule of men entirely great, / The pen is mightier than the sword.
-- Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton, Richelieu, II. ii Sport
An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets the more interested
he is in her.
-- Agatha Christie If God created us in His image we have certainly returned the compliment.
-- Voltaire Marriage is very much like a violin; after the sweet music is over, the strings are attached. Creativity is allowing oneself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.
-- Scott Adams, The Dilbert Principle It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.
-- Harry Truman Sport There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of
bread.
- Mahatma Gandhi He who has a 'why' to live, can bear with almost any 'how'.
- Friedrich Nietzsche A woman's always younger than a man of equal years.
-Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Aurora Leigh Sport
I have noticed that nothing I have never said ever did me any harm.
-- Calvin Coolidge "Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country." (Marquis de Lafayette) 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 Truth is more of a stranger than fiction.
-- Mark Twain Marriage means commitment. Of course, so does insanity. Sport There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in his home.
-- Kenneth H. Olson, President of DEC, Convention of the World Future Society, 1977 "When even one American--who has done nothing wrong--is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth--then all Americans are in peril." (Harry S. Truman) "Death where is thy sting? Love, where is thy glory?" (William Shakespeare) Sport
Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork
picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art.
-- Tom Stoppard 2,400,000 Americans play the accordian - hopefully not at the same time.
-- inside of a Pepsi cap "Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few." (George Bernard Shaw) "There are no uninteresting things, only uninteresting people." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) Democracy is a form of government in which it is permitted to wonder aloud what the country
could do under first-class management.
-- Senator Soaper Sport Sir Francis Drake circumsized the world with a 100-foot clipper.
-- Unknown history student Not much meat on her, but what's there is choice.
-- Spencer Tracy, about Katharine Hepburn How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg? Four. Calling a tail a leg doesn't make it
a leg.
-- Abraham Lincoln Sport
All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others.
-- Chad A. Gamble, Escape, short story "Frank and explicit; that is the right line to take when you wish to conceal your own mind and to confuse the minds of others." (Benjamin Disraeli, Sybil) The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this
is true.
-- James Branch Cabell, The Silver Stallion "It is far better to be alone, than to be in bad company." (George Washington) If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one.
-- Mother Teresa Sport It is better to die on your feet than live on your knees.
-- Emiliano Zapata Democracy is a form of government in which it is permitted to wonder aloud what the country
could do under first-class management.
-- Senator Soaper You can't shake hands with a clenched fist.
-- Indira Gandhi Sport
"Babies are necessary to grown-ups. A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities. In a world that is cutting down its trees to build highways, losing its eart Imagination is the highest kite one can fly.
-- Lauren Bacall "Fake is as old as the Eden tree." (George Orson Welles) The mistakes are all waiting to be made.
- chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower (1887-1956) on the game's opening position "If you want a thing done well, do it yourself." (Napoleon Bonaparte) Sport Our marriage would have worked if we hadn't lived together.
-- Joan Thompson The fickleness of the women I love is only equalled by the infernal consistency of the women who
love me.
-- George Bernard Shaw Chase after the truth like all hell and you'll free yourself, even though you never touch its
coattails.
-- Clarence Darrow Sport
We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we
respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart.
-- H. L. Mencken your daughters marry men of substance: gypsies with two bears. Courage: doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared.
-- Eddie Rickenbacker "One of the things about acting is it allows you to live other people's lives without having to pay the price. I've never been one of those actors who has touted myself as a fascinating human being. I You cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.
-- Mark Twain Sport Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature.
-- Samuel Butler He who dies a thousand deaths meets the final hour with the calmness of one who approaches a
well remembered door.
-- Heywood Brown Saying that men talk about baseball in order to avoid talking about their feelings is the same as
saying that women talk about their feelings in order to avoid talking about baseball.
-- Deborah Tan Sport
For the memory of love is sweet, though the love itself were in vain. And what I have lost of
pleasure, assuage what I find of pain.
-- Lyster My initial response was to sue her for defamation of character, but then I realized that I had no
character.
-- Charles Barkley, on hearing Tonya Harding proclaim herself "the Charles Barkley of fig 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 Of the seven dwarves, only Dopey had a shaven face. This should tell us something about the
custom of shaving.
-- Tom Robbins, Skinny Legs and All Acting is the most minor of gifts and not a very high-class way to earn a living. After all, Shirley
Temple could do it at the age of four.
-- Katharine Hepburn Sport Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.
-- Virginia Woolf Do not assume that she who seeks to comfort you now, lives untroubled among the simple and
quiet words that sometimes do you good. Her life may also have much sadness and difficulty, that
remains fa History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.
-- Winston Churchill Sport
