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I'm for abolishing and doing away with redundancy.
-- J. Curtis McKay, Wisconsin State Elections Board 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 "Experience is a good teacher, but she sends in terrific bills." (Minna Antrim) It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.
-- Abraham Lincoln "Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave, and impossible to forget." (G. Randolf) Track and Field The difference between marriage and death? Dead people are free. Marriage is more than four bare legs in a bed.
-- Hoshang N. Akhtar An eye for an eye only leads to more blindness.
-- Margaret Atwood Track and Field
If I have not seen as far as others, it is because giants were standing on my shoulders.
-- Hal Abelson Try praising your wife, even if it does frighten her at first.
-- Billy Sunday "I expect nothing. I fear no one. I am free." (Nikos Kazantzakis) "Video games are bad for you? That's what they said about rock 'n roll." (Shigeru Miyamoto, game designer for Nintendo) There are three great friends: an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.
-- Benjamin Franklin Track and Field If God wanted women to understand men, football would never have been created.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Women see better than men. Men see lazily, if they do not expect to act. Women see quite
without any wish to act.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson They were doing a full back shot of me in a swimsuit and I thought, Oh my God, I have to be so
brave. See, every woman hates herself from behind.
-- Cindy Crawford, supermodel Track and Field
"I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it." (Thomas Jefferson, to Archibald Stuart, 1791) What if it was cats who invented technology... would they have tv shows starring rubber sqeak
toys?
-- Douglas Coupland Always behave like a duck--keep calm and unruffled on the surface but paddle like the devil
underneath.
-- Jacob Braude .. 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 Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.
- Bertrand Russell Track and Field If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?
-- Abraham Lincoln Many a man has finally succeeded only because he has failed after repeated efforts. If he had
never met defeat he would never have known any great victory.
-- Orison Swett Marden The multitude is always in the wrong.
-- Wentworth Dillon, Earl of Roscommon, 1684 Track and Field
To heck with marrying a girl who makes biscuits like her mother--I want to marry one who makes dough like her father. "All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) 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" "Yes, I am a dreamer. For a dreamer is one who can find his way by moonlight, and see the dawn before the rest of the world." (Oscar Wilde) As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.
-- Abraham Lincoln Track and Field I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
-- Mark Twain A man's wife has more power over him than the state has.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson The Holocaust was an obscene period in our nation's history...this century's history.... We all lived
in this century. I didn't live in this century.
-- Dan Quayle, then Indiana senator and Republic Track and Field
Any sufficiently advanced bureaucracy is indistinguishable from molasses.
-- Anon. 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 The last good thing written in C++ was the Pachelbel Canon.
-- Jerry Olson They couldn't hit an elephant at this dist---
-- John B. Sedgwick, general, dying words, 1864 Obstacles cannot crush me. Every obstacle yields to stern resolve. He who is fixed to a star does
not change his mind.
-- Leonardo da Vinci, Notebooks Track and Field 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 We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.
-- George Bernard Shaw When you've spent half your political life dealing with humdrum issues like the environment... it's
exciting to have a real crisis on your hands.
-- Margaret Thatcher, on the Falklands Conflict Track and Field
The concept is interesting and well-formed, but in order to earn better than a 'C', the idea must be
feasible.
- A Yale University management professor in response to student Fred Smith's paper prop The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
-- B. F. Skinner The difference between 'involvement' and 'commitment' is like an eggs-and-ham breakfast: the
chicken was 'involved' - the pig was 'committed'.
- unknown Duct tape is like the Force. It has a light side, a dark side, and it holds the universe together....
-- Carl Zwanzig The secret of success is to know something nobody else knows.
- Aristotle Onassis Track and Field If God had meant us to vote, He would have given us candidates.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker However, never daunted, I will cope with adversity in my usual manner...sulking and nausea.
-- Tom K. Ryan Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
-- George Santayana Track and Field
"If man could be crossed with the cat, it would improve man but deteriorate the cat." (Mark Twain) "The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing." (John Powell) Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote.
-- George Jean Nathan Ah Mozart! He was happily married - but his wife wasn't. -- Borge "I never learned from a man who agreed with me." (Robert A. Heinlein) Track and Field "People have to talk about something just to keep their voice boxes in working order so they'll have good voice boxes in case there's ever anything really meaningful to say." (Kurt Vonnegut) "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') As always, victory finds a hundred fathers but defeat is an orphan.
-- Count Galeazzo Ciano, The Ciano Diaries Track and Field
Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.
- George Eliot A memorandum is written not to inform the reader but to protect the writer.
-- Dean Acheson But at my back I always hear Time's winged chariot hurrying near.
- Andrew Marvell "Thanks to my solid academic training, today I can write hundreds of words on virtually any topic without possessing a shred of information, which is how I got a good job in journalism." (Dave Barry) In olden times, sacrifices were made at the altar, a practice which is still very much practiced.
-- Helen Rowland Track and Field "I'll tell you something: Luxury disgusts me." (Giorgio Armani) You cannot think about thinking, without thinking about thinking about something.
-- Seymour Papert Such is life.
-- Ned Kelly, Last words, before being hung at Old Melbourne Gaol Track and Field
Education is not filling a bucket, but lighting a fire.
-- William Yeats Laugh and the world laughs with you. Snore and you sleep alone.
-- Anthony Burgess "The devil's agents may be of flesh and blood, may they not?" (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of the Baskervilles) The wit of a graduate student is like champagne. Canadian champagne.
-- Robertson Davies "May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house." (George Carlin) Track and Field This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold
of a hammer.
-- Will Rogers Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.
-- George Orwell That's the nature of research--you don't know what in hell you're doing.
-- 'Doc' Edgerton Track and Field
blah "The length of this document defends it well against the risk of its being read." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) Cricket is best described as organised loafing.
-- Anonymous British Radio Broadcaster, 1996 Integrity is what we do, what we say, and what we say we do.
--Don Galer It is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions.
-- Aldous Huxley In the end, everything is a gag.
-- Charlie Chaplin Track and Field Marriage resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated; often moving in
opposite directions, yet always punishing any one who comes between them.
-- Sydney Smith If you are afraid of loneliness, don't marry.
-- Chekhov In marriage, as in war, it is permitted to take every advantage of the enemy. Track and Field
This compact disc is made from analog masters recorded without noise reduction. Half the tracks,
in fact, were recorded in a dismal, cheap basement eight-track studio with puddles of water on
the fl Correction: Instead of being arrested, as we stated, for kicking his wife down a flight of stairs and hurling a lighted kerosene lamp after her, the Rev. James P. Wellman died unmarried four years ago The democratic theory is that if you accumulate enough ignorance at the polls, you produce
intelligence.
-- Philo Vance 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.
Man and wife make one fool. Track and Field "A man who tells lies, like me, merely hides the truth. But a man who tells half-lies has forgotten where he put it." (Claude Rains, as Mr. Dryden, Lawrence of Arabia, 1962) "Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies." (Gore Vidal) It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
-- Oscar Wilde Track and Field
