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-- John Ciardi
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"A University without students is like an ointment without a fly."
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-- Ed Nather, professor of astronomy at UT Austin
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-- Ed Nather, professor of astronomy at UT Austin
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A UNIX saleslady, Lenore,
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Enjoys work, but she likes the beach more.
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closer resemblance to the atom, also the ultimate, indivisible unit of
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matter ... The ion differs from the molecule, the corpuscle and the
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atom in that it is an ion ...
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-- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary"
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-- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary"
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Mollison's Bureaucracy Hypothesis:
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If an idea can survive a bureaucratic review and be implemented
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log out again.
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"My life is a soap opera, but who has the rights?"
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-- MadameX
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-- MadameX
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My love runs by like a day in June,
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And he makes no friends of sorrows.
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Politicians are the same all over. They promise to build a bridge even
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where there is no river.
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-- Nikita Khrushchev
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-- Nikita Khrushchev
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Politics is like coaching a football team. you have to be smart enough
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to understand the game but not smart enough to lose interest.
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Hypocrites, whose principal industries are murder and cheating, which
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they are pleased to call "war" and "commerce." These, also, are the
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principal industries of the Orient.
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-- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary"
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-- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary"
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Ocean, n.:
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A body of water occupying about two-thirds of a world made for
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the tops of two keys were switched. When the programmer was seated he was a
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touch typist and the problem went unnoticed, but when he stood he was led
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astray by hunting and pecking.
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-- from the Programming Pearls column,
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by Jon Bentley in CACM February 1985
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-- from the Programming Pearls column,
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by Jon Bentley in CACM February 1985
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%
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... Another writer again agreed with all my generalities, but said that as an
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inveterate skeptic I have closed my mind to the truth. Most notably I have
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sense of achievement you get from getting them to work at all. In other
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words... their fundamental design flaws are completely hidden by their
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superficial design flaws.
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-- The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, on the products
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of the Sirius Cybernetics Corporation.
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-- The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, on the products
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of the Sirius Cybernetics Corporation.
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%
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... it still remains true that as a set of cognitive beliefs about the
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existence of God in any recognizable sense continuous with the great
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%
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A computer lets you make more mistakes faster than any other invention,
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with the possible exceptions of handguns and Tequilla.
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-- Mitch Ratcliffe
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-- Mitch Ratcliffe
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%
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A computer salesman visits a company president for the purpose of selling
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the president one of the latest talking computers.
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%
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A government that is big enough to give you all you want is big enough
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to take it all away.
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-- Barry Goldwater
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-- Barry Goldwater
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%
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A grammarian's life is always intense.
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%
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photograph of him drowning, what shutter speed and setting would
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you use?
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-- Paul Harvey
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-- Paul Harvey
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%
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A Hen Brooding Kittens
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A friend informs us that he saw at the Novato ranch, Marin county,
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X is, well, X, of dubious fame.
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Y is for yes, which makes an impression, and
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Z is for zcat, which handles compression.
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-- THE ABC'S OF UNIX
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-- THE ABC'S OF UNIX
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%
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A joint is just tea for two.
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%
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%
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A proper wife should be as obedient as a slave... The female is a female
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by virtue of a certain lack of qualities -- a natural defectiveness.
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-- Aristotle
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-- Aristotle
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A psychiatrist is a fellow who asks you a lot of expensive questions
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your wife asks you for nothing.
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Air pollution is really making us pay through the nose.
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%
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Airplanes are interesting toys but of no military value.
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-- Marechal Ferdinand Foch, Professor of Strategy,
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Ecole Superieure de Guerre
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-- Marechal Ferdinand Foch, Professor of Strategy,
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Ecole Superieure de Guerre
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%
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Al didn't smile for forty years. You've got to admire a man like that.
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-- from "Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman"
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%
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Alexander Hamilton started the U.S. Treasury with nothing - and that was
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the closest our country has ever been to being even.
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-- The Best of Will Rogers
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-- The Best of Will Rogers
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%
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Algebraic symbols are used when you do not know what you are talking about.
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-- Philippe Schnoebelen
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and divide at the same time.
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%
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Among all savage beasts, none is found so harmful as woman.
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-- St. John Chrysostom, 304-407.
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-- St. John Chrysostom, 304-407.
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%
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Among the lucky, you are the chosen one.
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%
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%
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As I bit into the nectarine, it had a crisp juiciness about it that was very
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pleasurable - until I realized it wasn't a nectarine at all, but A HUMAN HEAD!!
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-- Jack Handey
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-- Jack Handey
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As I thought, no better from this side.
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-- Eeyore
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-- Will Rogers
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%
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Baseball is a skilled game. It's America's game - it, and high taxes.
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-- The Best of Will Rogers
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-- The Best of Will Rogers
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%
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Based on what you know about him in history books, what do you think
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Abraham Lincoln would be doing if he were alive today?
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at Plymouth Rock instead of continuing on to Virginia because, as one of
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them put it, "We could not now take time for further consideration, our
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victuals being spent and especially our beer."
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-- Felton & Fowler's Best, Worst & Most Unusual
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-- Felton & Fowler's Best, Worst & Most Unusual
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%
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Best Mistakes In Films
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In his "Filgoer's Companion", Mr. Leslie Halliwell helpfully lists
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Gang aft a-gley,
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An' lea'e us nought but grief and pain
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For promised joy.
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-- Robert Burns, "To a Mouse", 1785
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-- Robert Burns, "To a Mouse", 1785
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But, officer, he's not drunk, I just saw his fingers twitch!
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Common sense is the most evenly distributed quantity in the world.
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Everyone thinks he has enough.
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-- Descartes, 1637
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-- Descartes, 1637
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Commoner's three laws of ecology:
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1) No action is without side-effects.
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%
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Dad always thought laughter was the best medicine, which I guess is why
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several of us died of tuberculosis.
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-- Jack Handey
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-- Jack Handey
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DALLAS:
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The city that chose Astroturf to
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-- H.L. Mencken
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Democracy is the name we give the people whenever we need them.
