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"For better or for worse, our company (The News Corporation Ltd.) is a reflection of my thinking, my character, my values." (Keith Rupert Murdoch, media mogul, 1931-) blah "Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together." (Vincent van Gogh) I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about "short" and
"cheap"?
-- Phyllis Diller I recently read that love is entirely a matter of chemistry. That must be why my wife treats me like
toxic waste.
-- David Bissonette Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked
where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.
-- D. H. Lawrence Soil and Additives 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 There are three types of people in this world: Those who can count, and those who can't.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
-- General George Patton Soil and Additives
He who laughs last thinks slowest.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker We have a habit in writing articles published in scientific journals to make the work as finished as
possible, to cover up all the tracks, to not worry about the blind alleys or describe how you had The democratic theory is that if you accumulate enough ignorance at the polls, you produce
intelligence.
-- Philo Vance I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury.
-- Groucho Marx "Defeat the fear of death and welcome the death of fear." (G. Gordon Liddy) Soil and Additives A conclusion is the place where you got tired thinking.
-- Martin H. Fischer Question: If you could live forever, would you and why? Answer: I would not live forever, because
we should not live forever, because if we were supposed to live forever, then we would live
forever, Some men are born with cold feet; some acquire cold feet; and some have cold feet thrust upon
them.
-- Anonymous Soil and Additives
Marriage is a matter of give and take, but so far I haven't been able to find anybody who'll take
what I have to give.
-- Cass Daley The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed
desperation.
-- Henry David Thoreau, Walden (1854) History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte Republican boys date Democratic girls. They plan to marry Republican girls, but feel they're entitled to a little fun first. "The man who never made a mistake never made anything." (Derek Longdon, Tongariro Power Development, Turangi, New Zealand) Soil and Additives "If I work toward an end, meantime I am confined to a process. The rainbow is more beautiful than the pot at the end of it, because the rainbow is now. And the pot never turns out to be quite what I e Marriage is the one subject on which all women agree and all men disagree.
-- Oscar Wilde Technology makes it possible for people to gain control over everything, except over technology.
-- John Tudor Soil and Additives
Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.
-- Aristotle The health of the people is really the foundation upon which all their happiness and all their
powers as a State depend.
-- Benjamin Disraeli When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her. -- Guitry It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid.
- George Bernard Shaw In the sciences, we are now uniquely privileged to sit side by side with the giants on whose
shoulders we stand.
-- Gerald Holton Soil and Additives The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.
-- Harper Lee The only thing you take with you when you're gone is what you leave behind.
-- John Allston Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.
-- Aristotle Soil and Additives
If men knew all that women think, they'd be twenty times more daring.
-- Alphonse Karr The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when
we created them.
- Albert Einstein My father was a minister. I had to make up for the lack of sin.
-- Milwuakee mayor, on why he became a politician I'm not a member of any organized political party, I'm a Democrat!
-- Will Rogers It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
- Mark Twain Soil and Additives Every act of creation is first an act of destruction.
-- Pablo Picasso "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) When looking back, usually I'm more sorry for the things I didn't do than for the things I shouldn't
have done.
-- Malcolm Forbes Soil and Additives
Man is the best computer we can put aboard a spacecraft...and the only one that can be mass
produced with unskilled labor.
-- Wernher von Braun The IRS spends God knows how much of your tax money on these toll-free information hot lines
staffed by IRS employees, whose idea of a dynamite tax tip is that you should print neatly. If you
ask th Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.
-- St. Augustine Honorable, adj. Afflicted with an impediment in one's reach. In legislative bodies, it is customary
to mention all members as honorable; as, ``the honorable gentleman is a scurvy cur.'
-- Bierce, A Soil and Additives If a man is considered guilty for what goes on in his mind, give me the electric chair for all my
future crimes.
-- Prince It's not the men in my life that count, it's the life in my men.
-- Mae West "You believe that flag burning shows disrespect towards those who have fought to preserve our freedoms. Punishing protestors shows an even more profound disrespect for the ideals that these people die Soil and Additives
The democratic theory is that if you accumulate enough ignorance at the polls, you produce
intelligence.
-- Philo Vance To love another person is to help them love God.
-- Søren Kierkegaard To realize that you do not understand is a virtue;
Not to realize that you do not understand is a defect.
--Lao-Tzu, "Tao Teh Ching" The west wasn't won on salad.
-- ND Beef Council, billboard advertisement, 1990 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 Soil and Additives Politics doesn't make strange bedfellows, marriage does.
-- Groucho Marx Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after.
-- Anne Morrow Lindbergh The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
-- Mark Twain Soil and Additives
"If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way." (Mark Twain) "The proper office of a friend is to side with you when you are wrong. Nearly anybody will side with you when you are right." (Mark Twain) Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely
been detected.
-- Oscar Wilde "This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) Wives are people who feel they don't dance enough.
-- Groucho Marx Soil and Additives "Death solves all problems--no man, no problem." (Josef Stalin) The charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that, from age to age, nothing
changes and yet everything is completely different.
-- Aldous Huxley The last good thing written in C++ was the Pachelbel Canon.
-- Jerry Olson Soil and Additives
Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
- Henry Ford Destiny is but a phrase of the weak human heart - the dark apology for every error. The strong
and virtuous admit no destiny. On earth conscience guides; in heaven God watches. And destiny
is but th "If you do not know where you are going, any road will take you there." (Sterling Holloway, voice of Chesire Cat, Alice in Wonderland) To love another person is to see the face of God.
-- Lyric from Les Miserables "So little done, so much to do." (Cecil Rhodes) Soil and Additives Happy are those who dream dreams and are willing to pay the price to make them come true.
-- Anon. Honor's a good brooch to wear in a man's hat at all times.
-- Jonson, Ben I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
- e e cummings Soil and Additives
"... What good are dreams if they come true?" (Frederick Exley, A Fan's Notes) "Some people must go to extremes to get the world in balance for themselves. Some can't bear bright lights, so wherever they go they search for the dark; they turn the lights down, anything to sustain My other wife is beautiful. Republican boys date Democratic girls. They plan to marry Republican girls, but feel they're
entitled to a little fun first.
-- Anonymous "Fools rush in where angels fear to tread." (Alexander Pope) Soil and Additives Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it.
Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it.
Hatred darkens life; love illumines it.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Well if this is the wrong number, why did you answer it?
-- James Thurber We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.
-- George Bernard Shaw Soil and Additives
"I would rather die standing than live on my knees!" (Emiliano Zapata) Everybody can be great... because anybody can serve. You don't have to have a college degree
to serve. You don't have to make your subject and verb agree to serve. you only need a heart full
of grac "The most instructive experiences are those of everyday life." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) See what will happen if you don't stop biting your fingernails?
-- Will Rogers, to his niece on seeing the Venus de Milo Marriage is a matter of give and take, but so far I haven't been able to find anybody who'll take
what I have to give.
-- Cass Daley Soil and Additives When you have to kill a man, it costs nothing to be polite.
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"Hello Kitty is an icon that doesn't stand for a Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands, but English women only hope to find in their butlers. -- W. Somerset Maugham Soil and Additives
