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How seldom we weigh our neighbor in the same balance with ourselves.

Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.

Growing old is no more than a bad habit which a busy person has no
time to form.

Old age isn't too bad . . . when you consider the alternative.

So long as enthusiasm lasts, so long you will be young.

A good memory is fine--but the ability to forget is the true test of
greatness.

Great people are not affected by each puff of wind that blows ill.
Like great ships, they sail serenely on, in a calm sea or a great
tempest.

The human eye sees movement before anything else.  His father taught
him that when he was first learning to steal.
                                                 --S. N. LEWITT,
                                                 Cyberstealth, p 124

Power was knowledge, the immediate information on what precisely was
happening and information on who could use that data best.  Who would
remember the favor, would be able to pay it back when you needed it.
Most of all, how to know when to call in your debts.
                                                  --S. N. LEWITT,
                                                  Cyberstealth, p 128

He felt very old, and it wasn't years.  It was knowing how long he
would have to wait, how far the future was that beckoned.
                                               --S. N. LEWITT,
                                               Cyberstealth, p 131

He could fake it.  He could fake anything at all.  Like Old Piluka
said, it was a matter of saying yes to everything and then doing as
you damn well pleased.
                                                --S. N. LEWITT,
                                                Cyberstealth, p 191

[Possessions...] the fragments of a person's life.
                               --S. N. LEWITT,
                               Cyberstealth, p 217

. . .Now the Bishop had become truly old.  And Cargo understood that
his age had nothing to do with years alone, but with years of
disillusionment and shattered plans.
                                                 --S. N. LEWITT,
                                                 Cyberstealth, p 220

Old Piluka had always said that when caught red-handed, the only
thing you could do was brazen it out.
                                             --S. N. LEWITT,
                                             Cyberstealth, p 224

Nothing really matters in the end.
       --D-MOB,
       That's The Way Of The World

Be selective, be objective, be an asset to the collective.
                                           --SOUL II SOUL,
                                           Get A Life

Ya gotta be a little crazy to be sane.

When you truly die, the whole Universe dies with you.

Things were only good for Abu Adil or bad for Abu Adil; if they were
neither, they did not exist.
                                            --GEORGE ALEC EFFINGER,
                                            A Fire In The Sun, p 260

One's last thought should never be "no."

Life is what happens to us while we are making other plans.
                                           --ALLEN SAUNDERS

He who places implicit confidence in his genius will find himself
someday utterly defeated and deserted.
                                              --BENJAMIN DISRAELI

Self is the only prison that can ever bind the soul.
                                    --HENRY VAN DYKE

Thought is only a flash between two long nights, but this flash is
everything.
                                            --JULES HENRI POINCARE

At 19 I was a stranger to myself.  At 40 I asked: Who am I?  At 50 I
concluded I would never know.
                                                   --EDWARD DAHLBERG

What we call progress is the exchange of one nuisance for another
nuisance.
                                                 --HAVELOCK ELLIS

Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet.
                                        --NAPOLEON BONAPARTE

When the flag is unfurled, all reason is in the trumpet.
                                     --Ukrainian proverb

Learn from the mistakes of others, you can never [afford to] live long
enough to make them all yourself.

Believe those who are seeking the truth; doubt those who find it.
                                                     --ANDRE GIDE

Guess if you can, and choose, if you dare.
                        --PIERRE CORNEILLE

Let us be thankful for the fools.  But for them, the rest of us could
not succeed.
                                                         --MARK TWAIN

Our firmist convictions are apt to be the most suspect, they mark our
limitations and bounds.  Life is a petty thing unless it is moved by
the indomitable urge to extend its boundaries.
                                               --JOSE ORTEGA Y GASSET

Tell me what you feel in your room when the full moon is shining in
upon you and your lamp is dying out, and I will tell you how old you
are, and I shall know if you are happy.
                                              --HENRI-FREDERIC AMIEL

What is more unwise than to mistake uncertainty for certainty,
falsehood for truth?
                                                      --CICERO

If a man will begin in certainties he shall end in doubts; but if he
will be content to begin in doubts he shall end in certainties.
                                                     --FRANCIS BACON

When an old man dies, a library burns down.
                          --African proverb

Success is getting what you want; happiness is wanting what you get.