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-- Arman de Caillavet, 1913
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-- Arman de Caillavet, 1913
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Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half
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of the people are right more than half of the time.
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Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and
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deserve to get it good and hard.
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-- H.L. Mencken, "Little Book in C major", 1916
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-- H.L. Mencken, "Little Book in C major", 1916
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Democracy is the worst form of government except all those other
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forms that have been tried from time to time.
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Don't talk to me about naval tradition. It's nothing but rum,
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sodomy and the lash.
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-- Winston Churchill
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-- Winston Churchill
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Don't tell any big lies today. Small ones can be just as effective.
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And everybody knows that you live forever when you've done a line or two.
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Everybody knows the deal is rotten: Old Black Joe's still pickin' cotton
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for you ribbons and bows. And everybody knows.
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-- Leonard Cohen, "Everybody Knows"
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-- Leonard Cohen, "Everybody Knows"
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Everybody likes a kidder, but nobody lends him money.
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-- Arthur Miller
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There are no absolute continuums. There are no surfaces. There are no
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straight lines.
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-- R. Buckminster Fuller
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-- R. Buckminster Fuller
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obvious as you begin to study the universe. For example, there are no
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And though you are not sentient, Spot, and do not comprehend,
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I nonetheless consider you a true and valued friend.
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-- Lt. Cmdr. Data, "An Ode to Spot"
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-- Lt. Cmdr. Data, "An Ode to Spot"
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Fellow programmer, greetings! You are reading a letter which will bring
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you luck and good fortune. Just mail (or UUCP) ten copies of this letter
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Giving money and power to governments is like giving whiskey and
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car keys to teenage boys.
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-- P.J. O'Rourke
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-- P. J. O'Rourke
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Giving up on assembly language was the apple in our Garden of Eden: Languages
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whose use squanders machine cycles are sinful. The LISP machine now permits
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more about this thing than an economist does, and, God knows, he doesn't
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know much.
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-- The Best of Will Rogers
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-- The Best of Will Rogers
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%
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Government spending? I don't know what it's all about. I don't know
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any more about this thing than an economist does, and, God knows, he
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a whole column out of it. I'd like to teach the world to bite a wax
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tadpole. Coke -- it's the real wax-fattened mare. Not bad, but broad
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satiric vistas do not open up.
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-- John Carrol, San Francisco Chronicle
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-- John Carrol, San Francisco Chronicle
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HERE LIES LESTER MOORE
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SHOT 4 TIMES WITH A .44
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This I have done with my life, and am content.
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I wish I could tell you how it is in that dark,
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standing in the huge singing and the alien world.
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-- Jack Gilbert, "Don Giovanni on his way to Hell"
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-- Jack Gilbert, "Don Giovanni on his way to Hell"
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How do you explain school to a higher intelligence?
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-- Pooh-Bah, "The Mikado"
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I am just a nice, clean-cut Mongolian boy.
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-- Yul Brynner, 1956
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-- Yul Brynner, 1956
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I am looking for a honest man.
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run their own business. I know men that would make my wife a better
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husband than I am; but, darn it, I'm not going to give her to 'em.
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-- The Best of Will Rogers
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-- The Best of Will Rogers
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%
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I don't care what star you're following, get that camel off my front lawn!
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-- Heard in Bethlehem
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I just ate a whole package of Sweet Tarts and a can of Coke.
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I think I saw God.
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-- B. Hathrume Duk
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-- B. Hathrume Duk
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%
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I just got off the phone with Sonny Barger [President of the Hell's Angels].
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He wants me to appear as a character witness for him at his murder trial
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I put instant coffee in a microwave, and almost went back in time.
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-- Stephen Wright
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-- Stephen Wright
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I put instant coffee in my microwave oven and almost went back in time.
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-- Stephen Wright
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I saw a subliminal advertising executive, but only for a second.
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-- Stephen Wright
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-- Stephen Wright
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I saw Lassie. It took me four shows to figure out why the hairy kid
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I see a good deal of talk from Washington about lowering taxes. I hope
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they do get 'em lowered down enough so people can afford to pay 'em.
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-- The Best of Will Rogers
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-- The Best of Will Rogers
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%
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I see where we are starting to pay some attention to our neigbors to
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the south. We could never understand why Mexico wasn't just crazy about
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us; for we have always had their good will, and oil and minerals, at heart.
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-- The Best of Will Rogers
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-- The Best of Will Rogers
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%
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I sent a letter to the fish, I said it very loud and clear,
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I told them, "This is what I wish." I went and shouted in his ear.
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I spilled spot remover on my dog. Now he's gone.
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-- Stephen Wright
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-- Stephen Wright
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-- Stephen Wright
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There was a computer in every doorknob.
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-- Danny Hillis
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-- Danny Hillis
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I asked for and obtained her blessing and at once commenced the career
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I wish a robot would get elected president. That way, when he came to town,
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-- Jack Handey
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-- Jack Handey
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I WISH I HAD A KRYPTONITE CROSS, because then you could keep both Dracula
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I wonder what the leash and collar set does for excitement?
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-- Tramp, Lady and the Tramp
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-- Tramp, Lady and the Tramp
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%
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I worked in a health food store once. A guy came in and asked me,
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Couldn't be any worse than some of the relationships I've had.
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-- Brenda Starr
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-- Brenda Starr
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%
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to get a "fix" of something, to its own detriment, then I would conclude
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that netnews is far more addictive than cocaine.
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-- Rob Stampfli
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-- Rob Stampfli
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There be five reasons why one should drink;
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%
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If sex is such a natural phenomenon, how come there are so many
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books on how to?
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-- Bette Midler
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-- Bette Midler
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-- From the programming notebooks of a heretic, 1990.
