"Be not afraid of greatness: some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them." -- William Shakespeare "Nothing can so pierce the soul as the uttermost sigh of the body." -- George Santayana "Surely the glory of journalism is its transience." -- Malcolm Muggeridge

You can only protect your liberties in this world by protecting the other man's freedom. You can only be free if I am. -- Clarence Darrow (1857-1938) American lawyer "The truth of the matter is that you always know the right thing to do. The hard part is doing it." - - Norman Schwartzkopf

"The miracle, or the power, that elevates the few is to be found in their industry, application, and perseverance under the prompting of a brave, determined spirit." -- Mark Twain

"A country that has sold its soul for cement and petrol, and can only be saved by a series of earthquakes." -- Cyril Connolly, 1903-1974 "If there is a Hell, Rome is built on top of it." --German saying

"To know is nothing at all; to imagine is everything." --Anatole France You don't promote the cause of peace by talking only to people with whom you agree. --Dwight David Eisenhower Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; begin it well and serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense. --Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) American essayist and poet It is easier to get forgiveness than permission. --unknown

"Conceit is bragging about yourself. Confidence means you believe you can get the job done." -- Johnny Unitas

Plans are only good intention unless they immediately degenerate into hard work. -- Peter F. Drucker, German-American business consultant "Dreams come true; without that possibility, nature would not incite us to have them." -- John Updike Fredrich Wilhelm Nietzsche said, "If ye would go up high, then use your own legs! Do not get yourselves carried aloft; do not seat yourselves on other people's backs and heads!"

"Live as if your were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever." -- Gandhi "Here is the test to find whether your mission on Earth is finished: if you're alive, it isn't." -- Richard Bach "All life is an experiment." -- Ralph Waldo Emerson Let me never fall into the vulgar mistake of dreaming that I am persecuted whenever I am contradicted. --Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) American essayist and poet

It is easier to suppress the first desire than to satisfy all that follow it. -- Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790) American statesman, scientist "In the spider-web of facts, many a truth is strangled." -- Paul Eldridge "Reporters thrive on the world's misfortune. For this reason they often take an indecent pleasure in events that dismay the rest of humanity." -- Russell Baker "Guns don't kill people. I do." -- Bumper Sticker

Love and kindness are never wasted. They always make a difference. They bless the one who receives them, and they bless you, the giver. --Barbara De Angelis ,American Relationship Author "Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all." -- Dale Carnegie "Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present." -- Roger Babson "Us sing and dance, make faces and give flower bouquets, trying to be loved. You ever notice that trees do everything to git attention we do, except walk?" -- Alice Walker

"Nothing splendid was ever created in cold blood. Heat is required to forge anything. Every great accomplishment is the story of a flaming heart." -- Arnold H. Glasgow As soon as men decide that all means are permitted to fight an evil, then their good becomes indistinguishable from the evil that they set out to destroy. -- Christopher Dawson (1889-1970) English historian Don't join the book burners. Don't think you are going to conceal thoughts by concealing evidence that they ever existed. -- Dwight D. Eisenhower Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; begin it well and serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense. --Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) American essayist and poet

"Don't refuse to go on an occasional wild goose chase. That's what wild geese are for." Anonymous "In order for you to profit from your mistakes, you have to get out and make some." Anonymous "You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation." Plato "It's never too late to have a happy childhood." Tom Robbins, from Still Life with Woodpecker

If a woman has to choose between catching a fly ball and saving an infant's life, she will choose to save the infant's life without even considering if there are men on base. -- Dave Barry =========================================== Never raise your hands to your kids. It leaves your groin unprotected. =========================================== Lazlo's Chinese Relativity Axiom: No matter how great your triumphs or how tragic your defeats--approximately one billion Chinese couldn't care less. =========================================== Misers aren't much fun to live with, but they make great ancestors.