To wish to act like angels while we are still in this world is nothing
but folly.
                                                    --THERESA OF AVILA

He who tells the truth must have one foot in the stirrup.
                                       --Armenian proverb

. . .Only hours left, and everything still to be done.
                              --GORDON R. DICKSON,
                              Mission To Universe, p 1

It was the men only death could stop that ended up in the top
positions.
                                    --GORDON R. DICKSON,
                                    Mission To Universe, p 19

Hope for the best, but prepare for the worst.
                            --English proverb

A dog is a dog unless he is facing you; then he is Mr. Dog.
                                          --Haitian proverb

Too many evil deeds ruin the doer.

Personally I am always ready to learn, although I do not always like
being taught.
                                             --SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL

Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.
                                                   --ARTHUR C. CLARKE

If you cannot convince them, confuse them.
                                  --TRUMAN

In case of doubt, make it sound convincing.

Chaotic Evil means never having to say you're sorry.

Sex, drugs and rock -n- role-playing.

If you're going to walk on thin ice, you might as well dance.

Is the glass half empty, half full, or twice as big as it needs to be?

Those who dance are thought mad by those who hear not the music.

It was enough to know that, whatever the state of the rest of the
country, the blue sky over his own head was the air of freedom.  He
knows that while it is one thing to be a warrior noble and true, it
is another to be a dupe.
                                             --WALTER JON WILLIAMS,
                                             Hardwired, p 67

Hitting the center of a large target is easier than nailing a small
one.
                               --DAVID DRAKE,
                               Hammers Slammers: At Any Price, p 40

Any smoothly functioning technology will have the appearance of magic.
                                                    --ARTHUR C. CLARKE

I either want less corruption, or more chance to participate in it.
                                               --ASHLEIGH BRILLIANT

Where a new invention promises to be useful, it ought to be tried.
                                                --THOMAS JEFFERSON

Tell a man that there are 300 billion stars in the universe, and he'll
believe you....  Tell him that a bench has wet paint upon it and he'll
have to touch it to be sure.

Discovery consists in seeing what everyone else has seen and thinking
what no one else has thought.
                                                --ALBERT SZENT-GYORGI

What makes us so bitter against people who outwit us is that they
think themselves cleverer than we are.

Your imagination, my dear fellow, is worth more that you imagine.
                                                   --LOUIS ARAGON

I don't want to achieve immortality through my work.  I want to
achieve immortality through not dying.
                                                  --WOODY ALLEN

Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to
know how to lie well.

There's no point in burying the hatchet if you're going to put a
marker on the site.

Anarchists of the world, unite!  You have nothing to loose but
your...er...anarchism.
                                                     --R. GEIS

ME, paranoid?  Why do you ask?!
             --VICTOR KOSTRIKIN

Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.
                                           --CARL SAGAN

Imagination is more important than knowledge.
                            --ALBERT EINSTEIN

I disagree with what you say, but will defend to the death your right
to tell such LIES!

No problem is so formidable that you can't just walk away from it.

That which does not kill us makes us stronger.
                          --FRIEDRICH NIETZCHE

It is impossible to make anything foolproof because fools are so
ingenious.

Do unto others before they undo you.

Smile!  It makes people wonder what you've been up to.

By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.

Your mind understands what you have been taught; your heart, what is
true.

It's not reality that's important, but how you perceive things.

Man's horizons are bounded by his vision.

He is truly wise who gains wisdom from another's mishap.

The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.

I know you believe you understand what you think I said, but I'm not
sure you realize what you heard is not what I really meant.

The unreasonable man is the one who expects the world to adapt to his
needs, the reasonable man is the one who adapts himself to suit the
world.  Therefore, all progress depends upon the unreasonable man.
                                                --GEORGE BERNARD SHAW

The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man
who can't read.

It is not what happens to you that determines how far you go in life;
it is what you do with what happens to you.

If you don't say anything, you won't be called upon to repeat it.
                                                --CALVIN COOLIDGE

Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your
life.
                                                         --CONFUCIUS

Even if you are on the right track, you will get run over if you just
sit there.
                                                        --WILL ROGERS

Don't get mad . . . get even.
          --JOSEPH P. KENNEDY

I have not failed 10,000 times.  I have successfully found 10,000 ways
that will not work.
                                                       --THOMAS EDISON

There cannot be a crisis next week, my schedule is already full.
                                               --HENRY KISSINGER

For those who follow their dreams, there is no such thing as failure.

