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From: bane@vtx.ma.man.ac.uk (Michael!)
Newsgroups: alt.quotations
Subject: Re: A few of my favourite sigs...
Date: 9 Jan 93 16:32:02 GMT
Reply-To: bane@vtx.ma.man.ac.uk
Organization: Magic Michael's Mushroom Factory.

"It's amazing how 
 much 'mature wisdom' 
 resembles being too 
 tired." - Lazarus Long



Who is LL? I've heard the name a few times but still
remain ignorant.

Michael
From: robm@ishtar.Berkeley.EDU (Rob McNicholas)
Newsgroups: alt.quotations
Subject: Emerson on Money
Date: 11 Jan 93 13:25:37
Organization: Technical and Computing Services, U.C. Berkeley, Berkeley, CA
Distribution: na
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Keywords: emerson, money

"Money often costs too much."       -Ralph Waldo Emerson
--
Rob McNicholas		    Technical & Computing Services, EE/CS, U.C. Berkeley
robm@eecs.berkeley.edu	    Voice: 510/642-8633  FAX: 510/643-7846
From: robm@ishtar.Berkeley.EDU (Rob McNicholas)
Newsgroups: alt.quotations
Subject: Re: Truth
Date: 7 Jan 93 14:55:03
Organization: Technical and Computing Services, U.C. Berkeley, Berkeley, CA
	<1992Dec30.220728.14579@ultb.isc.rit.edu>
NNTP-Posting-Host: ishtar.berkeley.edu
In-reply-to: lmj4805@ritvax.isc.rit.edu's message of Wed, 30 Dec 1992 22:07:28 GMT

``Even if you are a minority of one, the truth is the truth.'' ---Ghandi
--
Rob McNicholas		    Technical & Computing Services, EE/CS, U.C. Berkeley
robm@eecs.berkeley.edu	    Voice: 510/642-8633  FAX: 510/643-7846
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From: kencham@centi.cs.umn.edu (Deepak Kenchammana-Hosekote)
Subject: Sherlock Holmes quote ....
Organization: University of Minnesota
Date: Sun, 10 Jan 1993 16:20:41 GMT

Sherlock Holmes quotes, when summarizing the public praise for Lestrade and
Gregson,

	"Un sot toujours un plus sot qui l'admire"

Translated it means, "A fool can always find a bigger fool to admire him."

Any clues as to who that quote is attributed to?

Rauhe,

\deepak
From: glazier@isr.harvard.edu (Andrew Baker Glazier)
Newsgroups: alt.quotations
Subject: Re: Wanted: Cool Einstein-quotes...
Keywords: Einstein, Quotes
Date: 5 Jan 93 15:18:50 GMT
Organization: Harvard University, Cambridge, MA

>Now Schroedinger was gambling
>When he put his cat on ice
>But Heisenberg was certain
>'Till Albert said "no dice!"
Excuse me, but I believe that the Heisenberg Principle (see my previous
post) post-dates Eistein saying that by quite a bit.



-- 
"A horse! A horse! Somebody give me a horse, man, because|glazier@ 
I come to bury this dirtball, not to praise him. Whaddya |harvard.isr.edu
think I am? Whether it's nobler for the mind to make people suffer with all
these totally outrageous arrows arrows for a fortune, or what!" -- D.R.
From: james@cs.anu.edu.au (James Popple)
Newsgroups: alt.quotations
Subject: Source wanted: Voltaire's "A witty saying proves nothing"
Date: 9 Jan 1993 19:40:38 +1100
Organization: Computer Science Department, ANU, Australia
NNTP-Posting-Host: yildun.anu.edu.au

I am still looking for the source of the quotation:

       A witty saying proves nothing. 

Thanks to Bob Primmer and Tom Strong I have the correct wording
(at least, an English translation thereof) and confirmation that
it is from Voltaire. 

However, I need a citation for it.  Any suggestions would be
greatly appreciated. 

Thanks in advance. 

