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CAPITAL, n. The seat of misgovernment. That which provides the fire, the pot, the dinner, the
table and the knife and fork for the anarchist; the part of the repast that himself supplies is the
disg There is nothing more notable in Socrates than that he found time, when he was an old man, to
learn music and dancing, and thought it time well spent.
-- Michel de Montaigne Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop
questioning.
-- Albert Einstein It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.
-- Henry James "A dress makes no sense unless it inspires men to take it off of you." (Francois Sagan) Broadcasting and Leisure Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labour in
freedom.
-- Albert Einstein The right to swing my fist ends where the other man's nose begins.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes Dishonor will not trouble me, once I am dead.
-- Euripides Broadcasting and Leisure
Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of
genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.
-- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Discovery consists of looking at the same thing as everyone else does and thinking something
different.
-- Albert Szent-Gyorgyi, 1937 Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine To marry is to halve your rights and double your duties.
-- Arthur Schopenhauer Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.
-- James Baldwin I shall return.
-- General Douglas MacArthur Broadcasting and Leisure "Education is the process of driving a set of prejudices down your throat." (Martin H. Fischer) Here's to you and here's to me,
and I hope we never disagree.
But, if that should ever be,
to HELL with you, here's to ME!
-- Anonymous Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.
-- George Orwell Broadcasting and Leisure
A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.
-- Gloria Steinem I date this girl for two years--and then the nagging starts: "I wanna know your name."
-- Mike Binder The higher up you go, the more mistakes you are allowed. Right at the top, if you make enough of
them, it's considered to be your style.
-- Fred Astaire I once asked my history teacher how we were expected to learn anything useful from his subject,
when it seemed to me to be nothing but a monotonous and sordid succession of robber baron
scumbags dev If it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do not say it.
-- Marcus Aurelius Broadcasting and Leisure Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
-- Bob Perelman Hey, you can't fight in here! This is the war room!
-- Dr. Strangelove "Beauty awakens the soul to act." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) Broadcasting and Leisure
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
-- Aristotle Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of
existence.
-- Sydney Smith Live out of your imagination, not your history.
-- Stephen Covey Anyone nit-picking enough to write a letter of correction to an editor doubtless deserves the error
that provoked it.
-- Alvin Toffler Usenet is like a herd of performing elephants with diarrhea -- massive, difficult to redirect, awe-
inspiring, entertaining, and a source of mind-boggling amounts of excrement when you least
expect i Broadcasting and Leisure One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good
reputation.
-- Oscar Wilde The gods gave man fire and he invented fire engines. They gave him love and he invented marriage. "I have an unfortunate personality." (George Orson Welles) Broadcasting and Leisure
The planting of trees is the least self-centered of all that we can do. It is a purer act of faith than
the procreation of children.
-- Thornton Wilder We didn't send you to Washington to make intelligent decisions. We sent you to represent us.
-- Kent York, Baptist minister to US Rep. Bill Sarpalius Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of
our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.
-- John Adams "I am the lizard king. I can do anything." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him asleep.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Broadcasting and Leisure And life is what we make it. Always has been, always will be.
-- Grandma Moses There are three kinds of death in this world. There's heart death, there's brain death, and there's
being off the network.
-- Guy Almes He can compress the most words into the smallest idea of any man I know.
- Abraham Lincoln Broadcasting and Leisure
"The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves." (William Hazlitt) People say "I want peace." If you remove I {ego}, and your want {desire}, you are left with peace.
-- Satya Sai Baba "There is nothing more fearful than ignorance in action." (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1749-1832, Criticisms, Reflections and Maxims) Sir, I would rather be right than be President.
-- Henry Clay, Speech, 1850, referring to the Compromise Measure Who, being loved, is poor?
-- Oscar Wilde Broadcasting and Leisure In the halls of justice, the only justice is in the halls.
-- Lenny Bruce Dishonor will not trouble me, once I am dead.
-- Euripides Duct tape is like the Force. It has a light side, a dark side, and it holds the universe together....
-- Carl Zwanzig Broadcasting and Leisure
"Freedom of press is limited to those who own one." (Henry Louis Mencken) It is not necessary that whilst I live I live happily; but it is necessary that so long as I live I should
live honourably.
-- Kant, Immanuel Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer.
-- Mark Twain Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow in Australia.
-- Charles Schultz People think we make $3 million and $4 million a year. They don't realize that most of us only
make $500,000.
-- Pete Incaviglia, baseball player, 1990 Broadcasting and Leisure Peculiar travel suggestions are dancing lessons from God.
-- Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., Cat's Cradle A sweetheart is a bottle of wine, a wife is a wine bottle.
-- Baudelaire "Never frighten a little man. He'll kill you." (Robert A. Heinlein) Broadcasting and Leisure
When people go to work, they shouldn't have to leave their hearts at home.
-- Betty Bender I should have no objection to a repetition of the same life from its beginning, only asking the
advantages authors have in a second edition to correct some faults of the first.
-- Benjamin Franklin "Small minds discuss people, average minds discuss events, great minds discuss ideas." (Anonymous) "You exist only in what you do." (Federico Fellini) The only one of your children who does not grow up and move away is your husband. Broadcasting and Leisure blah "If we did all the things we are capable of, we would literally astound ourselves." (Thomas Alva Edison) Vote early and vote often.
- Al Capone 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 Broadcasting and Leisure
"There cannot be a God because, if there were one, I would not believe that I was not He." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Marriage is a thing which puts a ring on a woman's finger and two under the man's eyes. There is more stupidity than hydrogen in the universe, and it has a longer shelf life.
- Frank Zappa blah "This is the hardest of all: to close the open hand out of love, and keep modest as a giver." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) 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 Broadcasting and Leisure The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it.
-- Anonymous He who laughs last didn't get it.
-- Helen Giangregorio A beauty is a woman you notice; A charmer is one who notices you.
-- Adlai Stevenson Broadcasting and Leisure
"The great aim of education is not knowledge but action." (Herbert Spencer) You cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.
-- Mark Twain The IRS spends God knows how much of your tax money on these toll-free information hot lines
staffed by IRS employees, whose idea of a dynamite tax tip is that you should print neatly. If you
ask th If women didn't exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning.
-- Aristotle Onassis It is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions.
-- Aldous Huxley Broadcasting and Leisure Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
- Henry Ford "To live is to dream and to die is to awaken." (Anonymous) Don't marry for money; you can borrow it cheaper. Broadcasting and Leisure
Life is like a movie--since there aren't any commercial breaks, you have to get up and go to the
bathroom in the middle of it.
-- Nick Mirov It is not because it is difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that things are
difficult.
-- Lucius Anneaus Seneca I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.
- Francois-Auguste Rodin (1840-1917), when asked how he managed to make his remarkable
statues A true gentleman is one who is never unintentionally rude.
-- Oscar Wilde "Crime like death is not confined to the old and withered alone. The youngest and fairest are too often its chosen victims." (Charles Dickens, 1812-70, Oliver Twist) Broadcasting and Leisure "If you want to make enemies, try to change something." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day.
-- Thornton Wilder Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.
-- Erica Jong Broadcasting and Leisure
