A basic law of technology
that you only get smart results from smart tools when they're used by smart people.
A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.
Lao-tzu
A jury verdict has nothing to do with guilt or innocence, but with whether the prosecution presented a
good case or a bad case.And the goodness or badness of the case has more to do with the
prejudices of the jurors that the excellence of the case presentation
A just government is one that supports a free economy
A lawyer should never ask a question to which he does not already know the answer
A police state is a country run by criminals
"A wise man will make haste to forgive, because he knows the true value of time, and will not suffer it to pass away in unnecessary pain."
Samuel Johnson
All politics is local
All the things I want to do are either immoral, illegal or fattening! Alexander Wollcott
Amateurs study patterns, professionals study logistics
An essential aspect of creativity is not being afraid to fail
An unjust law is no law
St. Augustine
And, how big of an army does the Pope have, anyway? Joseph Stalin
Anyone who's ever seen a battle, even for a day, would not willingly choose to see one again, even for an hour
Argue the law if the facts are against you, argue the facts if the law is against you; and if they're BOTH against you, attack the people
Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me
For both nursing homes and cemetaries, an educated
consumer is the best customer. Remember,
you'll spend an eternity in one and what seems like an eternity in the other
Freedom of the press is a flaming sword! Use it justly . . . hold it high . . . guard it well.
Friendship is a plant of slow growth and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation.
George Washington
"I cannot forecast to you the action of Russia. It is a riddle, wrapped in a mystery, inside an enigma; but perhaps there is a key. That key is Russian national interest."
A form of Winston Churchill's quotation, made in a radio broadcast in October 1939
I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason and intellect has intended us to forgo their use.
Galileo Galilei
I know that you believe you understand what you think I said, but I’m not sure you realize that what you heard is not what I meant.
I would give 20 years of mediocrity for 20 seconds of spectacular
I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it.
- Thomas Jefferson
Id tibi praebet speciem lepidissimam!
— It looks great on you!
If a man gives to another silver, gold or anything else to safeguard, whatsover he gives he shall show to witnesses and he shall arrange the contracts before he makes the deposits
Code of Hammurabi
If it ain't broke, don't fix it
If Mickey Mouse could fly, he'd be Donald Duck
"If knowledge can create problems, it is not through ignorance that we can solve them."
Isaac Asimov
If the Lord can see his way clear to bless the Republican Party the way it's been carrying on, the rest of us ought to get in without even asking for it
If you are going to kill a man, it costs nothing to be polite about it
If you can do it, it isn't bragging
If you don't want to hear the answer, you shouldn't ask the question
If you see it, you can hit it, and if you can hit it, you can kill it
If you want something done right, do it yourself
If you want to destroy a nation, you do NOT get the benefit of its protections
In an uncertain world, precious metals retain their value
In insulation from consequence, there is safety and security
In martial arts, one must never draw a sword unless one plans to use it
Internists know everything but do nothing; surgeons know nothing but do
everything and pathologists know everything, but a day too late
It is better to ask forgiveness than seek permission
It is better to be judged by twelve than to be carried by six
It is better to be thought wise than to speak and remove all doubt
"It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation."
Herman Melville
It is better to have it and not need it than to need it and not have it
"It is better to suffer wrong than to do it, and happier to be sometimes cheated than not to trust."
- Samuel Johnson
It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends on his not understanding it.
"It is not our affluence, or our plumbing, or our clogged freeways that
grip the imagination of others. Rather, it is the values upon which our
system is built. These values imply our adherence not only to liberty
and individual freedom, but also to international peace, law and order,
and constructive social purpose. When we depart from these values, we
do so at our peril."
James William Fulbright
"It is inevitable that some defeat will enter even the most victorious life. The human spirit is never finished when it is defeated...it is finished when it surrenders."
Ben Stein
Attorney, Professor, Writer, and Actor
It is not right to pass responsibility to someone else just because it hurts
"It's grounds for suspicion"
Rosa Sanchez (High Profile by Robert B. Parker)
It's not the destination but the journey that's important
It's not the kill but the thrill of the chase
Deep Purple
It is not the strongest of the species that survive nor
the most intelligent, but those most adaptive to change
It is the tragedy of the world that no one knows what he doesn't know-and the less a man knows, the more sure he is that he knows everything
It's what you learn after you know it all that counts
Television news is designed to give people the impression that they know what's going on, while simultaneously guaranteeing that they
don't start thinking about
anything important
The ability to improvise is the defining quality of sentience
The best medical care costs no more than the cheapest nuclear submarine
The body will heal once the mind is convinced that healing is possible
The Constitution only guarantees the American people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself.”