James Popple
                                   Department of Computer Science
Phone:  +61 6 249 5691             Faculty of Science
        +61 6 249 4043             Australian National University
FAX:    +61 6 249 0010             CANBERRA  ACT  0200
E-Mail: James.Popple@anu.edu.au    AUSTRALIA
From: mjd@saul.cis.upenn.edu ("[*] Lord of the Control-H")
Newsgroups: alt.quotations
Subject: Re: Quotes about religion,politics,guns,etc.
Keywords: church religion Hitler
Date: 6 Jan 93 06:10:51 GMT
	<1212@blue.cis.pitt.edu> <1992Dec30.195122.23062@samba.oit.unc.edu>
	<ROBM.93Jan5095850@ishtar.Berkeley.EDU>
Organization: Eaters of Wisdom
In-reply-to: robm@ishtar.Berkeley.EDU's message of 5 Jan 93 14:58:50 GMT



	When I was young, my position was: dynamite.  It was only later
	that I realized that this sort of thing cannot be rushed.  It
	must rot away like a diseased member.
        
	        -- Hitler, on the churches.
--

   Nihil tam absurde dici potest, quod non dicatur ab aliquo philosophorum.
Mark-Jason Dominus 	  			    mjd@central.cis.upenn.edu
From: barbey@lglsun.epfl.ch (Stephane Barbey)
Newsgroups: alt.quotations
Subject: Re: Mnemonic for pi
Date: 12 Jan 93 07:15:55 GMT
Organization: Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne

In article <JGM.93Jan11231923@vegas.cs.brown.edu>, jgm@cs.brown.edu (Jonathan Monsarrat) writes:
: > > Some time ago I heard a wonderful mnemonic for pi (yes, 3.1415...), in
: > > French! It went something like J'ai envie de faire apprendre un nombre
: > 
: > Not much of a mnemonic, is it...?
: 
: A mnemonic for pi would also have to be a very very long...
: 
: -Jon

It doesn't cover every digit of pi :-). 

The trick of the mnemonic is to count the letters of each word of the
sentence. It begins with

  Que j'aime a faire apprendre ce nombre utile ...
  3.  1 4    1 5     9         2  6      5 
  
which translates to something like "How I like to teach an useful number ..."

I'm sorry, but I can't remember the whole sentence.

-Stephane

--
Stephane Barbey				"It's not easy getting real wings"	
INJ-335, barbey@di.epfl.ch
From: dan@meaddata.com (Dan Hursh)
Newsgroups: alt.quotations
Subject: Re: Button quotation
Date: 4 Jan 1993 23:08:32 GMT
Organization: Mead Data Central, Dayton OH
Distribution: world
Reply-To: dan@meaddata.com
NNTP-Posting-Host: prism.meaddata.com

In article 8928@maths.tcd.ie, mcdavey@maths.tcd.ie (Matthew Davey) writes:
>haynes@cats.ucsc.edu (Jim Haynes) writes:
>
>>Once when in the airport in Boston I found an abandoned button with the
>>message
>>    "Function Points - The Mother of All Metrics"
>
>>Now aside from the obvious relation to Saddam Hussein does anybody have
>>the foggiest idea what the slogan means?
>
>Well, I could be way off the mark here, but it sounds like a neat Math
>joke.  A Metric space is a vector space with a distance function
>(called a Metric) giving the distance between any two given points.
>Thus, before you can have a Metric you have to have function points.
>
>
>-- 
>
>Matt Davey		Familiarity breeds contempt -- and children.
>mcdavey@maths.tcd.ie				Mark Twain.

Function Points are  one (of many) standard metrics used to quantify the size of a
software development effort.  When combined with other metrics (staff hours, capital
dollars, you name it) they can be used to derive an almost unlimited set of metrics
to show improvement in a development operation.

[At least that is what our QA people tell me]



---
Daniel R. Hursh                                |                                                 | Duct Tape Is Like The Force.
Mead Data Central, Inc.                   | My Thoughts Are My Own  | It Has A Light Side, A Dark 
P.O. Box 933, Dayton OH 45401     | .....I Think                               | Side, And It Holds The      
dan@meaddata.com                          |                                                 | Universe Together...Zwanzig 

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From: "Gary Hopkins" <wk00624@psilink.com>
Subject: Re: Obscene Quotes from Famous People
Organization: Gary Hopkins Typesetting
Date: Thu, 7 Jan 1993 20:02:13 GMT
X-Mailer: PSILink-DOS (3.3)

>FROM:   Ron Dippold <rdippold@cancun.qualcomm.com>
>
>The only truly indigenous American inventions are Thanksgiving turkey
>and fingerfucking.
>                   -- Lyndon Baines Johnson
>-- 
>Eloquence is logic on fire.

