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When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives mean the most to us, we often find
that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our
pain And now here is my secret, a very simple secret; it is only with the heart that one can see rightly,
what is essential is invisible to the eye.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupery Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the
truth.
- Sherlock Holmes The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains.The superior teacher demonstrates. The
great teacher inspires.
-- William Arthur Ward A little girl at the wedding afterwards asked her mother why the bride changed her mind. "What
do you mean?" responded her mother. "Well, she went down the aisle with one man, and came
back with ano Chirk Marrying a man is like buying something you've been admiring for a long time in a shop window.
You may love it when you get it home, but it doesn't always go with everything in the house.
-- Jean Ke A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents.
-- H. L. Mencken I have never taken any exercise except sleeping and resting.
-- Mark Twain Chirk
He had occasional flashes of silence that made his conversation perfectly delightful.
-- Sydney Smith, referring to Macaulay Fill what's empty, empty what's full, and scratch where it itches.
- the Duchess of Windsor, when asked what is the secret of a long and happy life "It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what other men say in whole books--what other men do not say in whole books." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols) Why are women so much more interesting to men than men are to women?
-- Virginia Woolf "I expect nothing. I fear no one. I am free." (Nikos Kazantzakis) Chirk "Great work is done by people who are not afraid to be great." (Fernando Flores) If you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it's done.
-- Scott Adams "In the future everyone will be famous for fifteen minutes." (Andy Warhol) Chirk
There are some experiences in life which should not be demanded twice from any man, and one
of them is listening to the Brahms Requiem.
-- George Bernard Shaw If you are afraid of loneliness, do not marry. -- Chekhov Men are strong only so long as they represent a strong idea. They become powerless when they
oppose it.
-- Sigmund Freud "The mark of our time is its revulsion against imposed patterns." (Marshall McLuhan) A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.
-- Fr. Jerome Cummings Chirk America's one of the finest countries anyone ever stole.
-- Bobcat Goldthwait "A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools." (Douglas Adams) Ne'er take a wife till thou hast a house (and a fire) to put her in.
-- Benjamin Franklin Chirk
"The purpose of Compulsory Education is to deprive the common people of their commonsense." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed
desperation.
-- Henry David Thoreau, Walden (1854) Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by
definition, is unassailable.
-- James Baldwin, Nobody Knows My Name, 1961 There is more to life than increasing its speed.
-- Gandhi "It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Chirk Once all struggle is grasped, miracles are possible.
-- Mao Tse-tung If you are going through hell, keep going.
- Sir Winston Churchill "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 Chirk
Grove giveth and Gates taketh away.
- Bob Metcalfe (inventor of Ethernet) on the trend of hardware speedups not being able to keep
up with software demands "Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishments." (Anonymous) .. I am indebted to the cat for a particular kind of honorable deceit, for a greater control over
myself, for a characteristic aversion to brutal sounds, and for the need to keep silent for long
per The promises of maniacs, like those of women, are not safely relied upon.
-- Joseph Heller, God Knows Lawyers are... operators of the toll bridge which anyone in search of justice must pass.
-- Jane Bryant Quinn Chirk Obedience is the gateway through which knowledge, yes, and love, too, enter the mind of the
child.
-- Anne Sullivan The marriage of Marxism and feminism has been like the marriage of husband and wife depicted in English common law: Marxism and feminism are one, and that one is Marxism. --Heidi Hartmann [The Unhappy I once asked my history teacher how we were expected to learn anything useful from his subject,
when it seemed to me to be nothing but a monotonous and sordid succession of robber baron
scumbags dev Chirk
Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the
gentleman.
-- Herbert Spencer Nothing average ever stood as a monument to progress. When progress is looking for a partner it
doesn't turn to those who believe they are only average. It turns instead to those who are forever
sea Be nice to people on your way up because you meet them on your way down.
- Jimmy Durante Never regard study as a duty, but as the enviable opportunity to learn to know the liberating
influence of beauty in the realm of the spirit for your own personal joy and to the profit of the
commun "The feminists used to say that chivalry and ladyhood were ways of keeping women down and preventing them from standing toe to toe with the guys. Now you've got a lot of women saying that if a guy is Chirk "No one wants a good education. Everyone wants a good degree." (Lee Rudolph) It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.
-- Albert Einstein "Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution yet." (Mae West) Chirk
I stopped believing in Santa Claus when I was six. Mother took me to see him in a department
store and he asked for my autograph.
-- Shirley Temple Black Everyone is a genius at least once a year; a real genius has his original ideas closer together.
- Georg Lichtenberg The grand aim of all science is to cover the greatest number of empirical facts by logical
deduction from the smallest number of hypotheses or axioms.
-- Albert Einstein Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you.
-- John-Paul Sartre Executive ability is deciding quickly and getting someone else to do the work.
-- John G. Pollard Chirk Anyway, no drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the
source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity,
ign The only Zen you find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there.
-- Robert M. Pirsig Hell is paved with good samaritans.
-- William M. Holden Chirk
"A critic is a man who knows the way but can't drive the car." (Kenneth Tynan) My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music.
-- Vladimir Nabokov Church is only society on earth that exists for the benefit of non-members.
-- William Temple Wagner's music is better than it sounds.
- Mark Twain Marital Freedom: The liberty that allows a husband to do exactly that which his wife pleases.
-- Anonymous Chirk The mathematician lives long and lives young; the wings of his soul do not early drop off, nor do
its pores become clogged with the earthy particles blown from the dusty highways of vulgar life.
-- I don't worry about terrorism. I was married for two years.
-- Sam Kinison I do not see the EEC as a great love affair. It is more like nine desperate middle-ages couples with failing marriages meeting at a Brussels hotel for a group grope. -- Tynan Chirk
"Everything in my life has been determined by mistakes." (Gene Wilder) Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to
take away.
- Antoine de Saint Exupery Experience is not what happens to you; it's what you do with what happens to you.
-- Aldous Huxley The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.
-- ROBERT FROST Marriage has many pains, but celibacy has no pleasures.
-- Samuel Johnson Chirk Success is just a matter of attitude.
-- Darcy E. Gibbons Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with
the powerful, not to be neutral.
-- Paulo Freire "If you light a man a fire, he will be warm for a day; if you light a man on fire, he will be warm for the rest of his life." (Anonymous) Chirk
May you grow so rich your widow's second husband never has to worry about a living, God forbid. If you would thoroughly know anything, teach it to others.
-- Tryon Edwards I do not see the EEC as a great love affair. It is more like nine desperate middle-ages couples with failing marriages meeting at a Brussels hotel for a group grope. -- Tynan A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.
- Sir Winston Churchill Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.
- Albert Einstein Chirk My good intentions are completely lethal.
-- Margaret Atwood We come to love not by finding a perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person
perfectly.
-- Anonymous Most married couples, even though they love each other very much in theory, tend to view each
other in practice as large teeming flaw colonies, the result being that they get on each other's
nerves Chirk
Usenet is like Tetris for people who still remember how to read.
-- Button from the Computer Museum, Boston, MA "It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open one's mouth and remove all doubt." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) If everybody is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking.
-- George S. Patton, Jr. "God is Man's stupidest idea." (Marcel Duchamp, French Dadaist) Art and science have their meeting point in method.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton Chirk There are not enough Indians in the world to defeat the Seventh Cavalry.
-- George Armstrong Custer Organic chemistry is the chemistry of carbon compounds. Biochemistry is the study of carbon
compounds that crawl.
-- Mike Adams It was very good of God to let Carlyle and Mrs Carlyle marry one another and so make only two people miserable instead of four, besides being very amusing. Chirk
