QUOTES (4) - ROBERT A. HEINLEIN

-“Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea."

- “I never learned from a man who agreed with me.”

-“Sin lies only in hurting other people unnecessarily. All other "sins" are invented nonsense. (Hurting yourself is not sinful - just stupid).”

-“The more you love, the more you can love--and the more intensely you love. Nor is there any limit on how many you can love. If a person had time enough, he could love all of that majority who are decent and just.”

-“Yield to temptation. It may not pass your way again.”

-“May you live as long as you wish and love as long as you live."

-“You can have peace. Or you can have freedom. Don't ever count on having both at once.”

-"Everything is theoretically impossible, until it is done.”

-“One man's theology is another man's belly laugh.”

-“Progress is made by lazy men looking for easier ways to do things”

-“Political tags - such as royalist, communist, democrat, populist, fascist, liberal, conservative, and so forth - are never basic criteria. The human race divides politically into those who want people to be controlled and those who have no such desire.”

-“The supreme irony of life is that hardly anyone gets out of it alive.”

QUOTES (3) - GEORGES W. BUSH

-To those of you who received honors, awards and distinctions, I say well done. And to the C students, I say you too may one day be president of the United States.

-Too many good docs are getting out of the business. Too many OB-GYNs aren't able to practice their love with women all across this country.

-I frankly felt like the reception we received on the way in from the airport was very warm and hospitable. And I want to thank the Canadian people who came out to wave -- with all five fingers -- for their hospitality.

-As you know, we're studying safe levels for arsenic in drinking water to base our decision on sound science, the scientists told us we need to test the water glasses of about 3,000 people. Thank you for participating. [from a 2001 Washington TV/Radio Correspondents dinner]

-In my sentences I go where no man has gone before...I am a boon to the English language.

-You can fool some of the people all the time, and those are the ones you want to concentrate on. -- (spoken at a Washington Dinner, March 2001)

-...it is better to succeed with success than failure

-Children and unborn children should be protected by law and welcomed into life.

-Most of our imports come from other countries.

-States should have the right to enact... laws...particularly to end the inhumane practice of ending a life that otherwise could live.

-What our enemies have begun, we will finish.

QUOTES (2) - OSCAR WILDE

-We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars. (Lady Windermere's Fan, 1892)

-Good resolutions are simply checks that men draw on a bank where they have no account.

-Thirty five is a very attractive age; London society is full of women who have of their own free choice remained thirty-five for years.

-True friends stab you in the front.

-How can a woman be expected to be happy with a man who insists on treating her as if she were a perfectly normal human being.

-The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it.

-I love acting. It is so much more real than life.

-The only thing to do with good advice is to pass it on. It is never of any use to oneself.

-There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.

-I am not young enough to know everything.

-A man can't be too careful in the choice of his enemies.

-By persistently remaining single a man converts himself into a permanent public temptation.

-Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.

-I couldn't help it. I can resist everything except temptation.

-A little sincerity is a dangerous thing, and a great deal of it is absolutely fatal.

-Conscience and cowardice are really the same things.

-Bad artists always admire each other's work.

-Don't give a woman advice; one should never give a woman anything she can't wear in the evening.

-The basis of action is lack of imagination. It is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.

-I like talking to a brick wall, it's the only thing in the world that never contradicts me. (Lady Windermere's Fan, 1892)

-Experience is the name everyone gives to their mistakes.

-Always forgive your enemies - nothing annoys them so much.

-Work is the curse of the drinking classes.

-The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius.

-One should never trust a woman who tells her real age. If she tells that, she'll tell anything.

ERNESTO (CHE) GUEVARA - (14/04/28 - 9/10/67)

Ernesto Guevara de la Serna Lynch (May 14, 1928 – October 9, 1967), commonly known as Che Guevara, el Che, or simply Che, was an Argentine Marxist revolutionary, political figure, physician, author, military theorist, and leader of Cuban and internationalist guerrillas. His stylized image also later morphed into a ubiquitous worldwide countercultural symbol.

As a young medical student, Guevara embarked on a journey throughout Latin America and was transformed by the endemic poverty he witnessed. His experiences and observations during these trips led him to the conclusion that the region's socio-economic inequalities were an insidious result of capitalism, neo-colonialism, and imperialism, with the only remedy being world revolution. This belief prompted his involvement in Guatemala's social revolution under President Jacobo Arbenz Guzmán, whose eventual CIA-assisted overthrow solidified Guevara’s radical ideology.

Later while in Mexico he joined and was promoted to commander in Fidel Castro’s 26th of July Movement, playing a pivotal role while being viewed as "Castro's brain", in the successful guerrilla campaign to overthrow the U.S.-backed Cuban dictator Fulgencio Batista. After the Cuban revolution, Guevara served in many prominent governmental positions, including President of the National Bank and “supreme prosecutor” over the revolutionary tribunals and executions of suspected war criminals from the previous regime. Along with traveling around the world meeting important leaders on behalf of Cuban socialism, he was a prolific writer of an assortment of books, including a classic manual on the theory and practice of guerrilla warfare. Guevara left Cuba in 1965 to incite revolutions first in an unsuccessful attempt in Congo-Kinshasa and ultimately in Bolivia, where he was captured with help of the CIA and executed.

Both notorious for his harsh discipline and revered for his unwavering dedication to his revolutionary doctrines, Guevara remains a controversial and significant historical figure. Because of his death, invocation to armed class struggle, and romantic visage, Guevara became an inspirational icon of leftist revolutionary movements worldwide, as well as a global merchandising sensation. He has since been venerated and reviled in dozens of biographies, memoirs, books, essays, documentaries, songs, and films. Time Magazine professed him to be one of the 100 most influential people of the 20th century, while an Alberto Korda photo of him has been declared "the most famous photograph in the world."