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We have a habit in writing articles published in scientific journals to make the work as finished as
possible, to cover up all the tracks, to not worry about the blind alleys or describe how you had If everybody is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking.
-- George S. Patton, Jr. Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.
-- Roger Babson "Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known." (Blaise Pascal) I haven't committed a crime. What I did was fail to comply with the law.
-- David Dinkins, New York City Mayor, answering accusations that he failed to pay his taxes. Politics blah "You can lead a man to Congress, but you can't make him think." (Milton Berle) 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 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) Politics
Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
-- Bob Perelman Democracy is a form of government in which it is permitted to wonder aloud what the country
could do under first-class management.
-- Senator Soaper He who conquers himself is the mightiest warrior.
-- Confucius ... it is certain that the real function of art is to increase our self-consciousness; to make us more
aware of what we are, and therefore of what the universe in which we live really is. And since
Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.
-- Roger Babson Politics The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.
-- Nicholas Murray Butler I have an existential map; it has 'you are here' written all over it.
- Steven Wright If a politician found he had cannibals among his constituents, he would promise them
missionaries for dinner.
-- H. L. Mencken Politics
Love may be a dream but marriage is a nightmare.
-- Joan Collins "I'm basically an optimist in life but this doesn't prevent me from deducing as a scientist that we are probably doomed." (Vladimir Chaloupka, physicist, University of Washington, regarding mankind's Icky icky icky icky fKANG zoop-boing n zowzyin...
-- The Knights who so recently said "Nee!", Monty Python, British comedy television show He that would have the fruit must climb the tree.
-- Thomas Fuller, M.D. What I look forward to is continued immaturity followed by death.
-- Dave Barry Politics Conceit causes more conversation than wit.
-- LaRouchefoucauld "From the start, marriage was instituted for contemptible, practical reasons--an idea of men." (Catherine Deneuve) "I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury." (Groucho Marx) Politics
"Do not do unto others as you expect they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same." (George Bernard Shaw) Marriage is a matter of give and take, but so far I haven't been able to find anybody who'll take what I have to give. -- Cass Daley It is amazing at how small a price may the wedding ring be placed upon a worthless hand; but, by
the beauty of our law, what heaps of gold are indispensable to take it off!
-- Douglas Jerold, 1858 "I don't think it's the nature of any man to be monogamous. Men are propelled by genetically ordained impulses over which they have no control to distribute their seed." (Marlon Brando) 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 Politics By all means marry. If you get a good wife you will become happy, and if you get a bad one you
will become a philosopher.
-- Socrates Destiny is but a phrase of the weak human heart - the dark apology for every error. The strong
and virtuous admit no destiny. On earth conscience guides; in heaven God watches. And destiny
is but th "Listen, or your tongue will make you deaf." (Native American Proverb) Politics
Someone once asked me why women don't gamble as much as men do and I gave the
commonsensical reply that we don't have as much money. That was a true but incomplete
answer. In fact, women's total ins A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.
- Lao-Tzu The weirder you're going to behave, the more normal you should look. It works in reverse, too.
When I see a kid with three or four rings in his nose, I know there is absolutely nothing
extraordinary Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than
yourself.
-- William Faulkner If we knew what we were doing, it wouldn't be called research, would it?
-- Albert Einstein Politics "The face is the soul of the body." (Ludwig Wittgenstein) A problem is a chance for you to do your best.
-- Buke Ellington 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 Politics
Life is a sexually transmitted terminal disease.
-- Colin Greene What do you take me for, an idiot?
- General Charles de Gaulle (1890-1970), when a journalist asked him if he was happy A hippo does not have a sting in its tail, but a wise man would still rather be sat on by a bee.
-- Polish proverb I dislike arguments of any kind. They are always vulgar, and often convincing.
-- Oscar Wilde "The greater the artist, the greater the doubt. Perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize." (Robert Hughes) Politics The innkeeper loves the drunkard, but not for a son-in-law.
-- Yiddish Proverb Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education
without natural ability.
Cicero (106 BC - 43 BC) Sex is God's joke on human beings.
-- Bette Davis Politics
Laywers, I suppose, were children once.
-- Charles Lamb This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold
of a hammer.
-- Will Rogers We all agree that your theory is crazy, but is it crazy enough?
- Niels Bohr Truth is more of a stranger than fiction.
-- Mark Twain "I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you and education." (Wilson Mizner) Politics A narcissist is someone better-looking than you are.
-- Gore Vidal "We have to be able to criticise what we love, to say what we have to say 'cause if your not trying to make something better, than as far as I can tell, you are just in the way." (Ani Difranco) Many a man that could rule a hundherd millyon sthrangers with an ir'n hand is careful to take off
his shoes in the front hallway whin he comes home late at night.
-- Finley Peter Dunne, Mr. Dooley O Politics
Obedience is the gateway through which knowledge, yes, and love, too, enter the mind of the
child.
-- Anne Sullivan "The happy people are failures because they are on such good terms with themselves they don't give a damn." (Agatha Christie) The difference between a man who faces death for the sake of an idea and an imitator who goes
in search of martyrdom is that the former expresses his idea most fully in death while the latter
really One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is
terribly important.
- Bertrand Russell
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A little inaccuracy sometimes saves a ton "Learn from the mistakes of others--you can never live long enough to make them all yourself." (John Luther) Politics "The bite of conscience, like the bite of a dog into a stone, is a stupidity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "A conservative is a man who sits and thinks, mostly sits." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about "short" and
"cheap"?
-- Phyllis Diller Politics
If excessive smoking actually plays a role in the production of lung cancer, it seems to be a minor
one.
-- Dr. W.C. Heuper of the National Cancer Institute, as quoted in the New York Times on Apri Creativity is the sudden cessation of stupidity.
-- Edward H. Land If your wife wants to learn how to drive, don't stand in her way. Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
-- George Bernard Shaw "There is only one thing more painful than learning from experience and that is not learning from experience." (Archibald McLeish) Politics "Now that we have everything we need, we discover that there is almost nothing that we have that we want." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) Obedience is the gateway through which knowledge, yes, and love, too, enter the mind of the
child.
-- Anne Sullivan "Nietzsche was stupid and abnormal." (Leo Tolstoy, 1828-1910) Politics
"Furious activity is no substitute for understanding." (H. H. Williams) One cardinal rule of marriage should never be forgotten: "Give little, give seldom, and above all,
give grudgingly." Otherwise, what could have been a proper marriage could become an orgy of
sexual I have lost friends, some by death, others through sheer inability to cross the street.
-- Virginia Woolf "God is Man's stupidest idea." (Marcel Duchamp, French Dadaist) I belong to Bridegrooms Anonymous. Whenever I feel like getting married, they send over a lady
in a housecoat and hair curlers to burn my toast for me.
-- Dick Martin Politics Washington is a city of Southern efficiency and Northern charm.
-- John F. Kennedy "Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free." (Emma Lazarus) Look not mournfully into the Past. It comes not back again. Wisely improve the Present. It is
thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy Future, without fear, and with a manly heart.
-- Henry Wadsworth Lo Politics
"The rules for parents are but three... Love, Limit, and Let them be." (Elaine M. Ward) When you gaze long into the abyss, the abyss also gazes into you.
- Friedrich Nietzsche "God is a gentleman. He prefers blondes." (Joe Orton, Loot) "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." In every country and every age, the priest has been hostile to Liberty.
-- Thomas Jefferson Politics "...when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth." (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes) Parents often talk about the younger generations as if they didn't have anything to do with it. "Courageous, untroubled, mocking and violent--that is what Wisdom wants us to be. Wisdom is a woman, and loves only a warrior." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Politics
