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The conventional view serves to protect us from the painful job of thinking.
John Kenneth Galbraith

Grief is the price we pay for love. Queen Elizabeth 2 Capital punishment is as fundamentally wrong as a cure for crime as charity is wrong as a cure for poverty. Henry Ford Sex appeal is 50% what you've got and 50% what people think you've got. --Sophia Loren We need not all agree, but if we disagree, let us not be disagreeable in our disagreements. Martin R. DeHaa So soon as a fashion is universal, it is out of date. Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach Bureaucracy defends the status quo long past the time when the quo has lost its status. Dr. Laurence J. Peter If all economists were laid end to end, they would not reach a conclusion. George Bernard Shaw I can answer you in two words, im-possible. Samuel Goldwyn Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal. Henry Ford The easiest person to deceive is one’s own self. --Edward George Earle Bulwer-Lytto A man should look for what is, and not for what he thinks should be.--Albert Einstein A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently. Saint Augustine of Hippo Clinton lied. A man might forget where he parks or where he lives, but he never forgets oral sex, no matter how bad it is. Barbara Bush Many people take no care of their money till they come nearly to the end of it, and others do just the same with their time. Goethe There is a strength in the union even of very sorry men. Homer He who laughs last has not yet heard the bad news. Bertolt Brecht If knowledge can create problems, it is not through ignorance that we can solve them. Isaac Asimov Keep your fears to yourself, but share your inspiration with others. Robert Louis Stevenson Little evil would be done in the world, if evil never could be done in the name of good, religion, or right. There is one rule for the industrialist and that is: Make the best quality of goods possible at the lowest cost possible, paying the highest wages possible. Henry Ford That's right. 'Tain't yours, and 'tain't mine. Mark Twain (when friend said that a certain rich man's money was "tainted" Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds... I like pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals. Winston Churchill Death is a very dull, dreary affair, and my advice to you is to have nothing whatever to do with it. William Somerset Maugham Science or religion cannot solve or defeat the ultimate mystery of nature. And that is because, in the last analysis, we ourselves are part of nature and therefore part of the mystery that we are trying to solve and the wonder that we are trying to defeat. All my life, I always wanted to be somebody. Now I see that I should have been more specific. School is a drill for the battle of life. If you fail in the drill you will fail in the battle. In politics stupidity is not a handicap. Napoleon

    We owe a lot to the peoples of the Mid East,
    who taught us how to count,
    without which no worthwhile
    scientific discovery could have been made.
     --Albert Einstein.


    Try not to become a man of success,
     but rather try to become a man of value.
    Albert Einstein
   
    Life is an onion. You peel it off one layer at a time,
    and sometimes you weep.
    Carl Sandburg

    A great many people
   think they are thinking,
   when they are merely,
   rearranging their prejudices.
 
     The optimist proclaims that we live in the best,
     of all possible worlds;
     and the pessimist fears this is true.
   
     Nothing is too high for a man to reach,
     but he must climb with care and confidence.
     Hans Christian Andersen

     Men marry women with the hope they will never change.
     Women marry men with the hope they will change. 
     Invaribly they are both disappointed.
     Albert Einstein

     Problems cannot be solved,
     by the level of awareness that created them.
     Albert Einstein
 
     Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings.

     A question that sometimes drives me hazy:
     am I or are the others crazy?
     Albert Einstein

     Abstract art is the product of the untalented,
     sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.  
       
     Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience:

    this is the ideal life.

     Mark Twain, 11/30/1835 - 04/21/1910      

   
     You do not really understand something,
     unless you can explain it to your grandmother.
     Albert Einstein
   
     Success is the ability, to go from failure to another,
     with no lass of enthusiasm
     Winston Churchill
   
     The difference between genius and stupidity;
      is that genius has it's limits.
     Albert Einstein

     Nothing is as frustrating,
     as arguing with someone,
     who knows what he is talking about.
     Sam Ewing

     A lie gets half way around the world,
     before the truth has a chance to get it's pants on.
     Winston Churchill
   
     I do not feel obliged to believe,
   that the mother, who endowed us;
   with the sense of reason, and intellect;
   untended us to forgo their use.   
   I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my
     imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge.
    Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the Cosmos.

     Elbert Einstein.


    Giving up smoking is the easiest thing in the world.
      I know because I've done it thousands of times.

      The human mind does not want to--ever-- GIVE UP.

     I am ready to meet my maker, but whether my maker is
     prepared the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter.
     Winston Churchill

     If you have an apple and I have an apple and we exchange apples;
    then you and I still each have one apple. But, if you have an idea,
    and I have an idea, and we exchange these ideas;
     then each of us will have two ideas.--George Bernard Shaw.

     You see things; and you say, "Why?"

      But I dream things that never were,

      and I say, " Why not?"--George Bernard Shaw

     Put your hand on a hot stove for a minute,

     and it seems like an hour. Sit with a pretty girl for an hour, 

     and it seems like minutes. That's relativity--Albert Einstein

    In the USA,TRUTH is more a stranger

   than fiction.--Mark Twain

    When we remember we are all mad,

    the mysteries disappear 

    and life stands explained.--Mark Twain

    Suppose you were an idiot.

   And suppose you were a member of Government.

   But I repeat myself.--Mark Twain

     It is by the fortune of God that, in this country, 

     we have three benefits: freedom of speech,

      freedom of thought,

      and the wisdom never to use either.--Mark Twain

     Don't part with your illusions. 

     When they are gone you may still exist,

     but you have ceased to live.--Mark Twain

     Of all the things I've lost, I miss my mind the most.--Mark Twain

     

     The conventional view serves to protect us from the painful job of thinking.

      --John Kenneth Galbraith

     It's not how much you have that makes people look up to you, it's who you are.
     --Elvis Presley

     

     Jealous: Unduly concerned about the preservation

     of that which can be lost only if not worth keeping.

     --Ambrose Bierce

     I never think of the future. It comes soon enough.--Albert Einstein

     Politics: The conduct of public affairs,
    for private advantage.