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The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.
- Emile Zola It was a day like this Marco Polo left for China. What are your plans for today?
--Loesje Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you help them to become what they are
capable of being.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Airplane travel is nature's way of making you look like your passport photo.
-- Al Gore, U.S. Vice President What's new? Most of my wife. Education It was just him and me. He fought with honor. If it weren't for his honor, he and the others would
have beaten me together. They might have killed me, then. His sense of honor saved my life. I
didn' "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, "I never learned from a man who agreed with me." (Robert A. Heinlein) Education
"I have learned that to be with those I like is enough." (Walt Whitman) 'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
-- ee cummings "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 Trust, but verify.
-- Ronald Reagan If all economists were laid end to end, they would not reach a conclusion.
-- George Bernard Shaw Education "The greater the artist, the greater the doubt. Perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize." (Robert Hughes) He is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death.
- H. H. Munro (Saki) Duct tape is like the Force. It has a light side, a dark side, and it holds the universe together....
-- Carl Zwanzig Education
"A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities." (Eda J. Le Shan) A man's wife has more power over him than the state has.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson History is more or less bunk.
-- Henry Ford We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
-- Aristotle "You believe that flag burning shows disrespect towards those who have fought to preserve our freedoms. Punishing protestors shows an even more profound disrespect for the ideals that these people die Education "Pleasant words are a honeycomb, Sweet to the soul and healing to the bones." (Bible, Proverbs 16:24) The charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that, from age to age, nothing
changes and yet everything is completely different.
-- Aldous Huxley "I couldn't find the sports car of my dreams, so I built it myself." (Dr. Ferdinand Porsche) Education
We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we
respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart.
-- H. L. Mencken "In the future everyone will be famous for fifteen minutes." (Andy Warhol) Husbands are awkward things to deal with; even keeping them in hot water will not make them
tender.
-- Mary Buckley Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.
-- Ernest Hemingway Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount.
-- Clare Boothe Luce Education Beware of men on airplanes. The minute a man reaches thirty thousand feet, he immediately
becomes consumed by distasteful sexual fantasies which involve doing uncomfortable things in
those tiny toil I think every woman is entitled to a middle husband she can forget.
-- Adela Rogers St. John "Self-confidence is the first requisite for achieving great things." (Samuel Johnson) Education
A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.
- Sir Winston Churchill "Is life not a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The important thing is not to stop questioning.
-- Albert Einstein The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious.
-- Albert Einstein In view of all the deadly computer viruses that have been spreading lately, Weekend Update
would like to remind you: when you link up to another computer, you're linking up to every
computer that th Education If we knew what we were doing, it wouldn't be called research, would it?
-- Albert Einstein Whatever you are from nature, keep to it; never desert your own line of talent. Be what nature
intended you for, and you will succeed; be anything else, and you will be ten thousands times
worse tha The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll Education
The more faithfully you listen to the voices within you, the better you will hear what is sounding
outside.
-- Dag Hammarskjold The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
-- Mark Twain "Work like you don't need the money. Love like you've never been hurt. Dance like nobody's watching." (Satchel Paige) Marriage is like a mousetrap. Those on the outside are trying to get in. Those on the inside are trying to get out. "I hear, I know. I see, I remember. I do, I understand." (Confucius, 551 BC-479) Education I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude. we are for the most part
more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers.
-- Thoreau The Republicans have a new healthcare proposal: Just say NO to illness!
-- Mark Russell Life is like a movie--since there aren't any commercial breaks, you have to get up and go to the
bathroom in the middle of it.
-- Nick Mirov Education
A poem is never finished, only abandoned.
-- Paul Valery "Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent." (Napoleon Bonaparte) Creativity is allowing oneself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.
-- Scott Adams, The Dilbert Principle "Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains." (Karl Marx) It is a product of Einstein's genius -- taking a commonplace observation, combining it with some
simple imaginary experiments, and arriving at a revolutionary conclusion.
-- Clifford M. Wills, 1986 Education "Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil) The coziness between church and state is good for the state and bad for the church.
-- G. K. Chesterton The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. The opposite of a profound truth may
well be another profound truth.
- Niels Bohr Education
"If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library." (Frank Zappa) "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) A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.
- Lao-Tzu I don't know why we are here, but I'm pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves.
- Ludwig Wittgenstein The Church is an organism that grows best in an alien society.
-- C. Stacey Woods Education Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.
-- Abraham Lincoln Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing.
-- Oscar Wilde People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid.
- Soren Aabye Kierkegaard Education
When a girl marries she exchanges the attention of many men for the inattention of one.
-- Helen Rowland Having once decided to achieve a certain task, achieve it at all costs of tedium and distaste. The
gain in self-confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labor is immense.
-- Thomas Arnold Bennet I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers.
-- Gandhi I criticize by creation - not by finding fault.
- Cicero "In some ways, I never outgrew my adolescence. I wake up in the morning and think, 'Oh my God, I'm late for a math test!' But then I say, 'Wait a minute. I'm 40.'" (Daniel Clowes) Education In the late 1600s the finest instruments originated from three rural families whose workshops
were side by side in the Italian village of Cremona. First were the Amatis, and outside their shop
hung I hate it in friends when they come too late to help.
-- Euripides Once a boy becomes a man, he's a man all his life, but a woman is only sexy until she becomes
your wife.
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Education
"Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously u "Courage is doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared." (Eddie Rickenbacker) "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 "We already have the statistics for the future: the growth percentages of pollution, overpopulation, desertification. The future is already in place." (Günther Grass, Winner of the Nobel Prize for Li Statistics have shown that mortality increases perceptibly in the military during wartime.
-- Alphonse Allais Education "Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under." (Henry Louis Mencken) If you can't convince them, confuse them.
-- Harry S. Truman Airplane travel is nature's way of making you look like your passport photo.
-- Al Gore, U.S. Vice President Education
Losing a wife can be hard. In my case, it was almost impossible. The imaginary friends I had as a kid dropped me because their friends thought I didn't exist.
-- Aaron Machado Twenty years fron now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones
you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in
your 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 Marriage means commitment. Of course, so does insanity. Education "If you believe everything you read, you better not read." (Japanese Proverb) If excessive smoking actually plays a role in the production of lung cancer, it seems to be a minor
one.
-- Dr. W.C. Heuper of the National Cancer Institute, as quoted in the New York Times on Apri We never reflect how pleasant it is to ask for nothing.
-- Seneca Education
