04-04-2008, 07:04 PM
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A bizarre sensation pervades a relationship of pretense. No truth seems true. A simple morning's greeting and response appear loaded with innuendo and fraught with implications. Each nicety becomes more sterile and each withdrawal more permanent. --------------- Achievement brings its own anticlimax. --------------- All great achievements require time. --------------- All men are prepared to accomplish the incredible if their ideals are threatened. --------------- Any book that helps a child to form a habit of reading, to make reading one of his deep and continuing needs, is good for him. --------------- As far as I knew white women were never lonely, except in books. White men adored them, Black men desired them and Black women worked for them. --------------- At fifteen life had taught me undeniably that surrender, in its place, was as honorable as resistance, especially if one had no choice. --------------- Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. But anger is like fire. It burns it all clean. --------------- Children's talent to endure stems from their ignorance of alternatives. --------------- Courage is the most important of all the virtues, because without courage you can't practice any other virtue consistently. You can practice any virtue erratically, but nothing consistently without courage. --------------- Education helps one case cease being intimidated by strange situations. |
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04-05-2008, 12:40 PM
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Associate yourself with people of good quality, for it is better to be alone than in bad company. --------------- Character is power. --------------- Character, not circumstances, makes the man. --------------- Few things can help an individual more than to place responsibility on him, and to let him know that you trust him. --------------- I have learned that success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has had to overcome while trying to succeed. --------------- I let no man drag me down so low as to make me hate him. --------------- I will permit no man to narrow and degrade my soul by making me hate him. --------------- No man, who continues to add something to the material, intellectual and moral well-being of the place in which he lives, is left long without proper reward. --------------- Nothing ever comes to one, that is worth having, except as a result of hard work. |
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04-05-2008, 01:28 PM
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A man needs the sexual conquest to prove that he can still do it, that he can still get it up. It's like having a duel with himself. He has to prove it all the time. We don't have to prove it.
Princess Elizabeth of Yugoslavia 
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04-06-2008, 02:24 AM
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"Expert Opinions"
Being an expert means never having to admit you're wrong. Here are some memorable examples of "expert opinion," quoted in a book called The Experts Speak, by Christopher Cerf and Victor Navasky. On health: "If excessive smoking actually plays a role in the product- ion of lung cancer, it seems to be a minor one." --The National Cancer Institute, 1954 "How do we know? Fallout may be good for us." --Edward Teller, 1950 On film: "The cinema is little more than a fad. It's canned drama. I'm going to get out of this business. It's too much for me. It'll never catch on." --Charlie Chaplin, 1914 "Gone with the Wind is going to be the biggest flop in the history of Hollywood. I'm just glad it'll be Clark Gable who's falling flat on his face and not Gary Cooper." --Gary Cooper, 1938 "You'd better learn secretarial work or else get married." --Emmeline Snively (modeling agent) to Marilyn Monroe, 1944 On technology: "Rail travel at high speed is not possible, because passengers, unable to breathe, would die of asphyxiation." --Dr. Dionysus Lardener, 1845 "Heavier-than-air flying machines are impossible." --William Thomson, President of the Royal Society, 1890 On computers: "I think there is a world market for about five computers." --Thomas J. Watson, Chairman of IBM, 1943 "There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in their home." --Ken Olson, President, Digital Equipment Corporation, 1977 On politics: "If Richard Nixon is impeached, there will be mass suicides, mass nervous breakdowns, and total demoralization of the country." --Helen Buffington, Committee to Re-Elect the President, 1974 
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04-06-2008, 01:11 PM
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Biology has at least 50 more interesting years. --------------- One could not be a successful scientist without realizing that, in contrast to the popular conception supported by newspapers and mothers of scientists, a goodly number of scientists are not only narrow-minded and dull, but also just stupid. --------------- Take young researchers, put them together in virtual seclusion, give them an unprecedented degree of freedom and turn up the pressure by fostering competitiveness. --------------- Today, the theory of evolution is an accepted fact for everyone but a fundamentalist minority, whose objections are based not on reasoning but on doctrinaire adherence to religious principles"
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