Martha's Quotes

The early bird gets the warm, but the second mouse gets the cheese.
Anonymous
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Everyone has photographic memory. Some don't have film.
Anonymous
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Money is better than poverty, if only for financial reasons.
Woody Allen
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Challenge is a dragon with a gift in its mouth... Tame the dragon and the gift is yours.
Noela Evans
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Life is largely a matter of expectation.
Horace
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I suppose we all have our recollections of our earlier holidays, all bristling with horror.
Flann O'Brien
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The nail that sticks out is always hit by a hammer.
Chinese Proverb
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Do or do not do. There is no try.
Yoda
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Duct tape is like the Force. It has a light side, a dark side, and it holds the universe together.
Carl Zwanzig
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One's real life is so often the life one does not lead.
Oscar Wilde
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A book must be the axe for the frozen sea inside us.
Frank Kafka
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I don't want to achieve immortality through my work. I want to achieve immortality through not dying.
Woody Allen
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I saw him even now going the way of all flesh, that is to say, towards the kitchen.
John Webster.
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Sacred cows make the best hamburger.
Mark Twain- Abbie Hoffmann
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And what saved her virtue? The voice of her conscience? Oh No, the voice of her neighbor.
Friedrich Nietzche
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"They say you are not you except in terms of relation to other people. If there weren't any other people there wouldn't be any you because what you do, which is what you are, only has meaning in relation to other people. That is a very comforting thought when you are in the car in the rain at night alone, for then you aren't you, and not being you or anything, you can really lie back and get some rest. It is a vacation from being you. There is only the flow of the motor under your foot spinning that frail thread of sound out of its metal gut like a spider, that filament, that nexus, which isn't really there, between the you which you have just left in one place and the you which you will be when you get to the other place."
Robert Penn Warren, All the King's Men
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We spent a lot of time talking about Africa and we should. Africa is a nation that suffers from incredible disease.
George W. Bush
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Europe ought to include nations beyond the current scope of E.U. and NATO.
George W. Bush
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Wisdom is knowing when to speak your mind and when to mind your speech.
Source obscure.
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Nothing will work unless you do.
Maya Angelou
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Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.
Oscar Wilde
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The future is something which everyone reaches at the rate of 60 minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is.
C. S. Lewis
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People say life's the thing, but I prefer reading.
Logan Pearsall
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If you tell the truth you don't have anything to remember.
Mark Twain
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Nothing so needs reforming as other people's habits.
Mark Twain
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If you have to ask what jazz is, you'll never know.
Louis Armstrong
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Not only is the universe stranger than we think, it is stranger than we can think.
Werner Heisenberg
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Save little money each month and at the end of the year you'll be surprised at how little you have.
Ernest Haskins
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I always lived vicariously. Why can't I die vicariously?
Anonymous
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Being solitary is being alone well: being alone luxuriously immersed in doings of your own choice, aware of the fullness of your own presence rather than the absence of others.
Alice Koller
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Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
Kierkegaard
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Griefs, at the moment when they change into ideas, lose some of their power to injure our heart.
Marcel Proust
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To get the best results, you must talk to your vegetables.
Prince Charles
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It was such a lovely day I thought it was a pity to get up.
W. Somerset Maugham
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Troubles are like babies. They only grow by nursing.
Douglas Jerrold
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Teachers open the door. You enter by yourself. Chinese Proverb. ****************************************************************************************
We don't believe in rheumatism and true love until after the first attack. Ebner-Eschenbach **************************************************************************************
Cats are smarter than dogs. You can't get eight cats to pull a sled through snow.
Jeff Valdez
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Why is it there is never enough time to do a job right, but always time enough to do it over?
Anonymous
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Education is when you read the fine print. Experience is what you get if you don't."
Pete Seeger
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Neurotics build castles in the air. Psychotics live in them. Psychologists collect the rent.
Anonymous
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Curiosity being one of the forms of self-revelation, a systematically incurious person always remains partly mysterious.
Joseph Conrad
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Leftovers are foods that are here today and here tomorrow.
The Groaning Fridge
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How can anyone govern a nation that has two hundred and forty-six kinds of cheese?
Charles De Gaulle
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Ideas are like children: there are none so wonderful as your own.
Source Unknown
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The University is a series of individual entrepreneurs held together by a common grievance about parking.
Clark Kerr
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A gossip talks about others. A bore talks about himself - A brilliant conversationalist talks about you.
Anonymous.
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A dog is the only thing that loves you more than you love yourself.
Josh Billings.
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To think is not enough. You must think of something.
Jules Renard
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Manners are especially the need of the plain. The pretty can get away with anything.
Evelyn Waugh
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He was a self-made man who owed his lack of success to nobody.
Josepth Heller
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Outside of a man, a book is a man's best friend; and inside a dog, it is too dark to read.
Groucho Marx
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I ran into this guy from a deconstructionist gang. He made me an offer I couldn't understand.
Anonymous
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People usually fail when they are on
the verge of success.
So give as much care to the end as
to the beginning;
Only then there will be no failure.
(Lao Dzu)

