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Everything in the world may be endured except continued prosperity.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "College professors are the people who can't hack it in the real world." (William Thomas) Based on what you know about him in history books, what do you think Abraham Lincoln would
be doing if he were alive today?
1) Writing his memoirs of the Civil War.
2) Advising the President.
3) D It destroys one's nerves to be amiable everyday to the same human being.
-- Benjamin Disraeli I think of my wife and I think of Lot, and I think of the lucky break he got. News and Media The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.
-- Albert Einstein My darling wife was always glum. I drowned her in a cask of rum, And so made sure that she would stay, In better spirits night and day. The covers of this book are too far apart.
-- Ambrose Bierce News and Media
Education is not filling a bucket, but lighting a fire.
-- William Yeats "Ask five economists and you'll get five different answers (six if one went to Harvard)." (Edgar R. Fiedler) "Greed, for lack of a better word, is good. Greed is right. Greed works." (Michael Douglas, as Gordon Gekko, Wall Street, 1987) "The English have all the material requisites for the revolution. What they lack is the spirit of generalization and revolutionary ardour." (Karl Marx) "This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) News and Media Love matches are made by people who are content, for a month of honey, to condemn
themselves to a life of vinegar.
-- Countess of Blessington I shall return.
-- General Douglas MacArthur Someday is not a day of the week.
-- Anon. News and Media
Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer.
-- Mark Twain Its failings notwithstanding, there is much to be said in favor of journalism in that by giving us the
opinion of the uneducated, it keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community.
-- Oscar W Why did Nature create man? Was it to show that she is big enough to make mistakes, or was it
pure ignorance?
-- Holbrook Jackson We got to roll with the punches, play all of our hunches, make the best of whatever comes your
way. Forget that blind ambition, learn to trust your intuition -- plowing straight ahead, come what
may For of all sad words of tongue or pen,
The saddest are these: "It might have been!"
-- John Greenleaf Whittier News and Media Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances
continue to exist, a wonderful living side by side can grow up, if they succeed in loving the
distance If all men were brothers, would you let one marry your sister? "A man is only as faithful as his opportunity." (Chris Rock) News and Media
Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.
-- Erica Jong Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.
-- Aristotle It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get back up.
-- Vince Lombardi If everything seems under control, you're just not going fast enough.
- Mario Andretti It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are
difficult.
-- Seneca News and Media "Politics is my hobby. Smut is my vocation." (Larry Flynt) As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he.
-- Proverbs 23:7 Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for the appointment by the corrupt few.
-- George Bernard Shaw News and Media
The nation's honor is dearer than the nation's comfort; yes, than the nation's life itself.
-- Woodrow Wilson Always bear in mind that your own resolution to success is more important than any other one
thing.
-- Abraham Lincoln Better to die ten thousand deaths than wound my honor.
-- Joseph Addison The concept is interesting and well-formed, but in order to earn better than a 'C', the idea must be
feasible.
- A Yale University management professor in response to student Fred Smith's paper prop Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish.
-- Albert Einstein News and Media "Politics is my hobby. Smut is my vocation." (Larry Flynt) Marrying a man is like buying something you've been admiring for a long time in a shop window.
You may love it when you get it home, but it doesn't always go with everything in the house.
-- Jean Ke These people have served a longer sentence than some people who have committed murder.
-- Jeff Greenfield, news analyst, describing the jury in the OJ Simpson murder trial, 1995 News and Media
A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in students.
-- John Ciardi Better to die ten thousand deaths than wound my honor.
-- Joseph Addison A man has to live with himself, and he should see to it that he always has good company.
-- Charles Evans Hughes Every St. Patrick's Day every Irishman goes out to find another Irishman to make a speech to.
-- Shane Leslie Opportunity may knock only once, but temptation leans on the doorbell.
-- Anonymous News and Media More than kisses, letters mingle souls.
-- John Donne Public office is the last refuge of a scoundrel.
-- Boies Penrose, 1931 "Great spirits have always faced voilent protest from mediocre minds." (Albert Einstein) News and Media
Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. "The devil's agents may be of flesh and blood, may they not?" (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of the Baskervilles) We do not remember days; we remember moments.
-- Anonymous Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to
take away.
- Antoine de Saint Exupery 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 Silence is argument carried out by other means.
- ErnestoCheGuevara Marriage is a matter of give and take, but so far I haven't been able to find anybody who'll take
what I have to give.
-- Cass Daley Of course, it is very important to be sober when you take an exam. Many worthwile careers in the
street-cleansing, fruit-picking and subway-guitar-playing industries have been founded on a lack
of u News and Media
Some people talk in their sleep. Lecturers talk while other people sleep.
-- Albert Camus "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 Motivation will almost always beat mere talent.
-- Norman R. Augustine It was very good of God to let Carlyle and Mrs Carlyle marry one another and so make only two people miserable instead of four, besides being very amusing. "Feeding is a very important ritual for me. I don't trust people who don't like to eat." (Gina Gershon) News and Media We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind
her stands his wife.
-- Groucho Marx "Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise." (Alice Walker) I didn't have time to write a short letter, so I wrote a long one instead.
-- Mark Twain News and Media
A baby is God's opinion that the world should go on.
-- Carl Sandburg 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 No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem.
-- Booker T. Washington "If there is something to pardon in everything, there is also something to condemn." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, The Will to Power, 1888) "A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool." (William Shakespeare) News and Media "Better is the enemy of good." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives mean the most to us, we often find
that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our
pain "Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom." (Raymonde Uy) News and Media
And in the end the love you take is equal to the love you make.
-- The Beatles, The last lyric of their last song 'Tis better to have loved and lost
Than never to have loved at all.
-- Alfred, Lord Tennyson, In Memoriam, 1850, line 27, stanza 4 "Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience." (George Bernard Shaw) I begin by taking. I shall find scholars later to demonstrate my perfect right.
- Frederick (II) the Great Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
-- Will Rogers News and Media The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense.
-- Tom Clancy Even a band of angels can turn ugly and start looting if enough angels are unemployed and
hanging around the Pearly Gates convinced that all the succubi own all the liquor stores in
Heaven.
-- P. J "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
Marriage is bliss. Ignorance is bliss. Ergo...
-- Anonymous Work is a four-letter word.
-- The Smiths (Morrissey) I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers.
-- Gandhi I married beneath me. All women do.
-- Lady Nancy Astor, attributed Whenever I date a guy, I think, is this the man I want my children to spend their weekends with?
-- Rita Rudner News and Media Education is the state-controlled manufacture of echoes.
-- Norman Douglas Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
- Gail Godwin The difference between 'involvement' and 'commitment' is like an eggs-and-ham breakfast: the
chicken was 'involved' - the pig was 'committed'.
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