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Our schools have been scientifically designed to prevent over-education from happening. [...] The
average American (should be) content with their humble role in life, because they're not tempted
to "Every act of violence increases the recruitment of terrorists. Iraq has been turned into a base of terror." (Noam Chomsky, from The Toronto Star, March 23, 2004) "What is most appealing about young folks, after all, is the changes, not the still photograph of finished character but the movie, the soul in flux." (Thomas Pynchon) Obedience is the gateway through which knowledge, yes, and love, too, enter the mind of the
child.
-- Anne Sullivan 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 Media It is important that students bring a certain ragamuffin, barefoot, irreverence to their studies; they
are not here to worship what is known, but to question it.
-- J. Bronowski, The Ascent of Man In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that
no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it's the exact opposite.
-- Paul Dirac "We have so little presumption that we should like to be known in the world, even to those who come after when we are no more. We have so little vanity that the esteem of five people, say six, amuses Media
Harpo, she's a lovely person. She deserves a good husband. Marry her before she finds one.
-- Oscar Levant, to Harpo Marx upon meeting Harpo's fiancee Marriage means commitment. Of course, so does insanity. "If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they don't want to hear." (George Orwell) "Majority rule only works if you're also considering individual rights. Because you can't have five wolves and one sheep voting on what to have for supper." (Larry Flynt) The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains that I
have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time.
-- George Bernard Shaw Media One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good
reputation.
-- Oscar Wilde "The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do." (Anonymous) Luck is the residue of design.
- Branch Rickey - former owner of the Brooklyn Dodger Baseball Team Media
Your goals, minus your doubts, equal your reality.
-- Ralph Marston blah "Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the government of himself. Can he, then be trusted with the government of others? Or have we found angels in the form of kings to govern him? Peculiar travel suggestions are dancing lessons from God.
-- Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., Cat's Cradle Everything that can be invented has been invented.
- Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899 "Love is always a stranger in the house of avarice." (Andreas Capellanus) Media "Greed, for lack of a better word, is good. Greed is right. Greed works." (Michael Douglas, as Gordon Gekko, Wall Street, 1987) People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid.
- Soren Aabye Kierkegaard The west wasn't won on salad.
-- ND Beef Council, billboard advertisement, 1990 Media
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 What's new? Most of my wife. Marriage is like a violin. After the music is over, you still have the strings.
-- Anonymous Fine art and pizza delivery: what we do falls neatly in between.
-- David Letterman Stung by the splendour of a sudden thought.
-- Robert Browning Media My mother's menu consisted of two choices: Take it or leave it.
-- Buddy Hackett "Good taste is the first refuge of the non-creative. It is the last-ditch stand of the artist." (Marshall McLuhan) I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think.
-- Socrates Media
I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a
woman.
-- Virginia Woolf "Failure is not an option!" (Ed Harris, as Gene Kranz, Apollo 13) You can pretend to be serious; you can't pretend to be witty.
- Sacha Guitry "Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent." (Napoleon Bonaparte) "Conscience and cowardice are really the same things. Conscience is the trade-name of the firm. That is all." (Oscar Wilde) Media Man is the only animal that blushes--or needs to.
-- Mark Twain To love someone deeply gives you strength. Being loved by someone deeply gives you courage.
-- Lao Tzu I don't feel good.
-- Luther Burbank, dying words Media
The average person thinks he isn't.
- Father Larry Lorenzoni "Greed, for lack of a better word, is good. Greed is right. Greed works." (Michael Douglas, as Gordon Gekko, Wall Street, 1987) Life is ours to be spent, not to be saved.
-- D.H. Lawrence The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.
-- ROBERT FROST "Better is the enemy of good." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) Media Fanaticism consists of redoubling your efforts when you have forgotten your aim.
-- George Santayana Being in therapy is great. I spend an hour just talking about myself. It's kinda like being the guy on
a date.
-- Caroline Rhea Learn to laugh at your troubles and you'll never run out of things to laugh at.
-- Lyn Karol Media
We can never be sure that the opinion we are endeavoring to stifle is a false opinion; and if we
were sure, stifling it would be an evil still.
-- John Stuart Mill Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot. 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 "A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools." (Douglas Adams) Friends may come and go, but enemies accumulate.
-- Thomas Jones Media I sometimes think that God, in creating man, overestimated His ability.
-- Oscar Wilde I'm proud to be paying taxes in the United States. The only thing is - I could be just as proud for
half the money.
-- Arthur Godfrey Fighting is essentially a masculine idea; a woman's weapon is her tongue.
-- Hermione Gingold Media
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 "The concerned investment banker is the one who blows the horn on his Mercedes as he drives through a red light." (Anonymous) The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
-- Blaise Pascal, Pens&eactue;es, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer Honor the ocean of love.
-- George de Benneville blah "A subject for a great poet would be God's boredom after the seventh day of creation." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Media By the time (the Leaning Tower of Pisa) was 10% built, everyone knew it would be a total
disaster. But the investment was so big they felt compelled to go on. Since its completion, it cost
a fortune 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 Prejudice is the child of ignorance.
-- William Hazlitt Media
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 only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing." (John Powell) 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 "People drag their progeny around with them like a ball and chain, like some terrible deadweight that hinders their every move - and that, as often as not, effectively winds up killing them." (Michel Sex is the mathematics urge sublimated.
-- M. C. Reed Media We do not remember days; we remember moments.
-- Anonymous The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. The opposite of a profound truth may
well be another profound truth.
- Niels Bohr We all agree that your theory is crazy, but is it crazy enough?
- Niels Bohr Media
It is a product of Einstein's genius -- taking a commonplace observation, combining it with some
simple imaginary experiments, and arriving at a revolutionary conclusion.
-- Clifford M. Wills, 1986 People, like nails, lose their effectiveness when they lose direction and begin to bend.
-- Walter Savage Landor Blessed are the young for they shall inherit the national debt.
-- Herbert Hoover Music is the art of thinking with sounds.
-- Jules Combarieu "A wise man among the ignorant is as a beautiful girl in the company of blind men." (Saadi) Media I used to be Snow White, but I drifted.
-- Mae West Vote early and vote often.
- Al Capone "Paper should be edible, nutritious. Inks used for printing or writing should have delicious flavors. Magazines or newspapers read at breakfast should be eaten for lunch. Instead of throwing one's mai Media
It is not necessary that whilst I live I live happily; but it is necessary that so long as I live I should
live honourably.
-- Kant, Immanuel Every St. Patrick's Day every Irishman goes out to find another Irishman to make a speech to.
-- Shane Leslie The scientific theory I like best is that the rings of Saturn are composed entirely of lost airline
luggage.
-- Mark Russell If God created us in His image we have certainly returned the compliment.
-- Voltaire The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about.
-- Oscar Wilde Media Tauzin backs term limits -- But he thinks it's a bad idea.
-- Headline, story in the New Orleans Times-Picayune, Feb 20, 1995 A person starts to live when he can live outside himself.
-- Albert Einstein "I would rather die standing than live on my knees!" (Emiliano Zapata) Media
