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I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you an education.
-- Wilson Mizner It is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions.
-- Aldous Huxley Food, one assumes, provides nourishment; but Americans eat it fully aware that small amounts of
poison have been added to improve its appearance and delay its putrefaction.
-- John Cage He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose
-- Jim Elliott Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.
-- Abraham Lincoln Local Government I never miss a chance to have sex or appear on television.
-- Gore Vidal LOVE, n. A temporary insanity curable by marriage or by removal of the patient from the
influences under which he incurred the disorder... It is sometimes fatal, but more frequently to the
physician 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 Local Government
Football incorporates the two worst elements of American society: violence punctuated by
committee meetings.
-- George F. Will, journalist, political commentator, 1994 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 I think one of the reasons I'm popular again is because I'm wearing a tie. You have to be different.
-- Tony Bennett, 1995 It is much more comfortable to be mad and know it, than to be sane and have one's doubts.
- G. B. Burgin "Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom." (Raymonde Uy) Local Government You have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth
without producing it.
-- George Bernard Shaw I like two kinds of men: domestic and foreign.
-- Mae West "A true friend stabs you in the front." (Oscar Wilde) Local Government
"The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet." (Andy Warhol) The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains.The superior teacher demonstrates. The
great teacher inspires.
-- William Arthur Ward "Friends are those people who know the words to the song in your heart and sing them back to you when you have forgotten the words." (Anonymous) There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.
-- Benjamin Disraeli "People expect a certain reaction from a business, and when you pleasantly exceed those expectations, you've somehow passed an important psychological threshold." (Richard Thalheimer, president, The Local Government I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a
woman.
-- Virginia Woolf My wife says if I go fishing one more time she's going to leave me. Gosh, I'm going to miss her. "You are rewarding a teacher poorly if you remain always a pupil." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Local Government
The only thing you take with you when you're gone is what you leave behind.
-- John Allston If a man does his best, what else is there?
- General George S. Patton "What is tolerance? -- it is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error; let us pardon reciprocally each other's folly -- that is the first law of nature." (Francois Marie Ar "In some ways, I never outgrew my adolescence. I wake up in the morning and think, 'Oh my God, I'm late for a math test!' But then I say, 'Wait a minute. I'm 40.'" (Daniel Clowes) Wagner's music is better than it sounds.
- Mark Twain Local Government Men have become the tools of their tools.
-- Henry David Thoreau He who laughs last has not yet heard the bad news.
-- Bertolt Brecht Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions - it only guarantees equality of opportunity.
- Irving Kristol Local Government
Everyone believes very easily whatever they fear or desire.
-- Jean de La Fontaine No, that is the great fallacy; the wisdom of old men. They do not grow wise. They grow careful." (Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell To Arms) "Ideas are far more powerful than guns. We don't allow our enemies to have guns, why should we allow them to have ideas?" (Josef Stalin) As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; and as far as they are
certain, they do not refer to reality.
-- Albert Einstein English Law prohibits a man from marrying his mother-in-law. This is our idea of useless legislation. Local Government Marriage is like a box of chocolates. You have to squeeze a few bottoms to make sure you like
what you are getting.
-- Anonymous May your wife be a witch who takes after her mother, and may you all live together in a one-room house. "Whether it is a black cat or a white cat, as long as it can catch the rat, it is a good cat." (Deng Xiao Ping) Local Government
"Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences." (Isadora Duncan) "One may sometimes tell a lie, but the grimace that accompanies it tells the truth." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The average, healthy, well-adjusted adult gets up at seven-thirty in the morning feeling just plain
terrible.
-- Jean Kerr If you don't double-click me, I can't do anything.
-- John Aniston, on how computers have taken over his life A coward is a hero with a wife, kids, and a mortgage.
-- Marvin Kitman Local Government Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.
-- James Baldwin The grand aim of all science is to cover the greatest number of empirical facts by logical
deduction from the smallest number of hypotheses or axioms.
-- Albert Einstein "If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) Local Government
An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field.
-- Niels Bohr God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.
-- Voltaire When I give a lecture, I accept that people look at their watches, but what I do not tolerate is
when they look at it and raise it to their ear to find out if it stopped.
-- Marcel Achard Of course, it is very important to be sober when you take an exam. Many worthwile careers in the
street-cleansing, fruit-picking and subway-guitar-playing industries have been founded on a lack
of u I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.
-- Albert Einstein Local Government I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
-- Thomas Edison A scar nobly got, or a noble scar, is a good livery of honour; so belike is that.
-- Shakespeare, William Smoking kills. If you're killed, you've lost a very important part of your life.
-- Brooke Shields, during an interview to become spokesperson for a federal anti-smoking
campaign Local Government
I think of my wife and I think of Lot, and I think of the lucky break he got. There is nothing that can be said by mathematical symbols and relations which cannot also be
said by words. The converse, however, is false. Much that can be and is said by words cannot
successfully The lover knows much more about absolute good and universal beauty than any logician or
theologian, unless the latter, too, be lovers in disguise.
-- George Santayana The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.
-- ee cummings We do not have censorship. What we have is a limitation on what newspapers can report.
-- Louis Nel, Deputy Minister of Information, South Africa Local Government I don't want everyone to like me; I should think less of myself if some people did.
-- Henry James 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 Every act of creation is first an act of destruction.
-- Pablo Picasso Local Government
The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
-- Blaise Pascal, Pens&eactue;es, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer I think, therefore I'm single.
-- Female philosopher If we let people see that kind of thing, there would never again be any war.
-- Pentagon official, on why US military censored graphic footage from the Gulf War Happy are those who dream dreams and are willing to pay the price to make them come true.
-- Anon. The greatest homage to truth is to use it.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Local Government Love is the delusion that one man or woman differs from another.
-- H. L. Mencken Prejudice is the child of ignorance.
-- William Hazlitt 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 Local Government
"The most beautiful things in the world are the most useless, peacocks and lilies, for instance." (John Ruskin) Opportunity may knock only once, but temptation leans on the doorbell.
-- Anonymous "Teacher played hooky. Sent message: 'Receiving instruction. Enjoying myself thoroughly. See you next week.'" (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.
-- Henry Ford A husband is what is left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
- Helen Rowland Local Government Love matches are made by people who are content, for a month of honey, to condemn
themselves to a life of vinegar.
-- Countess of Blessington I think men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage. They've experienced pain
and bought jewelry.
-- Rita Rudner "The rules for parents are but three... Love, Limit, and Let them be." (Elaine M. Ward) Local Government
The power of accurate observation is frequently called cynicism by those who don't have it.
- George Bernard Shaw To expect defeat is nine-tenths of defeat itself.
-- Francis Crawford You can observe a lot by watching.
-- Yogi Berra "The rules for parents are but three... Love, Limit, and Let them be." (Elaine M. Ward) Do not let yourselves be discouraged or embittered by the smallness of the success you are likely
to achieve in trying to make life better. You certainly would not be able, in a single generation, to Local Government I used to be Snow White, but I drifted.
-- Mae West "It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) "I am convinced that it is not the fear of death, of our lives ending that haunts our sleep so much as the fear ... that as far as the world is concerned, we might as well never have lived." (Rabbi H Local Government