If you have built castles in the sky, your work need not be lost; that
is where they should be.  Now . . . put the foundation under them.
                                                 --HENRY DAVID THOREAU

Pay less attention to what people say and watch what they do.
                                            --ANDREW CARNEGIE

Don't be afraid to take a big step if one is indicated.  You cannot
cross a chasm in two small jumps.
                                               --DAVID LLOYD GEORGE

Success is a journey, not a destination.
                        --ART LINKLETTER

Do not follow where the path may lead.  Go instead where there is no
path and leave a trail.

Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.

People forget how fast you did a job, but they remember how well you
did it.

Don't let the bastards wear you down.
                   --GEORGE S. PATTON

Greater than the tread of mighty armies is an idea whose time has
come.
                                                    --VICTOR HUGO

When you see a situation you cannot understand, look for the financial
interest.

Here is a test to find whether or not your mission on earth is
finished:  If you are alive, it isn't.
                                                --RICHARD BACH

Do not discourage another person's plans unless you have something
better to offer, and maybe not even then.

. . .Individuals don't all access the same data, which means that a
group can cover a greater range.
                                               --S. N. LEWITT,
                                               Blind Justice, p 115

Gorvitz waited, challenging them, drew out the silence until it was
acutely uncomfortable.  His leadership was reaffirmed.
                                               --S. N. LEWITT,
                                               Blind Justice, p 124

What we have is a cooperative system agreed to by near-anarchists,
not a true government.
                                             --KOTANI and ROBERTS,
                                             Delta Pavonis, p 188

A conclusion is the place where you got tired of thinking.
                                            --ARTHUR BLOCK

A fellow who is always declaring he's no fool usually has his
suspicions.
                                              --WILSON MIZNER

A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely
rearranging their prejudices.
                                                 --WILLIAM JAMES

A hungry man is not a free man.
           --ADLAI E. STEVENSON

A hypothetical paradox:  What would happen in a battle between an
Enterprise security team, who always get killed soon after appearing,
and a squad of Imperial Stormtroopers, who can't hit the broad side of
a planet?
                                                        --TOM GALLOWAY

A lack of leadership is no substitute for inaction.

A large brain, like large government, may not be able to do simple
things in a simple way.
                                                  --DONALD O. HEBB

A likely impossibility is always preferable to an unconvincing
possibility.

A little madness in the spring, is wholesome even for the King.
                                              --EMILY DICKINSON

A lost ounce of gold may be found, a lost moment of time never.

A man said to the Universe: "Sir, I exist!"  "However," replied the
Universe, "the fact has not created in me a sense of obligation."
                                                    --STEPHEN CRANE

It is good to appear clement, trustworthy, humane, religious, and
honest, and also to be so.  But always with the mind so disposed that,
when the occasion arises not to be so, you can become the opposite.
                                                --NICCOLO MACHIAVELLI,
                                                The Prince

A man that studieth revenge keeps his own wounds green, which
otherwise would heal and do well.
                                              --FRANCIS BACON

A man who knows that he is a fool is not a great fool.
                                          --CHUANG TZU

A man who seeks truth and loves it must be reckoned precious to any
human society.
                                              --FREDERICK THE GREAT

A man with a clear conscience does not tremble at a midnight knock on
his gate.
                                                    --Chinese proverb

A nation . . . is just a society for hating foreigners.
                                       --OLAF STAPLEDON

A plausible impossibility is always preferable to an unconvincing
possibility.
                                                     --ARISTOTLE,
                                                     Poetics

A wise man changes his mind, a fool never will.
                              --ABRAHAM LINCOLN

A wise person makes his own decisions, a weak one obeys public
opinion.

Always remember that you are unique.  Just like everyone else.

An atheist is a man who has no invisible means of support.
                                             --JOHN BUCHAN

And so it goes.
--KURT VONNEGUT, JR.

Art, like morality, consists of drawing the line somewhere.
                                         --G. K. CHESTERTON

Because the water is still, you must not think there is no crocodile
there.
                                                 --Malaysian proverb

Curses!  May you be forced to grep the termcap of an unclean yacc
while a herd of wild rogue emacs fsck your troff and vgrind your
pathalias!

Direct action produces direct reaction.

