-
"Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance."
- Confucius
-
"It's what you learn after you know it all that counts."
- John Wooden
-
"You can teach a student a lesson for a day;
but if you can teach him to learn by creating curiosity,
he will continue the learning process as long as he lives."
- Clay P. Bedford
- "I am learning all the time. The tombstone will be my diploma."
- Eartha Kitt
-
"A single conversation with a wise man is better than ten years of
study."
- Chinese Proverb
- "Hold up to him his better self, his real self that can dare and
do and win out . . . People radiate what is in their minds and
in their hearts."
- Eleanor H. Porter (1868-1920)
US novelist
"Pollyanna," Ch. 5, 1912.
- "'Tis the business of little minds to shrink; but he whose
heart is firm, and whose conscience approves his conduct,
will pursue his principles unto death."
- Thomas Paine (1737-1809)
US philosopher, pamphleteer
- "A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and
won't change the subject."
- Winston Churchill (1874-1965)
English statesman, author
"New York Times," 5 Jul 1954.
- "A fresh mind keeps the body fresh. Take in the ideas of the day,
drain off those of yesterday. As to the morrow, time enough to
consider it when it becomes today."
- Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton (1803-1873)
English statesman, poet
- "The proof of the pudding is in the eating. By
a small sample we may judge of the whole piece."
- Miguel de Cervantes
- "Anyone who eats thee meals a day should
understand why cookbooks outsell sex books three to one."
- L. M. Boyd
-
"I feel a recipe is only a theme, which an
intelligent cook can play each time with a variation."
- Madame Benoit
-
"If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton,
you may as well make it dance."
- George Bernard Shaw
-
"To bring up a child in the way he should go,
travel that way yourself once in a while."
- Josh Billings (Henry Wheeler Shaw) 1818-1885
-
"Happiness is having a large, loving, caring,
close-knit family in another city."
- George Burns
"Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone
else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation."
- Oscar Wilde
"Be yourself. No one can ever tell you you're doing it wrong."
- James Leo Herlihy
"We are so accustomed to disguise ourselves to others that in
the end we become disguised to ourselves."
- Francois Duc de La Rochefoucauld
"Do you want to be a power in the world? Then be yourself."
- Ralph Waldo Trine
"I have never quite grasped the worry about the power
of the press. After all, it speaks with a thousand
voices, in constant dissonance."
- Eric Sevareid (1912-1992)
US newscaster - CBS News
"Broadcasting Magazine."
"Next to power without honor, the most dangerous thing
in the world is power without humor."
- Eric Sevareid (1912-1992)
US newscaster - CBS News
"Men want power in order to do something.
Boys want power in order to be something."
- Eric Sevareid (1912-1992)
US newscaster - CBS News
"I'm sort of a pessimist about tomorrow and
an optimist about the day after tomorrow."
- Eric Sevareid (1912-1992)
US newscaster - CBS News
"The chief cause of problems is solutions."
- Eric Sevareid (1912-1992)
US newscaster - CBS News
"Consultant: any ordinary guy more than fifty miles from home."
- Eric Sevareid (1912-1992)
US newscaster - CBS News
"Better to trust the man who is frequently in error
than the one who is never in doubt."
- Eric Sevareid (1912-1992)
US newscaster - CBS News
"The bigger the information media, the less courage
and freedom they follow. Bigness means weakness."
- Eric Sevareid (1912-1992)
US newscaster - CBS News
"The most distinguished hallmark of the American society
is and always has been change."
- Eric Sevareid (1912-1992)
US newscaster - CBS News
"Dealing with network executives is like being
nibbled to death by ducks."
- Eric Sevareid (1912-1992)
US newscaster - CBS News
"Community cannot for long feed on itself; it can only flourish
with the coming of others from beyond, their unknown and undiscovered
brothers.
- Howard Thurman (1900-1981)
US educator, theologian
"Search for a Common Ground," 1971.
"It is easier to perceive error than to find truth,
for the former lies on the surface and is easily seen,
while the latter lies in the depth, where few are willing to search for
it."
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832)
German poet, dramatist
"How incredible it is that in this fragile
existence we should hate and destroy one another.
There are possibilities enough for all who will
abandon mastery over others to pursue mastery over
nature. There is world enough for all to seek their
happiness in their own way."
- Lyndon B. Johnson
Inaugural Address, Jan 1965
"I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear"
- Martin Luther King, Jr. (submitted by Sara J.)
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"Today's vote against the use of cloning technology for
therapeutic research is a step backwards, and if eventually
enacted into law, will reverse progress toward new medical
treatments. Potentially millions of patients afflicted with
Alzheimer's, diabetes, Parkinson's, heart disease, and
various cancers will be affected."