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-- Robert Moses
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%
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||||
If the English language made any sense, lackadaisical
|
||||
would have something to do with a shortage of flowers.
|
||||
|
@ -24829,7 +24829,7 @@ If we won't stand together, we don't stand a chance.
|
|||
%
|
||||
If what they've been doing hasn't solved the problem, tell them to
|
||||
do something else.
|
||||
-- Gerald Weinberg, "The Secrets of Consulting"
|
||||
-- Gerald Weinberg, "The Secrets of Consulting"
|
||||
%
|
||||
If while you are in school, there is a shortage of qualified personnel
|
||||
in a particular field, then by the time you graduate with the necessary
|
||||
|
@ -24887,7 +24887,7 @@ words.
|
|||
If you are of the opinion that the contemplation of suicide is
|
||||
sufficient evidence of a poetic nature, do not forget that actions
|
||||
speak louder than words.
|
||||
-- Fran Lebowitz
|
||||
-- Fran Lebowitz
|
||||
%
|
||||
If you are over 80 years old and accompanied
|
||||
by your parents, we will cash your check.
|
||||
|
@ -25053,7 +25053,7 @@ so as not to disturb those around you.
|
|||
If you go parachuting, and your parachute doesn't open, and your friends are
|
||||
all watching you fall, I think a funny gag would be to pretend you were
|
||||
swimming.
|
||||
-- Jack Handey
|
||||
-- Jack Handey
|
||||
%
|
||||
If you had better tools, you could more
|
||||
effectively demonstrate your total incompetence.
|
||||
|
@ -25180,7 +25180,7 @@ immediately to the best of your ability.
|
|||
%
|
||||
If you make any money, the government shoves you in the creek once a year
|
||||
with it in your pockets, and all that don't get wet you can keep.
|
||||
-- The Best of Will Rogers
|
||||
-- The Best of Will Rogers
|
||||
%
|
||||
If you make people think they're thinking, they'll love you;
|
||||
but if you really make them think they'll hate you.
|
||||
|
@ -25456,7 +25456,7 @@ piggy-back ride on a buzz-saw.
|
|||
%
|
||||
If you're a young Mafia gangster out on your first date, I bet it's real
|
||||
embarrassing if someone tries to kill you.
|
||||
-- Jack Handey
|
||||
-- Jack Handey
|
||||
%
|
||||
If you're careful enough, nothing
|
||||
bad or good will ever happen to you.
|
||||
|
@ -25492,7 +25492,7 @@ If you're worried by earthquakes and nuclear war,
|
|||
As well as by traffic and crime,
|
||||
Consider how worry-free gophers are,
|
||||
Though living on burrowed time.
|
||||
-- Richard Armour, WSJ, 11/7/83
|
||||
-- Richard Armour, WSJ, 11/7/83
|
||||
%
|
||||
If you've done six impossible things before breakfast, why not round it
|
||||
off with dinner at Milliway's, the restaurant at the end of the universe.
|
||||
|
@ -26054,7 +26054,7 @@ In charity there is no excess.
|
|||
In childhood a woman must be subject to her father; in youth to her
|
||||
husband; when her husband is dead, to her sons. A woman must never
|
||||
be free of subjugation.
|
||||
-- The Hindu Code of Manu
|
||||
-- The Hindu Code of Manu
|
||||
%
|
||||
In computing, the mean time to failure keeps getting shorter.
|
||||
%
|
||||
|
@ -26687,7 +26687,7 @@ Instead of giving money to found colleges to promote learning, why don't
|
|||
they pass a constitutional amendment prohibiting anybody from learning
|
||||
anything? If it works as good as the Prohibition one did, why, in five
|
||||
years we would have the smartest race of people on earth.
|
||||
-- The Best of Will Rogers
|
||||
-- The Best of Will Rogers
|
||||
%
|
||||
Instead of loving your enemies, treat your friends a little better.
|
||||
-- Edgar W. Howe
|
||||
|
@ -26780,7 +26780,7 @@ IOT trap -- core dumped
|
|||
IOT trap -- mos dumped
|
||||
%
|
||||
Iowa State -- the high school after high school!
|
||||
-- Crow T. Robot
|
||||
-- Crow T. Robot
|
||||
%
|
||||
Iowans ask why Minnesotans don't drink more Kool-Aid. That's because
|
||||
they can't figure out how to get two quarts of water into one of those
|
||||
|
@ -26906,7 +26906,7 @@ invited to a social gathering. I felt the set of rules others lived by
|
|||
was irrelevant. My childhood attitude -- every attempt to adjust is
|
||||
hopeless and you might just as well follow your own attitudes -- must have
|
||||
carried me.
|
||||
-- Hannah Tillich, "From Time to Time"
|
||||
-- Hannah Tillich, "From Time to Time"
|
||||
%
|
||||
It does not do to leave a live dragon out of your calculations.
|
||||
%
|
||||
|
@ -27459,8 +27459,8 @@ straight days it can be explained by Newton's Law of Gravity. But it takes
|
|||
Murphy's law to explain why it is happening to you.
|
||||
%
|
||||
It is up to us to produce better-quality movies.
|
||||
-- Lloyd Kaufman,
|
||||
producer of "Stuff Stephanie in the Incinerator"
|
||||
-- Lloyd Kaufman,
|
||||
producer of "Stuff Stephanie in the Incinerator"
|
||||
%
|
||||
It is very vulgar to talk like a dentist when one isn't a dentist.
|
||||
It produces a false impression.
|
||||
|
@ -27567,8 +27567,8 @@ It seems appropriate to me that Mapplethorpe's perverse images should
|
|||
be situated so close to Congress, which perpetuates a number of
|
||||
unnatural acts upon the body politic every day, without benefit of
|
||||
artificial lubrication or foreplay.
|
||||
-- Pat Calafia's review of Camille Paglia's
|
||||
"Sex, Art and American Culture"
|
||||
-- Pat Calafia's review of Camille Paglia's
|
||||
"Sex, Art and American Culture"
|
||||
%
|
||||
It seems intuitively obvious to me, which means that it might be wrong.
|
||||
-- Chris Torek
|
||||
|
@ -27583,7 +27583,7 @@ to love with authority. Women are simple souls who like simple things,
|
|||
and one of the simplest is one of the simplest to give. ... Our family
|
||||
airedale will come clear across the yard for one pat on the head. The
|
||||
average wife is like that.