Don't worry about people stealing an idea.  If it's original, you will
have to ram it down their throats.
                                                        --HOWARD AIKEN

Don't wrestle a pig in a mud hole.  You both get all dirty, and the
pig enjoys it.

Even the boldest zebra fears the hungry lion.

Expansion means complexity, and complexity decays.

Experience is that marvelous thing that enables you recognize a
mistake when you make it again.
                                                  --F. P. JONES

Falling hurts least those who fly low.
                     --Chinese proverb

Few people are successful unless a lot of other people want them to
be.
                                                   --CHARLES BROWER

Freedom of the press belongs to those that own one.
                                   --A. J. LIEBLING

Give me a fish and I will eat today.  Teach me to fish and I will eat
forever.

God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the
courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the
difference.
                                                  --REINHOLD NIEBUHR

Happiness is not an ideal of reason, but of immagination.
                                          --IMMANUEL KANT

Have the courage to live; anyone can die.
                            --ROBERT CODY

He who believes the past cannot be changed has not yet written his
memoirs.

He who hoots with owls by night cannot soar with eagles by day.

He who is afraid of asking is ashamed of learning.
                                  --Danish proverb

He who laughs, lasts.

He who lives without folly is less wise than he believes.

Heaven and hell is right here, right now. . .  You make it heaven or
you make it hell by your actions.
                                                   --GEORGE HARRISON

Honesty is the first chapter of the book of wisdom.
                                 --THOMAS JEFFERSON

I do not fear computers.  I fear the lack of them.
                                    --ISAAC ASIMOV

I generally avoid temptation unless I can't resist it.

I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.

I hear what you're saying but I just don't care.

I like work; it fascinates me; I can sit and look at it for hours.

I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in
the years of maturity.
                                                  --ALBERT EINSTEIN

I marvel at the strength of human weakness.

I must create a system myself or be enslaved by another man's.
                                                       --BLAKE

I think we're in trouble.

I will defend to your death my right to my opinion.

I'd love to, but I prefer to remain an enigma.

I'd love to, but there are important world issues that need worrying
about.

I'd love to, but you know how we psychos are.

I'm a great believer in luck.  The harder I work the more I have of
it.
                                                 --THOMAS JEFFERSON

I've come for an argument!

If I cannot bend Heaven, I shall move Hell.

If I had only known, I would have been a locksmith.
                                  --ALBERT EINSTEIN

If Patrick Henry thought that taxation without representation was bad,
he should see how bad it is with representation.

If it happens, it must be possible.

If it's a despot you would dethrone, see first that his throne erected
within you is destroyed.
                                                       --KAHLIL GIBRAN

If not controlled, work flows to the competent person until he is
submerged.

If one does not fail at times, then one has not challenged himself.
                                                          --PORSCHE

My job is to throw out ideas; if I throw out a hundred, maybe ten of
them will hit your nervous system and start replicating and get you
talking and thinking.
                                                 --TIMOTHY LEARY,
                                                 Discover, June 1991

If you can't say something nice, say something surrealistic.
                                       --"Zippy The Pinhead"

If you didn't get caught, did you really do it?

If you don't stand for something, you'll fall for everything.
                                             --F. JEFF STILES

If you make people think they're thinking, they'll love you; but if
you really make them think they'll hate you.

Ignorance is when you don't know anything and somebody finds it out.

Imagination is the one weapon in the war against reality.
                                      --JULES DE GAULTIER

In a civilized society, it is the duty of all citizens to obey just
laws.  But at the same time, it is the duty of all citizens to disobey
unjust laws.
                                                  --MARTIN LUTHER KING

In matters of conscience, the law of majority has not place.
                                           --MOHANDAS GANDHI

In which level of metalanguage are you now speaking?

Integrity has no need for rules.

It is a hard matter, my fellow citizens, to argue with the belly,
since it has no ears.
                                                 --CATO THE ELDER

It is better to be deceived by a friend, than to suspect him.

It is better to be hated for what you are than loved for what you are
not.
                                                        --ANDRE GUIDE

It is better to debate a question without settling it than to settle a
question without debating it.

It is better to die on your feet than to live on your knees.
                                           --EMILIANO ZAPATA

It is easier to fight for one's principles than to live up to them.

It is easier to resist at the beginning than at the end.

It is more important that a proposition be interesting than that it be
true.
                                             --ALFRED NORTH WHITEHEAD,
                                             Adventures of Ideas

It is much easier to suggest solutions when you know nothing about the
problem.