- Carl Feldbaum
president of the Biotechnology Industry Organization
statement after the US House vote to ban
therapeutic cloning (8/1/01)
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"Our intention is not to create cloned human beings, but rather
to make lifesaving therapies for a wide range of human disease
conditions, including diabetes, strokes, cancer, AIDS, and
neurodegenerative disorders such as Parkinson's and Alzheimer's
disease."
- Dr. Robert Lanza
vice president of Advanced Cell Technology Inc.
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"The cloning of humans is on most of the lists of things to
worry about from science, along with behavior control, genetic
engineering, transplanted heads, computer poetry and
the unrestrained growth of plastic flowers."
- Lewis Thomas (1913-1993)
English biologist, essayist
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"You've got a lot of choices. If getting out of bed in the
morning is a chore and you're not smiling on a regular basis,
try another choice."
- Steven D. Woodhull
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"I destroy my enemies when I make them my friends."
- Abraham Lincoln
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"If you're headed in the wrong direction, God allows U-turns."
- Unknown
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"The best way to predict your future is to create it."
- Peter Drucker
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"Advice is like snow -- the softer it falls,
the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper in sinks into the mind."
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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"After a snowstorm, everybody's lawn looks the same."
- Unknown
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"I used to be snow white, but I drifted."
- Mae West
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"Our doubts are traitors, and make us lose the good
we oft might win, by fearing to attempt."
- William Shakespeare
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"A man's doubts and fears are his worst enemies."
- William Wrigley, Jr.
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"Doubt who you will, but never yourself."
- Christian Bovee
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"Faith in oneself .. is the best and safest course."
- Michelangelo
"Resolved, never to do anything which I should
be afraid to do if it were the last hour of my life."
- Jonathan Edwards
"Let us resolve to be masters, not the victims, of
our history, controlling our own destiny without
giving way to blind suspicions and emotions."
- John F. Kennedy
"Always bear in mind that your own resolution to
succeed is more important than any one thing."
- Abraham Lincoln
"Wise to resolve, and patient to perform."
- Homer
"It is useless for the sheep to pass resolutions
in favor of vegetarianism while the wolf remains
of a different opinion."
- Dean Inge
"Good resolutions are simply checks that men draw
on a bank where they have no account."
- Oscar Wilde
"The changes in our life must come from the
impossibility to live otherwise than according
to the demands of our conscience. . . not from our
mental resolution to try a new form of life."
- Leo Tolstoy
"Good resolutions are like babies crying in church.
They should be carried out immediately."
- Charles M. Sheldon
"All you need for happiness is a good gun,
a good horse, and a good wife."
- Daniel Boone
"Happiness is a way station between to little
and too much."
- Channing Pollock
"Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length."
- Robert Frost
"Happiness is a stock that doubles in a year."
- Ira U. Cobleigh
"Anyone can carry his burden, however hard, until nightfall.
Anyone can do his work, however hard, for one day. Anyone can
live sweetly, patiently, lovingly, purely, till the sun goes
down. And this is all life really means."
- Robert Louis Stevenson
"We have to live today by what truth we can get today and be
ready tomorrow to call it falsehood."
- William James
"Seek freedom and become captive of your desires.
Seek discipline and find your liberty."
- Frank Herbert
Dune Chronicles
"Never miss an opportunity to make others happy, even if you
have to leave them alone in order to do it."
- Unknown
"Do not conceive that fine clothes make fine men, any more
than fine feathers make fine birds. A plain, genteel dress
is more admired, obtains more credit in the eyes of the
judicious and sensible."
- George Washington (1732-1799)
US president (1st), soldier, surveyor, farmer
"If thou art a man, admire those who attempt great things,
even though they fail."
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca (4 BC-65AD)
Roman philospher, statesman
"Admiration is a very short-lived passion that immediately
decays upon growing familiar with its object, unless it be
still fed with fresh discoveries, and kept alive by a new
perpetual succession of miracles rising up to its view."
- Joseph Addison
"Most men admire Virtue, who follow not her lore."
- John Milton (1608-1674)
English poet, essayist
"Paradise Regained," Bk. I
"Hold up to him his better self, his real self that can dare and
do and win out . . . People radiate what is in their minds and
in their hearts."
- Eleanor H. Porter (1868-1920)
US novelist
"Pollyanna," Ch. 5, 1912.
"'Tis the business of little minds to shrink; but he whose
heart is firm, and whose conscience approves his conduct,
will pursue his principles unto death."
- Thomas Paine (1737-1809)
US philosopher, pamphleteer
"A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and
won't change the subject."
