You can't buy love, but you can pay heavily for it.
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The child is the father of the man.
-- William Wordsworth "One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar." (Helen Keller) Saying that men talk about baseball in order to avoid talking about their feelings is the same as
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-- Deborah Tan "To forget one's purpose is the commonest form of stupidity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) There is a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious, makes you so sick at
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upon the lev Computers and Internet Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you.
- Carl Gustav Jung A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.
-- Edward Abbey Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than
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I don't know if God exists, but it would be better for His reputation if He didn't.
-- Jules Renard When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of many men for the inattention of one.
-- Helen Rowland I'm astounded by people who want to 'know' the universe when it's hard enough to find your way
around Chinatown.
-- Woody Allen 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 Great innovations should not be forced on slender majorities.
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religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear
of Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them
down people's throats.
-- Howard Aiken Celestial navigation is based on the premise that the Earth is the center of the universe. The
premise is wrong, but the navigation works. An incorrect model can be a useful tool.
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Love cures people, both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.
-- Dr. Karl Menninger "We're all proud of making little mistakes. It gives us the feeling we don't make any big ones." (Andrew A. Rooney) Asking an incumbent member of Congress to vote for term limits is a bit like asking a chicken to
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-- Anon. Computers and Internet Wedding is destiny, and hanging likewise.
-- John Heywood 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.
-- Crow The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains that I
have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time.
- George Bernard Shaw Computers and Internet
Marriage has many pains, but celibacy has no pleasures.
-- Samuel Johnson Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by the traffic from
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-- Margaret Thatcher Marriage is a rest period between romances. Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
-- Virginia Woolf, Bernard, in The Waves, 1931; repr. 1943, p. 189 We have been friends together in sunshine and in shade.
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-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe It's never too late to have a happy childhood.
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After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
-- Aldous Huxley Trouble is a part of your life, and if you don't share it, you don't give the person that loves you
enough chance to love you enough.
-- Dinah Shore Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day.
-- Thornton Wilder Count your age with friends but not with years.
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was expecting some questions on a sheet of paper.
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Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous; it is nothing if it is not ridiculous.
-- Thornton Wilder Wedding is destiny, and hanging likewise.
-- John Heywood One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is
terribly important.
-- Bertrand Russell Suicide is belated acquiescence in the opinion of one's wife's relatives. "What dies if freedom lives? What lives if freedom dies?" (Lindsay Anderson, British filmmaker, from if.... (1968) Computers and Internet "Talent does what it can; genius does what it must." (Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton) There is more to life than increasing its speed.
-- Gandhi Sometimes you get shown the light in the strangest of places if you look at it right.
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If something is boring after two minutes, try it for four. If still boring, then eight. Then sixteen. Then thirty-two. Eventually one discovers that it is not boring at all." (John Cage) "What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage." "The evil that is in the world almost always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence if they lack understanding." (Albert Camus) I like two kinds of men: domestic and foreign.
-- Mae West The love we give away is the only love we keep.
-- Elbert Hubbard Computers and Internet Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.
- Jean-Paul Sartre The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat.
-- Lily Tomlin There are not enough Indians in the world to defeat the Seventh Cavalry.
-- George Armstrong Custer Computers and Internet
"Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame." (Erica Jong) Not to anticipate is already to moan.
-- Leonardo da Vinci Luck is the residue of design.
- Branch Rickey - former owner of the Brooklyn Dodger Baseball Team Even a band of angels can turn ugly and start looting if enough angels are unemployed and
hanging around the Pearly Gates convinced that all the succubi own all the liquor stores in
Heaven.
-- P. J If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?
-- Abraham Lincoln Computers and Internet They had a dispute about a night out with the boys. But he finally decided to let her go.
-- Anonymous I think of my wife and I think of Lot, and I think of the lucky break he got. Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.
-- Salvador Dali Computers and Internet
"I was a total loner, not by self-design. I just didn't know what the hell to say to people. I was so shy. I used to stammer and lisp and dribble at the mouth." (Sir Anthony Hopkins, on his youth) Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.
-- Albert Einstein "Beauty without expression is boring." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) There's a fine line between fishing and standing on the shore like an idiot.
-- Steven Wright If you can't sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there and worrying. It's the worry
that gets you, not the loss of sleep.
-- Dale Carnegie Computers and Internet I owe the government $3400 in taxes. So I sent them two hammers and a toilet seat.
-- Michael McShane Whenever I date a guy, I think, is this the man I want my children to spend their weekends with?
-- Rita Rudner It is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions.
-- Aldous Huxley Computers and Internet
"Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain -- and most fools do." (Dale Carnegie) The wages of sin are death, but by the time taxes are taken out, it's just sort of a tired feeling.
-- Paula Poundstone CAPITAL, n. The seat of misgovernment. That which provides the fire, the pot, the dinner, the
table and the knife and fork for the anarchist; the part of the repast that himself supplies is the
disg Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow in Australia.
-- Charles Schultz Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.
-- Abraham Lincoln Computers and Internet At every crossroads on the path that leads to the future, tradition has placed 10,000 men to guard
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-- Maurice Maeterlink blah "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." (Thomas Jefferson) The church is the great lost and found department.
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