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"Sometimes I think it's another sign of the sad necessity of our crowded, lonely lives, an urgent hopeless reaching out to touch something real, a deep hunger for something authentic when everything s Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you walk into an open sewer and die.
- Mel Brooks In answer to the question of why it happened, I offer the modest proposal that our Universe is
simply one of those things which happen from time to time.
-- Edward P. Tryon Technology is a way of organizing the universe so that man doesn't have to experience it.
-- Max Frisch "For better or for worse, our company (The News Corporation Ltd.) is a reflection of my thinking, my character, my values." (Keith Rupert Murdoch, media mogul, 1931-) Research Councils "To make the individual uncomfortable, that is my task." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Love is an emotion that is based on an opinion of women that is impossible for those who have
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-- H. L. Mencken We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
-- Winston Churchill Research Councils
They're almost inseparable. Sometimes it takes ten people to separate them.
-- Anonymous If you want a place in the sun, you've got to put up with a few blisters.
-- Abigail Van Buren "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 "I owe much to my friends; but, all things considered, it strikes me that I owe even more to my enemies. The real person springs life under a sting even better than under a caress." (André Gide) Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.
-- Oscar Wilde Research Councils The important thing is not to stop questioning.
-- Albert Einstein "The evil that men do lives after them; The good is oft interred with their bones." (William Shakespeare, Julius Cćsar. Act iii. Sc. 2.) Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
- Will Durant Research Councils
An understanding heart is everything is a teacher, and cannot be esteemed highly enough. One
looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our
human Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from
history.
-- George Bernard Shaw "Small minds discuss people, average minds discuss events, great minds discuss ideas." (Anonymous) Hell is other people.
- Jean-Paul Sartre The unfortunate thing about this world is that the good habits are much easier to give up than the
bad ones.
-- W. Somerset Maugham Research Councils Colleges are places where pebbles are polished and diamonds are dimmed.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll, (seen attributed to "R.S. Ingersoll" - a typo?) The possibility that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause
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I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones.
-- John Cage The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same
time, and still retain the ability to function.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald I'm like old wine. They don't bring me out very often, but I'm well preserved.
-- Rose Kennedy, (1890-1995) family matriarch, on her 100th birthday, 1991 "If it doesn't matter who wins or loses, then why do they keep score?" (Vince Lombardi) Joy is but the sign that creative emotion is fulfilling its purpose.
-- Charles Du Bos Research Councils He believes that marriage and a career don't mix. So after the wedding he plans to quit his job.
-- Anonymous "Feeding is a very important ritual for me. I don't trust people who don't like to eat." (Gina Gershon) You can pay attention to the fact, in which case you'll probably become a mathematician, or you
can ignore it, in which case you'll probably become a physicist.
-- Len Evans, professor, Northwestern Research Councils
I don't feel good.
-- Luther Burbank, dying words Marriage resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated; often moving in
opposite directions, yet always punishing any one who comes between them.
-- Sydney Smith If you never want to see a man again, say, "I love you, I want to marry you, I want to have children..." - they leave skid marks. -- Rita Rudner The more we do, the more we can do; the more busy we are the more leisure we have.
-- William Hazlitt "The one charm about marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties." (Oscar Wilde) Research Councils Well, I think that it's a- it's had some difficult times but I think we have- we, I think, have been able
to make some very good progress and it's- I would say that it's- it's- it's delightful that w Whoever controls the media--the images--controls the culture.
-- Allen Ginsberg We live at a time when man believes himself fabulously capable of creation, but he does not
know what to create.
-- Jose Ortega y Gasset Research Councils
"I think it's about time we voted for senators with breasts. After all, we've been voting for boobs
long enough."
-- Arizona senatorial candidate Claire Sargent, on women candidates "Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known." (Blaise Pascal) In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice
that I am not a Republican.
-- H. L. Mencken When you are right, you cannot be too radical; When you are wrong, you cannot be too
conservative.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Trust everybody, but cut the cards.
-- Finley Peter Dunne Research Councils By the time (the Leaning Tower of Pisa) was 10% built, everyone knew it would be a total
disaster. But the investment was so big they felt compelled to go on. Since its completion, it cost
a fortune My wife submits and I obey; she always lets me have her way. "I don't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones." (John Cage) Research Councils
People say "I want peace." If you remove I {ego}, and your want {desire}, you are left with peace.
-- Satya Sai Baba As for the virtuous poor, one can pity them, of course, but one cannot possibly admire them.
-- Oscar Wilde A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn; it can be stabbed to death by a joke
or worried to death by a frown on the right person's brow.
-- Charles Brower "Let no one be discouraged by the belief there is nothing one person can do against the enormous array of the world's ills, misery, ignorance, and violence. Few will have the greatness to bend history "I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you and education." (Wilson Mizner) Research Councils 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 Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame.
-- G. K. Chesterton Marriage is like a box of chocolates. You have to squeeze a few bottoms to make sure you like
what you are getting.
-- Anonymous Research Councils
There are three great friends: an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.
-- Benjamin Franklin I never miss a chance to have sex or appear on television.
-- Gore Vidal Television: A medium. So called because it is neither rare nor well done.
-- Ernie Kovacs 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 You never see a man walking down the street with a woman who has a little pot belly and a bald
spot.
-- Elayne Boosler Research Councils "Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country." (Marquis de Lafayette) Our own heart, and not other men's opinions form our true honor.
-- Coleridge, Samuel Taylor Like a prune, you are not getting any better looking, but you are getting sweeter.
-- N. D. Stice Research Councils
"Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past." (George Orwell) "The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing." (John Powell) If someone had told me I would be Pope one day, I would have studied harder.
-- Pope John Paul I Genius is an African who dreams up snow.
-- Vladimir Nabokov Men have become the tools of their tools.
-- Henry David Thoreau Research Councils The cynics are right nine times out of ten.
- Henry Louis Mencken We have drugs to make women speak, but none to keep them silent.
-- Anatole France "Do not go gentle into that good night. Old age should burn and rave at close of day. Rage, rage against the dying of the light." (Dylan Thomas) Research Councils
Marriage is an institution--but who wants to live in an institution? When a girl marries she exchanges the attention of many men for the inattention of one.
-- Helen Rowland I'm like old wine. They don't bring me out very often, but I'm well preserved.
-- Rose Kennedy, (1890-1995) family matriarch, on her 100th birthday, 1991 You have to stay in shape. My grandmother, she started walking five miles a day when she was
60. She's 97 today and we don't know where the hell she is.
-- Ellen DeGeneres A wasted youth is better by far than a wise and productive old age.
-- Meat Loaf, from the song "Wasted Youth" on the album Bat Out of Hell II Research Councils You never see a man walking down the street with a woman who has a little pot belly and a bald
spot.
-- Elayne Boosler "Nietzsche was stupid and abnormal." (Leo Tolstoy, 1828-1910) 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 Research Councils
"I've decided something: Commercial things really do stink. As soon as it becomes commercial for a mass market it really stinks." (Andy Warhol, The Andy Warhol Diaries, 1989) The difference between marriage and death? Dead people are free. "Love is always a stranger in the house of avarice." (Andreas Capellanus) Why don't you write books people can read?
-- Nora Joyce, to her husband James Egotist: a person more interested in himself than in me.
- Ambrose Bierce Research Councils Show my head to the people, it is worth seeing.
-- Georges Danton, to his executioner Having once decided to achieve a certain task, achieve it at all costs of tedium and distaste. The
gain in self-confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labor is immense.
-- Thomas Arnold Bennet "The English have all the material requisites for the revolution. What they lack is the spirit of generalization and revolutionary ardour." (Karl Marx) Research Councils
