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Reality is nothing but a collective hunch.
-- Lily Tomlin Beginning in February 1976 your assistance benefits will be discontinued ... Reason: it has been
reported to our office that you expired on January 1, 1976.
-- excerpt from a letter, Illinois Depart In literature as in love, we are astonished at what is chosen by others.
-- André Maurois "If you light a man a fire, he will be warm for a day; if you light a man on fire, he will be warm for the rest of his life." (Anonymous) I don't feel good.
-- Luther Burbank, dying words Accommodation Never raise your hands to your kids. It leaves your groin unprotected.
-- Red Buttons Wise men make proverbs, but fools repeat them.
- Samuel Palmer "I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it." (Thomas Jefferson, to Archibald Stuart, 1791) Accommodation
"Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) People need loving the most when they deserve it the least.
-- John Harrigan "Eagles may soar, but weasels don't get sucked into jet engines." (John Benfield) "Failure is not an option!" (Ed Harris, as Gene Kranz, Apollo 13) Every calling is great when greatly pursued.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes Accommodation When a friend is in trouble, don't annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up
something appropriate and do it.
-- E. W. Howe Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them
down people's throats.
-- Howard Aiken "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 Accommodation
To heck with marrying a girl who makes biscuits like her mother--I want to marry one who makes dough like her father. "I want my food dead. Not sick, not dying, dead." (Oscar Wilde) "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.) The difference between sex and death is that with death you can do it alone and no one is going
to make fun of you.
-- Woody Allen If you can't annoy somebody, there's little point in writing.
-- Kingsley Amis Accommodation "Gifts must affect the receiver to the point of shock." (Walter Benjamin) Jealousy is the only vice that gives no pleasure.
-- Anonymous Conversation, fastidious Goddess, loves blood better than brick, and feasts most subtly on the
human will.
-- Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway Accommodation
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 "Great work is done by people who are not afraid to be great." (Fernando Flores) "Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect every one who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are ine The first duty of a lecturer: to hand you after an hour's discourse a nugget of pure truth to wrap up
between the pages of your notebooks, and keep on the mantlepiece forever.
-- Virginia Woolf If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.
-- Virginia Woolf Accommodation Not knowing when the dawn will come, I open every door.
-- Emily Dickinson Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than the arguments of its opposers.
-- William Penn When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen.
-- Ernest Hemingway Accommodation
To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.
-- Karen Sunde Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
- Henry Louis Mencken I know a dead parrot when I see one, and I'm looking at one right now.... This is an ex-parrot.
-- John Cleese, Monty Python, British comedy television show If men knew all that women think, they'd be twenty times more daring.
-- Alphonse Karr Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
-- Harriet Beecher Stowe Accommodation "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) It is dangerous for a national candidate to say things that people might remember.
-- Eugene McCarthy A man's feet should be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world.
-- George Santayana Accommodation
Goodbye, Everybody!
-- Hart Crane, poet, who committed suicide by jumping overboard during a steamship voyage. For a male and female to live continuously together is...biologically speaking, an extremely
unnatural condition.
-- Robert Briffault A husband is what is left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
- Helen Rowland I owe the government $3400 in taxes. So I sent them two hammers and a toilet seat.
-- Michael McShane Love thy neighbor, but make sure her husband is away first. Accommodation Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect, and it is shameful to surrender it too soon or to the first
comer: there is nobility in preserving it coolly and proudly through long youth, until at last Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so you apologize for truth.
-- Benjamin Disraeli The time is always right to do what is right.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Accommodation
The first clergyman was the first rascal who met the first fool.
-- Voltaire The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow
extinction from apathy, indifference, and undernourishment.
-- Robert Hutchins, Great Books, 1954 A baby is God's opinion that the world should go on.
-- Carl Sandburg To marry is to halve your rights and double your duties.
-- Arthur Schopenhauer If love is the answer, could you rephrase the question?
-- Lily Tomlin Accommodation Experience is the name every one gives his mistakes.
-- Elbert Hubbard The difference between a man who faces death for the sake of an idea and an imitator who goes
in search of martyrdom is that the former expresses his idea most fully in death while the latter
really The gods gave man fire and he invented fire engines. They gave him love and he invented marriage. Accommodation
Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them
good.
-- H.L. Mencken There is a coherent plan in the universe, though I don't know what it's a plan for.
-- Fred Hoyle Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your position falls, your ego goes with
it.
-- Colin Powell I stopped believing in Santa Claus when I was six. Mother took me to see him in a department
store and he asked for my autograph.
-- Shirley Temple Black If you would thoroughly know anything, teach it to others.
-- Tryon Edwards Accommodation Don't marry for money; you can borrow it cheaper. He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose
-- Jim Elliott He who has lost honor can lose nothing more.
-- Publilius Syrus Accommodation
I base my fashion sense on what doesn't itch.
-- Gilda Radner My grandfather once told me that there are two kinds of people: those who work and those who
take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was less competition there.
-- INDIRA "I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." (James Madison) Thus the metric system did not really catch on in the States, unless you count the increasing
popularity of the nine-millimeter bullet.
-- Dave Barry The man who complains about the way the ball bounces is likely the one who dropped it.
-- Lou Holtz Accommodation Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
- Will Durant Before you put on a frown, make absolutely sure there are no smiles available.
-- Jim Beggs The advice your son rejected is now being given by him to your grandson. Accommodation
There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you
yourself have altered.
-- Nelson Mandela, A Long Walk to Freedom Marriage is a lottery, but you can't tear up your ticket if you lose.
-- F. M. Knowles Now comes the mystery.
-- Henry Ward Beecher, dying words, March 8, 1887 No one really listens to anyone else, and if you try it for a while you'll see why.
-- Mignon McLaughlin Education is not filling a bucket, but lighting a fire.
-- William Yeats Accommodation "Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known." (Blaise Pascal) "I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is." (Alan Watts) The philosophy exam was a piece of cake -- which was a bit of a surprise, actually, because I
was expecting some questions on a sheet of paper.
-- Smith & Jones Accommodation
I read the book of Job last night - I don't think God comes out well in it.
-- Virginia Woolf A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.
- John D. Rockefeller When a thing has been said and said well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it.
-- Anatole France Women are like tea bags; put them in hot water and they get stronger.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt "In large states public education will always be mediocre, for the same reason that in large kitchens the cooking is usually bad." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Accommodation The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may
well be another profound truth.
-- Niels Bohr Happy are those who dream dreams and are willing to pay the price to make them come true.
-- Anon. I'm worried that the universe will soon need replacing. It's not holding a charge.
-- Edward Chilton Accommodation