Extracts from the alt.quotation archives
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I've imagined great victories, and I've imagined great races.
The races are better.
 -- Mark Helprin
 -- Winter's Tale
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Solutions are not the answer.
 -- Richard Nixon
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People who like this sort of thing will find this the sort of thing they like.
 -- Richard Nixon
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Make money, money, honestly if you can;
if not, by any means at all, make money.
 -- Quintus Horatius Flaccus [Horace] 65BC - 8BC
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A nation which does not remember what it was yesterday, 
does not know what it is today, nor what it is trying to do.
We are trying to do a futile thing if we do not know where we
came from or what we have been about.
 -- Woodrow Wilson
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We have staked the whole future of American civilization, not upon the
power of government, far from it.  We have staked the future of all of
our political institutions upon the capacity of mankind of
self-government; upon the capacity of each and all of us to govern
ourselves, to control ourselves, to sustain ourselves according to the
Ten Commandments of God.
 -- James Madison
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... Religion ... [is] the basis and foundation of government ...  before
any man can be considered as a member of civil society, he must be
considered as a subject of the Governor of the Universe.
 -- James Madison
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We have no government armed with power capable of contending with human
passions unbridled by morality and religion.  Avarice, ambition, revenge
or gallantry would break the strongest cords of our Constitution as a
whale goes through a net. Our Constitution is designed only for a moral
and religious people.  It is wholly inadequate for any other.
 -- John Adams
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The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one
persists in trying to adapt the world to himself.  Therefore all
progress depends on the unreasonable man.
 -- George Bernard Shaw
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Get your facts first, then you can distort them as you please
 -- Mark Twain (1835-1910)
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If you choose not to decide, you still have made a choice.
 -- Rush
 -- "Freewill"
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History will be kind to me, for I intend to write it.
 -- Churchill
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A dog will look up on you;
a cat will look down on you;
however, a pig will see you eye to eye
and know it has found an equal.
 -- Churchill
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The unexamined life is not worth living to a human.
 -- Attributed by Plato to Socrates.
 -- "Apology"
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Love is much like a wild rose, beautiful and calm, but willing to draw
blood in its defense.
 -- Mark A. Overby
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I hold it true, whate'er befall;
I feel it, when I sorrow most;
'Tis better to have loved and lost
Than never to have loved at all.
 -- Alfred Lord Tennyson (1809-1892)
 -- Im Memoriam, XXVII, 1850, line 27, stanza 4.
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If at first you don't succeed, failure may be your thing.
 -- Warren Miller
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May the road rise to meet you,
May the wind be always at your back,
May the sun shine warm upon your face,
the rains fall soft upon your fields and,
until we meet again may god hold you in the palm of his hand
 -- unknown
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May you be in heaven a half hour before the devil knows your dead
 -- unknown
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The point of philosophy is to start with something so simple as not to
seem worth stating, and to end with something so paradoxical that no 
one will believe it.
 -- Bertrand Russell
 -- "The Philosophy of Logical Atomism"
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A woman drove me to drink and I didn't even have the decency to
thank her.
 -- W.C. Fields
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I was brought up in that other service; but I knew from the first that
the Devil was my natural master and captain and friend.  I saw that he
was in the right, and that the world cringed to his conqueror only
from fear.
 -- George Bernard Shaw
 -- "The Devil's Disciple"
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You believe that there is one God.  Good!  Even the demons believe
that - and shudder.
 -- unknown
 -- James 3:19 (The Bible, New International Version)
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Rem tene, verba sequntur
"Keep to the subject, and the words will follow"
 -- Cato the Censor (?)
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USA Today has come out with a new survey - apparently, three out of every
four people make up 75% of the population.
 -- Dave Letterman
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When a distinguished but elderly scientist states that something is
possible, he is almost certainly right.  When he states that something
is impossible, he is very probably wrong.
 -- Arthur C. Clarke
 -- "Hazards of Prophecy: The Failure of Imagination", in the collection
 -- "Profiles of the Future", 1962, revised 1973, Harper & Row, paperback
 -- by Popular Library, ISBN 0-445-04061-0.
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But the only way of discovering the limits of the
possible is to venture a little way past them into
the impossible.
 -- Arthur C. Clarke
 -- "Hazards of Prophecy: The Failure of Imagination", in the collection
 -- "Profiles of the Future", 1962, revised 1973, Harper & Row, paperback
 -- by Popular Library, ISBN 0-445-04061-0.
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Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.
 -- Arthur C. Clarke
 -- "Hazards of Prophecy: The Failure of Imagination", in the collection
 -- "Profiles of the Future", 1962, revised 1973, Harper & Row, paperback
 -- by Popular Library, ISBN 0-445-04061-0.
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Man's greatest joy is to slay his enemy, plunder his riches,
ride his steeds, see the tears of his loved ones and embrace his women.
 -- Genghis Khan
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The world itself is the will to power - and nothing else!  And you yourself
are the will to power - and nothing else!
 -- Nietzsche
 -- "The Will to Power"
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It is a mistake to suppose that God is only, or even chiefly, concerned with
religion.
 -- Archbishop William Temple
 -- 1955
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There's no reason to bring religion into it.  I think we ought to have as
great a regard for religion as we can, so as to keep it out of as many things
as possible.
 -- Sean O'Casey
 -- "The Plough and The Stars"
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To become a popular religion, it is only necessary for a superstition to
enslave a philosohpy.
 -- William Ralph Inge
 -- 1920
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Without a doubt the greatest injury of all was done by basing morals on myth.
For, sooner or later, myth is recognized for what it is, and disappears.
Then morality loses the foundation on which it has been built.
 -- Lord Samuel
 -- "Romanes Lecture", 1947
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The Churches must learn humility as well as teach it.
 -- George Bernard Shaw
 -- "St. Joan"
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Pluralitas non ponenda est sine necessitate
 -- Occam
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In my music, I'm trying to play the truth of what I am.  The reason
it's difficult is because I'm changing all the time.
 -- Charles Mingus
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Life is like an ice-cream cone, you have to lick it one day at a time.
 -- Charles Schultz, as "Charlie Brown"
 -- Peanuts, cartoon strip
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How do you govern a country which has 246 different kinds of cheese?
 -- Charles De Gaulle
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What we should have fought for was representation without taxation.
 -- Sam Levenson
 -- "You Don't Have to Be in `Who's Who' to Know What's What"
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Too bad all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving
taxi cabs and cutting hair.
 -- George Burns
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He has a splendid repertoire of 500 words.  Why does he insist
on using only 150?
 -- Abba Eban
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On the other hand, it is impossible for a cube to be written as a sum of
two cubes or a fourth power to be written as a sum of two fourth powers
or, in general, for any number which is a power greater than the
second to be written as a sum of two like powers.  I have a truly
marvelous demonstration of this proposition which this margin is too
narrow to contain.
 -- Fermat
 -- "Fermat's Last Theorem", by Harold Edwards
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"If you were my husband, i would feed you poison."

"If you were my wife, madam, i would take it!"
 -- Lady Astor and William Churchill
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"Is it true that you smoke eight to ten cigars a day?"

"That's true."

"Is it true that you drink five martinis a day?"  "That's true."

"Is it true that you still surround yourself with beautiful young women?"

"That's true."

"What does your doctor say about all of this?"

"My doctor is dead."
 -- George Burns
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I get plenty of exercise carrying the coffins of my friends who
exercise.
 -- Red Skelton
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"Coolidge is dead"                    
"How could they tell?"
 -- Dorothy Parker
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Sex between 2 people is a beautiful thing ; between 5 it's 
fantastic ...
 -- Woody Allen
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I call that a scumhead.
 -- James Joyce
 -- "Finnegans Wake"
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Sex without love is an empty experience, but as empty experiences go it's
one of the best.
