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I support efforts to limit the terms of members of Congress, especially members of the House and
members of the Senate.
-- Dan Quayle, Former Vice-President "Death is always and under all circumstances a tragedy, for if it is not, then it means that life itself has become one." (Theodore Roosevelt) Mary had a little lamb and the doctor fainted.
-- Anonymous Everybody can be great... because anybody can serve. You don't have to have a college degree
to serve. You don't have to make your subject and verb agree to serve. you only need a heart full
of grac In marriage, as in war, it is permitted to take every advantage of the enemy. Employment and Education It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.
-- Harry Truman Love is temporary insanity curable by marriage.
-- Ambrose Bierce History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.
-- Winston Churchill Employment and Education
Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. 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 Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
- Will Durant Better to die ten thousand deaths than wound my honor.
-- Joseph Addison Genius is 99 percent perspiration and 1 percent inspiration.
-- Thomas Edison Employment and Education "Good taste is the first refuge of the non-creative. It is the last-ditch stand of the artist." (Marshall McLuhan) Anyway, no drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the
source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity,
ign Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business.
-- Tom Robbins Employment and Education
"Employees make the best dates. You don't have to pick them up and they're always tax-deductible." (Andy Warhol, Andy Warhol's Exposures, 1980) I am going to put myself to sleep now for a bit longer than usual. Call the time Eternity." (Jerzy Kosinski, Polish novelist, from his suicide note) In marriage, the bridge gets a shower. But for the groom, it's curtains! You probably wouldn't worry about what people think of you if you could know how seldom they
do.
-- Olin Miller All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.
-- Edgar Allan Poe Employment and Education Silence is argument carried out by other means.
-- Ernesto "Che" Guevara "It seems to me that there are two kinds of trickery: the 'fronts' people assume before one another's eyes, and the 'front' a writer puts on the face of reality." (Francois Sagan) I just need enough to tide me over until I need more.
-- Bill Hoest Employment and Education
Anything too stupid to be said, is sung.
-- Voltaire A woman's always younger than a man of equal years.
-Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Aurora Leigh "The only thing we have to fear is fear itself." (Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1882 - 1945, 32nd U.S. President) A lover tries to stand in well with the pet dog of the house.
-- Moliere We have drugs to make women speak, but none to keep them silent.
-- Anatole France Employment and Education Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for
appointment by the corrupt few.
-- George bernard Shaw "All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Employment and Education
The Churches must learn humility as well as teach it.
-- George Bernard Shaw, St. Joan Hardly a year passes that fails to find a new, oft-times exotic, research method or technique
added to the armamentarium of political inquiry. Anyone who cannot negotiate Chi squares,
assess randomi "Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
-- Virginia Woolf The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
-- B. F. Skinner Employment and Education The great thing in this world is not so much where we stand as in what direction we are going.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes A husband is what is left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
- Helen Rowland Nothing shows a man's character more than what he laughs at.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Employment and Education
Wit is educated insolence.
- Aristotle No, that is the great fallacy; the wisdom of old men. They do not grow wise. They grow careful." (Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell To Arms) "I know that God won't give me more trouble than I can handle ... but sometimes I wish he wouldn't trust me so much." (Mother Teresa) "I am interested in anything about revolt, disorder , chaos--especially activity that seems to have no meaning. It seems to me to be the road toward freedom ... Rather than starting inside, I start ou He that always gives way to others will end in having no principles of his own.
-- Aesop Employment and Education Is fuel efficiency really what we need most desperately? I say what we really need is a car that
can be shot when it breaks down.
-- Russell Baker Love is blind and marriage is the institution for the blind.
-- James Graham Nothing is beneath you if it is in the direction of your life.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Employment and Education
Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-
proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe
is I have spread my dreams under your feet;
Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.
-- William Butler Yeats, from "He wishes for the cloths of heaven" Go on, get out. Last words are for fools who haven't said enough.
-- Karl Marx, dying words to his housekeeper Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive.
-- Anaïs Nin Feeding the hungry is a greater work than raising the dead.
-- Saint John Chrysostom Employment and Education You can't shake hands with a clenched fist.
-- Indira Gandhi Better to die ten thousand deaths than wound my honor.
-- Joseph Addison "To make a living, craftiness is better than learnedness." (Pierre-Augustin de Beaumarchais) Employment and Education
Old soldiers never die, they just fade away.
-- General Douglas MacArthur I have spread my dreams under your feet;
Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.
-- William Butler Yeats, from "He wishes for the cloths of heaven" You cannot think about thinking, without thinking about thinking about something.
-- Seymour Papert The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt "Brevity is the soul of wit." (William Shakespeare) Employment and Education History is more or less bunk.
-- Henry Ford "Conscience and cowardice are really the same things. Conscience is the trade-name of the firm. That is all." (Oscar Wilde) The less a man thinks or knows about his virtues, the better we like him.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Employment and Education
"One may sometimes tell a lie, but the grimace that accompanies it tells the truth." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "He who cannot give anything away cannot feel anything either." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Careful?! Was my mother careful when she stabbed me in the heart with a coat hanger while I was still in the womb?" (Trey Parker) "Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily." (Napoleon Bonaparte) The wages of sin are death, but by the time taxes are taken out, it's just sort of a tired feeling.
-- Paula Poundstone Employment and Education "I should reproach him for not giving us enough evidence." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970, what he would say to God if they 'met') "The concerned investment banker is the one who blows the horn on his Mercedes as he drives through a red light." (Anonymous) The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may
well be another profound truth.
-- Niels Bohr Employment and Education
Education is the state-controlled manufacture of echoes.
-- Norman Douglas "Paper should be edible, nutritious. Inks used for printing or writing should have delicious flavors. Magazines or newspapers read at breakfast should be eaten for lunch. Instead of throwing one's mai Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for
him.
-- Rich Little The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds the most discoveries, is not
"Eureka!", but "That's funny..."
-- Isaac Asimov Love, I find, is like singing. Everybody can do enough to satisfy themselves, though it may not
impress the neighbors as being very much.
-- Zora Neale Hurston Employment and Education "What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) There is no future in any job. The future lies in the man who holds the job.
-- George Crane Don't marry for money; you can borrow it cheaper. Employment and Education
"No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous." (Henry B. Adams) The only thing worse than a man you can't control is a man you can.
-- Margo Kaufman The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow
extinction from apathy, indifference, and undernourishment.
-- Robert Hutchins, Great Books, 1954 "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' "Even death is unreliable. Instead of zero it may be some ghastly hallucination, such as the square root of minus one." (Samuel Beckett) Employment and Education Even overweight cats instinctively know the cardinal rule: when fat, arrange yourself in slim
poses.
-- John Weitz, American Designer The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about.
-- Oscar Wilde Spinster: A bachelor's wife. Employment and Education
