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A person starts to live when he can live outside himself.
-- Albert Einstein "A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops." (Henry B. Adams) You'd be surprised how much it costs to look this cheap.
-- Dolly Parton She felt in italics and thought in capitals.
-- Henry James You can get more with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone.
-- Al Capone Business This search for what you want is like tracking something that doesn't want to be tracked. It takes
time to get a dance right, to create something memorable.
-- Fred Astaire Sleep is an excellent way of listening to an opera.
- James Stephens "I consider it the highest compliment when my employees go out and start their own companies in competition with me. I always send them a plant to wish them well. Of course, it's a cactus." (Norman B Business
Before marraige a man will like awake all night thinking about something you said. After marriage
he will fall asleep before you have finished saying it.
-- Anon. I don't know why we are here, but I'm pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves.
- Ludwig Wittgenstein People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid.
- Soren Aabye Kierkegaard You must first have a lot of patience to learn to have patience.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec With this ring I thee wed, with my body I thee worship, and with all my worldly good I thee endow.
-- Wedding Vow, Book of Common Prayer Business Marriage: the only sport in which the trapped animal has to buy the license. Good friends are good for your health.
-- Irwin Sarason The democratic theory is that if you accumulate enough ignorance at the polls, you produce
intelligence.
-- Philo Vance Business
"... What good are dreams if they come true?" (Frederick Exley, A Fan's Notes) If we let people see that kind of thing, there would never again be any war.
-- Pentagon official, on why US military censored graphic footage from the Gulf War "Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them." (Samuel Butler) It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
- Oscar Wilde The only thing that holds a marriage together is the husband bein' big enough to keep his mouth
shut, to step back and see where his wife is wrong.
-- Archie Bunker, character on "All in the Family, Business Virtue is not left to stand alone. He who practices it will have neighbors.
-- Confucius Based on what you know about him in history books, what do you think Abraham Lincoln would
be doing if he were alive today?
1) Writing his memoirs of the Civil War.
2) Advising the President.
3) D "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) Business
Whenever I dwell for any length of time on my own shortcomings, they gradually begin to seem
mild harmless, rather engaging little things, not at all like the staring defects in other people's
chara Whoever is not a misanthrope at forty can never have loved mankind.
-- Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to.
-- Elvis Presley To look backward for a while is to refresh the eye, to restore it, and to render it more fit for its
prime function of looking forward.
-- Margaret Fairless Barber I didn't accept it. I received it.
-- Richard Allen, National Security Advisor to President Reagan, explaining the $1000 in cash and
two watches he was given by two Japanese journalists after he hel Business Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
- Lewis Perelman "Great spirits have always faced voilent protest from mediocre minds." (Albert Einstein) No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent.
-- Abraham Lincoln Business
There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called marriage. -- James Holt McGavran "Our lives are repetitious shams--every single day a simulacrum of the previous day. So for Man, he is out to pepper his daily activities with different things--he's fighting against boredom." (Matth 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 Don't stay in bed, unless you can make money in bed.
- George Burns 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 Business If there is any one proof of a man's incompetence, it is the stagnant mentality of a worker who,
doing some small routine job in a vast undertaking, does not care to look beyond the lever of a
machi There are only two things a child will share willingly communicable diseases and his mother's
age.
-- Modern Maturity There's nothing wrong with having nothing to say -- unless you insist on saying it.
-- Anonymous Business
We look forward to the time when the power to love of will replace the love of power. Then will our
world know the blessings of peace.
-- William Gladstone "Nobody minds having what is too good for them." (Jane Austen) "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) To marry is to halve your rights and double your duties.
-- Arthur Schopenhauer Everything has been figured out, except how to live.
- Jean-Paul Sartre Business "Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom." (Raymonde Uy) A Code of Honor: Never approach a friend's girlfriend or wife with mischief as your goal. There
are just too many women in the world to justify that sort of dishonorable behavior. Unless she's
reall There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house
as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends.
-- Homer, Odyssey, ninth century Business
"In times of change learners inherit the earth; while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists." (Eric Hoffer) There is only one nature - the division into science and engineering is a human imposition, not a
natural one. Indeed, the division is a human failure; it reflects our limited capacity to comprehend My mother-in-law broke up my marriage. My wife came home from work one day and found me in
bed with her.
-- Lenny Bruce The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because
generally they are the same people.
-- G. K. Chesterton "One of the great dangers in having a career is getting bored." (Itzhak Perlman) Business "People expect a certain reaction from a business, and when you pleasantly exceed those expectations, you've somehow passed an important psychological threshold." (Richard Thalheimer, president, The "Learn from the mistakes of others--you can never live long enough to make them all yourself." (John Luther) We have only one person to blame, and that's each other.
-- Barry Beck, New York Ranger, on who started a fight furing a hockey game Business
There are three great friends: an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.
-- Benjamin Franklin 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 "People who cease to believe in God or goodness altogether still believe in the devil. I don't know why. No, I do indeed know why. Evil is always possible. And goodness is eternally difficult." (Anne Good Night, Good night! Parting is such sweet sorrow,
that I shall say good night till it be morrow.
-- Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare. Act II, Scene II, lines 220-221 The theory used to be you marry an older man because they are more mature. The new theory is
that men don't mature. So you might as well marry a younger one.
-- Anonymous Business Virtue is like health: the harmony of the whole man.
-- Thomas Carlyle "Oh, the tiger will love you. There is no sincerer love than the love of food." (George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman) I'm astounded by people who want to 'know' the universe when it's hard enough to find your way
around Chinatown.
-- Woody Allen Business
"May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house." (George Carlin) "Man looks in the abyss, there's nothing staring back at him. At that moment, man finds his character. And that is what keeps him out of the abyss." (Hal Holbrook, Wallstreet) 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
sea Acting is the most minor of gifts and not a very high-class way to earn a living. After all, Shirley
Temple could do it at the age of four.
-- Katharine Hepburn Shotgun wedding: a case of wife or death Business Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing.
-- Oscar Wilde This is the fourth?
-- Thomas Jefferson, dying words "Education is a vacine for violence." (Edward James Olmos) Business
All marriages are happy. It's living together afterwards that is difficult.
-- Anonymous "Teacher played hooky. Sent message: 'Receiving instruction. Enjoying myself thoroughly. See you next week.'" (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) "REASONABLE, adj. Accessible to the infection of our own opinions. Hospitable to persuasion, dissuasion and evasion." (Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary) Experience teaches only the teachable.
-- Aldous Huxley Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature.
-- Samuel Butler Business Love cures people, both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.
-- Dr. Karl Menninger That's the way things come clear. All of a sudden. And then you realize how obvious they've been
all along.
-- Madeleine L'Engle Men. You can't live with them. You don't have to.
-- Seen on a t-shirt Business
If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile.
-- Lynda Barry When marriage is outlawed, only outlaws will have inlaws. Washington is a city of Southern efficiency and Northern charm.
-- John F. Kennedy Most people are more comfortable with old problems than with new solutions.
-- Anonymous 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 Business The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
-- Winston Churchill It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.
-- Albert Einstein "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) Business
