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If you put garbage in a computer nothing comes out but garbage. But this garbage, having
passed through a very expensive machine, is somehow ennobled and none dare criticize it.
-- Anonymous I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible
by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.
- Umberto Eco Cliches should be avoided like the plague.
-- Anon. You can observe a lot by watching.
-- Yogi Berra A straight line is the shortest in morals as in mathematics.
-- Maria Edgeworth Activism One survey found that ten percent of Americans thought Joan of Arc was Noah's wife....
-- Robert Boynton Marry in haste, repent in leisure.
-- Tilney Imagination is the highest kite one can fly.
-- Lauren Bacall Activism
"Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains." (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, The Social Contract) Working mothers are guinea pigs in a scientific experiment to show that sleep is not necessary to human life. Love begins with a smile, grows with a kiss, and ends with a teardrop.
-- Anonymous A dollar saved is a quarter earned.
-- John Ciardi Who the hell wants to hear actors talk?
- H. M. Warner, founder of Warner Brothers, in 1927 Activism The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this
is true.
-- James Branch Cabell, The Silver Stallion Honor's a good brooch to wear in a man's hat at all times.
-- Jonson, Ben "If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost." (Aristotle) Activism
Mathematicians are like Frenchmen: whatever you say to them they translate into their own
language and forthwith it is something entirely different.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage.
-- Jane Austen In a hierarchy, every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence. Therefore:
? In time, every post tends to be occupied by an employee who is incompetent to carry out its
duties.
? Work "Of all mankind the great poet is the equable man." (Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass, 1855) "Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Walk beside me and just be my friend." (Albert Camus) Activism Saying that Windows95 is equal to Macintosh is like finding a potato that looks like Jesus and
believing you've witnessed the second coming.
-- Guy Kawasaki It was the experience of mystery -- even if mixed with fear -- that engendered religion.
- Albert Einstein You got to be careful if you don't know where you're going, because you might not get there.
-- Yogi Berra Activism
Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Adolescence is a period of rapid changes. Between the ages of 12 and 17, for example, a parent
ages as much as 20 years.
-- Anonymous "No one wants a good education. Everyone wants a good degree." (Lee Rudolph) Dogma is the sacrifice of wisdom to consistency.
- Lewis Perelman Courage: doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared.
-- Eddie Rickenbacker Activism When making public policy decisions about new technologies for the Government, I think one
should ask oneself which technologies would best strengthen the hand of a police state. Then, do
not allow Golf is a good walk spoiled.
-- Mark Twain "I learned more from the one restaurant that didn't work than from all the ones that were successes." (Wolfgang Puck, restauranteur) Activism
It is the final proof of God's omnipotence that he need not exist in order to save us.
-- Peter De Vries "Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them." (Samuel Butler) "The biggest argument against democracy is a five minute discussion with the average voter." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) Feminists are OK, I just wouldn't want my sister to marry one Government is like a baby. An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of
responsibility at the other.
-- Ronald Reagan, Saturday Evening Post, 1965 Activism In a hierarchy, every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence. Therefore:
? In time, every post tends to be occupied by an employee who is incompetent to carry out its
duties.
? Work Knowledge is the intellectual manipulation of carefully verified observations.
-- Sigmund Freud The innkeeper loves the drunkard, but not for a son-in-law.
-- Yiddish Proverb Activism
Morality consists in suspecting other people of not being legally married.
-- George Bernard Shaw And I shall love thee still my dear, Until my wife is wise. No wonder nobody comes here--it's too crowded.
-- Yogi Berra Most turkeys taste better the day after; my mother's tasted better the day before.
-- Rita Rudner The highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to make money do more for the
betterment of life.
-- Henry Ford Activism "You are rewarding a teacher poorly if you remain always a pupil." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) If you talk to God, you are praying; if God talks to you, you have schizophrenia.
-- Thomas Szasz Marriage is love. Love is blind. Therefore, marriage is an institution for the blind. Activism
Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe To teach is to learn twice.
-- Joseph Joubert "Think where mans glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends." (William Butler Yeats) He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.
- Sir Winston Churchill Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop
questioning.
-- Albert Einstein Activism The less their ability, the more their conceit.
Ahad HaAm Asking an incumbent member of Congress to vote for term limits is a bit like asking a chicken to
vote for Colonel Sanders.
-- Bob Inglis, 1995 "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 Activism
Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them
good.
-- H.L. Mencken The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four Americans is suffering from some form of
mental illness. Think of your three best friends. If they're okay, then it's you.
-- Rita Mae Brown Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.
-- Abraham Lincoln Women's liberationists spread the word that...the only peaceful family is one in which either the
wife is enslaved or the husband is androgynous.
-- R. Emmett Tyell, The Liberal Crack-Up, 1984 Did you hear about the scientist whose wife had twins? He baptized one and kept the other as a control. Activism You'd be surprised how much it costs to look this cheap.
-- Dolly Parton Women see better than men. Men see lazily, if they do not expect to act. Women see quite
without any wish to act.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Question: If you could live forever, would you and why? Answer: I would not live forever, because
we should not live forever, because if we were supposed to live forever, then we would live
forever, Activism
"Is man merely a mistake of God's? Or God merely a mistake of man's?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The instinct of nearly all societies is to lock up anybody who is truly free. First, society begins by
trying to beat you up. If this fails, they try to poison you. If this fails too, the finish by l Any sufficiently advanced bureaucracy is indistinguishable from molasses.
-- Anon. At every crossroads on the path that leads to the future, tradition has placed 10,000 men to guard
the past.
-- Maurice Maeterlink The planting of trees is the least self-centered of all that we can do. It is a purer act of faith than
the procreation of children.
-- Thornton Wilder Activism A grouch escapes so many little annoyances that it almost pays to be one.
-- Kin Hubbard There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him asleep.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson I hate work. That's why I got married.
-- Peg Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Activism
Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands, but English women only hope to find in their butlers. -- W. Somerset Maugham "What is tolerance? -- it is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error; let us pardon reciprocally each other's folly -- that is the first law of nature." (Francois Marie Ar Never judge someone by who he's in love with; judge him by his friends. People fall in love with
the most appalling people. Take a cool, appraising glance at his pals.
-- Cynthia Heimel Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has not heart; and any man who is over 30, and is
not a conservative, has no brains.
- Sir Winston Churchill A person starts to live when he can live outside himself.
-- Albert Einstein Activism Marriage resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated; often moving in
opposite directions, yet always punishing any one who comes between them.
-- Sydney Smith I was under medication when I made the decision not to burn the tapes.
-- Richard Nixon, U.S. President 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,
ign Activism
A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.
-- St. Augustine I went into a McDonald's yesterday and said, "I'd like some fries." The girl at the counter said,
"Would you like some fries with that?"
-- Jay Leno blah "If we did all the things we are capable of, we would literally astound ourselves." (Thomas Alva Edison) Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
-- Soren Kierkegaard Self-reliance is the only road to true freedom, and being one's own person is its ultimate reward.
-- Patricia Sampson Activism "Self confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings." (Samuel Johnson) If men knew all that women think, they'd be twenty times more daring.
-- Alphonse Karr Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you walk into an open sewer and die.
- Mel Brooks Activism