Nature is too thin a screen; the glory of the omnipresent God bursts through everywhere. --Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) American essayist and poet The rapprochement of peoples is only possible when differences of culture and outlook are respected and appreciated rather than feared and condemned, when the common bond of human dignity is recognized as the essential bond for a peaceful world. --William Fulbright, (1905-1995) American politician Taxation WITH representation isn't so hot, either! --Extreme Bumper Stickers "I never could have done what I have done without the habits of punctuality, order, and diligence, without the determination to concentrate myself on one subject at a time..." -- Charles Dickens

"Progress lies not in enhancing what is, but in advancing toward what will be." -- Kahlil Gibran "Few of us have vitality enough to make any of our instincts imperious." -- George Bernard Shaw "What does not kill me makes me stronger." -- Friedrich Nietzsche What progress we are making. In the Middle Ages they would have burned me. Now they are content with burning my books. --Sigmund Freud, (1856-1939) Psychoanalyst

"I appreciate the fact that this draft was done in haste, but some of the sentences that you are sending out in the world to do your work for you are loitering in taverns or asleep beside the highway." -- Dr. Dwight Van de Vate, Professor of Philosophy, University of Tennessee at Knoxville ...crisis simultaneously loosens the stereotypes and provides incremental data necessary for a fundamental paradigm shift. --Thomas Kuhn, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions "Make voyages. Attempt them. There's nothing else." -- Tennessee Williams

"You cannot hold back a good laugh any more than you can the tide. Both are forces of nature." -- William Rotsler "You can pretend to be serious but you can't pretend to be witty." -- Sacha Guitry "Among those whom I like or admire, I can find no common denominator, but among those whom I love, I can: all of them make me laugh." --W.H. Auden," The Dyer's Hand

"We are not retreating - we are advancing in another direction." -- General Douglas MacArthur It is the ability to take a joke, not make one, that proves you have a sense of humor. --Max Forrester Eastman (1883-1969) American writer & editor The decision doesn't have to be logical, it was unanimous. --Unknown "A difference which makes no difference is not a difference." -- Mr. Spock "Open up my head and let me out!" -- Dave Matthew's Band "There is no happiness for people at the expense of other people." -- Anwar Sadat

Unless each day can be looked back upon by an individual as one in which he has had some fun, some joy, some real satisfaction, that day is a loss. --Dwight David Eisenhower "Politics is the skilled use of blunt objects." -- Lester B. Pearson "Her own mother lived the latter years of her life in the horrible suspicion that electricity was dripping invisibly all over the house." -- James Thurber "All the world's a cage." -- Jeanne Phillips: "Well done is better than well said." -- Benjamin Franklin A putt that stops close enough to the cup to inspire such comments as "you could blow it in" may be blown in. This rule does not apply if the ball is more than three inches from the hole, because no one wants to make a travesty of the game. -- Donald A. Metz

No man can put a chain about the ankle of his fellow man without at last finding the other end fastened about his own neck. -- Frederick Douglass, (1817-1895) American abolitionist "The empires of the future are the empires of the mind." -- Winston Churchill

"If you want to achieve excellence, you can get there today. As of this second, quit doing less-than-excellent work." -- Thomas Watson

"Finish with every day and be done with it .... some blunders and absurdities no doubt creep in; but get rid of them and forget them as soon as you can .... You should not waste a moment of today on the rottenness of yesterday." --Dr Paul Faulkner

"Remember, today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday." -- Dale Carnegie Next to being shot at and missed, nothing is really quite as satisfying as an income tax refund. --F.J. Raymond He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would fully suffice. --Albert Einstein The mind has power. Many minds of the same though have great power So I say to you that this time of sorrow shall indeed take place. But out of the ashes shall rise the new World of Reason. --Aradia di Toscano "Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no self." -- Cyril Connolly "One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man." -- Elbert Hubbard "Not even computers will replace committees, because committees buy computers." -- Edward Shepherd Mead