The law in its majestic impartiality forbids the rich, as well as the poor, to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets and to steal bread.
Anatole France

If you ain't the lead dog, the scenery never changes -- Edmund Wilson

The sage is sharp, but not cutting; Pointed, but nor piercing;
Straightforward, but not unrestrained; Brilliant, but not blinding. (Lao Dzu) ***************************************************************************************
The crime ain't robbin' banks, the real crime is ownin' them! Bertold Brecht
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The eighties upstaged Brecht on this point by making the bank robber and the bank owner one and the same.
David Harvey
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Beware of all enterprises that require new clothes. Thoreau

GET DRESSED, GET BLESSED. TRY TO BE A SUCCESS. Bob Dylan

ONE CAN LIVE FOR TWO MONTHS ON A GOOD COMPLIMENT. Mark Twain
NOTHING RECEDES LIKE SUCCESS.
A character in a Neil Simon's play

There are two tragedies in life. One is is not to get your heart's desire. the other is to get it.
George Bernard Shaw

``First, God created idiots. That was just practice. Then he created school boards.''
Mark Twain

...We realize our divine posibilities by awakening to the soul, which discloses its revelations to the mind directly through intuition.
When the soul breathes through his intellect, it is genius; when it breathes through his will, it is virtue; when it flows through his affection, it is love.
If there is to be hope, we must all betray our country. We have to save each other because all victims are equal and none is more equal than others. It is everyone's duty to start the avalanche. Nowadays, you have to think like a hero just to behave like a merely decent human being. Character Barley Scott Blair in the film of The Russia House by John Le Carre.

Only the shallow know themselves.
Oscar Wilde

The philosophers have only interpreted the world in various ways; the point however, is to change it. Karl Marx

The secret of life is honesty and fair dealing. If you can fake that, you've got it made

Groucho Marx
Proverbs for Paranoids, 3: If they can get you to ask the wrong questions, they don't have to worry about the answers.
Thomas Pynchon, "Gravity's Rainbow"

To talk in publick, to think in solitude, to read and to hear, to inquire, and to answer inquiries, is the business of the scholar
Samuel Johnson, "Ths History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia"
Much madness is divinest sense
to a discerning eye;
much sense the starkest madness.
Emily Dickinson
Mathematics has brought to economics rigor; and alas also mortis. Galbraith? Heilbroner?
The great paradox [contradiction] of a global consumer democracy is that the right to pleasure and happiness, the right to choice in the present, may well be a toxic elixir we are forcing our children to drink. If man, the marginal parasite, turns the earth into a dead artifact, the dream of material pleasure will have murdered life itself. In order to survive the triumph of our ideals, we need a new definition of the sacred.
Jacques Attali, "Millenium

Let us be thankful for the fools; but for them the rest of us could not succeed
Mark Twain

I discovered in nature the non-utilitarian delights I sought in art. Both were a form of magic, both were a game of intrincate enchantment and deception.
Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov, "Speak, memory"

News is what people don't want you to print. Everything thing else is ads.
William Randolph Hearst Sr.

Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children.
Dwight David Eisenhower; General, U. S. Army

I am not a murderer. I never killed a man without a good reason. Wyatt Earp

I am not vegetarian because I love animals; I am a vegetarian because I hate plants.
Any man more right than his neighbors constitutes a majority of one. Henry David Thoreau.
Can you imagine what Nixon would have been like had somebody loved him? He would have been a great, great man had somebody loved him. Henry Kissinger

I am tired and sick of war. Its glory is all moonshine. It is only those who have neither fired a shot nor heard the shrieks and groans of the wounded who cry aloud for blood, more vengeance, more desolation. War is hell.
William Tecumseh Sherman

I've been in the academic world a long time; I can sleep with my eyes open, which is an important skill for those considering jobs in middle and upper management.
Ralph Noble, "Psychology of motivation"
What the world needs is not dogma but an attitude of scientific inquiry combined with a belief that the torture of millions is not desirable, whether inflicted by Stalin or by a Deity imagined in the likeness of the believer.
Bertrand Russell

Imagine all the peoples sharing the world in peace. John Lennon

Error is the stuff of which the web of life is woven; and he who lives longest and wisest is only able to weave out the more of it. Thomas Jefferson

"When I gave food to the poor, they called me a saint. When I asked why the poor were hungry, they called me a communist."
--Dom Helder Camara Brazilian Bishop Nobel Peace Prize nominee

Even if you do learn to speak correct English, whom are you going to speak it to?
Clarence. S. Darrow

Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before. He is full of murderous resentment of people who are ignorant without having come by their ignorance the hard way.
Kurt Vonnegut, "Cat's Cradle"

I speak not with any sense of futility, but with a panicky conviction of the absolute meaninglessness of existence.
Woody Allen

Love your enemies if you want, but treat your friends a little better. Edgar W. Howe