It is your concern when your neighbor's wall is on fire.

It pays to be obvious, especially if you have a reputation for
subtlety.

It's amazing how much mature wisdom resembles being too tired.

It's better to be silent and thought a fool than speak and remove all
doubt.
                                                    --ABRAHAM LINCOLN

JESUS SAVES, but Clones 'R' Us makes backups!
                              --WILLIAM LEWIS

Jargon is used as a means of succeeding by not simplifying.

Keep America Beautiful. . .emigrate.

Keep emotionally active.  Cater to your favorite neurosis.

Learn to pause--or nothing worthwhile can catch up to you.

Learned men are the cisterns of knowledge, not the fountainheads.

Let him that would move the world, first move himself.
                                            --SOCRATES

Life is not lost by dying; life is lost minute by minute, day by day,
in all the thousand, small, uncaring ways.
                                                   --STEPHEN V. BENET

Life is to be enjoyed and if it is not, it makes people ill in one way
or another.
                                                        --LOUISE BOGAN

Look afar and see the end from the beginning.

Loyalty to petrified opinion never broke a chain or freed a human
soul.
                                                     --MARK TWAIN

Make every bargain clear and plain, that none may afterward complain.
                                                     --JOHN RAY,
                                                     English Proverbs

Many a small thing has been made large by the right kind of
advertising.
                --MARK TWAIN,
                A Connecticut Yankee at King Arthur's Court

Many hands make light work.

Maybe Computer Science should be in the College of Theology.

Mention money and the whole world is silent.
                            --German proverb

Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.
                                               --ABRAHAM LINCOLN

My interest is in the future because I am going to spend the rest of
my life there.

Never argue with anyone who buys ink by the gallon.

Never ask a question unless the answer makes a difference.

Never insult an alligator until you've crossed the river.

Never leave anything to chance; make sure all your crimes are
premeditated.

No grass grows in the marketplace.
              --HENRY GEORGE BOHN,
              Handbook of Proverbs

No matter how hard you throw a dead fish into the water, it still
won't swim.
                                                 --MARIAN STEVENS

No one can put you down without your full cooperation.

No one ever listened himself out of a job.
                         --CALVIN COOLIDGE

Nobody can give you freedom.
                 --MALCOLM X

Nodding the head does not row the boat.
                        --Irish proverb

Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing.

Now go away or I shall taunt you a second time.
                               --"Monty Python"

Of course I can keep secrets.  It's the people I tell them to that
can't keep them.
                                             --ANTHONY HADEN-GUEST

Of course the US Constitution isn't perfect; but it's a lot better
than what we have now.
                                                   --ERIC SHEPPARD

Often statistics are used as a drunken man uses lamp posts--for
support rather than illumination.

Oh, what tangled webs we weave when we first practice to deceive.
                                               --SIR WALTER SCOTT

Once a word has been allowed to escape, it cannot be recalled.
                                                     --HORACE,
                                                     Epistles

One can always be kind to people about whom one cares nothing.

One family builds a wall, two families enjoy it.

Only constant repetition will finally succeed in imprinting an idea on
the memory of the crowd.
                                                       --ADOLF HITLER,
                                                       Mein Kampf

Only those with nothing to be sorry for smile back at the rear of an
elephant.

Ours is not so much an age of vulgarity as of vulgarization;
everything is tampered with or touched up, or adulterated or watered
down, in an effort to make it palatable, in an effort to make it pay.
                                                --LOUIS KRONENBERGER,
                                                Company Manners

Patience is something that you admire greatly in the driver behind you
but not in the one ahead of you.

Penalties against possession of a drug should not be more damaging to
an individual than the use of the drug itself.
                                                       --JIMMY CARTER

People that are too eager to please are, more often than not, not very
pleasing.
                                                     --MARQUIS DE SADE

Pipe gives wise man time to think and fool something to stick in
mouth.

Pull yourself together; things are not all that bad.

Put your trust in those who are worthy.

Remember always, that you have not only the right to be an individual,
you have the obligation to be one.
                                                   --ELEANOR ROOSEVELT

Some would sooner die than think.  In fact, they often do.
                                        --BERTRAND RUSSELL

Speak the truth but leave immediately after.
                          --Yugoslav proverb

State run lotteries: think of them as tax breaks for the intelligent.
                                                    --EVAN LEIBOVITCH

Strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a
system of government!
                                                  --"Monty Python"

Strike while the iron is hot.

