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-- ee cummings I require three things in a man: He must be handsome, ruthless, and stupid.
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-- Jose Ortega y Gasset A conclusion is the place where you got tired thinking.
-- Martin H. Fischer Employment If something is boring after two minutes, try it for four. If still boring, then eight. Then sixteen. Then thirty-two. Eventually one discovers that it is not boring at all." (John Cage) "To make a living, craftiness is better than learnedness." (Pierre-Augustin de Beaumarchais) That's the nature of research--you don't know what in hell you're doing.
-- 'Doc' Edgerton Employment
It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.
-- Andre Gide Maybe this world is another planet's hell.
-- Aldous Huxley Integrity is what we do, what we say, and what we say we do.
--Don Galer There is nothing that can be said by mathematical symbols and relations which cannot also be
said by words. The converse, however, is false. Much that can be and is said by words cannot
successfully Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.
-- Salvador Dali Employment In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but how
many can get through to you.
-- Mortimer J. Adler Parents are the bones upon which children sharpen their teeth.
-- Peter Ustinov The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.
-- Franklin D. Roosevelt Employment
When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life
of another.
-- Helen Keller A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.
-- Fr. Jerome Cummings Peculiar travel suggestions are dancing lessons from God.
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of another.
-- Helen Keller "In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends." (Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.) Sir, I would rather be right than be President.
-- Henry Clay, Speech, 1850, referring to the Compromise Measure Employment
Love is like pi - natural, irrational, and very important.
-- Lisa Hoffman Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering.
-- Anonymous The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed
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-- Henry David Thoreau, Walden (1854) Do or do not. There is no try.
-- Yoda, character in the movie The Empire Strikes Back Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.
-- T. S. Eliot Employment The higher up you go, the more mistakes you are allowed. Right at the top, if you make enough of
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-- Fred Astaire I guess the only way to stop divorce is to stop marriage.
-- Will Rogers Two souls with but a single thought,
Two hearts that beat as one.
-- Fredrich Halm Employment
Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for the appointment by the corrupt few.
-- George Bernard Shaw By the time (the Leaning Tower of Pisa) was 10% built, everyone knew it would be a total
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a fortune If I have not seen as far as others, it is because giants were standing on my shoulders.
-- Hal Abelson Most people are more comfortable with old problems than with new solutions.
-- Anonymous Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing.
-- Oscar Wilde Employment Democracy is a process by which the people are free to choose the man who will get the blame.
-- Laurence J. Peter Familiarity breeds contempt -- and children.
-- Mark Twain Television: A medium. So called because it is neither rare nor well done.
-- Ernie Kovacs Employment
Intelligence has nothing to do with politics.
-- Londo Molari It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely uneducated.
-- Alec Bourne, A Doctor's Creed Love is not blind - it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.
Rabbi Julius Gordon Love is what happens to men and women who don't know each other.
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-- Wehrner von Braun You can pretend to be serious; you can't pretend to be witty.
- Sacha Guitry Democracy is a form of government in which it is permitted to wonder aloud what the country
could do under first-class management.
-- Senator Soaper Employment
In every man's heart there is a secret nerve that answers to the vibrations of beauty.
-- Christopher Morley Some men are born with cold feet; some acquire cold feet; and some have cold feet thrust upon
them.
-- Anonymous Wit is educated insolence.
- Aristotle Democracy is the name we give the people whenever we need them.
-- Marquis de Flers Robert and Arman de Caillavet My wife says if I go fishing one more time she's going to leave me. Gosh, I'm going to miss her. Employment You can observe a lot by watching.
-- Yogi Berra Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure.
-- George E. Woodberry No woman marries for money; they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in
love with him first.
-- Cesare Pavese Employment
"No drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ignorance, g Motivation will almost always beat mere talent.
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-- Bertolt Brecht "I think all great innovations are built on rejections." (Louis-Ferdinand Céline) We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next door neighbour.
-- G. K. Chesterton Employment
"Ninety percent of my salary I spent on booze and women ... and the other ten percent I wasted." (Tug McGraw, Major League Baseball pitcher) The Bible contains six admonishments to homosexuals and 362 admonishments to
heterosexuals. That doesn't mean that God doesn't love heterosexuals. It's just that they need
more supervision.
-- Lynn Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.
- Isaac Asimov She felt in italics and thought in capitals.
-- Henry James If God had meant us to vote, He would have given us candidates.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Employment Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.
-- Abraham Lincoln "Defeat the fear of death and welcome the death of fear." (G. Gordon Liddy) I hate women because they always know where things are.
-- James Thurber Employment
The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind
woman.
-- S. T. Coleridge blah "It is a grand mistake to think of being great without goodness and I pronounce it as certain that there was never a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous." (Benjamin Fran The philosophy exam was a piece of cake -- which was a bit of a surprise, actually, because I
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-- Smith & Jones This is the fourth?
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are just too many women in the world to justify that sort of dishonorable behavior. Unless she's
reall Employment The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed
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-- Henry David Thoreau, Walden (1854) The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but
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-- Thomas Jefferson Marriage certificate is just another word for a work permit. Employment
An ideal wife is one who remains faithful to you but tries to be just as charming as if she weren't.
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-- Michael McShane "Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) Employment
