Democracy is the name we give the people whenever we need them.
-- Marquis de Flers Robert and Arman de Caillavet "I am not afraid of tomorrow, for i have seen yesterday and i love today!" (William Allen White) "Think off-center." (George Carlin) ... it is certain that the real function of art is to increase our self-consciousness; to make us more
aware of what we are, and therefore of what the universe in which we live really is. And since
We know the truth, not only by the reason, but also by the heart.
-- Blaise Pascal, Thoughts, Chap. x. 1., Translated by O. W. Wight Travel and Tourism The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One
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What would you attempt if you knew you could not fail?
-- Robert Schuller The Bible contains six admonishments to homosexuals and 362 admonishments to
heterosexuals. That doesn't mean that God doesn't love heterosexuals. It's just that they need
more supervision.
-- Lynn We had a lot in common. I loved him and he loved him.
-- Shelley Winters 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 Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte Travel and Tourism "What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage." When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen.
-- Ernest Hemingway It was just him and me. He fought with honor. If it weren't for his honor, he and the others would
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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) LOVE, n. A temporary insanity curable by marriage or by removal of the patient from the
influences under which he incurred the disorder... It is sometimes fatal, but more frequently to the
physician Marriage is like a bank account. You put it in, you take it out, you lose interest.
-- Irwin Corey "Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn; my God, do you learn!" (Clive Staples Lewis) Thus the metric system did not really catch on in the States, unless you count the increasing
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-- Dave Barry Travel and Tourism Per cubic inch, your current TV set is perhaps the dumbest appliance in your home (and I'm not
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-- Nicholas Negroponte Author: A fool, who, not content with having bored those who have lived with him, insists on
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-- Montesquieu Happy are those who dream dreams and are willing to pay the price to make them come true.
-- Anon. Travel and Tourism
The mistakes are all waiting to be made.
- chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower (1887-1956) on the game's opening position Hell hath no fury like a bureaucrat scorned.
-- Milton Friedman 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 My father was a minister. I had to make up for the lack of sin.
-- Milwuakee mayor, on why he became a politician I am beginning to suspect all elaborate and special systems of education. They seem to me to be
built upon the supposition that every child is a kind of idiot who must be taught to think.
-- Anne S Travel and Tourism "I've never let my school interfere with my education." (Mark Twain) As for courage and will - we cannot measure how much of each lies within us, we can only trust
there will be sufficient to carry through trials which may lie ahead.
-- Andre Norton A man's feet should be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world.
-- George Santayana Travel and Tourism
I'm not a member of any organized political party, I'm a Democrat!
-- Will Rogers Egotist: a person more interested in himself than in me.
- Ambrose Bierce It is not necessary to understand things in order to argue about them.
-- Pierre Augustin de Beaumarchais Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is enemy action.
- Auric Goldfinger, in Goldfinger by Ian L. Fleming Never moon a werewolf.
-- Mike Binder Travel and Tourism "The English have all the material requisites for the revolution. What they lack is the spirit of generalization and revolutionary ardour." (Karl Marx) blah bl "The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning, but without understanding." (Louis Brandeis) Self-reliance is the only road to true freedom, and being one's own person is its ultimate reward.
-- Patricia Sampson Travel and Tourism
The nation's honor is dearer than the nation's comfort; yes, than the nation's life itself.
-- Woodrow Wilson Whenever you eliminate the inedible, whatever remains, however unpalatable, must be food.
-- Anonymous I don't want everyone to like me; I should think less of myself if some people did.
-- Henry James If we were not all so interested in ourselves, life would be so uninteresting that none of us would
be able to endure it.
-- Schopenhauer Thank God - every morning when you get up - that you have something to do which must be
done, whether you like it or not. Being forced to work, and forced to do your best, will breed in you
a hundre 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 The higher up you go, the more mistakes you are allowed. Right at the top, if you make enough of
them, it's considered to be your style.
-- Fred Astaire Marriage is a matter of give and take, but so far I haven't been able to find anybody who'll take what I have to give. -- Cass Daley Travel and Tourism
A person is not given integrity. It results from the relentless pursuit of honesty at all times.
-- Anon. Of course, it is very important to be sober when you take an exam. Many worthwile careers in the
street-cleansing, fruit-picking and subway-guitar-playing industries have been founded on a lack
of u Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.
-- B.F. Skinner "Man is a strange animal. He generally cannot read the handwriting on the wall until his back is up against it." (Adlai Stevenson) "The face is the soul of the body." (Ludwig Wittgenstein) Travel and Tourism It is not because it is difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that things are
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-- Lucius Anneaus Seneca It destroys one's nerves to be amiable everyday to the same human being.
-- Benjamin Disraeli "In married life three is company and two is none." (Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest) Travel and Tourism
"I always thought a dog-lover was a dog who loved another dog." (James Thurber) A man's wife has more power over him than the state has.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Friends need not agree in everything or go always together, or have no comparable other
friendships of the same intimacy. On the contrary, in friendship union is more about ideal things:
and in that A good time to keep your mouth shut is when you're in deep water.
-- Sidney Goff "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) Travel and Tourism The average, healthy, well-adjusted adult gets up at seven-thirty in the morning feeling just plain
terrible.
-- Jean Kerr "Courage is doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared." (Eddie Rickenbacker) The innkeeper loves the drunkard, but not for a son-in-law.
-- Yiddish Proverb Travel and Tourism
Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not
there, I go to work.
-- Robert Orben In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice
that I am not a Republican.
-- H. L. Mencken Spinster: A bachelor's wife. It is better to die on your feet than live on your knees.
-- Emiliano Zapata "I like boring things." (Andy Warhol, Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up) Travel and Tourism Diplomat: A man who can convince his wife she would look stout in a fur coat. I shall return.
-- General Douglas MacArthur "Inside of a ring or out, ain't nothing wrong with going down. It's staying down that's wrong." (Muhammad Ali) Travel and Tourism
In every country and every age, the priest has been hostile to Liberty.
-- Thomas Jefferson Fighting is essentially a masculine idea; a woman's weapon is her tongue.
-- Hermione Gingold "The order of the world is always right - such is the judgment of God. For God has departed, but he has left his judgment behind, the way the Cheshire Cat left his grin." (Jean Baudrillard) In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been
widely regarded as a bad move.
-- Douglas Adams Keep in mind that neither success nor failure is ever final.
-- Roger Babson Travel and Tourism "The monster a child knows best and is most concerned with [is] the monster he feels or fears himself to be. " (Bruno Bettelheim, child psychologist) If I have not seen as far as others, it is because giants were standing on my shoulders.
-- Hal Abelson "Try not to have a good time ... This is supposed to be educational." (Charles Schultz) Travel and Tourism
"Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains." (Karl Marx) Everything has been figured out, except how to live.
- Jean-Paul Sartre Not knowing when the dawn will come, I open every door.
-- Emily Dickinson "Courage is found in unlikely places." (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) The price of freedom is eternal vigilance.
-- Thomas Jefferson Travel and Tourism The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four Americans is suffering from some form of
mental illness. Think of your three best friends. If they're okay, then it's you.
-- Rita Mae Brown The best defense is a good offense.
-- Anonymous A leader in the Democratic Party is a boss, in the Republican Party he is a leader.
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