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The most important precedents deal with the whole idea of symbolic programming - the notion

of setting up symbolic expressions that can represent anything one wants, and then having functions that operate on both their structure and content. Stephen Wolfram McCabe's Law: Nobody has to do anything. Charles McCabe I just want to keep doing what I'm doing and hopefully people will watch my movies. Leonardo DiCaprio Loss of hope rather than loss of life is what decides the issues of war. But helplessness induces hopelessness. B. H. Liddell Hart In argument similes are like songs in love; they describe much, but prove nothing. Franz Kafka A bit of lusting after someone does wonders for the skin. Elizabeth Hurley So I will go as far as I can into rock and roll carrying my Christian banner. Cliff Richard

The fact that I can plant a seed and it becomes a flower, share a

bit of knowledge and it becomes another's, smile at someone and receive a smile in return, are to me continual spiritual exercises. Leo Buscaglia Give yourself something to work toward - constantly. Mary Kay Ash When traveling with someone, take large does of patience and tolerance with your morning coffee. Helen Hayes The ability to perceive or think differently is more important than the knowledge gained. David Bohm The job of the press is to encourage debate, not to supply the public with information. Christopher Lasch Even as empiricism is winning the mind, transcendentalism continues to win the heart. E. O. Wilson People, photographers, people in the press can sometimes be inappropriate. Tobey Maguire

There is nothing on earth so easy as to forget, if a person chooses to

set about it. I'm sure I have as much forgot your poor, dear uncle, as if he had never existed; and I thought it my duty to do so. Richard Brinsley Sheridan Regaining the Champions Cup is not going to be easy. Luis Figo I think anyone would want to see their favorite band in a small club over a large stadium. Bill Wyman I'm told leather drives men up the wall. I like wearing it because it because it feels nice. Honor Blackman There lives more faith in honest doubt, believe me, than in half the creeds. Alfred Lord Tennyson The trouble with baseball is that it is not played the year round. Gaylord Perry The luxury of our position now is that we can almost assemble any team to address any issue. Rem Koolhaas

The principal or highest part of the mountain having changed its direction to east and

west, I ascended it in such manner as to leave its most elevated ranges to the south and travelled north west over a very rough and broken country generally covered with snow. William Henry Ashley She really mellowed me out that way. We both definitely grew with each other and with the whole experience. Brian Austin Green A horse never runs so fast as when he has other horses to catch up and outpace. Ovid Service is what life is all about. Marian Wright Edelman Canned music is like audible wallpaper. Alistair Cooke Approach the game with no preset agendas and you'll probably come away surprised at your overall efforts. Phil Jackson I know for a fact that if there's a role which I am suited for, I'll be signed on. I'll never go begging. Aishwarya Rai Bachchan

I think it's very important that we instill in our kids that it has nothing

to do with their name or their situation that they're growing up in; it has to do with who they are as an individual. Melinda Gates How some of the writers I come across get through their books without dying of boredom is beyond me. William Gaddis The beautiful seems right by force of beauty, and the feeble wrong because of weakness. Virginia Woolf I'm not aiming for the Nobel Peace Prize! Omar Bongo Maimed but still magnificent... Europe's mightiest medieval cathedral. R. W. Apple, Jr. I was just standing around and suddenly I was cast as an extra. I hated it because I was so shy. Dwayne Hickman Philosophy is the highest music. Plato

The industry does have some influence on who gets other awards. With the Mercury Prize,

they don't. Jon comes from the business, but his heart is still very much in the music. Currently, we have about 12 major names that have said they want to be a part of MUDDA. Peter Gabriel I have always had an attorney on retainer, and now I believe I will have to put him to work. Jeff Gannon Let us take our children seriously! Everything else follows from this... only the best is good enough for a child. Zoltan Kodaly As you know, God is usually on the side of the big squadrons against the small. Roger de Rabutin Mother considered a press conference on a par with a visit to a cage of cobras. Margaret Truman I think NASCAR's coming to Canada now so it'll take on a whole new relevance. Be afraid. Samantha Bee I would like to provoke ambiguous responses in my readers. James Ellroy

