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Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson "The White Rabbit put on his spectacles. 'Where shall I begin, please your Majesty?' he asked. 'Begin at the beginning,' the King said gravely, 'and go on till you come to the end: then stop.'" (Lewi Saying that Windows95 is equal to Macintosh is like finding a potato that looks like Jesus and
believing you've witnessed the second coming.
-- Guy Kawasaki The mistakes are all waiting to be made.
- chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower (1887-1956) on the game's opening position There is nothing that can be said by mathematical symbols and relations which cannot also be
said by words. The converse, however, is false. Much that can be and is said by words cannot
successfully Education "A friendship that exacts oneness of opinion and conduct is not worth much." (Mohandas Gandhi, In Search of the Supreme) The whole problem can be stated quite simply by asking, "Is there a meaning to music?" My
answer would be, "Yes." And "Can you state in so many words what the meaning is?" My answer
to that would be I don't know if God exists, but it would be better for His reputation if He didn't.
-- Jules Renard Education
If all men were brothers, would you let one marry your sister? "Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it." (John Quincy Adams) "If you meet a woman that smokes cigars ... marry her." (Arthur Lotti) If we may believe our logicians, man is distinguished from all other creatures by the
faculty of laughter.
-- Joseph Addison "... What good are dreams if they come true?" (Frederick Exley, A Fan's Notes) Education "Nietzsche was stupid and abnormal." (Leo Tolstoy, 1828-1910) It is not necessary that whilst I live I live happily; but it is necessary that so long as I live I should
live honourably.
-- Kant, Immanuel 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 Education
To decide, to be at the level of choice, is to take responsibility for your life and to be in control of
your life.
-- Abbie M. Dale I'm not into working out. My philosophy: No pain, no pain.
-- Carol Leifer I still believe in liberalism today as much as I ever did, but, oh, there was a happy time when I
believed in liberals...
-- G. K. Chesterton He who receives an idea from me receives instruction for himself without lessening mine; as he
who lights his taper at mine receives light without darkening me.
-- Thomas Jefferson "If I work toward an end, meantime I am confined to a process. The rainbow is more beautiful than the pot at the end of it, because the rainbow is now. And the pot never turns out to be quite what I e Education Generations to come will find it difficult to believe that a man such as Gandhi ever walked the
face of this earth.
-- Albert Einstein Launch out into the deep. One discovers by living in scorn of consequence.
-- Essie Summers Just buy a box of popcorn and a Coca-Cola and sit back and watch.
-- James Carville, Clinton advisor, offering advice for Democrats on the term-limits vote in the
House Education
Democracy is the name we give the people whenever we need them.
-- Marquis de Flers Robert and Arman de Caillavet There is nothing so wrong in this world that a sensible woman can't set it right in the course of an
afternoon.
-- Giraudoux I have spread my dreams under your feet;
Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.
-- William Butler Yeats, from "He wishes for the cloths of heaven" Thanksgiving is so called because we are all so thankful that it only comes once a year.
-- P. J. O'Rourke And I shall love thee still my dear, Until my wife is wise. Education Fighting is essentially a masculine idea; a woman's weapon is her tongue.
-- Hermione Gingold Politics have no relation to morals.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli Not only is there no God, but try finding a plumber on Sunday.
-- Woody Allen Education
The covers of this book are too far apart.
-- Ambrose Bierce It's never too late to have a happy childhood.
-- Tom Robbins, Still Life With Woodpecker Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside a dog, it's too dark to read.
-- Groucho Marx I have read your book and much like it.
-- Moses Hadas, book reviewer Cute little babies that fall out of swings - These are a few of my favourite things.
-- Oscar Hammerstein, working lyric for a piece from "The Sound of Music" Education "Everything in my life has been determined by mistakes." (Gene Wilder) The big difference between sex for money and sex for free is that sex for money usually costs a
lot less.
