Tobacco, Cancer and Death

My neighbor stopped smoking yesterday. He is survived by a wife and child. Harry Bauer

The top executives of the seven largest American tobacco companies testified in Congress today that they did not believe that cigarettes were addictive, but that they would rather their own children did not smoke. Philip J. Hilts

When I don't smoke, I scarcely feel as if I'm living. I don't feel as if I'm living unless I'm killing myself. Russell Hoban

The single most important preventable cause of death, responsible for one out of every six deaths in the U.S. C. Everett Koop

Stinking'st of the stinking kind, filth of the mouth and fog of the mind. Charles Lamb

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Success

It took me twenty years to become an overnight success. Eddie Cantor

Eighty percent of success is showing up. Woody Allen

If A is a success in life, the A equals x plus y plus z. Work is x; y is play; and z is keeping your mouth shut. Albert Einstein

If at first you don't succeed, try, try again. Then quit. No use being a damn fool about it. W. C. Fields

If you work hard and play by the rules in this great country, you can get ahead. Richard Gephardt

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Self-Love/Self-Hate and Love/hate

All the affectionate feelings of a man for others are an extension of his feelings for himself. Aristotle

If you love yourself too much, nobody else will love you at all. Thomas Fuller

It is not love of self but hatred of self which is at the root of the troubles that afflict our world. Eric Hoffer

To love one's self in the right way and to love one's neighbor are absolutely analogous concepts, are at bottom one and the same. Kierkegaard

Self-love seems so often unrequited. Anthony Powell

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Politics -- Brinkley, Nixon, de Gaulle, Lenin and Rossiter

As long as I've known anything about politics, I've been skeptical. And it has evolved. The more I saw, the more skeptical I became. David Brinkley

The big thing in politics is to know when it is time to leave. Charles de Gaulle

There is no morality in politics. There is only expediency. Lenin

Politics is only a game, and a shabby game at that, if it is not directed to larger and nobler ends. Clinton Rossiter

I played by the rules of politics as I found them. Richard M. Nixon

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The Madness of Man

This world is full of madmen, and he who would not wish to see one must not only shut himself up alone, but also break his looking glass. Nicolas Boileau

I and the world happened to have a slight difference of opinion. The world said I was mad, and I said the world was mad. I was outvoted, and here I am. Richard Brothers

A time is coming when men will go mad, and when they see someone who is not mad, they will attack him, saying "You are not mad. You are not like us." St. Anthony

There is only one difference between a madman and me: I am not mad. Salvador Dali

There was only one catch and that was Catch-22, which specified that a concern for one's own safety in the face of dangers that were real and immediate was the process of a rational mind. Orr was crazy and could be grounded. All he had to do was ask; and as soon as he did, he would no longer be crazy and would have to fly more missions. Orr would be crazy to fly more missions and sane if he didn't, but if he was sane, he had to fly them. If he flew them, he was crazy and didn't have to; but if he didn't want to, he was sane and had to. Joseph Heller

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Losing Life, Love, Happiness

I hate to lose more than i like to win. Larry Bird

When you think you've lost everything, you find out you can always lose a little more. Bob Dylan

It's not what they take away from you that counts. It's what you do with what you have left. Never give up and never give in. Hubert H. Humphrey

There are fights which should be made even if a loss is certain. Frank Tollman

Sometimes, it is too late to win. but it's never too late to lose. Tom Warson

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Ideas -- Grand, small, important, foolish

There never was an idea started that woke up men out of their stupid indifference but its originator was spoken of as a crank. Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

Ideas never lack for words. It is words that lack ideas. Joseph Joubert

You talk of our having an idea. We do not have an idea. The idea has us, and martyrs us, and scourges us, and drives us into the arena to fight and die for it, whether we want to or not. Heinrich Heine

Idea won't go to jail. In the long run of history, the censor and the inquisitor have always lost. The only sure weapon against bad ideas is better ideas. A. Whitney Griswold

Ideas come from God. Albert Einstein

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