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Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same
direction.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry A witty saying proves nothing.
- Voltaire "I never resist temptation, because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me." (George Bernard Shaw) "Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) Thank God - every morning when you get up - that you have something to do which must be
done, whether you like it or not. Being forced to work, and forced to do your best, will breed in you
a hundre Science and Environment "We live in an age when pizza gets to your home before the police." (Jeff Marder) Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end.
-- Semisonic, Closing Time "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) Science and Environment
If I had only known, I would have been a locksmith.
-- Albert Einstein I begin by taking. I shall find scholars later to demonstrate my perfect right.
- Frederick (II) the Great Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before
marriage, which is never advisable.
-- Oscar Wilde "Nietzsche was stupid and abnormal." (Leo Tolstoy, 1828-1910) My wife has a split personality, and I hate both of them. Science and Environment I'm not indecisive. Am I indecisive?
-- Jim Scheibel, mayor, St. Paul MN Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow.
-- Helen Keller "If you do not know where you are going, any road will take you there." (Sterling Holloway, voice of Chesire Cat, Alice in Wonderland) Science and Environment
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 In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that
no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it's the exact opposite.
-- Paul Dirac "The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
-- Will Rogers Nothing says loving like marrying your cousin! -- Al Bundy Science and Environment Luck is the residue of design.
- Branch Rickey - former owner of the Brooklyn Dodger Baseball Team Don't let it end like this. Tell them I said something.
-- Pancho Villa, dying words Prejudice is the child of ignorance.
-- William Hazlitt Science and Environment
Do not let yourselves be discouraged or embittered by the smallness of the success you are likely
to achieve in trying to make life better. You certainly would not be able, in a single generation, to Knowledge is the intellectual manipulation of carefully verified observations.
-- Sigmund Freud Success is peace of mind which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you did your best
to become the best you are capable of becoming.
-- John R. Wooden, Practical Modern Basketball Man is the only animal that blushes--or needs to.
-- Mark Twain Morality consists in suspecting other people of not being legally married.
-- George Bernard Shaw Science and Environment In times of profound change, the learners inherit the earth, while the learned find themselves
beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists.
-- Al Rogers, Global SchoolHouse Netw When a girl marries she exchanges the attention of many men for the inattention of one.
-- Helen Rowland If I have seen farther than others, it is because I was standing on the shoulders of giants.
-- Isaac Newton Science and Environment
Musical people always want one to be perfectly dumb at the very moment when one is longing to
be perfectly deaf.
-- Oscar Wilde The crime bill passed by the Senate would reinstate the Federal death penalty for certain violent
crimes: assassinating the President; hijacking an airliner; and murdering a government poultry
inspe Everybody can be great... because anybody can serve. You don't have to have a college degree
to serve. You don't have to make your subject and verb agree to serve. you only need a heart full
of grac Wind is to fire like distance is to love; it extinguishes the small and enflames the great.
-- Anonymous "Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing." (Oscar Wilde) Science and Environment I date this girl for two years--and then the nagging starts: "I wanna know your name."
-- Mike Binder Motivation will almost always beat mere talent.
-- Norman R. Augustine Give the people not hell, but hope and courage.
-- John Murray Science and Environment
"One of the great dangers in having a career is getting bored." (Itzhak Perlman) Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go.
- Oscar Wilde It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.
-- Gore Vidal Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
-- Albert Einstein Science and Environment 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 Man is the only animal that blushes--or needs to.
-- Mark Twain Ninety percent of everything is crap.
-- Theodore Sturgeon Science and Environment
"...when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth." (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes) "What is most appealing about young folks, after all, is the changes, not the still photograph of finished character but the movie, the soul in flux." (Thomas Pynchon) When nations grow old, the arts grow cold and commerce settles on every tree.
-- William Blake God gave men both a penis and a brain, but unfortunately not enough blood supply to run both at
the same time.
- Robin Williams, commenting on the Clinton/Lewinsky affair If someone had told me I would be Pope one day, I would have studied harder.
-- Pope John Paul I Science and Environment "Dreams are the touchstones of our personality." (Henry David Thoreau) Experience is not what happens to you; it's what you do with what happens to you.
-- Aldous Huxley The Internet is so big, so powerful and pointless that for some people it is a complete substitute
for life.
-- Andrew Brown Science and Environment
Life isn't a matter of milestones, but of moments.
-- Rose Kennedy "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." To correct a natural indifference I was placed half-way between misery and the sun. Misery kept
me from believing that all was well under the sun, and the sun taught me that history wasn't
everythin There is no more lovely, friendly and charming relationship, communion or company than a good
marriage
-- Martin Luther Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands... but English women only
hope to find in their butlers.
-- W. Somerset Maugham Science and Environment Better to die ten thousand deaths than wound my honor.
-- Joseph Addison It is absurd to divide people into good or bad. People are either charming or tedious.
-- Oscar Wilde "The brighter you are, the more you have to learn." (Don Herold) Science and Environment
The lover knows much more about absolute good and universal beauty than any logician or
theologian, unless the latter, too, be lovers in disguise.
-- George Santayana As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he.
-- Proverbs 23:7 What is politics, after all, but the compulsion to preside over property and make other peoples'
decisions for them?
-- Tom Robbins, Skinny Legs and All blah "An engaged woman is always more agreeable than a disengaged. She is satisfied with herself. Her cares are over, and she feels that she may exert all her powers of pleasing without suspicion." ( 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 Science and Environment Can you imagine what I would do if I could do all I can?
-- The Artist Formerly Known As Prince The real questions are the ones that obtrude upon your consciousness whether you like it or not,
the ones that make your mind start vibrating like a jackhammer, the ones that you 'come to terms
with Love is stronger than justice.
-- Sting Science and Environment
Republican boys date Democratic girls. They plan to marry Republican girls, but feel they're
entitled to a little fun first.
-- Anonymous It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
-- Mark Twain A memorandum is written not to inform the reader but to protect the writer.
-- Dean Acheson Go away...I'm alright.
-- H. G. Wells, dying words Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances
continue to exist, a wonderful living side by side can grow up, if they succeed in loving the
distance Science and Environment Love is only the game that is not called on account of darkness.
-- M. Hirschfield A man is incomplete until he is married. After that, he is finished.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor The last good thing written in C++ was the Pachelbel Canon.
-- Jerry Olson Science and Environment
If addiction is judged by how long a dumb animal will sit pressing a lever to get a 'fix' of
something, to its own detriment, then I would conclude that netnews is far more addictive than
cocaine.
Life is ours to be spent, not to be saved.
-- D.H. Lawrence "I had discovered that a person does not have to be this or be that or be anything, not even oneself. One is free." (Walker Percy, The Moviegoer) Before marriage, a man will lie awake all night thinking about something you said; after marriage,
he'll fall asleep before you finish saying it.
-- Helen Roland A man is incomplete until he is married. After that, he is finished.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Science and Environment For a male and female to live continuously together is...biologically speaking, an extremely
unnatural condition.
-- Robert Briffault I read the book of Job last night - I don't think God comes out well in it.
-- Virginia Woolf True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.
-- Henry David Thoreau Science and Environment
