The Institute
for
Idiotic Pursuits
My name is Louis Albert. I
am disabled (fluent
aphasia) and use this Web Page to
communicate with the world. The quotes and links give you insight to my
thought processes. (I am told
that I am a curmudgeon.)
This
is a index of the authors of the quotations in my list.
Bereishith
(Genesis)
"In the
beginning,
G-d Created the Heavens and the earth." [1:1]
"All the rest is
commentary!"
Louis
H. Albert
###
A heathen came to Rabbi
Hillel
and asked him to teach him the entire Torah (Bible) while he is
standing
on one foot.
"What is hateful to you, do not do to another.
That is the whole of the Law, all else is commentary."
"The
power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who
have not got it."
###
"We don't stop playing
because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing."
###
"I often quote myself.
It adds spice to my conversation."
"A glass cat
catches
no mice."
Joe
Denholm
"It
is appallingly obvious our technology has exceeded our humanity."
###
"To punish me for my contempt for authority, fate
made me an authority myself."
###
"A mind once stretched
by new thoughts can never regain its original shape."
###
"Any intelligent fool can
make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of
genius -- and a lot of courage -- to move in the opposite direction."
###
Attention
Deficit Disorder
"It is, in fact, nothing
short of a miracle that the modern methods of instruction have not yet
entirely strangled the holy curiosity of inquiry..."
"What
do you care what other people think?"
###
"So we really ought to
look into theories that don't work, and science that isn't science."
###
"I believe that a
scientist
looking at nonscientific problems is just as dumb as the next guy."
"I
don't care to belong to any social organization which will accept
me as a member."
###
"I find television very
educational. Every time someone switches it on I go into another room
and
read a good book."
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"Women should be obscene and not heard."
"I
don't mind coming to work -- I just don't want to stay when I get
there."
Deputy, Summit County Ohio
"Convictions
are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies."
###
"Madness is rare in
individuals
- but in groups, parties, nations, and ages it is the rule."
Epigram 156, Beyond
Good
and Evil
"The
telephone is the greatest single enemy of scholarship; for what our
intellectual
forebears used to inscribe in ink now goes once over a wire into
permanent
oblivion."
while speaking
to the United Negro College Fund, 5/9/89
"What a waste it is to
lose one's mind. Or not to have a mind is being very wasteful. How true
that is."
has been
added
to Bracelet's Familiar Quotations'.
(reported in Esquire, 8/92)
(reported in the NY Times, 12/9/92
###
...then Indiana senator and Republican
vice-presidential
candidate during a news conference
in which he was asked his opinion of the
Holocaust
"The Holocaust was an
obscene
period in our nation's history...this century's history.... We
all
lived in this century. I didn't live in this century."
"Strange!
that a Man who has wit enough to write a Satire should have folly
enough
to publish it."
###
"A learned blockhead is
a greater blockhead than an ignorant one."
###
"We must, indeed, all
hang
together, or most assuredly we shall all hang separately."
"Time
has only a relative existence."
(1795-1881)
"It
is unsound and contradictory to expect that which has never been done,
can be done, except by means which have never yet been tried."
On
statistics
"What do you want it to
say?"
"The perspective is realist
because
it assumes that causal relationships exist outside of the human mind,
and
it is critical - realist because it assumes that these valid causal
relationships
cannot be perceived with total accuracy by our imperfect sensory and
interceptive
capacities. And the perspective is evolutionary because it assumes a
special
survival value to knowing about causes and, is particular, about
manipulable
causes."
Thomas D. Cook
Quasi-Experimentation
Design & Analysis Issues for
Field
Settings
"Intellectuals
are people who believe that ideas are of more importance than
values.
That is to say, their own ideas and other people's values."
British writer
(1894-1987)
"In
this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful
for;
as for me, I rejoice that I am not a Republican."
###
attrib.
"The men the American
people
admire most extravagantly are the most daring liars; the men they
detest
most violently are those who try to tell them the truth."
"If
one assents to Simon’s
definition of “a natural science [is] a body of knowledge about [a]
class
of things - objects or phenomena - in the world: about the
characteristics
and properties that they have; about how they behave and interact with
each other,” then natural science would be viewed as a descriptive
process.
However, the social sciences not only fell this descriptive role, but
perform
a prescriptive one as well. This is especially true of the policy
sciences of policy analysis from its ex ante. point of reference."
