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If I have not seen as far as others, it is because giants were standing
on my shoulders. 
	-- Abelson, Hal
	K: giants shoulders vision
	N: See also quotes from I. Newton, G. Holton and B. K. Reid.
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A memorandum is written not to inform the reader but to protect the writer.
	-- Acheson, Dean (*)
	K: business work writing law
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A common mistake that people make when trying to design something 
completely foolproof was to underestimate the ingenuity of complete 
fools.
	-- Adams, Douglas
	C: in _Mostly Harmless_
	D: 1992
	K: design idiots fools planning
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A computer terminal is not some clunky old television with a typewriter
in front of it. It is an interface where the mind and body can connect
with the universe and move bits of it about.
	-- Adams, Douglas (*)
	C: in _Mostly Harmless_
	K: computers terminals interaction reality interface
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Anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no 
account be allowed to do the job.
	-- Adams, Douglas
	C: in _The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy_
	K: politics
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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.
	-- Adams, Douglas
	K: experience learning humans
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I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by.
	-- Adams, Douglas
	K: deadlines procrastination work
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In the beginning, the universe was created. This made a lot of
people very angry, and has been widely regarded as a bad idea.
	-- Adams, Douglas
	C: in _The Histchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy_
	K: creation universe anger
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"My doctor says that I have a malformed public duty gland and a natural
deficiency in moral fiber," he muttered to himself, "and that I am 
therefore excused from saving Universes."
	-- Adams, Douglas
	C: spoken by Ford Prefect in _The Histchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy_
	K: public service duty honor obligation
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Perhaps I'm old and tired, but I always think that the 
chances of finding out what really is going on are so absurdly 
remote that the only thing to do is to say hang the sense of 
it and just keep yourself occupied.  
	-- Adams, Douglas 
        C: in _The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy_
	K: probability absurdity reality sanity
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The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy has this to say on the subject of 
flying. There is an art, it says, or rather a knack to flying.

The knack lies in learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.

Pick a nice day, it suggests, and try it.

The first part is easy. All it requires is simply the ability to throw 
yourself forward with all your weight, and the willingness not to mind 
that it's going to hurt.

That is, it's going to hurt if you fail to miss the ground.

Most people fail to miss the ground, and if they are really trying 
properly, the likelihood is that they will fail to miss it fairly hard.

Clearly, it's the second point, the missing, which presents the
difficulties.
        -- Adams, Douglas (*)
        K: flying
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There is a theory which states that if ever for any reason anyone
discovers what exactly the Universe is for and why it is here it
will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more
bizarre and inexplicable. There are those who say that this has 
already happened.
	-- Adams, Douglas (*)
        K: reality understanding destruction
	N: See quote by Len Wein.
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The summer sun was sinking through the tress in the park, looking
as  if - Let's not mince words. Hyde Park is stunning. Everything
about it is stunning except for the rubbish on  Monday  mornings.
Even  the ducks are stunning. Anyone who can go through Hyde Park
on a summer's evening and not feel moved by it is probably  going
through in an ambulance with the sheet pulled over their face.
        -- Adams, Douglas (*)
        K: London parks 
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Time is an illusion, lunchtime doubly so.
        -- Adams, Douglas (*)
        K: time illusion food lunch
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"Why can't people just learn to live together in peace and harmony?" 
said Arthur.

Ford gave a loud, very hollow laugh.

"Forty-two!" he said with a malicious grin, "No, doesn't work. Never 
mind."
        -- Adams, Douglas (*)
        K: life meaning questions peace harmony
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We demand guaranteed rigidly defined areas of doubt and uncertainty.
        -- Adams, Douglas (*)
        K: definitions doubt uncertainty demands rights
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"You know," said Arthur, "it's times like this, when I'm trapped in a Vogon
airlock with a man from Betelgeuse, and about to die of asphyxiation in
deep space, that I really wish I'd listened to what my mother told me when
I was young."

"Why, what did she tell you?"