 -- Woody Allen
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The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies;
probably because generally they are the same people.
 -- G.K. Chesterton
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The Bible is God's chart for you to steer by, to keep you from the bottom
of the sea, and to show you where the harbor is, and how to reach it
without running on rocks or bars.
 -- Henry Ward Beecher
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A thorough knowledge of the Bible is worth more than a college education.
 -- Theodore Roosevelt
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If we abide by the principles taught by the Bible, our country will go on
prospering.
 -- Daniel Webster
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When you have read the Bible, you will know it is the word of God, because
you will have found it the key to your own heart, your own happiness, and
your own duty.
 -- Woodrow Wilson
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A deadline is negative inspiration. Still, it's better than 
no inspiration at all.
 -- Rita Mae Brown
 -- "Starting from Scratch: A Different Kind of Writer's Manual"
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As a woman, I find it very embarrassing to be in a meeting 
and realize I'm the only one in the room with balls.
 -- Rita Mae Brown
 -- "Starting from Scratch: A Different Kind of Writer's Manual"
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I don't expect executives to be creative but I do expect them to have 
courage.
 -- Rita Mae Brown
 -- "Starting from Scratch: A Different Kind of Writer's Manual"
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I ask you men...what are you so afraid of? If I am equal to you in 
power, does that diminish you?
 -- Rita Mae Brown
 -- "Starting from Scratch: A Different Kind of Writer's Manual"
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Morals are private. Decency is public.
 -- Rita Mae Brown
 -- "Starting from Scratch: A Different Kind of Writer's Manual"
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Novelty is not necessarily a virtue.
 -- Rita Mae Brown
 -- "Starting from Scratch: A Different Kind of Writer's Manual"
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Television and film demand that people at all levels have brass balls or 
brass ovaries. Unfortunately, we live in the reign of the eunuch.
 -- Rita Mae Brown
 -- "Starting from Scratch: A Different Kind of Writer's Manual"
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This is a celebration of individual freedom, not of homosexuality. No 
government has the right to tell its citizens when or whom to love. The
only queer people are those who don't love anybody. 
 -- Rita Mae Brown
 -- Gay Olympics, 1982
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Would it upset men if they found out we weren't different? Are we? 
Aren't we? Damned if I know.
 -- Rita Mae Brown
 -- "Starting from Scratch: A Different Kind of Writer's Manual"
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Where life is possible at all, a right life is possible;
life in a palace is possible; therefore even in a palace
a right life is possible.
 -- Marcus Aurelius (121-180 AD)
 -- "Medidations", book 5.
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A little flesh, a little breath, and a Reason to rule all -
that is myself.
 -- Marcus Aurelius (121-180 AD)
 -- "Medidations", book 2.
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To refrain from imitation is the best revenge.
 -- Marcus Aurelius (121-180 AD)
 -- "Medidations", book 6.
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To stand up -- or be setup?
 -- Marcus Aurelius (121-180 AD)
 -- "Medidations", book 6.
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A man does not sin by commission only, but often by ommission.
 -- Marcus Aurelius (121-180 AD)
 -- "Medidations", book 9.
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A candour affected is a dagger concealed.
 -- Marcus Aurelius (121-180 AD)
 -- "Medidations", book 9.
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Those who do not understand UNIX are condemned to reinvent it -- badly. 
 -- Henry Spencer
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I believe that sex is one of the most beautiful, natural, wholesome
things that money can buy.
 -- Steve Martin
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If at first you don't succeed, try again -
if you still fail, give up - no sense being
a damn fool about it.
 -- W.C. Fields
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Politics is no exact science.
 -- Otto von Bismark
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Politics is for the moment.  An equation is for eternity. 
 -- Albert Einstein
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In Christianity neither morality nor religion come into contact with reality
at any point.
 -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Faith:  not *wanting* to know what is true.
 -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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When in doubt, use brute force
 -- Ken Thompson
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Maybe I should have screwed up.
 -- Ken Thompson
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SCCS is the source-code motel -- your code checks in
but it never checks out.
 -- Ken Thompson
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I know nothing.
 -- Ken Thompson
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Timesharing just doesn't work.
 -- Ken Thompson
 -- 1982
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 -- Ken Thompson
Just think -- IBM and DEC in the same room -- and we did it.
Makes you feel warm inside.
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If you want to go somewhere, goto is the best way to get there.
 -- Ken Thompson
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... spell `creat' with an E.'
 -- Ken Thompson
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Oh, the tangled webs we weave
When we practice to deceive.
 -- Sir Walter Scott
 -- "Marmion"
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Ich beschw\"ore euch, meine Br\"uder, _bleibt der Erde treu_ und glaubt denen 
nicht, welche euch von \"ubererdischen Hoffnungen reden! Giftmischer sind es, 
ob sie es wissen oder nicht.
 -- Nietzsche
 -- "Also Sprach Zarathustra"
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In this world of sin and sorrow, there is always something to
be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice that I am not a Republican.
 -- H.L. Mencken
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If language is not correct, then what is said is not
what is meant; if what is said is not what is meant,
then what must be done remains undone; if this
remains undone, morals and art will deteriorate;
if justice goes astray, the people will stand about
in helpless confusion. Hence there must be no
arbitrariness in what is said. This matters above everything.
 -- Confucius
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An honest god's the noblest work of man.
 -- Samuel Butler
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The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement.  But the
opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth.
 -- Niels Bohr
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From hence, ye beauties, undeceived
Know one false step is ne'er retrieved
And be with caution bold.
Not all that tempts your wandering eyes
And heedless hearts is lawful prize,
Not all that glisters gold.
 -- Tomas Gray
 -- "Elegy To A Favourite Cat Drowned In A Bowl Of Goldfishes"
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Anyone who has got a book collection/library and a garden
wants for nothing.
 -- Cicero
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Nobody loves me but my mother,
And she could be jivin' too.
 -- B. B. King
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I think there are innumerable gods.  What we here on earth call God is a 
little tribal God who has made an awful mess.  Certainly forces operating 
trough human conciousness control events.
 -- William S. Buroughs
 -- Paris Review, Fall 1965
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I read the book of Job last night - I don't think God comes out well in it.
 -- Virginia Woolf
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I cannot believe in a God who wants to be praised all the time.
 -- Nietzsche
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God is the immemorial refuge of the incompetent, thehelpless, the miserable.
They find not only sanctuary in His arms, but also a kind of superiority,
soothing to their macerated egos; He will set them above their betters.
 -- H.L. Mencken
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If they laid all the coeds from Yale end to end...I wouldn't be
surprised.
 -- Dorothy Parker
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"I really can't come to your party Mrs. Parker, I can't bear fools."

"That's strange; your mother could."
 -- Dorothy Parker
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Trapped, like a trap in a trap.
 -- Dorothy Parker
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Famous actress bragging about her husband:
"Look at him, isn't he beautiful I have kept him for seven years now"

Dorothy Parker:
"Don't Worry--he'll come back in style"  
 -- Dorothy Parker
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The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings. The
inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of misery.
 -- Churchill
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You won't learn much about capitalism at a university.  How could you?
Capitalism is a matter of risks and rewards, and a tenured professor doesn't
have much to do with either.
 -- Pournelle.
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The two most evangelical groups in the world are atheists and vegetarians,
especially the least knowledgeable and least intelligent individuals within
those groups.
 -- Clark Coleman
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Do not meddle in the affairs of wizards, for they are subtle and quick to
anger.
 -- Tolkien
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May you never know hunger
May you love with a full heart
The light burn in your eyes

May the fire be your friend
And the sea rock you gently
May the moon light your way
Till the wind sets you free
 -- Shriekback
 -- "Cradle Song"
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The peasants of the Asturias believe that in every litter of wolves there is
one pup that is killed by the mother for fear that on growing up it would
devour the other little ones.
