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Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress.
-- Gandhi "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) 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 "Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil) Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.
-- John Lyly Bellanaleck Hell hath no fury like a bureaucrat scorned.
-- Milton Friedman The more I know about people, the better I like my dog.
-- Mark Twain blah "The best students always are flunking. Every good teacher knows that." (Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance) Bellanaleck
When I can no longer bear to think of the victims of broken homes, I begin to think of the victims
of intact ones.
-- Peter DeVries 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 Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you
together, but do so with all your heart.
-- Marcus Aurelius The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind
woman.
-- S. T. Coleridge The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax.
-- Albert Einstein Bellanaleck Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer.
-- Mark Twain This novel is not to be tossed lightly aside, but hurled with great force.
-- Dorothy Parker 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 Bellanaleck
"I would rather die standing than live on my knees!" (Emiliano Zapata) Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up.
-- Robert Frost I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.
- Francois-Auguste Rodin (1840-1917), when asked how he managed to make his remarkable
statues "Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Most people are more comfortable with old problems than with new solutions.
-- Anonymous Bellanaleck "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) "In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends." (Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.) Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish.
-- Albert Einstein Bellanaleck
You have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth
without producing it.
-- George Bernard Shaw A narcissist is someone better-looking than you are.
-- Gore Vidal After all, all he did was string together a lot of old, well-known quotations.
-- H. L. Mencken, on Shakespeare .. I am indebted to the cat for a particular kind of honorable deceit, for a greater control over
myself, for a characteristic aversion to brutal sounds, and for the need to keep silent for long
per "... adults are just obsolete children and the hell with them." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, quoted in his obituary, Time) Bellanaleck There is a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious, makes you so sick at
heart, you can't take part. And you've got to put your body upon the gears and upon the wheels,
upon the lev Immature love says: "I love you because I need you." Mature love says: "I need you because I
love you."
-- Erich Fromm 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 Bellanaleck
"It seems to me that there are two kinds of trickery: the 'fronts' people assume before one another's eyes, and the 'front' a writer puts on the face of reality." (Francois Sagan) Ambition is not a vice of little people.
-- Michel de Montaigne The sun never sets on the British empire because Britain is in the east and the sun sets in the
west.
-- Unknown history student A leader in the Democratic Party is a boss, in the Republican Party he is a leader.
Harry S. Truman Technology makes it possible for people to gain control over everything, except over technology.
-- John Tudor Bellanaleck "In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Marriage is the sole cause of divorce. I don't mind if you don't like my manners. I don't like them myself. They're pretty bad. I grieve over
them on long winter evenings.
-- Humphrey Bogart to Lauren Bacall, in "The Big Sleep" Bellanaleck
"The feminists used to say that chivalry and ladyhood were ways of keeping women down and preventing them from standing toe to toe with the guys. Now you've got a lot of women saying that if a guy is I've always thought that underpopulated countries in Africa are vastly underpolluted.
-- Lawrence Summers, chief economist of the World Bank, explaining why we should export toxic
wastes to Third Wo I'd wipe the machines off the face of the earth again, and end the industrial epoch absolutely, like
a black mistake.
-- D. H. Lawrence Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
-- Virginia Woolf Be tolerant of the human race. Your whole family belongs to it -- and some of your spouse's
family does too.
-- Anonymous Bellanaleck To love someone deeply gives you strength. Being loved by someone deeply gives you courage.
-- Lao Tzu Parenthetical remarks (however relevant) are unnecessary.
-- Frank L. Visco, How to Write Good "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 Bellanaleck
He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.
- Sir Winston Churchill He who hesitates is a damned fool.
- Mae West Friends applaud, the Comedy is over.
-- Ludwig von Beethoven, dying words The days just before marriage are like a snappy introduction to a tedious book. "Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear." (Ambrose Redmoon) Bellanaleck I don't worry about terrorism. I was married for two years.
-- Sam Kinison 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
and Technology is a way of organizing the universe so that man doesn't have to experience it.
-- Max Frisch Bellanaleck
As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.
-- Abraham Lincoln "The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts.
-- Albert Einstein The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.
-- Nicholas Murray Butler "To live is to dream and to die is to awaken." (Anonymous) Bellanaleck All science is concerned with the relationship of cause and effect. Each scientific discovery
increases man's ability to predict the consequences of his actions and thus his ability to control
futur I hate it in friends when they come too late to help.
-- Euripides "Of all mankind the great poet is the equable man." (Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass, 1855) Bellanaleck
"In fact, most deaths are not tragic. Few people die because of a flaw in character, which is the essential element of tragedy. They just die." (John Chancellor, The News Business) "I'll endorse with my name any of the following; clothing AC-DC, cigarettes, small tapes, sound equipment, ROCK N' ROLL RECORDS, anything, film, and film equipment, Food, Helium, Whips, MONEY!!" (And Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop
questioning.
-- Albert Einstein "Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) There are three kinds of death in this world. There's heart death, there's brain death, and there's
being off the network.
-- Guy Almes Bellanaleck Sure, it's going to kill a lot of people, but they may be dying of something else anyway.
-- Othal Brand, member of a Texas pesticide review board Outside of the killings, Washington has one of the lowest crime rates in the country.
-- Marion Barry, Mayor, Washington, D.C. "I should reproach him for not giving us enough evidence." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970, what he would say to God if they 'met') Bellanaleck
Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
-- Harriet Beecher Stowe My wife doesn't care what I do away from home, as long as I don't enjoy it. A witty saying proves nothing.
- Voltaire "The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do." (Anonymous) "The formula for my happiness: a Yes, a No, a straight line, a goal." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Bellanaleck Researchers have discovered that chocolate produces some of the same reactions in the brain
as marijuana...The researchers also discovered other similarities between the two, but can't
remember what There is a coherent plan in the universe, though I don't know what it's a plan for.
-- Fred Hoyle The nation's honor is dearer than the nation's comfort; yes, than the nation's life itself.
-- Woodrow Wilson Bellanaleck
Love cures people, both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.
-- Dr. Karl Menninger Now, now my good man, this is no time for making enemies.
- Voltaire (1694-1778) on his deathbed in response to a priest asking that he renounce Satan. Is it better for a woman to marry a man who loves her than a man she loves.
-- Anonymous Marriage is an institution--but who wants to live in an institution? It is not necessary that whilst I live I live happily; but it is necessary that so long as I live I should
live honourably.
-- Kant, Immanuel Bellanaleck What does not kill me makes me stronger.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe The child is the father of the man.
-- William Wordsworth Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Bellanaleck
