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| "Sorrow is a kind of rust of the soul, which every new idea contributes
in its passage to scour away"...... Johnson, the Rambler, August 28, 1750 | | |
| "Be Yourself. Everyone Else is Taken." Oscar Wilde | ||
| Strategy without tactics is the slowest route to victory. Tactics without strategy is the noise before defeat. - Sun Tzu | ||
| | "If I seem unduly clear to you, you must have misunderstood what I
said" - Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan (quoted
in the Wall Street Journal, page 15, March 3, 2010) | | |
| | "I'm not the kind of politician who says one thing to one audience
and a different thing to a different audience; I say the same thing to all
audiences and let them fight about what I meant." - Virginia Gov.
Doug Wilder (quoted in the Wall Street Journal, page 15,
March 3, 2010) | | |
| | "Physics is like sex. Sure, it may give some practical results, but
that's not why we do it." --R Feyneman | | |
| "On the infrequent occasions when I have been called upon in a formal place to play the bongo drums, the introducer never seems to find it necessary to mention that I also do theoretical physics." --R Feyneman | ||
| | "I left Earth three times. I found no
place else to go. Please take care of Spaceship Earth." -- Wally
Schirra, who flew around Earth on Mercury, Gemini and Apollo missions in the
1960s | | |
| | Start every day off with a smile and get it over with. - W.C. Fields (1880 - 1946) | | |
| | Treat all disasters as if they were trivialities but never treat a
triviality as if it were a disaster. - Quentin Crisp | | |
| | Personally I'm always ready to learn, although I might not always like
being taught. - Sir Winston Churchill | | |
| | There are only two ways of telling the complete truth - anonymously and
posthumously. - Thomas Sowell | | |
| | If you are not part of the solution, you are part of the precipitate | | |
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| | 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 (1835 - 1910) | | |
| Do not bite at the bait of pleasure 'til you know there is no hook beneath it. - Thomas Jefferson (1743 - 1826) | ||
| It is well to remember that the entire universe, with one trifling exception, is composed of others. - John Andrew Holmes | ||
| | Human salvation lies in the hands of the creatively maladjusted. - Martin Luther King Jr. | | |
| | You don't have to suffer to be a poet; adolescence is enough suffering for anyone.
- John Ciardi | | |
| | If God had really intended men to fly, he'd make it easier to get to the airport.
- George Winters | | |
| | "You can't have everything. Where would you put it?" - Steven
Wright (1955 - ) | | |
| "Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever." - Napoleon Bonaparte (1768 - 1821) | ||
| | "Old age is like flying a plane
through a storm. Once you're aboard, there's nothing you can do." -
Golda Meir (1898 - 1978) | | |
| "Chains of habit are too light to be felt until they are too heavy to be broken." - Warren Buffet (1930 - ) | ||
| | "Only those who attempt the absurd will achieve the impossible. I
think it's in my basement ... let me go upstairs and check." - M.C.
Escher | | |
| | "Action is the fundamental key to all success." - Pablo
Picasso | | |
| | "Have no fear of perfection - you'll never reach it." -
Salvador Dali | | |
| | "Great things are done by a series of small things brought
together." - Vincent Van Gogh | |