 -- Victor Hugo
 -- "Les Miserables", the book
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Truth is more of a stranger than fiction.
 -- Mark Twain
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...when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however
improbable, must be the truth.
 -- Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
 -- one of the Sherlock Holmes stories
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It is always the best policy to speak the truth--unless, of course, you
are an exceptionally good liar.
 -- Jerome K. Jerome
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Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to
know how to lie well.
 -- Samuel Butler
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Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves
up and hurry off as if nothing ever happened.
 -- Winston Churchill (1874-1965)
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Truth is beautiful, without doubt; but so are lies.
 -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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If a cluttered desk signs a cluttered mind,
Of what, then, is an empty desk a sign?
 -- Albert Einstein.
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A mind forever voyaging through strange seas of thought, alone.
 -- William Wordsworth
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Ignorance is king, many would not prosper by its abdication.
 -- "A Canticle for Leibowitz"
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Just the omission of Jane Austen's books alone would make a fairly
good library out of a library that hadn't a book in it.
 -- Mark Twain (1835-1910)
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All Bibles are man-made.
 -- Thomas Edison
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To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and
the affection of children; to earn the appreciation of honest critics
and endure the betrayal of false friends; to appreciate beauty; to
find the best in others; to leave the world a bit better, whether by a
healthy child, a garden patch or a redeemed social condition; to know
even one life has breathed easier because you have lived.  This is to
have succeeded.
 -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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To be conservative at 20 is heartless and to be a liberal at 60 is
plain idiocy.
 -- Winston Churchill
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Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend.
 Inside of a dog, it's too dark to read.
 -- Groucho Marx
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 "What's that watermelon doing there?"
   "Tell you later?"
 -- ?
 -- Buckaroo Banzai
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 "You guys are making fun of me, aren't you?"
 -- ?
 -- Buckaroo Banzai
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 "All great revolutions occur at Night! Character is who you are in the DARK!"
 -- ?
 -- Buckaroo Banzai
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Thought:  why does man kill?  He kills for food.  And not only for
food:  frequently there must be a beverage.
 -- Woody Allen
 -- Without Feathers
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On the plus side, death is one of the few things that can be done as
easily lying down.
 -- Woody Allen
 -- Without Feathers
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A DAY IN THE LIFE OF A DOE

Unbearably lovely music is heard as the curtain rises, and we see the
woods on a summer afternoon.  A fawn dances on and nibbles slowly at
some leaves.  He drifts lazily through the soft foliage.  Soon he
starts coughing and drops dead.
 -- Woody Allen
 -- Without Feathers
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Doing abominations is against the law, particularly if the
abominations are done while wearing a lobster bib.
 -- Woody Allen
 -- Without Feathers
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Whosoever shall not fall by the sword or by famine, shall fall by
pestilence so why bother shaving?
 -- Woody Allen
 -- Without Feathers
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Is it better to be the lover or the loved one?  Neither, if your
cholesterol is over six hundred.  By love, of course, I refer to
romantic love -- the love between man and woman, rather than between
mother and child, or a boy and his dog, or two headwaiters.
 -- Woody Allen
 -- Without Feathers
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Miscellaneous methods of Civil Disobedience:
Standing in front of City Hall and chanting the word 'pudding' until
one's demands are met.
Phoning members of the 'establishment' and singing 'Bess, You Is My
Woman Now' into the phone.
Dressing as a policeman and then skipping.
Pretending to be an artichoke but punching people as they pass.
 -- Woody Allen
 -- Without Feathers
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There are three kinds of death in this world.  There's heart death, 
there's brain death, and there's being off the network.
 -- Guy Almes
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While hunting in Africa, I shot an elephant in my pajamas.  How an 
elephant got into my pajamas I'll never know.
 -- Groucho Marx
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Internet is so big, so powerful and pointless that for some people 
it is a complete substitute for life.
 -- Andrew Brown
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The universe is made of stories, not atoms.
 -- Muriel Rukeyser
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...in the lexicon of the political class, the word "sacrifice" 
means that the citizens are supposed to mail even more of their 
income to Washington so that the political class will not have to 
sacrifice the pleasure of spending it.
 -- George Will
 -- Newsweek, 2/22/93 
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Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and 
car keys to teenage boys.
 -- P.J. O'Rourke
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The society which scorns excellence in plumbing as a humble 
activity and tolerates shoddiness in philosophy because it is an 
exalted activity will have neither good plumbing nor good 
philosophy...neither its pipes nor its theories will hold water.
 -- John W. Gardner
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The three dots '...' here suppress a lot of detail -- maybe I 
should have used four dots.
 -- Donald Knuth
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You'd better beat it.  You can leave in a taxi.  If you can't get a 
taxi, you can leave in a huff.  If that's too soon, you can leave in a 
minute and a huff.
 -- Groucho Marx
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When I was in England I experimented with marijuana a time or two, I 
didn't like it, I didn't inhale it, and never tried it again.
 -- Bill Clinton
 -- The World Almanac and Book of Facts, 1993
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I think it's about time we voted for senators with breasts.  After all, 
we've been voting for boobs long enough.
 -- Claire Sargent, on women candidates
 -- The World Almanac and Book of Facts, 1993
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Many, if not all, of my presidential opponents are certifiable idiots.
 -- Miriam Defensor Santiago
 -- The World Almanac and Book of Facts, 1993
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Half of the American people never read a newspaper.  Half never voted for 
President.  One hopes it is the same half.
 -- Gore Vidal
 -- The World Almanac and Book of Facts, 1993
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Your food stamps will be stopped effective March, 1992, because we received 
notice that you passed away.  May God bless you.  You may reapply if there 
is a change in your circumstances.
 -- Greenville County (S.C.) Department of Social Services
 -- The World Almanac and Book of Facts, 1993
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We believe he wanted to win in the worst way.
 -- Don Eslinger
 -- The World Almanac and Book of Facts, 1993
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It is about a socialist, anti-family political movement that encourages 
women to leave their husbands, kill their children, practice witchcraft, 
destroy capitalism and become lesbians.
 -- Pat Robertson
 -- The World Almanac and Book of Facts, 1993
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Would you please shut up and sit down!
 -- George Bush
 -- The World Almanac and Book of Facts, 1993
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I have lived some thirty years on this planet and I have yet to 
hear the first syllable of valuable or even earnest advice from 
my seniors.
 -- James Thurber
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Compiled but not verified by Francis Bond (1993/July/28).
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He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my
contempt.  He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the
spinal cord would fully suffice.  This disgrace to civilization should be
done away with at once.  Heroism at command, senseless brutality, deplorable
patriotism, how violently I hate all this, how despicable and ignoble war is;
I would rather be torn to shreds than be part of so base an action!  It is
my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of
murder.
 -- Albert Einstein
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I'd rather have him inside the tent pissing out than outside the tent 
pissing in.
 -- Lyndon Baines Johnson
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I'm not afraid to die. I just don't want to be there when it happens.
 -- Woody Allen
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I don't want to become immortal through my work, I want to become
immortal through not dying.
 -- Woody Allen
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Usenet is like Tetris for people who still remember how to read.
 -- Anonymous
 -- Button from the Computer Museum, Boston, MA
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Usenet isn't a right. It's a right, a left, and a swift uppercut to the jaw.
 -- Anonymous
 -- Button from the Computer Museum, Boston, MA
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Guide to understanding a net.addict's day:
   Slow day: didn't have much to do, so spent three hours on usenet.
   Busy day: managed to work in three hours of usenet.
   Bad  day: barely squeezed in three hours of usenet.