The colored man is in the South to stay there. He will not leave it

voluntarily and he cannot be driven out. He had no voice in being carried into the South, but he will have a very loud voice in any attempt to put him out. Timothy Thomas Fortune Sainthood is acceptable only in saints. Pamela Hansford Johnson Those who believe in nothing are very, very jealous and angry at those who believe in something. Dennis Prager The business of art is to reveal the relation between man and his environment. D. H. Lawrence Friends come and go but enemies accumulate. Arthur Bloch The mind can also be an erogenous zone. Raquel Welch A serious and good philosophical work could be written consisting entirely of jokes. Ludwig Wittgenstein

We need to teach the next generation of children from day one that they are

responsible for their lives. Mankind's greatest gift, also its greatest curse, is that we have free choice. We can make our choices built from love or from fear. Elisabeth Kubler-Ross I'm no where as tough as my father. I really think that I am more open to change than he was. A. J. Foyt I like looking feminine and I enjoy being a role model. I enjoy being a woman. It all comes down to having the confidence to be who you are. Cathy Freeman Once you've done one style, you leave it for a while. Fiona Shaw The British constitution has always been puzzling and always will be. Queen Elizabeth II When we get the final hardware, the performance is just going to skyrocket. J Allard You have to put on more faces to pretend who you are. Nell Carter

Few companies that installed computers to reduce the employment of clerks have realized their expectations...

They now need more, and more expensive clerks even though they call them 'operators' or 'programmers.' Peter Drucker We always felt that if you do something with quality and integrity, then it's going to come back to you. Herb Alpert The person whose doors I enter with most pleasure, and quit with most regret, never did me the smallest favor. William Hazlitt Between two evils, choose neither; between two goods, choose both. Tryon Edwards He who does not see things in their depth should not call himself a radical. Jose Marti Welcome those big, sticky, complicated problems. In them are your most powerful opportunities. Ralph Marston Man dies of cold, not of darkness. Miguel de Unamuno

I just sort of take it from a character perspective, and I don't know if

he was necessarily spiritual, but I do think he had hope. He was a character that was comfortable having hope in his life, and hope is faith. Ryan Gosling A man's mind is wont to tell him more than seven watchmen sitting in a tower. Rudyard Kipling I think we all have to fight the werewolf within us somehow. William Kempe I started listening to music when I wrote when I had three sons at home. Philip Levine Writing and Painting are the same for me. Peter Malkin One should only see a psychiatrist out of boredom. Muriel Spark I recorded my hair this morning, tonight I'm watching the highlights. Jay London

Down below the broad, roaring waves of the sea break against the deep foundation of

the rock. But high above the mountain, the sea, and the peaks of rock the eternal ornamentation blooms silently from the dark depths of the universe. Rudolf Otto Any old place I can hang my hat is home sweet home to me. William Jerome There is a great relief in experiencing the worst vicariously. Fiona Shaw Whether you are a Democrat or a Republican, our nation is stronger when we are respected throughout the world. Bill Richardson A clear understanding of negative emotions dismisses them. Vernon Howard Only a bad artist thinks he has a good idea. A good artist does not need anything. Ad Reinhardt If you are the master be sometimes blind, if you are the servant be sometimes deaf. R. Buckminster Fuller

I submit that those who run the American military at the top, and those whose

boots are on the ground and who run the machinery and equipment, are sending a signal: You asked us to do something. Give us some time and we will solve the problems and we will do it. Pete Domenici Behind every great fortune lies a great crime. Honore de Balzac The Gospel has to be the norm. Hans Kung I have always depended on the kindness of strangers. Tennessee Williams Blood alone moves the wheels of history. Martin Luther Tell me about yourself - your struggles, your dreams, your telephone number. Peter Arno Unseasonable kindness gets no thanks. Thomas Fuller

If a man could pass through Paradise in a dream, and have a flower presented

to him as a pledge that his soul had really been there, and if he found that flower in his hand when he awake - Aye, what then? Samuel Taylor Coleridge The UN structure is one-sided, stacked against the world of Islam. Mahmoud Ahmadinejad I don't believe in personal immortality; the only way I expect to have some version of such a thing is through my books. Isaac Asimov The word music is a convenient way to talk about what I'm interested in, but actually, in some ways, it's a limitation. Anthony Braxton I've had the big ups and the big downs. Juice Newton Whatever I do, it's my business. It's not my job to parent America. Christina Aguilera The bravest are the most tender; the loving are the daring. Bayard Taylor

My teeth have never been touched. Why did I tell you that? Knock on wood.