Reminds me of LBJ's disdain for J. Edgar Hoover, about whom he 
reportedly said, "I'd rather have him inside the tent pissing out than 
outside the tent pissing in."
From: mdm@sparc2.prime.com (Michael D. McAfee)
Newsgroups: alt.quotations
Subject: Re: Wild at Heart
Date: 6 Jan 93 19:06:30 GMT
Organization: Computervision


		Back when I was working as an usher, our theater
	received "Wild at Heart" and new usher vests at roughly the
	same time.  The following repartee occurred frequently.

		Usher1:  "You look like a clown in that vest."

		Usher2:  "This a [theater name] vest.  It's a symbol
			of my individuality, and my belief in personal
			freedom."

		Usher1:  "A-----e."


		Our theater also played "Rocky Horror Picture Show,"
	and there were many references to that scene by the audience.

	Michael, the Chaotic
	disclaimer:  That's Mike, the _FORMER_ Usher.
Newsgroups: alt.quotations
From: ian@sq.sq.com (Ian Darwin)
Subject: OSF/DCE
Organization: SoftQuad Inc., Toronto, Canada
Date: Thu, 7 Jan 93 21:39:59 GMT

"Before we meaningfully consider OSF, it needs to get deployed in
more than just books."
		- Steve Baker, Net Worth column, UNIX Review, Feb 1993, p.17

Newsgroups: alt.quotations
From: wilder@nx02.mik.uky.edu (jeff wilder)
Subject: Re: Cheers
    <1993Jan4.214440.1246@dg-rtp.dg.com> <C0EzsB.HJx@ecf.toronto.edu> 
    <C0Ftx6.9sp@rice.edu>
Organization: University Of Kentucky, Dept. of Math Sciences
X-Path: nx02.mik.uky.edu!wilder
Date: Wed, 6 Jan 1993 18:12:51 GMT

Coach:  What's shaking, Norm?

Norm:  All four cheeks and a couple of chins, Coach.

--
==============================================================================
| Jeff W  uk06666@ukpr.uky.edu | Meddle not in the affairs of cats, for they |
| Wilder  & wilder@mik.uky.edu | are subtle, and will piss on your cyberdeck.|
==============================================================================
Newsgroups: alt.quotations
From: pds@quintus.com (Peter D. Schachte)
Subject: Re: Who said this???
Organization: Quintus Corporation, Palo Alto, CA
Distribution: usa
Date: Sat, 9 Jan 1993 00:51:08 GMT

In article <1993Jan6.222511.3831@oar.net>, tga@oar.net (Germann Associates) writes:
> "Some people look at a difficult situation and say 'why?'.  Achievers look
> at the same situation and say 'Why not?'."

I think it was Teddy Kennedy at Bobby's funeral.  I think it was more
like

    "Some men see things as they are and ask 'why?'  My brother saw things
    as they should be and asked 'why not?'"

Not quite right.  I'd be interested to see the exact wording.

You know, it's really not that profound, when you think about it.

-- 
-Peter Schachte
pds@quintus.com
Newsgroups: alt.quotations
From: laser@vpnet.chi.il.us (Paul Lamb)
Subject: Wanted: Interesting stories
Organization: Vpnet Public Access
Distribution: usa
Date: Mon, 4 Jan 1993 20:04:05 GMT

I know that this is probably not the best place to post this, but as I am 
unaware of a better place, here it lies.  I'm interested in locating sources
for amusing/interesting stories for use in public speaking engagements.  You
know, cute little stories with some point, or humor to them that can be used as
openings or closings to speeches.  Any info is greatly appreciated.

Sorry for putting this here if a better group is available-Suggestions of that
nature are also appreciated.

Please respond via email to laser @vpnet.chi.il.us
From: erhellfr@cip.informatik.uni-erlangen.de (Edgar Hellfritsch)
Newsgroups: alt.quotations
Subject: Re: Genghis Khan
Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1993 15:12:15 GMT
Organization: Student Pool, CSD, University of Erlangen, Germany
NNTP-Posting-Host: faui00m.informatik.uni-erlangen.de

leonard@qiclab.scn.rain.com (Leonard Erickson) writes:

>tobis@skool.ssec.wisc.edu (Michael Tobis) writes:

>>I remember that, as it was Conan's first line, a good fifteen minutes into
>>the film. I was wondering how they would deal with the Austrian accent, and
>>they did it brazenly. The last part was "de sqvealing of de vimmen..."

