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Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.
-- B.F. Skinner The voice of the intellect is a soft one, but it does not rest till it has gained a hearing.
-- Sigmund Freud >From the Far East I send you one single thought, one sole idea--written in red on every
beachhead form Australia to Tokyo--There is no substitute for victory!
-- General Douglas MacArthur In olden times, sacrifices were made at the altar, a practice which is still very much practiced.
-- Helen Rowland Technology is a way of organizing the universe so that man doesn't have to experience it.
-- Max Frisch News and Media It makes no difference who you vote for - the two parties are really one party representing four
percent of the people.
-- Gore Vidal "Murderers have been known to find that young girls give them more trouble than anybody else." (Jean Cocteau, Les Enfants Terribles) To take what there "is", and use it, without waiting forever in vain for the preconceived - to dig
deep into the actual and get something out of that - this doubtless is the right way to live.
-- H News and Media
Where there is an unknowable there is a promise.
-- Thornton Wilder Luck is the residue of design.
- Branch Rickey - former owner of the Brooklyn Dodger Baseball Team When ideas fail, words come in very handy.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe I criticize by creation - not by finding fault.
- Cicero It is not necessary to understand things in order to argue about them.
-- Pierre Augustin de Beaumarchais News and Media What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is
the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset.
-- Crowf I am about to--or I am going to--die; either expression is used.
-- Dominique Bouhours, French grammarian, dying words Life is like a movie--since there aren't any commercial breaks, you have to get up and go to the
bathroom in the middle of it.
-- Nick Mirov News and Media
Many a man owes his success to his first wife and his second wife to his success.
-- Jim Backus "The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Gentlemen, it is better to have died a small boy than to fumble this football.
-- John Heisman 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" "God is dead: but considering the state Man is in, there will perhaps be caves, for ages yet, in which his shadow will be shown." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, The Joyful Wisdom) News and Media The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.
-- Harper Lee "In order to keep anything cultural, logical, or ideological, you have to reinvent the reality of it." (Ani Difranco) "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) News and Media
Thank heaven. A bachelor's life is no life for a single man.
-- Samuel Goldwyn, immigrant-turned-famous-movie-producer, when told his son was getting
married Everyone believes very easily whatever they fear or desire.
-- Jean de La Fontaine 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 He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose
-- Jim Elliott However, never daunted, I will cope with adversity in my usual manner...sulking and nausea.
-- Tom K. Ryan News and Media I don't know anything about luck. I've never banked on it, and I'm afraid of people who do. Luck to
me is something else; hard work and realizing what is opportunity and what isn't.
-- Lucille Ball Remember your dreams.
-- Maryanne Radmacher-Herhey "When I was four years old they tried to test my IQ, they showed me this picture of three oranges and a pear. They asked me which one is different and does not belong, they taught me different was wro News and Media
"If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way." (Mark Twain) "I would rather die standing than live on my knees!" (Emiliano Zapata) Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not
there, I go to work.
-- Robert Orben "Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences." (Isadora Duncan) "This is the first age that's paid much attention to the future, which is a little ironic since we may not have one." (Arthur C. Clarke) News and Media "We have to be able to criticise what we love, to say what we have to say 'cause if your not trying to make something better, than as far as I can tell, you are just in the way." (Ani Difranco) Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
-- Soren Kierkegaard A man's wife has more power over him than the state has.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson News and Media
When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives mean the most to us, we often find
that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our
pain You can complain because roses have thorns, or you can rejoice because thorns have roses.
-- Ziggy, character in comic strip by Tom Wilson When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President; I'm beginning to believe it.
-- Clarence Darrow Joy is but the sign that creative emotion is fulfilling its purpose.
-- Charles Du Bos The only thing worse than a man you can't control is a man you can.
-- Margo Kaufman News and Media It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.
-- Harry Truman Use your own best judgment at all times.
-- The entire Nordstrom's Department Stores policy manual "Love is always a stranger in the house of avarice." (Andreas Capellanus) News and Media
If ever two were one, then surely we.
If ever man were loved by wife, then thee.
-- Anne Bradstreet A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
Robert Frost (1874-1963) I love cats because I love my home and after a while they become its visible soul.
-- Jean Cocteau blah "To give anything less than your best is to sacrifice the gift." (Steve Roland Prefontaine) Books had instant replay long before televised sports.
-- Bern Williams News and Media Good judgement comes from experience, and experience--well, that comes from poor judgement.
-- Cousin Woodman The trouble with some women is that they get all excited about nothing -- and then marry him.
-- Cher Whoever controls the media--the images--controls the culture.
-- Allen Ginsberg News and Media
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 As life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action
of his time, at the peril of being not to have lived.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. "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) 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 More than kisses, letters mingle souls.
-- John Donne News and Media "The last Christian died on the cross." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Death is always and under all circumstances a tragedy, for if it is not, then it means that life itself has become one." (Theodore Roosevelt) blah "Ideas are like stars, you will not succeed in touching them with your hands, but like the seafaring man on the desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and, following them, you reach yo News and Media
"Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave, and impossible to forget." (G. Randolf) Truth can be a dangerous thing. It is quite patient and relentless.
-- R. Scott Richards And since the stench of death will always attract flies and vermin, the arrival of Geraldo was
perhaps inevitable.
-- Garry Trudeau For a male and female to live continuously together is...biologically speaking, an extremely
unnatural condition.
-- Robert Briffault Grad school is the snooze button on the clock-radio of life.
-- John Rogers, comedian (who holds a graduate degree in physics) News and Media I once asked my history teacher how we were expected to learn anything useful from his subject,
when it seemed to me to be nothing but a monotonous and sordid succession of robber baron
scumbags dev Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for
him.
-- Rich Little Always do right; this will gratify some people and astonish the rest.
-- Mark Twain News and Media
If I had only known, I would have been a locksmith.
-- Albert Einstein "If a million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing." (Anatole France) He early on let her know who is the boss. He looked her right in the eye and clearly said, "You're
the boss."
-- Anonymous You got to be careful if you don't know where you're going, because you might not get there.
-- Yogi Berra "I think it's about time we voted for senators with breasts. After all, we've been voting for boobs
long enough."
-- Arizona senatorial candidate Claire Sargent, on women candidates News and Media The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may
well be another profound truth.
-- Niels Bohr There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called
marriage.
-- James Holt McGavran Hell is other people.
- Jean-Paul Sartre News and Media
Realism is a corruption of reality.
-- Wallace Stevens If you haven't got anything nice to say about anybody, come sit next to me.
- Alice Roosevelt Longworth This book fills a much-needed gap.
- Moses Hadas in a review I drink no more than a sponge.
-- Francis Rabelais, Works. Book i. Chap. v. We have to keep trying things we're not sure we can pull off. If we just do the things we know we
can do... you don't grow as much. You gotta take those chances on making those big mistakes.
-- Cybi News and Media Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.
-- Salvador Dali "Over grown military establishments are under any form of government inauspicious to liberty, and are to be regarded as particularly hostile to republican liberty." (George Washington) Distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes.
- Henry David Thoreau News and Media