 -- jenk@microsoft.com (Jen Kilmer)
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When I received the Nobel Prize, the only big lump sum of money I have
ever seen, I had to do something with it.  The easiest way to drop
this hot potato was to invest it, to buy shares.  I knew that World
War II was coming and I was afraid that if I had shares which rise in
case of war, I would wish for war.  So I asked my agent to buy shares
which go down in the event of war.  This he did.  I lost my money and
saved my soul.
 -- Albert Szent-Gyorgyi
 -- The Crazy Ape
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Take care of the luxuries and the necessities will take care of
themselves.
 -- Dorothy Parker
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One more drink and I'll be under the host.
 -- Dorothy Parker
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Four be the things I'd have been better without: love, curiosity,
freckles and doubt.
 -- Dorothy Parker
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That woman speaks eighteen languages and can't say "No" in any of
them.
 -- Dorothy Parker
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Once you discard the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable,
must be the truth.
 -- Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
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Time is what prevents everything from happening at once.
 -- John Archibald Wheeler (1911- )
 -- American J. of Physics, 1978, 46, 323
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A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored
by little statesman and philosophers and divines.
 -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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I have lived some thirty years on this planet and I have yet to hear 
the first syllable of valuable or even earnest advice from my seniors.
 -- Henry David Thoreau
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The Pope! How many divisions has he got?
 -- Joseph Stalin (1879-1953)
 -- `The Second World War', Churchill, vol i, `The Gathering Storm' ch 8.
the Pope. 
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If you have one foot in tomorrow and one foot in yesterday, 
you're bound to find yourself pissing on today.
 -- anonymous (Usenet FOAF)
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Type faces--like people's faces--have distinctive features indicating
aspects of character
 -- Marshall Lee
 -- Bookmaking, 1965 
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Seek not for fresher founts afar, Just drop you bucket where you are.
 -- Sam Walter Foss
 -- Back Country Poems, 1892
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The Pope! How many divisions has _he_ got ?
 -- Joseph Stalin (Iossif Vassirionovich Dugachvili, 1879-1953)
 -- Winston Chuirchill, The Second World War, vol 1
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A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds.
 -- Ralph Waldo Emerson (1802-1882)
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Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.
 -- Samuel Johnson (1709-1784)
 -- Letter to Lord Chesterfield, 1775
%%
There are no physicists in the hottest parts of hell, because the 
existence of a "hottest part" implies a temperature difference, and 
any marginally competent physicist would immediately use this to run a 
heat engine and make some other part of hell comfortably cool.  This is 
obviously impossible.
 -- Richard Davisson
%%
It's not my Goddamn planet! Understand, Monkey-Boy?
 -- Buckaroo Banzai, played by Peter Weller
%%
If we don't succeed we run the risk of failure.
 -- Dan Quayle
%%
I could not say I believe. I know! I have had the experience of being
gripped by something that is stronger than myself, something that people call
God.
 -- Carl Jung
%%
That old saw about the early bird just proves that the worm should have
stayed in bed.
 -- Robert Heinlein
 -- Time Enough For Love
%%
The modern definition of "racist" is "someone who is winning an argument 
with a liberal"
 -- Peter Brimelow
 -- National Review (2/1/93)
%%
Not many people know this ... but I happen to be famous.
 -- Sam Malone, Cheers

God not only plays dice.  He also sometimes throws the dice where they
cannot be seen.
 -- Steven Hawkins
 -- Nature 1975, _257_, 362
%%
This is the rock-solid principle on which the whole of the Corporation's
[IBM's] Galaxy-wide success is founded...their fundamental design flaws are
completely hidden by their superficial design flaws.
 -- TH Nelson
 -- Computer Lib., 1988, London: Penguin.
%%
Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
 -- George Santayana (1863-1952)
%%
The history of science is everywhere speculative.  It is a marvelous
 hiatory.  It makes you proud to be a human being.
 -- Karl R. Popper
%%
The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit.
 -- Somerset Maugham
%%
When I was one-and-twenty,
I heard a wise man say,
"Give pounds and crowns and guineas,
But not your heart away."

"Give pearls away and rubies,
But keep your fancy free."
But I was one-and-twenty,
No use to talk to me.
 -- A.E. Houseman
%%
 "I would there were no age between sixteen and three-and-twenty, or that
   youth would sleep out the rest, for there is nothing in the between but
   getting wenches with child, wronging the ancientry, stealing, fighting."
 -- William Shakespeare
 -- The Winter's Tale, Act III, Scene 3, lines 59-63.
%%
You can never get the smell of smoke out.
            Like the smell of failure in life.
 -- John Updike
 -- Rabbit Redux
%%
A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little
statesman and philosophers and divines.
 -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
%%
 Now I lay me down to sheep
   I pray the Lord the sheep's asleep
   If, perchance, the sheep should wake
   Simple friendship shall I fake.
 -- Frances Grimble
%%
 "We are survival machines --robot vehicles blindly programmed to
   preserve the selfish molecules known as genes."
 -- Richard Dawkings:
 -- "The Selfish Gene" 
%%
 "Philosophy and the subjects known as 'humanities' are still taught
   almost as if Darwin had never lived. No doubt this will change in
   time."
 -- Richard Dawkings:
 -- "The Selfish Gene" 
%%
 "Personally I rather look forward to a computer program winning the
   world [chess] championship. Humanity needs a lesson in humility."
 -- Richard Dawkings:
 -- "The Selfish Gene" 
%%
 "In so far as virus-makers have any discernible motive, they
   presumably feel vaguely anarchistic.  I appeal to them: do you really
   want to pave the way for a new fat-cat profession
   ['software-doctors']? If not, stop playing at silly memes, and put
   your modest programming talents to better use."
 -- Richard Dawkings:
 -- "The Selfish Gene" 
%%
 "D'ya think the rain'll hurt the rhubarb?"
   "Not if it's in cans."
   "What, the rain, or the rhubarb?..."
 -- ?
 -- Raising Arizona
%%
If Beethoven had been killed in a plane crash at the age of 22, it would
have changed the history of music... and of aviation.
 -- Tom Stoppard
%%
There are two kinds of people, those who finish what they start
 and so on.
 -- Robert Byrne
%%
I take the view, and always have, that if you cannot say what you are
going to say in twenty minutes you ought to go away and write a book
about it.
 -- Lord Brabazon
%%
 Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the
public and have no self.
 -- Cyril Connolly
%%
 "you've got to cry without weeping,
   talk without speaking,
   scream without raising your voice"
 -- U2
 -- The Joshua Three
%%
 "I'm an experienced woman; I've been around...
   well, alright, I might not've been around, but 
   I've been... nearby."
 -- Mary Richards
 -- (mary Tyler moore show)
%%
 "Always do sober what you said you'd do drunk. That 
   will teach you to keep your mouth shut."
 -- Ernest Hemingway 
%%
 "Dont' play for safety- it's the most dangerous thing 
   in the world." 
 -- Hugh Walpole
%%
 "I once complained to my father that I didn't seem to
   be able to do things the same way other people did. 
   Dad's advice? 'Margo, don't be a sheep. People hate
   sheep. They eat sheep.'"
 -- Margo Kaufman
%%
 "Do not fear death so much but rather the inadequate life."
 -- Bertolt Brecht
%%
 "In the future everyone will be famous for fifteen minutes."
 -- Andy Warhol
%%
A Liberal is a man too broad-minded to take his own side in an argument.
 -- Cokie Roberts
%%
We must love one another or die.
 -- W.H. Auden
 -- "September 1, 1939"
%%
Because he once wrote, "We must love one another or die," he can command me 
to follow him.
 -- E.M. Forster
%%
That's a damned lie!  We must die anyway.
 -- W.H. Auden
%%
We must love one another and die.
 -- W.H. Auden
 -- revised "Sept. 1, 1939"
%%
Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world.
 -- Shelley
 -- incomplete, poets
%%
Stone walls do not a prison make, nor iron bars a cage.