- Winston Churchill (1874-1965)
English statesman, author
"New York Times," 5 Jul 1954.
"A fresh mind keeps the body fresh. Take in the ideas of the day,
drain off those of yesterday. As to the morrow, time enough to
consider it when it becomes today."
- Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton (1803-1873)
English statesman, poet
"Never be afraid to sit awhile and think."
- Lorraine Hansberry
"A Raisin in the Sun"
"No matter where you go or what you do, you live your entire
life within the confines of your head."
- Terry Josephson
"The trouble with most people is that they think with their hopes or
fears or wishes rather than with their minds."
- Will Durant
"Begin challenging your own assumptions. Your assumptions are
your windows on the world. Scrub them off every once in awhile,
or the light won't come in."
- Alan Alda
Actor (*M*A*S*H* and many others)
"Character is like a tree and reputation a shadow.
The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing."
- Abraham Lincoln
"Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet.
Only through experience of trial and suffering can
the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved."
- Helen Keller
"Many a man's reputation would not know his character
if they met on the street."
- Elbert Hubbard
"A person reveals his character by nothing so
clearly as the joke he resents."
- G. C. Lichtenberg
"Excesses accomplish nothing. Disorder immediately defeats itself."
- Woodrow Wilson (1856-1924)
"The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom."
- William Blake (1757-1827)
"Every reform, however necessary, will by weak minds
be carried to an excess, that itself will need reforming."
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834)
"One is never more on trial than in the moment of
excessive good fortune."
- Lewis "Lew" Wallace (1827-1905)
"God does not give heed to the ambitiousness of our prayers,
because he is always ready to give to us his light, not a
visible light but an intellectual and spiritual one:
but we are not always ready to receive it when we turn
aside and down to other things out of a desire for temporal things."
- Saint Augustine (354-430)
Christian church father, philosopher, bishop
"Only a mediocre person is always at his best."
- Somerset Maugham
"In my opinion, we are in danger of developing a cult
of the Common Man, which means a cult of mediocrity."
- Herbert Hoover
"Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity,
and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them."
- Joseph Heller, "Catch-22"
"Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition
from mediocre minds."
- Albert Einstein
"All that is gold does not glitter; not all those that wander are lost."
- J. R. R. Tolkien (1892-1973)
English novelist, scholar
"The Fellowship of the Ring," Houghton Mifflin 54
"A young man is so strong, so mad, so certain, and so lost.
He has everything and he is able to use nothing."
- Thomas Wolfe (1900-1938)
US novelist
"Of Time and the River," 1935.
"A man is sometimes lost in the dust of his own raising."
- David Ruggles (1819 - 1849) US editor
"The 'Extinguishers' Extinguished," 1834;
written in response to an anti-abortion pamphlet, 1834.
"Everywhere you go you'll see them searching,
Everywhere you turn you'll feel the pain,
Everyone is looking for the answer,
Well look again."
- Moody Blues, "Lost in a Lost World"
"It is impossible to defeat an ignorant man in argument.
- William G. McAdoo
"Ignorance once dispelled is difficult to reestablish."
- Laurence J. Peter
"I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't
learn something from him."
- Galileo Galilei (1564-1642)
"On a clear disk you can seek forever."
- P. Denning
"Talent develops in quiet places, character in the full
current of human life."
- Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
"Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to
follow the talent into the dark place where it leads."
- Erica Jong
"It takes little talent to see clearly what lies
under one's nose, a good deal of it to know in what direction
to point that organ."
- W. H. Auden
"I don't have a lot of respect for talent. Talent
is genetic. It's what you do with it that counts."
- Martin Ritt
"There are two kinds of light-the glow that illumines,
and the glare that obscures."
- James Thurber
"Progress lies not in enhancing what is,
but in advancing toward what will be."
- Kahlil Gibran, "A Handful of Sand on the Shore"
"The universe is full of magical things,
patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper."
- Eden Phillpotts
"There are many ways of going forward,
but only one way of standing still."
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
"Reasonable people adapt themselves to the world.
Unreasonable people attempt to adapt the world to themselves.
All progress, therefore, depends on unreasonable people."
- George Bernard Shaw
"In a way winter is the real spring, the time when
the inner things happen, the resurge of nature."
- Edna O'Brien (1932-)
Irish novelist, pacifist
"In essence the Renaissance was simply the green end
of one of civilization's hardest winters."
- John Fowles (1926-)
English novelist
The French Lieutenant's Woman," Ch. 10
"Let us love winter, for it is the spring of genius."
