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I do not know what I may appear to the world;
but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy
playing on the seashore, and diverting myself
now and then finding a smoother pebble
or a prettier shell than ordinary,
whilst the great ocean of truth
lay all undiscovered before me. (Isaac Newton)

When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President;
I'm beginning to believe it.
(Clarence Darrow)

Beware of all enterprises that require new clothes.
(Henry David Thoreau: "Walden")

Is sloppiness in speech caused by ignorance or apathy?
I don't know and I don't care.
(William Safire)

If you haven't got anything nice to say about anybody,
come sit next to me.
(Alice Roosevelt Longworth)

People from my country believe -- and rightly so --
that the only thing separating man from the animals
is mindless superstition and pointless ritual.
(Latka Gravis, "TAXI")

Time is nature's way of keeping everything from happening at once.
(author unknown)

Tell the truth and run.
(Yugoslavian proverb)

We expect everything and are prepared for nothing.
(Chinese fortune cookie)

There is nothing more difficult to take in hand,
more perilous to conduct, or more uncertain in its success,
than to take the lead in the introduction of a new order of things.
(Machiavelli: "The Prince")

We are all interested in the future
because that is where you and I will be
spending the rest of our lives!
(Criswell in "Plan 9 From Outer Space")

It is curious to note the old sea-margins of human thought.
Each subsiding century reveals some new mystery;
we build where monsters used to hide themselves.
(Longfellow)

The world owes all its onward impulses to men ill at ease.
(Nathaniel Hawthorne)

Every generation has its own problems;
it ought to find out its own solutions.
There is no use in our living if we can't do things
better than our fathers did. (Henry Ford)

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.
(General Omar Bradley)

The real lost souls don't wear their hair long and play guitars.
They have crew cuts, trained minds,
sign on for research in biological warfare,
and don't give their parents a moment's worry.
(J. B. Priestly)

X-rays are a hoax.
Radio has no future.
Lighter than air travel is impossible.
(Lord Kelvin)

When ideas fail, words come in very handy. (Goethe)

The only reason some people get lost in thought
is because it's unfamiliar territory.
(Paul Fix)

Meek young men grow up in libraries,
believing it their duty to accept the views
which Cicero, which Locke, which Bacon, have given;
forgetful that Cicero, Locke and Bacon
were only young men in libraries when they wrote these books.
(Ralph Waldo Emerson: "The American Scholar")

Let us build a pantheon for professors.
It should be located among the ruins of one of the gutted cities of Europe
or Japan, and over the entrance to the ossuary I would inscribe,
in letters six or seven feet high, the simple words:
SACRED TO THE MEMORY OF THE WORLD'S EDUCATORS.
(Aldous Huxley: foreword to the 1946 edition of "Brave New World")

Everything has been figured out except how to live.
(Jean-Paul Sartre)

In the future, religions will charge people a large fee at birth,
and then pretty much leave them alone.
(George Carlin)

One day [Sir Richard] Burton was discussing Darwin
with a Catholic archbishop.
The prelate noticed some monkeys frisking nearby.
"Well, Captain Burton," the archbishop said,
"there are some of your ancestors."
Burton twirled his moustache and replied,
"Well, I at least have made some progress.
But what about your lordship who is descended from the angels?"
The archbishop was not overly amused.
(from "Fearless Adventurer: Sir Richard Burton", by Arthur Orrmont)

Far back in the mists of ancient time,
in the great and glorious days of the former Galactic Empire,
life was wild, rich and largely tax free.
Mighty starships plied their way between exotic suns,
seeking adventure and reward among the furthest reaches of Galactic space.
In those days spirits were brave, the stakes were high,
men were real men, women were real women
and small furry creatures from Alpha Centauri
were REAL small furry creatures from Alpha Centauri.
(Douglas Adams: "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy")

Computers can't simulate truly human behavior,
but then neither can most people.
(Dean Hannotte)

In 1960, IBM introduced the System 360.
The entry-level model 30 had 64K of memory and wasn't expandable.
It required a trained staff of technicians to keep it operating
and several tons of air-conditioning equipment.
It performed 90,000 operations a second and
was an incredible bargain at $238,000.
Compare that to the PCjr, which has 64K expandable to 512,
needs no air conditioning and runs 290,000 instructions per second.
That's why the growth. PCs are just phenomenal bargains.
If Boeing had seen price/performance improvements
that matched the computer industry's,
you could fly around the world in 20 minutes for $1.75
in an airplane 3 inches long.
(Don Estridge, IBM Entry Systems Division President, 1984)

Because I have loved life, I shall have no sorrow to die.
I have sent up my gladness on wings, to be lost in the blue of the sky.
I have run and leaped with the rain, I have taken the wind to my breast.
My cheek like a drowsy child to the face of the earth I have pressed.
Because I have loved life, I shall have no sorrow to die.
I have kissed young Love on the lips, I have heard his song to the end.
I have struck my hand like a seal in the loyal hand of a friend.
I have known the peace of heaven, the comfort of work done well.
I have longed for death in the darkness and risen alive out of hell.
Because I have loved life, I shall have no sorrow to die.
I give a share of my soul to the world where my course is run.
I know that another shall finish the task I must leave undone.
I know that no flower, no flint was in vain on the path I trod.
As one looks on a face through a window, through life I have looked on God.
Because I have loved life, I shall have no sorrow to die.
(Amelia Josephine Burr: "A Song of Living")

Though nothing can bring back the hour
Of splendor in the grass, of glory in the flower;
We will grieve not, rather find
Strength in what remains behind.
(William Wordsworth)

When it is dark enough, men see the stars.
(saying printed on a refridgerator magnet)

Upon this marble bust that is not I
Lay the round, formal wreath that is not fame;
But in the forum of my silenced cry
Root ye the living tree whose sap is flame.
I, that was proud and valiant, am no more;-
Save as a dream that wanders wide and late,
Save as a wind that rattles the stout door,
Troubling the ashes in the sheltered grate.
The stone will perish; I shall be twice dust.
Only my standard on a taken hill
Can cheat the mildew and the red-brown rust
And make immortal my adventurous will.
Even now the silk is tugging at the staff:
Take up the song; forget the epitaph.
(Edna St. Vincent Millay: "To Inez Milholland",
read in Washington, November eighteenth, 1923,
at the unveiling of a statue of three leaders
in the cause of Equal Rights for Women.)

While there is a lower class I am in it,
while there is a criminal element I am of it;
while there is a soul in prison, I am not free.
(Eugene V. Debs)

Not till the sun excludes you do I exclude you.
(Walt Whitman: "To a Common Prostitute")

We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.
(Oscar Wilde)

Despair is a useless emotion.
(Bertrand Russell)

I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.
(Thomas Jefferson)

I hate quotations. (Ralph Waldo Emerson)