 -- Richard Lovelace
 -- To Althea from Prison
%%
 "A verbal contract isn't worth the paper it's written on."
 -- Samuel Goldwyn
 --Goldwyn's Law of Contracts
%%
 "I don't want any yes-men around me.  I want everybody to tell me the
truth even if it costs them their jobs."
 -- Samuel Goldwyn
%%
 "Dieu me pardonnera.  C'est son m\'etier"
(God will forgive me.  It's his profession)
 -- Heinrich Heine
%%
 "Creativity is more important than knowledge."
 -- Albert Einstein
%%
 "Streets full of water; please advise."
 -- Robert Benchley
%%
 That ready wit, which you so partially allow me, ... may create
many admirers; but, take my word for it, it makes few friends.  It
shines and dazzles like the noonday sun, but, like that, too, it is
very apt to scorch, and therefore is always feared.  The milder
morning and evening light and heat of that planet soothe and calm our
minds.  Never seek for wit; if it present itself, well and good; but
even then, let your judgement interpose, and take care that it be not
at the expense of anybody.
 -- - Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th earl of Chesterfield, 1749
%%
 ... Nature, whose sweet rains fall of just and unjust alike, will have 
clefts in the rocks where I may hide, and secret valleys in whose silence
I may weep undetected.  She will hang the night with stars so that I may
walk abroad in the darkness without stumbling, and send the wind over my
footprints so that none may track me to my hurt: she will cleanse me in
great waters, and with bitter herbs make me whole.
 -- Oscar Wilde,
 -- "De Profundis"
%%
 "Everything should be as simple as possible -- but not simpler."  
 -- Albert Einstein
%%
Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely.
 -- Lord Acton
 -- in a letter to Bishop Mandell Creighton, April 3, 1887.
%%
	I drink because she nags, he said 
	I nag because he drinks.
	But if the truth be known to you,
	He's a lush and she's a shrew.
 -- Ogden Nash
%%
 As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not
certain, and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality.
 -- Albert Einstein
%%
 Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.
 -- Albart Einstein
%%
Not only does God play dice with the Universe he sometimes casts them
where they can't be seen
 -- Stephen Hawking
%%
Our love is God.  Lets go grab a slushie
 -- J.D.
 -- Heathers
%%
   The discovery of this strange society was a curiously
        refreshing thing; to realize that there were ten new trades in
        the world was like looking at the first ship or the first
        plough.  It made a man feel what he should feel, that he was
        still in the childhood of the world.
 -- G. K. Chesterton
 -- The Tremendous Adventures of Major Brown
%%
Money is like muck, not good except it be spread.
 -- Francis Bacon
%%
It has beeen said that the love of money is the root of all evil. The want of 
money is so quite as truly.
 -- Samuel Butler
%%
 The only truly indigenous American inventions are Thanksgiving turkey
and fingerfucking.
 -- -- Lyndon Baines Johnson
%%
"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."
 -- Will Rogers
%%
"The man with the best job in the country is the vice-president. All he
has to do is get up every morning and say, 'How is the president?'"
 -- Will Rogers
%%
"Government spending? I don't know what it's all about. I don't know
any more about this thing than an economist does, and, God knows, he
doesn't know much."
 -- Will Rogers
%%
"There's no trick to being a humorist when you have the whole
government working for you."
 -- Will Rogers
%%
"Alexander Hamilton started the U.S. Treasury with nothing -- and that
was the closest our country has ever been to being even."
 -- Will Rogers
%%
"I belong to no organized party.  I am a Democrat."
 -- Will Rogers
%%
"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."
 -- Will Rogers
%%
"The income tax has made more liars out of the American people than
golf has."
 -- Will Rogers
%%
"Nothing you can't spell will ever work."
 -- Will Rogers
%%
"You can't say civilizations don't advance...in every war they kill you
in a new way."
 -- Will Rogers
%%
"I don't care how poor and inefficient a little country is; they like
to run their own business.  I know men that would make my wife a better
husband than I am; but, darn it, I'm not going to give her to 'em."
 -- Will Rogers
%%
"Liberty don't work as good in practice as it does in speeches."
 -- Will Rogers
%%
"Baseball is a skilled game. It's America's game -- it, and high
taxes."
 -- Will Rogers
%%
"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."
 -- Will Rogers
%%
"I see a good deal of talk from Washington about lowering taxes. I hope
they do get 'em lowered down enough so people can afford to pay 'em."
 -- Will Rogers
%%
"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."
 -- Will Rogers
%%
"People love high ideals, but they got to be about 33-percent
plausible."
 -- Will Rogers
%%
"I see where we are starting to pay some attention to our neigbors to
the south. We could never understand why Mexico wasn't just crazy about
us; for we have always had their good will, and oil and minerals, at
heart."
 -- Will Rogers
%%
"Computers make it easier to do a lot of things, but most of the things
they make it easier to do don't need to be done."
 -- Andy Rooney
%%
"We've sent a man to the moon, and that's 29,000 miles away. The center
of the Earth is only 4,000 miles away. You could drive that in a week,
but for some reason nobody's ever done it."
 -- Andy Rooney
%%
"I have one of those real old American built cars.  The kind that just
PUNCHES through accidents."
 -- Kevin Rooney
%%
"No one can make you feel inferior without your consent."
 -- Eleanor Roosevelt
%%
"A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who has never
learned to walk."
 -- Franklin D. Roosevelt
%%
"I think we consider too much the good luck of the early bird, and not
enough the bad luck of the early worm."
 -- Franklin D. Roosevelt
%%
"Do what you can, with what you have, where you are."
 -- Theodore Roosevelt
%%
"The great virtue of my radicalism lies in the fact that I am perfectly
ready, if necessary, to be radical on the conservative side."
 -- Theodore Roosevelt
%%
"When they call the roll in the Senate, the Senators do not know
whether to answer 'Present' or 'Not guilty.'"
 -- Theodore Roosevelt
%%
"The best executive is one who has sense enough to pick good people to
do what he wants done, and self-restraint enough to keep from meddling
with them while they do it."
 -- Theodore Roosevelt
%%
"Conservative: One who admires radicals centuries after they're dead."
 -- Leo C. Rosten
%%
"The race may not always be to the swift nor the victory to the strong,
but that's how you bet."
 -- Damon Runyon
%%
"I long ago came to the conclusion that all life is six to five
against."
 -- Damon Runyon
%%
"Many people would rather die than think; in fact, most do."
 -- Bertrand Russell
%%
"'Change' is scientific, 'progress' is ethical; change is indubitable,
whereas progress is a matter of controversy."
 -- Bertrand Russell
%%
"What is wanted is not the will to believe, but the will to find out,
which is the exact opposite."
 -- Bertrand Russell, "Sceptical Essays", 1928
%%
"In all things it is a good idea to hang a question mark now and then
on the things we have taken for granted."
 -- Bertrand Russell
%%
"It has been said that man is a rational animal.  All my life I have
been searching for evidence which could support this."
 -- Bertrand Russell
%%
"One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief
that one's work is terribly important."
 -- Bertrand Russell
%%
"The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always
so certain of themselves, but wiser people so full of doubts."
 -- Bertrand Russell
%%
"Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial
reasons."
 -- Bertrand Russell
%%
"Sanity calms, but madness is more interesting."
 -- John Russell
%%
"All science is either physics or stamp collecting."
 -- Ernest Rutherford
%%
"You should never bet against anything in science at odds of more than
about 10-12 to 1."
 -- Ernest Rutherford
%%
"Life always sucks.  It's just that sometimes that feels very good."
 -- Kevin Ryan
%%
"All military type firearms are to be handed in immediately... The SS,
SA and Stahlhelm give every respectable German man the opportunity of
campaigning with them.  Therefore anyone who does not belong to one of
the above named organisations and who unjustifiably nevertheless keeps
his weapon... must be regarded as an enemy of the national government."
