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Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.
-- Mother Teresa "The market is not an invention of capitalism. It has existed for centuries. It is an invention of civilization." (Mikhail Gorbachev, June 8, 1990) Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them
good.
-- H.L. Mencken "Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh." (George Bernard Shaw) Universities incline wits to sophistry and affectation.
-- Francis Bacon Dance Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for the appointment by the corrupt few.
-- George Bernard Shaw "College: two hundred people reading same book. An obvious mistake. Two hundred people can read two hundred books." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) "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) Dance
The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One
cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the
marvelous str "Majority rule only works if you're also considering individual rights. Because you can't have five wolves and one sheep voting on what to have for supper." (Larry Flynt) Marriage still confers one very special privilege - only a married person can get divorced. Study men, not historians.
-- Harry Truman You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.
-- Henry Ford Dance "I don't think it's the nature of any man to be monogamous. Men are propelled by genetically ordained impulses over which they have no control to distribute their seed." (Marlon Brando) "Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few." (George Bernard Shaw) "Transport of the mails, transport of the human voice, transport of flickering pictures--in this century as in others our highest accomplishments still have the single aim of bringing men together." Dance
"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) You have to kiss a lot of toads before you find a handsome prince.
-- American Proverb I know I'm not in government anymore. In fact I'm out of work.
-- Ronald Reagan, Former U.S. President, on a speaking tour of Japan, 1989 At the bottom no one in life can help anyone else in life; this one experiences over and over in
every conflict and every perplexity: that one is alone. That isn't as bad as it may first appear; and "The evil that is in the world almost always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence if they lack understanding." (Albert Camus) Dance blah "The length of this document defends it well against the risk of its being read." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) Having children makes you no more a parent than having a piano makes you a pianist.
-- Michael Levine, Lessons at the Halfway Point Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.
-- Ernest Hemingway Dance
I'm worried that the universe will soon need replacing. It's not holding a charge.
-- Edward Chilton "Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains." (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, The Social Contract) "The evil that is in the world almost always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence if they lack understanding." (Albert Camus) After all, all he did was string together a lot of old, well-known quotations.
-- H. L. Mencken, on Shakespeare Never judge someone by who he's in love with; judge him by his friends. People fall in love with
the most appalling people. Take a cool, appraising glance at his pals.
-- Cynthia Heimel Dance A wasted youth is better by far than a wise and productive old age.
-- Meat Loaf, from the song "Wasted Youth" on the album Bat Out of Hell II When I have a kid, I wanna put him in one of those strollers for twins, then run around the mall
looking frantic.
-- Steven Wright "Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent." (Napoleon Bonaparte) Dance
A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.
- John D. Rockefeller Since Eve ate the apple, much depends on dinner.
-- Lord Byron I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude. we are for the most part
more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers.
-- Thoreau Guys are lucky because they get to grow mustaches. I wish I could. It's like having a little pet for
your face.
-- Anita Wise "A man must dream a long time in order to act with grandeur, and dreaming is nursed in darkness." (Jean Genet) Dance Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.
- H. G. Wells "Children spell love...T-I-M-E." (Dr. Anthony P. Witham) "It is far better to be alone, than to be in bad company." (George Washington) Dance
Humanity has advanced, when it has advanced, not because it has been sober, responsible, and
cautious, but because it has been playful, rebellious, and immature.
-- Tom Robbins If one advances confidently in the direction of one's dreams, and endeavours to live the life which
one has imagined, one will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
-- Henry David Thoreau I've been trying desperately to save my marriage for the last 35 years. The more I know about people, the better I like my dog.
-- Mark Twain Disclaimer: Even my wife doesn't agree with everything I say, and she loves me dearly. My employers don't love me nearly as much as she does. Draw your own conclusions. Dance "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) If addiction is judged by how long a dumb animal will sit pressing a lever to get a 'fix' of
something, to its own detriment, then I would conclude that netnews is far more addictive than
cocaine.
To heck with marrying a girl who makes biscuits like her mother--I want to marry one who makes dough like her father. Dance
"For others do I wait ... for higher ones, stronger ones, more triumphant ones, merrier ones, for such as are built squarely in body and soul: laughing lions must come." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than
knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.
-- Albert Einstein The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain.
-- Lord Byron Opportunity may knock only once, but temptation leans on the doorbell.
-- Anonymous When people go to work, they shouldn't have to leave their hearts at home.
-- Betty Bender Dance "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 Work is the refuge of people who have nothing better to do.
-- Oscar Wilde 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 Dance
Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald "Deep down, no one really believes they have a right to live. But this death sentence generally stays tucked away, hidden beneath the difficulty of living. If that difficulty is removed from time to t The less their ability, the more their conceit.
Ahad HaAm Sleep is that golden chain that ties health and our bodies together.
-- Thomas Dekker You can't buy love, but you can pay heavily for it.
-- Henny Youngman Dance "Think off-center." (George Carlin) A woman's always younger than a man of equal years.
-Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Aurora Leigh To look backward for a while is to refresh the eye, to restore it, and to render it more fit for its
prime function of looking forward.
-- Margaret Fairless Barber Dance
It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.
-- Gore Vidal When you have to kill a man, it costs nothing to be polite.
- Sir Winston Churchill Suicide is belated acquiescence in the opinion of one's wife's relatives. Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
-- Gail Godwin "I feel I have to protect myself against things. So I'm pretty careful to lose most of them." (George Orson Welles) Dance A woman has got to love a bad man once or twice in her life to be thankful for a good one.
-- Mae West We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.
-- Mme de Staël Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has not heart; and any man who is over 30, and is
not a conservative, has no brains.
-- Winston Churchill Dance
We can do no great things; only small things with great love.
-- Mother Teresa Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of
existence.
-- Sydney Smith To take what there "is", and use it, without waiting forever in vain for the preconceived - to dig
deep into the actual and get something out of that - this doubtless is the right way to live.
-- H For I am a bear of very little brain and long words bother me.
-- Winnie the Pooh, character from author A. A. Milne We see the brightness of a new page where everything yet can happen.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke, Book of Hours Dance "A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men." (Roald Dahl) History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte Luck is the residue of design.
- Branch Rickey - former owner of the Brooklyn Dodger Baseball Team Dance
"We have been the cowards lobbing cruise missiles from 2,000 miles away. That's cowardly. Staying in the airplane when it hits the building, say what you want about it, it's not cowardly." (Bill Mahe It is with true love as it is with ghosts; everyone talks about it, but few have seen it.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld If God wanted women to understand men, football would never have been created.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker "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) May you be too good for the world and not good enough for your wife. Dance The difference between 'involvement' and 'commitment' is like an eggs-and-ham breakfast: the
chicken was 'involved' - the pig was 'committed'.
- unknown The tragedy of life is not that man loses, but that he almost wins.
-- Heywood Brown "We have been the cowards lobbing cruise missiles from 2,000 miles away. That's cowardly. Staying in the airplane when it hits the building, say what you want about it, it's not cowardly." (Bill Mahe Dance