- Pietro Aretino (1492-1556)
Italian poet, writer, dramatist
"In the depth of winter, I finally learned that
within me there lay an invincible summer."
- Albert Camus (1913-1960)
French philosopher, novelist, dramatist
"Nothing in life is so hard that you can't make it easier by the way you
take it."
- Ellen Glasgow
"Each experience through which we pass operates ultimately for our
good. This is a correct attitude to adopt and we must be able to see
it in that light."
- Raymond Holliwell
"What happens to a man is less significant than what happens within
him."
- Louis L. Mann
"High expectations are the key to everything."
- Sam Walton
"Botanists say that trees need the powerful March winds
to flex their trunks and main branches, so the sap is
drawn up to nourish the budding leaves.
Perhaps we need the gales of life in the same way,
though we dislike enduring them."
- Jane Truax
"Let mystery have its place in you; do not be always turning
up your whole soil with the ploughshare of self-examination,
but leave a little fallow corner in your heart ready for
any seed the winds may bring ..."
- Henri Frederic Amiel
"It is an all-too-human frailty to suppose that a favorable
wind will blow forever."
- Rick Bode
"If enough people think of a thing and work hard enough at it,
I guess it's pretty nearly bound to happen,
wind and weather permitting."
- Laura Ingalls Wilder
"The spirit of man can endure only so much and when
it is broken only a miracle can mend it."
- John Burroughs (1837-1921)
American naturalist, writer
"It is odd but agitation or contest of any kind gives a rebound
to my spirits and sets me up for a time."
- George Gordon Byron (1788-1824)
[Lord Byron] English romantic poet
"Spouses often point out each other's deficiencies. Instead, we
should be each other's motivator. My husband touches my spirit,
and I try my best to motivate him, too."
- Kenneth Hartley Blanchard (b. 1939)
American writer
"I have seen the future and it is very much like the present, only
longer."
- Kehlog Albran
"The Profit"
"Prediction is very difficult, especially if it's about the future."
- Nils Bohr
Nobel laureate in Physics
"The herd instinct among forecasters makes sheep look
like independent thinkers."
- Edgar R. Fiedler
"The Three Rs of Economic Forecasting-Irrational,
Irrelevant and Irreverent", June 1977.
"I always avoid prophesying beforehand because it is much better
to prophesy after the event has already taken place. "
- Sir. Winston Churchill (1874-1965)
(hindcasting the way of politicians)
"It's noble to be good. It's nobler to teach
others to be good, and less trouble."
- Mark Twain
"There are three things which I consider excellent
advice. First, don't smoke to access. Second, don't
drink to excess. Third, don't marry to excess."
- Mark Twain
"You ought never to sass old people- unless they
sass you first."
- Mark Twain
"Always do right. This will gratify some people and
astonish the rest."
- Mark Twain
"It is better to give than receive...especially advice."
- Mark Twain
"Life is like a dog-sled team. If you ain't the lead dog,
the scenery never changes."
- Lewis Grizzard
(I know you all expected me to include this quote)
"There are times when even the best manager is like
the little boy with the big dog waiting to see where
the dog wants to go so he can take him there."
- Lee Iacocca
"A barking dog is often more useful than a sleeping lion."
- Washington Irving
"For a good life: Work like a dog. Eat like a horse.
Think like a fox. And play like a rabbit."
- George Allen
"If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous,
he will not bite you.
This is the principal difference between a dog and a man."
- Mark Twain
"Like snowflakes, the human pattern is never cast twice. We are
uncommonly and marvelously intricate in thought and action,
our problems are most complex and, too often, silently borne."
- Alice Childress (1920-1994)
US playwright, actress, director
"A Candle in a Gale Wind," in "Black Women Writers,"
ed. Mari Evans, 1984.
"It's odd that you can get so anesthetized by your own pain
or your own problem that you don't quite fully share
the hell of someone close to you."
- Lady Bird Johnson (1912-)
US first lady
"A White House Diary," 1970.
"Conservation is the application of common sense
to the common problems for the common good."
- Gifford Pinchot (1865-1946)
US politician, conservationist
"Breaking New Ground," 1947.
"If all difficulties were known at the outset of a long journey,
most of us would never start out at all."
- Dan Rather
"I Remember"
"The real test of a man is not how well he plays
the role he has invented for himself, but how well
he plays the role that destiny assigned to him."
- Jan Patocka
"Thoughts lead on to purposes; purposes go forth
in action; actions form habits; habits decide character;
and character fixes our destiny."
- Tyron Edwards
"'It is destiny' - phrase of the weak human heart!
'It is destiny' - dark apology for every error!
The strong and virtuous admit no destiny."
