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Politics is for people who have a passion for changing life but lack a passion for living it.
-- Tom Robbins Love one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that.
-- Michael Leunig What I have to say is far more important than how long my eyelashes are.
-- Alanis Morissette, singer, 1995 No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent.
-- Abraham Lincoln Even a band of angels can turn ugly and start looting if enough angels are unemployed and
hanging around the Pearly Gates convinced that all the succubi own all the liquor stores in
Heaven.
-- P. J Arts and Entertainment Egotist: a person more interested in himself than in me.
- Ambrose Bierce The innkeeper loves the drunkard, but not for a son-in-law.
-- Yiddish Proverb "Murder is the very bed-rock of our social institutions." (Octave Mirbeau, The Torture Garden) Arts and Entertainment
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 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 Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
- Gail Godwin The only thing you will ever be able to say in the so-called 'social' sciences is: "some do, some
don't."
-- Ernest Rutherford We have children because we want immortality and this is the most reliable way of getting it.
-- Woodrow Wyatt Arts and Entertainment "Liberty has never come from the government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of it. The history of liberty is a history of resistance. The history of liberty is a history of limitations of g Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half shut afterwards.
-- Benjamin Franklin Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than
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-- William Faulkner Arts and Entertainment
"I've never let my school interfere with my education." (Mark Twain) "If there is something to pardon in everything, there is also something to condemn." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, The Will to Power, 1888) Jealousy is the only vice that gives no pleasure.
-- Anonymous The person who is slowest in making a promise is most faithful in its performance.
-- Jean-Jacques Rousseau "The face is the soul of the body." (Ludwig Wittgenstein) Arts and Entertainment Great ability develops and reveals itself increasingly with every new assignment. Baltasar
Gracian Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your position falls, your ego goes with
it.
-- Colin Powell "Ask five economists and you'll get five different answers (six if one went to Harvard)." (Edgar R. Fiedler) Arts and Entertainment
If we let people see that kind of thing, there would never again be any war.
-- Pentagon official, on why US military censored graphic footage from the Gulf War Facts are the enemy of truth.
- Don Quixote - Man of La Mancha "Every act of violence increases the recruitment of terrorists. Iraq has been turned into a base of terror." (Noam Chomsky, from The Toronto Star, March 23, 2004) Democracy is a form of government in which it is permitted to wonder aloud what the country
could do under first-class management.
-- Senator Soaper "The only way to have friends is to be one." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Arts and Entertainment "The proper office of a friend is to side with you when you are wrong. Nearly anybody will side with you when you are right." (Mark Twain) Women's liberationists spread the word that...the only peaceful family is one in which either the
wife is enslaved or the husband is androgynous.
-- R. Emmett Tyell, The Liberal Crack-Up, 1984 We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind her stands his wife. -- Groucho Marx Arts and Entertainment
When Michelangelo finished the painting of the Sistine Chapel's ceiling, he spent the rest of his
life trying to remove the paint that had poured into his sleeve.
-- Francois Cavanna "In literary criticism the critic has no choice but to make over the victim of his attention into something the size and shape of himself." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) The first half of our life is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
-- Clarence Darrow When women go wrong, men go right after them.
-- Mae West 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' Arts and Entertainment Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.
-- Abraham Lincoln "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) When looking back, usually I'm more sorry for the things I didn't do than for the things I shouldn't
have done.
-- Malcolm Forbes Arts and Entertainment
What I look forward to is continued immaturity followed by death.
-- Dave Barry Experience is not what happens to you; it's what you do with what happens to you.
-- Aldous Huxley Trust everybody, but cut the cards.
-- Finley Peter Dunne I'd marry again if I found a man who had 15 million and would sign over half of it to me before the
marriage and guarantee he'd be dead within a year.
-- Bette Davis Honeymoon: A short period of doting between dating and debting.
-- Ray Bandy Arts and Entertainment Music is the art of thinking with sounds.
-- Jules Combarieu 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 "Conforming is only acceptable when you conform with a nonconformist." (John A. Simone Jr.) Arts and Entertainment
If the government wants people to respect the law, it should set a better example.
-- Anon. When a thing has been said and said well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it.
-- Anatole France Shotgun wedding: a case of wife or death The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech.
-- George Bernard Shaw It's no credit to anyone to work to hard.
-- Ed Howe Arts and Entertainment When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.
-- Hunter S. Thompson "Your children are not your children. They are sons and daughters of life's longing for itself. They come through you but not from you. And though they are with you, they belong not to you. You may gi "The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it." (Abbie Hoffman) Arts and Entertainment
Love is an emotion that is based on an opinion of women that is impossible for those who have
had any experience with them.
-- H. L. Mencken Whatever you are, be a good one.
-- Abraham Lincoln After all, all he did was string together a lot of old, well-known quotations.
-- H. L. Mencken, on Shakespeare "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 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" Arts and Entertainment If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt Effort is only effort when it begins to hurt.
-- Jose Ortega y Gasset Always behave like a duck--keep calm and unruffled on the surface but paddle like the devil
underneath.
-- Jacob Braude Arts and Entertainment
Researchers have discovered that chocolate produces some of the same reactions in the brain
as marijuana...The researchers also discovered other similarities between the two, but can't
remember what "Man looks in the abyss, there's nothing staring back at him. At that moment, man finds his character. And that is what keeps him out of the abyss." (Hal Holbrook, Wallstreet) Talk to a man about himself and he will listen for hours.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Faith is believing what you know ain't so.
-- Mark Twain People, like nails, lose their effectiveness when they lose direction and begin to bend.
-- Walter Savage Landor Arts and Entertainment I'm worried that the universe will soon need replacing. It's not holding a charge.
-- Edward Chilton Paradoxically though it may seem, it is none the less true that life imitates art far more than art
imitates life.
-- Oscar Wilde "The English have all the material requisites for the revolution. What they lack is the spirit of generalization and revolutionary ardour." (Karl Marx) Arts and Entertainment
I'm like old wine. They don't bring me out very often, but I'm well preserved.
-- Rose Kennedy, (1890-1995) family matriarch, on her 100th birthday, 1991 He who laughs, lasts.
-- Mary Pettibone Poole Discovery consists of looking at the same thing as everyone else does and thinking something
different.
-- Albert Szent-Gyorgyi, 1937 Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine "The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man." (George Bernard Shaw) Many a wife thinks her husband is the world's greatest lover. But she can never catch him at it. Arts and Entertainment 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 If you can't convince them, confuse them.
-- Harry S. Truman I do not believe in an afterlife, although I am bringing a change of underwear.
-- Woody Allen Arts and Entertainment
"Everywhere one seeks to produce meaning, to make the world signify, to render it visible. We are not, however, in danger of lacking meaning; quite the contrary, we are gorged with meaning and it is k Organic chemistry is the chemistry of carbon compounds. Biochemistry is the study of carbon
compounds that crawl.
-- Mike Adams "The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) Research is the act of going up alleys to see if they are blind.
-- Plutarch Losing a wife can be hard. In my case, it was almost impossible. Arts and Entertainment The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet.
-- Andy Warhol To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive, and the true success is to labour.
-- Robert L. Stevenson Smoking kills. If you're killed, you've lost a very important part of your life.
-- Brooke Shields, during an interview to become spokesperson for a federal anti-smoking
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