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"If a man has good corn, or wood, or boards, or pigs to sell, or can make better chairs or knives, crucibles, or church organs, than anybody else, you will find a broad, hard-beaten road to his house, Education is the state-controlled manufacture of echoes.
-- Norman Douglas Friends need not agree in everything or go always together, or have no comparable other
friendships of the same intimacy. On the contrary, in friendship union is more about ideal things:
and in that "A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men." (Roald Dahl) The gods gave man fire and he invented fire engines. They gave him love and he invented marriage. Crime and Policing Is fuel efficiency really what we need most desperately? I say what we really need is a car that
can be shot when it breaks down.
-- Russell Baker To teach is to learn twice.
-- Joseph Joubert Love is stronger than justice.
-- Sting Crime and Policing
In olden times sacrifices were made at the altar--a practice which is still continued.
-- Helen Rowland Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can
never tell.
-- Joan Crawford blah blah blah blah blah "This is the way the world ends: not with a bang, but a whimper." (Thomas Stearns Eliot, aka T. S. Eliot) _end]
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"Hello Kitty is an icon that doesn't stand for a "The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of the dream." (Eleanor Roosevelt) Age does not make us childish, as some say; it finds us true children.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Crime and Policing Spinster: A bachelor's wife. "These are days you'll remember." If you recall nothing else from your graduation ceremony,
remember you heard the New Jersey Governor quote from 10,000 Maniacs.
-- Christine Todd, NJ Governor, Whea Art and science have their meeting point in method.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton Crime and Policing
Great innovations should not be forced on slender majorities.
-- Thomas Jefferson Books had instant replay long before televised sports.
-- Bern Williams Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. The first rule of intelligent tinkering is to save all the parts.
-- Paul Ehrlich I criticize by creation - not by finding fault.
- Cicero Crime and Policing There is nothing better for the spirit or the body than a love affair. It elevates the thoughts and
flattens the stomachs.
-- Barbara Howar "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 Anyone who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without
feminine upheaval. Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex,
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If the government wants people to respect the law, it should set a better example.
-- Anon. You cannot think about thinking, without thinking about thinking about something.
-- Seymour Papert The artist alone sees spirits. But after he has told of their appearing to him, everybody sees them.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by heart and his friends can
only read the title.
-- Virginia Woolf I believe God is managing affairs and that He doesn't need any advice from me. With God in
charge, I believe everything will work out for the best in the end. So what is there to worry about.
-- Hen Crime and Policing I know nothing about sex, because I was always married.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor And I shall love thee still my dear, Until my wife is wise. 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
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Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a losttradition.
-- Jacques Barzun We have only one person to blame, and that's each other.
-- Barry Beck, New York Ranger, on who started a fight furing a hockey game I date this girl for two years--and then the nagging starts: "I wanna know your name."
-- Mike Binder A husband is a guy who tells you when you've got on too much lipstick and helps you with your
girdle when your hips stick.
-- Ogden Nash When one is trying to do something beyond his known powers it is useless to seek the approval
of friends. Friends are at their best in moments of defeat.
-- Henry Miller Crime and Policing To keep your marriage brimming
With love in the marriage cup,
Whenever you're wrong, admit it,
Whenever you're right, shut up. -- Nash If you put garbage in a computer nothing comes out but garbage. But this garbage, having
passed through a very expensive machine, is somehow ennobled and none dare criticize it.
-- Anonymous I've just learned about his illness. Let's hope it's nothing trivial.
- Irvin S. Cobb Crime and Policing
I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
- Mark Twain More than kisses, letters mingle souls.
-- John Donne The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense.
-- Tom Clancy Education ... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth
reading.
-- G. M. Trevelyan "You know what charm is: a way of getting the answer yes without having asked any clear question." (Albert Camus, The Fall) Crime and Policing Basically, I no longer work for anything but the sensation I have while working.
- Albert Giacometti (sculptor) Peculiar travel suggestions are dancing lessons from God.
-- Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., Cat's Cradle The world has suffered more from the ravages of ill-advised marriages than from virginity.
-- Ambrose Bierce Crime and Policing
"A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops." (Henry B. Adams) The church must be the critic and guide of the state, and never its tool.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. "An imbalance between rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics." (Plutarch) the social sciences were for all those who had not yet decided what to do with their lives, and for
all those whose premature frustrations led them into the sterile alleys of confrontation.
-- Peter "If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library." (Frank Zappa) Crime and Policing "When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; when health is lost, something is lost; when character is lost, all is lost." (Billy Graham) It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince It doesn't much signify whom one marries, for one is sure to find out next morning it was
someone else.
-- Rogers Crime and Policing
"A celebrity is a person who works hard all his life to become well known, then wears dark glasses to avoid being recognized." (Fred Allen) Eternal boyhood is the dream of a depressing percentage of American males, and the locker
room is the temple where they worship arrested development.
-- Russell Baker "Failure is not an option!" (Ed Harris, as Gene Kranz, Apollo 13) You can't shake hands with a clenched fist.
-- Indira Gandhi Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same
direction.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry Crime and Policing What if nothing exists and we're all in somebody's dream? Or what's worse, what if only that fat
guy in the third row exists?
-- Woody Allen Good hours, excellent pay, fun place to work, paid training, mean boss. Oh well, four out of five
isn't bad.
-- Help Wanted Ad, PA newspaper, 1994 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 Crime and Policing
The lover knows much more about absolute good and universal beauty than any logician or
theologian, unless the latter, too, be lovers in disguise.
-- George Santayana "In the future everyone will be famous for fifteen minutes." (Andy Warhol) The bottom line is that (a) people are never perfect, but love can be, (b) that is the one and only
way that the mediocre and vile can be transformed, and (c) doing that makes it that. We waste
time Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.
-- George Orwell 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. Crime and Policing 'Tis better to have loved and lost
Than never to have loved at all.
-- Alfred, Lord Tennyson, In Memoriam, 1850, line 27, stanza 4 Wise men make proverbs, but fools repeat them.
- Samuel Palmer Mathematics transfigures the fortuitous concourse of atoms into the tracery of the finger of God.
-- Herbert Westren Turnbull Crime and Policing
A theory is something nobody believes, except the person who made it. An experiment is
something everybody believes, except the person who made it.
-- Albert Einstein, attributed Love is temporary insanity curable by marriage.
-- Ambrose Bierce The nice thing about being a celebrity is that if you bore people they think it's their fault.
- Henry Kissinger Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
-- Oscar Wilde "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' Crime and Policing Women are like tea bags; put them in hot water and they get stronger.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt "It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) A man who marries a woman to educate her falls a victim to the same fallacy as the woman who
marries a man to reform him.
-- Elbert Hubbard Crime and Policing
A man in the house is worth two in the street.
-- Mae West "No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous." (Henry B. Adams) Not only is there no God, but try finding a plumber on Sunday.
-- Woody Allen "Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom." (Raymonde Uy) The artist alone sees spirits. But after he has told of their appearing to him, everybody sees them.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Crime and Policing Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.
-- Oscar Wilde "True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost." (Charles Caleb Colton) Basically, I no longer work for anything but the sensation I have while working.
- Albert Giacometti (sculptor) Crime and Policing