I've got a few scars over the eyes, a couple on the chin, a few on the beak and one across the cheek. But my luck is running out. Brett Hull I went to the Paradise Restaurant on 49th Street and Broadway which was where they were playing, and I sat in. Ray Conniff A novel should be an experience and convey an emotional truth rather than arguments. Joyce Cary My goals are to hit .300, score 100 runs, and stay injury-prone. Mickey Rivers I define fear as standing across the ring from Joe Louis and knowing he wants to go home early. Max Baer Friendship is almost always the union of a part of one mind with the part of another; people are friends in spots. George Santayana The hardest and worst interview that I have ever done was with Frank Zappa. Nina Blackwood

I think sport in general affects what people see in movies. I always try to

explain to people in Hollywood that we have to make movies more like sport because, in sport, everything can happen and it's so much better than movies in some ways. Roland Emmerich Mental communication without verbalization... all space is made up of waves and we are constantly sending and receiving messages from our brain. Tina Louise Children with Hyacinth's temperament don't know better as they grow older; they merely know more. Hector Hugh Munro Literary imagination is an aesthetic object offered by a writer to a lover of books. Gaston Bachelard I manage to hide in my movies. Liev Schreiber Good words cool more than cold water. John Ray I can only have dinner with my girlfriends once a month instead of once a week. Andrea Jung

I am not disputing the need for this money. What I am disputing and calling

attention to is the fact that we are taking the tab for defense in our time against terrorists in the Middle East and elsewhere and shoving this tab off onto our children. John Spratt To me not one thing is better than anything else, I'm completely proud of everything I've written and recorded. Jerry Cantrell Hearts will never be practical until they can be made unbreakable. L. Frank Baum Our faith in the present dies out long before our faith in the future. Ruth Benedict Swing hard, in case they throw the ball where you're swinging. Duke Snider In general, any incoming administration must carefully examine ('vet') its nominees for high public office. Richard V. Allen I act for the reality, for the moment, and most of all I do it for the process. Ted Shackelford

In properly organized groups no faith is required; what is required is simply a little

trust and even that only for a little while, for the sooner a man begins to verify all he hears the better it is for him. George Gurdjieff We'd love to do Space Ace 3D. It has a lot of potential. But, it is really up to the publishers. Don Bluth To campaign against colonialism is like barking up a tree that has already been cut down. Andrew Cohen Discussion in America means dissent. James Thurber My name is Linus, and I am your God. Linus Torvalds Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary. Robert Louis Stevenson In many cases it is a matter for decision and not a simple matter of fact whether x understands y; and so on. John Searle

Few cross the river of time and are able to reach non-being. Most of them

run up and down only on this side of the river. But those who when they know the law follow the path of the law, they shall reach the other shore and go beyond the realm of death. Horace Baseball is a game of inches. Branch Rickey Fear is exciting for me. Ayrton Senna Stay committed to your decisions, but stay flexible in your approach. Tony Robbins Writers are good at plucking out what they need here and there. Beverly Cleary Being rich and famous isn't all happiness and at times the pressures have got to me. Frida Lyngstad Cosmoe is nearing the stage where I would feel comfortable doing a preliminary release aimed at developers. Bill Hayden

It's not like I'm some kind of veteran and there is this huge age gap.

