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The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four Americans is suffering from some form of
mental illness. Think of your three best friends. If they're okay, then it's you.
-- Rita Mae Brown In the book of life, the answers aren't in the back.
-- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz Those parts of the system that you can hit with a hammer (not advised) are called hardware;
those program instructions that you can only curse at are called software.
-- Unknown author, Levitating T The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it.
-- Anonymous Let the refining and improving of your own life keep you so busy that you have little time to
criticize others.
-- H. Jackson Brown Martial Arts For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of our tasks; the ultimate,
the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.
-- Rainer Maria Ril We have art to save ourselves from the truth.
- Friedrich Nietzsche "Think where mans glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends." (William Butler Yeats) Martial Arts
Flowers are words which even a baby can understand.
-- Arthur C. Coxe You can't buy love, but you can pay heavily for it.
-- Henny Youngman If love is the answer, could you rephrase the question?
-- Lily Tomlin If you haven't got anything nice to say about anybody, come sit next to me.
- Alice Roosevelt Longworth Marriage is very much like a violin; after the sweet music is over, the strings are attached. Martial Arts 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
of "Commit yourself to quality from day one ... it's better to do nothing at all than to do something badly." (Mark McCormack) Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think.
-- Niels Bohr Martial Arts
"The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore." (Samuel Butler) Anyone can be passionate, but it takes real lovers to be silly.
-- Rose Franken Marry not a tennis player. For love means nothing to them. Oregon Democratic Senate candidate Tom Bruggere, in describing his support for
comprehensive health care during a candidates' forum, said he supported "erection-to-
resurrection" coverage. He later a "He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches." (George Bernard Shaw) Martial Arts Go away...I'm alright.
-- H. G. Wells, dying words Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.
-- G. K. Chesterton A person should never be ashamed to own that he is wrong, which is but saying in other words
that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.
-- Alexander Pope Martial Arts
A baby is God's opinion that the world should go on.
-- Carl Sandburg It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid.
- George Bernard Shaw "Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something." (Plato, 427 BC-348) The first half of our life is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
-- Clarence Darrow A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
-- Robert Frost Martial Arts Marital Freedom: The liberty that allows a husband to do exactly that which his wife pleases.
-- Anonymous I don't know exactly what democracy is. But we need more of it.
-- Anonymous Chinese Student, during protests in Tianamen Square, Beijing, 1989 I haven't committed a crime. What I did was fail to comply with the law.
-- David Dinkins, New York City Mayor, answering accusations that he failed to pay his taxes. Martial Arts
Love is blind -- marriage is the eye-opener.
-- Pauline Thomason I've been trying desperately to save my marriage for the last 35 years. Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances
continue to exist, a wonderful living side by side can grow up, if they succeed in loving the
distance "The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing." (John Powell) I believe in getting into hot water; it keeps you clean.
-- G. K. Chesterton Martial Arts "It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure on the world." (John Steinbeck "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 It is with true love as it is with ghosts; everyone talks about it, but few have seen it.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld Martial Arts
The world has achieved brilliance without conscience. Ours is a world of nuclear giants and
ethical infants.
-- General Omar Bradley Bride: A woman with a fine prospect of happiness behind her. Don't anthropomorphize computers -- they hate it.
-- Anonymous If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolute powerlessness make you pure?
-- Harry Shearer Friends applaud, the Comedy is over.
-- Ludwig von Beethoven, dying words Martial Arts I never miss a chance to have sex or appear on television.
-- Gore Vidal "One will rarely err if extreme actions be ascribed to vanity, ordinary actions to habit, and mean actions to fear." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Gifts must affect the receiver to the point of shock." (Walter Benjamin) Martial Arts
"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 Someone once asked me why women don't gamble as much as men do and I gave the
commonsensical reply that we don't have as much money. That was a true but incomplete
answer. In fact, women's total ins History repeats itself; that's one of the things that's wrong with history.
-- Clarence Darrow Truth must necessarily be stranger than fiction, for fiction is the creation of the human mind and
therefore congenial to it.
-- G. K. Chesterton "How can we know the dancer from the dance?" (William Butler Yeats) Martial Arts "There is nothing more fearful than ignorance in action." (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1749-1832, Criticisms, Reflections and Maxims) "There is only one success: to be able to spend your life in your own way, and not to give others absurd maddening claims upon it." (Christopher Darlington Morley) "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) Martial Arts
"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) I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is; I only know that people call
me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat.
-- Rebecca West, Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.
- Jean-Paul Sartre I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible
by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.
- Umberto Eco "Most people don't realize that large pieces of coral, which have been painted brown and attached to the skull by common wood screws, can make a child look like a deer." (Jack Handey) Martial Arts Propel, propel, propel your craft softly down liquid solution. Ecstatically, ecstatically, ecstatically,
ecstatically, Existence is simply illusion.
-- Fred Rogers, parody of "Row, row, row your boa A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn; it can be stabbed to death by a joke
or worried to death by a frown on the right person's brow.
-- Charles Brower Marry not a tennis player. For love means nothing to them. Martial Arts
Outside of the killings, Washington has one of the lowest crime rates in the country.
-- Marion Barry, Mayor, Washington, D.C. "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) Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. No wonder nobody comes here--it's too crowded.
-- Yogi Berra Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get
money from it.
-- Stephen Leacock Martial Arts The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
- Mark Twain "So little done, so much to do." (Cecil Rhodes) Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that he sometimes has to eat them.
-- Adlai Stevenson Martial Arts
In any organization there will always be one person who knows what is going on. This person
must be fired.
-- Conway's Law "This is the first age that's paid much attention to the future, which is a little ironic since we may not have one." (Arthur C. Clarke) We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart. -- H.L. Mencken Having children makes you no more a parent than having a piano makes you a pianist.
-- Michael Levine, Lessons at the Halfway Point Outside of the killings, Washington has one of the lowest crime rates in the country.
-- Marion Barry, Mayor, Washington, D.C. Martial Arts It destroys one's nerves to be amiable everyday to the same human being.
-- Benjamin Disraeli The person who is slowest in making a promise is most faithful in its performance.
-- Jean-Jacques Rousseau "Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Martial Arts
He who laughs last thinks slowest.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold
of a hammer.
-- Will Rogers I should have no objection to a repetition of the same life from its beginning, only asking the
advantages authors have in a second edition to correct some faults of the first.
-- Benjamin Franklin We think caged birds sing, when indeed they cry.
-- John Webster When making public policy decisions about new technologies for the Government, I think one
should ask oneself which technologies would best strengthen the hand of a police state. Then, do
not allow Martial Arts Imagine if every Thursday your shoes exploded if you tied them the usual way. This happens to
us all the time with computers, and nobody thinks of complaining.
-- Jeff Raskin History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for the appointment by the corrupt few.
-- George Bernard Shaw Martial Arts