###
"As I stated earlier, the
problem
definition or structuring aspect of the policy analysis process is not
an isolated event. In order for this process to proceed, the
defining
process must join with the total policy process. Ackoff
claims that a problem is “solved” when its value outcome is
maximized.
When a policy maker “satisfies,” as opposed to maximizes, then he
claims
the problem has been resolved. One dissolves a problem when the
values
are no longer meaningful within the framework of alliterative. Wildavsky
describes this process as a “route” that the process travels.
Going
back to my original metaphor of the macramé knot, it is the
twisting
of the threads together that brings the problem to definition and
ultimate
solution."
"We
have passed from anger about what's going on in our political system to
cynicism and alienation."
President
of the University of Oklahoma
"...Who's
on first, What's on second, I Don't Know's on third. "
"People
everywhere confuse what they read in newspapers with news."
U.S. journalist,
author
(1904-1963)
"To
the living we owe respect, but the dead we owe only the truth."
###
"A witty saying proves
nothing."
French philosopher,
writer
(1694 - 1778)
"Man
is a clever animal who behaves like an imbecile."
"It
is better to be lucky than to be good!"
"The
idea, which constitutes the actual being of the human mind, is not
simple,
but compounded of a great number of ideas."
Philosopher and
theologian
(1632-1677)
"We're
on a Mission from God!"
"The
pure and simple truth is rarely pure and never simple."
###
"I can resist everything
except temptation."
###
"There is much to be said
in favor of modern journalism. By giving us the opinions of the
uneducated,
it keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community."
###
"The artist is in accord
with
himself. We can forgive a man for making a useful thing as long as he
does
not admire it. The only excuse for making a useless thing is that one
admires
it intensely.
All art is quite useless."
"Basically, get the ride
started. I'm ready to go."
Douglas
M.
Buchanan Jr.
"Asked if he had a final
statement,
Buchanan smiled at witnesses in a booth adjacent to the death chamber
..."
"Men
occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves
up
and hurry off as if nothing had happened."
###
...at a meeting with Harry
Truman
"The last time you and I
sat
across the conference table was at Potsdam, Mr. President. I must
confess, sir, I held you in very low regard then. I loathed your
taking the place of Franklin Roosevelt. I misjudged you
badly.
Since that time, you more than any other man, have saved Western
civilization."
1/5/52 quoted in "Truman"
by
David McCulough
###
"This is not the
end.
It is not even the beginning of the end. It is perhaps the end of
the beginning."
Churchill after victory
at
El Alamein, the first significant victory against Hitler.
###
Note that Churchill said "it
has been said," acknowledging that it was not original. But where it
came
from has not been found.
He also said, "It is a good
thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations," and studied "Bartlett's"
intently.
"Many forms of
government
have been tried, and will be tried in this world of sin and woe. No one
pretends that democracy is perfect or all-wise. Indeed it has been said
that democracy is the worst form of Government except all those other
forms
that have been tried from time to time."
House
of
Commons, 11 November, 1947
"If
you cannot convince them, confuse them."
###
"It is amazing what you
can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit."
###
"Give me a one-handed
economist!
All my economists say, 'on one hand... on the other."
###
"Men make history and not
the other way around. In periods where there is no leadership,
society
stands still. "
"Couple
million here, couple million there, pretty soon you're talking about
serious
money."
Sen.
Everett
Dirksen
U.S. politician,
leader
of the Senate Republicans during the
Kennedy and Johnson administrations.(1896-1969)
Is this
Urban Legends.
"Everything that can be
invented has been invented."
-Charles H. Duell, Commissioner,
The National Inventors
Hall
of Fame
PAST
PREDICTIONS
"The jail runs because
it has to"
When
One of my bosses accused me of not being a team player, I responded
with:
"You could not be more
incorrect, I am very much a team player. It just that we happen
to
be on different teams."
"This poor little
one-horse
town."
###
"When in doubt tell the
truth."
###
"I have never let my
schooling
interfere with my education."
American author
(1835-1910)
"Cynic:
a blackguard whose faulty vision sees things as they are, not as they
ought
to be."
###
"There are four kinds of
homicide: felonious, excusable, justifiable, and praiseworthy."
(1842-1914)
"Nothing
in the world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not;
nothing
is more common than unsuccessful men of talent. Genius will not ... the
world is full of educated derelicts. The slogan "Press On" has solved,
and always will solve the problems of the human race."
