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"Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it." (John Quincy Adams) 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 "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world, indeed it is the only thing that ever has." (Margaret Mead, 1901-78) Men. You can't live with them. You don't have to.
-- Seen on a t-shirt I am ready at any time. Do not keep me waiting.
-- John Brown - last words Chats and Forums Love is the same as like except you feel sexier.
-- Judith Viorst I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and
intellect has intended us to forgo their use.
- Galileo Galilei Vote for the man who promises least. He'll be the least disappointing.
-- Bernard Baruch Chats and Forums
Grove giveth and Gates taketh away.
- Bob Metcalfe (inventor of Ethernet) on the trend of hardware speedups not being able to keep
up with software demands Marriage is like a box of chocolates. You have to squeeze a few bottoms to make sure you like
what you are getting.
-- Anonymous "Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave, and impossible to forget." (G. Randolf) The Republicans have a new healthcare proposal: Just say NO to illness!
-- Mark Russell "Inside of a ring or out, ain't nothing wrong with going down. It's staying down that's wrong." (Muhammad Ali) Chats and Forums And I shall love thee still my dear, Until my wife is wise. Not only is there no God, but try finding a plumber on Sunday.
-- Woody Allen If you can count your money, you don't have a billion dollars.
- J. Paul Getty Chats and Forums
Sex is God's joke on human beings.
-- Bette Davis If I tell a lie it's only because I think I'm telling the truth.
-- Phil Gaglardi, Minister of Highways, British Columbia, Canada One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: that word is love.
-- Sophocles Launch out into the deep. One discovers by living in scorn of consequence.
-- Essie Summers "Everywhere one seeks to produce meaning, to make the world signify, to render it visible. We are not, however, in danger of lacking meaning; quite the contrary, we are gorged with meaning and it is k Chats and Forums I'd wipe the machines off the face of the earth again, and end the industrial epoch absolutely, like
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-- D. H. Lawrence Love cures people, both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.
-- Dr. Karl Menninger Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end.
-- Igor Stravinsky Chats and Forums
Curiosity killed the cat, but for a while I was a suspect.
-- Steven Wright "Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously u If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate.
-- Steven Wright "I was lousy in school. Real screwed-up. A moron. I was antisocial and didn't bother with the other kids. A really bad student. I didn't have any brains. I didn't know what I was doing there. That's w Behind every great fortune there is a crime.
- Honore de Balzac Chats and Forums If stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out?
- Will Rogers When a person can no longer laugh at himself, it is time for others to laugh at him.
-- Thomas Szasz, The Second Sin, 1973 People may or may not say what they mean ... but they always say something designed to get
what they want.
-- David Mamet Chats and Forums
"The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning, but without understanding." (Louis Brandeis) We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
-- Aristotle This is the fourth?
-- Thomas Jefferson, dying words You have it easily in your power to increase the sum total of this world's happiness now. How? By
giving a few words of sincere appreciation to someone who is lonely or discouraged. Perhaps you
will Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow.
-- Helen Keller Chats and Forums The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but
newspapers.
-- Thomas Jefferson It takes two to speak truth --One to speak, and another to hear.
-- Henry David Thoreau Golf is a good walk spoiled.
-- Mark Twain Chats and Forums
Politics is for people who have a passion for changing life but lack a passion for living it.
-- Tom Robbins What I look forward to is continued immaturity followed by death.
-- Dave Barry 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 An economic forecaster is like a cross-eyed javelin thrower: they don't win many accuracy
contests, but they keep the crowd's attention.
-- Anonymous "Dying is the most embarrassing thing that can ever happen to you, because someone's got to take care of all your details." (Andy Warhol, America, 1985) Chats and Forums It destroys one's nerves to be amiable everyday to the same human being.
-- Benjamin Disraeli In every man's heart there is a secret nerve that answers to the vibrations of beauty.
-- Christopher Morley It ain't what we don't know that gives us trouble, it's what we know that ain't so.
-- Will Rogers Chats and Forums
It was the greatest of the imperfect ventriloquist acts: when his lips moved, her body sang.
-- Tom Robbins Ah Mozart! He was happily married - but his wife wasn't.
-- Victor Borge Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get
money from it.
-- Stephen Leacock It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.
-- Gore Vidal You probably wouldn't worry about what people think of you if you could know how seldom they
do.
-- Olin Miller Chats and Forums You can't shake hands with a clenched fist.
-- Indira Gandhi Inanimate objects are classified scientifically into three categories-- those that don't work, those
that break down, and those that get lost.
-- Russell Baker I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts, then there is no hurt, but only more love.
-- Mother Teresa Chats and Forums
Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday
afternoon.
-- Susan Ertz The only one of your children who does not grow up and move away is your husband. Love is a snowmobile racing across the tundra and then suddenly it flips over, pinning you
underneath. At night, the ice weasels come.
-- Matt Groening, Love is Hell It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
- Mark Twain An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field.
-- Niels Bohr Chats and Forums "He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself." (Thomas Paine) To be able to say how much love, is love but little.
-- Petrarch It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is
the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be
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"Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free." (Emma Lazarus) Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it
- Henry David Thoreau There's nothing wrong with having nothing to say -- unless you insist on saying it.
-- Anonymous I don't know anything about luck. I've never banked on it, and I'm afraid of people who do. Luck to
me is something else; hard work and realizing what is opportunity and what isn't.
-- Lucille Ball 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 Chats and Forums A real leader faces the music, even when he doesn't like the tune.
-- Anonymous There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of
bread.
- Mahatma Gandhi "Some people must go to extremes to get the world in balance for themselves. Some can't bear bright lights, so wherever they go they search for the dark; they turn the lights down, anything to sustain Chats and Forums
Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the
unpalatable.
-- John Kenneth Galbraith The best time to hold your tongue is the time you feel you must say something or bust.
-- Josh Billings Asking politicians to vote themselves out of power is like asking rabbits not to multiply, it ain't
natural.
-- Bob Beckel, on term limits, CBS This Morning, 3/30/95 Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing.
-- Oscar Wilde Choose a wife by your ear than your eye.
-- Thomas Fuller, 1732 Chats and Forums Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
-- Abraham Lincoln If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get
married.
-- Katharine Hepburn 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 Chats and Forums
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 Now is the time for all good men to come to.
-- Walt Kelly The instinct of nearly all societies is to lock up anybody who is truly free. First, society begins by
trying to beat you up. If this fails, they try to poison you. If this fails too, the finish by l We have only one person to blame, and that's each other.
-- Barry Beck, New York Ranger, on who started a fight furing a hockey game "Conform and be dull." (J. Frank Doble) Chats and Forums Hell hath no fury like a bureaucrat scorned.
-- Milton Friedman History repeats itself; that's one of the things that's wrong with history.
-- Clarence Darrow We have art to save ourselves from the truth.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Chats and Forums
