From cate3@netcom.com Wed Nov 8 09:35:46 1995
From: cate3@netcom.com
Subject: Life F.C
To: jwry.dli@netcom.com
Reply-to: cate3@netcom.com
Date: 12 Sep 94 12:16:14 PDT (Monday)
Subject: Life F.C
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From: joann@ariadne.SLAC.Stanford.EDU (Jo Ann Malina)
The universe is made of stories, not atoms.
--Muriel Rukeyser
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From: davefitz@u.cc.utah.edu (Dave Fitzjarrell)
There once was a group called rec.humor
Got infested with a cancerous.tumor
"LIBERATION!!" Cried some,
Others said "He's Fun!"
But, who gave that chimpanzee a computer?
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From: rmc6741@utarlg.uta.edu (COLLINS,RANDY,MELVIN)
"Of course I shall go astray often...for who does not make mistakes?...but I
cannot go far wrong for I have seen the truth."
-Tostoevsky
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From: rmc6741@utarlg.uta.edu (COLLINS,RANDY,MELVIN)
"God knows, when I go to the theater I don't want to emerge from it as exactly
the same person. I want to be made to think about something, I want to be
changed in some way - at least be forced to reconsider my perceptions. Because
life is very short. Why waste your time?"
Edward Albee
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From: rmc6741@utarlg.uta.edu (COLLINS,RANDY,MELVIN)
"I don't think I stopped being a danger to myself until I was 30."
--Carol Sanoff
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The basic notion underlying USENET is the flame.
-- Chuq Von Rospach
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A problem is a chance for you to do your best.
-- Duke Ellington
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We have forty million reasons for failure, but not a single excuse.
-- Rudyard Kipling
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Planning is bringing the future into the present so you can do something about
it now.
-- Alan Lakein
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"Sometimes our light goes out but is blown again into flame by an encounter
with another human being. Each of us owes the deepest thanks to those who have
rekindled this inner light."
Albert Schwitzer
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From: jeff@netboss1.trg.saic.com (Jeff Shepherd)
A man may be in as just possession of truths as of a city, and yet be forced to
surrender.
-- Sir Thomas Browne
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From: jeff@netboss1.trg.saic.com (Jeff Shepherd)
No matter how far you have gone on the wrong road, turn back.
-- Turkish Proverb
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From: jeff@netboss1.trg.saic.com (Jeff Shepherd)
There is no such whetstone, to sharpen a good wit and encourage a will to
learning, as is praise.
-- Roger Ascham
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From: jeff@netboss1.trg.saic.com (Jeff Shepherd)
Charm is more than beauty.
-- Yiddish Proverb
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From: ahm@alpha.smi.med.pitt.edu (Ahmad Hashem)
"Medical teachers know that half of what they teach is untrue -- the trouble is
they don't know which half."
--Attributed to Dr. C.S. Burwell, formerly Dean, Harvard Medical School
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... If at first you don't succeed, skydiving isn't for you.
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From: kcd@brewers.cray.com (Kevin Dekan {x66440 CF/DEV})
"I believe a little incompatibility is the spice of life, particularly if he
has income and she is pattable."
--Ogden Nash
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In the end all forms of death can be classified as heart failure.
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From: jeff@trg.saic.com (Jeff Shepherd)
It's so simple to be wise. Just think of something stupid to say and say the
opposite.
-- Sam Levenson
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From: tomcheng@soda.berkeley.edu (Thomas T. Cheng)
Plan for the future -- you're going to spend the rest of your life there.
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From: tomcheng@soda.berkeley.edu (Thomas T. Cheng)
Attribution: Orwell, George
Quote: Who controls the present controls the past.
Who controls the past controls the future.
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From: tomcheng@soda.berkeley.edu (Thomas T. Cheng)
Attribution: Roosevelt, Franklin Delano
Quote: We must not build the future for our youth. We must build our youth for
the future.
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From: smoot@bugs-bunny.cs.berkeley.edu (Steve Smoot)
Ben Bova (1979, writing on male vs female authorship of SF) in the intro to
_Eyes of Amber_ by Joan Vinge
"When all the demonstrations are over, when all the minority groups have
exhausted themselves and finally learned that they are parts of a society and
they must help to make that society work, not pull it apart, the verities of
human behavior will remain."