"Remember, you can't steal second if you don't take your foot off first." --Mike Todd It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change. -- Charles Darwin (1809-1882) English naturalist The mind has power. Many minds of the same though have great power So I say to you that this time of sorrow shall indeed take place. But out of the ashes shall rise the new World of Reason. --Aradia di Toscano So long as they don't get violent, I want to let everyone say what they wish, for I myself have always said exactly what pleased me. --Albert Einstein

"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled." -- Richard Feynman "I'm too shy to express my sexual needs except over the phone to people I don't know." -- Garry Shandling "Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read." -- Groucho Marx

"Nothing is as real as a dream. The world can change around you, but your dream will not. Responsibilities need not erase it. Duties need not obscure it. Because the dream is within you, no one can take it away." -- Tom Clancy "Fools admire, but men of sense approve." -- Alexander Pope "Truth is generally the best vindication against slander." -- Abraham Lincoln, letter to Secretary of War Edwin Stanton, July 18, 1864 "Never give advice unless asked." -- German Proverb Be glad for life because it gives you the chance to love and to work and to look up at the stars. --Henry Van Dyke

There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done at all. - Peter F. Drucker, German-American business consultant Why does a 'slight tax increase' cost you two hundred dollars and a 'substantial tax cut' save you thirty cents? --Peg Bracken

"A celebrity is a person who works hard all his life to become well known, then wears dark glasses to avoid being recognized." -- Fred Allen "He hasn't an enemy in the world - but all his friends hate him." -- Eddie Cantor

"Doubt whom you will, but never yourself." -- Christine Bovee "Know how to ask. There is nothing more difficult for some people, nor for others, easier." -- Baltasar Gracian "It has all been very interesting." -- Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, last words, 1762 A great revolution of character in just a single man will help achieve a change in the destiny of a nation and, further, will cause a change in the destiny of all mankind. - Daisaku Ikeda, founder of the Soka Gakai

I feel like I'm in a rut. Every time I go to bed at night, I find myself just getting up again in the morning. ---Brad Stine The glory of friendship is not the outstretched hand, nor the kindly smile nor the joy of companionship; it is the spiritual inspiration that comes to one when he discovers that someone else believes in him and is willing to trust him. -Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) American essayist and poet He who cannot change the very fabric of his thought will never be able to change reality, and will never, therefore, make any progress. --Anwar Sadat "It is reasonable to have perfection in our eye that we may always advance toward it, though we kow it can never be reached." --Samuel Johnson

"I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I intended to be." -- Douglas Adams "I don't want to achieve immortality through my work... I want to achieve it through not dying." -- Woody Allen "Nice guys finish last, but we get to sleep in." -- Evan Davis "I dote on his very absence." -- William Shakespeare "A specification that will not fit on one page of 8.5x11 inch paper cannot be understood." -- Mark Ardis "A bore is a man who, when you ask him how he is, tells you." -- Bert Taylor

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 (1564-1642) Scientist and mathematician "Not only is there no God, but try getting a plumber on weekends." -- Woody Allen "Sometimes I think we're alone. Sometimes I think we're not. In either case, the thought is staggering." -- Buckminster Fuller "Though I am not naturally honest, I am so sometimes by chance." -- William Shakespeare "Attempt the impossible in order to improve your work." --Bette Davis

Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take, but as for me, give me liberty, or give me death! --Patrick Henry, (1736-1799) American revolutionary and orator

"If two men agree on everything, you may be sure that one of them is doing the thinking." -- Lyndon Baines Johnson "The time for action is past! Now is the time for senseless bickering!" -- Ashleigh Brilliant "He is winding the watch of his wit; by and by it will strike." -- William Shakespeare Rest not! Life is sweeping by; Go and dare before you die. Something mighty and sublime Leave behind to conquer time. --Goethe, 1749-1832) German poet

We have not passed that subtle line between childhood and adulthood until we move from the passive voice to the active voice -- that is, until we have stopped saying, "It got lost," and say, "I lost it." -Sydney J. Harris