(1872-1933)
"If
people think nature is their friend, then they sure don't need an
enemy."
"No
matter how thin you slice it, it's still baloney."
"In
California, they don't throw their garbage away - they make it into TV
shows."
"Words
are loaded pistols."
"Men
who dare to insult teachers and philosophers should be loathed like
sinners
against the gods."
"One
picture is worth ten thousand words"
- ascribed to Chinese origin
in Printer's Ink
12/8/21
"If
I let my fingers wander idly over the keys of a typewriter it might
happen
that my screed made an intelligible sentence. If an army of
monkeys
were strumming on typewriters they might write all the books in the
British
Museum. The chance of their doing so is decidedly more favorable
than the chance of the molecules returning to one half of the vessel."
The Nature of the
Physical
World, 1927
"The
time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time." New
###
Russell's answer:
"Francis Bacon, a man who
rose to eminence by betraying his friends, asserted, no doubt as one of
the ripe lessons of experience, that- knowledge is power"
"'For
you- "My county right or wrong' is like saying, "My mother drunk or
sober.'"
I
have a Dream
...When we let freedom ring,
when
we let it ring from every village and every hamlet, from every state
and
every city, we will be able to speed up that day when all of God's
children,
black men and white men, Jews and Gentiles, Protestants and Catholics,
will be able to join hands and sing in the words of the old Negro
spiritual,
"Free at last!
free
at last! thank God Almighty, we are free at last!"
(This
quotation is from Inca Atahuallpa's answer to Fray Wicente Valverde,
taken
from Spanish documents of the Indian Archives in
Seville.
M.37.
I (show with no comment!)
"Be advised that I, being
free,
do not have to pay tribute to anyone, nor do I believe there is a king
greater than I. However, I will have the pleasure to be the friend of
your
emperor, since he should be a great prince to send his armies
throughout
the world. But this Pope does not interest me; much less will I obey
him,
I being in the kingdom of my father and our religion being good and I
and
my subjects are happy. However, despite my being a son of Huayna Capac
I cannot discuss anything so wise and old. The Christ that you speak of
died, the Sun and Moon never die, besides how do you know your god
created
the world?"
taken
from
Spanish documents of the
Indian
Archives
in Seville. M.37.
"Education:
something you pay for, but hope you don't get it"
First Director
The Ray C. Bliss
Institute
of Applied Politics
"They
came for the Communists, and I didn't object For I wasn't a Communist;
They came for the Socialists, and I didn't object - For I wasn't a
Socialist;
They came for the labor leaders, and I didn't object - For I wasn't a
labor
leader; They came for the Jews, and I didn't object - For I wasn't a
Jew;
Then they came for me - And there was no one left to object."
German Protestant Pastor,
(1892-1984)
on
Richard
Nixon
"He told us he was going
to take crime out of the streets. He did. He took it into the damn
White
House."
(1926-1990)
"When
I was a boy I was told anyone could become President, I'm beginning to
believe it"
###
"The
Open Shop" 1904
The maintenance of a
certain
grade of and scale of living compensation for labor is vital to the
interests
of our people...The protection of working men in this rate of wages is
the protection of the land.
(1857-1938)
"The
right to swing my fist ends where the other man's nose begins."
"It's
just a job. Grass grows, birds fly, waves pound the sand. I beat people
up."
(1942-____)
"Art
is anything you can get away with."
###
"Art at its most
significant
is a Distant Early Warning System that can always be relied on to tell
the old culture what is beginning to happen to it."
aphasia
"...entered a world of
corageous people that were prisoners of their brains."
a neuropsychologist
working
in Venezuela.
Actually I´m the
only
one in this country
Valedictory
Speeches
"You people are not
prepared.You
are well-educated and you look cute, but that's not going to cut it."
More Valedictory
Speeches
Abraham
Lincoln's Gettysberg Address
Four score and seven
years
ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation,
conceived
in liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created
equal.
Now we are engaged in a great civil war testing whether that nation or
any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met
on
a great battle-field of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of
that field, as a final resting place for those who here gave their
lives
that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that
we
should do this. But, in a larger sense, we can not dedicate, we can not
consecrate, we can not hallow this ground. The brave men, living and
dead,
who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to
add
or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember what we say
here,
but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us the living,
rather,
to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here
have thus far so nobly dvanced. It is rather for us to be here
dedicated
to the great task remaining before us that from these honored dead we
take
increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full
measure
of devotion that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have
died in vain that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of
freedom
and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall
not perish from the Earth.
