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I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them.
- Ian L. Fleming Faith is believing what you know ain't so.
-- Mark Twain "Nietzsche was stupid and abnormal." (Leo Tolstoy, 1828-1910) I believe in getting into hot water; it keeps you clean.
-- G. K. Chesterton "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) Accommodation It was a day like this Marco Polo left for China. What are your plans for today?
--Loesje Why yes -- a bulletproof vest.
-- James Rodges, murderer, on his final request before the firing squad There is a coherent plan in the universe, though I don't know what it's a plan for.
-- Fred Hoyle Accommodation
There are two major products that come out of Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to
be a coincidence.
-- Jeremy S. Anderson "Goodwill is the only asset that competition cannot undersell or destroy." (Mrshall Field, businessman and philanthropist) Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business.
-- Tom Robbins A team effort is a lot of people doing what I say.
-- Michael Winner "I never resist temptation, because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me." (George Bernard Shaw) Accommodation This book fills a much-needed gap.
- Moses Hadas in a review I was under medication when I made the decision not to burn the tapes.
-- Richard Nixon, U.S. President Love is the same as like except you feel sexier.
-- Judith Viorst Accommodation
In a cat's eyes, all things belong to cats.
-- English Proverb "Do you know that places only yield up their secrets, their most profound mysteries, to those who are just passing through?" (Salman Rushdie, The Moor's Last Sigh) I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
-- Mark Twain I don't know anything about luck. I've never banked on it, and I'm afraid of people who do. Luck to
me is something else; hard work and realizing what is opportunity and what isn't.
-- Lucille Ball "No one lies so boldly as the man who is indignant." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Accommodation Marriage is a lottery in which men stake their liberty and women their happiness.
-- Madame de Rieux "Death is always and under all circumstances a tragedy, for if it is not, then it means that life itself has become one." (Theodore Roosevelt) In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but how
many can get through to you.
-- Mortimer J. Adler Accommodation
And life is what we make it. Always has been, always will be.
-- Grandma Moses My religion consists of a humble admiration of the unlimitable superior who reveals Himself in the
slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble minds. That deeply emotional
convi Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
- Napoleon Bonaparte "Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn; my God, do you learn!" (Clive Staples Lewis) 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 Accommodation Distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes.
- Henry David Thoreau Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that he sometimes has to eat them.
-- Adlai Stevenson "Hold the fort! I am coming!" (General William Tecumseh Sherman) Accommodation
Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount.
-- Clare Boothe Luce "Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains." (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, The Social Contract) "Humans beings can always be relied upon to assert, with vigor, their god-given right to be stupid." (Dean Koontz, Seize the Night) blah "You shall find out how salt is the taste of another man's bread, and how hard is the way up and down another man's stairs." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) The most terrible poverty is loneliness and the feeling of being unloved.
-- Mother Teresa Accommodation Ah Mozart! He was happily married - but his wife wasn't.
-- Victor Borge Even a band of angels can turn ugly and start looting if enough angels are unemployed and
hanging around the Pearly Gates convinced that all the succubi own all the liquor stores in
Heaven.
-- P. J Love is the dawn of marriage, and marriage is the sunset of love.
-- French saying Accommodation
"The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) Jake liked his women the way he liked his kiwi fruit: sweet yet tart, firm-fleshed yet yielding to the
touch, and covered with short brown fuzzy hair.
-- Jonathan S. Haas "God is dead: but considering the state Man is in, there will perhaps be caves, for ages yet, in which his shadow will be shown." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, The Joyful Wisdom) Did you ever notice when you blow in a dog's face he gets mad at you? But when you take him in
a car he sticks his head out the window.
-- Steve Bluestone "The overman ... Who has organized the chaos of his passions, given style to his character, and become creative. Aware of life's terrors, he affirms life without resentment." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietz Accommodation The male is a domestic animal which, if treated with firmness, can be trained to do most things.
-- Jilly Cooper "I was lousy in school. Real screwed-up. A moron. I was antisocial and didn't bother with the other kids. A really bad student. I didn't have any brains. I didn't know what I was doing there. That's w A good cook is like a sorceress who dispenses happiness.
-- Elsa Schiapirelli Accommodation
"To make the individual uncomfortable, that is my task." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Of the seven dwarves, only Dopey had a shaven face. This should tell us something about the
custom of shaving.
-- Tom Robbins, Skinny Legs and All There is no future in any job. The future lies in the man who holds the job.
-- George Crane Politics is for people who have a passion for changing life but lack a passion for living it.
-- Tom Robbins Women's liberationists spread the word that...the only peaceful family is one in which either the
wife is enslaved or the husband is androgynous.
-- R. Emmett Tyell, The Liberal Crack-Up, 1984 Accommodation Curiosity killed the cat, but for a while I was a suspect.
-- Steven Wright "Freedom of press is limited to those who own one." (Henry Louis Mencken) "Excellence is in the details. Give attention to the details and excellence will come." (Perry Paxton) Accommodation
"As is our confidence, so is our capacity." (William Hazlitt) We never live; we are always in the expectation of living.
-- Voltaire It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
- Oscar Wilde "Ask five economists and you'll get five different answers (six if one went to Harvard)." (Edgar R. Fiedler) 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 Accommodation Cricket is best described as organised loafing.
-- Anonymous British Radio Broadcaster, 1996 There are times when parenthood seems nothing but feeding the mouth that bites you.
-- Peter De Vries 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.
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"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 health of the people is really the foundation upon which all their happiness and all their
powers as a State depend.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Better to die ten thousand deaths than wound my honor.
-- Joseph Addison The Church is an organism that grows best in an alien society.
-- C. Stacey Woods If all men were brothers, would you let one marry your sister? Accommodation In the sciences, we are now uniquely privileged to sit side by side with the giants on whose
shoulders we stand.
-- Gerald Holton Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.
-- Albert Einstein "I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter." (Blaise Pascal) Accommodation
"Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country." (Marquis de Lafayette) In any contest between power and patience, bet on patience.
- W.B. Prescott The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without
the sympathy of the community.
-- William James The highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to make money do more for the
betterment of life.
-- Henry Ford My wife doesn't care what I do away from home, as long as I don't enjoy it. Accommodation Life is not an easy matter.... You cannot live through it without falling into frustration and cynicism
unless you have before you a great idea which raises you above personal misery, above
weakness If you talk to God, you are praying; if God talks to you, you have schizophrenia.
-- Thomas Szasz "I like boring things." (Andy Warhol, Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up) Accommodation
"It is not the answer that enlightens, but the question." (Eugene Ionesco) Of the seven dwarves, only Dopey had a shaven face. This should tell us something about the
custom of shaving.
-- Tom Robbins, Skinny Legs and All The average Ph.D thesis is nothing but the transference of bones from one graveyard to another.
-- Frank J. Dobie, A Texan in England, 1945 "Use what talents you possess; The woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best." (William Blake) "To live in the hearts we leave behind is not to die." (Thomas Campbell) Accommodation Is fuel efficiency really what we need most desperately? I say what we really need is a car that
can be shot when it breaks down.
-- Russell Baker "To live in the hearts we leave behind is not to die." (Thomas Campbell) A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
-- Robert Frost Accommodation