"I don't know, I didn't listen."
        -- Adams, Douglas (*)
        K: parents advice
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Nip the shoots of arbitrary power in the bud, is the only
maxim which can ever preserve the liberties of any people.
	-- Adams, John
	C: in "Novanglus", _Boston Gazette_
	D: 06 Feb 1775
	K: power libery freedom patriots 
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If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude
better than the animating contest of freedom, go home from us in peace.
We ask not your counsels or arms. Crouch down and lick the hands which 
feed you. May your chains set lightly upon you, and may posterity 
forget that ye were our countrymen.
	-- Adams, Samuel (*)
	K: life liberty freedom wealth servitude
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Do not look where you fell, but where you slipped.
	-- African Proverb
	K: failure
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This only is denied to God: the power to undo the past.
	-- Agathon (c448-c400 B.C.)
	C: from _Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics_, book VI, ch. 2
	K: history religion
	N: Also seen: "Even God cannot change the past."
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Honour is the inner garment of the Soul; the first thing put
on by it with the flesh, and the last it layeth down at its
separation from it.
	-- Akhenaton
	D: c1375 B.C.
	K: honor
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I had always loved beautiful and artistic things, though 
before leaving America I had had a very little chance of 
seeing any.  
	-- Albani, Emma (*)
	K: beauty america travel
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The fight is won or lost far away from witnesses--behind the 
lines, in the gym and out there on the road, long before I dance 
under those lights.
	-- Ali, Muhammad (*)
	K: fighting struggle victory preparation 
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The man who has no imagination has no wings.
	-- Ali, Muhammad (*)
	K: imagination freedom
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The man who views the world at 50 the same as he did at 20 has wasted
30 years of his life.
	-- Ali, Muhammad (*)
	K: age 
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A celebrity is a person who works hard all his life to become well known,
then wears dark glasses to avoid being recognized. 
	-- Allen, Fred (*)
	K: celebrities recognition popularity
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It is better for civilization to be going down the drain than to be
coming up it.
	-- Allen, Henry (*)
	K: civilization humanity
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A study of economics usually reveals that the best time to buy 
anything is last year.                
	-- Allen, Marty (*)
	K: economics buying purchasing timeliness timing
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I don't want to achieve immortality through my work. I want to achieve
immortality through not dying.
	-- Allen, Woody (1937-    )
	K: life death
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It's not that I'm afraid to die, I just don't want to be there when 
it happens.
	-- Allen, Woody (1937-    )
	K: life death
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Love is the answer, but while you are waiting for the answer, sex raises 
some pretty good questions.
	-- Allen, Woody (1937-    )
	K: life love questions sex
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Sex between a man and a woman can be absolutely wonderful--provided
you get between the right man and the right woman.
        -- Allen, Woody (1937-    )
	K: sex men women
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The only way to be happy is to love to suffer.
        -- Allen, Woody (1937-    )
	K: happiness suffering love
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There are two types of people in this world, good and bad. The good sleep 
better, but the bad seem to enjoy the waking hours much more.
	-- Allen, Woody (1937-    )
	K: people good evil happiness 
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What if everything is an illusion and nothing exists? In that case, 
I definitely overpaid for my carpet. 
	-- Allen, Woody (1937-    )
	K: illusion reality shopping
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Your mind is on vacation, but your mouth is workin' overtime.
	-- Allison, Mose [jazz piano-vocalist] (*)
	K: thought speech consideration
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There are three kinds of death in this world. There's heart death,
there's brain death, and there's being off the network.
	-- Almes, Guy
	K: networks death dependency
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The shortest distance between two points is under construction.
	-- Altito, Noelie (*)
	K: traffic driving geography
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There are two major products that come out of Berkeley: LSD and UNIX.
We don't believe this to be a coincidence.
	-- Anderson, Jeremy S. (*)
	K: computers Unix drugs
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Cage of freedom, that's our prison; we're the jailer and captive combined
Cage of freedom, cast in power; all the trappings of our own design.
Blind ambition, steals our reason; we're soon behind those invisible bars
On the inside, looking outside; to make it safer we double the guard.
	-- Anderson, Jon (*)
	K: freedom
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Don't be fooled by me.
Don't be fooled by the face I wear.
For I wear a thousand masks that I am afraid to take off and
  none of them are me.
Pretending is an art that's second nature with me, but don't be
  fooled, for God's sake don't be fooled.
I give the impression that I am secure, that all is sunny and 
  unruffled with me,
Within as well as without,
That confidence is my name and coolness my game;
That the waters are calm and I am in command,
And that I need no one.
But don't believe me, please.
	-- Anonymous
	K: love security confidence independence deceit
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He who Laughs, Lasts.
	-- Anonymous
	K: laughter humor fortitude
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If you put a billion monkeys in front of a billion typewriters typing
at random, they would reproduce the entire collected works of Usenet
in about...five minutes.
	-- Anonymous
	K: usenet netnews monkeys computers
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Nostalgia isn't what it used to be.
	-- Anonymous
	K: nostalgia memory
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The airwaves should belong to the people. If a TV signal comes 
trespassing onto my property, I should be free to do any damn thing 
I want with it, and it's none of the government's business.
	-- Anonymous
	C: quoted by Charles Platt in "Satellite Pirate", Wired magazine
	D: August 1994
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The secret of teaching is to appear to have known all your
life what you just learned this morning.
	-- Anonymous
	K: teaching 
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To err is human but to really foul things up requires a computer.
	-- Anonymous
	C: in _Farmer's Almanac for 1978_
	D: 1977
	K: computers errors
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Want to make your computer go really fast? Throw it out the window!
	-- Anonymous
	K: upgrades computers speed
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Work like you don't need the money, 
love like you've never been hurt, 
and dance like nobody's watching.
	-- Anonymous
	K: work employment love dancing
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A wrongdoer is often a man who has left something undone, not
always one who has done something.
        -- Antoninus, Marcus Aurelius (121-180)
        C: in _Meditations_, IX, 5
        K: inaction
	N: See _Book of Common Prayer_, 54:13
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Each thing is of like form from everlasting and comes round again
in its cycle.
	-- Antoninus, Marcus Aurelius (121-180)
	C: in _Meditations_, II, 14
	K: cycles
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The universe is change; our life is what our thoughts make it.
        -- Antoninus, Marcus Aurelius (121-180)
        C: in _Meditations_, IV, 3
        K: reality thought life universe
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Whatever happens at all happens as it should; you will find this 
true, if you watch narrowly.
        -- Antoninus, Marcus Aurelius (121-180)
        C: in _Meditations_, IV, 10
        K: determinism regret
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Experience is a good teacher, but she sends in terrific bills.
	-- Antrim, Minna (*)
	C: in _Naked Truth and Veiled Allusions_
	D: 1902
	K: experience teaching bills 
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Every man is the architect of his own fortune.
	-- Appius Claudius (*)
	K: fortune money
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Beware, the man of one book.
	-- Aquinas, St. Thomas (c1225-1274) (*)
	K: religion
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Three things are necessary for the salvation of man: to know what 
he ought to believe; to know what he ought to desire; and to know
what he ought to do.
	-- Aquinas, St. Thomas (c1225-1274)
	C: in _Two Precepts of Charity_
	D: 1273
	K: salvation
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In dreams and in love there are no impossibilities.
	-- Arany, Janos (*)
	K: dreams love ability 
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Eureka!
	-- Archimedes (c287-212 B.C.)
	T: "I have found it!"
	C: on discovery of a method to test the purity of gold, as described in _Vitruvius Pollio_, De Architectura, book IX, 215
	K: expressions greek exclamations famous 
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A friend to all is a friend to none.
	-- Aristotle (384-322 B.C.)
	K: friendship
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Education is the best provision for old age.
	-- Aristotle (384-322 B.C.)
	C: from _Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosphers_, book V, sec. 21
	K: education old age
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Excellence is an art won by training and habituation.  We do not act 
rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we rather have those 
because we have acted rightly. We are what we repeatedly do. 
Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit.  
	-- Aristotle (384-322 B.C.) (*)
	K: excellence success repetition habit
	N: often quoted as "Excellence is not an art but a habit."
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Hope is a waking dream.
	-- Aristotle (384-322 B.C.)
	C: from _Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosphers_, book V, sec. 18
	K: hope dreams
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It is not the possessions but the desires of mankind which require to be
equalized.
	-- Aristotle (384-322 B.C.) (*)
	K: possession desire mankind equality
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It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought
without accepting it.
	-- Aristotle (384-322 B.C.) (*)
	K: education intelligence wisdom thought
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Man is by nature a political animal.
	-- Aristotle (384-322 B.C.)
	C: in _Politics_, book I, ch. 2
	K: politics
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The actuality of thought is life.
	-- Aristotle (384-322 B.C.)
	C: in _Metaphysics_, book XII, ch. 7
	K: life thought
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The least initial deviation from the truth is multiplied later
a thousandfold.
	-- Aristotle (384-322 B.C.)
	C: in _On the Heavens_, book I, ch. 5
	K: truth
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This is the reason why mothers are more devoted to their children 
than fathers: it is that they suffer more in giving them birth and 
are more certain that they are their own.
	-- Aristotle (384-322 B.C.) (*)
	K: devotion motherhood parenthood love
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We should behave to our friends as we would wish our friends to behave to us.
	-- Aristotle (384-322 B.C.)
	C: from _Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosphers_, book V, sec. 21
	K: golden rule reciprocity
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What is a friend? A single soul dwelling in two bodies.
	-- Aristotle (384-322 B.C.)
	C: from _Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosphers_, book V, sec. 20
	K: friendship
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Wicked men obey from fear; good men, from love.
	-- Aristotle (384-322 B.C.) (*)
	K: obediance fear
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Give a man a fish, and he'll eat for a day.
Teach him how to fish and he'll eat forever.
	-- Arrested Development [from Chinese proverb]
	K: learning
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If you think you can, you can. And if you think you can't, you're right.
	-- Ash, Mary Kay (*)
	K: empowerment thought belief self-worth 
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Like other occult techniques of divination, the statistical method has 
a private jargon deliberately contrived to obscure its methods from 
non-practitioners.
	-- Ashley, G. O. (*)
	K: statistics jargon
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I do not fear computers. I fear the lack of them.
	-- Asimov, Isaac (*)
	K: computers fear
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The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new
discoveries, is not "Eureka!" (I found it!) but "That's funny...."
	-- Asimov, Isaac (*)
	K: discovery science
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As I was leaving this morning, I said to myself "the last thing you 
must do is forget your speech."  And sure enough, as I left the
house this morning, the last thing I did was to forget my speech.
	-- Atkinson, Rowan [famous British comedian] (*)
	C: on his _Live in Belfast_ album
	K: public speeches memory
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A theory is something nobody believes, except the person who made it.
An experiment is something everybody believes, except the person
who made it.
	-- Attributed to Albert Einstein
	K: theory theories experimentation experimental design positivism
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We trained hard, but it seemed that every time we were beginning
to form up into teams, we would be reorganized.  I was to learn
later in life that we tend to meet any new situation by
reorganizing; and a wonderful method it can be for creating the
illusion of progress while producing confusion, inefficiency and
demoralization.
	-- Attributed to Gaius Petronius [Petronius Arbiter] (died c66)
	C: supposedly from _Petronii Arbitri Satyricon_, but unverified
	K: organization training progress confusion
	N: Can't find this quote in _Satyricon_. 
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Golf is a good walk spoiled.
	-- Attributed to Mark Twain
	K: sports golf
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A professor is one who talks in someone else's sleep.
	-- Auden, W. H. (1907-1973) [Anglo-American poet]
	K: university education instruction teaching
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Suppose, for example, I see a vessel on the stocks, walk up and smash 
the bottle hung at the stem, proclaim 'I name this ship the _Mr Stalin_' 
and for good measure kick away the chocks; but the trouble is, I was not 
the person chosen to name it... 
	-- Austin, J. L.
	C: in _How to do Things with Words_
	K: irony language words
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Imagination is the highest kite one can fly.
	-- Bacall, Lauren (*)
	K: imagination flight
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Argue for your limitations, and sure enough, they're yours.
	-- Bach, Richard
	C: in _Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah_
	K: limitations
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A soulmate is someone who has locks that fit our keys, and keys to fit 
our locks. When we feel safe enough to open the locks, our truest selves 
step out and we can be completely and honestly who we are; we can be loved 
for who we are and not for who we're pretending to be. Each unveils the 
best part of the other. No matter what else goes wrong around us, with 
that one person we're safe in our own paradise. Our soulmate is someone 
who shares our deepest longings, our sense of direction. When we're two 
ballons, and together our direction is up, chances are we've found the 
right person. Our soulmate is the one who makes life come to life.
	-- Bach, Richard
	C: in _The Bridge Across Forever_
	K: soulmates relationships love
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"Because the important thing," he said,
"is for you to know the truth.
 Until you know it, until you truly
 understand it, you can show it
 only in smaller ways, and with
 outside help, from machines
 and people
 and birds.
 But remember," he said, 
"that not being known
 doesn't stop the truth
 from being true."
And he was gone.
	-- Bach, Richard (*)
	C: in _There's No Such Place As Far Away_
	K: truth reality understanding knowledge
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Don't be dismayed at good-byes. A farewell is necessary before you 
can meet again. And meeting again, after moments or lifetimes, is 
certain for those who are friends.
	-- Bach, Richard
	C: in _Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah_
	K: good-byes greetings farewells meetings friends
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Hell is a place, a time, a consciousness, Richard, in which there is 
no love.
	-- Bach, Richard
	C: in _A Bridge Across Forever_
	K: love Hell
	N: Spoken by Leslie Parrish.
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Everything in this book may be wrong.
	-- Bach, Richard
	C: in _Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah_
	K: errors mistakes corrections illusions
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I gave my life to become what I am now. Was it worth it?
	-- Bach, Richard
	C: in _One_
	K: death life reality
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The bond that links your true family is not one of blood, but of respect 
and joy in each other's life. Rarely do members of one family grow up 
under the same roof.
	-- Bach, Richard
	C: in _Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah_
	D: 1977
	K: family relationships
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There are no mistakes. The events we bring upon ourselves, no matter how 
unpleasant, are necessary in order to learn what we need to learn; 
whatever steps we take, they're necessary to reach the places we've 
chosen to go.
	-- Bach, Richard
	C: in _The Bridge Across Forever_
	K: mistakes regret learning
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There is no such thing as a problem without a gift for you in its hands. 
You seek problems because you need their gifts.
	-- Bach, Richard
	C: in _Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah_
	K: problems difficulties learning
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To fly as fast as thought, you must begin by knowing that you have 
already arrived.
	-- Bach, Richard (*)
	K: flight flying thought arrivals
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You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it 
true. You may have to work for it, however.
	-- Bach, Richard
	C: in _Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah_
	K: wishes power
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Your friends will know you better in the first minute you meet than 
your acquaintances will know you in a thousand years.
	-- Bach, Richard
	K: friends friendship
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I guess when you turn off the main road, you have to be prepared to 
see some funny houses.
	-- Bachman, Richard [a.k.a. Stephen King] (*)
	C: in _Rage_
	K: sanity
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If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts; but if
will be content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties.
	-- Bacon, Sir Francis (*)
	K: science scientific method knowledge
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Reading maketh a full man, conference a ready man, and writing an exact man.
	-- Bacon, Sir Francis (*)
	K: reading cooperation writing wisdom
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Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but
they have never failed to imitate them.
	-- Baldwin, James (*)
	K: children parenthood 
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Love is the poetry of the senses.     
	-- Balzac, Honore de (1790-1850)
	K: love poetry senses
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The more you judge, the less you love.
	-- Balzac, Honore de (1790-1850)
	K: love judgement
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If at first you do succeed---try to hide your astonishment.
        -- Banks, Harry F.(*)
	K: success surprise
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No matter where you go, there you are.
	-- Banzai, Buckaroo
	C: from the movie _Buckaroo Banzai..._
	K: mottos
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New media, like any chaotic system, are highly sensitive to initial
conditions. Today's heuristical answers of the moment become tomorrow's
permanent institutions of both law and expectation.
	-- Barlow, John Perry (*)
	C: in _Crime & Puzzlement_
	K: media chaos technology innovation heuristics law expectation
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My love does not, cannot make her happy. My love can only release in her 
the capacity to be happy.
	-- Barnes, J. (*)
	K: love happiness relationships
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The secret of happiness is not in doing what one likes, but in liking
what one has to do.
	-- Barrie, James M. (*)
	K: happiness enjoyment life wisdom work
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When it comes to getting things done, we need fewer architects and more 
bricklayers.
	-- Barret, Colleen C. (*)
	K: progress 
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Not all chemicals are bad. Without chemicals such as hydrogen and 
oxygen, for example, there would be no way to make water, a vital 
ingredient in beer.
	-- Barry, Dave (*)
	K: beer alcohol chemistry water drinking
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Oh, I grant you that the wheel was also a fine invention, but the wheel
does not go nearly as well with pizza.
	-- Barry, Dave (*)
	C: on beer
	K: beer alcohol inventions pizza food drinking
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USER, n.: The word computer professionals use when they mean "idiot."
	-- Barry, Dave (*)
	K: computers consulting
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We Americans live in a nation where the medical-care system is second 
to none in the world, unless you count maybe 25 or 30 little scuzzball 
countries like Scotland that we could vaporize in seconds if we felt 
like it.
	-- Barry, Dave (*)
	K: medical care medicare america health politics government
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Without question, the greatest invention in the history of mankind is 
beer. Oh, I grant you that the wheel was also a fine invention, but 
the wheel does not go nearly as well with pizza.
	-- Barry, Dave (*)
	K: beer alcohol drinking pizza food inventions history
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If it is your time love will track you down like a
cruise missile. If you say "No! I don't want it right now,"
that's when you'll get it for sure. Love will make a way
out of no way. Love is an exploding cigar which we
willingly smoke.
	-- Barry, Lynda
	D: 1983
	C: "Big Ideas"
	K: love
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Die? I should say not, dear fellow. No Barrymore would allow such a
conventional thing to happen to him.
	-- Barrymore, John (1882-1942)
	C: his last words
	K: death convention last words
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Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a lost tradition.
	-- Barzun, Jacques (*)
	K: teaching
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The test and the use of man's education is that he finds pleasure in the
exercise of his mind.
	-- Barzun, Jacques 
	K: education learning pleasure
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There's no problem so large it can't be solved by killing the user off, 
deleting their files, closing their account and reporting their REAL 
earnings to the IRS.
	-- Bastard Operator from Hell [Anke Bodzin]
	K: computers root operator system administration problems
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Any system approaching perfect operationality is approaching its own 
death. When the system declares "A is A," or "two and two make four," 
it simultaneously arrives at the point of complete power and total 
ridicule--in other words, of probable immediate subversion.
	-- Baudrillard, Jean (*)
	K: bureacracy perfection
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I make myself laugh at everything, in case I should have to weep.
        -- Beaumarchais, Pierre-Augutin de (1732-1799)
        K: laughter pain suffering
^
I have learned that to get a job done and have fun in it is about all you 
can get out of life.
	-- Beals, Jessie Tarbox
	K: life work fun pleasure accomplishment
^
The defect of equality is that we only desire it with our superiors.
	-- Becque, Henry
	K: equality desire 
^
Watch?? I'm gonna pray, Man! Know any good religions?
	-- Beeblebrox, Zaphod [character in _Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy_]
	C: by Douglas Adams
	K: religion
^
Now comes the mystery.
	-- Beecher, Henry Ward (*)
	K: death mystery
	N: Spoken, presumably, on his deathbed.
^
When one door closes, another opens; but we often look so long and so
regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one which has
opened for us.
	-- Bell, Alexander Graham (*)
	K: opportunity regret
^
Drawing on my fine command of the English language, I said nothing.
	-- Benchley, Robert (*)
	K: language tact
^
Eagles may soar, but weasels don't get sucked into jet engines.
	-- Benfield, John (*)
	K: animals personalities underhandedness deception
^
The manager administers; the leader innovates. 
The manager is a copy; the leader is an original. 
The manager maintains; the leader develops.
The manager focuses on systems and structure; the leader focuses on people.
The manager relies on control;  the leader inspires trust;
The manager has a short-range view; the leader has a long-range perspective.
The managers asks how and when; the leader asks what and why. 
Managers have their eyes on the bottom line; 
  leaders have their eyes on the horizon;
The manager imitates; the leader originates.
The manager accepts the status quo; the leader challenges it. 
The manager is the classic good soldier; the leader is his own person.
The manager does things right; the leader does the right thing.
	-- Bennis, Warren
	C: "On Becoming a Leader," quoted in _Leadership_
	D: 9 June 1992
	K: leadership management
^
There is a tragic clash between Truth and the world. Pure undistorted
Truth burns up the world.
        -- Berdyayev, Nikolay
	K: truth knowledge
^
A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words 
become superfluous.
	-- Bergman, Ingrid (*)
	K: kiss love speech romance communication
^
The present contains nothing more than the past,            
and what is found in the effect is already in the cause.
	-- Bergson, Henri Louis (1859-1941)
	K: present past cause effect
^
The highest form of wisdom is kindness.
	-- Berman, Linda 
	K: kindness wisdom
^
How long have you known me, Jack? And you _still_ can't spell my name.
	-- Berra, Yogi [Lawrence Peter[ (1925-    ) (*)
	C: When Jack Buck, St Louis sportscaster, paid Yogi for an interview with a check made out to Bearer 
	K: checks spelling
^
I didn't say everything I said.
	-- Berra, Yogi [Lawrence Peter] (1925-    )
	C: on his propensity for malapropisms
	K: speech malapropisms
^
In theory there is no difference between theory and practice.  
In practice there is.
	-- Berra, Yogi [Lawrence Peter] (1925-    ) (*)
	K: theory practice reality
^
It ain't over til it's over.
	-- Berra, Yogi [Lawrence Peter] (1925-    )
	C: on playing hard, in _Yogi, It Ain't Over..._ (1990)
	D: 1973
	K: difficulties games victory defeat struggle 
^
It's nothing but rooms.
	-- Berra, Yogi [Lawrence Peter] (1925-    )
	C: on his new house
	K: homes rooms malapropisms
^
It's pretty far, but it doesn't seem like it.
	-- Berra, Yogi [Lawrence Peter] (1925-    )
	C: giving directions
	K: directions distance malapropisms
^
Nobody goes there anymore. It's too crowded.
	-- Berra, Yogi [Lawrence Peter] (1925-    ) (*)
	C: on a popular restaurant
	K: restaurants dining crowds malapropisms
	N: Attribution under question
^
Nothing is like it seems, but everything is exactly like it is.
	-- Berra, Yogi [Lawrence Peter] (1925-    ) (?)
	K: deception reality
^
Thanks. You don't look so hot yourself.
	-- Berra, Yogi [Lawrence Peter] (1925-    )
	C: when told by the mayor's wife that he looked particularly cool in a
summer suit, in _Yogi, It Ain't Over..._ (1990)
	K: mistakes malapropisms
^
The future isn't what it used to be.
	-- Berra, Yogi [Lawrence Peter] (1925-    )
	K: future past malapropisms
^
You can see a lot by just looking.
	-- Berra, Yogi [Lawrence Peter] (1925-    )
	K: sight malapropisms
^
As a man can drink water from any side of a full tank, so the 
skilled theologian can wrest from any scripture that which will 
serve his purpose.
	-- Bhagavad Gita ["The Lord's Song"] (250 B.C.-A.D. 250) (*)
	K: religion persuasion
^
As in this body, there are for the embodied one childhood, youth, old 
age, even so is there the taking on of another body.
	-- Bhagavad Gita ["The Lord's Song"] (250 B.C.-A.D. 250) (*)
	K: death reincarnation rebirth cyclical time
	N: Embodied one = soul?
^
For certain is death for the born
And certain is birth for the dead;
Therefore over the inevitable
Thou shouldst not grieve.
	-- Bhagavad Gita ["The Lord's Song"], 2:27 (250 B.C.-A.D. 250)
	C: Krishna to Arjuna
	K: India buddhism hinduism death birth rebirth cycles grief
^
Never, indeed, was there a time when I was was not, nor when you were 
not.... Never, too, will there be a time, hereafter, when we shall not be.
	-- Bhagavad Gita ["The Lord's Song"] (250 B.C.-A.D. 250)
	C: Krishna to Arjuna
	K: eternity life existence
	
On action alone be thine interest,
Never on its fruits.
Let not the fruits of action be thy motive,
Nor be thy attachment to inaction.
	-- Bhagavad Gita ["The Lord's Song"], 2:47 (250 B.C.-A.D. 250)
	K: india buddhism hinduism action inaction motivation
^
That man, whom these [sense-contacts] do not trouble, O chief of men, 
to whom pleasure and pain are alike, who is wise--he becomes eligible 
for immortality.
	-- Bhagavad Gita ["The Lord's Song"] (250 B.C.-A.D. 250)
	C: Krishna to Arjuna
	K: immortality transcendence
^
The embodied one within the body of everyone, O Bharata, is ever 
undestroyable. Therefore you should not grieve for any being.
	-- Bhagavad Gita ["The Lord's Song"] (250 B.C.-A.D. 250)
	C: Krishna to Arjuna
	K: grief death immortality
^
They all attain perfection 
When they find joy in their work.
	-- Bhagavad Gita ["The Lord's Song"] (250 B.C.-A.D. 250) (*)
	K: work joy happiness
^
When one draws in, on every side, the sense-organs from the objects 
of sense as a tortoise draws in its limbs from every side--then his
wisdom becomes steadfast.
	-- Bhagavad Gita ["The Lord's Song"] (250 B.C.-A.D. 250)
	C: Krishna to Arjuna
	K: reality illusion wisdom
^
It is never any good dwelling on goodbyes. It is not the being together
that it prolongs, it is the parting.
	-- Bibesco, Elizabeth (*)
	K: departures goodbyes 
^
Love is always patient and kind; it is never jealous; love is never
boastful or conceited; it is never rude or selfish; it does not take
offense, and it is not resentful. Love takes no pleasure in other
people's sins but delights in the truth; it is always ready to excuse,
to trust, to hope, and to endure whatever comes. Love does not come to 
an end.
	-- Bible (1 Corinthians 13:4-8)
	K: love patience kindness jealousy conceit resentment truth wisdom
^
The thing that hath been, it is that which shall be;
and that which is done is that which shall be done:
and there is no new thing under the sun.
	-- Bible (Ecclesiastes 1:9)
	K: future past history uniqueness new
^
I am that I am.
	-- Bible (Exodus 3:14)
	C: spoken by God to Moses in reply to the question: "When I come unto the children of Israel, and shall say unto them, The God of your fathers hath sent me unto you; and they shall say to me, What is his name? What shall I say unto them?"
	K: existence religion
	N: Often misquoted as "I am what I am" and considered the source for the famous Popeye quote "I yam what I yam!" "At that point in time, Israel believed His name to be I AM so God was saying I Am __that__ I AM." - Roshan and Tom Lynn .

