1-Jan-1997
When you don’t know what to do, do nothing.- Author Unknown


2-Jan-1997
Why should we be in such desperate haste to succeed and in such desperate enterprises? If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music that he hears, however measured or far away. – Henry David Thoreau

3-Jan-1997
To succeed, planning alone is insufficient, you must improvise. – Isaac Asimov

4-Jan-1997
A free society is one where it is safe to be unpopular. – Adlai Stevenson

5-Jan-1997
Everything I did in my life that was worthwhile I caught hell for. – Earl Warren

6-Jan-1997

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7-Jan-1997
To everything there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven: – Ecclesiastes 3:1 (KJV)

8-Jan-1997
Truth is far stranger than fiction – Arthur C. Clarke

9-Jan-1997
Badges?? We ain’t got no badges… We don’t need no badges… I don’t have to show you any stinkin’ badges!! – Treasure of the Sierra Madre

10-Jan-1997
Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent. – Isaac Asimov

11-Jan-1997
If at first you don’t succeed, you may get a lot of unsolicited advice. – Ruth Ann Dupriest

12-Jan-1997
If at first you don’t succeed, look at it this way, you’ve failed. – Keith Alan Stinebaugh

13-Jan-1997
“Bother,” said Pooh, as he saw the mushroom cloud. – Author Unknown

14-Jan-1997
Those who ignore history are condemned to repeat it. – Alfred N. Whithead

15-Jan-1997
The universe is not only queerer than we suppose, it is queerer than we can suppose. – J.B.S. Haldane

16-Jan-1997
I’ve wrestled with reality for 35 years, and I’m happy, Doctor, I finally won out over it. – Jimmy Stewart, Harvey

17-Jan-1997
I can only assume that a ‘Do Not File’ document is filed in a ‘Do Not File’ file. – Senator Frank Church – Senate Intelligence Subcommittee Hearing – 1975

18-Jan-1997
If everything seems to be going right and nothing seems to be going wrong, you have obviously overlooked something. – Yarborough’s law

19-Jan-1997
Self-trust is the first secret of success. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

20-Jan-1997
This space intentionally has nothing but text explaining why this space has nothing but text explaining why this space would otherwise have been left blank, and would otherwise have been left blank. – Author Unknown

21-Jan-1997
Each sunrise is a precious jewel…for it may never be followed by its sunset. – Robert Heinlein

22-Jan-1997
And God said, “Let there be an initial disturbance phenomoneon culminating in the subsequent expansion of the primeval super-dense cosmic plasma.” – Author Unknown

23-Jan-1997
A man’s mind-once streached by a new idea-can never return to its original dimensions. – Oliver Wendall Holmes

24-Jan-1997
Dwell on the past and you’ll lose an eye. Forget the past and you’ll lose both eyes. – Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn

25-Jan-1997
You only live once. But if you work it right, once is enough. – Fred Allen

26-Jan-1997
It is hard to solve chess problems with a checker mentality. – Charles Schultz

27-Jan-1997
Consistency is the mark of a small mind. – Author Unknown

28-Jan-1997
Know thyself. – Plato

29-Jan-1997
Never let your sense of morals prevent you from doing what is right. – Isaac Asimov

30-Jan-1997
Only a lie that is not ashamed of itself can possibly succeed. – Isaac Asimov

31-Jan-1997
A Puritan [or fundamentalist] is someone who is deathly afraid that someone somewhere is having fun. – Ambrose Bierce

1-Feb-1997
If anything can go wrong, it will. – Murphy’s law

2-Feb-1997
Don’t worry about me, I worry enough about myself. – Aubrey Waddell

3-Feb-1997
The miraculous we can do quickly. the impossible takes slightly longer. – Author Unknown

4-Feb-1997
Always do right. this will gratify some people and astonish all others. – Mark Twain

5-Feb-1997
A fool doesn’t heed your advice. A wise man doesn’t need it. – Leonard Epoc

6-Feb-1997
No man is an island unto himself. – John Donne

7-Feb-1997
It pays to be obvious, especially when you have a reputation for being subtle. – Isaac Asimov

8-Feb-1997
There is no defense in science against the weapons which can now destroy civilization. – Albert Einstein

9-Feb-1997
Mankind must put an end to war, or war will put an end to mankind. – John Fitzgerald Kennedy

10-Feb-1997
We believe whatever we want to believe. – Demosthenes

11-Feb-1997
Progress is impossible without change; and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything. – George Bernard Shaw

12-Feb-1997
Trust in what your heart tells you. Believe in what you know inside, and remain true to yourself.
When others try to limit you, follow your own dreams. Wrap yourself in confidence and the support of everyone who believes that you know yourself best.
Don’t look back, but look forward to all the wonderful possibilities along the road ahead. – Cristine Li

13-Feb-1997
Home is the place where, when you have to go there, they have to take you in. – Robert Frost

14-Feb-1997
Life is what happens to us while we are making other plans. – Author Unknown

15-Feb-1997
Civilization is a voyage, not a harbor. – William Toynbee

16-Feb-1997
It is vain to do with more what can be done with fewer. – William of Occam

17-Feb-1997
Give me the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue freely according to conscience above all liberties. – John Milton

