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"What dies if freedom lives? What lives if freedom dies?" (Lindsay Anderson, British filmmaker, from if.... (1968) Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.
- Napoleon Bonaparte In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that
no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it's the exact opposite.
-- Paul Dirac "I'm basically an optimist in life but this doesn't prevent me from deducing as a scientist that we are probably doomed." (Vladimir Chaloupka, physicist, University of Washington, regarding mankind's Love may be a dream but marriage is a nightmare.
-- Joan Collins ESRC Gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling in love.
-- Albert Einstein 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 Never try to teach a pig to sing. It wastes your time and annoys the pig.
-- Anonymous ESRC
I can write better than anybody who can write faster, and I can write faster than anybody who can
write better.
- A. J. Liebling Our elections are free - it's in the results where eventually we pay.
-- Bill Stern "Love is always a stranger in the house of avarice." (Andreas Capellanus) Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when
people laugh.
-- George Bernard Shaw Experience is not what happens to you; it's what you do with what happens to you.
-- Aldous Huxley ESRC "Every now and then say, 'What the fu(c)k.' 'What the fu(c)k' gives you freedom. Freedom brings opportunity. Opportunity makes your future." (Curtis Armstrong, Risky Business, 1983) Look at life through the windshield, not the rear-view mirror.
-- Byrd Baggett "Jesus died too soon. If he had lived to my age he would have repudiated his doctrine." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) ESRC
Nothing shows a man's character more than what he laughs at.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted
by a little physical antipathy.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche If you don't double-click me, I can't do anything.
-- John Aniston, on how computers have taken over his life "I always thought a dog-lover was a dog who loved another dog." (James Thurber) In medieval times, people thought that evil spirits could enter a person through an open mouth.
These days they more often leave that way.
-- David Deckert ESRC "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) Prayer gives a man the opportunity of getting to know a gentleman he hardly ever meets. I do not
mean his maker, but himself.
-- Dean Inge Feeding the hungry is a greater work than raising the dead.
-- Saint John Chrysostom ESRC
Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you walk into an open sewer and die.
- Mel Brooks Some of us are becoming the men we wanted to marry.
-- Gloria Steinem "We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then is not an act but a habit." (Aristotle) "Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains." (Karl Marx) There are only two things a child will share willingly communicable diseases and his mother's
age.
-- Modern Maturity ESRC My good intentions are completely lethal.
-- Margaret Atwood Marriage is more than four bare legs in a bed.
-- Hoshang N. Akhtar "Anyone who thinks they're important is usually just a pompous moron who can't deal with his or her own pathetic insignificance and the fact that what they do is meaningless and inconsequential..." ( ESRC
Live TV died in the late 1950s, electronic bulletin boards came along in the mid-1980s, meaning
there was about a 25-year gap when it was difficult to put your foot in your mouth and have
people all "I do not suppose I shall be remembered for anything. But I don't think about my work in those terms. It is just as vulgar to work for the sake of posterity as to work for the sake of money." (George "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) Executive ability is deciding quickly and getting someone else to do the work.
-- John G. Pollard Every man knows his follies and often they are the most interesting thing he has got.
-- Josh Billings ESRC When marriage is outlawed, only outlaws will have inlaws. Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday
afternoon.
-- Susan Ertz I don't know exactly what democracy is. But we need more of it.
-- Anonymous Chinese Student, during protests in Tianamen Square, Beijing, 1989 ESRC
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 liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they don't want to hear." (George Orwell) That's the way things come clear. All of a sudden. And then you realize how obvious they've been
all along.
-- Madeleine L'Engle "To pretend, I actually do the thing: I have therefore only pretended to pretend." (Jacques Derrida, French 'deconstructionist') The sun never sets on the British empire because Britain is in the east and the sun sets in the
west.
-- Unknown history student ESRC Celestial navigation is based on the premise that the Earth is the center of the universe. The
premise is wrong, but the navigation works. An incorrect model can be a useful tool.
-- Kelvin Throop I "One of the great dangers in having a career is getting bored." (Itzhak Perlman) It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
- Mark Twain ESRC
He who conquers himself is the mightiest warrior.
-- Confucius Whoever controls the media--the images--controls the culture.
-- Allen Ginsberg I don't feel good.
-- Luther Burbank, dying words Books, like friends, should be few and well chosen.
-- Samuel Paterson Success is just a matter of attitude.
-- Darcy E. Gibbons ESRC A straight line is the shortest in morals as in mathematics.
-- Maria Edgeworth 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 That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the
lessons that history has to teach.
-- Aldous Huxley ESRC
"People expect a certain reaction from a business, and when you pleasantly exceed those expectations, you've somehow passed an important psychological threshold." (Richard Thalheimer, president, The 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 The bottom line is that (a) people are never perfect, but love can be, (b) that is the one and only
way that the mediocre and vile can be transformed, and (c) doing that makes it that. We waste
time The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
-- Mark Twain Always bear in mind that your own resolution to success is more important than any other one
thing.
-- Abraham Lincoln ESRC Happiness is nothing more than health and a poor memory.
-- Albert Schweitzer Organic chemistry is the chemistry of carbon compounds. Biochemistry is the study of carbon
compounds that crawl.
-- Mike Adams Marriage is like a mousetrap. Those on the outside are trying to get in. Those on the inside are trying to get out. ESRC
I have read your book and much like it.
-- Moses Hadas, book reviewer "Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Walk beside me and just be my friend." (Albert Camus) Repentance is not so much remorse for what we have done as the fear of the consequences.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld, Maxims, 1665 ARDOR, n. The quality that distinguishes love without knowledge.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot. ESRC 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 Marriage is a thing which puts a ring on a woman's finger and two under the man's eyes. "Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free." (Emma Lazarus) ESRC
He believes that marriage and a career don't mix. So after the wedding he plans to quit his job.
-- Anonymous "The key to wisdom is knowing all the right questions." (John A. Simone Jr.) "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) Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end.
-- Semisonic, Closing Time Military justice is to justice what military music is to music.
-- George Clemenceau ESRC The gods too are fond of a joke.
- Aristotle Love: An obsessive delusion that is cured by marriage. When looking back, usually I'm more sorry for the things I didn't do than for the things I shouldn't
have done.
-- Malcolm Forbes ESRC
The marriage of Marxism and feminism has been like the marriage of husband and wife depicted
in English common law: Marxism and feminism are one, and that one is Marxism.
-- Heidi Hartmann, The Unha "Someday there will be girls and women whose name will no longer mean the mere opposite of the male, but something in itself, something that makes one think not of any compliment and limit, but only o To heck with marrying a girl who makes biscuits like her mother--I want to marry one who makes dough like her father. He who laughs last has not yet heard the bad news.
-- Bertolt Brecht "Dreams are the touchstones of our personality." (Henry David Thoreau) ESRC .. I am indebted to the cat for a particular kind of honorable deceit, for a greater control over
myself, for a characteristic aversion to brutal sounds, and for the need to keep silent for long
per There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world; and that is an idea whose time has
come.
-- Victor Hugo the social sciences were for all those who had not yet decided what to do with their lives, and for
all those whose premature frustrations led them into the sterile alleys of confrontation.
-- Peter ESRC