"The cheek of
every
American must tingle with shame as he reads the silly, flat, and
dishwatery
utterances of the man who has to be pointed out to intelligent
foreigners
as the President of the United States."
November 1863
###
"The best way to get a
bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly."
"Timing
has a lot to do with the outcome of a rain dance"
~ Anon
Certified Consulting Meteorologist
Golden Gate Weather Services
HARVEY
"I've been wrestling with
reality for 35 years and I'm happy Doctor; I've finally won out over
it."
1950
"Those
who have never been ill are incapable of real sympathy for a great many
misfortune."
French novelist and
critic
(1869-1951)
"I've studied new
Philosophy
And Jurisprudence, Medicine,
And even, alas, Theology
From end to end with labor keen;
And here, poor fool;
with all my lore I stand no wiser than before."
###
"We must always change,
renew, rejuvenate ourselves; otherwise we harden."
###
"We can offer up much in
the large, but to make sacrifices in little things is what we are
seldom
equal to."
(1749-1832)
"A
learned fool is more foolish than an ignorant one."
"Diabetes
is a wonderful affection, not very frequent among men, being a melting
down of the flesh and limbs into urine. life is short, disgusting and
painful,
thirst unquenchable, death inevitable."
c. 200
"Old
elephants limp off to the hills to die; old Americans go out to the
highway
and drive themselves to death with huge cars."
###
Generation
of Swine
" If there is, in fact,
a Heaven and a Hell, all we know for sure is that Hell will be a
viciously
overcrowded version of Phoenix..."
###
"Consciousness Expansion'
went out with LBJ . . . And it is worth noting, historically, that
downers
came in with Nixon."
"To
be great is to be misunderstood."
###
"Good-bye, proud world!
I'm going home; Thou art not my friend and I'm not thine."
(1803 - 1882)
"The
only thing experience teaches us is that experience teaches us nothing."
French author
(1885-1967)
"The
hottest places in hell are reserved for those who in time of great
moral
crises maintain their neutrality."
(1265-1321)
"When
a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of many men for the
inattention
of one."
Helen
Rowland
American journalist (1875-1950)
"I
took off my own hat and saw it was empty. I began to feel like an
empty hat myself."
"Every
artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into
his
pictures."
"We
must believe in free will. We have no other choice."
"I
was teaching and talking about murder and homicide and it dawned on me
that instead of getting married, if I murdered my fiancé
(wife)
I would be free by now."
Lou Albert
cira 1994
"I
made a remark a long time ago, I said I was very pleased that
television
was now showing murder stories, because it's bringing murder back
into its rightful setting-in the home."
Before
singing "Quite Early Morning"
Pete Seeger & Alro
Guthrie, TOGETHER, 1975
"My
father said in his own musicalogical way,
plagiarism is basic to
all culture."
###
taking on "Celery -
Time"
Alro Guthrie
& Pete Seeger, PRECIOUS FRIEND, 1982
"But you can't always do
what you're supposed to do. But ... no ... but what they say..."
"Irish Blessing"
"May the road rise to
meet
you,
May the wind be always
at your back,
May the sun shine warm
upon your face,
May the rain fall soft
upon your fields,
And until we meet
again,..."
"The
Democrats are the party that says government will make you smarter,
taller,
richer, and remove the crabgrass on your lawn. The Republicans are the
party that says government doesn't work and then they get elected and
prove
it."
"Less
is more"
"Hesitation
is the best cure for anger."
"People
change and forget to tell each other."
"No
problem is so formidable that you can't walk away from it."
"We
are torn between the craving to know and the despair of having known."
"Without
censorship, things can get terribly confused in the public mind."
Meetings
are an addictive, highly self-indulgent activity that corporations and
other large organizations habitually engage in only because they cannot
actually masturbate.
"Nothing
can so alienate a voter from the political system as backing a winning
candate."
Mark B.
Cohen
"Democracy
is an abuse of statistics."
"The
public will believe anything, so long as it is not founded on truth."
"Creative
semantics is the key to contemporary government; it consists of talking
in strange tongues lest the public learn the inevitable inconveniently
early."