I identify with them more off the field. I need to set an example, which is great, and I look forward to doing just that. Barry Zito I must say I am not pleased to have to arrange the Senate schedule around the availability of Senators who are running for President. Arlen Specter I wish we could have acted quicker on Detroit or other failing schools. John Engler A statesman... must wait until he hears the steps of God sounding through events, then leap up and grasp the hem of His garment. Otto von Bismarck A tree is an incomprehensible mystery. Jim Woodring Conviction never so excellent, is worthless until it coverts itself into conduct. Thomas Carlyle And my father always took me to the library. We were both book addicts. Cornelia Funke

As I look over my work, I mean every time I look over my early

work, I see, yes, I could do that then and then I could do that and that... That may be the hardest thing for a writer, at least for a poet, to tell what the identity of his work is. Kenneth Koch Baseball has long been a national pastime that many Americans have cherished. Jim Sensenbrenner I'm French, so I'm quite lazy about exercising, and I smoke. But I do love going for a run in the morning with my dog. That's all. Eva Green Ability is the art of getting credit for all the home runs somebody else hits. Casey Stengel There was something amazingly enticing about programming. Vint Cerf Theater dates very quickly. Fiona Shaw The greatest pleasure of reading consists in re-reading. Vernon Lee

Every piece has its own identity which we develop by the rule 'We know no

limits.' We follow the inspiration of the moment and don't worry if what we're playing is alternative, progressive or fusion rock. Page McConnell There had to be a hysteria and a fear sent through America in order to get increased war budgets. Julius Rosenberg The name of a man is a numbing blow from which he never recovers. Marshall McLuhan War, in some instances, especially defensive, has been authorized by Heaven. Ezra Stiles I'm so motivated to collaborate with people and help them realize the kind of collective vision. Rachel Griffiths We think of our eyes as video cameras and our brains as blank tapes to be filled with sensory inputs. Michael Shermer I think 'Bat Out Of Hell' will probably last forever. Max Weinberg

We see them when they come to New York. They stay at my wife's apartment.

We have quite a correspondence with them at all times. They play a very important role, the authors in the firm, because so much of the material we publish is suggested by them. James Laughlin Man, alone, has the power to transform his thoughts into physical reality; man, alone, can dream and make his dreams come true. Napoleon Hill It is not altogether wrong to say that there is no such thing as a bad photograph - only less interesting, less relevant, less mysterious ones. Susan Sontag How poor are they that have not patience! What wound did ever heal but by degrees? William Shakespeare When all is ready, the leaders walk out to the dance place. James Mooney I was not willing to give up because I was born to like taking risks and that is my way of life. Alain Robert The fewer the words, the better the prayer. Martin Luther

I think of myself as being a relatively intelligent man who is open to a

lot of different things and I think that questioning our purpose in life and the meaning of existence is something that we all go through at some point. Laurence Fishburne Do not trouble yourself much to get new things, whether clothes or friends... Sell your clothes and keep your thoughts. Henry David Thoreau Friends are not made, but recognized. Carl Rakosi The Cylons are such a frightening concept - not knowing who is real. No way. Mary McDonnell There is no love that is not an echo. Theodor Adorno I seek a deeper truth, but I don't think I have to go to a building designated for worship to find it. Ted Lange The price of hating other human beings is loving oneself less. Eldridge Cleaver

Learn to reverence night and to put away the vulgar fear of it, for, with

the banishment of night from the experience of man, there vanishes as well a religious emotion, a poetic mood, which gives depth to the adventure of humanity. Henry Beston Real socialism is inside man. It wasn't born with Marx. It was in the communes of Italy in the Middle Ages. You can't say it is finished. Dario Fo But to us, probability is the very guide of life. Joseph Butler The question of whether a computer can think is no more interesting than the question of whether a submarine can swim. Edsger Dijkstra A lot of people have asked me how short I am. Since my last divorce, I think I'm about $100,000 short. Mickey Rooney It is the flash which appears, the thunderbolt will follow. Voltaire We are very near the final climactic events that end with the Second Coming of Christ. Hal Lindsey

I retire to make way for an abler man. In my four years as attorney

general I have aged about ten years, but when I have get back to the practice of law, I hope to show those lawyers that I still have some vitality left. Alexander Henry I have a hot memory, but I know I've forgotten many things, too, just squashed things in favor of survival. Iggy Pop It is difficult to obtain the friendship of a cat. It is a philosophical animal... one that does not place its affections thoughtlessly. Theophile Gautier Mistakes are painful when they happen, but years later a collection of mistakes is what is called experience. Denis Waitley I didn't grow up thinking of movies as film, or art, but as movies, something to do on a Saturday afternoon. Sydney Pollack The giving of love is an education in itself. Eleanor Roosevelt We only have so much life left. Before I do die, I want to do something good for people. Michael Huffington

