"What does not destroy me, makes me strong." Or "We are what we pretend to be, but we better be very careful what we pretend." Kurt Vonnegut. "He has no enemies, but he is intensely disliked by his friends." Oscar Wilde. Well, I argued all night like so many have before, saying "what you give me, I seem to need so much more", Then she pointed at me where I kneeled on her floor, She said "Don't try to use me or slyly refuse me, just win me or lose me, it is this that the darkness is for." (Lady Midnight - Leonard Cohen) "People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid." Soren Aabye Kierkegaard (1813-1855) "If stupidity got us into this mess then why can't it get us out? Will Rogers (1879-1935) "Whenever I watch TV and see those poor starving kids all over the world, I can't help but cry. I mean I'd love to be skinny like that but not with all those flies and death and stuff." - Mariah Carey. "I have learnt silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet strange, I am ungrateful to these teachers." Kahlil Gibran. Bored people unless they sleep a lot, are cruel. Renata Adler (1938- ) "He who is not contented with what he has, would not be contented with what he would like to have." Socrates (470-399BC) "Human beings are perhaps never more frightening than when they are convinced beyond doubt that they are right." Laurens Van der Post 1906-1996 "If all were equal, no race would be run. If there could be no second place, no dead last, would any run their fastest? Would any run at all?" Jim Clemetson. "You cant hold a man down without staying down with him." Booker T Washington 1856-1915 Jean de La Fontaine (1621-1695): To live lightheartedly but not recklessly; to be gay without being boisterous; to be courageous without being bold; to show trust and cheerful resignation without fatalism--this is the art of living Marilyn French (1929- ): Anyone determined to find another person or group inferior can always find whole lists of grounds that demonstrate inferiority because we are all inferior to the ideals of humanness we have erected. David Frost (1939- ): A conservative is someone who demands a square deal for the rich "Smoking is one of the leading causes of statistics." -Fletcher Knebel "Did you hear about the dyslexic, agnostic insomniac who stays up all night wondering if there really is a Dog?" -Anon "We apologize for the error in last week's paper in which we stated that Mr. Arnold Dogbody was a defective in the police force. We meant, of course, that Mr. Dogbody is a detective in the police farce." -Correction Notice in the Ely Standard