"Don't worry if you're a kleptomaniac, you can always take something for it." -- Unknown "Efficiency is intelligent laziness." -- David Dunham "There is no doubt that the first requirement for a composer is to be dead." -- Arthur Honegger

"I have nothing against the income tax. It's just that every time my ship comes in, the government unloads it." -- Unknown Happiness is a butterfly, which, when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you. --Nathaniel Hawthorne, (1804-1864) American writer "I took a speed reading course and read 'War and Peace' in twenty minutes. It involves Russia." -- Woody Allen "Aristotle maintained that women have fewer teeth than men; although he was twice married, it never occured to him to verify this statement by examining his wives' mouths." -- Bertrand Russell "Every crowd has a silver lining." -- Phineas Taylor Barnum

"Give me the luxuries of life and I will willingly do without the necessities." -- Frank Lloyd Wright "He has been a doctor a year now and has had two patients - no, three, I think - yes it was three; I attended their funerals." -- Mark Twain "The brain is a wonderful organ; it starts working the moment you get up in the morning and doesn't stop until you get into the office." -- Robert Frost Imagination is more important than knowledge. --Albert Einstein

They copied all they could follow, but they couldn't copy my mind, I left 'em sweating and stealing, a year and a half behind. --Rudyard Kipling from "The Mary Gloster" Reflect on your present blessings, of which every man has many; not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some. -- Charles Dickens (1812-1870) English writer English novelist Anthony Trollope said, "Of the needs a book has, the chief need is that it be readable."

"In our civilization, and under our republican form of government, intelligence is so highly honored that it is rewarded by exemption from the cares of office." -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary" "All marriages are mixed marriages." -- Chantal Saperstein "She had a pretty gift for quotation, which is a serviceable substitute for wit." -- W. Somerset Maugham "Most people give up just when they're about to achieve success. They quit on the one yard line. They give up at the last minute of the game, one foot from a winning touchdown." --Ross Perot You manage things; you lead people. --Rear Admiral Grace Murray Hopper

Freedom is not worth having if it does not connote freedom to err. It passes my comprehension how human beings, be they ever so experienced and able, can delight in depriving other human beings of that precious right. --Mahatma Gandhi, (1869-1948) Indian nationalist "When ideas fail, words come in very handy." -- Goethe "I would never die for my beliefs because I might be wrong." -- Bertrand Russell "What can you say about a society that says that God is dead and Elvis is alive?" -- Irv Kupcinet "My mother said to me, 'If you become a soldier, you'll be a general; if you become a monk, you'll end up as the pope.' Instead, I became a painter and wound up as Picasso." --Pablo Picasso

The society which scorns excellence in plumbing because plumbing is a humble activity, and tolerates shoddiness in philosophy because it is an exalted activity, will have neither good plumbing nor good philosophy. Neither its pipes nor its theories will hold water. --John W. Gardner, social commentator "Act as if it were impossible to fail." --Dorothea Brand "In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice; In practice, there is." -- Chuck Reid "Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome." -- Isaac Asimov "The first principle is that you must not fool yourself - and you are the easiest person to fool." -- Richard P. Feynman

Good plumbing is important.

Yup! The last famous personage to fall victim to poor plumbing (1000 years after the Romans left it to the natives and they did not keep it workable) was Prince Albert who contracted Typhoid Fever from Windsor Castle's primitive sweage system.

"Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it." -- George Bernard Shaw "Too many have dispensed with generosity in order to practice charity." -- Albert Camus "Learning to dislike children at an early age saves a lot of expense and aggravation later in life." -- Robert Byrne "Singleness of purpose is one of the chief essentials for success in life, no matter what may be one's aim." --John D. Rockefeller Live as you will wish to have lived when you are dying. --Christian Gellert, (1715-1769) German poet

"There is no failure except in no longer trying. There is no defeat except from within, no really insurmountable barrier save our own inherent weakness of purpose." --Kin Hubbard