-- Brendon Behan "Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience." (George Bernard Shaw) Education
Confidence is the feeling you have before you understand the situation.
--Anon. There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called marriage. -- James Holt McGavran "Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishments." (Anonymous) I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.
-- Albert Einstein I don't feel good.
-- Luther Burbank, dying words Education "All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.
-- George Orwell "The easiest kind of relationship is with ten thousand people, the hardest is with one." (Joan Baez) Education
"He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches." (George Bernard Shaw) Laugh and the world laughs with you. Snore and you sleep alone.
-- Anthony Burgess When I have a kid, I wanna put him in one of those strollers for twins, then run around the mall
looking frantic.
-- Steven Wright 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 We need the iron qualities that go with true manhood. We need the positive virtues of resolution,
of courage, of indomitable will, of power to do without shrinking the rough work that must always
be Education "Commit yourself to quality from day one ... it's better to do nothing at all than to do something badly." (Mark McCormack) blah "Each friend represents a world in us; a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only in meeting them that a new world is born." (Anais Nin) I know I'm not in government anymore. In fact I'm out of work.
-- Ronald Reagan, Former U.S. President, on a speaking tour of Japan, 1989 Education
We never reflect how pleasant it is to ask for nothing.
-- Seneca The only Zen you find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there.
-- Robert M. Pirsig "All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end.
-- Igor Stravinsky Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door
and just visit now and then.
-- Katharine Hepburn Education Youth is wasted on the young.
-- George Bernard Shaw There is nothing more notable in Socrates than that he found time, when he was an old man, to
learn music and dancing, and thought it time well spent.
-- Michel de Montaigne Genius is 99 percent perspiration and 1 percent inspiration.
-- Thomas Edison Education
Success is peace of mind which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you did your best
to become the best you are capable of becoming.
-- John R. Wooden, Practical Modern Basketball "Vegiburgers are wrong." (Mike Kaup) A sweetheart is a bottle of wine, a wife is a wine bottle.
-- Baudelaire Why don't you write books people can read?
-- Nora Joyce, to her husband James 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 Education We are the echo of the future.
-- W. S. Merwin The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.
-- Nicholas Murray Butler Epperson's law:
When a man says it's a silly, childish game, it's probably something his wife can beat him at. Education
"I would rather die standing than live on my knees!" (Emiliano Zapata) "The first question I ask myself when something doesn't seem to be beautiful is why do I think it's not beautiful. And very shortly you discover that there is no reason." (John Cage) Every act of creation is first an act of destruction.
-- Pablo Picasso We need a president who's fluent in at least one language.
-- Buck Henry He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose
-- Jim Elliott Education Universities incline wits to sophistry and affectation.
-- Francis Bacon "People expect a certain reaction from a business, and when you pleasantly exceed those expectations, you've somehow passed an important psychological threshold." (Richard Thalheimer, president, The Feminists are OK, I just wouldn't want my sister to marry one Education
To marry is to halve your rights and double your duties.
-- Arthur Schopenhauer "Women might be able to fake orgasms. But men can fake whole relationships." (Sharon Stone) Do not assume that she who seeks to comfort you now, lives untroubled among the simple and
quiet words that sometimes do you good. Her life may also have much sadness and difficulty, that
remains fa "Deep down, no one really believes they have a right to live. But this death sentence generally stays tucked away, hidden beneath the difficulty of living. If that difficulty is removed from time to t When marriage is outlawed, only outlaws will have inlaws. Education There are some things which cannot be learned quickly, and time, which is all we have, must be
paid heavily for their acquiring. They are the very simplest things and, because it takes a man's
life I have come to the conclusion never again to think of marrying, and for this reason, I can never
be satisfied with anyone who would be blockhead enough to have me.
-- Abraham Lincoln, in a letter to Mathematics transfigures the fortuitous concourse of atoms into the tracery of the finger of God.
-- Herbert Westren Turnbull Education