Benjamin Franklin
The cruelest lie is a truth left untold
The difference between interested and committed is this:
When making ham and eggs, the chicken is interested but the pig is committed
The downfall of any physician is belief in his own magic
The enemy of my enemy is my friend
The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams
The human mind has an amazing capacity for rationalization
The idea is to have a really good time; or get so drunk that you think you did.
"The liberties of a people never were, nor ever will be, secure when the transactions of their rulers may be concealed from them."
Patrick Henry
The longest journey begins with a single step
Chinese proverb
The marraige ceremony is the visible symbol of
commitment
The more you learn, the more you need to learn
The moving finger writes; and having writ, moves on, nor all your piety nor wit shall lure it back to cancel half a line, nor all your tears wash out a word of it.
The mystery of our time is the inability of decent people
to get angry
The new golden rule: He who has the gold makes the
rules
The only thing we have to
fear is Bush himself
The personality and the ego scream, while the soul
whispers
The problem with doing nothing is not knowing when you're finished.
The sicker the man, the slicker the lie. the slicker the man, the sicker the lie
The sole purpose of diplomacy is to prolong a crisis Commander Spock
The story's the thing
The ugliest truth, in the end,is better than the
prettiest lie
The very purpose of existence is to reconcile the glowing opinion we have of ourselves with the appalling things that other people think about us.
- Quentin Crisp
"The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, but wiser people so full of doubts."
- Bertrand Russell
There are two tragedies in life: One is not to get your heart's desire; the other is to get it
There is no limit to what a man can accomplish if he
doesn't care who gets the credit
"There is no question of defence. I have always acted in accordance with the dictates of my conscience. I have nothing with which to reproach myself."
There's nothing to it,
Just do it!
There must be retribution for evil or evil will reign
There will always be something new to be discovered
"They can because they think they can."
Virgil
Three out of the four voices in my head say "Go For It!"
This is the way I think the world will end-with general giggling by all tecwitty heads, who think it is a joke.
Kierkegaard
This is the way the world ends; not with a bang but a whimper
"Those who are believed to be most abject and humble are usually most ambitious and envious."
Benedict Spinoza
“Those who desire to give up freedom in order to gain security will not have, nor do they deserve, either one.”
- Benjamin Franklin
To be human is to be imperfect
To prophesy is extremely difficult, especially about the future
To thine own self be true, and it must follow, as night the day, thou canst not then be false to any man
Shakespeare
Truth is the first casualty of law (and war)
Two dogs are sitting at a
computer. One says to the other; "On the Internet, no one knows you're a dog"
War is merely an extension of politics by other means.
"WAR IS PEACE; FREEDOM IS SLAVERY; IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH." George Orwell
We have the best politicians money can buy
We'll show the world we are prosperous, even if we
have to go broke to do it
What cannot be controlled must be accepted
What works hurts; what doesn't hurt doesn't work.
What made science possible was not the rise not of reason but of technology
Whatever goes around comes around
When asked what he'd do if he won the election for mayor of New York, William Buckley said, 'Demand a recount!'
When the going gets tough, the tough get going, to where te going is easier When you are up to your ass in alligators, sometimes you can forget that your primary purpose is to drain the swamp
When you hear the bullet, you know it missed you
When you worry, you define your weakness, and when you dream, you define
your goals
"Why don't they pass a constitutional amendment prohibiting
anybody from learning anything? If it works as well as
prohibition did, in five years Americans would be the smartest
race of people on Earth."
--Will Rogers.
You can't expect to get the right answer unless you ask the right question
You can't hate someone whose story you know
You can't live a perfect day without doing something for someone who will never be able to repay you.
John Wooden
You don't have to like it, you just have to do it
You have got to dance with them what brung ya
You have to decide whether or not the goal is worth the risks. If it is, stop worrying
You learn from others mistakes if you're smart; from your own if you're lucky
You learn more from failure than from success
You never know what is enough unless you know what is more than enough
You scratch my back; I scratch your back. That's the way the world works
quid pro quo
You're like a penny, impossible to change
You've got to make your life, not just let it happen
Your work is both original and excellent. Unfortunately, the parts that are original are not excellent and the parts that are excellent are not original
Samuel Johnson
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