^
You shall not kill.
	-- Bible (Exodus ?:?)
	C: Second Book of Moses
	K: death commandments Ten Commandments
	N: Also seen as: "Thou shalt not kill."
^
This is my commandment, that ye love one another, even as I have 
loved you. Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down 
his life for his friends.
        -- Bible (John 15:12-13)
        K: love sacrifice
^
But let your communication be Yea, yea; nay, nay: for whatsoever is more
than these cometh of evil.
	-- Bible (Matthew 5:37)
	K: computers binary numbers communication
^
You are the salt of the earth; but if salt has lost its taste,
how shall its salitiness be restored? It is no longer good for
anything except to be thrown out and trodden under foot by men.
	-- Bible (Matthew ?:?)
	C: Jesus to the people, Sermon on the Mount
	K: salt
^
Blessed are the peacemakers, for they shall be called sons of God.
	-- Bible (Matthew ?:?)
	C: Jesus to the people, Sermon on the Mount
	K: peace
^
Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they 
shall be satisfied.
	-- Bible (Matthew ?:?)
	C: Jesus to the people, Sermon on the Mount
	K: righteousness
^
Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothing? Look at
the birds of the air: they neither sow nor reap nor gather into 
barns, and yet your heavenly father feeds them.
	-- Bible (Matthew ?:?)
	C: Jesus to the people, Sermon on the Mount
	K: reality life illusion
^
Judge not that you be judged. For with the judgement you pronounce you 
will be judged, and the measure you give will be the measure you get.
	-- Bible (Matthew ?:?)
	C: Jesus to the people, Sermon on the Mount
	K: judgement
^
Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you, so that you 
may be sons of your father who is in heaven.
	-- Bible (Matthew ?:?)
	C: Jesus to the people, Sermon on the Mount
	K: love war persecution forgiveness
^
For since the creation of the world God's invisible qualities--His
eternal power and divine nature--have been clearly seen, being
understood from what has been made, so that men are without excuse.
	-- Bible (Romans 1:20)
	K: religion creation God nature
^
Many waters cannot quench love, neither can the floods drown it.
	-- Bible (Song of Solomon 8:7)
	K: love power passion
^
Experience is a revelation in the light of which we renounce
our errors of youth for those of age.
	-- Bierce, Ambrose (1842-c1914)
	K: experience revelation youth age errors
^
Prayer - to ask that the laws of the universe be annulled in
behalf of a single petitioner confessedly unworthy.
	-- Bierce, Ambrose (1842-c1914)
	K: prayer religion
^
There is no revenge so complete as forgiveness.
	-- Billings, Josh (*)
	K: revenge forgiveness
^
The body is truly the garment of the soul, which has a living voice; 
for that reason it is fitting that the body, simultaneously with the 
soul, repeatedly sings praises to God through the voice.
	-- Bingen, Hildegard von
	K: music song
^
We can only judge what is right and proper by our own standards of 
right and wrong, which differs widely from the whites if I have been
properly informed. The whites may do wrong all their lives, and then if
they are sorry for it when they die, all is well, but with us it is
different. We must continue to do good throughout our lives...according 
to our custom even an enemy is safe when accepting our hospitality.

For my part I am of the opinion, that so far as we have reason, we have 
a right to use it in determining what is right and wrong..If the Great 
Spirit wished us to believe and do as the whites, He could easily 
change our opinions so that we could see, think, and act as they do...
I believe that every man must make his own path.
	-- Black Hawk
	C: in _The Autobiography of Black Hawk_, dictated to and translated by Antoine LeClair
	D: 1882
	K: judgement freedom morality native American Indian
^
Friendship! mysterious cement of the soul! Sweetner of life! and 
solder of society!
	-- Blaire, Robert
	K: friendship bonds society
^
He who binds himself to a joy
        Does the winged life destroy;
But he who kisses the joy as it flies
        Lives in eternity's sunrise
	-- Blake, William (1757-1827)
	K: love independence  
^
If the doors of perception were cleansed every thing would appear to
man as it is, infinite.
	-- Blake, William (1757-1827)
	C: in _The Marriage of Heaven and Hell_
	D: 1790-1793
	K: perception reality
^
The truth told with bad intent
Beats all the lies you can invent.
	-- Blake, William (1757-1827)
	K: truth
^
To see a world in a grain of sand
And a heaven in a wild flower,
Hold infinity in the palm of your hand
And eternity in an hour.
	-- Blake, William (1757-1827)
	C: in _Poems from the Pickering Manuscript_
	D: c1805
	K: perspective perception
	N: It may be the same piece as his "if the doors of perception were cleansed everything would appear as it is--infinite". The latter quote is where the Aldous Huxley book gets its name and that book (The Doors of Perception) is where the band The Doors g
ot their name. William James's mysticism chapter from _Varieties of Relligious Experience_ may help here.
^
That you may retain your self-respect, it is better to displease the
people by doing what you know is right, than to temporarily please 
them by doing what you know is wrong.
	-- Boetcker, William J. H. (*)
	K: self respect righteousness wisdom
^
No, no, you're not thinking, you're just being logical.
	-- Bohr, Neils (1885-1962)
	K: logic thought
^
Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some hire public
relations officers.
	-- Boorstin, Daniel J. (*)
	K: greatness publicity public relations communication
^
Laughter is the shortest distance between two people.
	-- Borge, Victor (*)
	K: laughter people humans distances
^
I am about to--or I am going to--die; either expression is used.
	-- Bouhours, Dominique (French grammarian) (*)
	C: his last words
	K: death last words grammar
^
It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be
entirely uneducated.
	-- Bourne, Alec (*)
	K: education knowledge
^
Jump off cliffs and build your wings on the way down.
	-- Bradbury, Ray (*)
	K: spontaneity risk
^
If computers get too powerful, we can organize them into a committee--that 
will do them in.
	-- Bradley's Bromide
	K: computers work power
^
Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants.
We know more about war than we know about peace,
more about killing than we know about living.
We have grasped the mystery of the atom
and rejected the Sermon on the Mount.
  	-- Bradly, General Omar N.  (*)
	K: war religion science
^
The important thing in science is not so much to obtain new facts as to
discover new ways of thinking about them.
	-- Bragg, Sir William (*)
	K: science facts discovery thought truth
^
Documentation is like sex: when it is good, it is very, very good; 
and when it is bad, it is better than nothing.
	-- Brandon, Dick (*)
	K: editing documentation computers
^
Beware of programmers who carry screwdrivers.
	-- Brandwein, Leonard
	K: computers programmers
^
The best computer is a man, and it's the only one that can be mass-produced 
by unskilled labor.
	-- Braun, Warner von (*)
	C: when asked if man can be replaced by computer in spaceflight
	K: space flight astronomy
^
Heredity deals the cards; environment plays the hand.
	-- Brewer, Charles L.
	D: 1990
	K: heredity environment personality
^
This world, oh Gautama, is the fire, the earth its fuel,
fire its smoke, night its flame, the moon its cinders
and the stars its sparks....

Man, oh Gautama, is the fire, his open mouth its fuel,
his breath its smoke, speech its flame, his eye its cinders
and his ear its sparks....