|
||||
-- Episcopal Bishop James Pike
|
||||
-- Episcopal Bishop James Pike
|
||||
%
|
||||
It takes a smart husband to have the last word and not use it.
|
||||
%
|
||||
|
@ -28197,8 +28197,8 @@ because nothing's well done. It was discovered, I suppose you've heard,
|
|||
by a man named Fulton Berle, and it has already revolutionized social
|
||||
grace by cutting down parlour conversation to two sentences: "What's on
|
||||
television?" and "Good night".
|
||||
-- Goodman Ace, letter to Groucho Marx, in The Groucho
|
||||
Letters, 1967
|
||||
-- Goodman Ace, letter to Groucho Marx, in The Groucho
|
||||
Letters, 1967
|
||||
%
|
||||
Japan, n:
|
||||
A fictional place where elves, gnomes and economic imperialists
|
||||
|
@ -28892,7 +28892,7 @@ candy, and said:
|
|||
"Pardon me Choy, is that the Shadow's nugate you chew?"
|
||||
%
|
||||
Language is a virus from another planet.
|
||||
-- William Burroughs
|
||||
-- William Burroughs
|
||||
%
|
||||
Lank: Here we go. We're about to set a new record.
|
||||
Earl: (to the crowd) How about a date?
|
||||
|
@ -29222,7 +29222,7 @@ while the night is laid out against the sky
|
|||
like a smear of mustard on an old pork pie.
|
||||
|
||||
"Nice poem Tom. I have ideas for changes though, why not come over?"
|
||||
-- Ezra
|
||||
-- Ezra
|
||||
%
|
||||
Let us go, through certain half-deserted streets,
|
||||
The muttering retreats
|
||||
|
@ -29344,7 +29344,7 @@ trouble. Conservatives are better. They never run out on you.
|
|||
-- Joseph "Crazy Joe" Gallo
|
||||
%
|
||||
Liberty don't work as good in practice as it does in speeches.
|
||||
-- The Best of Will Rogers
|
||||
-- The Best of Will Rogers
|
||||
%
|
||||
LIBRA (Sep. 23 to Oct. 22)
|
||||
Your desire for justice and truth will be overshadowed by your desire
|
||||
|
@ -29548,7 +29548,7 @@ Life without caffeine is stimulating enough.
|
|||
-- Sanka Ad
|
||||
%
|
||||
Life would be so much easier if we could just look at the source code.
|
||||
-- Dave Olson
|
||||
-- Dave Olson
|
||||
%
|
||||
Life would be tolerable but for its amusements.
|
||||
-- G.B. Shaw
|
||||
|
@ -30854,7 +30854,7 @@ The one day you'd sell your soul for something, souls are a glut.
|
|||
Massachusetts has the best politicians money can buy.
|
||||
%
|
||||
Masturbation is the thinking man's television.
|
||||
-- Christopher Hampton
|
||||
-- Christopher Hampton
|
||||
%
|
||||
Mate, this parrot wouldn't VOOM if you put four million volts through it!
|
||||
-- Monty Python
|
||||
|
@ -31112,7 +31112,7 @@ of tires.
|
|||
-- Dave Barry, "Christmas Shopping: A Survivor's Guide"
|
||||
%
|
||||
Men are superior to women.
|
||||
-- The Koran
|
||||
-- The Koran
|
||||
%
|
||||
Men are those creatures with two legs and eight hands.
|
||||
-- Jayne Mansfield
|
||||
|
@ -31318,7 +31318,7 @@ MIPS:
|
|||
Meaningless Indicator of Processor Speed
|
||||
%
|
||||
Mirrors should reflect a little before throwing back images.
|
||||
-- Jean Cocteau
|
||||
-- Jean Cocteau
|
||||
%
|
||||
Misery loves company, but company does not reciprocate.
|
||||
%
|
||||
|
@ -31480,7 +31480,7 @@ Monday is an awful way to spend one seventh of your life.
|
|||
%
|
||||
Money and women are the most sought after and the least known of any two
|
||||
things we have.
|
||||
-- The Best of Will Rogers
|
||||
-- The Best of Will Rogers
|
||||
%
|
||||
Money cannot buy love, nor even friendship.
|
||||
%
|
||||
|
@ -32601,7 +32601,7 @@ Never trust anyone who says money is no object.
|
|||
%
|
||||
Never try to explain computers to a layman. It's easier to explain
|
||||
sex to a virgin.
|
||||
-- Robert Heinlein
|
||||
-- Robert Heinlein
|
||||
|
||||
(Note, however, that virgins tend to know a lot about computers.)
|
||||
%
|
||||
|
@ -32671,7 +32671,7 @@ Newman's Discovery:
|
|||
%
|
||||
Newpaper editors are men who separate the wheat from the chaff, and then
|
||||
print the chaff.
|
||||
-- Adlai Stevenson
|
||||
-- Adlai Stevenson
|
||||
%
|
||||
NEWS FLASH!!
|
||||
Today the East German pole-vault champion
|
||||
|
@ -32875,7 +32875,7 @@ no maintenance:
|
|||
%
|
||||
No man can have a reasonable opinion of women until he has long lost
|
||||
interest in hair restorers.
|
||||
-- Austin O'Malley
|
||||
-- Austin O'Malley
|
||||
%
|
||||
No man in the world has more courage than the man who can stop after eating
|
||||
one peanut.
|
||||
|
@ -33399,7 +33399,7 @@ I'm looking forward to working with you on this next year.
|
|||
-- Professor, Harvard, on a senior thesis.
|
||||
%
|
||||
Not only is UNIX dead, it's starting to smell really bad.
|
||||
-- Rob Pike
|
||||
-- Rob Pike
|
||||
%
|
||||
Not that we needed all that stuff, but when you get locked into a
|
||||
serious drug collection the tendency is to push it as far as you can.
|
||||
|
@ -33704,7 +33704,7 @@ were good for food and the fruits thereof he labeled SUNKIST...
