Say WHAT?!?!: G and H
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I love my alma
matter, the
University of Pennsylvania.
Go Quakers!
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| "No great genius has ever existed
without some touch of madness." |
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| "Genius is one percent inspiration and
ninety-nine percent perspiration." |
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- Thomas Edison, American inventor (1847 - 1931).
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| "Doing easily what others find
difficult is talent; doing what is impossible for talent is
genius." |
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"Nature and Nature's laws lay hid in
Night:
God said, Let Newton Be! and all was Light." |
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- Alexander Pope, Epitaph for Sir Isaac Newton.
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The
Godfather Trilogy:
Who doesn't love these movies? |
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| "I'm gonna make him an offer he can't
refuse." |
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| "Leave the gun...take the cannoli." |
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| "Just when I thought that I was out
they pull me pack in." |
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You know what they say... something
about death and taxes...
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| "Democracy is also a form of worship.
It is the worship of Jackals by Jackasses." |
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| "The President has kept all of the
promises he intended to keep." |
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- Clinton aide George Stephanopolous on Larry King Live
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| "I'm not going to have some reporters
pawing through our papers. We are the president." |
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- Hillary Clinton on the release of subpoenaed documents
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| "The central problem of politics: Do
you paint simplistic pictures that make people act (and leave them
with too simplistic a view of the world) or do you paint bafflingly shaded and contingent scenes that leave people paralyzed by
indecision?" |
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| "Ancient Rome declined because it had a
Senate, now what's going to happen to us with both a House and a
Senate?" |
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| "Once there were two brothers. One ran away to the sea, the other was elected Vice-President, and
nothing was ever heard of either of them again." |
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- Thomas Riley Marshall, Recollections
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The Declaration of
Independence, the words that launched our nation-1,300 words.
The Bible, the word of God-773,000 words.
The Tax Code, the words of politicians-7,000,000 words-and
growing! |
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| "What is a committee? A group of the
unwilling, picked from the unfit, to do the unnecessary." |
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- Richard Harkness, The New York Times (1960)
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| "Beginning in February 1976 your
assistance benefits will be discontinued... Reason: it has been
reported to our office that you expired on January 1, 1976." |
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- Letter from the Illinois Department of Public Aid
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The
Unabridged William Shakespeare |
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| "This art of resting the mind and the
power of dismissing from it all care and worry is probably one of the
secrets of energy in our great men." |
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| "If a man has any greatness in him, it
comes to light - not in one flamboyant hour, but in the ledger of his
daily work." |
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| "In my stars I am above thee, but be
not afraid of greatness. Some are born great, some achieve greatness,
and some have greatness thrust upon 'em." |
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- William Shakespeare (Senior Page)
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| "Do not be so humble. You are not that
great." |
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| "I would rather make my name than
inherit it." |
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- William Makepeace Thackeray (1811 - 1863), English author. The Virginians,
ch. 26 (1859).
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| "Don't be vain because you happen to
have talent. You are not responsible for that; it was not of your
doing. What you do with your talent is what matters." |
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- Pablo Casals, Spanish cellist, conductor, composer (1876 - 1973).
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| "Happiness is having a scratch for
every itch." |
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| "I have the simplest of tastes. I am
always satisfied with the best." |
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| "A mind always employed, is always
happy. This is the true secret, the grand recipe, for felicity." |
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| "Happiness isn't the easiest thing to
find, but one place you're guaranteed to find it is in a friend's
smile." |
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| "Seven days without a smile makes one
weak." |
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| "It is an aspect of all happiness to
suppose that we deserve it." |
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| "One of the secrets of a happy life is
continuous small treats." |
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| "There is no happiness except in the
realization that we have accomplished something." |
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| "The happiness of this life depends
less on what befalls you than the way in which you take it." |
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| "Youth will be served, every dog has
his day, and mine has been a fine one." |
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| "Happiness is the full use of your
powers along lines of excellence in a life affording scope." |
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| "To live content with small means; to
seek elegance rather than luxury, and refinement rather than fashion;
to be worthy, not respectable, and wealthy, not rich; to study hard,
think quietly, talk gently, act frankly; to listen to stars and birds,
to babes and sages with open heart; to bear all cheerfully, do all
bravely, await occasions, hurry never. In a word, to let the
spiritual, unbidden and unconscious, grow up through the common. This
is to be my symphony." |
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- William Henry Channing (1810 - 1884)
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Work like you don't need money,
Love like you've never been hurt,
And dance like no one's watching.
Happiness is a journey, not a destination. |
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| "A person who hesitates is not only
lost, but miles from the next exit." |
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| "Neither a wise man nor a brave man
lies down on the tracks of history to wait for the train of the future
to run over him." |
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- Dwight D. Eisenhower, Time (6 October 1952).
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| "The greatest mistake you can make in
life is to be continually fearing you will make one." |
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| "Don't look back. Somebody might be
gaining on you." |
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- Satchel Paige, Sunday News Magazine (6 April 1980).
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| "Indecision is often worse than wrong
action." |
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- Gerald R. Ford (September 1987)
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| "Even if you are on the right track,
you'll get run over if you just sit there." |
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| "A commander can be wrong, but never
uncertain." |
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| "Dante once said that the hottest
places in hell are reserved for those who, in a period of moral
crisis, maintain their neutrality." |
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- John F. Kennedy, former U.S. President
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Fear to lose beauty caused the heavens to
expel
these caitiffs; nor, lest to be damned they then
gave cause to boast, receives them the deep hell. |
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| "Nobody makes a greater mistake then he
who does nothing because he could only do a little." |
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- Edmund Burke, British statesman and orator (1729 - 1797)
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Learn
more history through productions from A&E. |
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The
History Channel makes learning history interesting by
telling you the stories behind the people. |
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| "The only thing new in the world is the
history you don't know." |
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| "The chief value of history, if it is
critically studied, is to break down the illusion that peoples are
very different." |
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- Leo Stein, Journey into the Self (1950).
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| "But time is an old lens of amber, and
as you look down the barrel of it, good things get remembered and bad
ones left behind." |
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| "In the history of life, no good news
has followed that sentence ['We have to talk.']." |
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- Paul Reiser as Paul Buchman on Mad About You (5 May 1996).
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| "History teaches us that men and
nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other
alternatives." |
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- Abba Eban, Israeli politician, Speech (16 December 1970).
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| "Keep out! Shut up! You're jamming my
signal!" |
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- Jack Phillips, Marconi Operator, RMS Titanic, in response to the
Californian
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| "Whatever happened to some men in the
past affects virtually all men today." |
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| "Hope is putting faith to work, when
doubting would be easier." |
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| "We have always held to the hope, the
belief, the conviction that there is a better life, a better world,
beyond the horizon." |
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Calvin
and Hobbes is one of my favorite comics. |
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| "Humor has a charm that cannot be
ignored and a power that should not be underestimated." |
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| "Lady, when you lose your power to
laugh, you lose your power to think straight." |
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| "I've gradually risen from lower-class
background to lower-class foreground." |
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