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3/22/06 > Robert E. Lee
"It is well that war is so terrible, or we should grow too fond of it."
- Robert E. Lee
3/20/06 > Eddie Izzard
"I grew up in Europe, where the history comes from."
Eddie Izzard
3/02/06 > M. Gandhi
"Be the change you want to see in the world" M. Gandhi
2/28/06 > Napoleon Bonaparte
History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.
Napoleon Bonaparte
2/24/06 > Dame Edna Everage
"Never be afraid to laugh at yourself, after all, you could be missing out on the joke of the century."
- Dame Edna Everage
2/24/06 > Mark Twain
"Suppose you were an idiot and suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself."
- Mark Twain
2/22/06 > Voltaire
I do not agree with what you have to say, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it.
- Voltaire
1/24/06 > Johnny Carson
Democracy means that anyone can grow up to be president, and anyone who doesn't grow up can be vice president.
Johnny Carson
1/09/06 > John Lehman
Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.
- John Lehman
1/03/06 > Norman Douglas
Education is a state-controlled manufactory of echoes.
- Norman Douglas
12/14/05 > Alexander Pope
Blessed is he who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed.
- Alexander Pope
12/14/05 > Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
I despise the pleasure of pleasing people that I despise.
- Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
11/29/05 > Arthur C. Clarke
If we have learned one thing from the history of invention and discovery, it is that, in the long run - and often in the short one - the most daring prophecies seem laughably conservative.
- Arthur C. Clarke
11/29/05 > Bill Cosby
Human beings are the only creatures that allow their children to come back home.
- Bill Cosby
11/17/05 > Oliver Wendell Holmes
Man's mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes
11/17/05 > David Duez
Duez I say, not as I do.
-- David Duez
11/08/05 > Herbert Agar
The truth that makes men free is for the most part the truth which men prefer not to hear.
- Herbert Agar
11/04/05 > Peter McWilliams
To avoid situations in which you might make mistakes may be the biggest mistake of all.
- Peter McWilliams
11/02/05 > Norm Papernick
Those who can laugh without cause have either found the true meaning of happiness or have gone stark raving mad.
- Norm Papernick
10/31/05 > Charles M. Schulz
Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow in Australia.
Charles M. Schulz (1922 - 2000)
10/25/05 > Sophocles
The keenest sorrow is to recognize ourselves as the sole cause of all our adversities.
- Sophocles
10/25/05 > Gerald R. Ford
Things are more like they are now than they have ever been.
- Gerald R. Ford
10/23/05 > Dwight D. Eisenhower
A sense of humor is part of the art of leadership, of getting along with people, of getting things done.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
10/21/05 > Ray Bradbury
I'm seventeen and I'm crazy. My uncle says the two always go together. When people ask your age, he said, always say seventeen and insane.
- Ray Bradbury
10/14/05 > David Frost
He's turned his life around. He used to be depressed and miserable. Now he's miserable and depressed.
- David Frost
10/13/05 > Samuel McChord Crothers
The trouble with facts is that there are so many of them.
- Samuel McChord Crothers
10/11/05 > Alice Roosevelt Longworth
If you can't say anything good about someone, sit right here by me.
- Alice Roosevelt Longworth
10/11/05 > Chris Burke
"I rounded third and Manso's eyes were as big as saucers. That's when it hit me this was pretty big."

-- Chris Burke on third-base coach Doug Mansolino.
10/07/05 > John Burroughs
It is always easier to believe than to deny. Our minds are naturally affirmative.
- John Burroughs
10/06/05 > Margaret Thatcher
"I am extraordinarily patient, provided I get my own way in the end."
- Margaret Thatcher
10/05/05 > PJ ORourke
Always read stuff that will make you look good if you die in the middle of it.
- PJ O'Rourke
10/04/05 > Robert Wilensky
We've heard that a million monkeys at a million keyboards could produce the complete works of Shakespeare; now, thanks to the Internet, we know that is not true.
- Robert Wilensky