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Dreams never hurt anybody if you keep working right behind the dreams to make as much of
them become real as you can.
-- Frank W. Woolworth Research is the act of going up alleys to see if they are blind.
-- Plutarch "How wondrous familiar is a fool!" (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) All virtue is summed up in dealing justly.
-- Aristotle In marriage, the bridge gets a shower. But for the groom, it's curtains! Cinema We can say 'Peace on Earth,' we can sing about it, preach about it or pray about it, but if we have
not internalized the mythology to make it happen inside us, then it will not be.
-- Betty Shabazz The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
-- Blaise Pascal, Pens&eactue;es, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer "Are you bored with life? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours." (Dale Cinema
Nature gave men two ends - one to sit on and one to think with. Ever since then man's success or
failure has been dependent on the one he used most.
-- George R. Kirkpatrick "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) My wife says if I go fishing one more time she's going to leave me. Gosh, I'm going to miss her. "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) I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day.
-- Vincent Van Gogh Cinema "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." (Albert Einstein) Every mother generally hopes that her daughter will snag a better husband than she managed to
do...but she's certain that her boy will never get as great a wife as his father did.
-- Anonymous It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
-- Mark Twain Cinema
I loathe people who keep dogs. They are cowards who haven't got the guts to bite people
themselves.
-- August Strindberg "Beauty without expression is boring." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Only the little people pay taxes.
-- Leona Helmsley, hotel owner and prison inmate, 1989 I admire the serene assurance of those who have religious faith. It is wonderful to observe the
calm confidence of a Christian with four aces.
-- Mark Twain That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the
lessons that history has to teach.
-- Aldous Huxley Cinema There are not enough Indians in the world to defeat the Seventh Cavalry.
-- George Armstrong Custer In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
- Martin Luther King Jr. A problem is a chance for you to do your best.
-- Buke Ellington Cinema
"If you believe everything you read, you better not read." (Japanese Proverb) 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 Life is a sexually transmitted terminal disease.
-- Colin Greene The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about.
-- Oscar Wilde The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.
-- G. K. Chesterton Cinema "For how can one know color in perpetual green, and what good is warmth without cold to give it sweetness?" (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) I think 'Hail to the Chief' has a nice ring to it.
- John F. Kennedy when asked what is his favorite song I am going to put myself to sleep now for a bit longer than usual. Call the time Eternity." (Jerzy Kosinski, Polish novelist, from his suicide note) Cinema
Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
- H. G. Wells This search for what you want is like tracking something that doesn't want to be tracked. It takes
time to get a dance right, to create something memorable.
-- Fred Astaire You are educated when you have the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your
temper or self-confidence.
-- Robert Frost Those parts of the system that you can hit with a hammer (not advised) are called hardware;
those program instructions that you can only curse at are called software.
-- Unknown author, Levitating T 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 Cinema We must believe in free will, we have no choice.
-- Isaac B. Singer He believes that marriage and a career don't mix. So after the wedding he plans to quit his job.
-- Anonymous When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her.
-- Sacha Guitry Cinema
"The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves." (William Hazlitt) Courage is the price that Love exacts for granting peace.
-- Amelia Earhart "He who cannot give anything away cannot feel anything either." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) It's never too late to have a happy childhood.
-- Tom Robbins, Still Life With Woodpecker "I put on an act sometimes, and people think I'm insensitive. Really, it's like a kind of armor because I'm too sensitive. If there are two hundred people in a room and one of them doesn't like me, I' Cinema We are not retreating - we are advancing in another Direction.
- General Douglas MacArthur blah "A subject for a great poet would be God's boredom after the seventh day of creation." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Actually, the only memory I have of being a Cub Scout was trying to get my hat back. That was all
I did. Run back and forth at my bus stop going "Quit it."
-- Jerry Seinfeld Cinema
"Liberty has never come from the government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of it. The history of liberty is a history of resistance. The history of liberty is a history of limitations of g What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Do not let yourselves be discouraged or embittered by the smallness of the success you are likely
to achieve in trying to make life better. You certainly would not be able, in a single generation, to I think every woman is entitled to a middle husband she can forget.
-- Adela Rogers St. John The coziness between church and state is good for the state and bad for the church.
-- G. K. Chesterton Cinema You can't shake hands with a clenched fist.
-- Indira Gandhi A memorandum is written not to inform the reader but to protect the writer.
-- Dean Acheson "Education is a vacine for violence." (Edward James Olmos) Cinema
English Law prohibits a man from marrying his mother-in-law. This is our idea of useless legislation. Epperson's law:
When a man says it's a silly, childish game, it's probably something his wife can beat him at. Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish.
-- Albert Einstein Work is the refuge of people who have nothing better to do.
-- Oscar Wilde "I consider it the highest compliment when my employees go out and start their own companies in competition with me. I always send them a plant to wish them well. Of course, it's a cactus." (Norman B Cinema The highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to make money do more for the
betterment of life.
-- Henry Ford Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame.
-- G. K. Chesterton I like nonsense -- it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living. It's a way
of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope...and that enables you to laugh at all Cinema
Don't look back -- something might be gaining on you.
-- Satchel Paige "A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men." (Roald Dahl) Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow.
-- Helen Keller "All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.
-- Gore Vidal Cinema "Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting.
- Karl Wallenda Never raise your hands to your kids. It leaves your groin unprotected.
-- Red Buttons Cinema
Duct tape is like the Force. It has a light side, a dark side, and it holds the universe together....
-- Carl Zwanzig "I owe much to my friends; but, all things considered, it strikes me that I owe even more to my enemies. The real person springs life under a sting even better than under a caress." (André Gide) The innkeeper loves the drunkard, but not for a son-in-law.
-- Yiddish Proverb "The White Rabbit put on his spectacles. 'Where shall I begin, please your Majesty?' he asked. 'Begin at the beginning,' the King said gravely, 'and go on till you come to the end: then stop.'" (Lewi By all means marry. If you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher. -- Socrates Cinema "For better or for worse, our company (The News Corporation Ltd.) is a reflection of my thinking, my character, my values." (Keith Rupert Murdoch, media mogul, 1931-) 2,400,000 Americans play the accordian - hopefully not at the same time.
-- inside of a Pepsi cap Marriage is bliss. Ignorance is bliss. Ergo... Cinema
Always go to the bathroom when you have a chance.
-- King George V Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.
-- Albert Einstein As for the virtuous poor, one can pity them, of course, but one cannot possibly admire them.
-- Oscar Wilde Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same.
-- Oscar Wilde You can observe a lot by watching.
-- Yogi Berra Cinema Of course there's a lot of knowledge in universities: the freshmen bring a little in; the seniors don't
take much away, so knowledge sort of accumulates...
-- Anonymous Marriage is not just a having a wife, but also worries inherited forever. "Dream as if you'll live forever; live as if you'll die tomorrow." (James Dean) Cinema