Success isn't how far you got, but the distance you travelled from
where you started.

Succumb to natural tendencies.   Be hateful and boring.

Taxpayers don't have to take a civil service exam to work for the
government.

The absent are always at fault.
              --Spanish proverb

The advantage of doing one's praising for oneself is that one can lay
it on thick and exactly in the right places.
                                                 --SAMUEL BUTLER,
                                                 The Way of All Flesh

The attacker must vanquish; the defender need only survive.

The concept seems to be clear by now.  It has been defined several
times by example of what it is not.

The decision doesn't have to be logical, it was unanimous.

The hand that kindles cannot quench the flame.

The human race has one really effective weapon, and that is laughter.

The important thing is to not stop questioning.
                              --ALBERT EINSTEIN

The individual serves the industrial system not by supplying it with
savings and the resulting capital; he serves it by consuming its
products.
                                           --JOHN KENNETH GALBRAITH,
                                           The New Industrial State

The job's not over until the paperwork's done.

The man who raises a fist has run out of ideas.

The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to
choose from.
                                                            --"IBM"

The only sin is self-hatred.
             --PAUL WILLIAMS

The only way to get rid of temptation is to yield to it.

The radical invents the new ideas, and when he has worn them out the
conservative adopts them.
                                                        --MARK TWAIN

The reason the government thinks you're just a number is because it's
just a machine.

The right to do something does not mean that doing it is right.
                                               --WILLIAM SAFIRE

The solution to a problem changes the nature of the problem.

The structure of a system reflects the structure of the organization
that built it.
                                                   --RICHARD FAIRLEY

The truth is more important than the facts.
                       --FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT

The wise shepherd never trusts his flock to a smiling wolf.

The world isn't worse.  It's just that the news coverage is so much
better.

The young wish to give their elders the full benefits of their
inexperience.

Theater, art, literature, cinema. . .must be cleansed of all
manifestations of our rotting world. . .
                                              --ADOLF HITLER

There is always an easier way to do it.

There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge.
                                         --BERTRAND RUSSELL

There is no force of gravity as such.  Rather, a celestial body merely
pays attention to what it finds in its neighborhood.
                                                     --ALBERT EINSTEIN

There's nothing wrong with Southern California that a rise in the
ocean level wouldn't cure.
                                                 --ROSS MACDONALD

Those who worked the hardest are the last to surrender.
                                            --GARY WARD

Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend.

To climb the ladder of success you must get through the crowd at the
bottom.

To criticize the incompetent is easy; it is more difficult to
criticize the competent.

To give happiness is to deserve happiness.

To laugh at men of sense is the privilege of fools.

To light a candle is to cast a shadow.

To refuse praise is to seek praise twice.

To study a subject best, understand it thoroughly before you start.

Truth is hard to find and harder to obscure.

Two men look out through the same bars; one sees mud, and one the
stars.

Vote Anarchist.

Walk softly and carry a big stick.

We are tied down to a language which makes up in obscurity what it
lacks in style.

We may be alone.  We may not be alone.  Either way, the thought is
staggering.

We must believe in free will.  We have no choice.
                          --ISAAC BASHEVIS SINGER

Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it.  Boldness has genius,
power and magic in it.
                                                              --GOETHE

When money speaks the truth is silent.
                     --Russian proverb

When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however
improbable, must be the truth.
                                         --SIR ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE,
                                         The Sign of Four

Work expands to fill the time available for its completion.

Worth seeing?  Yes, but not worth going to see.

You can fool too many of the people too much of the time.
                                      --JAMES THURBER,
                                      Fables for Our Time

You cannot propel yourself forward by patting yourself on the back.

You have not converted a man because you have silenced him.
                                     --JOHN VISCOUNT MORLEY

You have the power to influence all with whom you come in contact.

Young men think old men are fools; but old men know young men are
fools.

Greed has its own punishment.

Creativity has its own reward.

We are pieces of the Universe that have become self-aware.

