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It is not because it is difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that things are
difficult.
-- Lucius Anneaus Seneca We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind
her stands his wife.
-- Groucho Marx A White House well filled, a little peanut field well tilled, and a wife who will go to the Bronx are
great riches.
-- Poor Jimmy's Almanac I'm proud to be paying taxes in the United States. The only thing is - I could be just as proud for
half the money.
-- Arthur Godfrey "In the future everyone will be famous for fifteen minutes." (Andy Warhol) Government To teach is to learn twice.
-- Joseph Joubert "Do something for the joy of doing it and pray you won't be punished." (Sammy Cahn) Unfortunately, the media have trouble distinguishing between real science and propaganda
cross-dressed as science.
-- Linda Bowles, political columnist Government
To take what there "is", and use it, without waiting forever in vain for the preconceived - to dig
deep into the actual and get something out of that - this doubtless is the right way to live.
-- H Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you.
- Carl Gustav Jung Don't anthropomorphize computers -- they hate it.
-- Anonymous I had some words with my wife, and she had some paragraphs with me. We seek the comfort of another. Someone to share and share the life we choose. Someone to
help us through the neverending attempt to understand ourselves. And in the end, someone to
comfort us along Government It is not because it is difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that things are
difficult.
-- Lucius Anneaus Seneca There are not enough Indians in the world to defeat the Seventh Cavalry.
-- George Armstrong Custer Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions - it only guarantees equality of opportunity.
- Irving Kristol Government
No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent.
-- Abraham Lincoln Abstract art: a product of the untalented sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.
-- Al Capp "If you assume that there's no hope, you guarantee that there will be no hope. If you assume that there is an instinct for freedom, there are opportunities to change things, there's a chance for you t Tauzin backs term limits -- But he thinks it's a bad idea.
-- Headline, story in the New Orleans Times-Picayune, Feb 20, 1995 If all men were brothers, would you let one marry your sister? Government Immature love says: "I love you because I need you." Mature love says: "I need you because I
love you."
-- Erich Fromm "Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom." (Raymonde Uy) The mistakes are all waiting to be made.
- chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower (1887-1956) on the game's opening position Government
Beneath the rule of men entirely great, / The pen is mightier than the sword.
-- Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton, Richelieu, II. ii My good intentions are completely lethal.
-- Margaret Atwood Give her two red roses, each with a note. The first note says "For the woman I love" and the
second, "For my best friend."
-- Anonymous Conversation, fastidious Goddess, loves blood better than brick, and feasts most subtly on the
human will.
-- Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway We have a habit in writing articles published in scientific journals to make the work as finished as
possible, to cover up all the tracks, to not worry about the blind alleys or describe how you had Government We see the brightness of a new page where everything yet can happen.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke, Book of Hours A problem is a chance for you to do your best.
-- Buke Ellington "That's the true sign. If the lover has not yet achieved his prize, his eyes will follow the woman, while she appears indifferent. But once he's gained his goal, it's the woman's eyes that follow him, Government
If God does not exist, then everything is permitted.
-- Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Devils Practice random acts of kindness and sensless acts of beauty.
-- Adair Lara We can do no great things; only small things with great love.
-- Mother Teresa The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
-- Blaise Pascal, Pens&eactue;es, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer And gain is gain, however small.
-- Robert Browning Government A little girl at the wedding afterwards asked her mother why the bride changed her mind. "What
do you mean?" responded her mother. "Well, she went down the aisle with one man, and came
back with ano If I have seen farther than others, it is because I was standing on the shoulders of giants.
-- Isaac Newton Love looks through a telescope; envy, through a microscope.
-- Josh Billings Government
blah "A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) "Bread feeds the body, indeed, but flowers feed also the soul." (The Prophet Mohammad) "I feel I have to protect myself against things. So I'm pretty careful to lose most of them." (George Orson Welles) 'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
-- ee cummings There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him asleep.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Government "I never learned from a man who agreed with me." (Robert A. Heinlein) The older one grows, the more one likes indecency.
-- Virginia Woolf That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the
lessons that history has to teach.
-- Aldous Huxley Government
English Law prohibits a man from marrying his mother-in-law. This is our idea of useless legislation. Count your age with friends but not with years.
-- Anonymous Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.
-- Oscar Wilde America is the only nation in history which miraculously has gone directly from barbarism to
degeneration without the usual intervention of civilization.
-- George Clemenceau "There are no uninteresting things, only uninteresting people." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) Government "Even death is unreliable. Instead of zero it may be some ghastly hallucination, such as the square root of minus one." (Samuel Beckett) "I owe much to my friends; but, all things considered, it strikes me that I owe even more to my enemies. The real person springs life under a sting even better than under a caress." (André Gide) Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
-- Soren Kierkegaard Government
"If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they don't want to hear." (George Orwell) Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
-- George Bernard Shaw The cynics are right nine times out of ten.
- Henry Louis Mencken This novel is not to be tossed lightly aside, but hurled with great force.
-- Dorothy Parker Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love,
but no friendship.
-- Oscar Wilde Government We haven't the money, so we've got to think.
-- Lord Rutherford The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet.
-- Andy Warhol Victory belongs to the most persevering.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte Government
A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.
-- St. Augustine Radio news is bearable. This is due to the fact that while the news is being broadcast the disc
jockey is not allowed to talk.
-- Fran Lebowitz Lottery: A tax on people who are bad at math.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about 'short' and 'cheap'? -- Phyllis Diller "Beauty awakens the soul to act." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) Government As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he.
-- Proverbs 23:7 Call on God, but row away from the rocks.
-- Indian proverb "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) Government
"I like boring things." (Andy Warhol, Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up) The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but
newspapers.
-- Thomas Jefferson "A critic is a man who knows the way but can't drive the car." (Kenneth Tynan) "All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) 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 Government Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three pillars of learning.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Try praising your wife, even if it does frighten her at first.
-- Billy Sunday Two souls with but a single thought,
Two hearts that beat as one.
-- Fredrich Halm Government
"Listen, or your tongue will make you deaf." (Native American Proverb) I have been attacked by Rush Limbaugh on the air, an experience somewhat akin to being
gummed by a newt. It doesn't actually hurt, but it leaves you with slimy stuff on your ankle.
-- Molly Ivins I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about "short" and
"cheap"?
-- Phyllis Diller My religion consists of a humble admiration of the unlimitable superior who reveals Himself in the
slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble minds. That deeply emotional
convi 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 Government I figure you have the same chance of winning the lottery whether you play or not.
-- Fran Lebowitz Love is blind and marriage is the institution for the blind.
-- James Graham Imitation is the sincerest form of television.
-- Fred Allen Government