>Well, after all, Conan *was* a barbarian and would thus be expected to
>have *quite* an accent... :-)

What a pity I only saw the synchronized version. The accent got -of course-
completely lost. They didn't even hire an Austrian speaker.
BTW I like the thought of relating 'Austrian' to 'Barbarian'. *Giggle*

Edgar (German)

ObQuote:
Is that a gun in your pocket or are you just pleased to see me? - Mae West.

---
         --------------------------------------------
        |   Edgar Hellfritsch:             |/        |
        |                                 (o)        |
        |   "I've got the habit           uu )o      |
        |    of typing the Rabbit."     ~~~~~~~~~    |
         --------------------------------------------
From: eroth@Apple.COM (Rico)
Newsgroups: alt.quotations
Subject: A Nazi on wartime propaganda
Date: 5 Jan 93 17:23:08 GMT
Organization: Yet Another California Computer Co., Inc.


"Naturally the common people don't want war... but after all
it is the leaders of a country who determine policy, and it is
always a simple matter to drag the people along ... All you
have to do is tell them they are being attacked, and denounce
the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country
to danger."                  -- Hermann Goering, 1936



-- 
----
"Tipper and Al came to a show the last time we were in Washington.
They're nice people, a nice family.  We made every effort not to
frighten them"
     --  JERRY GARCIA, on rumors the Grateful Dead may play at
         the Inaugural.  Boston Globe, Dec 12,1992.
----
--
Newsgroups: alt.quotations
From: haavardf@boson.uio.no (Haavard Fosseng)
Subject: Re: Wanted: Cool Einstein-quotes...
Organization: University of Oslo, Norway
	<1993Jan5.204405.9927@news2.cis.umn.edu>
	<5JAN199313280515@csv03.triumf.ca>
	<1993Jan7.060223.24675@news.vanderbilt.edu>
Date: Thu, 7 Jan 1993 08:14:09 GMT

As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not
certain, and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality.

Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.

I cannot conceive of a God who rewards and punishes his creatures, or has a 
will of the type of which we are conscious in ourselves.  An individual who 
should survive his physical death is also beyond my comprehension,... ; 
such notions are for the fears or absurd egoism of feeble souls.


H}vard Fosseng
Newsgroups: alt.quotations
From: rdippold@cancun.qualcomm.com (Ron Dippold)
Subject: Re: The Big Apple
Organization: Qualcomm, Inc., San Diego, CA
Distribution: usa
Date: Tue, 5 Jan 1993 10:42:13 GMT

jpr@jpradley.jpr.com (Jean-Pierre Radley) writes:
>Does anyone have an explanation for "the Big Apple" as a reference to New
>York City?

Rotten to the core?  <big groan here>
-- 
He who looks like his passport photo is not well enough to travel.
Newsgroups: alt.quotations
From: rod@unislc.uucp (Robert Despain)
Subject: Re: Dorothy Parker
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL6]
Organization: Unisys Corporation SLC
Date: Thu, 7 Jan 1993 14:20:20 GMT

Bertram Walsh (bwalsh@math.rutgers.edu) opines:

: I think the attribution is via
: another member of the Algonquin Round Table.

"Our Mrs. Parker" by Alexander Woollcott, which begins:

Portrait of a poet attempted by one who, abashed by the
difficulties of the undertaking, breaks down and weakly resorts
to a hundred familiar quotations.

Cheers,
R.O.
--
R.O. Despain                  |
Mature Products Group         |  Internet: rod@unislc.slc.unisys.com
(801) 594-4633                |      UUCP: ...!{sun, uunet}!unislc!rod


-- 
R.O. Despain                  |
Mature Products Group         |  Internet: rod@unislc.slc.unisys.com
(801) 594-4633                |      UUCP: ...!{sun, uunet}!unislc!rod
From: mjd@saul.cis.upenn.edu ("[*] SED")
Newsgroups: alt.quotations
Subject: Re: Self Depracetion and Toilet Paper
Date: 5 Jan 93 18:10:11 GMT
Followup-To: misc.misc
Organization: Eaters of Wisdom
In-reply-to: irie@husc11.harvard.edu's message of 23 Dec 92 20:17:21 GMT

In article <IRIE.92Dec23151721@husc11.harvard.edu> irie@husc11.harvard.edu (Robert E. Irie) writes:
>   "May your life be like toilet paper- long and useful"

And divided by perforations into little squares.
--

   Nihil tam absurde dici potest, quod non dicatur ab aliquo philosophorum.
Mark-Jason Dominus 	  			    mjd@central.cis.upenn.edu
From: james@cs.anu.edu.au (James Popple)
Newsgroups: alt.quotations
Subject: Seeking source of Voltaire (?) quote
Date: 6 Jan 1993 14:27:16 +1100
Organization: Computer Science Department, ANU, Australia
NNTP-Posting-Host: barnard.anu.edu.au

I am looking for the source of a quotation, I think it is from Voltaire:

        A clever quotation proves nothing. 