- Edward Bulwer-Lytton
"Choice, not chance, determines destiny."
- Unknown
"A man's judgment is best when he can forget himself and
any reputation he may have acquired and can concentrate wholly
on making the right decisions."
- Raymond A. Spruance (1819-1880)
English novelist
"The Quiet Warrior."
"You can't build a reputation on what you intend to do."
- Liz Smith
"Associate yourself with men of good quality if you esteem
your own reputation. It is better be alone than in bad company."
- George Washington (1732-1799)
US president (1st), soldier, surveyor, farm
"Rules of Civility."
"A proud heart can survive a general failure because
such a failure does not prick its pride."
- African Proverb
"The poets' scrolls will outlive the monuments of stone.
Genius survives; all else is claimed by death."
- Edmund Spenser (1552-1599) English poet
"Some of your hurts you have cured,
And the sharpest you still have survived,
But what torments of grief you endured,
>From evils which never arrived!"
- Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882)
"So many people dwell on negativity and
I've survived by ignoring it: it dims your light
and it's harder each time to turn the power up again."
- Judith Jamison (1943-)
US modern dancer
-
"There is no little enemy."
- Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790)
-
"North Korea is a regime arming with missiles and weapons of
mass destruction, while starving its citizens."
- President George W. Bush
January 29, 2002
The President's State of the Union Address
You can read the speech at
http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2002/01/20020129-11.html
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"Iran aggressively pursues these weapons and exports terror, while
an unelected few repress the Iranian people's hope for freedom.
The Iraqi regime has plotted to develop anthrax, and nerve gas,
and nuclear weapons for over a decade. This is a regime that has
already used poison gas to murder thousands of its own citizens --
leaving the bodies of mothers huddled over their dead children."
- President George W. Bush
January 29, 2002
The President's State of the Union Address
-
"The art of war is simple enough. Find out where your enemy is.
Get at him as soon as you can. Strike him as hard as you can and
as often as you can, and keep moving on."
- Ulysses S. Grant (1822-1885)
US president (18th) Attributed.
-
"Our enemies send other people's children on missions of
suicide and murder. They embrace tyranny and death as a
cause and a creed. We stand for a different choice, made
long ago, on the day of our founding. We affirm it again
today. We choose freedom and the dignity of every life."
- President George W. Bush
January 29, 2002
The President's State of the Union Address
-
"If you know the enemy and know yourself,
you need not fear the result of a hundred battles."
- Sun Tzu (c. 500 BC - ????)
Chinese military strategist
"The Art of War," ch. 3, Axiom 18, ed. by James Clavell,1981.
- "A talent somewhat above mediocrity, shrewd and not too sensitive,
is more likely to rise in the world than genius."
- Charles Horton Cooley (1864-1929),
US sociologist
- "Egotism is nature's compensation for mediocrity."
- L.A. Safian
- "Only mediocrity can be trusted to be always at its best."
- Max Beerbohm (1872-1956)
English essayist, caricaturist, parodist
"Conversations with Max," by S.N. Behrman
- "Mediocrity is climbing molehills without sweating."
- Icelandic Proverb
- "A man's judgment is best when he can forget himself and
any reputation he may have acquired and can concentrate wholly
on making the right decisions."
- Raymond A. Spruance (1819-1880)
English novelist
"The Quiet Warrior."
- "You can't build a reputation on what you intend to do."
- Liz Smith
- "Associate yourself with men of good quality if you esteem
your own reputation. It is better be alone than in bad company."
- George Washington (1732-1799)
US president (1st), soldier, surveyor, farm
"Rules of Civility."
- "'Abroad,' that large home of ruined reputations."
- George Eliot (1819-1880)
English novelist
Felix Holt, Epilogue (1866)
- "The real test of a man is not how well he plays
the role he has invented for himself, but how well
he plays the role that destiny assigned to him."
- Jan Patocka
- "Thoughts lead on to purposes; purposes go forth
in action; actions form habits; habits decide character;
and character fixes our destiny."
- Tyron Edwards
- "'It is destiny' - phrase of the weak human heart!
'It is destiny' - dark apology for every error!
The strong and virtuous admit no destiny."
- Edward Bulwer-Lytton
- "Choice, not chance, determines destiny."
- Unknown
- "Like snowflakes, the human pattern is never cast twice. We are
uncommonly and marvelously intricate in thought and action,
our problems are most complex and, too often, silently borne."
- Alice Childress (1920-1994)
US playwright, actress, director
"A Candle in a Gale Wind," in "Black Women Writers,"
ed. Mari Evans, 1984.
- "It's odd that you can get so anesthetized by your own pain
or your own problem that you don't quite fully share
the hell of someone close to you."