18-Feb-1997
They don’t want truth. It’s not often obvious what the truth is. It can be complicated, and then not turn out to be what they want to hear. They want simplicity and certainty. People are never more ferocious than when their prejudices are being threatened. Then truth becomes the enemy, and they’ll die fighting it. – Bruce Calom, Paths to Otherwhere, James P Hogan

19-Feb-1997
In the misfortunes of even our best friends, we find something that does not displease us. – Larochfaucald

20-Feb-1997
A plant not allowed to grow according to its own nature dies: So with man. – Henry David Thoreau

21-Feb-1997
Not only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficult, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment. – George Sala

22-Feb-1997
Experience is what you get when you were expecting something else. – Author Unknown

23-Feb-1997
Don’t be afraid to take a big step if one is indicated, you can’t cross a chasm in two small jumps. – David Lloyd George

24-Feb-1997
The scientist seeks to know what is. The engineer seeks to create what is not. – Author Unknown

25-Feb-1997
Screaming is directly proportional to mistakes and inversely proportional to effort applied. – Young’s law

26-Feb-1997
While you are giving reasons why it can’t be done, someone else is busy doing it. – Author Unknown

27-Feb-1997
A man said to the universe,”Sir, I exist.” “However,” replied the universe, “that fact has not created in me a sense of obligation.”- Stephen Crane


28-Feb-1997
The incredible never surprises us because it is incredible. – Emily Dickenson

1-Mar-1997
Sin lies only in hurting other people unnecessarily. All other “sins” are just invented nonsense. (Hurting yourself is not sinful- just stupid.) – Robert A. Heinlein

2-Mar-1997
No one can get the truth out of me, because I don’t know what is myself. I keep myself in a constant state of utter confusion. – M.A.S.H.

3-Mar-1997
It is impossible to objectively experience your own death and still carry a tune. – Woody Allen

4-Mar-1997
Your theory is crazy, but not crazy enough to be true. – Neils Bohr

5-Mar-1997
If at first you don’t succeed, give up and stop making a fool of yourself. – W.C. Fields

6-Mar-1997
To err is understandable; to admit it is unlikely. – Author Unknown

7-Mar-1997
Blessed are those who run in circles, for they shall be called big wheels. – Author Unknown

8-Mar-1997
To err is human, to make a science of it is politics. – Author Unknown

9-Mar-1997
I’m not conceited, I’m just better than you are. – James W. Miller

10-Mar-1997
I don’t think my train of thought has any passengers. In fact, I don’t think that it has a conductor. I don’t even think it has a locomotive. I wonder if it has a caboose. Oh, but that’s getting off the track. – Lynette Franklin

11-Mar-1997
Do you ever sit quietly by the window at twilight and watch the shadows lengthen as the last few rays of sunlight sparkle through the trees and, in those golden, waning moments, peacefully think to yourself…another day — shot to hell? – Christopher Paul Edward Moix

12-Mar-1997
Who do you think you were before you were who you think you are now? – Author Unknown

13-Mar-1997
Jesus asked “Who do the people say that i am?”. His disciples answered him, saying “You are the eschatological manifestation of the ground of our being; the kerygma in which we recieve the ultimate meaning of our interpersonal relationships.”and Jesus replied,”Huh?”

- Author Unknown


14-Mar-1997
A woman’s skirt should be like a diplomatic conference – long enough to be decent and short enough to hold people’s interest. – Andre Francois Pocet

The same should be said for a man’s skirt. – Dale Miller

15-Mar-1997
When the going gets tough, cry. – Lisa Mills

16-Mar-1997
I know you believe you understand what you think I said, but I’m not sure you realize that what you heard is not what I meant. – attributed to Richard Milhous Nixon

17-Mar-1997
Cheating is alright as long as you don’t try to rationalize it. – Duane L. Beck

18-Mar-1997
Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. – Clarke’s third law Corrolary: Any technology distinguishable from magic is insufficiently advanced.

19-Mar-1997
If electricity comes from electrons, does that mean that morality comes from morons? – A question from the audience during a recent Dr. Science appearance

20-Mar-1997
If your spirits are low, do something; if you have been doing something, do something different. – Author Unknown

21-Mar-1997
Friendship is more tragic than love. It lasts longer. – Oscar Wilde

22-Mar-1997
Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing worth knowing can be taught. – Oscar Wilde

23-Mar-1997
It matters little, really, what you believe, as long as you do not altogether believe it. – Larochfaucald

24-Mar-1997
Endings are just beginnings backwards. – Author Unknown

25-Mar-1997
People are never honest until they are dead, so everyone should die sooner and be honest longer. – Mark Twain

26-Mar-1997
A fact should be loved for itself alone. – Robert Heinlein

27-Mar-1997
Fools rush in…and get the best seats. – Author Unknown

28-Mar-1997
There is no limit to what can be done…if it doesn’t matter who gets the credit. – Author Unknown

29-Mar-1997
Lord, give me this day my daily idea…and forgive me the one I had yesterday. – Author Unknown

30-Mar-1997
Love is not measured by how many times you touch each other, but by how many times you reach each other. – Cathy Morany

31-Mar-1997
The way to gain a good reputation is to endeavor to be what you desire to appear. – Socrates