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impossible. PAUL DICKSON Algren's Precepts: Never eat at a place called Mom's. Never
play cards with a man named Doc. And... PAUL DICKSON Albrecht's Law: Social innovations tend to the level of minimum
tolerable well being. PAUL DICKSON Ade's Law: Anybody can win--unless there happens to be a second
entry. PAUL DICKSON Acting, First Rule of: Whatever happens, look as if you intended
it to happen. PAUL DICKSON Acheson's Rule of Bureaucracy: A memorandum is written not to
inform the reader but to protect the ... PAUL DICKSON Accuracy, Rule of, Corollary: Provided, of course, that you know
there is a problem. PAUL DICKSON A clean tie attracts the soup of the day. PAUL DICKSON Experience is that marvelous thing that enables you recognize a
mistake when you make it again. PAUL DICKSON About the time we think we can make ends meet, somebody moves the
ends. PAUL DICKSON Acton's Law: Power tends to corrupt; absolute power corrupts
absolutely. PAUL DICKSON Accuracy, Rule of: When working toward the solution of a
problem, it always helps if you know the ... PAUL DICKSON Rowe's Rule: the odds are five to six that the light at the end
of the tunnel is the headlight of ... PAUL DICKSON Lieutenant Dunbar wasn't really swallowed. But that was the
first word that stuck in his head. MICHAEL BLAKE A system tends to grow in complexity instead of simplicity, until
the resulting unreliability becom... PAUL DICKSON Allen's Law of Civilization: It is better for civilization to be
going down the drain than to be c... PAUL DICKSON Airplane Law, The: When the plane you are on is late, the plane
you want to transfer to is on time... PAUL DICKSON Advice, First Law of: The correct advice to give is the advice
that is desired. PAUL DICKSON Abrams's Advice: When eating an elephant, take one bite at a
time. PAUL DICKSON A conclusion is the place where you got tired of thinking. PAUL DICKSON Allen's Law: Almost anything is easier to get into than out of. PAUL DICKSON Agnes Allen's Law: Almost anything is easier to get into than
out of. PAUL DICKSON Abbott's Admonitions: (1) If you have to ask, you're not
entitled to know. (2) If you don't like ... PAUL DICKSON A real person has two reasons for doing anything . . . a good
reason and the real reason. PAUL DICKSON A free agent is anything but. PAUL DICKSON An impersonal and scientific knowledge of the structure of our bodies is the surest safeguard agains... MARIE CARMICHAEL STOPES PAUL DE MAN I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ... KELLY JONES CARL GUSTAV JUNG ROBERT M. PIRSIG Birth and Death are words we chose to describe the doorways in and out of a cycle. This cycle is con... FRANKLIN GILLETTE ABHIJIT NASKAR Creation is not taking place now, so far as can be observed. Therefore, it was accomplished sometime... HENRY M. MORRIS RUSH LIMBAUGH If we cannot always be entirely sane in our relationships, the kindest thing we can do for those who... THE SCHOOL OF LIFE HERMANN HESSE SAMUEL JOHNSON JOSEPH HELLER RAHEEL FAROOQ FLANNERY O'CONNOR LAILAH GIFTY AKITA VENKATRAMAN RAMAKRISHNAN HENRY CLOUD WILLIAM MCKINLEY NEIL DEGRASSE TYSON No sane man can afford to dispense with debilitating pleasures; no ascetic can be considered reliabl... ROBERT M. PARKER, JR. A. J. LIEBLING PAUL DAVIES We've been on him all year. We expect a lot of our Alfred because he has so much potential. And I do... ANDRE COOK WILLIAM IRWIN THOMPSON ERICH FROMM [And if he believed he was wrong, he'd say so:] He doubled back on himself again and again, ... Psyc... GREIL MARCUS An interpreter at that level cannot - not 'should not' - simply cannot, make a mistake. He cannot. N... VIKTOR SUKHODREV The classification of facts and the formation of absolute judgments upon the basis of this classific... KARL PEARSON At times I am flabbergasted that my memory is considered false and my alcoholic father's memory is c... JENNIFER J. FREYD Science Fiction is a safe, fertile arena in which to rehearse the potential scientific facts of tomo... STEWART STAFFORD Let the pen and ink be wholly forbidden as if he were a mad poet of Bedlam. NICOLAS BIDDLE All my life, I've understood the nature of where I come from, but I never thought it might be wicked... BRENNA YOVANOFF DOUGLAS ADAMS For one, the Qur'an is considered by Muslims to consist entirely of words spoken by Allah himsel... PAUL WEYRICH JOSEPH HELLER ALAN W. WATTS NORTHROP FRYE ROBERT