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"A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops." (Henry B. Adams) Good Night, Good night! Parting is such sweet sorrow,
that I shall say good night till it be morrow.
-- Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare. Act II, Scene II, lines 220-221 Dreams never hurt anybody if you keep working right behind the dreams to make as much of
them become real as you can.
-- Frank W. Woolworth Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson "No one lies so boldly as the man who is indignant." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Premature Birth Asking an incumbent member of Congress to vote for term limits is a bit like asking a chicken to
vote for Colonel Sanders.
-- Bob Inglis, 1995 There is more stupidity than hydrogen in the universe, and it has a longer shelf life.
- Frank Zappa If everything seems under control, you're just not going fast enough.
- Mario Andretti Premature Birth
Sure, it's going to kill a lot of people, but they may be dying of something else anyway.
-- Othal Brand, member of a Texas pesticide review board Never marry for money. Ye'll borrow it cheaper.
-- Scottish Proverb 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 Love begins with a smile, grows with a kiss, and ends with a teardrop.
-- Anonymous Honor the ocean of love.
-- George de Benneville Premature Birth Be nice to people on your way up because you meet them on your way down.
- Jimmy Durante The advantage of a classical education is that it enables you to despise the wealth which it
prevents you from achieving.
-- Russell Green "Being born is like being kidnapped. And then sold into slavery." (Andy Warhol) Premature Birth
Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it.
-- George Bernard Shaw The IRS spends God knows how much of your tax money on these toll-free information hot lines
staffed by IRS employees, whose idea of a dynamite tax tip is that you should print neatly. If you
ask th An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets, the more interested he is in her. -- Agatha Christie "I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you and education." (Wilson Mizner) Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you
have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not.
-- Aldous Huxley Premature Birth The west wasn't won on salad.
-- ND Beef Council, billboard advertisement, 1990 Research is the act of going up alleys to see if they are blind.
-- Plutarch 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 Premature Birth
"I don't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones." (John Cage) Not everything that can be counted counts; and not everything that counts can be counted.
-- Albert Einstein "If you're in a bad situation, don't worry it'll change. If you're in a good situation, don't worry it'll change." (John A. Simone Sr.) In the past decade or so, the women's magazines have taken to running home-handyperson
articles suggesting that women can learn to fix things just as well as men. These articles are
apparently based Someone once asked me why women don't gamble as much as men do and I gave the
commonsensical reply that we don't have as much money. That was a true but incomplete
answer. In fact, women's total ins Premature Birth Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same
direction.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry A man sits with a pretty girl for an hour, it seems like a minute. He sits on a hot stove for a
minute, it's longer than any hour. That is relativity.
-- Albert Einstein Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.
-- Albert Einstein Premature Birth
"No man is clever enough to know all the evil he does." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) "Over grown military establishments are under any form of government inauspicious to liberty, and are to be regarded as particularly hostile to republican liberty." (George Washington) Sure, it's going to kill a lot of people, but they may be dying of something else anyway.
-- Othal Brand, member of a Texas pesticide review board Church is only society on earth that exists for the benefit of non-members.
-- William Temple Genius is 99 percent perspiration and 1 percent inspiration.
-- Thomas Edison Premature Birth True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.
-- Henry David Thoreau We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.
-- Mme de Staël "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-) Premature Birth
The gods too are fond of a joke.
-- Aristotle Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.
-- Albert Einstein I know nothing about sex, because I was always married.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Someone once asked me why women don't gamble as much as men do and I gave the
commonsensical reply that we don't have as much money. That was a true but incomplete
answer. In fact, women's total ins It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince Premature Birth "When thou art at Rome, do as they do at Rome." (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1547-1616) Intelligence has nothing to do with politics.
-- Londo Molari We are the echo of the future.
-- W. S. Merwin Premature Birth
"As is our confidence, so is our capacity." (William Hazlitt) The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and
science.
-- Albert Einstein "A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities." (Eda J. Le Shan) We never live; we are always in the expectation of living.
-- Voltaire 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 Premature Birth "Well begun is half done." (Aristotle) If I had only known, I would have been a locksmith.
-- Albert Einstein "O' What may man within him hide, though angel on the outward side!" (William Shakespeare) Premature Birth
Politics have no relation to morals.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli If you are going to sin, sin against God, not the bureaucracy. God will forgive you but the
bureaucracy won't.
-- Hyman Rickover A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.
- Sir Winston Churchill My darling wife was always glum. I drowned her in a cask of rum, And so made sure that she would stay, In better spirits night and day. The brain is a wonderful organ. It starts working the moment you get up in the morning, and does
not stop until you get into the office.
-- Robert Frost Premature Birth "There is nothing more fearful than ignorance in action." (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1749-1832, Criticisms, Reflections and Maxims) "The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves." (William Hazlitt) Nature gave men two ends - one to sit on and one to think with. Ever since then man's success or
failure has been dependent on the one he used most.
-- George R. Kirkpatrick Premature Birth
The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll Marriage is not a word. It is a sentence--a life sentence. 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 Women: If they're not turning down your proposals for marriage, they're accusing you of
suspicious behavior in the women's lingerie changing room.
-- Cliff Clavin, character on "Cheers", U.S. Televi That government is best which governs least.
-- Henry David Thoreau, Civil Disobedience, 1849 Premature Birth Life is a succession of lessons enforced by immediate reward, or, oftener, by immediate
chastisement.
-- Ernest Dimnet A little girl at the wedding afterwards asked her mother why the bride changed her mind. "What
do you mean?" responded her mother. "Well, she went down the aisle with one man, and came
back with ano "It seems to me that almost all our sadnesses are moments of tension, which we feel as paralysis because we no longer hear our astonished emotions living." (Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poe Premature Birth
We must become the change we want to see.
-- Gandhi blah "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." (Thomas Jefferson) "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 Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end.
-- Igor Stravinsky The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds the most discoveries, is not
"Eureka!", but "That's funny..."
-- Isaac Asimov Premature Birth Love is a perky elf dancing a merry little jig and then suddenly he turns on you with a miniature
machine gun.
-- Matt Groening, Love is Hell There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called marriage. -- James Holt McGavran Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
-- H. L. Mencken Premature Birth
Luck is the residue of design.
- Branch Rickey - former owner of the Brooklyn Dodger Baseball Team "If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way." (Mark Twain) Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the
gentleman.
-- Herbert Spencer If God had meant us to vote, He would have given us candidates.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
- Martin Luther King Jr. Premature Birth He believes that marriage and a career don't mix. So after the wedding he plans to quit his job.
-- Anonymous I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.
- Thomas Watson, Chairman of IBM, 1943 "The biggest argument against democracy is a five minute discussion with the average voter." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) Premature Birth
