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Date: 30 Mar 94 16:17:59 PST (Wednesday)
Subject: Life C.O
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Golden Oldie
Another Month Ends
All Targets Met
All Systems Working
All Customers Satisfied
All Staff Eager and Enthusiastic
All Pigs Fed and Ready to fly
-Entry in Weekly Schedule
New Zealand Symphony Orchestra
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My schedule is already full.
-Henry Kissinger
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When I was a boy I was told that
anybody could become President.
Now I'm beginning to believe it.
-Clarence Darrow
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With regard to your thought for day, with reference to academic
politics --
I remember when Henry Kissenger arrived in Washington, D.C. as
a political advisor for Richard Nixon. Some impudent reporter
asked him if he (Kissenger) was up to handing politics in
Washington. Kissenger looked at him with disdain. "What do you
mean?" he said. "I've been handling politics at Harvard for years."
lwolfle@vtvm1.cc.vt.edu Lee Wolfle
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The best cure for insomnia is a Monday morning.
-Sandy Cooley
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Real software engineers work from 9 to 5, because that is the way the
job is described in the formal spec. Working late would feel like
using an undocumented external procedure.
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(Suggestion for YOUR New Year's Resolutions)
I once listed all the good things I did over the past year,
and then turned them into resolution form and backdated them.
That was a good feeling.
-Robert Fulghum
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Resisting temptation is easier
when you think you'll probably
get another chance later on.
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Never wear anything that panics the cat.
-P.J. O'Rourke
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Obstacles are those terrible things you see
when you take your eyes off your goal.
-Jan Claire
U.S.Gymnastics Federation
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Wise men learn more from fools,
than fools from the wise.
-Real Fortune Cookie
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I don't care who does the electing
as long as I get to do the nominating.
-Boss Tweed
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Real charity doesn't care if it's tax-deductible or not.
-Dan Bennett
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Code of the West
Never pass anyone along the trail without saying "Howdy".
When approaching someone from behind, give a loud greeting
before getting within pistol shot.
After you pass someone on the trail, don't look back.
It implies you distrust him.
Don't ride another man's horse.
Dont even _bother_ another man's horse.
Never shoot an unarmed man.
Never shoot a woman at all.
Real cowboys are modest.
A horse thief may be hung peremptorily.
Never try on another man's cowboy hat.
Cuss all you want, but only around men, horses and cows.
-From _Way Out West_
Jane and Michael Stern
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In certain parts of the world,
people still pray in the streets.
In this country they're called pedestrians.
-Gloria Pitzer
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It doesn't HURT to be optimistic.
You can always cry later.
-Lucimar Santos de Lima
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The HUMAN ANIMAL needs a freedom seldom mentioned:
freedom from intrusion. He needs a little privacy
quite as much as he wants understanding or vitamins
or exercise or praise.
-Phyllis McGinley
_The Province of the Heart_
* I am sure SHE means both male and female with the
'He' in this quotation.
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A warm smile is the universal language of kindness.
-William Arthur Ward
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When you leave Houston Intercontinental
Airport from the Mickey Leland Terminal,
and fly to Dallas' Love Field and then to
Oklahoma city's Will Rogers World Airport,
does it bother you that all those people
were killed in plane crashes?
-Lynn Ashby
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We can lick gravity, but sometimes
the paperwork is overwhelming.
-Wernher Von Braun
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Unfaithfulness in the keeping of an appointment
is an act of clear dishonesty.
You may as well borrow a person's money as his time.
-Horace Mann
(Correct Quotes 1.0)
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If you're there before it's over, you're on time.
-James J. Walker
(Correct Quotes 1.0)
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If this (Superbowl) is the ultimate game,
why are they playing it again next year?
-Duane Thomas
1972 Superbowl VI
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Rule 46, Oxford Union Society, London:
Any member introducing a dog into the Society's premises shall
be liable to a fine of one pound. Any animal leading a blind
person shall be deemed to be a cat.
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One man practicing sportsmanship
is far better than 50 preaching it.
-Knute K. Rockne
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He that is of the opinion money will do everything
may well be suspected of doing everything for money.
-Benjamin Franklin
(Correct Quotes 1.0)
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The way I see it,
if you want the rainbow,
you gotta put up with the rain.
-Dolly Parton
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A strong conviction that something must be done
is the parent of many bad measures.