Close your eyes, look deep in your soul, step outside yourself, and
let your mind go.  Close your eyes and forget your name, step outside
yourself and let your thoughts stray.
                                                 --SLAYER,
                                                 Seasons In The Abyss

Why don't you think for yourselves?
                 --NUCLEAR ASSAULT,
                 Brainwashed

Welcome to my nightmare.
          --ALICE COOPER

I hurt for you, but not with you.
                 --LIVING COLOUR,
                 Middle Man

What lies behind us and what lies before us are small matters compared
to what lies within us.

It's not how much you know, but how you use it, that impresses those
who know you.

Happy is the person who can laugh at himself.  He will never cease to
be amused.

If hard work is the key to success, most people would rather pick the
lock.

He who is slowest in making a promise is most faithful in its
performance.

Nothing will be attempted if all possible objections must first be
overcome.

Modesty is the art of drawing attention to whatever it is you're being
humble about.

A man travels the world over in search of what he needs and returns
home to find it.

The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance, the wise man grows it
under his feet.

The aim of education is to teach us how to think, not what to think.

The man who lives by himself and for himself is apt to be corrupted by
the company he keeps.

Happy are those who dream dreams and are ready to pay the price to
make them come true.

Like a tree we must find a place to grow and branch out.

Those who bring sunshine to the lives of others cannot keep it from
themselves.

A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence
stops.

You grow up the day you have your first real laugh--at yourself.

Too many people quit looking for work when they find a job.

We are all faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly
disguised as impossible situations.

Concentrate your attention on where you want to go; not away from
where you don't want to be.

Life is a self-fulfilling prophecy; you won't necessarily get what
you want in life, but in the long run you will usually get what you
expect.

Some people see giants as too big to hit.  Others see them as too
big to miss.

An idea is a fragile thing.  Turning it off is much easier than
keeping it lit.

Curiosity is a willing, a proud, an eager confession of ignorance.

One good thing about punctuality is that it's a sure way to help you
enjoy a few minutes of privacy.

An idea can turn to dust or magic, depending on the talent that rubs
against it.

Compromise makes a good umbrella, but a poor roof.

Never tell people how to do things.  Tell them what to do and they
will surprise you with their ingenuity.

The conservative who resists change is as valuable as the radical
who proposes it.

People are judged not on the basis of what they have done, but on the
basis of what they are perceived to have done.

One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly
making exciting discoveries.

Age is a high price to pay for maturity.

On the whole, human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not
quite all the time.

If you wish to make a man your enemy, tell him simply, "You are
wrong."  This method works every time.

Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.

If in the last few years you haven't discarded a major opinion or
acquired a new one, check your pulse.  You may be dead.

A fool's wisdom knows no bounds.

Can I play with madness?
           --IRON MAIDEN

Freedom defined is freedom denied.

Just because everything is different doesn't mean anything has
changed.

When choosing between two evils I always like to take the one I've
never tried before.
                                                        --MAE WEST

Politicians should read science fiction, not westerns and detective
stories.
                                                 --ARTHUR C. CLARKE

We are what we pretend to be.
         --KURT VONNEGUT, JR.

We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.
                                                     --OSCAR WILDE

In the province of the mind, what one believes to be true either is
true or becomes true.
                                                       --JOHN LILLY

The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is
comprehensible.
                                            --ALBERT EINSTEIN

To know the world one must construct it.
                         --CESARE PAVESE

Civilization is a movement, not a condition; it is a voyage, not a
harbor.
                                                         --TOYNBEE

There are things that are so serious that you can only joke about
them.
                                                     --HEISENBERG

Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.
                                                --ALBERT EINSTEIN

How often I found where I should be going only by setting out for
somewhere else.
                                          --R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER

Place your clothes and weapons where you can find them in the dark.
                                                  --ROBERT HEINLEIN

A committee is a cul-de-sac down which ideas are lured and then
quietly strangled.

Mad: Affected with a high degree of intellectual independence. . .

Misfortune: The kind of fortune that never misses.

. . .It has been observed that one's nose is never so happy as when
it is thrust into the affairs of another, from which some
physiologists have drawn the inference that the nose is devoid of the
sense of smell.
                                                     --AMBROSE BIERCE

In Dr. Johnson's famous dictionary patriotism is defined as the last
resort of the scoundrel.  With all due respect to an enlightened but
inferior lexicographer I beg to submit that it is the first.
                                                    --AMBROSE BIERCE

It is bad luck to be superstitious.
                 --ANDREW W. MATHIS

The probability of someone watching you is proportional to the
stupidity of your action.

