Early one morning I, Vadim Maslennikov, set off for school (I was
going on seventeen at the time) having forgotten the envelope
with the first-semester fees Mother had left me in the dining
room the day before.
M. Ageyev (a pseudonym--real name unknown)
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You shall not pass! You shall not pass!
Spring up like Summer grass,
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an international reputation for m... UNKNOWN We shall require a substantially new manner of thinking if
mankind is to survive. UNKNOWN I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times, the
conclusion is false. The hundredth... UNKNOWN Opportunity is often difficult to recognize; we usually expect it to beckon us with beepers and bill... UNKNOWN A human being is part of a whole, called by us the "Universe," a
part limited in time and space. H... UNKNOWN The celestial order and the beauty of the universe compel me to
admit that there is some excellent ... UNKNOWN We are an impossibility in an impossible universe. UNKNOWN The ability to ask questions is the greatest resource in learning the truth. Carl Jung -Unknown. UNKNOWN Give me a lever long enough
And a prop strong enough,
I can single handed move the world. UNKNOWN Power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. UNKNOWN If you done it, it ain't bragging. UNKNOWN Through this toilsome world, alas! Once and only once I pass; If a kindness I may show, If a good... UNKNOWN Never deprive someone of hope - it may be all they have. -Unknown. UNKNOWN The really happy person is one who can enjoy the scenery when on a detour. -Unknown. UNKNOWN Happiness is not having what you want. It is wanting what you have. -Unknown. UNKNOWN Take care of yourself. Good health is everyone's major source of wealth. Without it, happiness is al... UNKNOWN The happiest business in all the world is that of making friends, And no investment on the street p... UNKNOWN A Friend is someone who will help you move; A GOOD friend is someone who will help you move a body.... UNKNOWN True friendship is seen through the heart not through the eyes. -Unknown. UNKNOWN A friend is someone who can sing you the song of your heart when you've forgotten it. -Unknown. UNKNOWN To lose a friend is hardship, but to forget them is as if you died too. -Unknown. UNKNOWN Similarities create friendship's while differences hold them together. -Unknown. UNKNOWN A friend is someone who knows the song in your heart and can sing it back to you when you have forgo... UNKNOWN The essence of intelligence is skill in extracting meaning from everyday experience. Sir Walter Scot... UNKNOWN If you study to remember, you will forget, but, If you study to understand, you will remember. -Unk... UNKNOWN Throw me to the wolves & I'll return leading the pack -UNKNOWN A Hero is one who hangs on one minute longer. UNKNOWN There are three ways to get something done: (1) Do it yourself. (2) Hire someone to do it for you.... UNKNOWN So many people tiptoe through life, so carefully, to arrive, safely, at death. UNKNOWN The cure for anything is saltwater--sweat, tears, or the sea. UNKNOWN I don't even butter my bread; I consider that cooking. UNKNOWN Sequelae are inherently unpredictable. UNKNOWN Deep in the chaotic regime, slight changes in structure almost
always cause vast changes in behavio... UNKNOWN Tush! Tush! my lassie, such thoughts resigne,
Comparisons are cruele:
Fine pictures suit in ... UNKNOWN Strange is our situation here upon earth. Each of us comes for a
short visit, not knowing why, yet... UNKNOWN Our task must be to free ourselves . . . by widening our circle
of compassion to embrace all living... UNKNOWN Columbus discovered no isle or key so lonely as himself. UNKNOWN Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence
in society. UNKNOWN Give me chastity and continence, but not yet. UNKNOWN Any sufficiently advanced bug is indistinguishable from a
feature. UNKNOWN A whole is that which has a beginning, a middle and an end. UNKNOWN Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadows. UNKNOWN I believe in Michelangelo, Velasquez, and Rembrandt; in the might
of design, the mystery of color, ... UNKNOWN Give me a museum and I'll fill it. UNKNOWN "Obvious" is the most dangerous word in mathematics. UNKNOWN Life may not be the party we hoped for, but while we're here we should dance. -Unknown. UNKNOWN Don't cry because its over, smile because it happened. -Unknown. UNKNOWN Some men see things as they are and say why... I dream of things that never were and say why not. -... UNKNOWN He who would live must fight, he who will not fight in this world where eternal struggle is the law... UNKNOWN However boldly their warm blood was spilt,
Their life was shame, their epitaph was guilt;
And ... UNKNOWN Jews don't go to confession. They don't want to relieve the guilt.