|
|||
%
|
||||
Now there's a violent movie titled, "The Croquet Homicide,"
|
||||
or "Murder With Mallets Aforethought."
|
||||
-- Shelby Friedman, WSJ.
|
||||
-- Shelby Friedman, WSJ.
|
||||
%
|
||||
Now there's three things you can do in a baseball game:
|
||||
you can win or you can lose or it can rain.
|
||||
|
@ -34257,7 +34257,7 @@ what it does.
|
|||
On account of us being a democracy and run by the people, we are the only
|
||||
nation in the world that has to keep a government four years, no matter
|
||||
what it does.
|
||||
-- The Best of Will Rogers
|
||||
-- The Best of Will Rogers
|
||||
%
|
||||
On his way back from work, a driver came upon a horrible wreck in which one
|
||||
car looked exactly like his neighbor's. Stopping hurriedly on the side of
|
||||
|
@ -34660,7 +34660,7 @@ and end up with the atomic bomb.
|
|||
-- Marcel Pagnol
|
||||
%
|
||||
One hundred women are not worth a single testicle.
|
||||
-- Confucius
|
||||
-- Confucius
|
||||
%
|
||||
One is not superior merely because one sees the world as odious.
|
||||
-- Chateaubriand (1768-1848)
|
||||
|
@ -35566,7 +35566,7 @@ if they have anything else to amuse them.
|
|||
-- S. Johnson
|
||||
%
|
||||
People love high ideals, but they got to be about 33-percent plausible.
|
||||
-- The Best of Will Rogers
|
||||
-- The Best of Will Rogers
|
||||
%
|
||||
People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war, or before an
|
||||
election.
|
||||
|
@ -36086,7 +36086,7 @@ funds from the rich by promising to protect each from the other.
|
|||
Politics and the fate of mankind are formed by men without ideals and
|
||||
without greatness. Those who have greatness within them do not go in
|
||||
for politics.
|
||||
-- Albert Camus
|
||||
-- Albert Camus
|
||||
%
|
||||
Politics are almost as exciting as war, and quite as
|
||||
dangerous. In war, you can only be killed once.
|
||||
|
@ -36105,7 +36105,7 @@ between the disastrous and the unpalatable.
|
|||
%
|
||||
Politics is supposed to be the second oldest profession. I have come to
|
||||
realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first.
|
||||
-- Ronald Reagan
|
||||
-- Ronald Reagan
|
||||
%
|
||||
Politics is the ability to foretell what is going to happen tomorrow, next
|
||||
week, next month and next year. And to have the ability afterwards to
|
||||
|
@ -37545,11 +37545,11 @@ I haven't come far enough and don't call me baby.
|
|||
QOTD:
|
||||
I looked out my window, and saw Kyle Pettys' car upside down,
|
||||
then I thought 'One of us is in real trouble'.
|
||||
-- Davey Allison, on a 150 m.p.h. crash
|
||||
-- Davey Allison, on a 150 m.p.h. crash
|
||||
%
|
||||
QOTD:
|
||||
"I want a home, a family, an occasional spanking ..."
|
||||
-- Kathy Ireland
|
||||
-- Kathy Ireland
|
||||
%
|
||||
QOTD:
|
||||
"It wouldn't have been anything, even if it were gonna be a thing."
|
||||
|
@ -37806,7 +37806,7 @@ Reality is for people who can't deal with drugs.
|
|||
Reality is just a crutch for people who can't handle science fiction.
|
||||
%
|
||||
Reality is nothing but a collective hunch.
|
||||
-- Lily Tomlin
|
||||
-- Lily Tomlin
|
||||
%
|
||||
Reality must take precedence over public relations, for Mother Nature
|
||||
cannot be fooled.
|
||||
|
@ -39117,7 +39117,7 @@ the unfortunate tendency to go rancid several hours after use.
|
|||
In 1924 the New York Board of Health considered banning lipstick,
|
||||
not because it was hazardous to the wearers but because of "the
|
||||
worry that it might poison the men who kissed the women who wore it."
|
||||
-- David Bodanis, "The Secret House"
|
||||
-- David Bodanis, "The Secret House"
|
||||
%
|
||||
She asked me, "What's your sign?"
|
||||
I blinked and answered "Neon,"
|
||||
|
@ -39147,8 +39147,8 @@ She is descended from a long line that her mother listened to.
|
|||
She just came in, pounced around this thing with me for a few
|
||||
years, enjoyed herself, gave it a sort of beautiful quality and
|
||||
left. Excited a few men in the meantime.
|
||||
-- Patrick Macnee, reminiscing on Diana Rigg's
|
||||
involvement in "The Avengers".
|
||||
-- Patrick Macnee, reminiscing on Diana Rigg's
|
||||
involvement in "The Avengers".
|
||||
%
|
||||
She missed an invaluable opportunity to give him
|
||||
a look that you could have poured on a waffle.
|
||||
|
@ -39649,9 +39649,9 @@ on your mouth
|
|||
|
||||
as you got me
|
||||
into this.
|
||||
-- "To Linda", from The Poetry Of H. Ross Perot,
|
||||
composed for Linda Wertheimer of National Public Radio.
|
||||
From SPY Magazine, November 1992
|
||||
-- "To Linda", from The Poetry Of H. Ross Perot,
|
||||
composed for Linda Wertheimer of National Public
|
||||
Radio. From SPY Magazine, November 1992
|
||||
%
|
||||
So she went into the garden to cut a cabbage leaf to make an apple pie; and
|
||||
at the same time a great she-bear, coming up the street pops its head into
|
||||
|
@ -39884,7 +39884,7 @@ Some parts of the past must be preserved,
|
|||
and some of the future prevented at all costs.
|
||||
%
|
||||
Some people are afraid of heights. I'm afraid of widths.
|
||||
-- Stephen Wright
|
||||
-- Stephen Wright
|
||||
%
|
||||
Some people around here wouldn't recognize
|
||||
subtlety if it hit them on the head.
