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The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
- General George Patton "It is awfully easy to be hard-boiled about everything in the daytime, but at night it is another thing." (Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises) Effort is only effort when it begins to hurt.
-- Jose Ortega y Gasset I think of my wife and I think of Lot, and I think of the lucky break he got. "All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) Business and Economy "People drag their progeny around with them like a ball and chain, like some terrible deadweight that hinders their every move - and that, as often as not, effectively winds up killing them." (Michel I didn't accept it. I received it.
-- Richard Allen, National Security Advisor to President Reagan, explaining the $1000 in cash and
two watches he was given by two Japanese journalists after he hel It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
-- Mark Twain Business and Economy
What would you attempt if you knew you could not fail?
-- Robert Schuller Women see better than men. Men see lazily, if they do not expect to act. Women see quite
without any wish to act.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Peculiar travel suggestions are dancing lessons from God.
-- Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., Cat's Cradle If I have seen farther than others, it is because I was standing on the shoulders of giants.
-- Isaac Newton The optimist sees opportunity in every danger; the pessimist sees danger in every opportunity.
-- Winston Churchill Business and Economy blah "It is a grand mistake to think of being great without goodness and I pronounce it as certain that there was never a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous." (Benjamin Fran "I run to see who has the most guts." (Steve Roland Prefontaine) "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world, indeed it is the only thing that ever has." (Margaret Mead, 1901-78) Business and Economy
I've sometimes thought of marrying, and then I've thought again.
-- Noel Coward After all, all he did was string together a lot of old, well-known quotations.
-- H. L. Mencken, on Shakespeare Conceit causes more conversation than wit.
-- LaRouchefoucauld I went into a McDonald's yesterday and said, "I'd like some fries." The girl at the counter said,
"Would you like some fries with that?"
-- Jay Leno Most people are more comfortable with old problems than with new solutions.
-- Anonymous Business and Economy Fine art and pizza delivery: what we do falls neatly in between.
-- David Letterman A kitten is chiefly remarkable for rushing about like mad at nothing whatever, and generally
stopping before it gets there.
-- Agnes Repplier "When even one American--who has done nothing wrong--is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth--then all Americans are in peril." (Harry S. Truman) Business and Economy
A beauty is a woman you notice; A charmer is one who notices you.
-- Adlai Stevenson I don't know exactly what democracy is. But we need more of it.
-- Anonymous Chinese Student, during protests in Tianamen Square, Beijing, 1989 Prayer gives a man the opportunity of getting to know a gentleman he hardly ever meets. I do not
mean his maker, but himself.
-- Dean Inge Do or do not. There is no try.
-- Yoda, character in the movie The Empire Strikes Back Never try to teach a pig to sing. It's a waste of your time and annoys the pig.
-- Anon. Business and Economy 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
extraordinary Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in
accordance with the dictates of reason.
-- Oscar Wilde Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.
-- Roger Babson Business and Economy
"Friendship is born at the moment when one person says to another, 'What?! You too! Thought I was the only one.'" (Clive Staples Lewis) To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest.
-- Ghandi If we knew what we were doing, it wouldn't be called research, would it?
-- Albert Einstein The advantage of a classical education is that it enables you to despise the wealth which it
prevents you from achieving.
-- Russell Green Does anal retentive have a hyphen?
-- Seen on a t-shirt Business and Economy "Eschew the ordinary, disdain the commonplace. If you have a single-minded need for something, let it be the unusual, the esoteric, the bizarre, the unexpected..." (Chuck Jones) Even overweight cats instinctively know the cardinal rule: when fat, arrange yourself in slim
poses.
-- John Weitz, American Designer Like a prune, you are not getting any better looking, but you are getting sweeter.
-- N. D. Stice Business and Economy
With the catching end the pleasures of the chase.
-- Abraham Lincoln Every calling is great when greatly pursued.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parent, gobble their food, and tyrannize their
teachers.
-- Socrates Hardly a year passes that fails to find a new, oft-times exotic, research method or technique
added to the armamentarium of political inquiry. Anyone who cannot negotiate Chi squares,
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-- Victor Hugo I drink no more than a sponge.
-- Francis Rabelais, Works. Book i. Chap. v. Business and Economy
I admire the serene assurance of those who have religious faith. It is wonderful to observe the
calm confidence of a Christian with four aces.
-- Mark Twain Honorable, adj. Afflicted with an impediment in one's reach. In legislative bodies, it is customary
to mention all members as honorable; as, ``the honorable gentleman is a scurvy cur.'
-- Bierce, A "Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to know." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) 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 There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home.
- Ken Olson, president, chairman and founder of Digital Equipment Corp., 1977 Business and Economy Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it
- Henry David Thoreau Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half shut afterwards.
-- Benjamin Franklin Government is like a baby. An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of
responsibility at the other.
-- Ronald Reagan, Saturday Evening Post, 1965 Business and Economy
"A critic is a man who knows the way but can't drive the car." (Kenneth Tynan) Effort is only effort when it begins to hurt.
-- Jose Ortega y Gasset If your professor wrote it, it's as near to the truth as you ever need to get.
-- John Watson, University of Canterbury 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 I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with
typewriters.
- Frank Lloyd Wright Business and Economy Someday is not a day of the week.
-- Anon. "I have the terrible feeling that, because I am wearing a white beard and am sitting in the back of the theatre, you expect me to tell you the truth about something. These are the cheap seats, not Mou I guess the only way to stop divorce is to stop marriage.
-- Will Rogers Business and Economy
There are two means of refuge from the misery of life - music and cats.
-- Albert Schweitzer There are many things worth living for, there are a few things worth dying for, but there is nothing
worth killing for.
-- Tom Robbins My mother's menu consisted of two choices: Take it or leave it.
-- Buddy Hackett Even death is not to be feared by one who has lived wisely.
-- Buddha Husbands are like fires. They go out if unattended.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Business and Economy The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
-- Winston Churchill Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect, and it is shameful to surrender it too soon or to the first
comer: there is nobility in preserving it coolly and proudly through long youth, until at last Life is not an easy matter.... You cannot live through it without falling into frustration and cynicism
unless you have before you a great idea which raises you above personal misery, above
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"I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough." (M. C. Escher) A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.
-- Gloria Steinem "Those who feel certainty are stupid and those with any imagination or understanding are filled with doubt and indecision." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Never practice two vices at once.
-- Tallulah Bankhead What do you take me for, an idiot?
- General Charles de Gaulle (1890-1970), when a journalist asked him if he was happy Business and Economy It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims.
- Aristotle My opinions are my wife's, and she says I'm lucky to have them. "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." Business and Economy
Always go to the bathroom when you have a chance.
-- King George V "I don't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones." (John Cage) I didn't accept it. I received it.
-- Richard Allen, National Security Advisor to President Reagan, explaining the $1000 in cash and
two watches he was given by two Japanese journalists after he hel I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible
by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.
- Umberto Eco A wasted youth is better by far than a wise and productive old age.
-- Meat Loaf, from the song "Wasted Youth" on the album Bat Out of Hell II Business and Economy "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 It is because modern education is so seldom inspired by a great hope that it so seldom achieves
great results. The wish to preserve the past rather that the hope of creating the future dominates
the If you don't know how to do something, you don't know how to do it with a computer.
-- Anon. Business and Economy