screenwriter of FOR THE VERY FIRS... UNKNOWN Fierce eagles breed not the tender dove. UNKNOWN The present century was growing blind
To the great Marlborough's skill in giving knocks,
Until... UNKNOWN May you find serenity and tranquility in a world you may not always understand. May the pain you hav... UNKNOWN I never went to bed with an ugly woman; woke up with a few. UNKNOWN Love is like water; We can fall in it. We can drown in it. And we can't live with out it. UNKNOWN For he who loves must live. UNKNOWN Conversation is an exercise of the mind; gossip is merely an exercise of the tongue. UNKNOWN If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called
research, would it? UNKNOWN We call Japanese soldiers fanatics when they die rather than
surrender, whereas American soldiers w... UNKNOWN What is an epigram? a dwarfish whole,
Its body brevity, and wit its soul. UNKNOWN Vote early and vote often. UNKNOWN No tyrant need fear till men begin to feel confident in each
other. UNKNOWN A king ruleth as he ought, a tyrant as he lists, a king to the
profit of all, a tyrant only to plea... UNKNOWN March: Its motto, "Courage and strength in times of danger." UNKNOWN By taking revenge, a man is but even with his enemy; but in
passing over it, he is superior. UNKNOWN Sticks and stones may break your bones when there's anger to inpart. Spiteful words can hurt your fe... UNKNOWN A stick and a string with a fly at one end and a fool at the
other. UNKNOWN Children seldom misquote you. In fact, they usually repeat word for word what you shouldn't have sai... UNKNOWN The block of granite which is an obstacle in the pathway of the weak becomes a stepping-stone in the... UNKNOWN All I know is what I read in the papers. UNKNOWN Governments always tend to want not really a free press but a
managed or well-conducted one. UNKNOWN Freedom of the press is guaranteed only to those who own one. UNKNOWN Let us never negotiate out of fear, but let us never fear to
negotiate. UNKNOWN And so, my fellow Americans: ask not what your country can do
for you--ask what you can do for you... UNKNOWN Nationalism is an infantile disease. It is the measles of
mankind. UNKNOWN Still waters run no mills. UNKNOWN We must not contradict, but instruct him that contradicts us; for
a madman is not cured by another ... UNKNOWN Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so. UNKNOWN Small is the number of people who see with their eyes and think
with their minds. UNKNOWN It is bad to awaken a sleeping dog.
[It., Il fait mal eveiller le chien qu dort.] UNKNOWN In dog years, I'm dead. UNKNOWN There is only one nature--the division into science and
engineering is a human imposition, not a na... UNKNOWN I am not addicted to nicotine. Why must I participate in your
drug addiction? UNKNOWN I tried marijuana once. I did not inhale. UNKNOWN I experimented with marijuana a time or two. And I didn't like
it, and I didn't inhale and never t... UNKNOWN No one loves the man whom he fears. UNKNOWN A fanatic is someone who does what the Lord would do, if He knew
the facts of the matter. UNKNOWN The concept is interesting and well-formed, but in order to earn better than a 'C,' the idea must be... UNKNOWN One does not sell the earth upon which the people walk. UNKNOWN The map is not the territory. UNKNOWN If you were arrested for kindness, would there be enough evidence to convict you? -Unknown. UNKNOWN Grief is only the memory of widowed affections. UNKNOWN Sorrow is the great idealizer. UNKNOWN I had a quintuple bypass in May. It was not
Mad Cows but sane cows in my arteries. UNKNOWN Too many have dispensed with generosity in order to practice
charity. UNKNOWN Things could be worse. Suppose your errors were counted and published every day, like those of a ba... UNKNOWN My only regret in the theatre is that I could never sit out front
and watch me. UNKNOWN Only one who devotes himself to a cause with his whole strength
and soul can be a true master. For... UNKNOWN A hundred times every day I remind myself that my inner and outer
life depend on the labors of othe... UNKNOWN When you do the common things in life in an uncommon way, you
will command the attention of the wor... UNKNOWN Each man is the smith of his own fortune. UNKNOWN Half this game is ninety percent mental. UNKNOWN If you are going through hell, keep going. UNKNOWN There are no passengers on spaceship earth.
