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Ambition is not a vice of little people. -- Michel de Montaigne When you do the common things in life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of the world. - George Washington Carver 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 When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro. -- Hunter S. Thompson "When thou art at Rome, do as they do at Rome." (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1547-1616) News and Media When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro. -- Hunter S. Thompson Curiosity killed the cat, but for a while I was a suspect. -- Steven Wright The trouble with some women is that they get all excited about nothing -- and then marry him. -- Cher News and Media Marriage means commitment. Of course, so does insanity. Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering. The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about. -- Oscar Wilde "I was born lost and take no pleasure in being found..." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) We do not have censorship. What we have is a limitation on what newspapers can report. -- Louis Nel, Deputy Minister of Information, South Africa News and Media "The market is not an invention of capitalism. It has existed for centuries. It is an invention of civilization." (Mikhail Gorbachev, June 8, 1990) "If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they don't want to hear." (George Orwell) The limits of my language means the limits of my world. -- Ludwig Wittgenstein News and Media A man sits with a pretty girl for an hour, it seems like a minute. He sits on a hot stove for a minute, it's longer than any hour. That is relativity. -- Albert Einstein We're our own dragons as well as our own heroes, and we have to rescue ourselves from ourselves. -- Tom Robbins 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 Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them good. -- H.L. Mencken "A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops." (Henry B. Adams) News and Media "The order of the world is always right - such is the judgment of God. For God has departed, but he has left his judgment behind, the way the Cheshire Cat left his grin." (Jean Baudrillard) "Better to be deprived of food for three days than tea for one." (Chinese Proverb) We are all here for a spell; get all the good laughs you can. -- Will Rogers News and Media The democratic theory is that if you accumulate enough ignorance at the polls, you produce intelligence. -- Philo Vance "If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library." (Frank Zappa) Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact. - George Eliot "Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country." (Marquis de Lafayette) He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose -- Jim Elliott News and Media If your wife wants to learn how to drive, don't stand in her way. Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo. - H. G. Wells While we are postponing, life speeds by. - Seneca (3BC - 65AD) News and Media 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 "Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time." (E. B. White) To teach is to learn twice. -- Joseph Joubert "And on the seventh day, God stepped back and said 'There is my creation, perfect in every way ... oh, damn it, I left pot all over the place. Now they'll think I want them to smoke it. Now I have to I dislike arguments of any kind. They are always vulgar, and often convincing. -- Oscar Wilde News and Media While we are postponing, life speeds by. - Seneca (3BC - 65AD) "I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it." (Thomas Jefferson, to Archibald Stuart, 1791) One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good reputation. -- Oscar Wilde News and Media "It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure on the world." (John Steinbeck Nothing has really happened until it has been recorded. -- Virginia Woolf 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 Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing. -- Salvador Dali Computers will not be perfected until they can compute how much more than the estimate the job will cost. -- Anon News and Media To love someone deeply gives you strength. Being loved by someone deeply gives you courage. -- Lao Tzu The person who is slowest in making a promise is most faithful in its performance. -- Jean-Jacques Rousseau Argue for your limitations, and sure enough they're yours. - Richard Bach News and Media "Do not go gentle into that good night. Old age should burn and rave at close of day. Rage, rage against the dying of the light." (Dylan Thomas) Time is at once the most valuable and most perishable of all our possessions. -- John Randolph 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 Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind. -- Albert Einstein The nourishment is palatable. -- Millard Fillmore, dying words News and Media "Be not afraid of greatness. Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon 'em." (William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night, II:5) And I shall love thee still my dear, Until my wife is wise. Sex is the mathematics urge sublimated. -- M. C. Reed News and Media 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 "Nobody minds having what is too good for them." (Jane Austen) "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) Call on God, but row away from the rocks. -- Indian proverb In America, anybody can be president. That's one of the risks you take. -- Adlai Stevenson News and Media "I expect nothing. I fear no one. I am free." (Nikos Kazantzakis) Love is an ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses. -- Lord Dewar "Ugliness is in a way superior to beauty because it lasts." (Serge Gainsbourg) News and Media Computers will not be perfected until they can compute how much more than the estimate the job will cost. -- Anon The weirder you're going to behave, the more normal you should look. It works in reverse, too. When I see a kid with three or four rings in his nose, I know there is absolutely nothing extraordinary First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win. - Mahatma Gandhi I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have. - Thomas Jefferson Establishing yourself, furnishing a house, building up a comfortable existence, and having that menace hanging over your head all the time - no, I prefer to live in hotels, cafés, just passing through News and Media "If a million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing." (Anatole France) Any sufficiently advanced bureaucracy is indistinguishable from molasses. -- Anon. The more we do, the more we can do; the more busy we are the more leisure we have. -- William Hazlitt News and Media "Plato was a bore." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint on it you can. -- Danny Kaye For best results: wash in cold water separately, hang dry and iron with warm iron. For not so good results: drag behind car through puddles, blow-dry on roofrack. -- Laundry instructions on a shirt "I expect nothing. I fear no one. I am free." (Nikos Kazantzakis) News and Media "I never learned from a man who agreed with me." (Robert A. Heinlein) If your professor wrote it, it's as near to the truth as you ever need to get. -- John Watson, University of Canterbury A theory is something nobody believes, except the person who made it. An experiment is something everybody believes, except the person who made it. -- Albert Einstein, attributed News and Media The gods too are fond of a joke. -- Aristotle blah "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." (Thomas Jefferson) Man's mind stretched to a new idea never goes back to its original dimensions. -- Oliver Wendell Holmes The best reason I can think of for not running for President of the United States is that you have to shave twice a day. -- Adlai Stevenson "If I were still a critic, I would loathe knowing the person I was writing about. There's enough of an incestuous relationship between subject and writer." (Manny Farber, American film theorist) News and Media Organic chemistry is the chemistry of carbon compounds. Biochemistry is the study of carbon compounds that crawl. -- Mike Adams A beauty is a woman you notice; A charmer is one who notices you. -- Adlai Stevenson A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently. -- St. Augustine News and Media
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