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"Hello Kitty is an icon that doesn't stand for a Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.
-- T. S. Eliot "Avoid providing material for the drama that is always stretched tight between parents and children; it uses up much of the children's strength and wastes the love of the elders, which acts and warms Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day.
-- Thornton Wilder Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
-- T.S. Eliot Travel and Tourism "There is only one thing more painful than learning from experience and that is not learning from experience." (Archibald McLeish) Love is an ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.
-- Lord Dewar Let the refining and improving of your own life keep you so busy that you have little time to
criticize others.
-- H. Jackson Brown Travel and Tourism
The Church is an organism that grows best in an alien society.
-- C. Stacey Woods "I knew I was an unwanted baby when I saw my bath toys were a toaster and a radio." (Joan Rivers) First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.
- Mahatma Gandhi The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and
science.
-- Albert Einstein I know a dead parrot when I see one, and I'm looking at one right now.... This is an ex-parrot.
-- John Cleese, Monty Python, British comedy television show Travel and Tourism I'm not indecisive. Am I indecisive?
-- Jim Scheibel, mayor, St. Paul MN The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything. Except what is worth knowing.
Journalism, conscious of this, and having tradesman-like habits, supplies their demands.
-- Oscar Wilde Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.
-- Albert Einstein Travel and Tourism
"Man is a strange animal. He generally cannot read the handwriting on the wall until his back is up against it." (Adlai Stevenson) If you want to sing out, sing out, and if you want to be free, be free, 'cause there's a million ways
to be, you know that there are...
-- Cat Stevens, from a song lyric Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
-- Soren Kierkegaard Never judge someone by who he's in love with; judge him by his friends. People fall in love with
the most appalling people. Take a cool, appraising glance at his pals.
-- Cynthia Heimel "Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Travel and Tourism This novel is not to be tossed lightly aside, but hurled with great force.
-- Dorothy Parker "A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same
time, and still retain the ability to function.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald Travel and Tourism
Basically, I no longer work for anything but the sensation I have while working.
- Albert Giacometti (sculptor) How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create
it herself.
- Anais Nin Thought is action in rehearsal.
-- Sigmund Freud Not everything that can be counted counts; and not everything that counts can be counted.
-- Albert Einstein "Have you ever fed your pocket and starved your soul?" (Ivana Santilli, Too Deep) Travel and Tourism If you never want to see a man again, say, "I love you, I want to marry you, I want to have children..." - they leave skid marks. -- Rita Rudner I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is; I only know that people call
me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat.
-- Rebecca West, If you don't know how to do something, you don't know how to do it with a computer.
-- Anon. Travel and Tourism
"Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country." (Marquis de Lafayette) How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create
it herself.
- Anais Nin To die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture.
-- Anatole France What does not kill me makes me stronger.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "If a million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing." (Anatole France) Travel and Tourism "This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday
afternoon.
-- Susan Ertz What is politics, after all, but the compulsion to preside over property and make other peoples'
decisions for them?
-- Tom Robbins, Skinny Legs and All Travel and Tourism
May the road rise to meet you. May the wind always be at your back. May the sun shine warm
upon your face, the rains fall soft upon your fields and, until we meet again, may God hold you in
the palm Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you.
-- John-Paul Sartre Men. You can't live with them. You don't have to.
-- Seen on a t-shirt If you don't know how to do something, you don't know how to do it with a computer.
-- Anon. The church must be the critic and guide of the state, and never its tool.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Travel and Tourism "These are days you'll remember." If you recall nothing else from your graduation ceremony,
remember you heard the New Jersey Governor quote from 10,000 Maniacs.
-- Christine Todd, NJ Governor, Whea The gods gave man fire and he invented fire engines. They gave him love and he invented marriage. People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war or before an election.
-- Otto von Bismarck Travel and Tourism
There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.
-- George Santayana The theory used to be you marry an older man because they are more mature. The new theory is
that men don't mature. So you might as well marry a younger one.
-- Anonymous We got to roll with the punches, play all of our hunches, make the best of whatever comes your
way. Forget that blind ambition, learn to trust your intuition -- plowing straight ahead, come what
may When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I only think about how to solve the
problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
- Buckminster My good intentions are completely lethal.
-- Margaret Atwood Travel and Tourism 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 "Jesus died too soon. If he had lived to my age he would have repudiated his doctrine." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The voice of the intellect is a soft one, but it does not rest till it has gained a hearing.
-- Sigmund Freud Travel and Tourism
We have to keep trying things we're not sure we can pull off. If we just do the things we know we
can do... you don't grow as much. You gotta take those chances on making those big mistakes.
-- Cybi If someone offers you a breath mint, accept it.
-- H. Jackson Brown, Jr., Life's Little Treasure Book, on wisdom Matters of religion should never be matters of controversy. We neither argue with a lover about
his taste, not condemn him, if we are just, for knowing so human a passion.
-- George Santayana In times of profound change, the learners inherit the earth, while the learned find themselves
beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists.
-- Al Rogers, Global SchoolHouse Netw A true gentleman is one who is never unintentionally rude.
-- Oscar Wilde Travel and Tourism "A friendship that exacts oneness of opinion and conduct is not worth much." (Mohandas Gandhi, In Search of the Supreme) "Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave, and impossible to forget." (G. Randolf) I loathe people who keep dogs. They are cowards who haven't got the guts to bite people
themselves.
-- August Strindberg Travel and Tourism
Children are the only form of immortality that we can be sure of.
-- Peter Ustinov When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are
legislators.
-- P. J. O'Rourke "Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) What we anticipate seldom occurs: but what we least expect generally happens.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Celestial navigation is based on the premise that the Earth is the center of the universe. The
premise is wrong, but the navigation works. An incorrect model can be a useful tool.
-- Kelvin Throop I Travel and Tourism "Being born is like being kidnapped. And then sold into slavery." (Andy Warhol) "Now that we have everything we need, we discover that there is almost nothing that we have that we want." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) True thinkers are characterised by a blending of clearness and mystery.
-- Victor Hugo Travel and Tourism
"One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries." (A. A. Milne) "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've had a perfectly wonderful evening. But this wasn't it.
-- Groucho Marx A good cook is like a sorceress who dispenses happiness.
-- Elsa Schiapirelli I think one of the reasons I'm popular again is because I'm wearing a tie. You have to be different.
-- Tony Bennett, 1995 Travel and Tourism He who knows only his own side of the case, knows little of that.
-- John Stuart Mill I dislike arguments of any kind. They are always vulgar, and often convincing.
-- Oscar Wilde The weirder you're going to behave, the more normal you should look. It works in reverse, too.
When I see a kid with three or four rings in his nose, I know there is absolutely nothing
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"Be not afraid of greatness. Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon 'em." (William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night, II:5) The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One
cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the
marvelous str If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.
-- Voltaire "I think it's about time we voted for senators with breasts. After all, we've been voting for boobs
long enough."
-- Arizona senatorial candidate Claire Sargent, on women candidates Trust everybody, but cut the cards.
-- Finley Peter Dunne Travel and Tourism "One may sometimes tell a lie, but the grimace that accompanies it tells the truth." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "A critic is a man who knows the way but can't drive the car." (Kenneth Tynan) "Some people must go to extremes to get the world in balance for themselves. Some can't bear bright lights, so wherever they go they search for the dark; they turn the lights down, anything to sustain Travel and Tourism
