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"Eagles may soar, but weasels don't get sucked into jet engines." (John Benfield) For I am a bear of very little brain and long words bother me.
-- Winnie the Pooh, character from author A. A. Milne The marriage of Marxism and feminism has been like the marriage of husband and wife depicted in English common law: Marxism and feminism are one, and that one is Marxism. --Heidi Hartmann [The Unhappy "One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Change is not merely necessary to life, it is life.
-- Alvin Toffler George I Whining is not only graceless, but can be dangerous. It can alert a brute that a victim is in the
neighborhood.
-- Maya Angelou If it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do not say it.
-- Marcus Aurelius "The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) George I
Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.
- Albert Einstein Anyone can do any amount of work provided it isn't the work he's supposed to be doing at the
moment.
-- Robert Benchley Parents are the bones upon which children sharpen their teeth.
-- Peter Ustinov Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day.
-- Thornton Wilder Once a boy becomes a man, he's a man all his life, but a woman is only sexy until she becomes
your wife.
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show George I "Great indebtedness does not make men grateful, but vengeful; and if a little charity is not forgotten, it turns into a gnawing worm." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Thus Spake Zarathustra) The louder he talked of his honour, the faster we counted our spoons.
-- Emerson, Ralph Waldo Bachelor: the only man who has never told his wife a lie. George I
Learn to laugh at your troubles and you'll never run out of things to laugh at.
-- Lyn Karol Good hours, excellent pay, fun place to work, paid training, mean boss. Oh well, four out of five
isn't bad.
-- Help Wanted Ad, PA newspaper, 1994 They gave me a book of checks. They didn't ask for any deposits.
-- Joe Early, Congressman (D-Mass), at a press conference to answer questions about the
House Bank scandal For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of our tasks; the ultimate,
the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.
-- Rainer Maria Ril blah "To give anything less than your best is to sacrifice the gift." (Steve Roland Prefontaine) George I It's important to be open-minded, but not SO open-minded that your brains fall out.
-- Rick Radebaugh I think one of the reasons I'm popular again is because I'm wearing a tie. You have to be different.
-- Tony Bennett, 1995 An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets the more interested
he is in her.
-- Agatha Christie George I
He who conquers himself is the mightiest warrior.
-- Confucius I would have made a good Pope.
-- Richard Nixon, U.S. President A university professor set an examination question in which he asked what is the difference
between ignorance and apathy. The professor had to give an A+ to a student who answered: I
don't know and There are some things which cannot be learned quickly, and time, which is all we have, must be
paid heavily for their acquiring. They are the very simplest things and, because it takes a man's
life It is better to die on your feet than live on your knees.
-- Emiliano Zapata George I blah blah blah blah blah "This is the way the world ends: not with a bang, but a whimper." (Thomas Stearns Eliot, aka T. S. Eliot) _end]
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"Hello Kitty is an icon that doesn't stand for a Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
-- Henry Ford Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
-- H. L. Mencken George I
What's new? Most of my wife. A straight line is the shortest in morals as in mathematics.
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"Hello Kitty is an icon that doesn't stand for a If a man is considered guilty for what goes on in his mind, give me the electric chair for all my
future crimes.
-- Prince "Vegiburgers are wrong." (Mike Kaup) George I Grad school is the snooze button on the clock-radio of life.
-- John Rogers, comedian (who holds a graduate degree in physics) "Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to know." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) No other success can compensate for failure in the home.
-- David O. McKay, Encyclopedia of Mormonism, Advice to parents at General Conference of he
LDS Church, April, 1964 George I
Statistics are like a bikini. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.
-- Aaron Levenstein There are two major products that come out of Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to
be a coincidence.
-- Jeremy S. Anderson Curiosity will conquer fear even more than bravery will.
-- James Stephens Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door
and just visit now and then.
-- Katharine Hepburn There is no realizable power that man cannot, in time, fashion the tools to attain, nor any power
so secure that the naked ape will not abuse it. So it is written in the genetic cards - only physics George I My wife ran off with my best friend last week. I miss him! "The intellect is always fooled by the heart." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) "As a child, I thought I hated everybody, but when I grew up I realized it was just children I didn't like." (Philip Larkin) George I
Bachelors know more about women than married men; if they didn't, they'd be married too.
-- H. L. Mencken Don't stay in bed, unless you can make money in bed.
- George Burns 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 "Those who hear not the music think the dancers mad." (Anonymous) "A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) George I Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up.
-- Robert Frost There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home.
- Ken Olson, president, chairman and founder of Digital Equipment Corp., 1977 We would often be sorry if our wishes were gratified.
-- Aesop George I
Usenet is like Tetris for people who still remember how to read.
-- Button from the Computer Museum, Boston, MA 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 I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
- Mark Twain "Education is the process of driving a set of prejudices down your throat." (Martin H. Fischer) 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 George I I think of my wife and I think of Lot, and I think of the lucky break he got. In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
- Martin Luther King Jr. "For better or for worse, our company (The News Corporation Ltd.) is a reflection of my thinking, my character, my values." (Keith Rupert Murdoch, media mogul, 1931-) George I
The difference between 'involvement' and 'commitment' is like an eggs-and-ham breakfast: the
chicken was 'involved' - the pig was 'committed'.
- unknown Many a man has finally succeeded only because he has failed after repeated efforts. If he had
never met defeat he would never have known any great victory.
-- Orison Swett Marden "All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) Your life and my life flow into each other as wave flows into wave, and unless there is peace and
joy and freedom for you, there can be no real peace or joy or freedom for me. To see reality--not
as Everywhere I go, I'm asked if the universities stifle writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle
enough of them.
-- Flannery O'Connor George I "A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Men are strong only so long as they represent a strong idea. They become powerless when they
oppose it.
-- Sigmund Freud I dislike arguments of any kind. They are always vulgar, and often convincing.
-- Oscar Wilde George I
A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.
-- Fr. Jerome Cummings Happiness is nothing more than health and a poor memory.
-- Albert Schweitzer Flowers are words which even a baby can understand.
-- Arthur C. Coxe I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
-- Mark Twain I think there are only three things America will be known for 2,000 years from now when they
study this civilization: the Constitution, jazz music, and baseball.
-- Gerald Early, writer, baseball do George I "It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what other men say in whole books--what other men do not say in whole books." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols) I still believe in liberalism today as much as I ever did, but, oh, there was a happy time when I
believed in liberals...
-- G. K. Chesterton "Sometimes I think it's another sign of the sad necessity of our crowded, lonely lives, an urgent hopeless reaching out to touch something real, a deep hunger for something authentic when everything s George I
There is a coherent plan in the universe, though I don't know what it's a plan for.
-- Fred Hoyle What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson It is with true love as it is with ghosts; everyone talks about it, but few have seen it.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld Be tolerant of the human race. Your whole family belongs to it -- and some of your spouse's
family does too.
-- Anonymous You can't shake hands with a clenched fist.
-- Indira Gandhi George I May the road rise to meet you. May the wind always be at your back. May the sun shine warm
upon your face, the rains fall soft upon your fields and, until we meet again, may God hold you in
the palm If you want a place in the sun, you've got to put up with a few blisters.
-- Abigail Van Buren Nothing average ever stood as a monument to progress. When progress is looking for a partner it
doesn't turn to those who believe they are only average. It turns instead to those who are forever
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