In other words "Cant we all just get along?" ;-)
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From: faber@loon.cs.wisc.edu (Ted)
"Never judge someone by who he's in love with; judge him by his friends. People
fall in love with the most appalling people. Take a cool, appraising glance at
his pals." -- Cynthia Heimel
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From: burrw2362@cobra.uni.edu
Q: Why did Bill Clinton cross the road?
A: To meet the chick.
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From: don.custer@delta.com (Don Custer)
A man learns to skate by staggering about making a fool of himself; indeed, he
progresses in all things by making a fool of himself.
--George Bernard Shaw
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Acquire new knowledge whilst thinking over the old, and you may become a
teacher of others.
--Confucius
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Men learn while they teach.
--Seneca
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Wear your learning like your watch, in a private pocket, and do not pull it out
and strike it merely to show that you have one.
--Lord Chesterfield
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He who adds not to his learning diminishes it.
--The Talmud
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I've known countless people who were reservoirs of learning yet never had a
thought.
--Wilson Mizner
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There is more to life than increasing its speed.
--Gandhi, Mohandas K.
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Our life is frittered away by detail ... simplify, simplify.
--Henry David Thoreau
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All men should strive to learn before they die what they are running from, and
to, and why.
--James Thurber
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All sorrows can be borne if you tell a story about them.
--Karen Blixen
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There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a
miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.
--Albert Einstein
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Many years ago a very wise man named Bernard Baruch took me aside and put his
arm around my shoulder. "Harpo my boy," he said, "I'm going to give you three
pieces of advice, three things you should always remember." My heart jumped and
I glowed with expectation. I was going to hear the magic password to a rich,
full life from the master himself. "Yes sir?" I said. And he told me the three
things. I regret that I've forgotten what they were.
--Harpo Marx
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There are two things to aim at in life: first, to get what you want; and after
that to enjoy it. Only the wisest of mankind achieve the second.
--Logan Pearsall Smith
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Gullibility is the key to all adventures. The greenhorn is the ultimate victor
in everything; it is he that gets the most out of life.
--G. K. Chesterton
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Don't be afraid your life will end; be afraid that it will never begin.
--Grace Hansen
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The idea is to die young as late as possible.
--Ashley Montagu
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"Things come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle."
-Abraham Lincoln
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I'm a sort of a millionaire. I don't own a steam-yacht, or a Rolls-Royce, or a
string of racehorses - yet. But for many years past, I've been a book
millionaire. That, in a couple of words, is what a public library system has
meant to me.
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From: jeff@netboss1.trg.saic.com (Jeff Shepherd)
Democracy is the art and science of running the circus from the monkey cage.
-- H.L. Mencken
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BONUS QUOTE:
Winners can tell you where they are going, what they plan to do along the way
and who will be sharing the adventure with them.
-- Denis Waitley
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From: joann@ariadne.SLAC.Stanford.EDU (Jo Ann Malina)
When preparing to travel, make two piles: one of the things you are planning to
take, the other of money. Now reduce the first by half and double the second.
-- George Towner
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From: raghu@cimage.com (Raghu Raghunathan)
"Every child comes into this world with the message that God is not yet tired
of mankind"
- Rabindranath Tagore.
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From: cabo!gosner@koko.pa.dec.com (George Osner)
"Laughter is, after speech, the chief thing that holds society together."
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@A: Russell, Bertrand (1872-1970) *
@Q: I have a certain hesitation in starting my biography too soon for fear of
something important having not yet happened. Suppose I should end my days as
President of Mexico; the biography would seem incomplete if it did not mention
this fact.
@D: [1930.11] Letter to Stanley Unwin
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From: wayneday@gwis.circ.gwu.edu (Dwayne Day) writes:
"That's one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind." were indeed the
first words spoken when he set foot on the surface. Those were actually the
_last_ words Armstrong said _before_ he set foot on the surface.
The first words he said from the surface were along the lines of, "The soil is
loose and sandy. I can kick it around with my toe." (Anyone have a transcript
for the exact quote?)
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From: gls@hrcms.ATT.COM (The REAL Colonel)
This (from memory) is attributed to "Colonel" Harlan Sanders, the founder of
Kentucky Fried Chicken:
"It's no good being the richest man in the cemetery. You can't do any business
from there."
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