Life is a concentration camp. You're stuck here and there's no way out and you can only rage impotently against your persecutors.
Woody Allen

All things come to him who waits, provided he knows what he is waiting for. Woodrow Wilson

If you are a good economist, a virtuous economist, you are reborn as a physicist. But if you are an evil, wicked economist, you are reborn as a sociologist.
Paul Krugman

Error is the stuff of which the web of life is woven; and he who lives longest and wisest is
only able to weave out the more of it.
Thomas Jefferson

*"Those who take the most from the table * * teach contentment. * * Those for whom the taxes are destined * * demand sacrifice. * * Those who eat their fill, * * speak to the hungry, * * of wonderful times to come. * * Those who lead the country * * into the abyss, * * call ruling difficult, * * for ordinary folk." * * * * ( Bertolt Brecht) * ******************************************

Revolution is a drama of passion. You do not win the People over by appealing to reason.
Mao Ze Dong

| The biologist thinks he is a chemist, | The chemist thinks he is a physicist, | The physicist thinks he is a God,
| And God thinks She is a mathematician.
Paula Thompson

If all the good people were clever, / and all clever people were good, The world would be nicer than ever / we thought that it possibly could. But somehow, 'tis seldom or never / the two hit it off as they should; The good are so harsh to the clever, / the clever so rude to the good!
Elizabeth Wordsworth (1840-1932)

Time present and time past
Are both perhaps present in time future And time future contained in time past... What might have been and what has been
Point to one end, which is always present.
(de "Burnt Norton", por T.S. Eliot).

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 its purpose. Bhagavad Gita
It seems that the "neoclassical paradigm"--the HIV virus of economics- --has spread and is spreading to other disciplines as well.
Jim Craven
He that is of the opinion money will do everything may well be suspected of doing everything for money.
Benjamin Franklin

People wish their enemies dead - but I do not; I say give them the gout, give them the stone!
Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, 1689-1762.

What a terrible thing to have lost one's mind. Or not to have a mind at all. How true that is.
J. Danforth Quayle
Life is a concentration camp. You're stuck here and there's no way out and you can only rage impotently against your persecutors.
Woody Allen

Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before. He is full of murderous resentment of people who are ignorant without having come by their ignorance the hard way.
Kurt Vonnegut, "Cat's Cradle"
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Do not become attached to the things you like; do not maintain aversion to the things you dislike. Sorrow, fear and bondage come from one's likes and dislikes.
Bodhisatva

Reality is that which refuses to go away when I stop believing in it.
Phillip K. Dick

If I would be a young man again and had to decide how to make my living, I would not try to become a scientist or scholar or teacher. I would rather choose to be a plumber or a peddler in the hope to find that modest degree of independence still available under present circumstances.
Einstein, Albert (1879-1955) "Reporter" 18 November 1954

"Edible" = adjective -- "good to eat, and wholesome to digest as a worm to a toad, a toad to a snake, a snake to a pig, a pig to a man, and a man to a worm." (Ambrose Bierce)

In art, as in no other endeavor, there is meaning apart from success.
Joseph Conrad

"The hedonistic conception of man is that of a lightening calculator of pleasures and pains, who oscillates like a homogeneous globule of desire of happiness under the impulse of stimuli that shift him about the area, but leave him intact. He is neither antecedent nor consequent. He is an isolated human datum, in stable equilibrium except for the buffets of the impinging forces that displace him in one direction or another. Self-imposed in elemental space, he spins symmetrically about his own spiritual axis until the parallelogram of forces bears down upon him, whereupon he follows the line of the resultant. When the force of the impact is spent, he comes to rest, a self-contained globule of desire as before." p. 73-74 reprinted in _The Place of Science in Modern Civilization_ the essay that it is from is "Why is Economics not an Evolutionary Science?" originally published in the _Quarterly Journal of Economics_ xii, July 1898.

If the misery of our poor be caused not by the laws of nature but by our institutions, great is our sin. Charles Darwin

"Capital punishment is our society's recognition of the sanctity of human life."
-----Senator Orrin Hatch of Utah

"Achieving this kind of demographic equilibrium must coincide with the growth of the economic statues of the country." -- student paper.

The evil that men do lives after them,
the good is oft interred with their bones.
William Shakespeare, "Julius Caesar"

Never look at the trombones. You'll only encourage them. --Richard Strauss on conducting

"Conceit, arrogance and egotism are the essentials of patriotism."
Emma Goldman, 1869-1940

"Only Irish coffee provides, in a single glass, all four essential food groups; alcohol, caffeine, sugar, and fat." Alex Levine

"Those who are faithless know the pleasures of love; it is the faithful who know love's tragedies." Oscar Wilde

"'Whom are you?' he said, for he had been to night school."
George Ade

"Razors pain you; rivers are damp; acids stain you, and drugs cause cramp. Guns aren't lawful; nooses give; gas smells awful; you might as well live." Dorothy Parker

"A best seller is a book which somehow sells well because it is selling well.
Daniel Boorstin