Woman, oh Gautama, is the fire, her form its fuel, her hair its smoke,
her organs its flame, her pleasures its cinders and its sparks....
	-- Brihadaranyaka Upanishad
	C: VI, ii, 11-13
	K: sex gender life
^
Dis-moi ce que tu manges, je te dirai ce que tu es.
	-- Brillat-Savarin, Anthelme (1755-1826)
	T: Tell me what you eat and I will tell you what you are.
	K: food
^
I either want less corruption, or more chance to participate in it.
	-- Brilliant, Ashleigh (*)
	K: corruption power 
^
It's said that 'power corrupts', but actually it's more true that power
attracts the corruptible. The sane are usually attracted by other 
things than power. When they do act, they think of it as service, which 
has limits. The tyrant, though, seeks mastery, for which he is 
insatiable, implacable.
	-- Brin, David ["The Postman"] (*)
	K: power corruption
^
A successful man is one who can build a firm foundation with the bricks
that others throw at him.
	-- Brinkley, David (*)
	K: success perserverence
^
The Internet is so big, so powerful and pointless that for some people it
is a complete substitute for life.
	-- Brown, Andrew
	K: internet networks 
^
We're constantly striving for success, fame and comfort when all we 
really need to be happy is someone or some thing to be enthusiastic about.
	-- Brown, Sr., H. Jackson (*)
	K: success happiness
^
Life owes us little; we owe it everything. The only true happiness comes
from squandering ourselves for a purpose.
	-- Brown, John Marm (*)
	K: happiness squandering
^
You can't get out of life alive.
	-- Brown, Les (*)
	K: life death
^
Don't let the University get in the way of your education.
	-- Brown, Raymond [Director of the Penn State University Choirs] 
	K: education universities
^
Everybody thinks I'm Fruit Loops
Because I post on newsgroups
Instead of doing work.
If I don't finish my degree
Then I probably will be
an overeducated clerk.
	-- Brown, Thomas Ford
	K: graduate school usenet news
^
Motivational catharses
To me are mythic farces
Something I will never know.
But I will get my act together
Buffalo will have good weather
And grad school doesn't blow.
	-- Brown, Thomas Ford
	K: graduate school
^
My faculty adviser
is a commie sympathizer
who preaches Marx is great.
When he mails across the nation
letters of recommendation
unemployment is my fate.
	-- Brown, Thomas Ford
	K: graduate school recommendations
^
How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.
I love thee to the depth and breadth and height
My soul can reach, when feeling out of sight
For the ends of Being and ideal Grace.
I love thee to the level of everyday's
Most quiet need, by sun and candle-light.
I love thee freely, as men strive for Right;
I love the purely, as they turn from Praise.
I love thee with the passion put to use
In my old griefs, and with my childhood's faith.
I love thee with a love I seemed to lose
With my lost saints,--I love thee with the breath,
Smiles, tears, of all my life!--and, if God choose,
I shall but love thee better after death.
	-- Browning, Elizabeth Barrett (*)
	K: love prose 
^
Spiritual maturity is a lifelong process of replacing lies with truth.
	-- Bruner, Kurt D.
	K: truth wisdom knowledge spirituality
^
What oxygen is to the lungs, such is hope to the meaning of life.
	-- Brunner, Emil
	K: hope
^
Children have neither past nor future; they enjoy the present, 
which very few of us do.
	-- La Bruy\re (*)
	C: in _Les Caracteres_
	K: children youth
^
I learned something here today. Nothing I do and nothing I own
can remake the past.
	-- Buaku (*)
	K: regrets lessons
^
The trouble with this world is that God needs to self-actualize.
	-- Buchanan, William G.
	K: religion self-actualization
^
IA ORA TE NATURA                  Nature lives (life to nature)
E MEA AROFA TEIE AO NEI           Have pity of the earth (love the earth)
UA OAU TE MAITAI NO TE FENUA      The bounty of the land is exhausted
TE VAI NOA RA TE ORA O TE MITIE   But there is still life in the sea
	-- Buffett, Jimmy (and Bobby Holcomb)
	C: from "One Particular Harbour"
	K: nature Tahitian love bounty
	N: Accuracy of translation and transliteration unknown.
^
If we couldn't laugh, we would all go insane.
	-- Buffet, Jimmy
	K: humor laughter insanity
^
Relationships: we all got 'em, we all want 'em, what do we do with them?!
	-- Buffett, Jimmy
	K: relationships
^
There are two days in the week about which and upon which I never 
worry. Two carefree days, kept sacredly free from fear and apprehension. 
One of these days is Yesterday.... And the other ... is Tomorrow.
	-- Burdette, Robert James (*)
	K: fear happiness
^
The concessions of the weak are the concessions of fear.
	-- Burke, Edmund (1729-1797)
	C: Speech on Conciliation with America (House of Commons)
	D: 22 Mar 1775 
	K: fear weakness concessions
^
The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for 
good men to do nothing.
	-- Burke, Edmund (1729-1797)
	K: good evil inaction
	N: On 12 May 1995 in alt.quotations, Fred Shapiro  wrote: "[A]ttributed to Edmund Burke, [this] is perhaps the leading chestnut in the apocryphal-quote world. According to Ralph Keyes' excellent "Nice Guys Finish Seventh": '
That quotation became popular after John Kennedy began to use it in speeches. Kennedy attributed the thought to Edmund Burke...[The source] might have been [George] Seldes's ... 1960 book Great Quotations, which attributed this idea to Burke without a cit
ation.  Through its 1968 edition, Bartlett's reported that the line originated in a 1795 letter Burke wrote to William Smith. When William Safire used this citation ... one of his gotcha gang (Hamilton Long of Philadelphia) pointed out that Bartlett's was
 in error. Burke said nothing about good men and evil's triumph in a letter to Smith. ... In his 1985 book The Great Thoughts, George Seldes admitted that he couldn't find a credible source for the sentence he'd once attributed to Burke.... To this day we
 have no idea where John Kennedy got the quote.'"
^
The more I study religions the more I am convinced that man never 
worshipped anything but himself.
	-- Burton, Sir Richard F. (*)
	K: religion
^
A blow with a word strikes deeper than a blow with a sword.
	-- Burton, Robert (*)
	K: words language weapons war
^
Don't smother each other. No one can grow in the shade.
	-- Buscaglia, Leo
	K: love closeness growth relationships
^
Education should be the process of helping everyone to discover his 
uniqueness to teach him how to develop that uniqueness, and then to show 
him how to share it because that's the only reason for having anything.
	-- Buscaglia, Leo
	C: in _Love_
	K: education existence
^
To laugh is to risk appearing the fool.
To weep is to risk being called sentimental.
To reach out to another is to risk involvement.
To expose feelings is to risk showing your true self.
To place your ideas and your dreams before the crowd is to risk being 
called naive.
To love is to risk not being loved in return.
To live is to risk dying.
To hope is to risk despair, and to try is to risk failure.
But risks must be taken, because the greatest hazard in life is to risk 
nothing. The person who risks nothing, does nothing, has nothing, is 
nothing, and becomes nothing. He may avoid suffering and sorrow, but he 
simply cannot learn and feel and change and grow and love and live. 
Chained by his certitudes, he is a slave, he's forfeited his freedom.
Only the person who risks is truly free.
	-- Buscaglia, Leo (*)
	K: risks chance freedom
^
It's clearly a budget. It's got a lot of numbers in it.
	-- Bush, George W.
	C: Reuters, May 5, 2000
	K: budgets money math accounting Bush
^
I think anybody who doesn't think I'm smart enough to handle the job is 
underestimating.
	-- Bush, George W.
	C: in U.S. News & World Report, April 3, 2000
	K: intelligence misquotes
^
The senator has got to understand if he's going to have he can't have it 
both ways. He can't take the high horse and then claim the low road.
	-- Bush, George W.
	C: to reporters in Florence, S.C., Feb 17, 2000
	K: malappropism mixed metaphor misquotes Bush
^
"This is Preservation Month. I appreciate preservation. It's what you do 
when you run for president. You gotta preserve."
	- Bush, George W.
	C: speaking during Preservation Month at Fairgrounds Elementary School in Nashua, N.H.
	K: Bush preservation perseverence
	N: I think he meant persevere?
^
L'amour vient de l'aveuglement, l'amitie de la connaisance.
	-- Bussy-Rabutin, Compte des
	K: friendship love french
	T: "Love comes from blindness, friendship from knowledge."
^
All progress is based upon a universal innate desire of every organism to 
live beyond its means.
	-- Butler, Samuel (1835-1902) (*)
	K: progress development achievement
^
Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense
to know how to lie well.
	-- Butler, Samuel (1835-1902) (*)
	K: truth lies deception
^
God is Love--I dare say. But what a mischievous devil Love is!
        -- Butler, Samuel (1835-1902)
        C: in _Notebooks_
        K: love religion sex passion play
^
'Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have lost at all.
	-- Butler, Samuel (1835-1902) 
	C: in _The Way of All Flesh_
	K: love risk loss
^
Don't go through life, grow through life.
	-- Butterworth, Eric
	K: life growth wisdom
^
Usenet is like Tetris for people who still remember how to read.
	-- Button 
        C: from the Computer Museum, Boston, MA
	K: networks usenet games
^
Usenet isn't a right. It's a right, a left, and a swift uppercut to
the jaw.
        -- Button
        C: from the Computer Museum, Boston, MA
        K: networks usenet rights
^
He no play-a da game, he no make-a da rules!
	-- Butz, Earl
	C: on the Pope and birth control
	K: birth control religion abortion 
^
Everything is in a state of flux, including the status quo.
	-- Byrne, Robert (*)
	K: change progress
^
What is life? A madness. What is life? An illusion, a shadow, a story. 
And the greatest good is little enough: for all life is a dream, and 
dreams themselves are only dreams. 
	-- Caldermn de la Barca, Pedro (1600-1681)
	C: in _Life Is a Dream_, act II, l. 1195
	K: life dreams reality sanity illusion
^
If I had a dissertation
there'd be no humiliation.
I'd say "Doctor, if you please."
[instrumental]
I would publish all my theories
in a twenty two part series,
writing off the printing fees.
	-- Callahan, Paul
	K: graduate school dissertations
^
A little rudeness and disrespect can elevate a meaningless interaction
to a battle of wills and add drama to an otherwise dull day.
	-- Calvin
	C: in Bill Watterson's "Calvin & Hobbes" comic strip
	K: respect politeness
^
Hard to say, Ma'am. I think my cerebellum just fused.
	-- Calvin
	C: in Bill Watterson's "Calvin & Hobbes" comic strip, responding to his teacher Mrs. Wormwood
	K: intelligence school education
^
I say, if your knees aren't green by the end of the day, you ought to
seriously re-examine your life!
	-- Calvin
	C: in Bill Watterson's "Calvin & Hobbes" comic strip.
	K: play life childhood
^
I think the best proof of intelligent life on other worlds is that
they haven't actually tried to contact us!
	-- Calvin
	C: in Bill Watterson's "Calvin & Hobbes" comic strip
	K: intelligence life aliens
	N: Also seen as "Sometimes I think the surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that none of it has tried to contact us."
^
I'm not dumb, I just have a command of thoroughly useless information.
	-- Calvin
	C: in Bill Watterson's "Calvin & Hobbes" comic strip
	K: intelligence childhood
^
I've got better things to do than argue with every wrong-headed 
crackpot with an ignorant opinion! I'm a busy man! _I_ say, either 
agree with me or take a hike! I'm right, period! End of discussion!
	-- Calvin
	C: in Bill Watterson's "Calvin & Hobbes" comic strip
	K: arguments conflict opinions
^
I've got to start listening to those quiet, nagging doubts!
	-- Calvin
	C: in Bill Watterson's "Calvin & Hobbes" comic strip, after having snuk up on Hobbes
	K: doubt conscience
^
[A computer is] like an Old Testament god; lots of rules and no mercy.
	-- Campbell, Joseph (*)
	K: computers religion
^
The conquest of the fear of death is the recovery of life's joy. One 
can experience an unconditional affirmation of life only when one has 
accepted death, not as contrary to life, but as an aspect of life. 
Life in its becoming is always shedding death, and on the point of 
death. The conquest of fear yields the courage of life. That is the 
cardinal initiation of every heroic adventure--fearlessness and 
achievement.
	-- Campbell, Joseph (*)
	K: fear death conquest
^
There is but one freedom,
to put oneself right with death.
Afer that everything is possible.
I cannot force you to believe in God.
Believing in God amounts to coming
to terms with death. When you have
accepted death, the problem of God
will be solved--and not the reverse.
	-- Camus, Albert (*)
	K: death religion life
^
Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely 
to be normal.
	-- Camus, Albert (*)
	K: normality energy
^
We live in the midst of details that keep us running around in circles 
and never getting anywhere but tired, or that bring on nervous break-
downs and coronary thrombosis. The answer is not to take to the woods, 
but to find out what we really want to do and then cut out the details 
that fritter away what is most valuable in life. Live deep instead of 
fast. I think that is what Thoreau meant.
	-- Canby, Henry Seidel (*)
	K: life details advice answers priorities
^
As Gandhi stepped aboard a train one day, one of his shoes accidentally
slipped off his foot and landed down on the track. Unfortunately, he was
unable to retrieve it since the train was beginning to move. To the
amazement of his companions, Gandhi calmly took his other shoe off and
threw it along the track as well, so that it landed close to the first one.

A fellow passenger, clearly puzzled, asked Gandhi why he had done this.

Gandhi smiled at the question. "The poor man who finds the first shoe
lying on the track will now have a pair that he can use."
	-- Canfield, Jack and Hanson, Mark Victor (*)
	C: from _A 2nd Helping of Chicken Soup for the Soul_
	K: disappointment India Gandhi loss
^
The only way to learn is by changing your mind.
	-- Card, Orson Scott (*)
	K: decisiveness learning
^
Oh, you hate your job? Why didn't you say so? There's a support group 
for that. It's called EVERYBODY, and they meet at the BAR.
	-- Carey, Drew (*)
	K: work employment drinking beer bars
^
Oh Beautiful for smoggy skies, insecticided grain,
For strip-mined mountain's majesty above the asphalt plain.
America, America, man sheds his waste on thee,
And hides the pines with billboard signs, from sea to oily sea.
	-- Carlin, George (*)
	K: America patriotism USA environment
^
Moment to moment, there are aspects of life that we like, and other we
don't. There are always going to be people who disagree with you, people
who do things differently, and things that don't work out. If you fight
against this principle of life, you'll spend most of your life fighting
battles.
	-- Carlson, R., Ph.D. (*)
	K: life lessons struggle fighting
^
One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all
of us tend to put off living. We are all dreaming of some magical
rose garden over the horizon--instead of enjoying the roses that are
blooming outside our windows today.
	-- Carnegie, Dale (*)
	K: procrastination dreams
^
One day Alice came to a fork in the road and saw a Cheshire cat in a tree.
"Which road do I take?" she asked. "Where do you want to go?" was his
response. "I don't know," Alice answered. "Then," said the cat, "it
doesn't matter."
	-- Carroll, Lewis
	K: choices destiny decision
^
A teacher is one who makes himself progressively unnecessary.
	-- Carruthers, Thomas (*)
	K: teaching teachers
^
The Earth's vegetation is part of a web of life in which there are
intimate and essential relations between plants and the earth, between
plants and other plants, between plants and animals. Sometimes we have 
no choice but to disturb these relationships, but we should do so
thoughtfully, with full awareness that what we do may have consequences
remote in time and place.
	-- Carson, Rachel (*)
	K: nature life conservation development
^
Elections are about fucking your enemies. Winning is about fucking 
your friends.
	-- Carville, James [advisor to Bill Clinton's 1992 presidential campaign]
	K: politics
^
I look upon life as a gift from God. I did nothing to earn it. Now that the
time is coming to give it back, I have no right to complain.
	-- Cary, Joyce (*)
	K: death gifts God complaints
^
Progress is nothing but the victory of laughter over dogma.
        -- Casseresm, Benjamin de (*)
        K: progress dogma laughter victory
^
Where there is great love there are always miracles.
	-- Cather, Willa (*)
	K: love
^
Diplomacy--the art of saying "Nice doggie" 'til you can find a stick. 
	-- Catlin, Wynn (*)
	K: politics diplomacy 
	N: Attributed to Talleyrand.
^
Love not what you are, but what you may become.
	-- Cervantes, Miguel de (1547-1616)
	K: love potential
^
Life at a university with its intellectual and inconclusive 
discussions at the postgraduate level is on the whole a bad 
training for the real world. Only men of very strong character 
surmount this handicap.
	-- Chambers, Sir Paul (1904-1981) [British industrialist]
	K: university graduate school training education
^
Every action in our lives touches on some chord that will vibrate 
in eternity.
	-- Chapin, Edwin Hubbel (*)
	K: chaos 
^
Sometimes I lie awake at night and I ask, 'Is life a multiple choice 
test or is it a true or false test?' Then a voice comes to me out of 
the dark and says, 'We hate to tell you this, but life is a 
thousand-word essay.'
	-- Charlie Brown (*)
	K: life exams tests essays meaning
	N: Attributed, from "Peanuts" cartoon strip by Charles M. Schultz.
^
Nature, the vicaire of the almyghty lorde.
	-- Chaucer, Geoffrey (c1343-1400)
	C: in _The Parliament of Fowls_, line 379
	K: nature beauty religion
^
I appreciate quotes not for the what they say, but how it's said.  
A lot of the quotes that I collect don't really say anything truly 
profound, but the message is presented in such a way that makes you 
pay attention to the speaker. So even if a person (say, myself) 
comes up with a witty saying that someone else already said, but I 
wasn't aware of that, then the point has still been made. The 
quote is merely a mechanism for delivering the message, so the fact 
that someone else has already thought of using the same method of 
conveying the same message isn't really the point.
	-- Cheng, Thomas T. [Quote Collector]
	D: 15 Jul 1994
	K: quotes quotations
^
I prefer old age to the alternative.
	-- Chevalier, Maurice (*)
	K: old age death
^
A horse was tied ouside a shop in a narrow Chinese village street.  
Wnenever anyone would try to walk by, the horse would kick him. Before 
long, a small crowd of villagers had gathred near the shop, arguing 
about how best to get past the dangerous horse. Suddenly, someone came 
running. "The old Master is coming!" he shouted. "He'll know what to do."

The crowd watched eagerly as the Old Master came aournd the corner, saw 
the horse, turned and walked down another street.
	-- Chinese Parable
	K: wisdom solutions
^
Better to light a candle than to curse the darkness.
	-- Chinese Proverb
	K: illumination light wisdom proverbs
^
If one branch doesn't move, the many branches won't stir.
	-- Chinese Proverb
	K: leadership proverbs
	T: "If someone does not lead, no one will follow."
^
If your strength is small, don't carry heavy burdens. If your words are
worthless, don't give advice.
    	-- Chinese Proverb
	K: advice wisdom burden worth
^
It is not economical to go to bed early to save the candles if the result
is twins.
	-- Chinese Proverb
	K: conservation children lights sex
^
To know the road ahead, ask those coming back.
	-- Chinese Proverb
	K: foresight future
^
Education must provide the opportunities for self-fulfillment; it can 
at best provide a rich and challenging environment for the individual 
to explore, in his own way.
	-- Chomsky, Noam
	C: in _Language and Freedom_
	K: education 
^
Personally, I'm in favor of democracy, which means that the central
institutions of society have to be under popular control. Now, under
capitalism, we can't have democracy by definition. Capitalism is a
system in which the central institutions of society are in principle
under autocratic control. Thus, a corporation or an industry is, if
we were to think of it in political terms, fascist; that is, it has
tight control at the top and strict obedience has to be established
at every level--there's little bargaining, a little give and take,
but the line of authority is perfectly straightforward. Just as I'm
opposed to political fascism, I'm opposed to economic fascism. I
think that until the major institutions of society are under the
popular control of participants and communities, it's pointless to
talk about democracy.
	-- Chomsky, Noam
	C: in _Language and Politics_
	D: 1988
	K: democracy capitalism politics economics
^
The fact is that if you have not developed language, you simply don't 
have access to most of human experience, and if you don't have access 
to experience, then you're not going to be able to think properly.
	-- Chomsky, Noam
	C: in _Language and Problems of Knowledge: the Managua Lectures_ 
	D: 1988
	K: language humanity experience thought
^
Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualitites, because ...
it is the quality that guarantees all others.
	-- Churchill, Winston (1874-1965)
	K: courage
^
History will be kind to me, for I intend to write it.
	-- Churchill, Winston (1874-1965)
	K: history wars
^
I like pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat
us as equals.
	-- Churchill, Winston (1874-1965) (*)
	K: animals pigs dogs cats
^
Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick
themselves up and hurry off as if nothing ever happened.
	-- Churchill, Winston (1874-1965) (*)
	K: truth
^
LADY ASTOR: 	Sir, if you were my husband, I would poison your drink.
CHURCHILL: 	Madam, if I were your wife, I would drink it.

