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It is because modern education is so seldom inspired by a great hope that it so seldom achieves
great results. The wish to preserve the past rather that the hope of creating the future dominates
the Sir Francis Drake circumsized the world with a 100-foot clipper.
-- Unknown history student "Most people would rather die than think; in fact, they do so." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) "If all men knew what others say of them, there would not be four friends in the world." (Blaise Pascal) Sometimes a scream is better than a thesis.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Society and Culture The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.
-- G. K. Chesterton Few things are harder to put up with than a good example.
- Mark Twain Love is what we are born with. Fear is what we learn. The spiritual journey is the unlearning of
fear and prejudices and the acceptance of love back in our hearts. Love is the essential reality
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I believe God is managing affairs and that He doesn't need any advice from me. With God in
charge, I believe everything will work out for the best in the end. So what is there to worry about.
-- Hen I take my wife everywhere I go. She always finds her way back.
-- Henny Youngman "Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) "The evil that men do lives after them; The good is oft interred with their bones." (William Shakespeare, Julius Cæsar. Act iii. Sc. 2.) "Excellence is in the details. Give attention to the details and excellence will come." (Perry Paxton) Society and Culture If you can't sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there and worrying. It's the worry
that gets you, not the loss of sleep.
-- Dale Carnegie When I was a kid my favorite relative was Uncle Caveman. After school we'd all go play in his
cave, and every once in a while he would eat one of us. It wasn't until later that I found out that
Uncl "Nietzsche was stupid and abnormal." (Leo Tolstoy, 1828-1910) Society and Culture
Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell 'em, "Certainly, I can!" Then get busy and find
out how to do it.
-- Theodore Roosevelt I'm for abolishing and doing away with redundancy.
-- J. Curtis McKay, Wisconsin State Elections Board Men are strong only so long as they represent a strong idea. They become powerless when they
oppose it.
-- Sigmund Freud Virtue is like health: the harmony of the whole man.
-- Thomas Carlyle If I were a girl, I'd despair. The supply of good women far exceeds that of the men who deserve
them.
-- Robert Graves Society and Culture "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) Thank heaven. A bachelor's life is no life for a single man.
-- Samuel Goldwyn, immigrant-turned-famous-movie-producer, when told his son was getting
married Cliches should be avoided like the plague.
-- Anon. Society and Culture
A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel.
-- Robert Frost People need loving the most when they deserve it the least.
-- John Harrigan Work is the curse of the drinking class.
-- Oscar Wilde "The order of the world is always right - such is the judgment of God. For God has departed, but he has left his judgment behind, the way the Cheshire Cat left his grin." (Jean Baudrillard) "You exist only in what you do." (Federico Fellini) Society and Culture A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.
-- G. K. Chesterton The society of women is the element of good manners.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets the more interested
he is in her.
-- Agatha Christie Society and Culture
"The masses are far more likely to believe a big lie than several small ones." (Adolf Hitler) Washington is a city of Southern efficiency and Northern charm.
-- John F. Kennedy When people go to work, they shouldn't have to leave their hearts at home.
-- Betty Bender Anyway, no drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the
source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity,
ign Nothing is wrong with California that a rise in the ocean level wouldn't cure.
- Ross MacDonald Society and Culture I'm for abolishing and doing away with redundancy.
-- J. Curtis McKay, Wisconsin State Elections Board Some birds aren't meant to be caged, their feathers are just too bright. And when they fly away,
the part of you that knows it was a sin to lock them up, does rejoice. I guess I just miss my friend. A behaviorist is someone who pulls habits out of rats.
-- Anonymous Society and Culture
"It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open one's mouth and remove all doubt." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) It was just him and me. He fought with honor. If it weren't for his honor, he and the others would
have beaten me together. They might have killed me, then. His sense of honor saved my life. I
didn' Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.
-- B.F. Skinner For the memory of love is sweet, though the love itself were in vain. And what I have lost of
pleasure, assuage what I find of pain.
-- Lyster "Hold a true friend with both your hands." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Society and Culture It takes two to speak truth --One to speak, and another to hear.
-- Henry David Thoreau What is politics, after all, but the compulsion to preside over property and make other peoples'
decisions for them?
-- Tom Robbins, Skinny Legs and All There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.
-- Oscar Wilde Society and Culture
I was nauseous and tingly all over... I was either in love or I had smallpox.
-- Woody Allen The democratic theory is that if you accumulate enough ignorance at the polls, you produce
intelligence.
-- Philo Vance A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.
-- Gloria Steinem Ridicule is generally made use of to laugh men out of virtue and good sense, by attacking
everything praiseworthy in human life.
-- Joseph Addison "It ends not with a bang, but a whimper." (Thomas Stearns Eliot, aka T. S. Eliot, The Hollow Man) Society and Culture "Give me liberty or give me death." (Patrick Henry) My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed.
-- Christopher Morley "The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it." (Abbie Hoffman) Society and Culture
"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.) "Experience is a good teacher, but she sends in terrific bills." (Minna Antrim) Technology is a way of organizing the universe so that man doesn't have to experience it.
-- Max Frisch It is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions.
-- Aldous Huxley Morality consists in suspecting other people of not being legally married.
-- George Bernard Shaw Society and Culture The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.
-- Paul Valery The wise see knowledge and action as one; they see truly.
-- Bhagava Gita A small family is soon provided for.
-- English Proverb Society and Culture
Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte "Education must have an end in view, for it is not an end in itself." (Sybil Marshall) Well, I think that it's a- it's had some difficult times but I think we have- we, I think, have been able
to make some very good progress and it's- I would say that it's- it's- it's delightful that w Imagine if birds were tickled by feathers. You'd see a flock of birds come by, laughing hysterically!
-- Steven Wright You can't shake hands with a clenched fist.
-- Indira Gandhi Society and Culture "A man who tells lies, like me, merely hides the truth. But a man who tells half-lies has forgotten where he put it." (Claude Rains, as Mr. Dryden, Lawrence of Arabia, 1962) "Paper should be edible, nutritious. Inks used for printing or writing should have delicious flavors. Magazines or newspapers read at breakfast should be eaten for lunch. Instead of throwing one's mai "A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) Society and Culture
"Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame." (Erica Jong) Happy are those who dream dreams and are willing to pay the price to make them come true.
-- Anon. Whining is not only graceless, but can be dangerous. It can alert a brute that a victim is in the
neighborhood.
-- Maya Angelou Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of
our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.
-- John Adams Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive.
-- Anaïs Nin Society and Culture Journalism consists largely in saying "Lord Jones died" to people who never knew Lord Jones
was alive.
-- G. K. Chesterton It ain't what we don't know that gives us trouble, it's what we know that ain't so.
-- Will Rogers It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid.
- George Bernard Shaw Society and Culture
"When we are born we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools." (William Shakespeare) 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 Teach a parrot the terms "supply and demand" and you've got an economist.
-- Thomas Carlyle When one find's oneself in a hole of one's own making, it is a good time to examine the quality of
the workmanship.
-- John Renmerde Wise men make proverbs, but fools repeat them.
- Samuel Palmer Society and Culture Laugh and the world laughs with you. Snore and you sleep alone.
-- Anthony Burgess Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.
- Napoleon Bonaparte The only way to entertain some folks is to listen to them.
-- Kin Hubbard Society and Culture