(or words to that effect). 

Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks in advance.

James Popple
                                   Department of Computer Science
Phone:  +61 6 249 5691             Faculty of Science
        +61 6 249 4043             Australian National University
FAX:    +61 6 249 0010             CANBERRA  ACT  0200
E-Mail: James.Popple@anu.edu.au    AUSTRALIA
From: djb6@ellis.uchicago.edu (Dennis Brennan)
Newsgroups: alt.quotations
Subject: Debussy on Music
Date: 10 Jan 93 20:48:03 GMT
Reply-To: djb6@midway.uchicago.edu
Organization: University of Chicago

"Music is the space between the notes"

--Debussy


-- 
Dennis Brennan
djb6@midway.uchicago.edu
Newsgroups: alt.quotations
From: jamensky@bnr.ca (Mark Jamensky)
Subject: Re: Bathroom Graphiti
Reply-To: jamensky@bnr.ca (Mark Jamensky)
Organization: Bell-Northern Research Ltd.
Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1993 22:25:15 GMT


Seen on the bathroom walls of Concordia University:

"Ignorance is bliss."

and right underneath it...

"I don't know what this means but I'm happy."


--            | Bell-Northern Research - Ottawa | Conform or be cast out.
Mark Jamensky | jamensky@bnr.ca  (613) 765-4942 | - Rush
Newsgroups: alt.quotations
From: haavardf@gluon.uio.no (Haavard Fosseng)
Subject: Re: What about military quotes?
Organization: University of Oslo, Norway
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 17:44:57 GMT

In article <C0p41D.Azq@cs.mcgill.ca> zippy@cs.mcgill.ca (Fotis XIPOLITAKIS) writes:

   Does anyone have an exact quotation of Churchils speach

	   "We will fight then in the air on the land and in the sea..."

We shall not flag or fail. We shall go on to the end, we shall fight in France,
we shall fight on the seas and oceans, we shall fight with growing confidence 
and growing strength in the air, we shall defend our island, whatever the cost
may be, we shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, 
we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; 
we shall never surrender.

Speech, 4. June, 1940


H}vard Fosseng
From: chuahl@ocf.berkeley.edu (Chua HakLien)
Newsgroups: alt.quotations
Subject: Re: Star Trek Quotes!!!
Date: 9 Jan 1993 17:58:36 GMT
Organization: U.C. Berkeley Open Computing Facility
NNTP-Posting-Host: sandstorm.berkeley.edu

In article <kencham.726599066@centi> kencham@centi.cs.umn.edu (Deepak Kenchammana-Hosekote) writes:
>The late Issac Asimov had a wonderful article on _What happens when 
>an immovable object meets an irresistable force_. Could that answer
>(indirectly) the quote ? :-)
>
>Peace,
>
>\deepak

Which is, of course, an impossible event.. =)

Chua
+==+


Newsgroups: alt.quotations
From: schnitzi@cs.ucf.edu (Mark Schnitzius)
Subject: Re: Groucho Marx
Organization: University of Central Florida
Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1993 20:39:33 GMT

My favorite:

"Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend.  Inside
of a dog, it's too dark to read."

mark
Newsgroups: alt.quotations
From: steinman@hslrswi.hasler.ascom.ch (Jan Steinman - Bytesmiths, 3946)
Subject: Re: Who said this?
Reply-To: steinman@hslrswi.hasler.ascom.ch
Organization: Ascom Hasler AG
Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1993 07:41:00 GMT

In article sB@sunfish.usd.edu, choover@charlie.usd.edu (Christopher J. Hoover) writes:
>(who said) "Talking about music is like dancing about architecture."

Well, I was a regional clinician for PSIA (Professional Ski Instructors of
America), and gave clinics to ski instructors, many of whom spend too much
time talking, and not enough time skiing. I used to tell them "Talking about
skiing is like listening to art." (I thought I made it up!)

