I have often regretted my speech, never my silence.
-- Anonymous Wherever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.
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-- Paul Tillich Radio "Pay no attention to what the critics say; there has never been set up a statue in honor of a critic." (Jean Sibelius) For most of history, Anonymous was a woman.
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Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress.
-- Gandhi "It seems to me that there are two kinds of trickery: the 'fronts' people assume before one another's eyes, and the 'front' a writer puts on the face of reality." (Francois Sagan) 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 When you're experimenting you have to try so many things before you choose what you want,
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-- Anonymous Radio When I was a kid my favorite relative was Uncle Caveman. After school we'd all go play in his
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the palm Radio
Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances
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distance I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a
woman.
-- Virginia Woolf The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
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-- Jeff Raskin Radio
"A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) Whether you think that you can, or that you can't, you are usually right.
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-- Adair Lara Radio Until the day of his death, no man can be sure of his courage.
-- Jean Anouilh >From the Far East I send you one single thought, one sole idea--written in red on every
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-- General Douglas MacArthur Disclaimer: Even my wife doesn't agree with everything I say, and she loves me dearly. My employers don't love me nearly as much as she does. Draw your own conclusions. Radio
"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) "To pretend, I actually do the thing: I have therefore only pretended to pretend." (Jacques Derrida, French 'deconstructionist') "Nobody minds having what is too good for them." (Jane Austen) "When you have nothing to say, say nothing." (Charles Caleb Colton) The Holocaust was an obscene period in our nation's history...this century's history.... We all lived
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-- Dan Quayle, then Indiana senator and Republic Radio It is absurd to divide people into good or bad. People are either charming or tedious.
-- Oscar Wilde Nobody ever died of laughter.
-- Max Beerbohm Early to rise and early to bed.
Makes a male healthy, wealthy and dead.
-- James Thurber Radio
"Have confidence that if you have done a little thing well, you can do a bigger thing well, too." (David Malcolm Storey) We didn't lose the game; we just ran out of time.
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-- Yogi Berra "Give me liberty or give me death." (Patrick Henry) "The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves." (William Hazlitt) Radio "The easiest kind of relationship is with ten thousand people, the hardest is with one." (Joan Baez) "The man who never made a mistake never made anything." (Derek Longdon, Tongariro Power Development, Turangi, New Zealand) As life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action
of his time, at the peril of being not to have lived.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. Radio
Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of
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-- Sydney Smith The covers of this book are too far apart.
-- Ambrose Bierce Old soldiers never die, they just fade away.
-- General Douglas MacArthur [You reporters] should have printed what he meant, not what he said.
-- Earl Bush, press aide to Richard Daley I find television very educating. Every time sombody turns on the set, I go into the other room and
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-- Groucho Marx Radio There is more to life than increasing its speed.
-- Gandhi "When marrying, ask yourself this question: Do you believe that you will be able to converse well with this person into your old age? Everything else in marriage is transitory." (Friedrich Wilhelm Ni "True friends, like diamonds, are precious and rare. False friends, like autumn leaves, are found everywhere." (Anonymous) Radio
We have art to save ourselves from the truth.
- Friedrich Nietzsche A conference is a gathering of important people who singly can do nothing, but together can
decide that nothing can be done.
-- Fred Allen During the first period of a man's life the greatest danger is not to take the risk.
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-- Albert Einstein Radio "To pretend, I actually do the thing: I have therefore only pretended to pretend." (Jacques Derrida, French 'deconstructionist') I never hated a man enough to give him his diamonds back.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor "You can get help from teachers, but you are going to have to learn a lot by yourself, sitting alone in a room." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, On becoming a writer, NY Times 21 Radio
The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet.
-- Andy Warhol There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.
-- Oscar Wilde "Every great institution is the lengthened shadow of a single man. His character determines the character of the organization." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) "The great aim of education is not knowledge but action." (Herbert Spencer) "The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Radio There is a theory which states that if ever anybody discovers exactly what the Universe is for and
why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and
inex And I shall love thee still my dear, Until my wife is wise. Marriage is love. Love is blind. Therefore, marriage is an institution for the blind. Radio
If you were plowing a field, which would you rather use? Two strong oxen or 1024 chickens?
- Seymour Cray (1925-1996), father of supercomputing "Never frighten a little man. He'll kill you." (Robert A. Heinlein) Well if this is the wrong number, why did you answer it?
-- James Thurber Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by heart and his friends can
only read the title.
-- Virginia Woolf I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell this to my children they just about throw up.
-- Barbara Bush, first lady, 1989 Radio A woman seldom asks advice before she has bought her wedding clothes.
-- Joseph Addison "We're all proud of making little mistakes. It gives us the feeling we don't make any big ones." (Andrew A. Rooney) Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop
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-- Albert Einstein Radio
Give me a museum and I'll fill it.
-- Pablo Picasso The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
- Samuel Johnson Did you ever notice when you blow in a dog's face he gets mad at you? But when you take him in
a car he sticks his head out the window.
-- Steve Bluestone We live at a time when man believes himself fabulously capable of creation, but he does not
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-- Jose Ortega y Gasset Democracy encourages the majority to decide things about which the majority is blissfully
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--John Simon Radio Goodbye, Everybody!
-- Hart Crane, poet, who committed suicide by jumping overboard during a steamship voyage. Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think.
-- Niels Bohr "Courage is found in unlikely places." (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) Radio
