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No wonder nobody comes here--it's too crowded.
-- Yogi Berra Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for the appointment by the corrupt few.
-- George Bernard Shaw I've been trying desperately to save my marriage for the last 35 years. More light!
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, dying words When you're away, I'm restless, lonely
Wretched, bored, dejected; only
here's the rub, my darling dear,
I feel the same when you are here.
-- Samuel Hoffenstein Labour Students Courage: doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared.
-- Eddie Rickenbacker Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame.
- Benjamin Franklin I believe that mink are raised for being turned into fur coats and if we didn't wear fur coats those
little animals would never have been born. So is it better not to have been born or to have lived Labour Students
"Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known." (Blaise Pascal) "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) "All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) By the time (the Leaning Tower of Pisa) was 10% built, everyone knew it would be a total
disaster. But the investment was so big they felt compelled to go on. Since its completion, it cost
a fortune Never regard study as a duty, but as the enviable opportunity to learn to know the liberating
influence of beauty in the realm of the spirit for your own personal joy and to the profit of the
commun Labour Students Actually, the only memory I have of being a Cub Scout was trying to get my hat back. That was all
I did. Run back and forth at my bus stop going "Quit it."
-- Jerry Seinfeld Obstacles cannot crush me. Every obstacle yields to stern resolve. He who is fixed to a star does
not change his mind.
-- Leonardo da Vinci, Notebooks "Nothing is permanent but change." (Heraclitus) Labour Students
The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
-- B. F. Skinner "Self confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings." (Samuel Johnson) It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid.
- George Bernard Shaw We do not remember days; we remember moments.
-- Anonymous The closer I'm bound in love to you, the closer I am to free.
-- Indigo Girls, song lyric Labour Students He early on let her know who is the boss. He looked her right in the eye and clearly said, "You're
the boss."
-- Anonymous Outside of the killings, Washington has one of the lowest crime rates in the country.
-- Marion Barry, Mayor, Washington, D.C. It was the experience of mystery -- even if mixed with fear -- that engendered religion.
- Albert Einstein Labour Students
It is best to learn as we go, not go as we have learned.
-- Leslie Jeanne Sahler The less a man thinks or knows about his virtues, the better we like him.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson The difference between false memories and true ones is the same as for jewels: it is always the
false ones that look the most real, the most brilliant.
-- Salvador Dali The wages of sin are death, but by the time taxes are taken out, it's just sort of a tired feeling.
-- Paula Poundstone To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.
-- Karen Sunde Labour Students Wagner's music is better than it sounds.
- Mark Twain "Boredom is a vital problem for the moralist, since at least half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) If we knew what we were doing, it wouldn't be called research, would it?
-- Albert Einstein Labour Students
Practice random acts of kindness and sensless acts of beauty.
-- Adair Lara "Life is a great surprise. I don't see why death should not be an even greater one." (Vladimir Nabokov) "We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars." (Oscar Wilde) "Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear." (Ambrose Redmoon) Good-bye. I am leaving because I am bored.
-- George Saunders - last words Labour Students Education is not filling a bucket, but lighting a fire.
-- William Yeats Opera in English is, in the main, about as sensible as baseball in Italian.
-- H. L. Mencken I envy people who drink -- at least they know what to blame everything on.
-- Oscar Levant Labour Students
If other people are going to talk, conversation becomes impossible.
-- James McNeill Whistler People, like nails, lose their effectiveness when they lose direction and begin to bend.
-- Walter Savage Landor Sex is the mathematics urge sublimated.
-- M. C. Reed 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 No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent.
-- Abraham Lincoln Labour Students To expect defeat is nine-tenths of defeat itself.
-- Francis Crawford "Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it." (John Quincy Adams) If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate.
-- Steven Wright Labour Students
Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect, and it is shameful to surrender it too soon or to the first
comer: there is nobility in preserving it coolly and proudly through long youth, until at last A dollar saved is a quarter earned.
-- John Ciardi "This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering. "Paper should be edible, nutritious. Inks used for printing or writing should have delicious flavors. Magazines or newspapers read at breakfast should be eaten for lunch. Instead of throwing one's mai Labour Students Sex is God's joke on human beings.
-- Bette Davis Very little is known of the Canadian country since it is rarely visited by anyone but the Queen and
illiterate sport fishermen.
-- P. J. O'Rourke "It serves me right for putting all my eggs in one bastard." (Dorothy Parker, 1893-1967, US writer) Labour Students
Anything too stupid to be said, is sung.
-- Voltaire People think we make $3 million and $4 million a year. They don't realize that most of us only
make $500,000.
-- Pete Incaviglia, baseball player, 1990 "From the start, marriage was instituted for contemptible, practical reasons--an idea of men." (Catherine Deneuve) Outside of the killings, Washington has one of the lowest crime rates in the country.
-- Marion Barry, Mayor, Washington, D.C. "The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of the dream." (Eleanor Roosevelt) Labour Students If you can't get rid of the skeleton in your closet, you'd best teach it to dance.
- George Bernard Shaw We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.
-- Mme de Staël Discovery consists of looking at the same thing as everyone else does and thinking something
different.
-- Albert Szent-Gyorgyi, 1937 Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine Labour Students
Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.
-- Francis Bacon The fantasy which serves as a support for the figure of the Stalinist Communist is therefore
exactly the same as the fantasy which is at work in the Tom and Jerry cartoons.
-- Slavoj Zizek The philosophy exam was a piece of cake -- which was a bit of a surprise, actually, because I
was expecting some questions on a sheet of paper.
-- Smith & Jones The fate of love is that it always seems too little or too much.
-- Anonymous If the government wants people to respect the law, it should set a better example.
-- Anon. Labour Students "True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost." (Charles Caleb Colton) The scientific theory I like best is that the rings of Saturn are composed entirely of lost airline
luggage.
-- Mark Russell Age does not make us childish, as some say; it finds us true children.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Labour Students
It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid.
- George Bernard Shaw The most terrible poverty is loneliness and the feeling of being unloved.
-- Mother Teresa When a girl marries she exchanges the attention of many men for the inattention of one.
-- Helen Rowland "Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain -- and most fools do." (Dale Carnegie) I've never had major knee surgery on any other part of my body.
-- Winston Bennett, University of Kentucky basketball forward Labour Students "Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences." (Isadora Duncan) Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else.
-- George Bernard Shaw "What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to a human soul." (Joseph Addison) Labour Students
"Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "In order to keep anything cultural, logical, or ideological, you have to reinvent the reality of it." (Ani Difranco) Love is only the game that is not called on account of darkness.
-- M. Hirschfield There is a courtesy of the heart; it is allied to love. From it springs the purest courtesy in the
outward behavior.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Vote for the man who promises least. He'll be the least disappointing.
-- Bernard Baruch Labour Students We do not have censorship. What we have is a limitation on what newspapers can report.
-- Louis Nel, Deputy Minister of Information, South Africa The open-minded see the truth in different things: the narrow-minded see only the differences.
-- Author Unknown No one can earn a million dollars honestly.
- William Jennings Bryan Labour Students
