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"Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom." (Raymonde Uy) You can close your eyes to reality, but not to memories.
-- Stanislaw J. Lem UGLINESS, n. A gift of the gods to certain women, entailing virtue without humility.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 Practice random acts of kindness and sensless acts of beauty.
-- Adair Lara "No one wants a good education. Everyone wants a good degree." (Lee Rudolph) Cricket "The last Christian died on the cross." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) A clever man commits no minor blunders.
- Goethe "Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Cricket
Egotist: a person more interested in himself than in me.
- Ambrose Bierce I think every woman is entitled to a middle husband she can forget.
-- Adela Rogers St. John If you talk to God, you are praying; if God talks to you, you have schizophrenia.
-- Thomas Szasz "I am the lizard king. I can do anything." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) I am become death, shatterer of worlds.
-- Robert J. Oppenheimer, citing from the Bhagavadgita, after witnessing the world's first nuclear
explosion Cricket 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. 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 "One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries." (A. A. Milne) Cricket
Every man knows his follies and often they are the most interesting thing he has got.
-- Josh Billings He who awaits much can expect little.
-- Gabriel Garcia Marquez 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.
Conceit causes more conversation than wit.
-- LaRouchefoucauld An understanding heart is everything is a teacher, and cannot be esteemed highly enough. One
looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our
human Cricket Technology makes it possible for people to gain control over everything, except over technology.
-- John Tudor Cliches should be avoided like the plague.
-- Anon. Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three pillars of learning.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Cricket
"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 I still say a church steeple with a lightning rod on top shows a lack of confidence.
-- Doug MacLeod Worrying is like a rocking chair, it gives you something to do, but it doesn't get you anywhere.
-- Anonymous There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you
yourself have altered.
-- Nelson Mandela, A Long Walk to Freedom A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
Robert Frost (1874-1963) Cricket The best time to hold your tongue is the time you feel you must say something or bust.
-- Josh Billings People only see what they are prepared to see.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson All over Washington today, the politicians and the power brokers are happy. In fact, if you listen
closely, you can hear the sound of champagne corks popping.
-- Paul Jacob, Term Limits Executive Di Cricket
I shall return.
-- General Douglas MacArthur I must follow the people. Am I not their leader?
-- Benjamin Disraeli In the past decade or so, the women's magazines have taken to running home-handyperson
articles suggesting that women can learn to fix things just as well as men. These articles are
apparently based "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 Men are strong only so long as they represent a strong idea. They become powerless when they
oppose it.
-- Sigmund Freud Cricket Icky icky icky icky fKANG zoop-boing n zowzyin...
-- The Knights who so recently said "Nee!", Monty Python, British comedy television show You can not apply mathematics as long as words still becloud reality.
-- Hermann Weyl A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties; no
religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear
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I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones.
-- John Cage People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid.
- Soren Aabye Kierkegaard An act of love that fails is just as much a part of the divine life as an act of love that succeeds, for
love is measured by fullness, not by reception.
-- Harold Loukes Give me chastity and continence, but not yet.
- Saint Augustine "Great spirits have always faced voilent protest from mediocre minds." (Albert Einstein) Cricket Paradoxically though it may seem, it is none the less true that life imitates art far more than art
imitates life.
-- Oscar Wilde I do not consider it an insult, but rather a compliment to be called an agnostic. I do not pretend to
know where many ignorant men are sure -- that is all that agnosticism means.
- Clarence Darrow, Anything too stupid to be said, is sung.
-- Voltaire Cricket
We didn't lose the game; we just ran out of time.
- Vince Lombardi The great end of life is not knowledge, but action. What men need is as much knowledge as they
can organize for action; give them more and it may become injurious. Some men are heavy and
stupid from Under capitalism man exploits man; under socialism the reverse is true.
-- Polish proverb "Common sense and education are highly compatible; in fact, neither is worth much without the other." (Donald G. Smith) Children should be like waffles--you should be able to throw the first one away.
-- Mary Alice Messenger Cricket "There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) "I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is." (Alan Watts) One cardinal rule of marriage should never be forgotten: "Give little, give seldom, and above all,
give grudgingly." Otherwise, what could have been a proper marriage could become an orgy of
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You cannot think about thinking, without thinking about thinking about something.
-- Seymour Papert There are trivial truths, and there are great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false.
The opposite of a great truth is also true.
-- Neils Bohr Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork
picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art.
-- Tom Stoppard Diplomacy is the art of saying "Nice doggie" until you can find a rock.
-- Wynn Catlin, also attributed to Will Rogers Marriage is like a mousetrap. Those on the outside are trying to get in. Those on the inside are trying to get out. Cricket Wagner's music is better than it sounds.
- Mark Twain It is no use walking anywhere to preach unless our walking is our preaching.
-- St. Francis of Assisi The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll Cricket
'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
-- ee cummings The crime bill passed by the Senate would reinstate the Federal death penalty for certain violent
crimes: assassinating the President; hijacking an airliner; and murdering a government poultry
inspe It was very good of God to let Carlyle and Mrs Carlyle marry one another and so make only two people miserable instead of four, besides being very amusing. Having once decided to achieve a certain task, achieve it at all costs of tedium and distaste. The
gain in self-confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labor is immense.
-- Thomas Arnold Bennet I don't know exactly what democracy is. But we need more of it.
-- Anonymous Chinese Student, during protests in Tianamen Square, Beijing, 1989 Cricket University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
-- Henry Kissinger Jealousy is the only vice that gives no pleasure.
-- Anonymous The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with
the wish to teach himself.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton Cricket
"Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Ordinary riches can be stolen, real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that
cannot be taken from you.
-- Oscar Wilde Whoever is not a misanthrope at forty can never have loved mankind.
-- Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort "If you believe everything you read, you better not read." (Japanese Proverb) Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Cricket I still believe in liberalism today as much as I ever did, but, oh, there was a happy time when I
believed in liberals...
-- G. K. Chesterton Substitute "damn" every time you're inclined to write "very"; your editor will delete it and the
writing will be just as it should be.
-- Mark Twain One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.
-- Virginia Woolf Cricket
Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.
-- Oscar Wilde "This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) It is not necessary to understand things in order to argue about them.
-- Pierre Augustin de Beaumarchais "When marrying, ask yourself this question: Do you believe that you will be able to converse well with this person into your old age? Everything else in marriage is transitory." (Friedrich Wilhelm Ni Second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience. Cricket I still live.
-- Daniel Webster, dying words Usenet is like a herd of performing elephants with diarrhea -- massive, difficult to redirect, awe-
inspiring, entertaining, and a source of mind-boggling amounts of excrement when you least
expect i Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech.
- Martin Fraquhar Tupper Cricket
