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Democracy is a process by which the people are free to choose the man who will get the blame.
-- Laurence J. Peter My father taught me to work; he did not teach me to love it.
-- Abraham Lincoln Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress.
-- Gandhi "It is far better to be alone, than to be in bad company." (George Washington) Love is blind and marriage is the institution for the blind.
-- James Graham Schools Beginning in February 1976 your assistance benefits will be discontinued ... Reason: it has been
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-- excerpt from a letter, Illinois Depart The difference between marriage and death? Dead people are free. "I always thought a dog-lover was a dog who loved another dog." (James Thurber) Schools
"Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known." (Blaise Pascal) The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech.
-- George Bernard Shaw Seeing a murder on television can help work off one's antagonisms. And if you haven't any
antagonisms, the commercials will give you some.
-- Alfred Hitchcock Marital Freedom: The liberty that allows a husband to do exactly that which his wife pleases.
-- Anonymous The promises of maniacs, like those of women, are not safely relied upon.
-- Joseph Heller, God Knows Schools Love is what happens to men and women who don't know each other.
-- W. Somerset Maugham Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of
the other person.
-- Mark Twain "Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect every one who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are ine Schools
If it were weren't for pickpockets, I'd have no sex life at all.
-- Rodney Dangerfield Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions - it only guarantees equality of opportunity.
- Irving Kristol "Use what talents you possess; The woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best." (William Blake) Smoking kills. If you're killed, you've lost a very important part of your life.
-- Brooke Shields, during an interview to become spokesperson for a federal anti-smoking
campaign I base my fashion sense on what doesn't itch.
-- Gilda Radner Schools "Everywhere one seeks to produce meaning, to make the world signify, to render it visible. We are not, however, in danger of lacking meaning; quite the contrary, we are gorged with meaning and it is k "See - one side of my face is gentle and kind, incapable of anything but love of my fellow man. The other side, the other profile, is cruel and predatory and evil, incapable of anything but lusts and The whole problem can be stated quite simply by asking, "Is there a meaning to music?" My
answer would be, "Yes." And "Can you state in so many words what the meaning is?" My answer
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"If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they don't want to hear." (George Orwell) University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
- Henry Kissinger "Be not afraid of greatness. Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon 'em." (William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night, II:5) "I have the terrible feeling that, because I am wearing a white beard and am sitting in the back of the theatre, you expect me to tell you the truth about something. These are the cheap seats, not Mou We have children because we want immortality and this is the most reliable way of getting it.
-- Woodrow Wyatt Schools There are two means of refuge from the misery of life - music and cats.
-- Albert Schweitzer It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince Gentlemen, it is better to have died a small boy than to fumble this football.
-- John Heisman Schools
Genius has somewhat of the infantine; But of the childish not a touch or taint.
-- Robert Browning "Education is a vacine for violence." (Edward James Olmos) Morality consists in suspecting other people of not being legally married.
-- George Bernard Shaw Someday is not a day of the week.
-- Anon. That's the way things come clear. All of a sudden. And then you realize how obvious they've been
all along.
-- Madeleine L'Engle Schools "Children spell love...T-I-M-E." (Dr. Anthony P. Witham) "I'm so insane, I voted for Eisenhower."
"Oh yeah, well I'm so insane, I voted for Eisenhower TWICE!"
-- Ken Kesey from "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" We think caged birds sing, when indeed they cry.
-- John Webster Schools
"The order of the world is always right - such is the judgment of God. For God has departed, but he has left his judgment behind, the way the Cheshire Cat left his grin." (Jean Baudrillard) Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else.
-- George Bernard Shaw The full use of your powers along lines of excellence.
- definition of happiness by John F. Kennedy "Common sense and education are highly compatible; in fact, neither is worth much without the other." (Donald G. Smith) 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 Schools We do not remember days; we remember moments.
-- Anonymous The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when
we created them.
- Albert Einstein "Kill a man, and you are a murderer. Kill millions of men, and you are a conquerer. Kill everyone, and you are a god." (Jean Rostand) Schools
"Eschew the ordinary, disdain the commonplace. If you have a single-minded need for something, let it be the unusual, the esoteric, the bizarre, the unexpected..." (Chuck Jones) Gentlemen, it is better to have died a small boy than to fumble this football.
-- John Heisman "An imbalance between rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics." (Plutarch) Where there is love there is life.
-- Gandhi This is the fourth?
-- Thomas Jefferson, dying words Schools "In order to keep anything cultural, logical, or ideological, you have to reinvent the reality of it." (Ani Difranco) Health food makes me sick.
-- Calvin Trillin I didn't have time to write a short letter, so I wrote a long one instead.
-- Mark Twain Schools
A man sits with a pretty girl for an hour, it seems like a minute. He sits on a hot stove for a
minute, it's longer than any hour. That is relativity.
-- Albert Einstein "Nobody minds having what is too good for them." (Jane Austen) A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.
-- G. K. Chesterton The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat.
-- Lily Tomlin There ought to be one day - just one - when there is open season on senators.
-- Will Rogers Schools "Those who feel certainty are stupid and those with any imagination or understanding are filled with doubt and indecision." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Man is the only animal that blushes--or needs to.
-- Mark Twain Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though it is hard to
realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and
grie Schools
The trouble with children is that they are not returnable.
-- Quentin Crisp When I can no longer bear to think of the victims of broken homes, I begin to think of the victims
of intact ones.
-- Peter DeVries The imaginary friends I had as a kid dropped me because their friends thought I didn't exist.
-- Aaron Machado If you can't annoy somebody, there's little point in writing.
-- Kingsley Amis "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 Schools Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future.
-- Paul Boese It is not because it is difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that things are
difficult.
-- Lucius Anneaus Seneca Trying to determine what is going on in the world by reading newspapers is like trying to tell the
time by watching the second hand of a clock.
-- Ben Hecht Schools
The paradox is really the pathos of intellectual life and just as only great souls are exposed to
passions it is only the great thinker who is exposed to what I call paradoxes, which are . . .
grand "A friendship that exacts oneness of opinion and conduct is not worth much." (Mohandas Gandhi, In Search of the Supreme) Experience is the worst teacher; it gives the test before presenting the lesson.
-- Vernon Law Black holes are where God divided by zero.
- Steven Wright "Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Schools Not everything that can be counted counts; and not everything that counts can be counted.
-- Albert Einstein "I'll tell you something: Luxury disgusts me." (Giorgio Armani) "Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country." (Marquis de Lafayette) Schools
Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the
truth.
- Sherlock Holmes Did you ever notice when you blow in a dog's face he gets mad at you? But when you take him in
a car he sticks his head out the window.
-- Steve Bluestone "A thing of beauty is a joy forever." (John Keats) Watching the debate this afternoon it was apparent they loved term limits in the House -- as
Brutus loved Caesar.
-- Bill Moyers A man's feet should be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world.
-- George Santayana Schools "Education is a vacine for violence." (Edward James Olmos) You have to kiss a lot of toads before you find a handsome prince.
-- American Proverb "Not only is there no guarantee of the temporal immortality of the human soul, that is to say of its eternal survival after death; but, in any case, this assumption completely fails to accomplish the Schools