"Real tragedy is never resolved. It goes on hopelessly for ever." Chinua Achebe

*...sigh...* "You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try." --Beverly Sills

Decision is a sharp knife that cuts clean and straight;indecision is a dull one that hacks and tears and leaves ragged edges behind it. --Gordon Graham, American motivational speaker Many a doctrine is like a window pane. We see truth through it but it divides us from truth. --Khalil Gibran, Arab poet "The human race is faced with a cruel choice: work or daytime television." -- Unknown "I would rather be a coward than brave because people hurt you when you are brave." -- E. M. Forster, as a small child "God help those who do not help themselves." -- Wilson Mizner

"If it weren't for Philo T. Farnsworth, inventor of television, we'd still be eating frozen radio dinners." -- Johnny Carson "It is impossible to enjoy idling thoroughly unless one has plenty of work to do." -- Jerome K. Jerome "You can't have everything. Where would you put it?" -- Steven Wright "Let me assure you that to us here at First National, you're not just a number. You're two numbers, a dash, three more numbers, another dash and another number." -- James Estes

"There is only one way to succeed in anything, and that is to give it everything." --Vince Lombardi When others kid me about being bald, I simply tell them that the way I figure it, the good Lord only gave men so many hormones, and if others want to waste theirs on growing hair, that's up to them. --John Glenn, US politician

"If it weren't for the last minute, nothing would get done." - Unknown *** "Nice guys finish last, but we get to sleep in." - Evan Davis *** "It's true hard work never killed anybody, but I figure why take the chance?" - Ronald Reagan

"I used to think that cyberspace was fifty years away. What I thought was fifty years away, was only ten years away. And what I thought was ten years away... it was already here. I just wasn't aware of it yet." -Bruce Sterling "Information Superhighway

"The 'Net is a waste of time, and that's exactly what's right about it." -William Gibson

My hairy chest pounder would agree with the latter, but I heartily disagree. "To begin to think with purpose is to enter the ranks of those strong ones who only recognize failure as one of the pathways to attainment." --James Allen When people are least sure, they are often most dogmatic. --John Kenneth Galbraith (b. 1908) Economist The reason computer chips are so small is computers don't eat much. --unknown

"Absurdity, n.: A statement or belief manifestly inconsistent with one's own opinion." -- Ambrose Bierce: The Devil's Dictionary "I just need enough to tide me over until I need more." -- Bill Hoest "Any great truth can -- and eventually will -- be expressed as a cliche -- a cliche is a sure and certain way to dilute an idea. For instance, my grandmother used to say, 'The black cat is always the last one off the fence.' I have no idea what she meant, but at one time, it was undoubtedly true." -- Solomon Short

"Democracy is a device that ensures we shall be governed no better than we deserve." -- George Bernard Shaw "Anything not worth doing is worth not doing well. Think about it." -- Elias Schwartz "One doesn't have a sense of humor. It has you." -- Larry Gelbart

"No amount of ability is of the slightest avail without honor." --Andrew Carnegie That's not a lie, it's a terminological inexactitude. --Alexander Haig, (b. 1924) American politician

"I envy people who drink. At least they have something to blame everything on." -- Oscar Levant "If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him." -- Voltaire (1694-1778) "It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid." -- George Bernard Shaw Religious factions will go on imposing their will on others unless the decent people connected to them recognize that religion has no place in public policy. They must learn to make their views known without trying to make their views the only alternative. -Barry Goldwater, US politician (from a speech in 1981) Ninety-eight percent of the adults in this country are decent, hardworking, honest Americans. It's the other lousy two percent that get all the publicity. But then, we elected them. --Lily Tomlin

It's not good to say "thank you" and not mean it, but it's even worse to mean it and not say it. --Cited in BITS & PIECES "No problem is so formidable that you can't walk away from it." -- Charles Schulz "Grown-ups never understand anything for themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them." -- Antoine de Saint-Exupery, "The Little Prince" "Why are our days numbered and not, say, lettered?" -- Woody Allen

