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"The purpose of Compulsory Education is to deprive the common people of their commonsense." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) 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 "I like boring things." (Andy Warhol, Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up) We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind
her stands his wife.
-- Groucho Marx No woman marries for money; they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in
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-- Don Stanford It is always right that a man should be able to render a reason for the faith that is within him.
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Drink to me.
-- Pablo Picasso, dying words Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.
-- T. S. Eliot "What is tolerance? -- it is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error; let us pardon reciprocally each other's folly -- that is the first law of nature." (Francois Marie Ar Genius is 99 percent perspiration and 1 percent inspiration.
-- Thomas Edison The more faithfully you listen to the voices within you, the better you will hear what is sounding
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-- Dag Hammarskjold Heritage Accommodations Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you
have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not.
-- Aldous Huxley Conceit causes more conversation than wit.
-- LaRouchefoucauld Gravitation can not be held responsible for people falling in love.
-- Albert Einstein Heritage Accommodations
Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the
gentleman.
-- Herbert Spencer It was very good of God to let Carlyle and Mrs Carlyle marry one another and so make only two people miserable instead of four, besides being very amusing. "If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they don't want to hear." (George Orwell) For most men life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed.
-- Clifton Fadiman 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 Heritage Accommodations I've had a perfectly wonderful evening. But this wasn't it.
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All television is children's television.
-- Richard P. Adler It is better to die on your feet than live on your knees.
-- Emiliano Zapata When I can no longer bear to think of the victims of broken homes, I begin to think of the victims
of intact ones.
-- Peter DeVries Reality is nothing but a collective hunch.
-- Lily Tomlin "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 Heritage Accommodations "It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what other men say in whole books--what other men do not say in whole books." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols) Before you put on a frown, make absolutely sure there are no smiles available.
-- Jim Beggs "Jesus died too soon. If he had lived to my age he would have repudiated his doctrine." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Heritage Accommodations
Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else.
-- George Bernard Shaw Show my head to the people, it is worth seeing.
-- Georges Danton, to his executioner 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 "I am a part of all that I have met." (Alfred Lord Tennyson, 1809-1892, English poet) You can take all the sincerity in Hollywood, place it in the navel of a firefly and still have room
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-- Fred Allen Heritage Accommodations Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love,
but no friendship.
-- Oscar Wilde He that would have the fruit must climb the tree.
-- Thomas Fuller, M.D. Husbands are like fires. They go out if unattended.
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"Ideas are far more powerful than guns. We don't allow our enemies to have guns, why should we allow them to have ideas?" (Josef Stalin) The great man fights the elements in his time that hinder his own greatness, in other words his own freedom and sincerity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Love is temporary insanity curable by marriage.
-- Ambrose Bierce Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through
self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.
-- Helen Keller Silence is as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unhewn marble of a great sculpture.
-- Aldous Huxley Heritage Accommodations "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) The wages of sin are death, but by the time taxes are taken out, it's just sort of a tired feeling.
-- Paula Poundstone "God is Man's stupidest idea." (Marcel Duchamp, French Dadaist) Heritage Accommodations
"Great work is done by people who are not afraid to be great." (Fernando Flores) Executive ability is deciding quickly and getting someone else to do the work.
-- John G. Pollard "We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars." (Oscar Wilde) Children are the only form of immortality that we can be sure of.
-- Peter Ustinov People say "I want peace." If you remove I {ego}, and your want {desire}, you are left with peace.
-- Satya Sai Baba Heritage Accommodations The open-minded see the truth in different things: the narrow-minded see only the differences.
-- Author Unknown To be able to say how much love, is love but little.
-- Petrarch Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not
there, I go to work.
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There are some things which cannot be learned quickly, and time, which is all we have, must be
paid heavily for their acquiring. They are the very simplest things and, because it takes a man's
life "Death solves all problems--no man, no problem." (Josef Stalin) Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them
good.
-- H.L. Mencken People may or may not say what they mean ... but they always say something designed to get
what they want.
-- David Mamet During the first period of a man's life the greatest danger is not to take the risk.
-- Soren Kierkegaard Heritage Accommodations Marriage is the one subject on which all women agree and all men disagree.
-- Oscar Wilde Every child is born a genius.
-- R. Buckminster Fuller Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same.
-- Oscar Wilde Heritage Accommodations
The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other
is ready.
-- Henry David Thoreau They couldn't hit an elephant at this dist---
-- John B. Sedgwick, general, dying words, 1864 A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.
-- Fr. Jerome Cummings Marry in haste, repent in leisure.
-- Tilney Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half shut afterwards.
-- Benjamin Franklin Heritage Accommodations blah bl "The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning, but without understanding." (Louis Brandeis) Always bear in mind that your own resolution to success is more important than any other one
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-- Abraham Lincoln We must become the change we want to see.
-- Gandhi Heritage Accommodations
"... adults are just obsolete children and the hell with them." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, quoted in his obituary, Time) My wife has a split personality, and I hate both of them. Everyone believes very easily whatever they fear or desire.
-- Jean de La Fontaine "Of all mankind the great poet is the equable man." (Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass, 1855) Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.
-- Salvador Dali Heritage Accommodations "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) Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.
-- Carl Gustav Jung "Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former." (Albert Einstein) Heritage Accommodations
"Courageous, untroubled, mocking and violent--that is what Wisdom wants us to be. Wisdom is a woman, and loves only a warrior." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) No man in the world has more courage than the man who can stop after eating one peanut.
-- Channing Pollack You can pretend to be serious; you can't pretend to be witty.
- Sacha Guitry Keep in mind that neither success nor failure is ever final.
-- Roger Babson He who receives an idea from me receives instruction for himself without lessening mine; as he
who lights his taper at mine receives light without darkening me.
-- Thomas Jefferson Heritage Accommodations 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 No matter who you vote for, the Government always gets in.
-- Anon. A person is not given integrity. It results from the relentless pursuit of honesty at all times.
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