LADY ASTOR: 	Sir, you're drunk.
CHURCHILL: 	Yes, madam, and you're ugly. But in the morning, I will
		be sober and you will still be ugly.
	-- Churchill, Winston (1874-1965) (*)
	K: inebriation charisma drinking alcohol
^
The Americans will always do the right thing... after they've exhausted 
all the alternatives.
	-- Churchill, Winston (1874-1965) (*)
	K: America USA Americans 
^
The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
	-- Churchill, Winston (1874-1965) (*)
	K: predictions future government intelligence imagination
^
The farther backward you can look,                          
the farther forward you are likely to see.
	-- Churchill, Winston (1874-1965)
	K: history prediction
^
We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
	-- Churchill, Winston (1874-1965)
	K: life living giving taking
^
Being in the army is like being in the Boy Scouts, except that the Boy
Scouts have adult supervision.
	-- Clark, Blake (*)
	K: scouting scouts army armed services military
^
Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.
	-- Clarke, Arthur C.
	C: in _Technology and the Future_
	K: technology progress magic
^
The earth is simply too small and fragile a basket for the human race 
to keep all its eggs in.
	-- Clarke, Arthur C. (*)
	K: astronomy colonization space travel
^
The only way to discover the limits of the possible is to go beyond
them into the impossible.
	-- Clarke, Arthur C. (*)
	K: limitations possibilities impossibilities discovery limits
^
We saw our own lives in terms of promise, not pessimism. We thought 
our job here on Earth was to build up, not tear down; to unite, not 
to divide.
	-- Clinton, William Jefferson
	C: in convocation speech at UCLA, on the death of Jacqueline Kennedy-Onassis
	D: 20 May 1994
	K: humans goals unity promise pessimism division
^
Mystery has its own mysteries, and there are gods above gods. We
have ours, they have theirs. That is what's known as infinity.
	-- Cocteau, Jean (*)
	K: mystery infinity reality religion
^
Language is the armory of the human mind, and at once contains the 
trophies of its past and the weapons of its future conquests.
	-- Coleridge, Samuel (1772-1834)
	K: language war
^
Perfect freedom is reserved for the man who lives by his own work, and in
that work does what he wants to do.
	-- Collingwood, R. G. (*)
	K: freedom work love
^
If you can't make a mistake, you can't make anything.
	-- Collins, Marva (*)
	K: mistakes success failure
^
True friendship is like sound health, the value of it is seldom known
until it be lost.
	-- Colton, Charles Caleb (1780-1832) (*)
	K: friendship loss
^
Music has charms to soothe a savage breast, To soften rocks, or bend a 
knotted oak.
	-- Congreve, William (1670-1729) (*)
	K: music charm savagry
^
Love may not make the world go round, but I must admit that it makes
the ride worthwhile.
	-- Connery, Sean (*)
	K: love life
^
We must select the illusion which appeals to our temperament and
embrace it with passion, if we want to be happy.
	-- Connolly, Cyril  (*)
	K: illusion reality happiness
^
The great are only great because we are on our knees.
	-- Connolly, James (*)
	K: greatness fame
^
The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary; men
alone are quite capable of every wickedness.
	-- Conrad, Joseph (*)
	K: evil good humanity religion
^
Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to
build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the Universe trying
to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe is winning.
	-- Cook. Rich (*)
	K: programming computers intelligence software
^
Rule of Thumb Number 26: When in doubt, power cycle.
	-- Corcoran, Joel C.
^
I don't know the the key to success, but the key to failure is trying
to please everbody.
	-- Cosby, Bill (*)
	K: success failure
^
This fundamental truth--that women are not just men who can have babies 
and men are not just women who spike footballs--gives marriage its 
vitality, its dynamics, its delights, and its divorce.
	-- Cosby, Bill
	C: in _Love and Marriage_
	D: 1989
	K: marriage love differences
^
Writing about music is like dancing about architecture.
	-- Costello, Elvis [Musician]
	C: on music reviewers
	K: music reviews
^
What is a friend? I will tell you . . . it is someone with whom you
dare to be yourself.
	-- Crane, Frank (*)
	K: friendship self
^
A man said to the Universe, "Sir, I exist."
"However," replied the Universe, "That fact has not created in me 
a sense of obligation."
	-- Crane, Stephen (1871-1900) (*)
	K: existence phenomenology
^
Only after the last tree has been cut down,
Only after the last river has been poisoned,
Only after the last fish has been caught,
Only then will you find that money cannot be eaten.
	-- Cree Prophesy
	K: money nature environment development
^
If the automobile had followed the same development cycle as the 
computer, a Rolls-Royce would today cost $100, geta million miles 
per gallon, and explode once a year, killing everyone inside.
	-- Cringely, Robert X.
	C: from _InfoWorld_
	K: computers evolution cars automobiles
^
Health consists of having the same diseases as one's neighbors.
	-- Crisp, Quentin (*)
	K: health
^
Never keep up with the Joneses. Drag them down to your level. It's cheaper.
        -- Crisp, Quentin (*)
	K: aspiration money wealth goals
^
What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the
breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is the little shadow which 
runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset.
	-- Crowfoot [Blackfoot warrior and orator] (1821-1890)
	C: his last words
	D: 1890
	K: life death last words
^
...losing through you what seemed myself, i find
selves unimaginably mine; beyond
sorrow's own joys and hopings very fears
yours is the light by which my spirit's born:
yours is the darkness of my soul's return
you are my sun, my moon, and all my stars.
	-- cummings, e. e. (*)
	K: loss love
^
I had to quit my job to have time to read my email.
	-- Curry, Adam [MTV Host and net.legend]
	C: his occasional signature quote
	K: e-mail employment net
^
Do not protect yourself by a fence, but rather by your friends.
	-- Czech Proverb
	K: friendship community 
^
For a long time it had seemed to me that life was about to begin--
real life. But there was always some obstacle in the way. Something
to be got through first, some unfinished business, time still to be
served, a debt to be paid. Then life would begin. At last it dawned
on me that these obstacles were my life.
	-- D'Souza, Fr. Alfred
	K: wisdom life obstacles 
^
The hottest places in Hell are reserved for those who in  
time of great moral crises maintain their neutrality.
	-- Dante Aleghieri (1265-1321)
	K: neutrality hell crisis
^
I've never killed a man, but I've read many obituaries with great pleasure.
	-- Darrow, Clarence [Seward] (1857-1938)
	K: death obituaries
^
A man's friendships are one of the best measures of his worth.
	-- Darwin, Charles (*)
	K: friendship
^
I cannot persuade myself that a beneficent and omnipotent God would have
designedly created the Ichneumonidae [parasitic wasps] with the express
intention of their feeding within theliving bodies of Caterpilars.
	-- Darwin, Charles
	C: as cited in Desmond and Moore's _Darwin_, p. 479
	K; religion God nature
^
Opposites can attract, as in magnetism. Or explode, as in matter
and antimatter.
	-- David, Peter (*)
	K: love opposites attraction
^
What is this life if, full of care, 
We have no time to stand and stare.
	-- Davies, W. H. (*)
	K: life beauty nature
^
Do we know much about women? Do we? We don't. We know when they're
happy, we know when they're crying, we know when they're pissed
off. We just don't know what order those are gonna come at us.
	-- Davis, Evan (*)
	K: women comprehension understanding
^
You non-conformists are all alike.
	-- _Deadlock_
	K: conformity rebellion
^
At the end of our time on earth, if we have lived fully,
we will not be able to say, "I was always happy."
Hopefully, we will be able to say,
"I have experienced a lifetime of real moments,
and many of them were happy moments."
	-- DeAngelis, Barbara (*)
	K: happiness death
^
How can you govern a country which has 246 varieties of cheese?
	-- DeGaulle, Charles (*)
	K: government politics France food
^
Beware lest in your anxiety to avoid war you obtain a master.
	-- Demosthenes (384 B.C.-322 B.C.)
^
The first responsibility of a leader is to define reality.  
The last is to say thank you. In between, the leader is a servant.
	-- DePree, Max
	C: quoted in _Communicator_
	D: September 1992
	K: leadership reality
^
In order to keep a true perspective of one's importance, everyone
should have a dog that will worship him and a cat that will ignore him.
	-- Bruce, Dereke (*)
	K: reality animals perspective balance
^
Go placidly amid the noise and waste,
And remember what comfort there may be in owning a piece thereof.
Avoid quiet and passive persons unless you are in need of sleep.
Rotate your tires.
Speak glowingly of those greater than yourself,
And heed well their advice, even though they be turkeys.
Know what to kiss and when.
Consider that two wrongs never make a right,
But that three lefts do.
Wherever possible put people on "HOLD".
Be comforted that in the face of all aridity and disillusionment,
And despite the changing fortunes of time,
There is always a big future in computer maintenance.
Remember the Pueblo.
Strive at all times to bend, fold, spindle and mutilate.
Know yourself.  If you need help, call the FBI.
Exercise caution in your daily affairs,
Especially with those persons closest to you;
That lemon on your left for instance.
Be assured that a walk through the ocean of most souls,
Would scarcely get your feet wet.
Fall not in love therefore; it will stick to your face.
Carefully surrender the things of youth: birds, clean air, tuna, Taiwan,
And let not the sands of time get in your lunch.
Hire people with hooks.
For a good time, call 606-4311.
Take heart amid the deepening gloom that your dog
Is finally getting enough cheese;
And reflect that whatever fortunes may be your lot,
It could only be worse in Milwaukee.
You are a fluke of the Universe.
You have no right to be here, and whether you can hear it or not,
The Universe is laughing behind your back.
Therefore make peace with your God whatever you conceive him to be,
Hairy Thunderer or Cosmic Muffin.
With all its hopes, dreams, promises, and urban renewal,
The world continues to deteriorate.
Give up.
	-- Deteriorata
	C: from the National Lampoon Radio Dinner album
	K: desiderata prayers
^
Minds are like parachutes; they only function when open.
	-- Dewar, Thomas (*)
	K: minds openness
^
He who knows that this body is like froth,                  
and has learnt that it is as unsubstantial as a mirage,     
will break the flower-pointed arrow of illusion,            
and never see the king of death.
	-- Dhammapada, The (c300 B.C.)
	K: death illusion
^
Those who have high thoughts are ever striving;             
they are not happy to remain in the same place.             
Like swans that leave their lake and rise into the air,     
they leave their home and fly for a higher home.
	-- Dhammapada, The (c300 B.C.)
	K: greatness success 
^
Never attribute to malice what can be adequately explained by stupidity.
	-- Diamos, Nick (*)
	K: anger stupidity
^
I, for one, bet on science as helping us. I have yet to see how it 
fundamentally endangers us, even with the H-bomb lurking about. Science 
has given us more lives than it has taken; we must remember that.
	-- Dick, Philip K.
	C: in "Self Portrait"
	D: 1968
	K: science
^
Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.
	-- Dick, Philip K.
	C: quoted in _How To Build A Universe That Doesn't Fall Apart Two Days Later_ (1978)
	D: 1972
	K: reality belief
	N: See quote by Greg Goebel. Ed Fitzgeral  writes: "In _How to Build A Universe That Doesn't Fall Apart Two Days Later_ an essay
written in 1978 and published in 1985, Dick describes a student friend asking
him in 1972 for a one-liner about reality for a paper, and this quote is what
he came up with."
^
The basic tool for the manipulation of reality is the manipulation of 
words. If you can control the meaning of words, you can control the 
people who must use the words.
	-- Dick, Philip K.
	C: in _How To Build A Universe That Doesn't Fall Apart Two Days Later_ 
	D: 1978
	K: reality belief
^
In America sex is an obsession, in other parts of the world it is a fact.
	-- Dietrich, Marlene (1901-????) (*)
	K: sex
^
Hope is the dream of a waking man.
	-- Diogenes (*)
	K: hope dreams
^
In the end, we will conserve only what we love, we will love only
what we understand, we will understand only what we are taught.
	-- Dioum, Baba (*)
	K: conservation love nature understanding education
^
If you can dream it, you can do it.
	-- Disney, Walt (*)
	K: dreams aspirations
^
All of us encounter, at least once in our life, some individual who 
utters words that make us think forever. There are men whose phrases are 
oracles; who can condense in one sentance the secrets of life; who blurt 
out an aphorism that forms a character, or illustrates an existance. 
	-- Disraeli, Benjamin, Earl of Beaconsfield (1804-1881)
	K: quotes quotations wisdom mentors
^
Never complain and never explain.
	-- Disraeli, Benjamin, Earl of Beaconsfield (1804-1881)
	K: complaining explanations 
^
There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies and statistics.
	-- Disraeli, Benjamin, Earl of Beaconsfield (1804-1881)
	K: truth deceit statistics
^
The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages are perpetuated 
by quotations.
	-- Disraeli, Benjamin, Earl of Beaconsfield (1804-1881)
	K: quotes quotations wisdom
^
Youth is a blunder; manhood a struggle; Old Age a regret.
	-- Disraeli, Benjamin, Earl of Beaconsfield (1804-1881)
	K: age youth life
^
The social problems raised by science must be faced and solved by
the humanities.
	-- Dodd, Harold (*)
	K: science problems humanities
^
Your Business clothes are naturally attracted to staining liquids.
This attraction is strongest just before an important meeting.
        -- Dogbert
        C: in _Building a Better Life by Stealing Office Supplies: Dogbert's 
Big Book of Business_, illustrated by Scott Adams
        D: 1991
        K: business clothing stains
^
The amount of energy spent laughing at a joke should be directly
proportional to the hierarchical status of the joke teller.
        -- Dogbert
        C: in _Building a Better Life by Stealing Office Supplies: Dogbert's 
Big Book of Business_, illustrated by Scott Adams
        D: 1991
        K: jokes humor business laughing
^
It is better for your career to do nothing, than to do something and
attract criticism.
        -- Dogbert
        C: in _Building a Better Life by Stealing Office Supplies: Dogbert's 
Big Book of Business_, illustrated by Scott Adams
        D: 1991
        K: criticism action inaction business
^
Be careful that what you write does not offend anybody or cause
problems within the company. The safest approach is to remove all
useful information.
        -- Dogbert
        C: in _Building a Better Life by Stealing Office Supplies: Dogbert's 
Big Book of Business_, illustrated by Scott Adams
        D: 1991
        K: political correctness sensitivity business information
^
Any change to the salary plan will result in less money for you. If 
they wanted to give you _more_ money, they wouldn't have to go
through all the trouble of changing the plan.
        -- Dogbert
        C: in _Building a Better Life by Stealing Office Supplies: Dogbert's 
Big Book of Business_, illustrated by Scott Adams
        D: 1991
        K: business salary money
^
Never base your budget requests on realistic assumptions, as this
could lead to a decrease in your funding.
        -- Dogbert
        C: in _Building a Better Life by Stealing Office Supplies: Dogbert's 
Big Book of Business_, illustrated by Scott Adams
        D: 1991
        K: business funding money budgets
^
The nearer you are to your boss's office, the lower the quality of
your assignments.
        -- Dogbert
        C: in _Building a Better Life by Stealing Office Supplies: Dogbert's 
Big Book of Business_, illustrated by Scott Adams
        D: 1991
        K: proximity business management 
^
The most perilous challenge you will ever face is dealing with the
boss's secretary. It may be necessary to offer a live calf or a
summer intern as an animal sacrifice.
        -- Dogbert
        C: in _Building a Better Life by Stealing Office Supplies: Dogbert's 
Big Book of Business_, illustrated by Scott Adams
        D: 1991
        K: secretaries management business
^
Few things in life are less efficient than a a [sic] group of
people trying to write a sentence. The advantage of this method
is that you end up with something for which you will not be
personally blamed.
        -- Dogbert
        C: in _Building a Better Life by Stealing Office Supplies: Dogbert's 
Big Book of Business_, illustrated by Scott Adams
        D: 1991
        K: committees business 
^
Sick days are the same as vacation days, but with sound effects.
        -- Dogbert
        C: in _Building a Better Life by Stealing Office Supplies: Dogbert's 
Big Book of Business_, illustrated by Scott Adams
        D: 1991
        K: business vacations illness
^
The best way to accelerate a Macintosh is at 9.8 m/sec/sec.
	-- Dolengo, Marcus
	K: macintosh speed acceleration computers
^
No man is an Island, entire of it self; every man is a piece of 
the Continent, a part of the main; if a clod be washed away by the 
sea, Europe is the less, as well as if a promontory were, as well 
as if a manor of thy friends or of thine own were; any man's death 
diminishes me, because I am involved in Mankind; And therefore 
never send to know for whom the bell tolls; It tolls for thee.
	-- Donne, John (1572-1631)
	C: Meditation XVII
	K: bells solitude independence friends humans mankind island
^
Our two souls, therefore, which are one
  Though I must go, endure not yet
A breach, but an expansion,
  Like gold to airy thinness beat.
	-- Donne, John (1572-1631)
	C: in "A Valediction Forbidding Mourning," 5th stanza
	K: goodbyes farewells distance separation love
^
You must love all that God has created, both his entire world and
each single tiny sand grain of it. Love each tiny leaf, each beam of
sunshine. You must love the animals, love every plant. If you love
all things, you will also attain the divine mystery that is in all
things. For then the ability to perceive the truth will grow every
day, and your mind will open itself to an all-embracing love.
        -- Dostoyevsky, Fyodor
        K: love religion divinity mystery truth wisdom
^
If there is no struggle, there is no progress.... Those who profess 
to favor freedom and yet depreciate confrontation, are people who 
want rain without thunder and lightning; they want the ocean without 
the roar of its many waters.
	-- Douglass, Frederick (c1817-1895)
	K: struggle progress
^
[W]hen you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however
improbable, must be the truth.
	-- Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan (*)
	C: spoken by Sherlock Holmes
	K: deduction deductive logic scientific inquiry method
^
Learning is the eye of the mind.
	-- Drake, Thomas (*)
	C: in _Bibliotheca Scholastica Instructissima_
	D: 1633
	K: learning mind
^
In the absence of criticism, nonsense flourishes.
Where nonsense flourishes sense is obscured.
	-- Drexler, K. Eric (*)
	K: criticism nonsense 
^
Efficiency is intelligent laziness.
	-- Dunham, David (*)
	K: work efficiency laziness
^
Ye can lead a man up to the university, but ye can't make him think.
	-- Dunne, Finley Peter 
	K: knowledge university thought education
^
There is a big difference between thinking: 
I'm in a relationship and something's wrong. 
Therefore something must be wrong with the relationship,