We are all crew. UNKNOWN The church says that the Earth is flat, but I have seen the
shadow on the moon and I have more fait... UNKNOWN Your current safe boundries were once unknown frontiers. -Unknown. UNKNOWN Fashion is something that goes in one year and out the other. UNKNOWN Watch your thoughts, they become words. Watch your words, they become actions. Watch your ac... UNKNOWN Cats are intended to teach us that not everything in nature has a function. UNKNOWN Any sufficiently advanced bureaucracy is indistinguishable from molasses. UNKNOWN Man is troubled not by events, but by the meaning he gives them. UNKNOWN There is a country in Europe where multiple-choice tests are
illegal. UNKNOWN Never lose hope. UNKNOWN Pain is inevitable; suffering is optional. UNKNOWN Never attribute to malice what can be adequately explained by stupidity. UNKNOWN Fools rush in where fools have been before. UNKNOWN Everyone is entitled to be stupid, but some abuse the privilege. UNKNOWN Artificial Intelligence is no match for natural stupidity. UNKNOWN Less is more, unless you're Al Gore. UNKNOWN In a time of universal deceit - telling the truth is a revolutionary act. UNKNOWN The past cannot be changed. The future is yet in your power. UNKNOWN Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. UNKNOWN Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle. UNKNOWN True change takes place in the imagination. UNKNOWN Never ascribe to malice that which is adequately explained by incompetence. UNKNOWN He was a wise man who invented beer. UNKNOWN There is an enormous number of managers who have retired on the
job. UNKNOWN A Mercury is not made out of any block of wood.
[Lat., Ex quovis ligno non fit Mercurius.] UNKNOWN Most people say that is it is the intellect which makes a great
scientist. They are wrong: it is ... UNKNOWN After a certain high level of technical skill is achieved,
science and art tend to coalesce in esth... UNKNOWN Large skepticism leads to large understanding. Small skepticism
leads to small understanding. No ... UNKNOWN I would not vote for the mayor. It's not just because he didn't
invite me to dinner, but because on... UNKNOWN One man shall have one vote. UNKNOWN We are in the position of a little child entering a huge library
filled with books in many differen... UNKNOWN No amount of experimentation can ever prove me right; a single
experiment can prove me wrong. UNKNOWN I assert that the cosmic religious experience is the strongest
and the noblest driving force behind... UNKNOWN Copy from one, it's plagiarism; copy from two, it's research. UNKNOWN Human salvation lies in the hands of the creatively maladjusted. UNKNOWN If you wait for tomorrow, tomorrow comes. If you don't wait for tomorrow, tomorrow comes. UNKNOWN An expert gossiper knows how much to leave out of a conversation UNKNOWN When aiming for the common denominator, be prepared for the occasional division by zero. UNKNOWN In absence of clearly defined goals, we become strangely loyal to performing daily acts of trivia. UNKNOWN Time is a circus--always packing up and moving away. UNKNOWN A guy ran a red light like at 2AM, got home fine, no police saw him or anything like that. About 3 w... UNKNOWN Whoever does not love his work cannot hope that it will please others. UNKNOWN What if this weren't a hypothetical question? UNKNOWN The wages of sin are unreported. UNKNOWN People are more violently opposed to fur than leather because it's safer to harass rich women than m... UNKNOWN My Karma ran over your dogma. UNKNOWN