why do they call it a "hot water heater"?

The are no secrets to sucess, It's the result of preparation, hard work [and] learning from failure, - Colin Powell

Learn to see things as they really are, not as we imagine they are. - Vermon Howard

"A mind that is streatched by a new experience can never go back to its old dimensions." - Oliver Wendell holmes

my interest is in the futrure...because im going to spend the rest of my life there. - Charles Kettering

Break your problems into parts, and handel them one part at a time.

After you achieve a goal, set another.

get in the habit of asking yourself, "do i understand this?"

i can give you a six-word formule for success: "this things through - then follow through" - Edward Rickenbacker

your success is not a matter of chance; it is a matter of choice.

We make a living by what we get; we make a life what what we give. - Winston Chirchill

if women are to have the same duties as men, they must have the same upbringing and education. - Aristotle

The unexamined life is not worth living. - Socraties

Ideas have no separate existance apart from the material world. - Ralto

what lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

what you do tells everyone wo and what you are.

the essence of intelligence is skill in extracting meaning from everyday experience. - unknown

if you wish to know the mind of man, liston to his words. - Chinese Proverb

Good character... is created little by little, day by day. - Sivananda

Starting sepperates achievers from dreamers.

Attisudes are contagious. is yours worth catching? - unknown

Your imagination will show you how to trun possibility into reality.

You will never do anything in this world without courage. it is the greatest quality of the mind, next to honor. - James L. Allen

a journey of a thousand miles begins with one step.

As you work on an exam, focus only on it and not what other students are doing.

good works done little by little becomes great work.

Happiness isnt something you experience; its something you remember - Oscar Levant

All growth depends on activity.

The greatest opportunity in your life is where you are right now.

Write down the thoughts of the moment. Thoes that come unsought for are commonly the most valueable. - Francis Bacon

Confidence comes not from always being right but from not fearing being wrong. - Peter T. McIntyre

What happens to you is not as important as how you react to what happens

i must respect the opinions of others even if i disagree ith them - hebert Henery Lehman

create time for things you care about

your present circumstances dont determine where you can go; the merely determine where you start.

the wise man must remember that whilehe is a descendant of the past, he is a parent of the future. - Herbert Spencer.

"Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There never was a democracy yet that did not commit suicide." - John Adams

"When great changes occur in history, when great principles are involved, as a rule the majority are wrong." - Eugene Debbs

"Democracy don't rule the world, You'd better get that in your head. This world is ruled by violence, But I guess that's better left unsaid." - Bob Dylan

"The majority is never right. Never, I tell you! That's one of these lies in society that no free and intelligent man can help rebelling against. Who are the people that man up the biggest proportion of the population -- the intelligent ones or the fools? I think we can agree it's the fools, no matter where you go in this world, it's the fools that form the overwhelming majority." - Henrik Ibsen

"Democracy with its semi-civilization sincerely cherishes junk. The artist's power should be spiritual. But the power of the majority is material. When these worlds meet occasionally, it is pure coincidence." - Paul Klee

"Democracy means the opportunity to be everyone's slave." - Karl Kraus

"You must drop all your democracy. You must not believe in "the people." One class is no better than another. It must be a case of Wisdom, or Truth. Let the working classes be the working classes. That is the truth. There must be an aristocracy of people who have wisdom and there must be a Ruler: a Kaiser: no Presidents and democracies." - D.H. Lawrence

"The more I see of democracy the more I dislike it. It just brings everything down to the mere vulgar level of wages and prices, electric light and water closets, and nothing else." - D.H. Lawrence

"No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent." - Abraham Lincoln

"As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy." - Abraham Lincoln

"What we call a democratic society might be defined for certain purposes as one in which the majority is always prepared to put down a revolutionary minority." - Walter Lippmann

"This is one of the paradoxes of the democratic movement -- that it loves a crowd and fears the individuals who compose it -- that the religion of humanity should have no faith in human beings." - Walter Lippmann

"It is a strange fact that freedom and equality, the two basic ideas of democracy, are to come extent contradictory. Logically considered, freedom and equality are mutually exclusive, just as society and the individual are mutually exclusive." - Thomas Mann

"I confess I enjoy democracy immensely. It is incomparable idiotic, and hence incomparably amusing." H.L. Mencken

"It is the American vise, the democratic disease which expresses its tyranny by reducing everything unique to the level of the herd." - Henry Miller