Legend - a lie that has attained the dignity of age. -- H. L. Mencken "Interestingly, according to modern astronomers, space is finite. This is a very comforting thought-- particularly for people who can never remember where they have left things." -- Woody Allen "An incompetent attorney can delay a trial for months or years. A competent attornety can delay one even longer." -- Evelle J. Younger "The big thieves hang the little ones." -- Czech proverb

When I found the skull in the woods, the first thing I did was call the police. But then I got curious about it. I picked it up, and started wondering who this person was, and why he had deer horns. --Jack Handey I remember when the candle shop burned down. Everyone stood around singing 'Happy Birthday'. --Steven Wright My girlfriend is weird. She asked me, 'If you could know how and when you were going to die, would you want to know?' I said, 'No.' She said, 'Okay, then forget it.'" --Steven Wright

Justice is incidental to law and order. --J. Edgar Hoover (1895-1972) American lawyer and FBI director

The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved -- loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves. --Victor Hugo (1802-1885) French writer

"Nothing is as irritating as the fellow who chcats pleasantly while he's overcharging you." -- Kin Hubbard "You live and learn. At any rate, you live." -- Douglas Adams "If at first you don't succeed, failure may be your style." -- Quentin Crisp

"What this power is I cannot say; all I know is that it exists and it becomes available only when a man is in that state of mind in which he knows exactly what he wants and is fully determined not to quit until he finds it." --Alexander Graham Bell

Today's 'Confused-Us' Saying... "a great idea needs landing gear, not just wings." Random Thought... "Remember, even if you win the rat race, you're still a rat" Another Random Thought... "The brighter you are, the more you have to learn. - Don Herold" And Another Random Thought... "For neatness, always draw the curves first, and afterwards plot the data" Still Another Random Thought... "The meek shall inherit the earth, but not its mineral rights" Yet Another Random Thought... "Press -- to continue" Murphy's Law of the Day... "If a project requires n components, there will be n-1 units in stock." Computer Tagline... "Smash forehead on keyboard to continue...." Today's Steven Wright Joke... "I used to be a bartender at the Betty Ford Clinic." Today's 'You Might Be A Redneck If' (tm) Joke... "You name your twin boys Jack and Daniel." Today's Sniglet(tm)... "Mowmuffins ( MO muh finz) - n. The dried accumulation of grass on the underside of lawnmowers." Today's Book Hype... "Playing with the Christmas Fire: Yule B. Sari" Today's Actual Headline... "JUVENILE COURT TO TRY SHOOTING VICTIM"

A thousand words will not leave so deep an impression as one deed. --Ibsen (1828-1906) Norwegian poet and playwright "When you've got something to prove, there's nothing greater than a challenge." --Terry Bradshaw "It is always the best policy to tell the truth, unless, of course, you are an exceptionally good liar." -- Jerome K Jerome "Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past." -- George Orwell "The family is one of nature's masterpieces." -- George Santayana

"Learn not only to find what you like, learn to like what you find." -- Anthony J. D'Angelo, The College Blue Book "They're funny things, Accidents. You never have them till you're having them." -- Eeyore, Pooh's Little Instruction Book "Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved." -- Helen Keller

A bus station is where a bus stops. A train station is where a train stops. On my desk, I have a work station... *** Light travels faster than sound. This is why some people appear bright until you hear them speak. *** Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day...Teach him how to fish, and he'll sit in a boat and drink beer all day!

