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must be fired.
-- Conway's Law "Self confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings." (Samuel Johnson) The advice your son rejected is now being given by him to your grandson. Where there is love there is life.
-- Gandhi Business and Economy ARDOR, n. The quality that distinguishes love without knowledge.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four Americans is suffering from some form of
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-- Rita Mae Brown Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education
without natural ability.
Cicero (106 BC - 43 BC) Business and Economy
Reason can answer questions, but imagination has to ask them.
-- Ralph N. Gerard Organic chemistry is the chemistry of carbon compounds. Biochemistry is the study of carbon
compounds that crawl.
-- Mike Adams What sets worlds in motion is the interplay of differences, their attractions and repulsions; life is
plurality, death is uniformity.
-- Octavio Paz Nothing has really happened until it has been recorded.
-- Virginia Woolf "You make 'em, I amuse 'em." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, on children) Business and Economy If stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out?
- Will Rogers "I praise loudly. I blame softly." (Catherine the Great) Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country.
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The mistakes are all waiting to be made.
- chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower (1887-1956) on the game's opening position Of course, it is very important to be sober when you take an exam. Many worthwile careers in the
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-- Albert Einstein Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go.
- Oscar Wilde We got to roll with the punches, play all of our hunches, make the best of whatever comes your
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-- Dr. Benjamin Spock, American pediatrician, address to new parents "A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) "Teacher played hooky. Sent message: 'Receiving instruction. Enjoying myself thoroughly. See you next week.'" (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) Business and Economy
For centuries, theologians have been explaining the unknowable in terms of the-not-worth-
knowing.
- Henry Louis Mencken Keep in mind that neither success nor failure is ever final.
-- Roger Babson I am ready at any time. Do not keep me waiting.
-- John Brown - last words Egotist: a person more interested in himself than in me.
- Ambrose Bierce A coward is a hero with a wife, kids, and a mortgage.
-- Marvin Kitman Business and Economy A kitten is chiefly remarkable for rushing about like mad at nothing whatever, and generally
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-- Agnes Repplier ...the fog is rising.
-- Emily Dickinson, dying words "One pretty good definition of college is that it's a place where people are made to read difficult books." (Jonathan Franzen) Business and Economy
The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because
generally they are the same people.
-- G. K. Chesterton "Feeding is a very important ritual for me. I don't trust people who don't like to eat." (Gina Gershon) If I had been around when Rubens was painting, I would have been revered as a fabulous model.
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-- Dawn French 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 I don't know anything about luck. I've never banked on it, and I'm afraid of people who do. Luck to
me is something else; hard work and realizing what is opportunity and what isn't.
-- Lucille Ball Business and Economy The only thing you will ever be able to say in the so-called 'social' sciences is: "some do, some
don't."
-- Ernest Rutherford 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 "Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parents, gobble their food, and tyrannize their teachers." (Socrates) Business and Economy
If you don't know how to do something, you don't know how to do it with a computer.
-- Anon. Love is friendship set on fire.
- Jeremy Taylor Anyone can be passionate, but it takes real lovers to be silly.
-- Rose Franken Opportunity may knock only once, but temptation leans on the doorbell.
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-- French saying Love is an ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.
-- Lord Dewar There are trivial truths, and there are great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false.
The opposite of a great truth is also true.
-- Neils Bohr Business and Economy
One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.
-- Virginia Woolf Bachelor: the only man who has never told his wife a lie. Paradoxically though it may seem, it is none the less true that life imitates art far more than art
imitates life.
-- Oscar Wilde "In order to keep anything cultural, logical, or ideological, you have to reinvent the reality of it." (Ani Difranco) "When I was four years old they tried to test my IQ, they showed me this picture of three oranges and a pear. They asked me which one is different and does not belong, they taught me different was wro Business and Economy The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
- Lucille S. Harper 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 "The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances." (Viktor E. Frankl) Business and Economy
We can never be sure that the opinion we are endeavoring to stifle is a false opinion; and if we
were sure, stifling it would be an evil still.
-- John Stuart Mill "There is no sin except stupidity." (Oscar Wilde) If everything seems under control, you're just not going fast enough.
- Mario Andretti MARRIAGE, n. The state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress and two
slaves, making in all, two.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife. -- PJ O'Rourke Business and Economy I owe the government $3400 in taxes. So I sent them two hammers and a toilet seat.
-- Michael McShane Men. You can't live with them. You don't have to.
-- Seen on a t-shirt "Good taste is the first refuge of the non-creative. It is the last-ditch stand of the artist." (Marshall McLuhan) Business and Economy
Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork
picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art.
-- Tom Stoppard "Nothing touches a work of art so little as words of criticism: they always result in more or less fortunate misunderstandings." (Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet) The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
- Samuel Johnson It is much more comfortable to be mad and know it, than to be sane and have one's doubts.
- G. B. Burgin Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has not heart; and any man who is over 30, and is
not a conservative, has no brains.
- Sir Winston Churchill Business and Economy Acting is the most minor of gifts and not a very high-class way to earn a living. After all, Shirley
Temple could do it at the age of four.
-- Katharine Hepburn For of all sad words of tongue or pen,
The saddest are these: "It might have been!"
-- John Greenleaf Whittier I am going to put myself to sleep now for a bit longer than usual. Call the time Eternity." (Jerzy Kosinski, Polish novelist, from his suicide note) Business and Economy
All marriages are happy. It's living together afterwards that is difficult.
-- Anonymous If you are going to sin, sin against God, not the bureaucracy. God will forgive you but the
bureaucracy won't.
-- Hyman Rickover People, like nails, lose their effectiveness when they lose direction and begin to bend.
-- Walter Savage Landor "No drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ignorance, g Winning is a habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.
-- Vince Lombardi Business and Economy "My wallpaper and I are fighting a duel to the death. One or the other of us has to go." (Oscar Wilde, his last recorded words) All television is children's television.
-- Richard P. Adler Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do.
-- Dr. Benjamin Spock, American pediatrician, address to new parents Business and Economy
Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
-- Harriet Beecher Stowe The trouble with some women is that they get all excited about nothing -- and then marry him.
-- Cher Joy is but the sign that creative emotion is fulfilling its purpose.
-- Charles Du Bos Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same
direction.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
-- Lucille S. Harper Business and Economy Thought is action in rehearsal.
-- Sigmund Freud "I'm basically an optimist in life but this doesn't prevent me from deducing as a scientist that we are probably doomed." (Vladimir Chaloupka, physicist, University of Washington, regarding mankind's A clever man commits no minor blunders.
- Goethe Business and Economy