"In a democracy everybody has the right to be represented, including the jerks." Chris Patten

"Let the people think they govern and they will be governed." - William Penn

"Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for the appointment by the corrupt few." - George Bernard Shaw

"There is a limit to the application of democratic methods. You can inquire of all the passengers as to what type of car they like to ride in, but it is impossible to question them as to whether to apply the brakes when the train is at full speed and accident threatens." - Leon Trotsky

"Democracy is suppose to give you the feeling of choice, like Painkiller X and Painkiller Y. But they're both just aspirin." - Gore Vidal

"The object of government in peace and in war is not the glory of rulers or of races, but the happiness of the common man." - William, Lord Beveridge

"Thou cam'st out of thy mother's belly without government, thou hast liv'd hitherto without government and thou may'st be carried to thy long home without government, when it shall please the Lord. How many people in this world live without government, yet do well enough, and are well look'd upon?" - Miguel De Cervantes

"I would not give half a guinea to live under one form of government rather than another. It is of no moment to the happiness of an individual." - Samuel Johnson

"Nothing is so galling to a people not broken in from the birth as a paternal, or in other words a meddling government, a government which tells them what to read and say and eat and drink and wear." - Thomas, Babington Macaulay

"Government is actually the worst failure of civilized man. There has never been a really good one, and even those that are most tolerable are arbitrary, cruel, grasping and unintelligent." - H.L. Mencken

"To administer is to govern: to govern is to reign. That is the essence of the problem." - Honore, Comte De Mirabeau

"Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys." - P.J. O'Rourke

"The government is huge, stupid, greedy and makes nosy, officious and dangerous intrusions into the smallest corners of life -- this much we can stand. But the real problem is that government is boring. We could cure or mitigate the other ills Washington visits on us if we could only bring ourselves to pay attention to Washington itself. But we cannot." - P.J. O'Rourke

"Society in ever state is a blessing, but Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state, and intolerable one." - Thomas Paine

"Government is an evil; it is only the thoughtlessness and vices of men that make it a necessary evil. When all men are good and wise, government will of itself decay." - Percy Bysshe Shelley

"The will is never free -- it is always attached to an object, a purpose. It is simply the engine in the car -- it can't steer." - Joyce Cary

"A man may be a pessimistic determinist before lunch and an optimistic believer in the will's freedom after it." - Aldous Huxley

"One of the annoying things about believing in free will and individual responsibility is the difficulty of finding somebody to blame your problems on. And when you do find somebody, its remarkable how often his picture turns up on your driver's license." - P.J. O'Rourke

"The sadness of the women's movement is that they don't allow the necessity of love. See, I don't personally trust any revolution where love is not allowed." - Maya Angelou

"Just because we're sisters under the skin doesn't mean we've got much in common." - Angela Carter

"Movements born in hatred very quickly take on the characteristics of the thing they oppose." - J.S. Habgood

"I am a feminist, and what that means to me is as much as the meaning of the fact that I am Black: it means that I must undertake to love myself and to respect myself as thought my very life depends upon self-love and self-respect." - June Jordan

"The emancipation of women is practically the greatest egoistic movement of the nineteenth century, and the most intense affirmation of the right of the self that history has yet seen." - Ellen Key

"The people I'm furious with are the Women's Liberationists. They keep getting up on soapboxes and proclaiming women are brighter than men. That's true, but it should be kept quiet or it ruins the whole racket." - Anita Loos

"Women's Liberation is just a lot of foolishness. It's the men who are discriminated against. They can't bear children. And no one's likely to do anything about that." - Golda Meir

"The modern woman is the curse of the universe. A disaster, that's what. She thinks that before her arrival on the scene no woman ever did anything worthwhile before, no woman was ever liberated until her time, no woman really ever amounted to anything." - Adela Rogers St. Johns

"Feminism is a political mistake. Feminism is a mistake made by women's intellect, a mistake which her instinct will recognize." - Valentine De Saint-Point

"I owe nothing to Women's Lib." - Margaret Thatcher

"If I were a woman, I would never trust men who say they are feminists. Either they are acting out of guilt, trying to establish credentials, or they think they might be able to pick up more girls. If I were a woman, I would so, go away and have your first period. Then come back and tell me you are a feminist." - David Thomas

"I love my government not least for the extent to which it leaves me alone." - John Updike