 -- SA Oberfuhrer of Bad Tolz, March, 1933.
%%
"You say that my way of thinking cannot be tolerated?  What of it?  The
man who alters his way of thinking to suit others is a fool.  My way of
thinking is the result of my reflections.  It is part of my inner
being, the way I am made.  I do not contradict them, and would not even
if I wished to.  For my system, which you disapprove of, is also my
greatest comfort in life, the source of all my happiness --- it means
more to me than my life itself."
 -- Marquis de Sade
%%
"A poor fool indeed is he who adopts a manner of thinking (meant) for
others!"
 -- Donatien-Alphonse-Francois de Sade
%%
"Knowing how things work is the basis for appreciation, and is thus a
source of civilized delight."
 -- William Safire
%%
"In science it often happens that scientists say, 'You know that's a
really good argument; my position is mistaken,' and then they would
actually change their minds and you never hear that old view from them
again.  They really do it.  It doesn't happen as often as it should,
because scientists are human and change is sometimes painful.  But it
happens every day.  I cannot recall the last time someting like that
happened in politics or religion."
 -- Carl Sagan, 1987 CSICOP Keynote Address
%%
"All of the books in the world contain no more information than is
broadcast as video in a single large American city in a single year.
Not all bits have equal value."
 -- Carl Sagan
%%
"It is of interest to note that while some dolphins are reported to
have learned English -- up to fifty words used in correct context -- no
human being has been reported to have learned dolphinese."
 -- Carl Sagan
%%
"Skeptical scrutiny is the means, in both science and religion, by
which deep insights can be winnowed from deep nonsense."
 -- Carl Sagan
%%
"The universe is not required to be in perfect harmony with human
ambition."
 -- Carl Sagan
%%
"Who are we? We find that we live on an insignificant planet of a
humdrum star lost in a galaxy tucked away in some forgotten corner of a
universe in which there are far more galaxies than people."
 -- Carl Sagan
%%
"In order to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the
universe."
 -- Carl Sagan, Cosmos
%%
"A celibate clergy is an especially good idea, because it tends to
suppress any hereditary propensity toward fanaticism."
 -- Carl Sagan
 -- Contact
%%
"But the fact that some geniuses were laughed at does not imply that
all who are laughed at are geniuses.  They laughed at Columbus, they
laughed at Fulton, they laughed at the Wright brothers.  But they also
laughed at Bozo the Clown."
 -- Carl Sagan
%%
"In an optimal world, I would not be necessary."
 -- James Price Salsman
%%
"Remember folks.  Street lights timed for 35 mph are also timed for 70
mph."
 -- Jim Samuels
%%
"This is no time to act like a gentleman.  I am a cad and shall react
like one."
 -- George Sanders
%%
"Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect, and it is shameful to
surrender it too soon or to the first comer: there is nobility in
preserving it coolly and proudly through long youth, until at last, in
the ripeness of instinct and discretion, it can be safely exchanged for
fidelity and happiness."
 -- George Santayana
%%
"My atheism, like that of Spinoza, is true piety towards the universe
and denies only gods fashioned by men in their own image, to be
servants of their human interests."
 -- George Santayana
%%
"Each religion, by the help of more or less myth which it takes more or
less seriously, proposes some method of fortifying the human soul and
enabline it to make its peace with its destiny."
 -- George Santayana
%%
"There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval."
 -- George Santayana
%%
Good-bye.  I am leaving because I am bored.
 -- George Saunders' dying words
%%
"Recently, my personal advisors have beeen telling me to go to
America.  Actually, people have been walking up to me in the street and
telling me to sod off, but that's the same thing, isn't it?"
 -- Alexi Sayle
%%
"Americans have different ways of saying things.  They say `elevator',
we say `lift'...they say `President', we say `stupid psychopathic
git'...."
 -- Alexi Sayle
%%
"Oh, what tangled webs we weave, When we first practice to deceive."
 -- Sir Walter Scott
%%
"If someone tells you that the fully armored man of the Middle Ages was
so encumbered by his armor that he could not rise if he fell, you may
well ask yourself, first, if it is reasonable to assume that
professional soldiers would go on wearing armor that kept them from
fighting and second, if this theory is in line with what you know of
the heavily armored men of your personal acquaintance."
 -- Niccola Sebastiani
%%
"He should be most proud that the PMRC wants to put their obscene
lyrics sticker on his `Jazz From Hell' -- which is an instrumental
album."
 -- Tony Shepps
%%
"Immortality -- a fate worse than death."
 -- Edgar A. Shoaff
%%
"If you want to know your true opinion of someone, watch the effect
produced in you by the first sight of a letter from him."
 -- Arthur Schopenhauer
%%
"For four-fifths of our history, our planet was populated by pond
scum."
 -- J.W. Schopf
%%
"Grapenut is working, but it is working as Chestnut.  The cables have
been switched, so Chestnut printing continues even though Chestnut the
printer is in bed with a cold.  Grapenut printing has been halted, even
though Grapenut the printer is printing under an assumed name
(Chestnut)."
 -- Jason Schreibeis, from an Operations ser
%%
"If we are going to stick to this damned quantum-jumping, then I regret
that I ever had anything to do with quantum theory."
 -- Erwin Schrodinger
%%
"No problem is so formidable that you can't walk away from it."
 -- C. Schutlz
%%
"Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more
violent.  It takes a touch of genius -- and a lot of courage -- to move
in the opposite direction."
 -- E. F. Schumacher
%%
"As far as Saddam Hussein being a great military strategist, he is
neither a strategist, nor is he schooled in the operational arts, nor
is he a tactician, nor is he a general, nor is he as a soldier.  Other
than that, he's a great military man, I want you to know that."
 -- General Norman Schwarzkopf, 2/27/91
%%
"They couldn't hit an elephant at this dist-----"
 -- General John Sedgewick, Union Army Last Words, 1864
%%
"One form to rule them all, one form to find them, one form to bring
them all and in the darkness rewrite the hell out of them"
 -- sendmail ruleset 3 comment from DEC.
%%
"...adults are just obsolete children and the hell with them."
 -- Dr. Seuss (as quoted in his obit in Time)
%%
"Insisting on perfect safety is for people who don't have the balls to
live in the real world."
 -- Mary Shafer, NASA Ames Dryden
%%
"To thine own self be true -; And it must follow as the night the day;
Thou canst not be false to any man"
 -- William Shakespeare
%%
"Wretched woman to both assault my genetailia and deny me the chance to
lie about it later!  (You know, that is one whopper of an
out-of-context quote.)"
 -- Mike Shapiro.
%%
'It is generally agreed that "Hello" is an appropriate greeting because
if you entered a room and said "Goodbye," it could confuse a lot of
people.'
 -- Dolph Sharp, "I'm O.K., You're Not So Hot"
%%
"One of the advantages of being a captain is being able to ask for
advice without necessarily having to take it."
 -- William Shatner as Kirk, in "Dagger of the Mind"
%%
"I'm from Iowa, I only work in space."
 -- William Shatner as Kirk, in "Star Trek IV:The Voyage
%%
"Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it
ceases to be serious when people laugh."
 -- George Bernard Shaw
%%
"There is no satisfaction in hanging a man who does not object to it"
 -- G. B. Shaw
%%
"Do you know what a pessimist is? A person who thinks everybody is as
nasty as himself and hates them for it."
 -- George Bernard Shaw
%%
"Except during the nine months before he draws his first breath, no man
manages his affairs as well as a tree does."
 -- George Bernard Shaw
%%
"Life is a disease; and the only diference between one another is the
stage of the disease at which he lives."
 -- George Bernard Shaw
%%
"I often quote myself.  It adds spice to my conversation."