: : Jan Steinman, Bytesmiths			   steinman@hasler.ascom.ch : :
: : 2002 Parkside Court, West Linn, OR 97068-2767 USA	    +1 503 657 7703 : :
: : Beundenfeldstrasse 35, CH-3013, Bern, Switzerland	    +41 31 999 3946 : :
From: mastr@husc8.harvard.edu (claudia mastroianni)
Newsgroups: alt.quotations
Subject: Suggested quote source
Date: 6 Jan 93 00:08:48 GMT
Organization: Harvard University Science Center

I've seen many people giving lines from buttons, such as

"All syllogisms have three parts, therefore this is not
a syllogism."

"Do not meddle in the affairs of wizards, for they are
subtle and quick to anger."

"Do not meddle in the affairs of wizards, for you are
crunchy and good with ketchup."

"Do not meddle in the affairs of cats, for they are
subtle and will piss on your computer."

:-)

Anyone who enjoys these should investigate the Calligraphic
Button Catalogue put out by Nancy Lebovitz,
nancy@genie.slhs.udel.edu -- entertaining reading, and if you
should actually order any buttons, so much the better.

There are no attributions, of course, so those whom this would
annoy should steer clear.

Some of my favorites from the catalogue:

"Any slogan simple enough to fit on a button is too simple
to do any good."

"Badges?  We don't need no stinking badges!"

"Beam me up, Scotty, it ate my phaser"

"Black holes are where God is dividing by zero"

"Conform, go crazy, or become an artist."

"Conform, go crazy, become a writer or an artist,
or stylishly fake it like the rest of Manhattan"

"Don't Panic!"

"Go not to the elves for counsel, for they will say
both no and yes"

"Go not to Usenet for counsel, for it will say
both no, and yes, and no, and yes...."

"God didn't create the world in seven days--
He goofed off for six, then pulled an all-nighter"

Get the idea?  There are lots of sci-fi/con references in
the catalogue, but there's something for everyone.
I saw a message in Nancy Lebovitz's .sig asking people to ask
about her catalogue, so she shouldn't mind inquiries/requests.



Enjoy!

Claudia



"You know you're safe . . . with ME!
				Avon, "Blakes 7"

P.S.  My only relationship to Nancy Lebovitz is that she
mailed me a catalogue.
Newsgroups: alt.quotations
From: "Gary Hopkins" <wk00624@psilink.com>
Subject: Re: Presidential quote (Bush/atheism)
Organization: Gary Hopkins Typesetting
Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1993 23:12:24 GMT
X-Mailer: PSILink-DOS (3.3)

>DATE:   8 Jan 93 19:55:35 GMT
>FROM:   Carl Christensen <christen@astro.ocis.temple.edu>
>
>Bill Conner (bil@okcforum.osrhe.uoknor.edu) wrote:
>
>:    I wonder what it portends for the future of mankind when people
>: quote the public statements of professional politicians as if such
>: utterances had content. Have we fallen so low that carefully scripted
>: politicianisms pass for wisdom ? God help us ...
>
>     Have we fallen so low that we will ignore carefully scripted
>politicianisms as ineffectual rhetoric?  It's one thing to promise
>'No New Taxes' and then fall back on that pledge, but to dismiss the
>rights of a group of people publicly should definitely be cause for
>questioning and investigation.
>
>     Religious and other rights, whether upheld or not, should be 
>taken a lot more seriously than the usual campaign promises (e.g. more
>jobs, less taxes, etc.).
>
>----
>Carl Christensen

Hear, Hear! To which I might add:

	"When you sling mud, you lose ground."
					--Adlai Stevenson

	"The most important thing in communication is hearing
	what isn't said."		--Peter Drucker

	"One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song,
	read a good poem, see a fine picture and, if possible,
	speak a few reasonable words."	--Goethe

	"Don't SAY things. What you ARE stands over you the
	while, and thunders so that I cannot hear what you
	say to the contrary."		--Ralph Waldo Emerson, "Social Aims"

	"Smart is when you believe only half of what you hear.
	Brilliant is when you know which half to believe."
					--unknown
and finally,

	"It takes two to speak the truth--one to speak
	and the other to hear.		--Henry David Thoreau

	"I'm interested in the fact that the less secure a man
	is, the more likely he is to have extreme prejudice."
					--Clint Eastwood

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