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The closing years of life are like the end of a masquerade party when the masks are dropped. – Arthur Schopenhauer	added by anonymous 13 years ago
It took me twenty years of studied self-restraint, aided by the natural decay of my faculties, to make myself dull enough to be accepted as a serious person by the British public. – George Bernard Shaw	added by anonymous 13 years ago
When she was a small girl, Amanda hid a ticking clock in an old, rotten tree trunk. It drove woodpeckers crazy. Ignoring tasty bugs all around them, they just about beat their brains out trying to get at the clock. Years later, Amanda used the woodpecker experiment as a model for understanding capitalism, Communism, Christianity, and all other systems that traffic in future rewards rather than in present realities. – Tom Robbins	added by anonymous 13 years ago
We should all be obliged to appear before a board every five years and justify our existence...on pain of liquidation. – George Bernard Shaw	added by anonymous 13 years ago
It takes a woman twenty years to make a man of her son, and another woman twenty minutes to make a fool of him. – Helen Rowland	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Old age is always fifteen years older than I am. – Bernard M. Baruch	added by anonymous 13 years ago
You have to work years in hit shows to make people sick and tired of you, but you can accomplish this in a few weeks on television. – Walter Slezak	added by anonymous 13 years ago
(Clemenceau) once said that war is too important to be left to the generals. When he said that, 50 years ago, he may have been right...but now, war is too important to be left to the politicians. They have neither the time, the training, nor the inclination for strategic thought...And I can no longer, sit around and allow Communist subversion, Communist corruption, and Communist infiltration of our precious bodily fluids. – Col. Jack Ripper, commander of Burpleson AFB to Group Capt. Mandrake (Peter Sellers) in Dr. Strangelove	added by anonymous 13 years ago
I really do plan to get out of show business within five years or so. – Bill Cosby, Playboy Interview - May 1969	added by anonymous 13 years ago
There is no accountability in the public school system - except for coaches. You know what happens to a losing coach. You fire him. A losing teacher can go on losing for 30 years and then go to glory. – Ross Perot, The Dallas Morning News, March 11, 1984	added by anonymous 13 years ago
1492. As children we were taught to memorize this year with pride and joy as the year people began living full and imaginative lives on the continent of North America. Actually, people had been living full and imaginative lives on the continent of North America for hundreds of years before that. 1492 was simply the year sea pirates began to rob, cheat, and kill them. – Kurt Vonnegut: Breakfast of Champions	added by anonymous 13 years ago
It would appear that we have reached the limits of what it is possible to achieve with computer technology, although one should be careful with such statements, as they tend to sound pretty silly in 5 years. – John Von Neumann (ca. 1949)	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Over the past ten years, for the first time, intelligence had become socially correct for girls. – Tom Wolfe, "Bonfire of the Vanities"	added by anonymous 13 years ago
It might be said that Lord Rosebery outlived his future by ten years and his past by more than twenty. – Sir Winston Churchill	added by anonymous 13 years ago
The most extensive computation known has been conducted over the last billion years on a planet-wide scale: it is the evolution of life. The power of this computation is illustrated by the complexity and beauty of its crowning achievement, the human brain. – David Rogers, Weather Prediction Using a Genetic Memory	added by anonymous 13 years ago
How did Biot arrive at the partial differential equation? [the heat conduction equation] . . . Perhaps Laplace gave Biot the equation and left him to sink or swim for a few years in trying to derive it. That would have been merely an instance of the way great mathematicians since the very beginnings of mathematical research have effortlessly maintained their superiority over ordinary mortals. – Clifford Truesdell	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Youth is something very new: twenty years ago no one mentioned it. – Coco Chanel	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Gentlemen, you are now about to embark on a course of studies which will occupy you for two years. Together, they form a noble adventure. But I would like to remind you of an important point. Nothing that you will learn in the course of your studies will be of the slightest possible use to you in after life, save only this, that if you work hard and intelligently you should be able to detect when a man is talking rot, and that, in my view, is the main, if not the sole, purpose of education. – John Alexander Smith, Speech to Oxford University students, 1914	added by anonymous 13 years ago
A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the voters discover that they can vote themselves largesse from the public treasury. From that moment on, the majority always votes for the candidates promising the most benefits the public treasury with the result that a democracy always collapses over lousy fiscal policy, always followed by a dictatorship. The average of the world's great civilizations before they decline has been 200 years. These nations have progressed in this sequence: From bondage to spiritual faith; from faith to great courage; from courage to liberty; from liberty to abundance; from abundance to selfishness; from selfishness to Complacency; from complacency to apathy; from apathy to dependency; from dependency back again to bondage. – Alexander Fraser Tyler, Cycle of Democracy (1770)	added by anonymous 13 years ago
For ten years Caesar ruled with an iron hand. Then with a wooden foot, and finally with a piece of string. – Spike Milligan, The Goons	added by anonymous 13 years ago
What though the radiance which was once so bright Be not forever taken from my sight, Though nothing can bring back the hour Of splendour in the grass, of glory in the flower;Grief not, rather find, Strength in what remains behind, In the primal sympathy Which having been must ever be, In the soothing thoughts that spring Out of Human suffering, In the faith that looks through death In years that bring philophic mind. – William Wordsworth	added by anonymous 13 years ago
One day the years of struggle will strike you as the most beautiful. – Sigmond Freud	added by anonymous 13 years ago
In my many years I have come to a conclusion that one useless man is a shame, two is a law firm, and three or more is a congress. – John Adams	added by anonymous 13 years ago
We are students of words: we are shut up in schools, and colleges, and recitation-rooms, for ten or fifteen years, and come out at last with a bag of wind, a memory of words, and do not know a thing. – Ralph Waldo Emerson	added by anonymous 13 years ago

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