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inspiring, entertaining, and a source of mind-boggling amounts of excrement when you least
expect i "Bread feeds the body, indeed, but flowers feed also the soul." (The Prophet Mohammad) "Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I have been attacked by Rush Limbaugh on the air, an experience somewhat akin to being
gummed by a newt. It doesn't actually hurt, but it leaves you with slimy stuff on your ankle.
-- Molly Ivins Organisations It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
- Oscar Wilde The only one of your children who does not grow up and move away is your husband. For of all sad words of tongue or pen,
The saddest are these: "It might have been!"
-- John Greenleaf Whittier Organisations
Most of our obstacles would melt away if, instead of cowering before them, we should make up
our minds to walk boldly through them.
-- Orison Swett Marden Wherever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.
-- Harry S. Truman Why bother with marriage? Just find a woman you hate and buy her a house. The most terrible poverty is loneliness and the feeling of being unloved.
-- Mother Teresa "In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends." (Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.) Organisations A man in the house is worth two in the street.
-- Mae West Inanimate objects are classified scientifically into three categories-- those that don't work, those
that break down, and those that get lost.
-- Russell Baker "Of all mankind the great poet is the equable man." (Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass, 1855) Organisations
Honeymoon: A short period of doting between dating and debting.
-- Ray Bandy "Everything in my life has been determined by mistakes." (Gene Wilder) "It wasn't until I started reading and found books they wouldn't let us read in school that I discovered you could be insane and happy and have a good life without being like everybody else." (John W "Use what talents you possess; The woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best." (William Blake) Women and Cats will do as they please. Men and dogs had better get used to it.
-- Robert Heinlein, Time Enough for Love, Lazarus Long Organisations If you cannot be the master of your language, you must be its slave. If you cannot examine your
thoughts, you have no choice but to think them, however silly they may be.
-- Richard Mitchell, from He who conquers himself is the mightiest warrior.
-- Confucius "When even one American--who has done nothing wrong--is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth--then all Americans are in peril." (Harry S. Truman) Organisations
"Don't let your ego get too close to your position, so that if your position gets shot down, your ego doesn't go with it." (Colin Powell) As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; and as far as they are
certain, they do not refer to reality.
-- Albert Einstein The absolute yearning of one human body for another particular body and its indifference to
substitutes is one of life's major mysteries.
-- Iris Murdoch That government is best which governs least.
-- Henry David Thoreau, Civil Disobedience, 1849 America's one of the finest countries anyone ever stole.
-- Bobcat Goldthwait Organisations The advantage of a classical education is that it enables you to despise the wealth which it
prevents you from achieving.
-- Russell Green There is no one so bound to his own face that he does not cherish the hope of presenting another
to the world.
-- Antonio Machado We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
-- Winston Churchill Organisations
"Bread feeds the body, indeed, but flowers feed also the soul." (The Prophet Mohammad) Having children makes you no more a parent than having a piano makes you a pianist.
-- Michael Levine, Lessons at the Halfway Point One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture and, if
possible, speak a few reasonable words.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe When in doubt, make a fool of yourself. There is a microscopically thin line between being
brilliantly creative and acting like the most gigantic idiot on earth. So what the hell, leap.
-- Cynthia H The more faithfully you listen to the voices within you, the better you will hear what is sounding
outside.
-- Dag Hammarskjold Organisations "Against stupidity the very gods themselves contend in vain." (Johann Christian Friedrich von Schiller, 1759-1805, The Maid of Orleans. Act iii. Sc. 6.) "Do not go gentle into that good night. Old age should burn and rave at close of day. Rage, rage against the dying of the light." (Dylan Thomas) An eye for an eye only leads to more blindness.
-- Margaret Atwood Organisations
"Who is more foolish? The fool or the fool that follows it?" (Alec Guinness) Life - a sexually transmitted terminal condition.
-- Walter Prager The fate of love is that it always seems too little or too much.
