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Date: 10 Aug 94 14:02:50 PDT (Wednesday)
Subject: Life E.O
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Methods are many,
Principles are few.
Principles never change,
Methods often do.
-Anon
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We're ALL IN FAVOR of progress,
providing we can have it without change.
-Morrie Brickman
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One of the most wonderful architectural features of
any baseball park is that no matter where you sit,
you're within earshot of a comedian.
-Bill Vaughan
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We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark;
the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.
-Plato
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All wrong-doing is done in the sincere belief
that it is the best thing to do at that time.
-Arnold Bennett
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The best things in life are not things.
-Anon
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We are more troubled by the few who have more
than by the many who have less.
-Excerpt from a prayer
First United Methodist-Bryan
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If we want things to stay as they are, things will have to change.
-Patriarch of a noble Italian family facing the
revolutionary changes of the early 20th century
Main character in Giuseppe di Lampedusa's great novel, _The Leopard_
Submission and commentary by Michael Molenda, MOLENDA@ucs.indiana.edu
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Nothing is so useless as a general maxim.
-Thomas Macaulay
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There is no such thing as a nonpolitical speech by a politician.
-Richard M. Nixon, speech in New York City, Sep 14, 1955
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Gossip is when you hear something you like about someone you don't.
-Earl Wilson
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Every now and then, a little learning
makes us think we know a lot.
-Vaughn Manning
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Irving Kristol's first law of educational reform:
Any reform that is acceptable to the educational establishment,
and that can gain a majority in a legislature, federal or state,
is bound to be worse than nothing.
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I prefer the word 'homemaker' because 'housewife'
always implies that there may be a wife somewhere else.
-Bella Abzug
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The greatest gifts you can give your children are
the roots of responsibility and the wings of independence.
-Dennis Waitley
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Some people pay a compliment as if they expected a receipt.
-Kin Hubbard
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Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature,
nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoidance
of danger is not safer in the long run than outright exposure.
Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing.
-Helen Keller, 1902
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A man who carries a cat by the tail
learns something he can learn in no other way.
-Mark Twain
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If you wait until you can
do everything for everybody,
instead of something for somebody,
you'll end up not doing anything for anybody.
-Malcolm Bane
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Perfection is our goal.
Excellence will be tolerated.
-TQM Motto from the
International Association of
Business Communication
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It isn't so much
what's on the table that matters,
as what's on the chairs.
-William Schwenck Gilbert
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The dignity we seek in dying is not to be found in our final weeks,
days or moments but in the way we live and how we are seen by those
people whose lives we affect.
-Dr. Sherwin Nuland
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Your worst humiliation is only someone else's momentary entertainment.
-Karen Crockett
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I am always willing
to learn, however
I do not always
like to be taught.
-W. Churchill
(John Schudy, Jr.
Sig File)
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There is no distance
too far between friends,
for friendship
gives wings to the heart.
-Kathy Kay Benudiz
Sig File
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It is well, when judging a friend,
to remember that he is judging you
with the same godlike and superior impartiality.
-Arnold Bennett
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Pessimism never won any battle.
-Dwight D. Eisenhower
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I hold it true, whate'er befall;
I feel it, when I sorrow most;
'Tis better to have loved and lost
Than never to have loved at all.
-Alfred, Lord Tennyson
Correct Quotes 1.0
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Be bold in what you stand for
and careful what you fall for.
-Ruth Boorstin
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Do not let what you cannot do
interfere with what you can do.
-John Wooden
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People are always making rules for themselves
and always finding loopholes.
-William Rotsler
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Discipline is remembering what you want.
-David Campbell
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Use what talents you possess:
The woods would be very silent if no birds
sang there except those that sang best.
-Henry Van Dyke
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Some people are born on third base and
go through life thinking they hit a triple.
-Barry Switzer
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One of life's small satisfactions is copping
first place on a newly opened checkout line.
-Libbie Fudim
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Sainthood emerges when you can listen to someone's tale of woe
and not respond with a description of your own.
-Andrew V. Mason, M.D.
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The only advantage in making computers understand English is that it
will prove once and for all that programmers can't write English.
(Mike Taylor)
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Truth is not determined by majority vote.
-Doug Gwyn.
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Don't try to be different. Just be good.
To be good is different enough.
-Arthur Freed.
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Even moderation ought not to be practiced to excess.
-Anon
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If a million people believe a foolish thing,
it is still a foolish thing.
-Anatole France.
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An Arab chief tells the story of a spy captured and
sentenced to death by a general in the Persian Army.
This general had the strange custom of giving condemned
criminals a choice between the firing squad and
"the big, black door."
The moment for execution drew near, and guards
brought the spy to the Persian general. "What will it be,"
asked the general, "the firing squad or "the big, black door?"
The spy hesitated for a long time. Finally, he chose the firing
squad.
A few minutes later, hearing the shots ring out confirming the spy's
execution, the general turned to his aide and said, "They always
prefer the known to the unknown. People fear what they don't know.
Yet, we gave him a choice."
"What lies beyond the the big door?" asked the aide.
"Freedom," replied the general. "I've known only a few brave
enough to take that door."
The best opportunities in our lives stand behind the forbidding
door of the great unknown.
-Don McCullough
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1942 pennies are lucky.
1942 thousand-dollar bills are luckier.
-wrapper of a Cracker Jack prize
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A program is never less than 90% complete --
and never more than 95% complete.
-Terry Baker, IBM's Federal
Systems Division, 1975
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There was a young poet named Dan,
Whose poetry never would scan.
When told this was so,
He said, "Yes, I know.
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I wanted a perfect ending ... Now I've learned, the hard
way, that some poems don't rhyme, and some stories don't
have a clear beginning, middle, and end. Life is about
not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making
the best of it, without knowing what's going to happen
next. Delicious ambiguity.
-Gilda Radner,
American comedian,
1946-1989
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If a man does not keep pace with his companions,
perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer.
Let him step to the music which he hears,
however measured or far away.
-Henry David Thoreau
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One-trillionth of a surprise = 1 picaboo
(and a kiloboo is enough to scare you to death.)
-Anon
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If you want to take long walks, take long walks. If you
want to hit things with a stick, hit things with a stick.
But there's no excuse for combining the two and putting the
results on TV. Golf is not so much a sport as an insult to lawns.
-National Lampoon
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Remember,
you can't steer a parked car.
-Anon
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George Washington was first in war, first in peace --
and the first to have his birthday juggled to make a long weekend.
-Ashley Cooper
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--
Henry Cate III [cate3@netcom.com]
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