You must realize that the computer has it in for you. The irrefutable
proof of this is that the computer always does what you tell it to
do.

A diplomat is someone who can tell you to go to hell in such a way
that you will look forward to the trip.

Left to themselves, things tend to go from bad to worse.

The man who smiles when things go wrong has thought of someone to
blame it on.

In America, it's not how much an item costs, it's how much you save.

I was gratified to be able to answer promptly, and I did.  I said I
didn't know.
                                                       --MARK TWAIN

Hindsight is an exact science.

It is easier to get forgiveness than permission.

You deserve the gods you worship.

I smell memory leakage.  Someone around here is not paying
attention.

A man who fears suffering is already suffering from what he fears.
                                                       --MONTAIGNE

Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it.
                                         --HORACE

A lie in time saves nine.

Don't tell any big lies today.  Small ones can be just as effective.

Isn't the best defense always a good attack?
                                      --OVID

Anything worth doing, is worth doing for a profit!
                                        --TERICIUS

The speed of the leader determines the rate of the pack.

Trust only those who stand to lose as much as you when things go
wrong.

Never tell a lie. . .unless lying is one of your strong points.

Glory may be fleeting, but obscurity is forever.

Words must be weighed, not counted.

Do not clog intellect's sluices with knowledge of questionable uses.

Remember, to them it is us who are the enemy.
                              --N. F. SIMPSON

Choose your friends carefully.  Your enemies will choose you!
                                                  --Y. ARAFAT

The universe does not give first warnings.  Or second chances.

Reality is achieved by the indefinite enumeration of objects.

At the moment of meeting, the parting begins.

Inside every big problem is a small problem trying to get out.

The hour which gives us life begins to take it away.
                                            --SENECA

An opinion is what you have when you don't have any facts.

When you have the facts, you don't need an opinion.

Conscience is the inner voice that warns us somebody is looking.

Self abuse is the sincerest kind.

Everyone complains of his memory, no one of his judgment.

The gent who wakes up and finds himself a success hasn't been asleep.

It's a poor workman who blames his tools.

Shared pain is lessened; shared joy is increased.

Good information is hard to get.  Doing anything with it is even
harder.

When you are in it up to your ears, keep your mouth shut.

Always listen to experts.  They'll tell what can't be done and why.
Then do it.

Bad is never good until worse happens.
                      --Danish proverb

It shows want of knowledge that must be the result of years of study.

One man's theology is another man's belly laugh.

Where do "cannot" and "must" meet on the graph?
                                --ROBOT MONSTER

It isn't what you know that counts, it's what you think of in time.

Is everybody happy?
      --MACHIAVELLI

Some men are discovered; others are found out.

Even the smallest candle burns brighter in the dark.

The best prophet of the future is the past.

Like winter snow on summer lawn, time past is time gone.

You have to know what you're looking for before you can find it.

Animals are people too.

There are a lot of crazy people working for the government that call
you up and give you secrets.
                                                 --BEN BRADLEE,
                                                 The Washington Post

Hmm, but how could I use that knowledge to work for me?
                                    --"In Living Color"

We are all brothers in the eyes of God.
                --"High Plains Drifter"

You have a right to kill me.  But you have no right to judge me.
                                              --"Apocalypse Now"

Weebles wobble but they don't fall down.

The first rule of intelligent tinkering is to save all the parts.
                                                    --PAUL ERLICH

Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains.
                                   --JEAN ROSSEAU

Truth exists, only falsehood has to be invented.
                                --GEORGES BRAQUE

There are truths which can kill a nation.
                         --JEAN GIRAUDOUX

It is a mistake to allow any mechanical object to realize that you
are in a hurry.

People will believe anything if you whisper it.

When in doubt, predict that the present trend will continue.

Progress does not consist of replacing a theory that is wrong with
one that is right. It consists of replacing a theory that is wrong
with one that is more subtly wrong.

When you've got them by the balls, their hearts and minds will
follow.

No man's life, liberty, or property are safe while the legislature
is in session.

Needs are a function of what other people have.

Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want
and deserve to get it good and hard.

Why are you humans so primative?

Any human organization can be rendered useless, impotent, a danger
to itself, by selectively removing its best minds while carefully
leaving the stupid ones in place.
                                             --ROBERT A. HEINLEIN,
                                             Friday, p 37