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Did you ever notice when you blow in a dog's face he gets mad at you? But when you take him in a car he sticks his head out the window. -- Steve Bluestone "I either want less corruption, or more chance to participate in it." (Ashleigh Brilliant) She felt in italics and thought in capitals. -- Henry James "When thou art at Rome, do as they do at Rome." (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1547-1616) The two most common elements in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity. But not in that order. -- Brian Pickrell Science and Environment 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 If you never want to see a man again, say, "I love you, I want to marry you, I want to have children..." - they leave skid marks. -- Rita Rudner "This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) Science and Environment "How wondrous familiar is a fool!" (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech. -- George Bernard Shaw Marriage is like a violin. After the music is over, you still have the strings. -- Anonymous Women are like tea bags; put them in hot water and they get stronger. -- Eleanor Roosevelt "It ends not with a bang, but a whimper." (Thomas Stearns Eliot, aka T. S. Eliot, The Hollow Man) Science and Environment A man should be taller, older, heavier, uglier, and hoarser than his wife. -- Edgar Watson Howe A man can't be too careful in the choice of his enemies. - Oscar Wilde "Nobody minds having what is too good for them." (Jane Austen) Science and Environment "A critic is a man who knows the way but can't drive the car." (Kenneth Tynan) "Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) "Not only is there no guarantee of the temporal immortality of the human soul, that is to say of its eternal survival after death; but, in any case, this assumption completely fails to accomplish the "There is only one thing more painful than learning from experience and that is not learning from experience." (Archibald McLeish) Give me a museum and I'll fill it. -- Pablo Picasso Science and Environment "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) The imaginary friends I had as a kid dropped me because their friends thought I didn't exist. -- Aaron Machado "From the start, marriage was instituted for contemptible, practical reasons--an idea of men." (Catherine Deneuve) Science and Environment "College professors are the people who can't hack it in the real world." (William Thomas) "The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) "In times of change learners inherit the earth; while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists." (Eric Hoffer) The eyes are not responsible when the mind does the seeing. -- Publilius Syrus Wives are people who feel they don't dance enough. -- Groucho Marx Science and Environment "To make the individual uncomfortable, that is my task." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The better part of one's life consists of his friendships. -- Abraham Lincoln Love may be a dream but marriage is a nightmare. -- Joan Collins Science and Environment A husband is what's left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted. -- Helen Rowland When looking back, usually I'm more sorry for the things I didn't do than for the things I shouldn't have done. -- Malcolm Forbes Parents often talk about the younger generations as if they didn't have anything to do with it. Some people talk in their sleep. Lecturers talk while other people sleep. -- Albert Camus He who limps is still walking. -- Stanislaw J. Lec Science and Environment "My daughter has never forgiven me. for what, I don't know, because for years, she won't speak to me. She blackens my name in the press and makes me think abortion is an excellent idea." (Klaus Kinsk Success is just a matter of attitude. -- Darcy E. Gibbons "If you meet a woman that smokes cigars ... marry her." (Arthur Lotti) Science and Environment "Genius without education is like silver in the mine." (Benjamin Franklin) "We're all proud of making little mistakes. It gives us the feeling we don't make any big ones." (Andrew A. Rooney) Women are like tea bags; put them in hot water and they get stronger. -- Eleanor Roosevelt Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you. -- John-Paul Sartre Don't marry for money; you can borrow it cheaper. Science and Environment People say "I want peace." If you remove I {ego}, and your want {desire}, you are left with peace. -- Satya Sai Baba The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense. -- Tom Clancy Oregon Democratic Senate candidate Tom Bruggere, in describing his support for comprehensive health care during a candidates' forum, said he supported "erection-to- resurrection" coverage. He later a Science and Environment "The key to wisdom is knowing all the right questions." (John A. Simone Jr.) He can compress the most words into the smallest idea of any man I know. - Abraham Lincoln "It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) If it weren't for electricity we'd all be watching television by candlelight. -- George Gobel I know a dead parrot when I see one, and I'm looking at one right now.... This is an ex-parrot. -- John Cleese, Monty Python, British comedy television show Science and Environment "Boredom is a vital problem for the moralist, since at least half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Grove giveth and Gates taketh away. - Bob Metcalfe (inventor of Ethernet) on the trend of hardware speedups not being able to keep up with software demands "Ninety percent of my salary I spent on booze and women ... and the other ten percent I wasted." (Tug McGraw, Major League Baseball pitcher) Science and Environment An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field. -- Niels Bohr "May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house." (George Carlin) If you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it's done. -- Scott Adams People may or may not say what they mean ... but they always say something designed to get what they want. -- David Mamet blah bl "Less is more." (Robert Browning) Science and Environment Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers. -- T. S. Eliot Creativity is piercing the mundane to find the marvelous. -- Bill Moyers And now here is my secret, a very simple secret; it is only with the heart that one can see rightly, what is essential is invisible to the eye. -- Antoine de Saint-Exupery Science and Environment Working mothers are guinea pigs in a scientific experiment to show that sleep is not necessary to human life. Miracles occur naturally as expressions of love. The real miracle is the love that inspires them. In this sense everything that comes from love is a miracle. -- Marianne Williamson I don't worry about terrorism. I was married for two years. -- Sam Kinison Live TV died in the late 1950s, electronic bulletin boards came along in the mid-1980s, meaning there was about a 25-year gap when it was difficult to put your foot in your mouth and have people all The scientific theory I like best is that the rings of Saturn are composed entirely of lost airline luggage. -- Mark Russell Science and Environment We're our own dragons as well as our own heroes, and we have to rescue ourselves from ourselves. -- Tom Robbins No matter who you vote for, the Government always gets in. -- Anon. "People expect a certain reaction from a business, and when you pleasantly exceed those expectations, you've somehow passed an important psychological threshold." (Richard Thalheimer, president, The Science and Environment Marrying a man is like buying something you've been admiring for a long time in a shop window. You may love it when you get it home, but it doesn't always go with everything in the house. -- Jean Ke Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so you apologize for truth. -- Benjamin Disraeli There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations. -- François de La Rouchefoucauld The soul is healed by being with children. -- Fyodor Dostoyevski It is important that students bring a certain ragamuffin, barefoot, irreverence to their studies; they are not here to worship what is known, but to question it. -- J. Bronowski, The Ascent of Man Science and Environment "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) The paradox is really the pathos of intellectual life and just as only great souls are exposed to passions it is only the great thinker who is exposed to what I call paradoxes, which are . . . grand Destiny is not a matter of chance; but a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, It is a thing to be acheived. -- William Jennings Bryant Science and Environment It is a product of Einstein's genius -- taking a commonplace observation, combining it with some simple imaginary experiments, and arriving at a revolutionary conclusion. -- Clifford M. Wills, 1986 "I do not agree with what you have to say, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) In a novel, the hero can lay ten girls and marry a virgin for the finish. In a movie, that is not allowed. The villain can lay anybody he wants, have as much fun and as he wants cheating, stealing, It is much more comfortable to be mad and know it, than to be sane and have one's doubts. - G. B. Burgin Such is life. -- Ned Kelly, Last words, before being hung at Old Melbourne Gaol Science and Environment I can write better than anybody who can write faster, and I can write faster than anybody who can write better. - A. J. Liebling Whoever called it necking was a poor judge of anatomy. -- Groucho Marx "There is only one thing more painful than learning from experience and that is not learning from experience." (Archibald McLeish) Science and Environment
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