| "University President Why is it that you physicists always require so much expensive equipment Now the department of Mathematics requires nothing but money for paper, pencils, and erasers...and the department of Philosophy is better still. It doesn't even ask for erasers." »Isaac Asimov |
| "And while the law of competition may be sometimes hard for the individual, it is best for the race, because it ensures the survival of the fittest in every department." »Andrew Carnegie |
| "I stopped believing in Santa Claus when my mother took me to see him in a department store, and he asked for my autograph." »Shirley Temple |
| "I don't like the idea that the police department seems bent on keeping a pool of unarmed victims available for the predations of the criminal class." »David Mohler |
| "Look at the Justice department, it's full of Jews...The lawyers in government are damn Jews." »Richard Milhous Nixon |
| "The first rule to tinkering is to save all the parts." »Paul Erlich |
| "Hardware the parts of a computer that can be kicked." »Jeff Pesis |
| "The true danger is when liberty is nibbled away, for expedients, and by parts." »Edmund Burke |
| "In America sex is an obsession, in other parts of the world it is a fact." »Marlene Dietrich |
| "If life indeed is a stage, then how can we act our parts if we can't read our script" »Vu Quyen |
| "There is no vice so simple but assumes some mark of virtue on his outward parts." »Mary Bertone |
| "The little unremembered acts of kindness and love are the best parts of a person's life." »William Wordsworth |
| "To manage a system effectively, you might focus on the interactions of the parts rather than their behavior taken separately." »Russell L Ackoff |
| "The tooth fairy teaches children that they can sell body parts for money." »David Richerby |
| "What an absurd thing it is to pass over all the valuable parts of a man, and fix our attention on his infirmities." »Joseph Addison |
| "The world is emblematic. parts of speech are metaphors because the whole of nature is a metaphor of the human mind." »Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| "Gallia est omnis divisa in partres tres. (All Gaul is divided into three parts)" »Gaius Julius Caesar |
| "Persecution was at least a sign of personal interest. Tolerance is composed of nine parts apathy to one of brotherly love." »Frank Moore Colby |
| "As we were driving, we saw a sign that said 'Watch For Rocks.' Marta said it should read 'Watch For PRETTY Rocks.' I told her she should write in her suggestion to the highway department, but she started saying it was a joke---just to get out of writing a simple letter And I thought I was lazy" »Jack Handey Deep Thoughts |
| "All the world's a stage,And all the men and women merely players.They have their exits and their entrances,And one man in his time plays many parts,His acts being seven ages." »William Shakespeare |
| "How Kennedy knew the precise drop in milk consumption in 1960, the percentage rise in textile imports from 1957 to 1960 and the number of speeches cleared by the Defense department is not quite clear, but anyway, he did. He either overwhelmed you with decimal points or disarmed you with a smile and a wisecrack." »James Barrett Scotty Reston |
| "Without Christ, sciences in every department are vain....The man who knows not God is vain, though he should be conversant with every branch of learning. Nay more, we may affirm this too with truth, that these choice gifts of God -- expertness of mind, acuteness of judgment, liberal sciences, and acquaintance with languages, are in a manner profaned in every instance in which they fall to the lot of wicked men." »John Calvin |
| "Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested that is, some books are to be read only in parts, others to be read, but not curiously, and some few to be read wholly, and with diligence and attention." »Francis Bacon |
| "Whoever has inhabited the United States must have perceived that in those parts of the Union in which the Negroes are no longer slaves the have in no wise drawn nearer to the whites. On the contrary, the prejudice of race appears to be stronger in the states that have abolished slavery than those where it still exists and nowhere is it intolerant as in those states where servitude has never been known." »Alexis Charles Henri Clrel de Tocqueville |
| "Stuart Would ya look at the size of that kid's head It's the size of a planetoid and it has it's own weather system Looks like an orange on a toothpick I'm not kidding, that boy's head is like Sputnik spherical but quite pointy at parts He'll be crying himself to sleep tonight, on his huge pillow." »So I Married an Axe Murderer |
| "My telephone calls and meetings and decisions were now parts of a prescribed ritual aimed at making peace with the past his calls, his meetings and his decisions were already the ones that would shape America's future. (On transfer of power to Gerald R Ford)" »Richard Milhous Nixon |
| "Canada will be a strong country when Canadians of all provinces feel at home in all parts of the country, and when they feel that all Canada belongs to them." »Pierre Elliott Trudeau |
| "To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead." »Bertrand Russell |
| "We and the cosmos are one. The cosmos is a vast body, of which we are still parts. The sun is a great heart whose tremors run through our smallest veins. The moon is a great gleaming nerve-centre from which we quiver forever. Who knows the power that Saturn has over us or Venus But it is a vital power, rippling exquisitely through us all the time... Now all this is literally true, as men knew in the great past and as they will know again." »D. H. Lawrence |
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