-Daniel Webster
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Always write a lot more letters than you send.
-Dr. Jerry Niebaum
TASSCC Conference
January 24, 1994
* TASSCC - Texas Association of State Systems
for Computing and Communications
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If you don't say anything,
you won't be called on to repeat it.
-Calvin Coolidge
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Do what you can,
with what you have,
where you are.
-Theodore Roosevelt
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A vaincre sans peril, on triumphe sans glorie.
(When there is no peril in the fight,
there is no glory in the triumph.)
-Pierre Corneille
Le Cid, 1636
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The most important thing in life is to love someone.
The second most important thing in life is to have
someone love you. The third most important thing
is to have the first two happen at the same time.
-Howie Schneider
(Best if #1 someone = #2 someone -tftd)
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Golden Oldie
Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not;
nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not;
unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is
full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are
omnipotent. The slogan "Press On" has solved and always will solve the
problems of the human race.
-Calvin Coolidge
(Silent Cal?)
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Wayne Marsh (Wayne.G.Marsh@cdev.com)
I don't want you to think that a serious, even grave, person like myself
*habitually* watches "The Simpsons." Nevertheless, while cable-surfing a
few weeks ago, desperately searching for just one more re-run of the late
Kenneth Clark's "Civilization" series, I did pause at "The Simpsons" long
enough to hear this quote from Bart:
What's done is done. I've made my bed and now...
I have to weasel out of it.
- Bart Simpson
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If a man carries his own lantern,
he need not fear darkness.
-Hasidic saying
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"Uncle Cosmo ... why do they call this a word processor?"
"It's simple, Skyler ... you've seen what food processors do to food, right?"
-- MacNelley, "Shoe"
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Nine times out of ten, in the arts as in life,
there is actually no truth to be discovered;
there is only error to be exposed.
-H. L. Mencken,
"Prejudices, Third Series", 1922
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Perfection is reached, not when there is no longer anything to add, but
when there is no longer anything to take away.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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Worst Month of the Year:
February. February has only 28 days in it, which means that if
you rent an apartment, you are paying for three full days you
don't get. Try to avoid Februarys whenever possible.
-Steve Rubenstein
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If you have built castles in the air,
your work need not be lost;
that is where they should be.
Now put the foundations under them.
-Henry David Thoreau
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He who knows only his own side of the case knows little of that.
-John Stuart Mill
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No member of a rowing team
is ever praised for the
rugged individuality of
his rowing.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
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It bothers me when people say,
'We lost Uncle Jim'.
It _sounds_ so careless.
-Irene Lisenbee Galvin
May 9, 1910 - March 8, 1994
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Happiness isn't something we experience,
it's something we remember.
-Oscar Levant
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Program listing with an interesting observation:
04259 XXXX94** IF TRANSCRIPT STATUS IS ENTERED AS WAIVED ('W'),
04260 XXXX94** SOMETHING MUST ALSO BE ENTERED FOR THE WAIVER
04261 XXXX94** REASON.
04262 XXXX94** COMMENTED OUT BECAUSE WE DON'T CURRENTLY USE REASON
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One thing that's good about procrastination is
that you always have something planned for tomorrow.
-Gil Stern
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No man is lazy except in the
pursuit of another man's goal.
-Anon
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Politics is not the art of the possible.
It consists in choosing between
the disastrous and the unpalatable.
-John Kenneth Galbraith
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As I remember it, the biggest disappointment about growing up
was finding out that adults didn't really have any secret
knowledge about what to do in times of trouble.
-Beryl Pfizer
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HR 3128. Omnibus Budget Reconciliation, Fiscal 1986. Martin, R-Ill.,
motion that the House recede from its disagreement to the Senate
amendment making changes in the bill to reduce fiscal 1986 deficits.
The Senate amendment was an amendment to the House amendment to the
Senate amendment to the House amendment to the Senate amendment to the
bill. The original Senate amendment was the conference agreement on
the bill. Agreed to.
-- Albuquerque Journal
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There is a great deal of talk about
loyalty from the bottom to the top.
Loyalty from the top down is even
more necessary and much less prevalent.
-General George S. Patton, Jr.
_War as I Knew It_, 1947
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In the confrontation between the stream and the rock,
the stream always wins -
not through strength but by perseverance.
-H. Jackson Brown
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