M. PIRSIG KENNETH L. PIKE MARIE LU JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE JOHANN VON GOETHE JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE MARIE CURIE DONNA TARTT JEAN DE LA BRUYERE One seeks to make the loved one entirely happy, or, if that cannot be, entirely wretched. JEAN DE LA BRUYÈRE DONNA TARTT ABHIJIT NASKAR OSCAR WILDE JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE HANNAH ARENDT FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE JAN CARLZON ABHIJIT NASKAR This is an entirely personal transaction involving Mr. Michaels of which the tribe has no knowledge ... ADAM DAY Children will be soothed by routine, structure, and normality. Getting them back to routine is typic... CATHERINE COOK WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS Through it all there is order and symmetry and a vision of what the completed edifice will be; a vis... MARGARET WYVILL ECCLESINE Who of us is able to read and understand and be entirely confident of the validity of his title to t... WILLIAM H. WHARTON WOLFGANG ERNST PAULI CHRISTOPHER ALEXANDER SENECA Nature is a divine art; it cannot be the artist. It is a dominical book and cannot be the scribe. It... SAID NURSI WERNER HEISENBERG What we observe is not nature itself, but nature exposed to our method of questioning. WERNER KARL HEISENBERG RALPH WALDO EMERSON
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Had Rome been growing up... ALFRED DOMETT --ALFRED MARSHALL ALFRED HITCHCOCK ALFRED HITCHCOCK ALFRED ADLER ALFRED ADLER ALFRED ADLER ALFRED ADLER ALFRED ADLER ALFRED ADLER ALFRED ADLER ALFRED ADLER ALFRED ADLER ALFRED ADLER ALFRED ADLER ALFRED ADLER ALFRED ADLER ALFRED ADLER ALFRED ADLER ALFRED ADLER ALFRED ADLER ALFRED ADLER ALFRED ADLER ALFRED BUNN ALFRED JARRY ALFRED JARRY ALFRED ADLER Every time you get angry, you poison your own system. -Alfred Montapert. ALFRED MONTAPERT ALFRED JARRY ALFRED ADLER ALFRED HITCHCOCK ALFRED HITCHCOCK ALFRED AUSTIN The word 'listen' contains the same letters as the word 'silent'. ALFRED BRENDEL ALFRED ADLER ALFRED ADLER ALFRED HITCHCOCK We should note that this latter type of shift was successfully amplified to a considerable extent by... ALFRED KASTLER ALFRED NOBEL ALFRED SCHNITTKE ALFRED ADLER ALFRED NOBEL ALFRED ENOCH ALFRED ADLER ALFRED HITCHCOCK ALFRED ADLER ALFRED NOBEL ALFRED MARSHALL ALFRED MARSHALL ALFRED MARSHALL ALFRED MARSHALL ALFRED MARSHALL ALFRED MARSHALL ALFRED MARSHALL ALFRED MARSHALL ALFRED MARSHALL ALFRED MARSHALL ALFRED MARSHALL ALFRED MARSHALL ALFRED MARSHALL ALFRED MARSHALL ALFRED MARSHALL ALFRED MARSHALL ALFRED MARSHALL ALFRED KAZIN ALFRED AUSTIN ALFRED AUSTIN ALFRED AUSTIN ALFRED AUSTIN ALFRED AUSTIN ALFRED NOBEL ALFRED HITCHCOCK ALFRED HITCHCOCK There are many actors who have inspired me: Spencer Tracy for his incredible elegance and, of course... ALFRED MOLINA
An individual cannot be considered entirely sane of he is wholly ignorant of scientific method and s... 
Nothing is so good for an ignorant man as silence; and if he was sensible of this he would not be ig... 
Considering the enormous range of human knowledge, from intimate personal knowledge of specific indi... 
Whatever he knows of his weaknesses, Private Mulvaney is wholly ignorant of his strength. 
The most solid piece of scientific truth I know of is that we are profoundly ignorant about nature. 
The ambivalence of writing is such that it can be considered both an act and an interpretive process... 
Psychoanalysis cannot be considered a method of education if by education we mean the topiary art of... 
The real purpose of the scientific method is to make sure nature hasn’t misled you into thinking y... 
Nature programmed the neurobiological processes of early love to appear as something beyond the prim... 
The way liberals are interpreting the First Amendment today is that it prevents anyone who is religi... 
When dealing with the insane, the best method is to pretend to be sane. 
There is no wisdom in useless and hopeless sorrow, but there is something in it so like virtue, that... 
Orr would be crazy to fly more missions and sane if he didn't, but if he was sane he had to fly them... 
Man is a logical machine run by the scoundrels of emotions. 
I'm always highly irritated by people who imply that writing fiction is an escape from reality. It i... 
Nature is amazing wonder. 
I remember reading a 'Scientific American' article about the use of new physical techniques ... 