|
||||
|
@ -40585,7 +40585,7 @@ when the greatest warriors are the ones who stand for peace.
|
|||
%
|
||||
Such efforts are almost always slow, laborious, political,
|
||||
petty, boring, ponderous, thankless, and of the utmost criticality.
|
||||
-- Leonard Kleinrock, on standards efforts
|
||||
-- Leonard Kleinrock, on standards efforts
|
||||
%
|
||||
Such evil deeds could religion prompt.
|
||||
-- Titus Lucretius Carus
|
||||
|
@ -41043,7 +41043,7 @@ Television -- the longest amateur night in history.
|
|||
-- Robert Carson
|
||||
%
|
||||
Television has brought back murder into the home -- where it belongs.
|
||||
-- Alfred Hitchcock
|
||||
-- Alfred Hitchcock
|
||||
%
|
||||
Television has proved that people will look at anything rather than
|
||||
each other.
|
||||
|
@ -41735,7 +41735,7 @@ of the smartest bears and the dumbest tourists."
|
|||
The bland leadeth the bland and they both shall fall into the kitsch.
|
||||
%
|
||||
The bomb will never go off. I speak as an expert in explosives.
|
||||
-- Admiral William Leahy, U.S. Atomic Bomb Project
|
||||
-- Admiral William Leahy, U.S. Atomic Bomb Project
|
||||
%
|
||||
The bone-chilling scream split the warm summer night in two, the first
|
||||
half being before the scream when it was fairly balmy and calm and
|
||||
|
@ -42317,8 +42317,8 @@ Western country, insufficient knowledge of Communist literature, and others.
|
|||
%
|
||||
[The ERA] encourages women to leave their husbands, kill their children,
|
||||
practice witchcraft, destroy capitalism and become lesbians.
|
||||
-- Pat Robertson, Man of God and serious Republican
|
||||
presidential aspirant.
|
||||
-- Pat Robertson, Man of God and serious Republican
|
||||
presidential aspirant.
|
||||
%
|
||||
The error of youth is to believe that intelligence is a substitute
|
||||
for experience, while the error of age is to believe experience is
|
||||
|
@ -42365,7 +42365,7 @@ a widespread belief is more often likely to be foolish than sensible.
|
|||
%
|
||||
The fact that hitler was a politcal genius unmasks the nature of politics
|
||||
in general as no other can.
|
||||
-- Wilhelm Reich
|
||||
-- Wilhelm Reich
|
||||
%
|
||||
The fact that it works is immaterial.
|
||||
-- L. Ogborn
|
||||
|
@ -43234,7 +43234,7 @@ The IBM purchase of ROLM gives new meaning to the term "twisted pair".
|
|||
The idea that an arbitrary naive human should be able to properly use a given
|
||||
tool without training or understanding is even more wrong for computing than
|
||||
it is for other tools (e.g. automobiles, airplanes, guns, power saws).
|
||||
-- Doug Gwyn
|
||||
-- Doug Gwyn
|
||||
%
|
||||
The ideal voice for radio may be defined as showing no substance,
|
||||
no sex, no owner, and a message of importance for every housewife.
|
||||
|
@ -43251,7 +43251,7 @@ The idle mind knows not what it is it wants.
|
|||
-- Quintus Ennius
|
||||
%
|
||||
The illegal we do immediately. The unconstitutional takes a little longer.
|
||||
-- Henry Kissinger
|
||||
-- Henry Kissinger
|
||||
%
|
||||
The Illiterati Programus Canto 1:
|
||||
A program is a lot like a nose:
|
||||
|
@ -43263,7 +43263,7 @@ The important thing to remember about walking on eggs is not to hop.
|
|||
%
|
||||
The income tax has made more liars out of the American people than
|
||||
golf has.
|
||||
-- The Best of Will Rogers
|
||||
-- The Best of Will Rogers
|
||||
%
|
||||
The individual choice of garnishment of a burger can be an important
|
||||
point to the consumer in this day when individualism is an increasingly
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The net is like a vast sea of lutefisk with tiny dinosaur brains embedded
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in it here and there. Any given spoonful will likely have an IQ of 1, but
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occasional spoonfuls may have an IQ more than six times that!
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-- James 'Kibo' Parry
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-- James 'Kibo' Parry
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The net of law is spread so wide,
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No sinner from its sweep may hide.
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increases in direct proportion to how much you hate licorice.
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%
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The number of UNIX installations has grown to 10, with more expected.
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-- The Unix Programmer's Manual, 2nd Edition, June 1972
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-- The Unix Programmer's Manual, 2nd Edition, June 1972
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%
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The NY Times is read by the people who run the country. The Washington Post
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is read by the people who think they run the country. The National Enquirer
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whipping. It is a subject which makes the Queen so furious that she cannot
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contain herself. God created men and women different -- then let them
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remain each in their own position.
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-- Letter to Sir Theodore Martin, 29 May 1870, from
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Queen Victoria
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-- Letter to Sir Theodore Martin, 29 May 1870, from
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Queen Victoria
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%
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The question of whether computers can think is just like the question of
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whether submarines can swim.
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%
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The right to be heard does not automatically include the right to be
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taken seriously.
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-- Hubert Humphrey
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-- Hubert Humphrey
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%
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The right to be let alone is indeed the beginning of all freedom.
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-- Justice Douglas
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-- Ed Bluestone, The National Lampoon
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%
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The sooner all the animals are extinct, the sooner we'll find their money.
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-- Ed Bluestone
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-- Ed Bluestone
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%
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The sooner you fall behind, the more time you have to catch up.
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%
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duty. So grateful was the lady that she invited them all in for tea.
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Driving off later, with fond farewells completed, they ran over the cat
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and killed it.
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-- Stephen Pile, "The Book of Heroic Failures"
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-- Stephen Pile, "The Book of Heroic Failures"
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%
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THE WORST BANK ROBBERY
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@ -45967,7 +45967,7 @@ THE WORST HOMING PIGEON
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This historic bird was released in Pembrokeshire in June 1953 and was
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expected to reach its base that evening. It was returned by post, dead,
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in a cardboard box eleven years later from Brazil.
