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The wise see knowledge and action as one; they see truly.
-- Bhagava Gita Give me chastity and continence, but not yet.
- Saint Augustine You have a cough? Go home tonight, eat a whole box of Ex-Lax--tomorrow you'll be afraid to
cough.
-- Pearl Williams Did you hear about the scientist whose wife had twins? He baptized one and kept the other as a control. They have come up with a perfect understanding. He won't try to run her life, and he won't try to
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-- Anonymous Construction and Maintenance War is a profession by which a man cannot live honorably; an employment by which the soldier, if
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-- Niccolo Machiavelli If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts.
-- Albert Einstein Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do.
-- Dr. Benjamin Spock, American pediatrician, address to new parents Construction and Maintenance
"Contrariwise," continued Tweedledee, "if it was so, it might be, and if it were so, it would be; but
as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic!"
-- Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland A person is not given integrity. It results from the relentless pursuit of honesty at all times.
-- Anon. People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid.
- Soren Aabye Kierkegaard An act of love that fails is just as much a part of the divine life as an act of love that succeeds, for
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-- Harold Loukes "A thing of beauty is a joy forever." (John Keats) Construction and Maintenance MARRIAGE, n. The state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress and two
slaves, making in all, two.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 You can pay attention to the fact, in which case you'll probably become a mathematician, or you
can ignore it, in which case you'll probably become a physicist.
-- Len Evans, professor, Northwestern And now, in keeping with Channel 40's policy of always bringing you the latest in blood and guts,
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Marry not a tennis player. For love means nothing to them. The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed
desperation.
-- Henry David Thoreau, Walden (1854) "We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) Youth is wasted on the young.
-- George Bernard Shaw "The purpose of Compulsory Education is to deprive the common people of their commonsense." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) Construction and Maintenance Anyway, no drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the
source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity,
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-- Gerald Holton The two most common elements in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity. But not in that order.
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"Those that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." (Benjamin Franklin) Live truth instead of professing it.
-- Elbert Hubbard "Every act of creation is first an act of destruction." (Pablo Picasso) May you grow so rich your widow's second husband never has to worry about a living, God forbid. "The things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisi Construction and Maintenance Marriage is a mutual relationship if both parties know when to be mute. The question is not whether we will die, but how we will live.
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Sleep is an excellent way of listening to an opera.
- James Stephens Death does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when it does
come, we no longer exist.
-- Epicurus When the mouse laughs at the cat, there is a hole nearby.
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-- Oscar Wilde Construction and Maintenance Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere.
-- Chinese Proverb Nothing is wrong with California that a rise in the ocean level wouldn't cure.
- Ross MacDonald In marriage, the bridge gets a shower. But for the groom, it's curtains! Construction and Maintenance
"No drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ignorance, g Love cures people, both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.
-- Dr. Karl Menninger Life isn't a matter of milestones, but of moments.
-- Rose Kennedy It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both.
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- Sir Winston Churchill There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Teach a parrot the terms "supply and demand" and you've got an economist.
-- Thomas Carlyle Construction and Maintenance
When marriage is outlawed, only outlaws will have inlaws. "Well begun is half done." (Aristotle) The only thing that holds a marriage together is the husband bein' big enough to keep his mouth
shut, to step back and see where his wife is wrong.
-- Archie Bunker, character on "All in the Family, Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.
-- Albert Einstein Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
-- Henry Ford Construction and Maintenance Seeing a murder on television can help work off one's antagonisms. And if you haven't any
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-- Alfred Hitchcock Success is just a matter of attitude.
-- Darcy E. Gibbons Reality is nothing but a collective hunch.
-- Lily Tomlin Construction and Maintenance
We are not retreating - we are advancing in another Direction.
- General Douglas MacArthur If everybody is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking.
-- George S. Patton, Jr. I worship the quicksand he walks in.
- Art Buchwald The full use of your powers along lines of excellence.
- definition of happiness by John F. Kennedy Universities incline wits to sophistry and affectation.
-- Francis Bacon Construction and Maintenance "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) We don't like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out.
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-- Arizona senatorial candidate Claire Sargent, on women candidates Construction and Maintenance
"When you resort to attacking the messenger and not the message, you have lost the debate." (Addison Whithecomb) A man's reach should exeed his grasp, or else what's a heaven for?
-- Robert Browning There are not enough Indians in the world to defeat the Seventh Cavalry.
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-- Victor Hugo Construction and Maintenance If pleasures are greatest in anticipation, just remember that this is also true of trouble.
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-- John Murray To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance
- Oscar Wilde Construction and Maintenance
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 My religion consists of a humble admiration of the unlimitable superior who reveals Himself in the
slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble minds. That deeply emotional
convi The planting of trees is the least self-centered of all that we can do. It is a purer act of faith than
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Love is much nicer to be in than an automobile accident, a tight girdle, a higher tax bracket, or a
holding pattern over Philadelphia.
-- Judith Viorst To the ass, or the sow, their own offspring appears the fairest in creation.
-- Latin Proverb I am beginning to suspect all elaborate and special systems of education. They seem to me to be
built upon the supposition that every child is a kind of idiot who must be taught to think.
-- Anne S The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about.
-- Oscar Wilde Drink to me.
-- Pablo Picasso, dying words Construction and Maintenance When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen.
-- Ernest Hemingway I have always dressed according to certain Basic Guy Fashion Rules, including:
* Both of your socks should always be the same color
* Or they should at least both be fairly dark
-- Dave Barry "A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) Construction and Maintenance