-- Anonymous "The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning, but without understanding." (Louis Brandeis) I'm worried that the universe will soon need replacing. It's not holding a charge.
-- Edward Chilton Organisations Great eaters and great sleepers are incapable of anything else that is great.
-- William Shakespeare, Henry IV If everything seems under control, you're just not going fast enough.
- Mario Andretti Radio news is bearable. This is due to the fact that while the news is being broadcast the disc
jockey is not allowed to talk.
-- Fran Lebowitz Organisations
He had decided to live forever or die in the attempt.
-- J. Heller "I am interested in anything about revolt, disorder , chaos--especially activity that seems to have no meaning. It seems to me to be the road toward freedom ... Rather than starting inside, I start ou The difference between 'involvement' and 'commitment' is like an eggs-and-ham breakfast: the
chicken was 'involved' - the pig was 'committed'.
- unknown 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 I went into a McDonald's yesterday and said, "I'd like some fries." The girl at the counter said,
"Would you like some fries with that?"
-- Jay Leno Organisations History repeats itself; that's one of the things that's wrong with history.
-- Clarence Darrow Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in
accordance with the dictates of reason.
-- Oscar Wilde When in doubt, make a fool of yourself. There is a microscopically thin line between being
brilliantly creative and acting like the most gigantic idiot on earth. So what the hell, leap.
-- Cynthia H Organisations
"I am not afraid of tomorrow, for i have seen yesterday and i love today!" (William Allen White) "The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do." (Anonymous) Love is what happens to men and women who don't know each other.
-- W. Somerset Maugham "To pretend, I actually do the thing: I have therefore only pretended to pretend." (Jacques Derrida, French 'deconstructionist') "Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences." (Isadora Duncan) Organisations We need the iron qualities that go with true manhood. We need the positive virtues of resolution,
of courage, of indomitable will, of power to do without shrinking the rough work that must always
be Viewed from the summit of reason, all life looks like a malignant disease and the world like a
madhouse.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe There are some things which cannot be learned quickly, and time, which is all we have, must be
paid heavily for their acquiring. They are the very simplest things and, because it takes a man's
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The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One
cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the
marvelous str "Someday there will be girls and women whose name will no longer mean the mere opposite of the male, but something in itself, something that makes one think not of any compliment and limit, but only o Faith is believing what you know ain't so.
-- Mark Twain Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the
moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future
generations First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.
- Mahatma Gandhi Organisations The tragedy of life is not that man loses, but that he almost wins.
-- Heywood Brown The better part of valor is discretion.
-- William Shakespeare 1564-1616 from King Henry the Fourth, Part I Cute little babies that fall out of swings - These are a few of my favourite things.
-- Oscar Hammerstein, working lyric for a piece from "The Sound of Music" Organisations
Always behave like a duck--keep calm and unruffled on the surface but paddle like the devil
underneath.
-- Jacob Braude What would you attempt if you knew you could not fail?
-- Robert Schuller "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) The secret of success is to know something nobody else knows.
- Aristotle Onassis It is never too late to be what you might have been.
-- George Eliot Organisations Laywers, I suppose, were children once.
-- Charles Lamb In the book of life, the answers aren't in the back.
-- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz Children are the only form of immortality that we can be sure of.
-- Peter Ustinov Organisations
I am not young enough to know everything.
-- Oscar Wilde "The English have all the material requisites for the revolution. What they lack is the spirit of generalization and revolutionary ardour." (Karl Marx) A memorandum is written not to inform the reader but to protect the writer.
-- Dean Acheson The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is
not read.
-- Oscar Wilde Disclaimer: Even my wife doesn't agree with everything I say, and she loves me dearly. My employers don't love me nearly as much as she does. Draw your own conclusions. Organisations The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.
-- G. K. Chesterton You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.
-- Albert Camus Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for the appointment by the corrupt few.
-- George Bernard Shaw Organisations