- Lady Bird Johnson (1912-)
US first lady
"A White House Diary," 1970.
- "Conservation is the application of common sense
to the common problems for the common good."
- Gifford Pinchot (1865-1946)
US politician, conservationist
"Breaking New Ground," 1947.
- "If all difficulties were known at the outset of a long journey,
most of us would never start out at all."
- Dan Rather
"I Remember"
- Human beings, who are almost unique in having
the ability to learn from the experience of others,
are also remarkable for their apparent
disinclination to do so.
--Douglas Adams
- "I know only two tunes: one of them is 'Yankee Doodle'
and the other one isn't."
- Ulysses S. Grant
- "Only sick music makes money today."
- Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1844-1900)
- "This isn't about fans, greed or money.
It's about being morally right or wrong.
Nobody is governing the way music gets from
artists to fans. It's all running amok."
- Lars Ulrich (Metallica drummer),
on why the band has sued to shut
down the Napster music service assists swapping MP3s
- "Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life."
- Berthold Auerbach
- Don't pop someone else's bubble.
--Anonymous
- You work so hard peddling up the hill
that you hate to brake on the way down.
--Anonymous
- If you stand on tiptoe to be measured this year,
you'll have to stand on tiptoe for the rest of your life.
--Anonymous
- "That government is best which governs the least,
because its people discipline themselves."
- Thomas Jefferson
- "Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the government of
himself. Can he, then, be trusted with the government of others?
Or have we found angels in the forms of kings to govern him?
Let history answer this question."
- Thomas Jefferson (First Inaugural Address)
- "A wise and frugal government, which shall restrain men from injuring
one another, which shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own
pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of
labor the bread it has earned. This is the sum of good government, and this
is necessary to close the circle of our felicity."
- Thomas Jefferson (First Inaugural Address)
(bread -> Estate Tax and Capital Gains)
- "On every question of construction [of the Constitution] let us carry
ourselves back to the time when the Constitution was adopted, recollect
the spirit manifested in the debates, and instead of trying what meaning
may be squeezed out of the text, or intended against it, conform to the
probable one in which it was passed."
- Thomas Jefferson
(Letter To Justice William Johnson, Monticello, June 12, 1823)
- The only people who don't make mistakes
are the people who don't try.
--Beth Anne
- In love, a man is victorious only when he runs away.
--Napoleon
- "I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination.
Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is
limited. Imagination encircles the world."
- Albert Einstein
- "There is a boundary to men's passions when they act from
feelings; but none when they are under the influence
of imagination."
- Edmund Burke
- "Live out of your imagination, not your history."
- Stephen Covey
- "Reality can be beaten with enough imagination."
- Anonymous
- "Experience enables you to recognize a mistake when
you make it again."
- Franklin P. Jones
- "Experience is the worst teacher; it gives the test
before presenting the lesson."
- Vernon Law
- "We learn from experience. A man never wakes up his second baby just to see it smile."
- Grace Williams
- "Experience is the comb that Nature gives us when we are bald."
- Belgian Proverb
- "The most happy marriage I can picture or imagine to
myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind
woman."
--Samuel Taylor Coleridge
- "Throw your dreams into space like a kite, and
you do not know what it will bring back, a new life,
a new friend, a new love, or a new country."
--Anais Nin
- "A compromise is the art of dividing a cake in such a way that everyone
believes that he has got the biggest piece."
- Ludwig Erhard
- "Prudence and compromise are necessary means, but
every man should have an impudent end which he will not compromise."
- Charles Horton Cooley
- "Compromise: An amiable arrangement between husband
and wife whereby they agree to let her have her own way."
- Anonymous
- "A professional politician is a professionally dishonorable man.
In order to get anywhere near high office he has to make so
many compromises and submit to so many humiliations that
he becomes indistinguishable from a streetwalker."
- H.L. Mencken
- Note how good you feel after you have encouraged someone
else. No other argument is necessary to suggest that you
never miss the opportunity to give encouragement.
--George Adams
- No man means all he says,
and yet very few say all they mean,
for words are slippery and thought is viscous.
--Henry B. Adams
- Facts are stubborn things;
and whatever may be our wishes,
our inclinations, or the dictates of our passions,
they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.
--John Adams
- "Reason and judgment are the qualities of a leader."
- Tacitus (55?-130?)
- "Executive ability is deciding quickly and
getting somebody else to do the work."
- John G. Pollard
- "Leadership is action, not position."
- Donald H. McGannon
- "It's my job to make sure none of these guys
wakes up with seven hookers and a pound of marijuana"
- LeRoy Butler, Packers safety on taking over
the role as team leader
- "Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is
organized life."