 -- George Benard Shaw
%%
"I dread success.  To have succeeded is to have finished one's business
on earth, like the male spider, who is killed by the female the moment
he has succeeded in his courtship.  I like a state of continual
becoming, with a goal in front and not behind."
 -- George Bernard Shaw
%%
"Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than
we deserve."
 -- George Bernard Shaw
%%
"England and America are two countries seperated by the same language."
 -- George Bernard Shaw
%%
"Success covers a multitude of blunders."
 -- George Bernard Shaw
%%
"When a stupid man is doing something he is ashamed of, he always
declares that it is his duty."
 -- GB Shaw
%%
"The worst sin toward our fellow creatures is not to hate them, but to
be indifferent to them:  that's the essence of inhumanity."
 -- George Bernard Shaw
%%
"Martyrdom is the only way a person can become famous without ability."
 -- George Bernard Shaw
%%
"The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those
who have not got it."
 -- George Bernard Shaw
%%
"Common sense is instinct. Enough of it is genius."
 -- George Bernard Shaw
%%
"I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of
fools. Let's start with typewriters."
 -- Solomon Short
%%
"Nature abhors a hero.  For one thing, he violates the law of
conservation of energy.  For another, how can it be the survival of the
fittest when the fittest keeps putting himself in situations where he
is most likely to be creamed?"
 -- Solomon Short
%%
"The only winner in the War of 1812 was Tchaikovsky"
 -- Solomon Short
%%
"Pay no attention to what the critics say; there has never been set up
a statue in honor of a critic."
 -- Jean Sibelius
%%
"Life is too important to take seriously."
 -- Corky Siegel
%%
"Fortunately, the second-to-last bug has just been fixed."
 -- Ray Simard
%%
"Goto, n.:  A programming tool that exists to allow structured
programmers to complain about unstructured programmers."
 -- Ray Simard
%%
"In the beginning was the word. But by the time the second word was
added to it, there was trouble. For with it came syntax..."
 -- John Simon
%%
"When you betray somebody else, you also betray yourself."
 -- Isaac Bashevis Singer
%%
"[Jupiter's] satellites are invisible to the naked eye and therefore
can have no influence on the Earth and therefore would be useless and
therefore do not exist."
 -- Francesco Sizi, quoted by T. Cox
%%
"Education is what survives when what has been learned has been
forgotten"
 -- B.F. Skinner
%%
"The future, according to some scientists, will be exactly like the
past, only far more expensive."
 -- John Sladek
%%
"Trust me... I know what I'm doing."
 -- Sledge Hammer
%%
"We have given away far too many freedoms in order to be free.  Now
it's time to take some back."
 -- John Le Carre
 -- One of the George Smiley books
%%
"I found out that when you get married the man becomes the head of the
house.  And the woman becomes the neck, and she turns the head any way
she wants to."
 -- Yakov Smirnoff
%%
"He had occasional flashes of silence, that made his conversation
perfectly delightful."
 -- Sydney Smith, referring to Macaulay
%%
"DEC achieved this by an aggresive design that uses a lower-than-usual
voltage (3.5V), unusually thick metal layers in a three-layer design,
and very high power consumption (30 watts---one DEC engineer, in
response to a question about whether this chip would be suitable for
palmtops, replied that it might be more suited for building a toaster
oven)."
 -- Matthew Smosna and Robert B. K. Dewar, "Analyzing
Alpha's Architecture", _Open_Systems_Today_

"I see your point. And raise you a line"
 -- Elliot Smorodinsky
%%
"Red meat is NOT bad for you.  Now blue-green meat, THAT'S bad for
you!"
 -- Tommy Smothers
%%
"Democracy is a form of government in which it is permitted to wonder
aloud what the country could do under first-class management."
 -- Senator Soaper
%%
"The man the state has put in place must have obedient hearing to his
least command when it is right, and even when it's not."
 -- Sophocles
%%
"The only truly secure system is one that is powered off, cast in a
block of concrete and sealed in a lead-lined room with armed guards --
and even then I have my doubts."
 -- Eugene H. Spafford
%%
"We Americans want peace, and it is now evident that we must be
prepared to demand it.  For other peoples have wanted peace, and the
peace they received was the peace of death."
 -- the Most Rev. Francis J. Spellman, Archbishop of New
York.  22 September, 1940
%%
"We're thinking about upgrading from SunOS 4.1.1 to SunOS 3.5."
 -- Henry Spencer
%%
"A Multitasking Timex Sinclair"
 -- Matt Sorrels in reference to Andrew running X-Windows
%%
"Start slow and taper off."
 -- Walt Stack
%%
"Science cannot stop while ethics catches up -- and nobody should
expect scientists to do all the thinking for the country."
 -- Elvin Stackman
%%
"If addiction is judged by how long a dumb animal will sit pressing a
lever to get a "fix" of something, to its own detriment, then I would
conclude that netnews is far more addictive than cocaine."
 -- Rob Stampfli
%%
"If the programmer can simulate a construct faster then the compiler
can implement the construct itself, then the compiler writer has blown
it badly."
 -- Guy L. Steele, Jr., Tartan Laboratories
%%
"The mark of an immature man is that he wants to die nobly for a
cause,  while the mark of a mature man is that he wants to live humbly
for one."
 -- William Stekel
%%
"Distributed file systems are a cruel hoax."
 -- Zalman Stern, former ITC hacker diety
%%
"When faced with a problem, some people say 'Let's use AWK.'  Now they
have two problems."
 -- Zalman Stern
%%
"The problem with the cutting edge is that someone has to bleed."
 -- Zalman Stern
%%
"This is the most unprofessional production I've  ever worked on!
Nobody knows where they're going, or what they're doing, except, of
course, for *ME*"
 -- Steve
 -- The Wizard of Speed and Time
%%
"A free society is a place where it's safe to be unpopular."
 -- Adlai Stevenson
%%
"Newpaper editors are men who separate the wheat from the chaff, and
then print the chaff."
 -- Adlai Stevenson
%%
"Eggheads unite!  You have nothing to lose but your yolks."
 -- Adlai Stevenson
%%
"Don't get suckered in by the comments -- they can be terribly
misleading. Debug only code."
 -- Dave Storer
%%
"Going to church doesn't make you a Christian any more than going to a
garage makes you an automobile."
 -- Billy Sunday
%%
"Hey Man, I'm  drinking wine, eating cheese and catching some rays."
 -- Donald Sutherland as Oddball, in "Kelly's Heros"
%%
"Anyone can hold the helm when the sea is calm."
 -- Publilius Syrus
%%
"The nice thing about standards is that you have so many to choose
from.  Furthermore, if you do not like any of them, you can just wait
for next year's model."
 -- Tanenbaum, "Computer Networks"
%%
"Better stop short than fill to the brim.
  Oversharpen the blade, and the edge will soon blunt.  Amass a store
  of gold and jade, and no one can protect it.  Claim wealth and
  titles, and disaster will follow.  Retire when the work is done.
  This is the way of heaven."
 -- Tao Te Ching
%%
"Take your work seriously but never take yourself seriously; and do not
take what happens either to yourself or your work seriously."
 -- Booth Tarkington
%%
"The problem with people who have no vices is that generally you can be
pretty sure they're going to have some pretty annoying virtues."
 -- Elizabeth Taylor
%%
"Never write it in C if you can do it in `awk';
 Never do it in `awk' if `sed' can handle it; Never use `sed' when `tr'
 can do the job; Never invoke `tr' when `cat' is sufficient; Avoid
 using `cat' whenever possible"
 -- Taylor's Laws of Programming
%%
"A wizard cannot do everything; a fact most magicians are reticent to
admit, let alone discuss with prospective clients.  Still, the fact
remains that there are certain objects, and people, that are, for one
reason or another, completely immune to any direct magical spell.  It
is for this group of beings that the magician learns the subtleties of
using indirect spells.  It also does no harm, in dealing with these
matters, to carry a large club near your person at all times."
