Considering the flames and intolerance, shouldn't USENET be spelled ABUSENET?
-- Michael Meissner It is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions.
-- Aldous Huxley In every man's heart there is a secret nerve that answers to the vibrations of beauty.
-- Christopher Morley 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 Why do grandparents and grandchildren get along so well? They have the same enemy-- the
mother.
-- Claudette Colbert Travel and Tourism In literature as in love, we are astonished at what is chosen by others.
-- André Maurois The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
-- B. F. Skinner Many a wife thinks her husband is the world's greatest lover. But she can never catch him at it. Travel and Tourism
I've always thought that underpopulated countries in Africa are vastly underpolluted.
-- Lawrence Summers, chief economist of the World Bank, explaining why we should export toxic
wastes to Third Wo Minds are like parachutes - they only function when open.
-- Thomas Dewar "Work like you don't need the money. Love like you've never been hurt. Dance like nobody's watching." (Satchel Paige) "Courage is found in unlikely places." (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I only think about how to solve the
problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
-- Buckminster Travel and Tourism "Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing." (Oscar Wilde) You can complain because roses have thorns, or you can rejoice because thorns have roses.
-- Ziggy, character in comic strip by Tom Wilson Usenet is like Tetris for people who still remember how to read.
-- Button from the Computer Museum, Boston, MA Travel and Tourism
Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature.
-- Samuel Butler Imagine if every Thursday your shoes exploded if you tied them the usual way. This happens to
us all the time with computers, and nobody thinks of complaining.
-- Jeff Raskin Computers can figure out all kinds of problems, except the things in the world that just don't add
up.
-- Anon I'm not dumb, I just have a command of thoroughly useless information.
-- Calvin "Genius without education is like silver in the mine." (Benjamin Franklin) Travel and Tourism "In some ways, I never outgrew my adolescence. I wake up in the morning and think, 'Oh my God, I'm late for a math test!' But then I say, 'Wait a minute. I'm 40.'" (Daniel Clowes) "Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences." (Isadora Duncan) "Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains." (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, The Social Contract) Travel and Tourism
We have children because we want immortality and this is the most reliable way of getting it.
-- Woodrow Wyatt "... and then the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom." (Anais Nin) "Small minds discuss people, average minds discuss events, great minds discuss ideas." (Anonymous) Tauzin backs term limits -- But he thinks it's a bad idea.
-- Headline, story in the New Orleans Times-Picayune, Feb 20, 1995 I don't want to achieve immortality through my work... I want to achieve it by not dying!
-- Woody Allen Travel and Tourism 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 "Beauty awakens the soul to act." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the
gentleman.
-- Herbert Spencer Travel and Tourism
Marriage certificate is just another word for a work permit. "College professors are the people who can't hack it in the real world." (William Thomas) How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create
it herself.
- Anais Nin Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.
-- Philip K. Dick Where there is love there is life.
-- Gandhi Travel and Tourism "This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) America is the only nation in history which miraculously has gone directly from barbarism to
degeneration without the usual intervention of civilization.
-- George Clemenceau Sleep is an excellent way of listening to an opera.
- James Stephens Travel and Tourism
"Everywhere one seeks to produce meaning, to make the world signify, to render it visible. We are not, however, in danger of lacking meaning; quite the contrary, we are gorged with meaning and it is k 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 Wedding is destiny, and hanging likewise.
-- John Heywood Health food makes me sick.
-- Calvin Trillin Women are like tea bags; put them in hot water and they get stronger.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt Travel and Tourism "Drugs have done a lot of good. A lot of good songs have been written. 'Penny Lane' is worth 10 dead kids. 'Dark Side of the Moon?' 100 dead kids. At least that many were conceived by people listening The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the
purpose of satisfying it afterwards.
-- Anatole France Good Night, Good night! Parting is such sweet sorrow,
that I shall say good night till it be morrow.
-- Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare. Act II, Scene II, lines 220-221 Travel and Tourism
"The English have all the material requisites for the revolution. What they lack is the spirit of generalization and revolutionary ardour." (Karl Marx) They were doing a full back shot of me in a swimsuit and I thought, Oh my God, I have to be so
brave. See, every woman hates herself from behind.
-- Cindy Crawford, supermodel Live truth instead of professing it.
-- Elbert Hubbard 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 Truth must necessarily be stranger than fiction, for fiction is the creation of the human mind and
therefore congenial to it.
-- G. K. Chesterton Travel and Tourism I am free of all prejudice. I hate everyone equally.
-- W. C. Fields I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers.
-- Gandhi Hell is paved with good samaritans.
-- William M. Holden Travel and Tourism
For a male and female to live continuously together is...biologically speaking, an extremely
unnatural condition.
-- Robert Briffault If law school is so hard to get through... how come there are so many lawyers?
-- Calvin Trillin "Conforming is only acceptable when you conform with a nonconformist." (John A. Simone Jr.) The only way to entertain some folks is to listen to them.
-- Kin Hubbard Hell is other people.
- Jean-Paul Sartre Travel and Tourism Viewed from the summit of reason, all life looks like a malignant disease and the world like a
madhouse.
-- 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 "Children begin by loving their parents. After a time they judge them. Rarely, if ever, do they forgive them." (Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance) Travel and Tourism
One of the greatest discoveries a man makes, one of his great surprises, is to find he can do
what he was afraid he couldn't do.
-- Henry Ford "Transport of the mails, transport of the human voice, transport of flickering pictures--in this century as in others our highest accomplishments still have the single aim of bringing men together." "No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave." (Calvin Coolidge) Once all struggle is grasped, miracles are possible.
-- Mao Tse-tung ARDOR, n. The quality that distinguishes love without knowledge.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 Travel and Tourism It was very good of God to let Carlyle and Mrs Carlyle marry one another and so make only two people miserable instead of four, besides being very amusing. You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.
-- Henry Ford A great deal of talent is lost to the world for want of a little courage. Every day sends to their
graves obscure men whom timidity prevented from making a first effort.
-- Sydney Smith Travel and Tourism
What a difference there is between what we say and what we think.
-- Racine Children are a poor man's riches.
-- English proverb "Like as the waves make towards the pebbl'd shore, so do our minutes, hasten to their end." (William Shakespeare) Someday is not a day of the week.
-- Anon. The highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to make money do more for the
betterment of life.
-- Henry Ford Travel and Tourism "There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) The second day of a diet is always easier than the first. By the second day you're off it.
-- Jackie Gleason Why did Nature create man? Was it to show that she is big enough to make mistakes, or was it
pure ignorance?
-- Holbrook Jackson Travel and Tourism
The work of internal government has become the task of controlling the thousands of fifth-rate
men.
-- Henry B. Adams "Employees make the best dates. You don't have to pick them up and they're always tax-deductible." (Andy Warhol, Andy Warhol's Exposures, 1980) "Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh." (George Bernard Shaw) "It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure on the world." (John Steinbeck I'm not dumb, I just have a command of thoroughly useless information.
-- Calvin Travel and Tourism 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 Honeymoon: A short period of doting between dating and debting.
-- Ray Bandy An understanding heart is everything is a teacher, and cannot be esteemed highly enough. One
looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our
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