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"Conform and be dull." (J. Frank Doble) A conclusion is the place where you got tired thinking.
-- Martin H. Fischer We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
-- Aristotle If there is any one proof of a man's incompetence, it is the stagnant mentality of a worker who,
doing some small routine job in a vast undertaking, does not care to look beyond the lever of a
machi "Eagles may soar, but weasels don't get sucked into jet engines." (John Benfield) Pulmonary Medicine "Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future." (Paul Boese) I think there are only three things America will be known for 2,000 years from now when they
study this civilization: the Constitution, jazz music, and baseball.
-- Gerald Early, writer, baseball do To the ass, or the sow, their own offspring appears the fairest in creation.
-- Latin Proverb Pulmonary Medicine
Each of us has a spark of life inside us, and our highest endeavor ought to be to set off that spark
in one another.
-- Kenny Ausubel If all economists were laid end to end, they would not reach a conclusion.
-- George Bernard Shaw Black holes are where God divided by zero.
- Steven Wright Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow.
-- Helen Keller It depends on your definition of asleep. They were not stretched out. They had their eyes closed.
They were seated at their desks with their heads in a nodding position.
-- John Hogan, Commonwealth Pulmonary Medicine "We live in an age when pizza gets to your home before the police." (Jeff Marder) A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.
-- G. K. Chesterton Anyone nit-picking enough to write a letter of correction to an editor doubtless deserves the error
that provoked it.
-- Alvin Toffler Pulmonary Medicine
It was the experience of mystery -- even if mixed with fear -- that engendered religion.
- Albert Einstein 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 His ignorance is encyclopedic
- Abba Eban And now here is my secret, a very simple secret; it is only with the heart that one can see rightly,
what is essential is invisible to the eye.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupery Eternal boyhood is the dream of a depressing percentage of American males, and the locker
room is the temple where they worship arrested development.
-- Russell Baker Pulmonary Medicine I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity.
-- Albert Einstein If you don't know how to do something, you don't know how to do it with a computer.
-- Anon. I don't worry about terrorism. I was married for two years.
-- Sam Kinison Pulmonary Medicine
I am about to--or I am going to--die; either expression is used.
-- Dominique Bouhours, French grammarian, dying words The only thing you will ever be able to say in the so-called 'social' sciences is: "some do, some
don't."
-- Ernest Rutherford Many a man owes his success to his first wife and his second wife to his success.
-- Jim Backus A person is not given integrity. It results from the relentless pursuit of honesty at all times.
-- Anon. We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we
respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart.
-- H. L. Mencken Pulmonary Medicine "Growth in wisdom can be measured precisely by decline in bile." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Human, All Too Human) Usenet is like Tetris for people who still remember how to read.
-- Button from the Computer Museum, Boston, MA Even overweight cats instinctively know the cardinal rule: when fat, arrange yourself in slim
poses.
-- John Weitz, American Designer Pulmonary Medicine
"A conservative is a man who sits and thinks, mostly sits." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) "A girl can wait for the right man to come along, but in the meantime that still doesn't mean she can't have a wonderful time with all the wrong ones." (Cher) Too bad all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving cabs and cutting hair.
-- George Burns "If man could be crossed with the cat, it would improve man but deteriorate the cat." (Mark Twain) I criticize by creation - not by finding fault.
- Cicero Pulmonary Medicine "The devil's agents may be of flesh and blood, may they not?" (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of the Baskervilles) Don't marry for money; you can borrow it cheaper. Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive.
-- Anaïs Nin Pulmonary Medicine
"The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Each of us has a spark of life inside us, and our highest endeavor ought to be to set off that spark
in one another.
-- Kenny Ausubel Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the
moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future
generations "The things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisi "Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave, and impossible to forget." (G. Randolf) Pulmonary Medicine Generations to come will find it difficult to believe that a man such as Gandhi ever walked the
face of this earth.
-- Albert Einstein This is the fourth?
-- Thomas Jefferson, dying words What would you attempt if you knew you could not fail?
-- Robert Schuller Pulmonary Medicine
Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after.
-- Anne Morrow Lindbergh The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their
attitudes of mind.
-- William James "Common sense and education are highly compatible; in fact, neither is worth much without the other." (Donald G. Smith) "Talent does what it can; genius does what it must." (Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton) "I've just had eighteen straight whiskies. I think that's the record." (Dylan Thomas, final words) Pulmonary Medicine 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 "If I work toward an end, meantime I am confined to a process. The rainbow is more beautiful than the pot at the end of it, because the rainbow is now. And the pot never turns out to be quite what I e The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
-- Winston Churchill Pulmonary Medicine
blah bl "The better the state is established, the fainter is humanity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I like nonsense -- it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living. It's a way
of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope...and that enables you to laugh at all "We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then is not an act but a habit." (Aristotle) I was going to change my shirt, but I changed my mind instead.
-- Winnie the Pooh Thought is action in rehearsal.
-- Sigmund Freud Pulmonary Medicine 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 told my wife that a husband is like a fine wine; he gets better with age. The next day, she locked
me in the cellar.
-- Anonymous blah "You shall find out how salt is the taste of another man's bread, and how hard is the way up and down another man's stairs." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) Pulmonary Medicine
The right to swing my fist ends where the other man's nose begins.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes 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 We have children because we want immortality and this is the most reliable way of getting it.
-- Woodrow Wyatt If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.
-- Voltaire During the first period of a man's life the greatest danger is not to take the risk.
-- Soren Kierkegaard Pulmonary Medicine Experience is the name every one gives his mistakes.
-- Elbert Hubbard It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.
-- Abraham Lincoln Beware you be not swallowed up in books! An ounce of love is worth a pound of knowledge.
-- John Wesley Pulmonary Medicine
It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind
woman.
-- S. T. Coleridge "As long as people will accept crap, it will be financially profitable to dispense it." (Dick Cavett) You have to walk carefully in the beginning of love; the running across fields into your lover's
arms can only come later when you're sure they won't laugh if you trip.
-- Jonathan Carroll, Outside blah "Ideas are like stars, you will not succeed in touching them with your hands, but like the seafaring man on the desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and, following them, you reach yo Pulmonary Medicine Very little is known of the Canadian country since it is rarely visited by anyone but the Queen and
illiterate sport fishermen.
-- P. J. O'Rourke "Never frighten a little man. He'll kill you." (Robert A. Heinlein) Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure.
-- George E. Woodberry Pulmonary Medicine
To love another person is to see the face of God.
-- Lyric from Les Miserables Nothing says loving like marrying your cousin! -- Al Bundy Education is the state-controlled manufacture of echoes.
-- Norman Douglas "The most instructive experiences are those of everyday life." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I will try to follow the advice that a university president once gave a prospective commencement
speaker. "Think of yourself as the body at an Irish wake" he said. "They need you in order to have
th Pulmonary Medicine 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 "What is the difference between exploring and being lost?" (Dan Eldon, photojournalist) No one finds life worth living; he must make it worth living.
-- Anon. Pulmonary Medicine