and thinking:
I'm in a relationship and we've got problems.
This is evidence that you are different than me.
	-- Dyer, Wayne (*)
	K: relationships love 
^
Laughter is, after speech, the chief thing that holds society together.
	-- Eastman, Max (*)
	K: laughter humor society
^
I have a very strict gun control policy: if there's a gun around,
I want to be in control of it.
	-- Eastwood, Clint
	C: in _Pink Cadillac_
	K: guns control policy
^
People who meet me are always surprised that I'm congenial. I 
guess they expect me to pull out a .44. Well, I can't. I don't 
even own a gun.
	-- Eastwood, Clint
	C: on his gunslinger image
	K: guns image
^
Quality isn't about not making mistakes; it's about not making the same
mistakes twice.
	-- Eberhart, Clair [custom builder in Boise, Idaho]
	K: quality mistakes
^
Wisdom is the wealth of the wise.
	-- Ecclesiasticus (200 B.C.?)
	K: wisdom money wealth
^
It is very beautiful over there.
	-- Edison, Thomas
	C: on his deathbed, describing a vision of the hereafter
	K: death beauty
^
Show me a thoroughly satisfied man, and I will show you a failure.
	-- Edison, Thomas (*)
	K: success failure work ethic
^
Words are both better and worse than thoughts, they express them, and 
add to them; they give them power for good or evil; they start them on 
an endless flight, for instruction and comfort and blessing, or for 
injury and sorrow and ruin.
	-- Edwards, Tryon (*) (1809-1894)
	K: language thought power
^
Would I had phrases that are not known, utterances that are strange, 
in new language that has not been used, free from repetition, not an 
utterance which has grown stale, which men of old have spoken.
	-- Egyptian Inscription 
	K: writing knowledge language innovation
	N: Supposedly recorded at the time of the invention of writing.
^
A human being is part of a whole, called by us the "Universe," a part 
limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and 
feelings, as something separated from the rest--a kind of optical 
delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, 
restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons 
nearest us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by 
widening our circles of compassion to embrace all living creatures and 
the whole of nature in its beauty.
	-- Einstein, Albert (1879-1955)
	K: humanity mankind illusion delusion freedom compassion beauty love
^
A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, 
and social ties; no religious basis is necessary. Man would indeeded be in a 
poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward 
after death.
	-- Einstein, Albert (1879-1955)
	K: religion ethics education death punishment fear motivation
^
As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; 
and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality.
	-- Einstein, Albert (1879-1955)
	C: quoted by Daniel McNeil and Paul Freiberger in _Fuzzy Logic_ (1992) and by Fritjof Capra in _The Tao of Physics_ (1975)
	K: mathematics reality certainity
^
By academic freedom I understand the right to search for truth & to
publish & teach what one holds to be true. This right implies also
a duty: one must not conceal any part of what on has recognized to
be true. It is evident that any restriction on academic freedom
acts in such a way as to hamper the dissemination of knowledge
among the people & thereby impedes national judgment & action.
	-- Einstein, Albert (1879-1955)
	K: academic academia freedom truth duty education knowledge
^
Great spirits have often encountered violent opposition from weak minds.
	-- Einstein, Albert (1879-1955)
	K: intelligence power strength 
^
I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War 
IV will be fought with sticks and stones.
	-- Einstein, Albert (1879-1955)
	K: war weapons technology apocalypse
^
Imagination is more important than knowledge.
	-- Einstein, Albert (1879-1955) (*)
	K: imagination science knowledge thought
^
I never think of the future--it comes soon enough.
	-- Einstein, Albert (1879-1955) (*)
	K: foresight future planning existentialism
^
Logics will get you from A to B, Imagination will take you everywhere.
	-- Einstein, Albert (1879-1955) (*)
	K: logic imagination
^
My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable
superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are
able to perceive with our frail and feeble mind.
	-- Einstein, Albert (1879-1955) (*)
	K: religion humanity
^
Now he has departed from this strange world a little ahead of me.  
That means nothing. People like us, who believe in physics, know 
that the distinction between past, present, and future is only a 
stubbornly persistent illusion.
	-- Einstein, Albert (1879-1955) (*)
	K: illusion time physics science
^
One had to cram all this stuff into one's mind for the examinations, 
whether one liked it or not. This coercion had such a deterring effect 
on me that, after I had passed the final examination, I found the 
consideration of any scientific problems distasteful to me for an 
entire year.
	-- Einstein, Albert (1879-1955) (*)
	K: education examinations tests university 
^
One thing I have learned in a long life: that all our science, measured 
against reality, is primitive and childlike--and yet it is the most 
precious thing we have.
	-- Einstein, Albert (1879-1955) (*)
	K: science reality development
^
Physical concepts are free creations of the human mind, and are not,
however it may seem, uniquely determined by the external world.
        -- Einstein, Albert (1879-1955)
        C: in _Evolution of Physics_
        D: 1938
        K: physical reality perspective subjective subjectivity relativity physics
^
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 a
minute. That's relativity.
        -- Einstein, Albert (1879-1955) (*)
        K: science relativity reality time
^
Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.
	-- Einstein, Albert (1879-1955) (*)
        K: reality illusion
^
Science without religion is lame. Religion without science is blind.
	-- Einstein, Albert (1879-1955) (*)
        K: science religion
^
Technological progress is like an axe in the hands of a pathological 
criminal.
	-- Einstein, Albert (1879-1955) (*)
        K: technology progress development 
^
The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the
source of all true art and science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, 
who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as 
dead: his eyes are closed.
        -- Einstein, Albert (1879-1955)
        C: in _What I Believe_
        D: 1930
        K: science mystery art beauty
^
The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.
        -- Einstein, Albert (1879-1955) (*)
        K: science creativity 
^
The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday
thinking.
        -- Einstein, Albert (1879-1955)
        C: in _Physics and Reality_
        D: 1936
        K: science thought
^
Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm
not sure about the the universe.
	-- Einstein, Albert (1879-1955) (*)
        K: infinity intelligence science astronomy
^
Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge
is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods.
	-- Einstein, Albert (1879-1955) (*)
	K: laughter judgement truth gods
^
When I examine myself and my methods of thought, I come to the
conclusion that the gift of fantasy has meant more to me than any
talent for abstract, positive thinking.
	-- Einstein, Albert (1879-1955) (*)
	K: science imagination thought
^
We are going to have peace even if we have to fight for it.
	-- Eisenhower, Dwight D. (*)
	K: violence war peace
^
In our age... men seem more than ever prone to confuse wisdom with
knowledge, and knowledge with information, and to try to solve
problems of life in terms of engineering.
	-- Eliot, T. S. (1888-1965) (*)
	K: engineering knowledge wisdom information
^
Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one 
can go.
	-- Eliot, T. S. (1888-1965) (*)
	K: travel exploration limitation
^
You shall not cease from exploration
And the end of all our journeying
Will be to arrive where we started
And know the place for the first time.
	-- Eliot, T. S. (1888-1965)
	C: in "Little Gidding V", from _Four Quartets_
	D: 1942
	K: travel exploration home
^
The two most abundant things in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity.
	-- Ellison, Harlan (*)
	K: stupidity physics intelligence
^
Lord, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot
change, the courage to try to change the things I can, and the 
wisdom to hide the bodies of the people I had to kill because 
they pissed me off.
	-- Eluard, Kieth (*)
	K: serenity anger death prayers
	N: Based on the quote attributed to Reinhold Niebuhr and first published in 1935: "O God, give us the serenity to accept what cannot be changed, courage to change what should be changed and wisdom to distinguish the one from the other." It was adopted by Alcoholics Anonymous circa 1940. Niebuhr himself had noted that he was not the original author of what has become known as the "Serenity Prayer," and one historical document dates it to the 14th Century. It turns out that the German version of the Serenity Prayer that has been linked to the version revived for English speakers in 1943 by Reinhold Neibuhr is to be found in a twentieth century book by Professor Theodor Wilhelm, who used the pseudonym "Friedrich Oetinger."  According to Dr. Eberhard Zwink, this "honest professor" should not be confused with the "old Wuerttenberg Prelate J.F. Oetinger" of the !8th century, who was a follower of Swedenborg and an important theosophist and spiritual thinker but not the author of the Serenity Prayer.  As part of the Oetinger Archive maintained by Dr. Zwink, there is now a website in German and English which goes into the matter of the "falsche Oetinger" in detail.  Its address is: http://www.wlb-stuttgart.de/~www/referate/theologie/oetgeb00.html [John Beebe]
^
I hate quotations. Tell me what you know.
	-- Emerson, Ralph Waldo (1803-1882) (*)
	K: quotations quotes knowledge
^
It is not length of life, but depth of life.
	-- Emerson, Ralph Waldo (1803-1882) 
	K: life experience
^
Judge of your natural character by what you do in dreams.
	-- Emerson, Ralph Waldo (1803-1882) 
	K: nature judgement dreams
^
Knowledge is the antidote to fear.
	-- Emerson, Ralph Waldo (1803-1882) (*)
	K: knowledge fear intelligence
^
My chief want in life is someone who shall make me do what I can.
	-- Emerson, Ralph Waldo (1803-1882) (*)
	K: ability desire
^
Nothing is more disgusting than the crowing about liberty by slaves,
as most men are, and the flippant mistaking for freedom of some paper
preamble like a Declaration of Independence, or the statute right to
vote, by those who have never dared to think or to act.
	-- Emerson, Ralph Waldo (1803-1882) (*)
	K: freedom liberty action
^
The glory of friendship is not the outstretched hand, nor the kindly
smile nor the joy of companionship; it is the spiritual inspiration
that comes to one when he discovers that someone else believes in him
and is willing to trust him.
	-- Emerson, Ralph Waldo (1803-1882) (*)
	K: friendship inspiration trust belief
^
The only way to have a friend is to be one.
	-- Emerson, Ralph Waldo (1803-1882) (*)
	K: friendship friends
^
The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it.
	-- Emerson, Ralph Waldo (1803-1882) (*)
	K: frienship friends
^
The wise through excessive wisdom is made a fool.
	-- Emerson, Ralph Waldo (1803-1882) (*)
	K: wisdom foolishness
^
To be great is to be misunderstood.
	-- Emerson, Ralph Waldo (1803-1882) (*)
	K: greatness understanding leadership
^
Whatever games are played with us, we must play no games with ourselves,
but deal in our privacy with the last honesty and truth.
	-- Emerson, Ralph Waldo (1803-1882)
	K: games honesty truth
^
What is the hardest task in the world? To think.
	-- Emerson, Ralph Waldo (1803-1882) (*)
	K: thought intelligence
^
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to
what lies within us.
	-- Emerson, Ralph Waldo (1803-1882)
	K: power destiny history
^
Leadership is not a position. You are not a leader because you have the 
title of manager. Leadership is something that we earn from followers 
on a day to day basis.
	-- EMS Manager Newsletter
	K: leadership management
^
Death, the most dreaded of evils, is therefore of no concern to us; for 
while we exist death is not present, and when death is present we no 
longer exist.
	-- Epicurus (*)
	K: death life
^
You say that you have a great respect for truth. Is that why you always 
place yourself at such a respectful distance from it?
	-- Escriva (*)
	K: truth respect criticism
^
The discontent of the people is more dangerous to a monarch than all the 
might of his enemies on the battlefield.
	-- d'Este, Isabella
	K: feudalism royalty politics war revolt
^
Si jeunesse savait, si vieillesse pouvait.
	-- Estienne, Henri
	C: in _Les Pr]mices_
	D: 1594
	K: old age knowledge ability youth
	T: "If youth but knew; if [old] age but could."
^
A point is the beginning of magnitude.
	-- Euclid (fl. 300 B.C.)
	K: beginnings geometry
^
He is not a lover who does not love forever.
	-- Euripides (*)
	K: love passion
^
A boss creates fear, a leader confidence.  
A boss fixes blame, a leader corrects mistakes.  
A boss knows all, a leader asks questions.  
A boss makes work drudgery, a leader makes it interesting.  
A boss is interested in himself or herself, 
  a leader is interested in the group. 
	-- Ewing, Russel H.
	K: leadership management
^
Life is a book on fire, read by the light of its own burning pages.
	-- Ferguson, Tim [poster from Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH]
	C: posted on alt.quotations <3okuha$b3u@dartvax.dartmouth.edu>
	D: 8 May 1995
	K: life
^
The way to a man's heart is through his stomach.
	-- Fern, Fanny (1811-1872)
	C: in _Willis Parton_
	K: gender men love food
^
If you thought that science was certain - well, that is just an
error on your part.
	-- Feynman, Richard (*)
	K: science certainity
^
I have argued flying saucers with lots of people. I was
interested in this: they keep arguing that it is possible. And
that's true. It is possible. They do not appreciate that the
problem is not to demonstrate whether it's possible or not but
whether it's going on or not.
	-- Feynman, Richard (*)
	K: flying saucers UFOs
^
Our imagination is stretched to the utmost, not, as in fiction,
to imagine things which are not really there, but just to
comprehend those things which _are_ there.
	-- Feynman, Richard (*)
	K: imagination comprehension reality illusion
^
The idea is to try to give all the information to help others
to judge the value of your contribution; not just the information
that leads to judgment in one particular direction or another.
	-- Feynman, Richard (*)
	K: knowledge judgement information scholarship
^
We are at the very beginning of time for the human race. It is
not unreasonable that we grapple with problems. But there are
tens of thousands of years in the future. Our responsibility is
to do what we can, learn what we can, improve the solutions, and
pass them on.  
	-- Feynman, Richard (*)
	K: humanity time problems learning 
^
What is the pattern, or the meaning, or the why? It does not do
harm to the mystery to know a little about it. For far more
marvelous is the truth than any artists of the past imagined it. 
Why do the poets of the present not speak ot it? What men are
poets who can speak of Jupiter if he were a man, but if he is an
immense spinning sphere of methane and ammonia must be silent?
	-- Feynman, Richard (*)
	K: knowledge depth understanding truth meaning art mystery
^
We who came down from out of the forest seek to grow a forest of 
knowing among the stars.
	-- Ferris, Timothy
	C: in _The Mind's Sky: Human Intelligence in a Cosmic Context_
	D: 1992
	K: search intelligence knowledge quest
^
All the taxes paid over a lifetime by the average American are spent by
the government in less than a second.
	-- Fiebig, Jim (*)
	K: taxes government America
^
Usenet is distributed network anarchy at its best--or worst,
depending on what is posted on any particular day.
	-- Fiedler, David 
	C: in _Byte_
	K: networks usenet anarchy
^
A woman drove me to drink and I didn't even have the decency to thank 
her.
	-- Fields, W.C. (*)
	K: alcohol drinking love
^
One of the main causes of the fall of the Roman Empire was that, 
lacking zero, they had no way to indicate successful termination of their 
C programs.
	-- Firth, Robert (*)
	K: programming languages history end fall
^
Until you know that life is interesting--and find it so--you haven't
found your soul.
        -- Fisher, Geoffrey
	K: life meaning soul
^
We stand on a mountain pass in the midst of a whirling snow and blinding
mist, through which we get glimpses now and then of paths which may be
deceptive. If we stand still we shall be frozen to death. If we take the
wrong road we shall be dashed to pieces. We do not certainly know whether
there is any right one. What must we do? Be strong and of good courage. 
Act for the best, hope for the best, and take what comes....If death ends
all, we cannot meet death better.
	-- Fitz, James Stephen (*)
	K: risks courage action death 
^
The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two
opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the 
ability to function.
	-- Fitzgerald, F. Scott (*)
	K: intelligence arguments opposition 
^
By the time we've made it, we've had it.
	-- Forbes, Malcolm (*)
	K: success
^
Don't forget until too late that the business of life is not business, 
but living.
	-- Forbes, B. C. (*)
	K: business life living
^
If the government is big enough to give you everything you want, it is 
big enough to take away everything you have.
	-- Ford, Gerald R.
	D: 1960
	K: power government
	N: This was a remark made as a congressman, quoted in John F. Parker's _"IF Elected, I Promise...," Stories and Gems of Wisdom by and about Politicians_, p. 193. As President Ford, he made a similar comment in remarks to a joint session of Congress, Augu
st 12, 1974, as quoted in "The Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Gerald R. Ford," 1974, p. 6: "The American wage earner and the American housewife are a lot better economists than most economists care to admit. They know that a governm
ent big enough to give you everything you want is a government big enough to take from you everything you have." 
^
It is all the same to me if a man comes from Sing Sing or Harvard. We
hire a man, not his history.
	-- Ford, Henry (*)
	K: jobs employment
^
I have long considered it it one of God's greatest mercies that the 
future is hidden from us. If were not, life would surely be unbearable.
	-- Forsey, Eugene (*)
	K: forsight future prediction
^
I suggest that the only books that influence us are those for which we
are ready, and which have gone a little farther down our particular 
path than we have yet gone ourselves.
	-- Forster, E. M. (*)
	K: reading influence destiny foresight
^
The primary purpose of the DATA statement is to give names to
constants; instead of referring to pi as 3.141592653589793 at every
appearance, the variable PI can be given that value with a DATA
statement and used instead of the longer form of the constant.  This
also simplifies modifying the program, should the value of pi change.
	-- Fortran Manual for Xerox Computers (*)
	K: computers programming humor
^
My suggestion for an Official Usenet Motto: "If you have nothing to say,
then come on in, this is the place for you, tell us all about it!"
	-- Fosseng, Hevard [quotation collector]
	K: usenet netnews mottos computers
^
All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we
leave behind us is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we
can enter another.
	-- France, Anatole (*)
	K: change transition death life reincarnation
^
If 50 million people believe a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.
	-- France, Anatole (*)
	K: judgement popularity 
^
Make love now, by night and by day, in winter and in summer.... You     
are in the world for that and the rest of life is nothing but vanity,   
illusion, waste. There is only one science, love, only one riches, love,
only one policy, love. To make love is all the law, and the prophets.
        -- France, Anatole (*)
        K: love vanity illusion sex
^
One thing above all gives charm to men's thoughts, and this is unrest.
A mind that is not uneasy irritates and bores me.
	-- France, Anatole (*)
        K: thought ease  
^
In spite of everything, I still believe that people are really good at 
heart.
	-- Frank, Anne (*)
	K: atrocity horror decency goodness human nature optimism
^
The worst thing about Europe is that you can't go out in the middle of
the night and get a Slurpee.
	-- Frank, Tellis (*)
	K: Europe America
^
Beer is proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy.
	-- Franklin, Benjamin (1706-1790) (*)
	K: beer alcohol happiness
^
He that lives upon hope will die fasting.
	-- Franklin, Benjamin (1706-1790) (*)
	K: hope hunger
^
They that can give up an essential liberty to obtain a little 
temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.
	-- Franklin, Benjamin (1706-1790) (*)
	K: freedom liberty safety
^
We must indeed all hang together, or most assuredly, we will all hang
separately.
	-- Franklin, Benjamin (1706-1790)
	C: remark on signing the Declaration of Independence
	D: 4 July 1776
	K: unity
^
The depth of interest, sensitivity, and understanding is often
much greater on an issue than one imagines judging only by the
narrow bandwidth of most human communication.
	-- Freeman, Dr. Peter A. (*)
	K: communication media
^
It is a mistake to believe that a science consists in nothing but 
conclusively proved propositions, and it is unjust to demand that it 
should. It is a demand only from those who feel a craving for 
authority in some form and a need to replace the religious catechism 
by something else, even it it be a scientific one.
	-- Freud, Sigmund (1856-1939)
	K: science religion authority
^
Immature love says: "I love you because I need you." Mature love says
"I need you because I love you."
	-- Fromm, Erich (*)
	K: love maturity need desire relationships
^
Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human 
existance.
	-- Fromm, Erich (*)
	K: love existence
^
The mother-child relationship is paradoxical and, and in a sense 
tragic. It requires the most intense love on the mother's side, yet 
this very love must help the child grow away from the mother, and to 
become fully independent.
	-- Fromm, Erich (*)
	K: motherhood parenthood dependence independence love
^
The brain is a wonderful organ. It starts working the moment you get up
in the morning and does not stop until you get into the office.
	-- Frost, Robert (*)
	K: work mind 
^
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I.... I took the one less traveled
by, and that has made all the difference.
	-- Frost, Robert (*)
	C: in _The Road Not Taken_
	K: choices decision solitude 
^
If thou are a master, be sometimes blind; if a servant, sometimes deaf.
	-- Fuller, Thomas (*)
	K: leadership wisdom 
^
Among all the world's races ... Americans are the most prone to
misinformation. This is not a consequence of any special preference for
mendacity.... It is rather that so much of what they themselves believe 
is wrong.
	-- Galbraith, John Kenneth (1908-    )
	K: America belief information
^
Faced with the choice between changing one's mind and proving there 
is no need to do so, almost everyone gets busy on the proof.
	-- Galbraith, John Kenneth (1908-    )
	K: opinions change
^
If all else fails, immortality can always be assured by spectacular 
error.
	-- Galbraith, John Kenneth (1908-    ) (*) 
	K: life immortality death
^
In economics, the majority is always wrong.
	-- Galbraith, John Kenneth (1908-    ) 
        C: in "Saturday Evening Post" 
	D: 1968
	K: economics majority correctness validity
^
One of the greatest pieces of economic wisdom is to know what you 
do not know.
	-- Galbraith, John Kenneth (1908-    )
	C: in "Time"
	D: 1961
	K: knowledge wisdom economics
^
The only function of economic forecasting is to make astrology look
respectable.
	-- -- Galbraith, John Kenneth (1908-    ) (*)
	K: economics forecasting future
^
Under capitalism, man exploits man. Under communism, it's just the opposite.
	-- Galbraith, John Kenneth (1908-    )
	K: economics exploitation politics
^
I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who endowed us with 
sense, reason, and intellect had intended for us to forgo their use.
	-- Galilei, Galileo (*)
	K: religion god reason intellect
^
You cannot shake hands with a clenched fist.
	-- Gandhi, Indira (*)
	C: 1971
	K: peace truce trust
^
He who would be friends with God must remain alone or make the whole 
world his friend.
	-- Gandhi, Mohandas Karamchand [Mahatma] (1869-1948)
	K: religion friendship
^
I believe in the fundamental Truth of all the great religions of 
the world. I believe that they are all God given. I came to the 
conclusion long ago... that all religions were true and also that 
all had some error in them.
	-- Gandhi, Mohandas Karamchand [Mahatma] (1869-1948)
	D: 16 Feb 1934
	K: religion truth error
^
That would be a good idea.
	-- Gandhi, Mohandas Karamchand [Mahatma] (1869-1948)
	C: in reply to a journalist who had asked him "Mr. Gandhi, what do you think of modern civilization?" as found in _Good Work_ by E. F. Schumacher, ch. 2
	D: 1979
	K: civilization
	N: The reporter is often misquoted as saying "... what do you think of Western civilization?" The full quote is from Schumacher is: "Recently I saw a film of Gandhi when he came to England in 1930. He disembarked in Southampton and on the gangway he was 
already overwhelmed by journalists asking questions.  One of them asked, `Mr Gandhi, what do you think of modern civilization?' And Mr Gandhi said, `That would be a good idea.'"
^
The greatness of a nation can be judged by the way its animals are treated.
	-- Gandhi, Mohandas Karamchand [Mahatma] (1869-1948)
	K: animals nations 
^
The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.
	-- Gandhi, Mohandas Karamchand [Mahatma] (1869-1948) (*)
	K: weakness forgiveness
^
To say that God permits evil in the world may not be pleasing
to the ear. But if He is held responsible for the good, it
follows that He has to be responsible for the evil too.