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-- Stephen Pile, "The Book of Heroic Failures"
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-- Stephen Pile, "The Book of Heroic Failures"
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%
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||||
The worst is enemy of the bad.
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%
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|
@ -46714,7 +46714,7 @@ No poet ever interpreted nature as freely as a lawyer interprets truth.
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%
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There is no better way to exercise the imagination than the study of the law.
|
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No artist ever interpreted nature as freely as a lawyer interprets the truth.
|
||||
-- Jean Giradoux
|
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-- Jean Giradoux
|
||||
%
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||||
"There is no choice before us. Either we must Succeed in providing
|
||||
the rational coordination of impulses and guts, or for centuries
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@ -46742,7 +46742,7 @@ There is no distinctly native American criminal class except Congress.
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There is no doubt that my lawyer is honest. For example, when he
|
||||
filed his income tax return last year, he declared half of his salary
|
||||
as 'unearned income.'
|
||||
-- Michael Lara
|
||||
-- Michael Lara
|
||||
%
|
||||
There is no education that is not political. An apolitical
|
||||
education is also political because it is purposely isolating.
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||||
|
@ -46836,7 +46836,7 @@ There is not a man in the country that can't make a living for himself and
|
|||
family. But he can't make a living for them *and* his government, too,
|
||||
the way his government is living. What the government has got to do is
|
||||
live as cheap as the people.
|
||||
-- The Best of Will Rogers
|
||||
-- The Best of Will Rogers
|
||||
%
|
||||
There is not much to choose between a woman who deceives
|
||||
us for another, and a woman who deceives another for ourselves.
|
||||
|
@ -47384,7 +47384,7 @@ then we take Berlin.
|
|||
I'd really like to live beside you, baby. I love your body and your spirit
|
||||
and your clothes. But you see that line there moving throug the station?
|
||||
I told you I told you I told you I was one of those.
|
||||
-- Leonard Cohen, "First We Take Manhattan"
|
||||
-- Leonard Cohen, "First We Take Manhattan"
|
||||
%
|
||||
They spell it Vinci and pronounce it Vinchy.
|
||||
Foreigners always spell better than they pronounce.
|
||||
|
@ -47630,7 +47630,7 @@ This is NOT a repeat.
|
|||
This is not the age of pamphleteers. It is the age of the engineers. The
|
||||
spark-gap is mightier than the pen. Democracy will not be salvaged by men
|
||||
who talk fluently, debate forcefully and quote aptly.
|
||||
-- Lancelot Hogben, Science for the Citizen, 1938
|
||||
-- Lancelot Hogben, Science for the Citizen, 1938
|
||||
%
|
||||
This is supposed to be a happy occasion.
|
||||
Let's not BICKER and ARGUE over who killed who!
|
||||
|
@ -48195,27 +48195,27 @@ Tis man's perdition to be safe, when for the truth he ought to die.
|
|||
To a Californian, a person must prove himself criminally insane before he
|
||||
is allowed to drive a taxi in New York. For New York cabbies, honesty and
|
||||
stopping at red lights are both optional.
|
||||
-- From "East vs. West: The War Between the Coasts
|
||||
-- From "East vs. West: The War Between the Coasts
|
||||
%
|
||||
To a Californian, all New Yorkers are cold; even in heat they rarely go
|
||||
above fifty-eight degrees. If you collapse on a street in New York, plan
|
||||
to spend a few days there.
|
||||
-- From "East vs. West: The War Between the Coasts
|
||||
-- From "East vs. West: The War Between the Coasts
|
||||
%
|
||||
To a Californian, the basic difference between the people and the pigeons
|
||||
in New York is that the pigeons don't shit on each other.
|
||||
-- From "East vs. West: The War Between the Coasts
|
||||
-- From "East vs. West: The War Between the Coasts
|
||||
%
|
||||
To a New Yorker, all Californians are blond, even the blacks. There are,
|
||||
in fact, whole neighborhoods that are zoned only for blond people. The
|
||||
only way to tell the difference between California and Sweden is that the
|
||||
Swedes speak better English."
|
||||
-- From "East vs. West: The War Between the Coasts
|
||||
-- From "East vs. West: The War Between the Coasts
|
||||
%
|
||||
To a New Yorker, the only California houses on the market for less than
|
||||
a million dollars are those on fire. These generally go for six hundred
|
||||
thousand.
|
||||
-- From "East vs. West: The War Between the Coasts
|
||||
-- From "East vs. West: The War Between the Coasts
|
||||
%
|
||||
To accuse others for one's own misfortunes is a sign of want of education.
|
||||
To accuse oneself shows that one's education has begun. To accuse neither
|
||||
|
@ -49428,7 +49428,7 @@ unix soit qui mal y pense
|
|||
%
|
||||
UNIX was not designed to stop you from doing stupid things, because that
|
||||
would also stop you from doing clever things.
|
||||
-- Doug Gwyn
|
||||
-- Doug Gwyn
|
||||
%
|
||||
Unix will self-destruct in five seconds... 4... 3... 2... 1...
|
||||
%
|
||||
|
@ -49885,7 +49885,7 @@ WE:
|
|||
%
|
||||
We all agree on the necessity of compromise. We just can't agree on
|
||||
when it's necessary to compromise.
|
||||
-- Larry Wall
|
||||
-- Larry Wall
|
||||
%
|
||||
We all declare for liberty, but in using the
|
||||
same word we do not all mean the same thing.
|
||||
|
@ -49939,11 +49939,11 @@ We are confronted with unsurmountable opportunities.
|
|||
-- Pogo
|
||||
%
|
||||
We are drowning in information but starved for knowledge.
|
||||
-- John Naisbitt, Megatrends
|
||||
-- John Naisbitt, Megatrends
|
||||
%
|
||||
We are each entitled to our own opinion, but no one is entitled to his
|
||||
own facts.
|
||||
-- Patrick Moynihan
|
||||
-- Patrick Moynihan
|
||||
%
|
||||
We are each only one drop in a great
|
||||
ocean -- but some of the drops sparkle!