--Immanuel Kant
- "Live as if your were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you
were to live forever."
--Mahatma Gandhi
- "When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become
President; I'm beginning to believe it."
--Clarence Darrow
- "The first half of our lives is ruined by our parents, and the
second half by our children."
--Clarence Darrow
- "I have a dream that my four children will one day live in a nation
where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the
content of their character."
- Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
(from the I Have A Dream Speech)
- "Segregation is the offspring of an illicit intercourse between
injustice and immorality."
- Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
- "We've got some difficult days ahead, but it really doesn't matter
with me now, because I've been to the mountaintop."
- Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
(from his last speech during a bitter sanitation
workers' strike in Memphis. The following evening,
April 4, 1968, he was assassinated by
James Earl Ray.)
- "The more there are riots, the more repressive action will take place, and
the more we face the danger of a right-wing take-over and eventually a
fascist society."
- Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
- "A university is what a college becomes when the faculty
loses interest in students."
- John Ciardi
- "When a subject becomes totally obsolete we make it a
required course."
- Peter Drucker
- "College professor--someone who talks in other
people's sleep."
- Bergen Evans
- "Joe Cool always spends the first two weeks at
college sailing his frisbee."
- Snoopy
- "Love doesn't make the world go 'round, love is what
makes the ride worthwhile."
--Franklin P. Adams (1881-1960)
- "You can be upset because rosebushes have thorns
Or you can rejoice because thornbushes have roses."
--Author Unknown
- "In politics, if you want anything said, ask a man; if
you want anything done, ask a woman."
--Margaret Thatcher
- "If men can run the world, why can't they stop wearing
neckties? How intelligent is it to start the day by
tying a little noose around your neck?"
--Linda Ellerbee
- "The gods are just, and of our pleasant vices make
instruments to plague us."
- William Shakespeare, King Lear. Act 5.
Scene 3. Edgar.
- "They say best men are moulded out of faults;
And, for the most, become much more the better
For being a little bad."
- William Shakespeare, Measure For Measure.
Act 5. Scene 1. Mariana
- "the fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows
himself to be a fool."
- William Shakespeare, As You Like It. Act 5.
Scene 1. Touchstone
- "They say all lovers swear more performance than they are
able and yet reserve an ability that they never perform,
vowing more than the perfection of ten and discharging
less than the tenth part of one."
- William Shakespeare, Troilus and Cressida. Act 3.
Scene 2. Cressida
- "The only way to discover the limits of the possible
is to go beyond them into the impossible."
- Arthur C. Clarke
- "If you limit your choices only to what seems possible
or reasonable, you disconnect yourself from what you
truly want, and all that is left is a compromise."
- Robert Fritz
- "Fences are made for those who cannot fly."
- Elbert Hubbard
- "I'm not going to limit myself just because people
won't accept the fact that I can do something else."
- Dolly Parton
- "Listen to your intuition. It will tell you
everything you need to know."
- Anthony J. D'Angelo, The College Blue Book
- "In order to succeed you must fail, so that
you know what not to do the next time."
- Anthony J. D'Angelo, The College Blue Book
- "Your mind is like a parachute. It only works if
it is open."
- Anthony J. D'Angelo, The College Blue Book
- "The people who oppose your ideas the most are
those who represent the establishment that your
ideas will upset."
- Anthony J. D'Angelo, The College Blue Book
- "Never let your persistence and passion turn
into stubbornness and ignorance."
- Anthony J. D'Angelo, The College Blue Book
- "Many a man has finally succeeded - Only because
he has failed after repeated efforts. If he had never met
defeat, he would never have know any great victory."
--Orison Sweet Marden
- "Education is not the filling of a bucket, but the lighting
of a flame."
--unknown
- "You don't marry someone you can live with, you
marry someone you can't live without."
- Anonymous
- "Matrimony is a process by which a grocer acquired an
account the florist had."
- Francis Rodman
- "Marriage always demands the greatest understanding of
the art of insincerity possible between two human beings."
- Vicki Baum
- "The great secret of successful marriage is to treat
all disasters as incidents and none of the incidents
as disasters."
- Harold Nicholson
- "Love, the quest; marriage, the conquest; divorce, the inquest."
- Helen Rowland (Marriage--the sole cause of divorce)
- "Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave,
and impossible to forget."
--G. Randolf
- "Friends are the part of our family we get to choose."
--unknown
- "The more I learn the more I learn there's more to learn!
Therefore, I believe boredom is a state of mind one chooses
over useful activity."
--Jan Bowman
- "'Tis education forms the common mind. Just as the twig
is bent, the tree's inclined."