###
"Football combines the
two worst features of American life. It is violence punctuated by
committee meetings."
"Education...
has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish
what
is worth reading."
"That's
not a lie. It's a terminological inexactitude."
"Never
raise your hand to your children; it leaves your midsection
unprotected."
"Politics
is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought
necessary."
"Anybody
that wants the presidency so much that he’ll spend two years organizing
and campaigning for it is not to be trusted with the office."
"Half
of the modern drugs could well be thrown out of the window, except that
the birds might eat them."
Dr.
Martin Henry
Fisher
"Criminal:
A person with predatory instincts who have not sufficient capital to
form
a corporation."
"It
was just an any old kind of day; the kind that comes and slips away."
"When
it comes to humility, I'm the greatest."
In
the fall of 1964 I went to a concert by Theodore Bikel. Before
intermission
he did an act in which played the harmonica, played the guitar, sung
and
danced! As the applause started to stop, He said:
"That is not
necessarily
what I wanted to be remembered for!"
Theodore
Bikel
I have used this quote many time, especially
when I was going my consulting business in jails and prisons.
Louis
Albert
"There
she was: dejected, desperate, and stoned. Everything I could have hoped
for in a woman."
"A
formal education can sometimes be broadening but more often merely
flattens."
###
"Truth is always the
enemy
of power. And power the enemy of truth."
The melody has
haunted
me for as long as I can remember.
Sometimes it just pops into mind, but I
can't remember the verse. Now it's here forever.
The
Teddy Bears' Picnic (song)
1. If you go down to the woods
today
You're sure of a big surprise
If you go down to the woods today
You'd better go in disguise |
4. Beneath the trees where
nobody sees
They'll hide and seek as long as
they
please
Cause that's the way the Teddy
Bears
have
their picnic |
7. Picnic time for Teddy Bears
The little Teddy Bears are having a
lovely
time today
Watch them, catch them unawares
And see them picnic on their
holiday. |
2. For ev'ry bear that ever
there was
Will gather there for certain,
because
Today's the day the Teddy Bears
have
their
picnic. |
5. If you go down to the woods
today
You'd better not go alone
It's lovely down in the woods today
But safer to stay at home |
8. See them gaily gad about
They love to play and shout;
They never have any care; |
3. Ev'ry Teddy Bear who's been
good
Is sure of a treat today.
There's lots of marvelous things to
eat
And wonderful games to play |
6. For ev'ry bear that ever
there was
Will gather there for certain,
because
Today's the day the Teddy Bears
have
their
picnic. |
9. At six o'clock their Mummies
and Daddies,
Will take them home to bed,
Because they're tired little Teddy
Bears. |
Jimmy
Kennedy
Music by John W. Bratton
"If
I wasn't sick, I would have to be a Hypochondriac!"
"Man
is the only creature who refuses to be what he is."
"Everybody
lies, but it doesn't matter because nobody is listening."
Nick
Diamos
"Seriousness
is the refuge of the shallow."
"People
want economy and they will pay any price to get it."
"My
interest in the future is because I am going to spend the rest of my
life
there."
"I
learn by going where I have to go."
"Iron
rusts from disuse; stagnant water loses its purity and in cold weather
becomes frozen; even so does inaction sap the vigour of the mind."
"My
centre is giving way, my right is retreating, situation excellent, I am
attacking."
"Speech
has power and few realize that words do not fade. What starts out as a
sound ends in a deed."
On
my High school graduation, June 4, 1964, Lewistown, PA, someone asked
me
how did I feel? I said:
"Unemployed!"
"Show
me a guy who’s afraid to look bad, and I’ll show you a guy you can beat
every time."
"Behind
every argument is someone's ignorance."
"It
is better to have loafed and lost, than never to have loafed at all."
###
"There are two kinds of
light--the glow that illumines, and the glare that obscures."
"We
are born crying, live complaining, and die disappointed."
Thomas
Fuller,
M.D.
(1654-1734)
Chronic
heartburn
The story if my life! Lou Albert
"I can't believe I ate
the whole thing."
"...and
the Jews inside would be poisoned."
Following Orders...
"A life predicated on
being
obedient and taking orders is a very comfortable life indeed. Living in
such a way reduces to a minimum one's own need to think."
"Adults
are always asking kids what they want to be when they grow up because
they
are looking for ideas."
