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There is a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious, makes you so sick at
heart, you can't take part. And you've got to put your body upon the gears and upon the wheels,
upon the lev It is no use walking anywhere to preach unless our walking is our preaching.
-- St. Francis of Assisi We are not in a position in which we have nothing to work with. We already have capacities,
talents, direction, missions, callings.
-- Abraham Maslow "People demand freedom only when they have no power." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Nothing is permanent but change." (Heraclitus) Elizabeth II "Kill a man, and you are a murderer. Kill millions of men, and you are a conquerer. Kill everyone, and you are a god." (Jean Rostand) Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you
together, but do so with all your heart.
-- Marcus Aurelius He who dies a thousand deaths meets the final hour with the calmness of one who approaches a
well remembered door.
-- Heywood Brown Elizabeth II
A small family is soon provided for.
-- English Proverb May your wife be a witch who takes after her mother, and may you all live together in a one-room house. "Death is always and under all circumstances a tragedy, for if it is not, then it means that life itself has become one." (Theodore Roosevelt) The more I know about people, the better I like my dog.
-- Mark Twain Soul meets soul on lovers lips.
-- Percy Bysshe Shelley Elizabeth II I don't think I'll get married again. I'll just find a woman I don't like and give her a house.
-- Lewis Grizzard There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written or badly written.
-- Oscar Wilde All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusion is called a philosopher.
- Ambrose Bierce Elizabeth II
When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life
of another.
-- Helen Keller "The only way to have friends is to be one." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the
purpose of satisfying it afterwards.
-- Anatole France Elegance of language may not be in the power of all of us; but simplicity and straight forwardness
are. Write much as you would speak; speak as you think. If with your inferior, speak no coarser
tha "Self confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings." (Samuel Johnson) Elizabeth II The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is
not read.
-- Oscar Wilde All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusion is called a philosopher.
- Ambrose Bierce It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.
-- Andre Gide Elizabeth II
I was nauseous and tingly all over... I was either in love or I had smallpox.
-- Woody Allen "Every act of creation is first an act of destruction." (Pablo Picasso) "An imbalance between rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics." (Plutarch) "College: two hundred people reading same book. An obvious mistake. Two hundred people can read two hundred books." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried.
-- G. K. Chesterton Elizabeth II He who knows nothing, knows nothing. But he who knows he knows nothing knows something. And he who knows someone whose friend's wife's brother knows nothing, he knows something. Or something like that "Better is the enemy of good." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) Youth is wasted on the young.
-- George Bernard Shaw Elizabeth II
Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.
-- Samuel Johnson Integrity is what we do, what we say, and what we say we do.
--Don Galer I stopped believing in Santa Claus when I was six. Mother took me to see him in a department
store and he asked for my autograph.
-- Shirley Temple Black Insurance is like marriage. You pay, pay, pay, and you never get anything back.
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show The right to swing my fist ends where the other man's nose begins.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes Elizabeth II Marriage is the sole cause of divorce. With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die.
-- Abraham Lincoln Age does not protect you from love but love to some extent protects you from age.
-- Jeanne Moreau Elizabeth II
It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.
-- Henry James The child is the father of the man.
-- William Wordsworth A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems.
- Paul Erdos Don't be so humble - you are not that great.
- Golda Meir (1898-1978) to a visiting diplomat Doctors are the same as lawyers; the only difference is that lawyers merely rob you, whereas
doctors rob you and kill you too.
-- Anton Chekhov Elizabeth II It is better to be looked over than overlooked.
-- Mae West A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn; it can be stabbed to death by a joke
or worried to death by a frown on the right person's brow.
-- Charles Brower If love is the answer, could you rephrase the question?
-- Lily Tomlin Elizabeth II
What is the answer? In that case, what is the question?
-- Gertrude Stein, dying words "What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to a human soul." (Joseph Addison) In all recorded history there has not been one economist who has had to worry about where the
next meal would come from.
-- Peter F. Drucker The closer I'm bound in love to you, the closer I am to free.
-- Indigo Girls, song lyric The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that it has never tried to
contact us.
-- Bill Watterson, in his comic strip Calvin and Hobbes Elizabeth II "You know that being an American is more than a matter of where your parents came from. It is a belief that all men are created free and equal and that everyone deserves an even break." (Harry S. Tru In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.
-- 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 Elizabeth II
Martyrdom... is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability. George Bernard
Shaw (1856 - 1950), The Devil's Disciple (1901) act 3 Republican boys date Democratic girls. They plan to marry Republican girls, but feel they're
entitled to a little fun first.
-- Anonymous "Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave, and impossible to forget." (G. Randolf) Chase after the truth like all hell and you'll free yourself, even though you never touch its
coattails.
-- Clarence Darrow Love is what we are born with. Fear is what we learn. The spiritual journey is the unlearning of
fear and prejudices and the acceptance of love back in our hearts. Love is the essential reality
and Elizabeth II "Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) "Friends are those people who know the words to the song in your heart and sing them back to you when you have forgotten the words." (Anonymous) Don't anthropomorphize computers -- they hate it.
-- Anonymous Elizabeth II
"How can we know the dancer from the dance?" (William Butler Yeats) There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as
though everything is a miracle.
- Albert Einstein Life is the flower for which love is the honey.
-- Victor Hugo All that is gold does not glitter. Not all those who wander are lost;
-- J.R.R. Tolkein Republican boys date Democratic girls. They plan to marry Republican girls, but feel they're entitled to a little fun first. Elizabeth II Statistics are like a bikini. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.
-- Aaron Levenstein Effort is only effort when it begins to hurt.
-- Jose Ortega y Gasset You probably wouldn't worry about what people think of you if you could know how seldom they
do.
-- Olin Miller Elizabeth II
It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
-- Oscar Wilde In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: It goes on.
-- Robert Frost "Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking." (H. Jackson Brown (Jr.) "Freedom of press is limited to those who own one." (Henry Louis Mencken) Radio news is bearable. This is due to the fact that while the news is being broadcast the disc
jockey is not allowed to talk.
-- Fran Lebowitz Elizabeth II Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of
our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.
-- John Adams It is absurd to divide people into good or bad. People are either charming or tedious.
-- Oscar Wilde Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.
-- G. K. Chesterton Elizabeth II
The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
-- Blaise Pascal, Pens&eactue;es, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer I'm for abolishing and doing away with redundancy.
-- J. Curtis McKay, Wisconsin State Elections Board "For others do I wait ... for higher ones, stronger ones, more triumphant ones, merrier ones, for such as are built squarely in body and soul: laughing lions must come." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) 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 In marriage, as in war, it is permitted to take every advantage of the enemy. Elizabeth II It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid.
- George Bernard Shaw Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.
-- John F. Kennedy "Those that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." (Benjamin Franklin) Elizabeth II
