"Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil) Mathematics transfigures the fortuitous concourse of atoms into the tracery of the finger of God.
-- Herbert Westren Turnbull In medieval times, people thought that evil spirits could enter a person through an open mouth.
These days they more often leave that way.
-- David Deckert Now, now my good man, this is no time for making enemies.
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-- Henry David Thoreau The telephone company is urging people to *please* not use the telephone unless it is absolutely
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Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
- Henry Ford "He who speaks of what he knows not only works hard to portray his ignorance." (Joseph Muchemi) America is a large, friendly dog in a very small room. Every time it wags its tail, it knocks over a
chair.
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-- R. Buckminster Fuller Clubs and Venues Does anal retentive have a hyphen?
-- Seen on a t-shirt It is not because it is difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that things are
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When making public policy decisions about new technologies for the Government, I think one
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-- Tom Robbins, Jitterbug Perfume Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.
-- G. K. Chesterton Your every voter, as surely as your chief magistrate, exercises a public trust.
-- Grover Cleveland Honor the ocean of love.
-- George de Benneville Clubs and Venues Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
-- George Santayana The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.
-- Harper Lee Of the seven dwarves, only Dopey had a shaven face. This should tell us something about the
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Of course there's a lot of knowledge in universities: the freshmen bring a little in; the seniors don't
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-- Anonymous The honest poor can sometimes forget poverty. The honest rich can never forget it.
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-- Anonymous Great innovations should not be forced on slender majorities.
-- Thomas Jefferson The gods too are fond of a joke.
-- Aristotle Clubs and Venues
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-- Friedrich Nietzsch Effort is only effort when it begins to hurt.
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"The market is not an invention of capitalism. It has existed for centuries. It is an invention of civilization." (Mikhail Gorbachev, June 8, 1990) Learn to laugh at your troubles and you'll never run out of things to laugh at.
-- Lyn Karol 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.
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-- Maria Edgeworth Clubs and Venues "An able man shows his spirit by gentle words and resolute actions; he is neither hot nor timid." (Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield, 4th earl of) Most of our obstacles would melt away if, instead of cowering before them, we should make up
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"Majority rule only works if you're also considering individual rights. Because you can't have five wolves and one sheep voting on what to have for supper." (Larry Flynt) Since Eve ate the apple, much depends on dinner.
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- unknown The story of a love is not important - what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps
the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.
-- Helen Hayes Clubs and Venues It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.
-- Abraham Lincoln Only the little people pay taxes.
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-- Jay Leno Clubs and Venues
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-- Will Rogers Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way
around the laws.
- Plato People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war or before an election.
-- Otto von Bismarck I think men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage. They've experienced pain
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-- Rita Rudner Clubs and Venues The streets are safe in Philadelphia. It's only the people who make them unsafe.
-- Frank Rizzo, ex-police chief and mayor of Philadelphia There are many things worth living for, there are a few things worth dying for, but there is nothing
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-- Tom Robbins We look forward to the time when the power to love of will replace the love of power. Then will our
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-- William Gladstone Clubs and Venues
We do not remember days; we remember moments.
-- Anonymous I think 'Hail to the Chief' has a nice ring to it.
- John F. Kennedy when asked what is his favorite song [You reporters] should have printed what he meant, not what he said.
-- Earl Bush, press aide to Richard Daley A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel.
-- Robert Frost Society is like a stew. If you don't stir it up every once in a while then a layer of scum floats to the
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-- Ed Abbey Clubs and Venues Govern a family as you would cook a small fish - very gently.
-- Chinese Proverb If we were not all so interested in ourselves, life would be so uninteresting that none of us would
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Fanaticism consists of redoubling your efforts when you have forgotten your aim.
-- George Santayana Considering the flames and intolerance, shouldn't USENET be spelled ABUSENET?
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-- Nanette Newman, British actress Clubs and Venues "It seems to me that almost all our sadnesses are moments of tension, which we feel as paralysis because we no longer hear our astonished emotions living." (Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poe The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism
is the equal sharing of miseries.
-- Winston Churchill "Beauty awakens the soul to act." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) Clubs and Venues
2,400,000 Americans play the accordian - hopefully not at the same time.
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-- George Bernard Shaw To read a writer is for me not merely to get an idea of what he says, but to go off with him and travel in his company.
Andre Gide The planting of trees is the least self-centered of all that we can do. It is a purer act of faith than
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