Discovery consists of looking at the same thing as everyone else does and thinking something
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-- Albert Szent-Gyorgyi, 1937 Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine Go away...I'm alright.
-- H. G. Wells, dying words To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.
-- Oscar Wilde With this ring I thee wed, with my body I thee worship, and with all my worldly good I thee endow.
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-- Olin Miller Computers and Internet "No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave." (Calvin Coolidge) "To introduce something altogether new would mean to begin all over, to become ignorant again, and to run the old, old risk of failing to learn." (Isaac Asimov) Talent does what it can; genius does what it must.
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A weed is no more than a flower in disguise.
-- James Lowell There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld Genius is 99 percent perspiration and 1 percent inspiration.
-- Thomas Edison The most wasted day of all is that in which we have not laughed.
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-- Will Rogers When people have no other tyrant, their own public opinion becomes one.
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A sweetheart is a bottle of wine, a wife is a wine bottle.
-- Baudelaire Do not worry about your difficulties in mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater.
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- Ian L. Fleming Beauty as we feel it is something indescribable; what it is or what it means can never be said.
-- George Santayana Seeing a murder on television can help work off one's antagonisms. And if you haven't any
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-- Alfred Hitchcock Computers and Internet The fate of love is that it always seems too little or too much.
-- Anonymous Beware you be not swallowed up in books! An ounce of love is worth a pound of knowledge.
-- John Wesley Ninety percent of everything is crap.
-- Theodore Sturgeon Computers and Internet
Winning is a habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.
-- Vince Lombardi Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife. -- PJ O'Rourke A baby is God's opinion that the world should go on.
-- Carl Sandburg You've no idea of what a poor opinion I have of myself, and how little I deserve it.
-- W.S. Gilbert My father was a minister. I had to make up for the lack of sin.
-- Milwuakee mayor, on why he became a politician Computers and Internet I never miss a chance to have sex or appear on television.
-- Gore Vidal "See - one side of my face is gentle and kind, incapable of anything but love of my fellow man. The other side, the other profile, is cruel and predatory and evil, incapable of anything but lusts and A university professor set an examination question in which he asked what is the difference
between ignorance and apathy. The professor had to give an A+ to a student who answered: I
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"What dies if freedom lives? What lives if freedom dies?" (Lindsay Anderson, British filmmaker, from if.... (1968) I'm not dumb, I just have a command of thoroughly useless information.
-- Calvin Nothing says lovin' like marrying your cousin!
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show "Education is the process of driving a set of prejudices down your throat." (Martin H. Fischer) Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
- H. G. Wells Computers and Internet "A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) "Listen, or your tongue will make you deaf." (Native American Proverb) "The last Christian died on the cross." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Computers and Internet
Men. You can't live with them. You don't have to.
-- Seen on a t-shirt We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
-- Aristotle Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands, but English women only hope to find in their butlers. -- W. Somerset Maugham Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried.
-- G. K. Chesterton If you are going through hell, keep going.
- Sir Winston Churchill Computers and Internet Men marry because they are tired, women because they are curious; both are disappointed.
-- Oscar Wilde "Beauty awakens the soul to act." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) We have art to save ourselves from the truth.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Computers and Internet
Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting.
- Karl Wallenda Going to church doesn't make you a Christian any more than going to a garage makes you an
automobile.
-- Billy Sunday "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 Thomas Jefferson--still surv...
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-- Robert Browning "Good taste is the first refuge of the non-creative. It is the last-ditch stand of the artist." (Marshall McLuhan) Computers and Internet
The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but
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-- Thomas Jefferson In the halls of justice, the only justice is in the halls.
-- Lenny Bruce Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.
-- Don Stanford I owe the government $3400 in taxes. So I sent them two hammers and a toilet seat.
-- Michael McShane Whenever I dwell for any length of time on my own shortcomings, they gradually begin to seem
mild harmless, rather engaging little things, not at all like the staring defects in other people's
chara Computers and Internet The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains that I
have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time.
-- George Bernard Shaw Intelligence has nothing to do with politics.
-- Londo Molari If your professor wrote it, it's as near to the truth as you ever need to get.
-- John Watson, University of Canterbury Computers and Internet
Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end.
-- Semisonic, Closing Time A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
Robert Frost (1874-1963) Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
- H. G. Wells His ignorance is encyclopedic
- Abba Eban Argue for your limitations, and sure enough they're yours.
- Richard Bach Computers and Internet I recently read that love is entirely a matter of chemistry. That must be why my wife treats me like
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-- David Bissonette The great man fights the elements in his time that hinder his own greatness, in other words his own freedom and sincerity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "The face is the soul of the body." (Ludwig Wittgenstein) Computers and Internet
Many a man's reputation would not know his character if they met on the street.
- Elbert Hubbard What luck for the rulers that men do not think.
-- Adolf Hitler If all these sweet young things were laid end to end, I wouldn't be the slightest bit surprised.
-- Dorothy Parker Love one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that.
-- Michael Leunig I hope you have not been leading a double life, pretending to be wicked and being really good all
the time. That would be hypocrisy.
-- Oscar Wilde Computers and Internet I love deadlines. I especially like the whooshing sound they make as they go flying by.
-- Douglas Adams Government is like a baby. An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of
responsibility at the other.
-- Ronald Reagan, Saturday Evening Post, 1965 Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.
-- Bertrand Russell Computers and Internet
"Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "I would rather die standing than live on my knees!" (Emiliano Zapata) If excessive smoking actually plays a role in the production of lung cancer, it seems to be a minor
one.
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-- Voltaire In a novel, the hero can lay ten girls and marry a virgin for the finish. In a movie, that is not
allowed. The villain can lay anybody he wants, have as much fun and as he wants cheating,
stealing, It's no credit to anyone to work to hard.
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