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The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.
-- Harper Lee When you are right, you cannot be too radical; When you are wrong, you cannot be too
conservative.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts.
-- Albert Einstein I've had a perfectly wonderful evening. But this wasn't it.
-- Groucho Marx If a man is considered guilty for what goes on in his mind, give me the electric chair for all my
future crimes.
-- Prince Abortion blah "This is the hardest of all: to close the open hand out of love, and keep modest as a giver." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "We're all proud of making little mistakes. It gives us the feeling we don't make any big ones." (Andrew A. Rooney) In olden times sacrifices were made at the altar--a practice which is still continued.
-- Helen Rowland Abortion
I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known.
-- Walt Disney When you don't know that you don't know, it's a lot different than when you do know that you
don't know. He knows now that he doesn't know. Last year, he didn't know that.
-- Bill Parcels, New Engla Peculiar travel suggestions are dancing lessons from God.
-- Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., Cat's Cradle I like nonsense -- it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living. It's a way
of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope...and that enables you to laugh at all "What is the difference between exploring and being lost?" (Dan Eldon, photojournalist) Abortion "The sickness of our times for me has been just this damn thing that everything has been getting smaller and smaller and less and less important, that the romantic spirit has dried up, that there is n "He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever." (Chinese Proverb) A true gentleman is one who is never unintentionally rude.
-- Oscar Wilde Abortion
"Ask five economists and you'll get five different answers (six if one went to Harvard)." (Edgar R. Fiedler) "The happy people are failures because they are on such good terms with themselves they don't give a damn." (Agatha Christie) "Expecting the world to treat you fairly because you are a good person is like expecting a bull not to attack you because you are a vegetarian." (Dennis Wholey) "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) Men have a much better time of it than women: for one thing they marry later, for another thing
they die earlier.
-- H. L. Mencken Abortion 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 A man's feet should be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world.
-- George Santayana A sweetheart is a bottle of wine, a wife is a wine bottle.
-- Baudelaire Abortion
"Ask five economists and you'll get five different answers (six if one went to Harvard)." (Edgar R. Fiedler) Heav'n hath no rage like love to hatred turn'd, Nor Hell a fury, like a woman scorn'd.
-- William Congreve If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one.
-- Mother Teresa "Ugliness is in a way superior to beauty because it lasts." (Serge Gainsbourg) There is no future in any job. The future lies in the man who holds the job.
-- George Crane Abortion It is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions.
-- Aldous Huxley "A man is only as faithful as his opportunity." (Chris Rock) Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of
existence.
-- Sydney Smith Abortion
Education is not filling a bucket, but lighting a fire.
-- William Yeats He would make a lovely corpse.
- Charles Dickens "You can get help from teachers, but you are going to have to learn a lot by yourself, sitting alone in a room." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, On becoming a writer, NY Times 21 Egotist: a person more interested in himself than in me.
- Ambrose Bierce We do not have censorship. What we have is a limitation on what newspapers can report.
-- Louis Nel, Deputy Minister of Information, South Africa Abortion Books, like friends, should be few and well chosen.
-- Samuel Paterson Asking politicians to vote themselves out of power is like asking rabbits not to multiply, it ain't
natural.
-- Bob Beckel, on term limits, CBS This Morning, 3/30/95 Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteeen.
-- Albert Einstein Abortion
A person is not given integrity. It results from the relentless pursuit of honesty at all times.
-- Anon. The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.
-- ee cummings "Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known." (Blaise Pascal) Marriage is more than four bare legs in a bed.
-- Hoshang N. Akhtar Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-
proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe
is Abortion "You believe that flag burning shows disrespect towards those who have fought to preserve our freedoms. Punishing protestors shows an even more profound disrespect for the ideals that these people die "We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) There is more stupidity than hydrogen in the universe, and it has a longer shelf life.
- Frank Zappa Abortion
Don't stay in bed, unless you can make money in bed.
- George Burns "God's creatures, great and small ... eat them one, eat them all." (John A. Simone Sr.) We got to roll with the punches, play all of our hunches, make the best of whatever comes your
way. Forget that blind ambition, learn to trust your intuition -- plowing straight ahead, come what
may If you want a place in the sun, you've got to put up with a few blisters.
-- Abigail Van Buren Nothing has really happened until it has been recorded.
-- Virginia Woolf Abortion Executive ability is deciding quickly and getting someone else to do the work.
-- John G. Pollard I guess the only way to stop divorce is to stop marriage.
-- Will Rogers "Growth in wisdom can be measured precisely by decline in bile." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Human, All Too Human) Abortion
"One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries." (A. A. Milne) I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood. If it
does need additional interpretation by someone other than the creator, then I question whether it
ha When you've spent half your political life dealing with humdrum issues like the environment... it's
exciting to have a real crisis on your hands.
-- Margaret Thatcher, on the Falklands Conflict "Children begin by loving their parents. After a time they judge them. Rarely, if ever, do they forgive them." (Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance) Ambition is not a vice of little people.
-- Michel de Montaigne Abortion Never try to teach a pig to sing. It wastes your time and annoys the pig.
-- Anonymous What if it was cats who invented technology... would they have tv shows starring rubber sqeak
toys?
-- Douglas Coupland Asking politicians to vote themselves out of power is like asking rabbits not to multiply, it ain't
natural.
-- Bob Beckel, on term limits, CBS This Morning, 3/30/95 Abortion
The church must be the critic and guide of the state, and never its tool.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. I've sometimes thought of marrying, and then I've thought again.
-- Noel Coward "When you have nothing to say, say nothing." (Charles Caleb Colton) Thought is action in rehearsal.
-- Sigmund Freud Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
- Lewis Perelman Abortion Fanaticism consists of redoubling your efforts when you have forgotten your aim.
-- George Santayana Better to die ten thousand deaths than wound my honor.
-- Joseph Addison "The depth and strength of a human character are defined by its moral reserves. People reveal themselves completely only when they are thrown out of the customary conditions of their life, for only th Abortion
Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
-- Bob Perelman The gods gave man fire and he invented fire engines. They gave him love and he invented marriage. A successful man is one who makes more money than his wife can spend. A successful woman
is one who can find such a man.
-- Lana Turner We think caged birds sing, when indeed they cry.
-- John Webster "I learned more from the one restaurant that didn't work than from all the ones that were successes." (Wolfgang Puck, restauranteur) Abortion Music is the art of thinking with sounds.
-- Jules Combarieu Love is not blind - it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.
Rabbi Julius Gordon When you do the common things in life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of
the world.
- George Washington Carver Abortion
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 CAPITAL, n. The seat of misgovernment. That which provides the fire, the pot, the dinner, the
table and the knife and fork for the anarchist; the part of the repast that himself supplies is the
disg It is better to die on your feet than live on your knees.
-- Emiliano Zapata Now join your hands, and with your hands your hearts.
-- William Shakespeare, King Henry the Sixth I have an existential map; it has 'you are here' written all over it.
- Steven Wright Abortion I hate mankind, for I think myself to be one of them, and I know how bad I am.
-- Samuel Johnson What kills a skunk is the publicity it gives itself.
-- Abraham Lincoln At every crossroads on the path that leads to the future, tradition has placed 10,000 men to guard
the past.
-- Maurice Maeterlink Abortion