When it comes to my own turn to lay my weapons down, I shall do

so with thankfulness and fatigue, and whatever be my destiny afterward, I shall be glad to lie down with my fathers in honor. It is human at least, if not divine. Robert Louis Stevenson Joy descends gently upon us like the evening dew, and does not patter down like a hailstorm. Jean Paul God creates, I do not create. I assemble and I steal everywhere to do it - from what I see, from what the dancers can do, from what others do. George Balanchine Put this restriction on your pleasures, be cautious that they injure no being that lives. John Zimmerman Mentoring is a brain to pick, an ear to listen, and a push in the right direction. John C. Crosby It is a pledge that senility has not the last say in everything. Shane Leslie I don't have any influences, any heroes, it's just me. GG Allin

However dark and profitless, however painful and weary, existence may have become, life is not

done, and our Christian character is not won, so long as God has anything left for us to suffer, or anything left for us to do. Frederick William Robertson Nutrition is also a valuable component that can help athletes both protect themselves and improve performance. Bill Toomey Laws too gentle are seldom obeyed; too severe, seldom executed. Benjamin Franklin The secret of a good life is to have the right loyalties and hold them in the right scale of values. Norman Thomas I was taken in by the bravado and the sounds of Mexico... not so much the music, but the spirit. Herb Alpert Some people seem as if they can never have been children, and others seem as if they could never be anything else. George Dennison Prentice I have been to hell and back. I had a very, very bad nervous breakdown. Andy Gibb

We have no faith in ourselves. I have never met a woman who, deep down

in her core, really believes she has great legs. And if she suspects that she might have great legs, then she's convinced that she has a shrill voice and no neck. Cynthia Heimel I work best when people are here to puncture me. Tom Bergeron The fate of love is that it always seems too little or too much. Amelia Barr Affliction comes to us, not to make us sad but sober; not to make us sorry but wise. H. G. Wells I'm going to sleep well tonight knowing that I made the right decision. George Ryan You know, I loved math. My mom was a math teacher. Joan Cusack For it pleased God, after he had made all things by the word of his power, to create man after his own image. George Whitefield

Four years of world war, at a cost in human suffering which our minds are

mercifully too limited to imagine, led to the very clear realization that international anarchy must be abandoned if civilization was to survive. Arthur Henderson Never ask what sort of computer a guy drives. If he's a Mac user, he'll tell you. If not, why embarrass him? Tom Clancy What is youth except a man or woman before it is ready or fit to be seen? Evelyn Waugh I got sick of the dough, and thought I'd go on the loaf. Curly Howard I listen to music for emotion and I get zero emotion from rap. Sebastian Bach O God, O God, how weary, stale, flat, and unprofitable seem to me all the uses of this world! William Shakespeare I just don't know what makes a movie catch on and other ones don't. Jerry Bruckheimer

So long as the system of competition in the production and exchange of the means

of life goes on, the degradation of the arts will go on; and if that system is to last for ever, then art is doomed, and will surely die; that is to say, civilization will die. William Morris It is to be regretted that the rich and powerful too often bend the acts of government to their own selfish purposes. Andrew Jackson We read on the foreheads of those who are surrounded by a foolish luxury, that fortune sells what she is thought to give. Jean de La Fontaine We are never the same with others as when we are alone. We are different, even when we are in the dark with them. Maurice Maeterlinck You didn't eat some days for two days you didn't eat properly. Chingy There is no substitute for the comfort supplied by the utterly taken-for-granted relationship. Iris Murdoch This organization is created to prevent you from going to hell. It isn't created to take you to heaven. Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr.