--Alexander Pope
- "Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity;
and I'm not even sure about the universe."
--Albert Einstein
- "Wealth unused might as well not exist."
- Aesop
- "I don't waste too much time philosophizing about wealth,
I just recommend it to everyone."
- Malcolm Forbes (born on this day in history 1919)
- "One can never be too thin or too rich."
- Duchess of Windsor (1896 - 1986 Wallis Simpson)
wife of King Edward VIII of England
- "The meek shall inherit the earth but not the mineral rights."
- J. Paul Getty
- "Do not be dismayed at good-byes. A good-bye is
necessary before meeting again and meeting again after
moments or lifetimes is certain for those who are
friends."
--Richard Bach
- "It is appallingly obvious that our technology exceeds our humanity."
- Albert Einstein
- "Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm
not sure about the former."
- Albert Einstein
- "No one can make you feel inferior without your consent."
- Eleanor Roosevelt
- "Nine-tenths of wisdom consists in being wise in time."
- Teddy Roosevelt
- "A citizen of America will cross the ocean to fight for democracy, but
won't cross the street to vote in a national election."
- Billy Vaughan
- "I never vote for anyone. I always vote against."
- W.C. Fields
- "I have taken more good from alcohol than alcohol has taken from me."
- Winston Churchill
- "When I read about the evils of drinking, I gave up reading."
- Henny Youngman
- The human brain is a wonderful thing. It starts working the moment
you are born, and never stops until you stand up to speak in public.
- Sir George Jessel
- Lookit, I've done it their way this far and now it's my turn. I'm my own
handler. Any questions? Ask me ... There's not going to be any more
handler stories because I'm the handler ... I'm Doctor Spin.
- X-Vice President Dan Quayle
responding to press reports that his
aides have had to, in effect, `potty train' him
- "There is one way to find out if a man is honest - ask him.
If he says "yes", you know he is crooked."
- Groucho Marx
- "The only difference between a saint and a sinner is that every saint has
a past and every sinner has a future."
- Oscar Wilde
- "If I have seen more than others, it is because I was
standing on the shoulders of giants."
--Sir Isaac Newton
- "In the sciences, we are now uniquely privileged to sit
side by side with the giants on whose shoulders we stand."
--Gerald Holton
- "If I have not seen as much as others, it is because giants
were standing on my shoulders."
-- Hal Abelson
- "In computer science, we stand on each other's feet."
--Brian K Reid
- "It's a man's world unless women vote!"
- Anonymous
- "But if God had wanted us to think with our wombs, why did
He give us a brain?"
- Clare Boothe Luce
- "I have yet to hear a man ask for advice on how to combine
marriage and a career."
- Gloria Steinhem
- "Women share with men the need for personal success,
even the taste for power, and no longer are we willing
to satisfy those needs through the achievements of
surrogates, whether husbands, children, or merely role models."
- Elizabeth Dole
- "Women will never be equal to men until they can walk down
the street with a bald head and a beer gut, and still think
they are beautiful."
- Anonymous
- "The sports page records people's accomplishments;
The front page nothing but their failures."
--Jutice Earl Warren
- "You can't be a real country unless you have a
BEER and an airline. It helps if you have some
kind of a football team, or some nuclear weapons,
but at the very least you need a BEER."
--Frank Zappa
- "There are no mistakes, no coincidences. All events are
blessings given to us to learn from."
--Dr. Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
- "Everything you see I owe to spaghetti."
- Sophia Loren
- "One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one
has not dined well."
- Virginia Woolf
- "Tell me what you eat and I will tell you who you are."
- Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
- "To eat is human, to digest divine."
- Charles T. Copeland
- "Never doubt that a group of people can change the world.
Indeed that is all that ever has."
--Margaret Mead
- "A woman wants one man to meet her every need.
A man wants every woman to meet his one need."
- "A woman will pay $1 for a $2 item she doesn't want.
A man will pay $2 for a $1 item he DOES want."
- "The market is not an invention of capitalism. It has existed
for centuries. It is an invention of civilization."
--Mikhail Gorbachev (June 8, 1990)
- "A city is a large community where people are lonesome together."
- Herbert Prochnow
- "The tumultuous populace of large cities are ever to be dreaded."
- George Washington
- "Prison house for the soul"
- Frank Lloyd Wright (cities boxes next to boxes)
- "The country only had charms for those not obliged to stay there."
- Edouard Manet
- "The best way to predict the future is to invent it."
--Alan Kay
- "Love is not blind - it sees more, not less. But because
it sees more, it is willing to see less."
--Rabbi Julins Gordon
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