If any many wish to write in a clear style, let him be first clear in his thoughts; and if any would write in a noble style, let him first possess a noble soul. --Goethe, 1749-1832) German poet

"Chemistry is a class you take in high school or college, where you figure out two plus two is 10, or something." - Dennis Rodman, on Chicago Bulls team chemistry being overrated

Kinkler's First Law: Responsibility always exceeds authority. Kinkler's Second Law: All the easy problems have been solved. "The difference between perseverance and obstinancy is, that one often comes from a strong will, and the other from a strong won't." --Henry Ward Beecher The basic test of freedom is perhaps less in what we are free to do than in what we are free not to do. -Eric Hoffer (1902-1983) writer, philosopher, longshoreman

"Even if you do learn to speak correct English, whom are you going to speak it to?" -- Clarence Darrow "The only thing that's been a worse flop than the organization of non-violence has been the organization of violence." -- Joan Baez "Never knock on Death's door: ring the bell and run away! Death really hates that!" -- Matt Frewer as Dr. Mike Stratford in "Doctor, Doctor"

"Our real problem, then, is not our strength today; it is rather the vital necessity of action today to ensure our strength tomorrow." -- Dwight D. Eisenhower Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help create that fact. --William James (1842-1910) Psychologist and philosopher "The true meaning of life is to plant trees, under whose shade you do not expect to sit." -- Nelson Henderson "People generally quarrel because they cannot argue." -- Gilbert K. Chesterton "The cynic knows the price of everything and the value of nothing." -- Oscar Wilde

"Some people make things happen, some watch while things happen, and some wonder 'What happened?'" -- Unknown "Live as you will have wished to have lived when you are dying." -- Christian Furchtegott Gellert "The cat could very well be man's best friend but would never stoop to admitting it." -- Doug Larson

"Cosine, secant, tangent, sine, 3.14159" --MIT Cheer for their favorite irrational number as reported in Smithsonian, May 2000 Also reported in the May 2000 Smithsonain- Pi Day is celebrated each March 14 at 1:59pm at the San Francisco's Exploratorium. Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it. --David Starr Jordan (1851-1931) American biologist/educator The possession of facts is knowledge, the use of them is wisdom. --Thomas Jefferson

The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances; if there is any reaction, both are transformed. --C.G. Jung (1875-1961) Swiss psychologist

"Waiting is a trap. There will always be reasons to wait....The truth is, there are only two things in life, reasons, and results, and reasons simply don't count." -- Robert Anthony "I never looked at the consequences of missing a big shot...when you think about the consequences you always think of a negative result." --Michael Jordan

Michaels good enough, shoots well enough, and, gosh darn, people like him.

Who is Michaels? Not Al, surely! "Lawyers, I suppose, were children once." -- Charles Lamb "I don't have any solution, but I certainly admire the problem." -- Ashleigh Brilliant "Humanity has advanced, when it has advanced, not because it has been sober, responsible, and cautious, but because it has been playful, rebellious, and immature." -- Tom Robbins "Just because something doesn't do what you planned it to do doesn't mean it's useless." --Thomas Edison

Oh, Michael's good enough....Yup! He is an phenom and all those other words and he is NICE, too - seriously unusual in that sport - or anywhere! Say nothing of my religion. It is known to God and myself alone. Its evidence before the world is to be sought in my life: if it has been honest and dutiful to society the religion which has regulated it cannot be a bad one. --Thomas Jefferson

"Americans detest all lies except lies spoken in public or printed lies." -- Ed Howe: "Some people like my advice so much that they frame it upon the wall instead of using it." -- Gordon R. Dickson "Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten" -- B.F. Skinner "Most powerful is he who has himself in his own power." -- Seneca There is no way to truly influence a process except to dive into its dynamics, those forces that give it life and propel it to its present form. --Margaret Wheatley Author

"Power over persons is so dangerous a thing that only those can be trusted with it who do not want it." -Plato "The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly, is to fill the world with fools." -Herbert Spencer "The house of delusions is cheap to build, but drafty to live in." -A. E. Houseman "It is loneliness that makes the loudest noise.This is as true of men as of dogs." -Eric Hoffer "It is not only the most difficult thing to know oneself, but the most inconvenient one, too." -Josh Billings "The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy." -Martin Luther King "Yesterday is ashes, tomorrow wood. Only today does the fire burn brightly." -Indian Saying "A leader is best when people barely know he exists, Not so good when people obey and acclaim him, Worse when they despise him, Fail to honor people, They fail to honor you. But of a good leader who talks little, When his work is done, his aim fulfilled, The people will say 'We did this ourselves.' " -Lao Tse (I know of a lot of politicians who need to read, memorize, and employ that one)