Ever since I became a Muslim, I've had to deal with attempts to damage my

reputation and countless insinuations seeking to cast doubt on my character and trying to connect me to causes which I do not subscribe to. Cat Stevens While in El Paso, I met Mr. Clinton Burk, a native of Texas, who I married in August 1885. Calamity Jane Captain is a good travelling name and so I take it. George Farquhar People could see in me who I am now, an Olympic champ, the best in the world. Cathy Freeman Giving is better than receiving because giving starts the receiving process. Jim Rohn One returns to the place one came from. Jean de La Fontaine The usual fortune of complaint is to excite contempt more than pity. Samuel Johnson

I said during the course of the campaign I didn't like it and I don't

like the idea of having an opponent's picture on your ads and it would be nice to see candidates sign a pledge like that. Scott McCallum The task we must set for ourselves is not to feel secure, but to be able to tolerate insecurity. Erich Fromm I can understand why those primitive desert people think a camera steals their soul. It is unnatural to see yourself from the outside. Nigella Lawson An America that inspires hope in its ideals must complement an America that inspires awe in its strength. Adam Schiff People can be ignorant and still have loving, human qualities. Rob Reiner You may lose by it now and then, but it will be a loss well gained if you do. E. V. Lucas Into thy hands, O Lord. Into thy hands. Henry Irving

If it be not a sin, an open, flagrant violation of all the rules of

justice and humanity, to hold these slaves in bondage, it is indeed folly to put ourselves to any trouble and expense in order to free them. Samuel Hopkins Hope is the only good that is common to all men; those who have nothing else possess hope still. Thales I still get so much fan mail addressed to Carol Brady, and I think a lot of it's through the Net. And I always answer it, if it's legible. Florence Henderson I felt a responsibility to present a viable alternative to the popular electric sound. Ron Carter I first got involved in theater in 1968, at the height of a social tumult. I was a poet. August Wilson Luther was guilty of two great crimes - he struck the Pope in his crown, and the monks in their belly. Desiderius Erasmus I have lived in a flurry of images, but I will go out in a freeze frame. Anthony Quinn

I won twenty-eight games in thirty-five and I couldn't believe my eyes when the Cards

sent me a contract with a cut in salary. Mr Rickey said I deserved a cut because I didn't win thirty games. Dizzy Dean I have a children's book already out and my autobiography. Della Reese Television knows no night. It is perpetual day. TV embodies our fear of the dark, of night, of the other side of things. Jean Baudrillard If you want a love message to be heard, it has got to be sent out. To keep a lamp burning, we have to keep putting oil in it. Mother Teresa You will be as much value to others as you have been to yourself. Marcus Tullius Cicero I have loved justice and hated iniquity: therefore I die in exile. Pope Gregory VII In every truth, the beneficiaries of a system cannot be expected to destroy it. A. Philip Randolph

I knew that I did not have to buy into society's notion that I had

to be handsome and healthy to be happy. I was in charge of my 'spaceship' and it was my up, my down. I could choose to see this situation as a setback or as a starting point. I chose to begin life again. Warren Mitchell To rule one's anger is well; to prevent it is better. Tryon Edwards I am rich beyond the dreams of avarice. Edward Moore Is someone different at age 18 or 60? I believe one stays the same. Hayao Miyazaki Faith and doubt both are needed - not as antagonists, but working side by side to take us around the unknown curve. Lillian Smith Parents are key when it comes to keeping kids off drugs. Good parenting is the best anti-drug we have. Mel Carnahan Soap Actors are fun and interesting. They all have something special that you want to be around. Austin Peck

I am, first of all, a Christian and, secondly, a person with very very serious

personal opinion, so I'm motivated by many many things and, certainly, not by the need or desire to satisfy other people's ideas of who I am. Ken Hensley I think a major element of jetlag is psychological. Nobody ever tells me what time it is at home. David Attenborough It is the service we are not obliged to give that people value most. James Cash Penney Belief gets in the way of learning. Jeremy Collier A hero is someone who understands the responsibility that comes with his freedom. Bob Dylan I strive to be brief, and I become obscure. Baltasar Gracian I'm just trying to play my best and have fun. Miguel Cabrera[EXTRACT]I am, first of all, a Christian and, secondly, a person with very very serious personal opinion, so I'm motivated by many many things and, certainly, not by the need or desire to satisfy other people's ideas of who I am. Ken Hensley I think a major element of jetlag is psychological. Nobody ever tells me what time it is at ho...

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