Leave your pride, ego, and narcissism somewhere else. Reactions from those parts of you will reinfor... 
The free man cannot be long an ignorant man. 
I am convinced that the act of thinking logically cannot possibly be natural to the human mind. If i... 
No sane man can afford to dispense with debilitating pleasures. No ascetic can be considered reliabl... 
My feeling is that scientific method has the power to account for and interlink all phenomena in the... 
A World is not an ideology nor a scientific institution, nor is it even a system of ideologies; rath... 
Mental health cannot be defined in terms of the "adjustment" of the individual to his society, but, ... 
But the reason I call myself by my childhood name is to remind myself that a scientist must also be ... 
There was only one catch and that was Catch-22. Orr would be crazy to fly more missions and sane if ... 
Thought and science are therefore raising problems which their terms of study can never answer, many... 
Just as a new scientific discovery manifests something that was already latent in the order of natur... 
Revelation and the nature of truth must be viewed in reference to the structure of language. 
There's a conflicted look in Day's eyes, a joy and a grief, that makes him so vulnerable. I realize ... 
If your treat an individual... as if he were what he ought to be and could be, he will become what h... 
If you treat an individual... as if he were what he ought to be and could be, he will become what he... 
If your treat an individual ... as if he were what he ought to be and could be, he will become what ... 
Pierre Curie came to see me and showed a simple and sincere sympathy with my student life. Soon he c... 
Children have very sharp powers of observation - probably sharper than adults - yet at the same time... 
One seeks to make the loved one entirely happy, or, if that cannot be, entirely wretched. 
Because it is dangerous to ignore the existence of the irrational. The more cultivated a person is, ... 
While one should always study the method of a great artist, one should never imitate his manner. The... 
If you treat an individual as he is, he will stay as he is; but if you treat him as if he were what ... 
Man cannot be free if he does not know that he is subject to necessity, because his freedom is alway... 
He who cannot obey himself will be commanded. That is the nature of living creatures. 
An individual without information cannot take responsibility; an individual who is given information... 
The dogma of science is that the will cannot possibly affect external forces, and I think that's jus... 
... it should be remembered that the atomicity of electric charge has already found its expression i... 
The structure of life I have described in buildings - the structure which I believe to be objective ... 
To be always fortunate, and to pass through life with a soul that has never known sorrow, is to be i... 
What we observe is not nature itself, but nature exposed to our method of questioning. 
If a man knew anything, he would sit in a corner and be modest; but he is such an ignorant peacock, ... 
... everything based on arguments involving the ''is'' of identidy and the older el (elementalistic)... 
It is amusing to discover, in the twentieth century, that the quarrels between two lovers, two mathe... 
For me, the cinema is not a slice of life, but a piece of cake. 
Revenge is sweet and not fattening. 
Luck is everything... My good luck in life was to be a really frightened person. I'm fortunate t... 
If I have a thousand ideas and only one turns out to be good, I am satisfied. 
No experience is a cause of success or failure. We do not suffer from the shock of our experiences, ... 
Theirs not to reason why, 
One writes to make a home for oneself, on paper, in time and in others' minds. 
Dawn was breaking, like the light from another world. 
It is conventional to call 'monster' any blending of dissonant elements. I call 'monster... 
The heart bow'd down by weight of woe,
To weakest hope will cling,
To thought and impulse whil... 
We believe that the applause of silence is the only kind that counts. 
Once in a golden hour 
What we learn with pleasure we never forget. 
Hope is nature's veil for hiding truth's nakedness. 
That's the penalty we have to pay for our acts of foolishness -- someone else always suffers for the... 
It is the patriotic duty of every man to lie for his country. 
The test of one's behavior pattern; relationship to society, relationship to one's work, relationshi... 
With so much information now online, it is exceptionally easy to simply dive in and drown. 
Tears are the summer showers to the soul. 
Capital is that part of wealth which is devoted to obtaining further wealth. 
I dreamt that I dwelt in marble halls,
With vassals and serfs at my side,
And of all who assem... 
Here lies who, born a man, a grocer died.
[Fr., Ne homme--mort epicier.] 
Do you know that my very first experience as a composer was a 'Concerto for Accordion?' 
By the time I was seven, I did a sonnet at Shakespeare's Globe theatre for Shakespeare's bir... 
Capital is that part of wealth which is devoted to obtaining further wealth. 
The price of every thing rises and falls from time to time and place to place; and with every such c... 
Again, most of the chief distinctions marked by economic terms are differences not of kind but of de... 
One writes to make a home for oneself, on paper, in time and in others' minds. 
Exclusiveness in a garden is a mistake as great as it is in society. 
I am a misanthrope and yet utterly benevolent, have more than one screw loose yet am a super-idealis...