I cannot account for the existence of evil by any rational
method. To want to do so is to be co-equal with God.
I know that He has no evil in Him, and yet if there is evil,
He is the author of it and yet untouched by it.
	-- Gandhi, Mohandas Karamchand [Mahatma] (1869-1948) (*)
	K: good evil religion
^
You must be the change you wish to see in the world.
	-- Gandhi, Mohandas Karamchand [Mahatma] (1869-1948) (*)
	K: change development self
^
I read somewhere that 77 per cent of all the mentally ill live in
poverty. Actually, I'm more intrigued by  the 23 per cent who are
apparently doing quite well for themselves.
	-- Garcia, Jerry (*)
	K: poverty mental health insanity money music
^
Once you get people laughing, they're listening and you can tell them
almost anything.
	-- Gardner, Herb (*)
	K: laughter crowds audiences listening
^
Imagination is the one weapon in the war against reality.
	-- Gaultier, Jules de (*)
	K: reality imagination war
^
Route placidly amid channel noise and network failures,
And remember what throughput there may be in executing all alone.

As far as possible, without overflowing buffer
Be on communicative terms with all processes.
Broadcast your data quietly and clearly
And listen(2) to others.
Even to the null and the unreachable,
They too have their requests.
Avoid long and argumentative sessions
They are burdensome to the ether.

If you compare your priority with others'
You may become vain or bitter
For always there will be greater and lesser processes than yourself.

Enjoy your CPUtime as well as your idletime.
Keep cognizance of your portmapper, however low-level
It is a constant port in the changing mappings of the network.

Exercise caution in your execution,
For the kernel is full of traps.
But let this not blind you to what swap space there is;
Many channels strive for high bandwidths, and everywhere
Computing is full of parallelism.

Be yourself.  (Check with getpid(2) frequently)
Especially do not forge NFS file handles.
Neither be cynical about sockets,
For in the face of all congestion and delays
They are as powerful as STREAMS.

Take kindly the influx of new requests,
Gracefully re-prioritizing the older ones.

Nurture support of check-points to rollback from sudden crashes
But do not thrash pages due to imagined pagefaults:
Many core dumps are born of bus error or segmentation faults.

Beyond a nominal consideration,
Be nice(1) to other processes.

You are a child in the kernel space
No less than the daemons and the device drivers,
You have a right to execute here.
And whether or not it is apparent to you
No doubt the kernel is crashing, though it shouldn't.

Therefore be at peace with your programmer
However geeky you think s/he is.
And wherever your read(2)'s and recvfrom(2)'s,
In the noisy communication channels of the network,
Keep a valid (void *) buf available in your address space.
With all its stopped jobs, missing arguments and broken pipes,
It is still a UNIX shell.