"Wisdom begins in wonder." -- Socrates "It's the constant and determined effort that breaks down resistance, sweeps away all obstacles." -- Claude M. Bristol "A crash is when your competitor's program dies. When your program dies, it is an 'idiosyncrasy'. Frequently, crashes are followed with a message like 'ID 02'. 'ID' is an abbreviation for idiosyncrasy and the number that follows indicates how many more months of testing the product should have had." -- Guy Kawasaki

"The greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our dispositions, and not on our circumstances." --Martha Washington "Winning isn't everything. *Wanting* to win is." --Catfish Hunter, baseball pitcher "Humor comes from self-confidence. There's an aggressive element to wit." --Rita Mae Brown

"There is no knowledge that is not power." --Ralph Waldo Emerson

To John, Donn, Wolf, Ratthing, and all of the others who served our country, Thank you! You have my utmost gratitude and admiration. Dulce bellum inexpertis [War is delightful to those who have no experience of it] -Erasmus

Open 24 hrs All summer -Sign at local fast food restaurant. (Did somebody say __________?) Inquiring minds want to know if the 24 hours the restaurant will be open will be all at one time, one hour a day for 24 days, or evenly spread over the summer 1/4 of the year = 91.5 days. 24 hours = 1440 minutes / 91.5 days = 15.74 minutes a day

"Don't think of retiring from the world until the world will be sorry that you retire. I hate a fellow whom pride or cowardice or laziness drives into a corner, and who does nothing when he is there but sit and growl. Let him come out as I do, and bark." -- Samuel Johnson "If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself, but to your estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment." -- Marcus Aurelius "Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not one bit simpler." -- Albert Einstein The one who relies on authority during a discussion does not use his mind but his memory. -Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519) Italian artist, scientist

No loss of flood and lightning, no destruction of cities and temples by hostile forces of nature, has deprived man of so many noble lives and impulses as those which his intolerance has destroyed. --Helen Keller (1880-1968) American author and lecturer "Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work." --Thomas Edison

"The only thing wrong with immortality is that it tends to go on forever." - Herb Caen "My mother had a great deal of trouble with me, but I think she enjoyed it." - Mark Twain (1835 - 1910) "Anyone who says he can see through a woman is missing a lot." - Groucho Marx (1895 - 1977)

You must get involved to have an impact. No one is impressed with the won-loss record of the referee. -John H. Holcomb

"Dreams are the touchstones of our character." -- Henry David Thoreau "The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams." -- Eleanor Roosevelt "One of the most adventurous things left us is to go to bed. For no one can lay a hand on our dreams." -- E. V. Lucas, 365 Days and One More

It is a mistake to believe that Uncle Sam can open his pocketbook and let you keep yours closed. --Los Angeles Times Syndicate (1978)

"It takes a great man to be a good listener." -- Calvin Coolidge "I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most people never listen." -- Ernest Hemingway "A good listener tries to understand thoroughly what the other person is saying. In the end he may disagree sharply, but before he disagrees, he wants to know exactly what it is he is disagreeing with." -- Kenneth A. Wells, Guide to Good Leadership

"He that always gives way to others will end in having no principles of his own." - Aesop "There is someone willing to argue about any point." -- I don't know, but I'll argue any attribution "It is better to debate a question without settling it than to settle a question without debating it." -- Jeseph Joubert

The trouble with fighting for human freedom is that one spends most of one's time defending scoundrels. For it is against scoundrels that oppressive laws are first aimed, and oppression must be stopped at the beginning if it is to be stopped at all. --H.L.Mencken (1880-1956) American writer and journalist

Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society. -- Mark Twain

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, "The Devil's Dictionary"