|
||||
|
@ -50059,7 +50059,7 @@ We don't know who discovered water, but we're certain it wasn't a fish.
|
|||
%
|
||||
We don't know who it was that discovered water, but we're pretty sure
|
||||
that it wasn't a fish.
|
||||
-- Marshall McLuhan
|
||||
-- Marshall McLuhan
|
||||
%
|
||||
We don't like their sound. Groups of guitars are on the way out.
|
||||
-- Decca Recording Company, turning down the Beatles, 1962
|
||||
|
@ -50202,7 +50202,7 @@ feet were partly of iron, and partly of clay.
|
|||
-- Thomas Reid, "An Inquiry into the Human Mind", 1764
|
||||
%
|
||||
We lie loudest when we lie to ourselves.
|
||||
-- Eric Hoffer
|
||||
-- Eric Hoffer
|
||||
%
|
||||
We love our little Johnny
|
||||
He's the best little boy in all the world
|
||||
|
@ -50537,7 +50537,7 @@ was a great idea," said the manager. Then he paused and asked the killer
|
|||
question, "NOW what's the least popular vegetable?"
|
||||
|
||||
Law: Once you eliminate your #1 problem, #2 gets a promotion.
|
||||
-- Gerald Weinberg, "The Secrets of Consulting"
|
||||
-- Gerald Weinberg, "The Secrets of Consulting"
|
||||
%
|
||||
Weinberg's First Law:
|
||||
Progress is only made on alternate Fridays.
|
||||
|
@ -50828,9 +50828,9 @@ interests.
|
|||
It's like
|
||||
a grain
|
||||
of sand.
|
||||
-- "Alliance Airport, from The Poetry Of H. Ross Perot,
|
||||
recited on ABC's Town Meeting, June 29, 1992.
|
||||
From SPY Magazine, November 1992
|
||||
-- "Alliance Airport, from The Poetry Of H. Ross Perot,
|
||||
recited on ABC's Town Meeting, June 29, 1992.
|
||||
From SPY Magazine, November 1992
|
||||
%
|
||||
We're all in this alone.
|
||||
-- Lily Tomlin
|
||||
|
@ -50939,7 +50939,7 @@ Cooper and Claudette Colbert, and to be beaten up by both of them!
|
|||
%
|
||||
What a misfortune to be a woman! And yet, the worst misfortune is not to
|
||||
understand what a misfortune it is.
|
||||
-- Kierkegaard, 1813-1855.
|
||||
-- Kierkegaard, 1813-1855.
|
||||
%
|
||||
What a strange game. The only winning move is not to play.
|
||||
-- WOP, "War Games"
|
||||
|
@ -51539,7 +51539,7 @@ What's so funny?
|
|||
%
|
||||
What's the matter with the world? Why, there ain't but one thing wrong
|
||||
with every one of us - and that's "selfishness."
|
||||
-- The Best of Will Rogers
|
||||
-- The Best of Will Rogers
|
||||
%
|
||||
What's the ugliest part of your body?
|
||||
What's the ugliest part of your body?
|
||||
|
@ -51643,7 +51643,7 @@ death action. You will have two advantages: first, there be only your
|
|||
story; forget Mother Teresa. Second, even if you lose, how much could
|
||||
the bum's life be worth anyway? A Lot less than 50 years worth of
|
||||
paralysis. Don't play George Bush and Saddam Hussein. Finish the job.
|
||||
-- G. Gordon Liddy's Forbes column on personal security
|
||||
-- G. Gordon Liddy's Forbes column on personal security
|
||||
%
|
||||
When Alexander Graham Bell died in 1922, the telephone people
|
||||
interrupted service for one minute in his honor. They've been
|
||||
|
@ -51836,7 +51836,7 @@ I was an only child... eventually.
|
|||
When I was a kid my favorite relative was Uncle Caveman. After school we'd
|
||||
all go play in his cave, and every once in a while he would eat one of us.
|
||||
It wasn't until later that I found out that Uncle Caveman was a bear.
|
||||
-- Jack Handey
|
||||
-- Jack Handey
|
||||
%
|
||||
When I was a kid, we had a quick-sand box in the backyard.
|
||||
I was an only child... eventually.
|
||||
|
@ -52546,7 +52546,7 @@ a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally.
|
|||
Whenever I see an old lady slip and fall on a wet sidewalk, my first instinct
|
||||
is to laugh. But then I think, what if I was an ant, and she fell on me.
|
||||
Then it wouldn't seem quite so funny.
|
||||
-- Jack Handey
|
||||
-- Jack Handey
|
||||
%
|
||||
Whenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong.
|
||||
-- Oscar Wilde
|
||||
|
@ -52988,7 +52988,7 @@ We spent years of wild buying on credit, everything under the sun, whether
|
|||
we needed it or not, and now we are having to pay for it, howling like a
|
||||
pet coon. This would be a great world to dance in if we didn't have to
|
||||
pay the fiddler.
|
||||
-- The Best of Will Rogers
|
||||
-- The Best of Will Rogers
|
||||
%
|
||||
Why don't you fix your little problem... and light this candle?
|
||||
-- Alan Shepherd, the first man into space, Gemini program
|
||||
|
@ -54331,7 +54331,7 @@ You auto buy now.
|
|||
%
|
||||
"You boys lookin' for trouble?"
|
||||
"Sure. Whaddya got?"
|
||||
-- Marlon Brando, "The Wild Ones"
|
||||
-- Marlon Brando, "The Wild Ones"
|
||||
%
|
||||
You buttered your bread, now lie in it!
|
||||
%
|
||||
|
@ -55188,7 +55188,7 @@ your love could drag on for years and years.
|
|||
%
|
||||
You want to know why I kept getting promoted?
|
||||
Because my mouth knows more than my brain.
|
||||
-- W.G.
|
||||
-- W. G.
|
||||
%
|
||||
You will always find something in the last place you look.
|
||||
%
|
||||
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