Be backward-compatible.
Strive to be up and running always.
	-- Geekerata
	C: written by Badri Krishnamoorthy 
	K: humor networking computers
	N: A UNIX Analog of Desiderata (Max Ehrman, 1927), mainly as addressed to a network process.
^
The sunlight does not leave its marks on the grass. So we, too, pass 
silently.
	-- George, Chief Dan (*)
	K: light death silence camping environment
^
True friendship comes when silence between two people is comfortable.
	-- Gentry, Dave Tyson (*)
	K: friendship silence comfort
^
Reason can answer questions, but imagination has to ask them.
	-- Gerard, Ralph (*)
	K: reason imagination
^
I have learned silence from the talkative, toleration
from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind;
yet strange, I am ungrateful to those teachers.
	-- Gibran, Kahlil
	C: in _Sand and Foam_
	D: 1926
	K: silence tolerance kindness education
^
It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and 
persevering courtship. Love is the offspring of spiritual affinity 
and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be 
created for years or even generations.
	-- Gibran, Khalil (*)
	K: love relationships
^
Let there be space in your togetherness,
And let the winds of the heavens dance between you.
Love one another, but make not a bond of love.
Let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of     
your souls.
Fill each others cup but drink not from one cup.
Give one another of your bread but eat not from the
same loaf.
Sing and dance together and be joyous, but let each
one of you be alone,
Even as the strings of a lute are alone though they
quiver with the same music.
Give your hearts, but not into each other's keeping.
For only the hand of Life can contain your hearts.
And stand together yet not to near togehter;
For the pillars of the temple stand apart,
And the oak tree and the cypress grow not in each
other's shadow.
	-- Gibran, Kahlil
	C: "On Marriage," from _The Prophet_
	K: marriage space togetherness love
^
Tenderness and kindness are not signs of weakness and despair but
manifestations of strength and resolution.
	-- Gibran, Kahlil (*)
	K: kindness weakness strength
^
Work is love made visible.
	-- Gibran, Kahlil (*)
	K: love work
^
Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of
Life's longing for itself.
        -- Gibran, Kahlil
	K: children
^
Complete possession is proved only by giving. All you are unable to 
give possesses you.
	-- Gide, Andre (*)
	K: possession materialism giving
^
One doesn't discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of 
the shore for a very long time.
	-- Gide, Andre (*)
	K: exploration discovery
^
Laughter is a tranquilizer with no side effects.
	-- Glason, Arnold (*)
	K: laughter
^
Godwin's Law /prov./ [Usenet] "As a Usenet discussion grows longer, the 
probability of a comparison involving Nazis or Hitler approaches one." 
There is a tradition in many groups that, once this occurs, that thread 
is over, and whoever mentioned the Nazis has automatically lost whatever 
argument was in progress. Godwin's Law thus practically guarantees the 
existence of an upper bound on thread length in those groups. 
	-- Godwin's Law
	K: network news posts Usenet jargon
	N: Lifted from "The on-line hacker Jargon File, version 4.0.0, 24 JUL 1996" 
^
Reality is what refuses to go away when I stop thinking about it.
	-- Goebel, Greg (*)
	K: reality
	N: See quote by Philip Dick
^
All truly wise thoughts have been thought already thousands of 
times; but to make them truly ours, we must think them over 
again honestly, till they take root in our personal experience.
	-- Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von (1749-1832)
	K: originality wisdom
^
As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.
	-- Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von (1749-1832)
	K: trust love live living
^
Daring ideas are like chessmen moved forward;
they may be beaten, but they may start a winning game.                         
	-- Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von (1749-1832)
	K: innovation ideas chess games
^
Every situation--nay, every moment--is of infinite worth, for it is the 
representative of a whole eternity.
	-- Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von (1749-1832)
	K: infinity time 
^
Give me the benefit of your convictions, if you have any;
but keep your doubts to yourself, for I have enough of my own.                 
        -- Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von (1749-1832)
	K: convictions doubts
^
He who possesses art and science has religion;
he who does not possess them, needs religion.                                  
        -- Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von (1749-1832)
	K: religion arts science
^
It is not doing the thing we like to do,
but liking the thing we have to do, that makes life blessed.                   
        -- Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von (1749-1832)
	K: duty obligations enjoyment sacredness
^

Just trust yourself, then you will know how to live.
        -- Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von (1749-1832)
	K: trust living
^
Love does not dominate; it cultivates.
	-- Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von (1749-1832)
	K: love power growth relationships
^
Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real 
with the ideal never goes unpunished.
	-- Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von (1749-1832)
	K: love marriage 
^
Mathematicians are like Frenchmen: whatever you say to them they translate 
into their own laguage, and forthwith it is something entirely different.
	-- Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von (1749-1832)
	K: math mathematics mathematicians France language translation 
^
Nature is beneficent. I praise her and all her works.  She is 
silent and wise. She is cunning, but for good ends. She has 
brought me here and will also lead me away. She may scold me, 
but she will not hate her work. I trust her.
        -- Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von (1749-1832)
	K: nature wisdom cunning
^
Nothing is worth more than this day.
        -- Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von (1749-1832)
	K: existentialism
^
One can be instructed in society, one is inspired only in solitude.
        -- Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von (1749-1832)
	K: instruction inspiration society solitude
^
Someday perhaps the inner light will shine forth from us, and then
we'll need no other light.
        -- Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von (1749-1832) (*)
	K: guidance light
^
To be pleased with one's limits is a wretched state.
        -- Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von (1749-1832)
	K: limitations happiness
^
Until one is committed, there is hesitancy, the chance to draw back, 
always ineffectiveness. Concerning all acts of initiative and 
creation, there is one elementary truth the ignorance of which kills 
countless ideas and splendid plans: that the moment one definitely 
commits oneself, the providence moves too. A whole stream of events 
issues from the decision, raising in one's favor all manner of 
unforseen incidents, meetings and material assistance which no man 
could have dreamed would have come his way. Whatever you can do or 
dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it. 
Begin it now.
        -- Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von (1749-1832)
	K: committment hesitation procrastination action planning
^
We are shaped and fashioned by what we love.
        -- Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von (1749-1832)
	K: love
^
What we do not understand we do not possess.
        -- Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von (1749-1832)
	K: understanding possesion
^
Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, 
power and magic in it.
        -- Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von (1749-1832)
	K: magic dreams boldness
^
When ideas fail, words come in very handy.
	-- Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von (1749-1832)
	K: ideas words knowledge
^
A government that is big enough to give you all you want is big enough 
to take it all away.
	-- Goldwater, Barry (*)
	D: 1964
	K: government
^
It makes little difference where we start if we can go ahead.
	-- Goodman, Nelson (*)
	K: beginnings starting
^
It is a known fact that men are practical, hardheaded realists, in
contrast to women, who are romantic dreamers and actually believe
that estrogenic skin cream must do something or they couldn't
charge sixteen dollars for that little tiny jar.
	-- Goodsell, Jane (*)
	K: women men gender
^
'There is no truth beyond magic' ... reality is strange. Many people 
think reality is prosaic. I don't. We don't explain things away in 
science. We get closer to the mystery.
	-- Goodwin, Brian
	C: quoted by Roger Lewin in _Complexity_
	D: 1992
	K: magic reality science explanation
^
Crossposting isn't inherently evil, in the same sense that necrophilia
doesn't really hurt anybody.  One wonders only whether it's
appropriate to the occasion.
	-- Gordon, Rick
	K: computers networks usenet news crossposting necrophilia
^
In science, "fact" can only mean "confirmed to such a degree that it
would be perverse to withhold provisional assent."  I suppose that
apples might start to rise tomorrow, but the possibility does not
merit equal time in physics classrooms.
	-- Gould, Stephen Jay (*)
	K: science facts truth confirmation assent apples
^
A meeting is an event in which the minutes are kept and the hours are 
lost.
	-- Gould's Axiom
	K: business organizations meetings
^
A wise man gets more use from his enemies than a fool from his friends.
	-- Gracian, Baltasar
	K: wisdom friendship enemies
^
When you hire people that are smarter than you are, you prove you are
smarter than they are.
	-- Grant, R. H. (*)
	K: intelligence business jobs hiring
^
To each his suff'rings, all are men,
Condemned alike to groan;
The tender for another's pain,
Th' unfeeling for his own.

Yet ah! why should they know their fate?
Since sorrow never comes too late,
And happiness too swiftly flies.
Thought would destroy their paradise.
No more; where ignorance is bliss,
'Tis folly to be wise.
	-- Gray, Thomas (1716-1771)
	C: _Ode on a Distant Prospect of Eton College_
	D: 1747
	K: ignorance folly
^
Slavery always has, and always will, produce insurrections wherever 
it exists, because it is a violation of the natural order of things, 
and no human power can much longer perpetuate it.
	-- Grimke, Angelina (*)
	K: slavery nature order
^
At the risk of sounding ridiculous, let me say that the true
revolutionary is guided by feelings of love.
	-- Guevara, Che (*)
	C: from "Man and Socialism in Cuba"
	K: revolution love
^
Yet man dies not while in the world, at once his mother and his 
monument, remains. His name is forgotten, indeed, but the breath 
he breathed yet stirs the pine-tops on the mountains, the sound 
of the words he spoke yet echoes on through space; the thoughts 
his brain gave birth to we have inherited today; his passions are 
our cause of life; the joys and sorrors that he felt are our 
familiar friends--the end from which he fled aghast will surely 
overtake us also.
	-- Haggard, H. Rider (*)
	K: death 
^
I am only one, but I am still one;
I cannot do everything, but still I
can do something; and because I cannot
do everything I will not refuse to do
the something that I can do.
	-- Hale, Edward Everett
	K: challenge organization inspiration action ability
^
I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country.
	-- Hale, Nathan (1755-1776)
	C: speech before being executed as a spy by the British
	D: 22 Sep 1776
	K: death patriotism last words
^
Never look down to test the ground before taking your next step; 
only he who keeps his eye fixed on the far horizon will find the 
right road.
	-- Hammarskjold, Dag (*)
	K: foresight direction
^
If it's there     and you can see it   - it's real.
If it's not there and you can see it   - it's virtual.
If it's there     and you can't see it - it's transparent.
If it's not there and you can't see it - you erased it!
	-- Hammer, Scott (*)
	C: an old IBM VM statement
	K: computers virtual reality 
^
When I die, I want to go peacefully, in my sleep, like my grandfather.
Not screaming, like the passengers in his car.
	-- Handey, Jack [Saturday Night Live persona]
	C: in "Deep Thoughts"
	K: death sleep terror
^
Don't be afraid your life will end; be afraid that it will never begin.
	-- Hansen, Grace (*)
	K: life
^
The word "politics" is derived from the word "poly", meaning "many", 
and the word "ticks", meaning "blood sucking parasites".
	-- Hardiman, Larry (*)
	K: politics
^
Estimated amount of glucose used by an adult human brain each day, 
expressed in M&Ms: 250
	-- Harper's Index
	D: Oct 1989
^
The real danger is not that computers will begin to think like men,
but that men will begin to think like computers.
	-- Harris, Sydney J. (*)
	K: computers thought humans
^
Most people are mirrors, reflecting the moods and emotions of the times;
few are windows, bringing light to bear on the dark corners where troubles
fester. The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows.
	-- Harris, Sydney J. (*)
	K: education insight
^
Everyone should carefully observe which way his heart draws him, and then
choose that way with all his strength.
	-- Hasidic saying
	K: path heart
^
Seek the company of those who are looking for the truth, but run from those
who have found it.
	-- Havel, Vaclav [president, Czech Republic]
	C: as quoted by Deepak Chopra
	K: truth religion dogmatism
^
God not only plays dice, he also sometimes throws the dice where they 
cannot be seen.
	-- Hawking, Stephen (*)
	K: religion chance reality gambling
^
"Sonny, it's turtles all the way down."
	-- Hawking, Stephen (*)
	C: relating a story told by Fred Hoyle
	K: belief philosophy
	N: Hoyle presented a lengthy lecture on then-current theories of the origin of the universe. During the question period a skeptic retorted that Hoyle's theories were nonsense, since everyone knew the the Earth was actually a ball balanced on the back of 
an enormous turtle. "And what does the turtle stand on?" Hoyle is said to have asked resignedly. "On the back of a still larger turtle," came the response. "All right--what does the second turtle stand on, then?" Hoyle pursued, only to receive the crushin
g retort, "I see what you're trying to do, mister, but's it's no use--it's turtles all the way down!"
^
My mother drew a distinction between achievement and success.  She said
that achievement is the knowledge that you have studied and worked hard 
and done the best that is in you.  Success is being praised by others.
That is nice but not as important or satisfying.  Always aim for 
achievement and forget about success.
	-- Hayes, Helen (*)
	K: success achievement praise
^
The truth is that there is only one terminal dignity--love. And
the story of a love is not important--what is important is that one
is capable of love. It is perhaps the only glimpse we are permitted
of eternity.
	-- Hayes, Helen (*)
	K: love eternity truth dignity
^
The more we do, the more we can do.
	-- Hazlitt, William (1778-1830)
	K: ability
^
If you were happy every day of your life, you wouldn't be a human
being. You'd be a game show host.
	-- _Heathers_
	K: happiness humanity
^
A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion,
butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance
accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying,  take orders,
give orders, cooperate, act alone,  solve equations, analyze a new
problem,  pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight
efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects.
	-- Heinlein, Robert A. (1907-1988) (*)
	K: human potential specialization generalists
^
Anyone who clings to the historically untrue--and thoroughly immoral--
doctrine that 'violence never solves anything' I would advise to conjure 
up the ghosts of Napoleon Bonaparte and the Duke of Wellington and let 
them debate it. The Ghost of Hitler could referee, and the jury might 
well be the Dodo, the Great Auk, and the Passenger Pigeon. Violence, 
naked force, has settled more disputes in history than has any other 
factor, and the contrary opinion is wishful thinking at its worst. 
Breeds that forget this basic truth have always paid for it with their 
lives and freedoms.
	-- Heinlein, Robert A. (1907-1988)
	C: quoted by Lt. Col. Jean V. DuBois, M.I., in _Starship Troopers_
	K: violence aggression
^
Don't explain computers to laymen. [It's] Simpler to explain sex
to a virgin.
	-- Heinlein, Robert A. (1907-1988)
        C: from _The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress_ 
	D: c1966
	K: computers sex
^
Sin lies only in hurting other people unnecessarily. All other `sins'
are invented nonsense. (Hurting yourself is _not_ a sin--just stupid.)
	-- Heinlein, Robert A. (1907-1988)
	C: from _Time Enough For Love_
	K: sin hurt pain violence
^
The stars incline, but do not impel.
	-- Heinlein, Robert A. (1907-1988) (*)
	C: quoted by Becky Vesey, a.k.a. Madame Alexandra Vesa