"The
moment the slave resolves that he will no longer be a slave, his
fetters
fall.
He frees himself and
shows
the way to others.
Freedom and slavery are
mental states."
"He
who cannot change the very fabric of his thought will never be able to
change reality, and will never, therefore, make any progress."
"I
like to have quotations ready for every occasion. ...They give one's
ideas
so pat, and save one the trouble of finding expression adequate to
one's
feeling."
"An
honest politician is one who when he's bought, stays bought."
"The
main fuel to speed the world's progress is our stock of knowledge, and
the brake is our lack of imagination."
###
"All of us necessarily
hold many casual opinions that are ludicrously wrong simply because
life
is far too short for us to think through even a small fraction of the
topics
that we come across."
"You
can't learn too soon that the most useful thing about a principle is
that
it can always be sacrificed to expediency."
"How
alike are the groans of love, to those of the dying."
"That's
the whole problem with science. You've got a bunch of empiricists
trying
to describe things of unimaginable wonder."
"If
at first you don't succeed, try, try again. Then quit. No use being a
damn
fool about it."
"No
one is too old if they have a passion to learn. To absorb new ideas is
to live anew, to see the world with fresh eyes."
"Organizing
is what you do before you do something, so that when you do it, it's
not
all mixed up."
"The
only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do
nothing."
"All
change is not growth; all movement is not forward."
"I
fear nothing, I hope nothing, I am free."
Comment after
having lost 5 of the last 6 primaries as Gerald Ford's campaign manager;
quoted in Washington Post (May 16, 1976)
"I'm not going to
rearrange
the furniture on the deck of the Titanic."
"There
is no pleasure in having nothing to do; the fun is in having lots to do
and not doing it".
Mary
Wilson Little
Zoë is a friend who we communicate
with out long writing. We send email cards and small messages.
She sent me these quotes that help to
communicate
with ideas with out necessarily writing or speaking.
"...procrastinating is
hard work."
..explaining how
he felt after being hit on the head by a ball in the 1934 World Series
"The doctors X-rayed my
head and found nothing."
"There
is no country in the world in which everything can be provided for by
the
laws, or in which politicial institutions can prove a substitute for
common
sense and public morality."
"This
is the way the world ends
This is the way the world
ends
This is the way the world
ends
Not with a bang but a
whimper."
"Good
artists copy; great artists steal"
"If
one was to think constantly of death, the business of life would stand
still."
Television
is a medium because it is neither rare nor well done.
"When
I bore people at a party, they think it is their fault."
"Always
laugh when you can. It is cheap medicine."
"Believe,
when you are most unhappy, that there is something for you to do in the
world. So long as you can sweeten another's pain, life is not in vain."
Occam's
Razor
"Entities are not to be
multiplied beyond."
William
of Occam,
scholar, philosopher, and one of England's
more controversial thinks.
"Sex
is the biggest nothing of our time"
"I
seem to be a verb."
"Engineering
does not require science. Science helps a lot but people built
perfectly
good brick walls long before they knew why cement works."
"I've
met many thinkers and many cats, but the wisdom of cats is infinitely
superior."
Hippolyte
Taine
1828–93, French critic and historian
Chief of Police
of
Montgomery County, Md., was quoted in the 11/13/02
Washington Post on the public's improved
opinion of police after the sniper incidents:
"People have been very
positive. They're now waving at
us with all five fingers,
and that does feel nice."
Charles
Moose
ON SPECULATION9
CLEARING IT UP
"There has been a lot of
speculation, and I believe there will continue to be a lot of
speculation until the speculation ends,"
Warning label on a decorative rock garden set
called Popcorn Rock
"EATING ROCKS MAY LEAD TO BROKEN
TEETH."
"If you walk backwards, you'll find out that you
can go forward and people won't know if you're coming or going."
Retraction notice ix The lawyer!
"Last week the Lawyer incorrectly
stated that Maurice Millen, who was leaving DAC to join Macfarlanes,
was a senior lawyer. Millen was DAC's head of IT We apologize to the
two firms for any inconvenience this may have caused. We would also
like to apologize to Millen for any embarrassment caused by calling him
a lawyer"
The lawyer
Trying to
explain the team's losing streak!
"The problem here is that
we haven't solved the problem. And its been an ongoing problem."
April
12, 2004
Lou
Albert
(I
cannot read and write! If you have find an error please let me know.)