 -- The Teachings of Ebenezum, Volume VIII
%%
"In the Norse mythology Loki originally was on the side of the rest of
the gods, helping them once or twice using a particularly nast forms of
trickery. He was a cunning negotiator with a talent for
technicalities.  He was sort of the Norse equivalent of a lawyer, no
doubt the reason they tied him down in a pit dripping acidic venom on
him."
 -- Martin Terman
%%
"I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence, or insanity to anyone,
but they've always worked for me."
 -- Hunter S. Thompson
%%
"A cap of good acid costs five dollars and for that you can hear the
Universal Symphony with God singing solo and the Holy Ghost on drums."
 -- Hunter S. Thompson
%%
"I have a theory that the truth is never told during the 9 to 5 hours."
 -- Hunter S. Thompson
%%
"Just think, IBM and DEC in the same room, and we did it."
 -- Ken Thompson, quoted by Dennis Ritchie
%%
"Andrew is the operating system of the future and always will be."
 -- Mary R. Thompson
%%
"It is something to be able to paint a particular picture, or to carve
a statue, and so to make a few objects beautiful; but it is far more
glorious to carve and paint the very atmosphere and medium through
which we look, which morally we can do. To affect the quality of the
day, that is the highest of arts."
 -- Henry David Thoreau, "Where I Live"
%%
"I have learned this at least by my experiment: if one advances
confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the
life he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common
hours."
 -- Henry David Thoreau
%%
"Why should we be in such desperate haste to succeed, and in such
desperate enterprises? If a man does not keep pace with his companions,
perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the
music which he hears, however measured or far away."
 -- H.D. Thoreau, "Walden"
%%
"Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life so. Aim
above morality. Be not simply good; be good for something."
 -- Henry David Thoreau
%%
"Be true to your work, your word, and your friend."
 -- Thoreau
%%
"Its better to know some of the questions, than all of the answers."
 -- James Thurber
%%
"The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a
rat."
 -- Lily Tomlin
%%
"The attention span of a computer is only as long as its electrical
cord."
 -- Turnaucka's Law
%%
"Sorry for the disaster.  And thanks for your patience!"
 -- Chris Thyberg
%%
"Truly great madness can not be achieved without significant
intelligence."
 -- Henrik Tikkanen
%%
"Benson, you are so free of the ravages of intelligence"
 -- Time Bandits
%%
"'I wish life was not so short,' he thought.  'Languages take such a
time, and so do all the things one wants to know about.'"
 -- J. R. R. Tolkien
 -- The Lost Road
%%
"I know that most men, including those at ease with problems of the
greatest complexity, can seldom accept even the simplest and most
obvious truth if it be such as would oblige them to admit the falsity
of conlusions which they have delighted in explaining to colleages,
which they have proudly taught to others, and which they have woven,
thread by thread, into the fabric of their lives."
 -- Leo Tolstoy
%%
"The strongest of all warriors are these two -- Time and Patience."
 -- Leo Tolstoy
%%
"The American Republic will endure until the day Congress discovers
that it can bribe the public with the public's money"
 -- Alexis de Toucqueville
%%
"I don't care where I sit, as long as I get fed."
 -- Calvin Trillin
%%
"Old age is the most unexpected of things that can happen to a man."
 -- Trotsky
%%
"If there is one basic element in our Constitution, it is civilian
control of the military."
 -- Harry S. Truman
%%
"If you can't convince them, confuse them."
 -- Harry S. Truman
%%
"I was gratified to be able to answer promptly. I said I don't know."
 -- Mark Twain
%%
"Whenever you find that you are on the side of the majority, it is time
to reform."
 -- Mark Twain
%%
"The man who doesn't read good books has no advantage over the man who
can't read them."
 -- Mark Twain
%%
"God made the Idiot for practice, and then He made the School Board"
 -- Mark Twain
%%
"There is no distinctly native American criminal class except
Congress."
 -- Mark Twain
%%
"A solemn, unsmiling, sanctimonious old iceberg who looked like he was
waiting for a vacancy in the Trinity."
 -- Mark Twain
%%
"I thoroughly disapprove of duels.  If a man should challenge me, I
would take him kindly and forgivingly by the hand and lead him to a
quiet place and kill him."
 -- Mark Twain
%%
"Sacred cows make the best hamburger."
 -- Mark Twain
%%
"How come we rejoice at a birth and grieve at a funeral? It is because
we are not the person involved."
 -- Mark Twain
%%
"Get your facts first, and then you can distort them as much as you
like."
 -- Mark Twain
%%
"There are lies, damned lies, and statistics."
 -- Mark Twain
%%
"If a person offend you and you are in doubt as to whether it was
intentional or not, do not resort to extreme measures.  Simply watch
your chance and hit him with a brick."
 -- Mark Twain, "Advice to Youth" Speech, 1882
%%
"It usually takes more than three weeks to prepare a good  impromptu
speech."
 -- Mark Twain
%%
"A banker is a fellow who lends you his umbrella when the sun is
shining and wants it back the minute it begins to rain."
 -- Mark Twain
%%
"I don't care who does the electing as long as I get to do the
nominating"
 -- Boss Tweed
%%
"We are just tenants on this world.  We have just been given a new
lease, and a warning from the landlord."
 -- Arthur C. Clarke
 -- 2010
%%
"The woman of my dreams knows how to break into systems."
 -- Doug Tygar
%%
"Fundamentalists are to Christianity what paint-by-numbers is to art."
 -- Robin Tyler
%%
"He who knows does not speak, He who speaks does not know."
 -- Lao Tzu
%%
"[Advise] the ruler to govern the state as one cooks a small fish --
that is, don't turn it so often in the pan that it disintegrates."
 -- Lao Tzu
%%
"The more laws and order are made prominent, the more thieves and
robbers there will be. "
 -- Lao Tzu
%%
"To conquer the enemy without resorting to war is the most desirable.
The highest form of generalship is to conquer the enemy by strategy."
 -- Sun Tzu, "The Art of War"
%%
"War is a matter of vital importance to the State; the province of life
or death; the road to survival or ruin. It is mandatory that it be
thoroughly studied."
 -- Sun Tzu
%%
"What's the difference between the window manager and the computer club
window manager?  Well, one's supported software and the other isn't.
Your guess is as good as mine."
 -- The UCC Crowd
%%
"The biggest things are always the easiest to do because there is no
competition."
 -- William Van Horne
%%
"A citizen of America will cross the ocean to fight for democracy, but
won't cross the street to vote in a national election."
 -- Bill Vaughan
%%
"All business sagacity reduces itself in the last analysis to judicious
use of sabotage."
 -- Thorstein Veblen
%%
"Don't let it end like this.  Tell them I said something."
 -- Last words of Pancho Villa
%%
"It's simple. It's just things with chalk on a board."
 -- Helmut Vogel, when asked to explain a physics
equation
%%
 "Animals have these advantages over man: they never hear the clock
strike, they die without any idea of death, they have no theologians to
instruct  them, their last moments are not disturbed by unwelcome and
unpleasant ceremonies, their funerals cost them nothing, and no one
starts lawsuits over their wills."
 -- Voltaire
%%
"It is an infantile superstition of the human spirit that virginity
would be thought a virtue and not the barrier that separates ignorance
from knowledge"
 -- Voltaire
%%
"I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: "O Lord,
make my enemies ridiculous."  And God granted it."
 -- Voltaire
%%
"The superfluous is very necessary."
 -- Voltaire
%%
"It is amusing that a virtue is made of the vice of chastity; and it's
a pretty odd sort of chastity at that, which leads men straight into
the sin of Onan, and girls to the waning of their color."
 -- Voltaire
%%
"It is one of the superstitions of the human mind to have imagined that
virginity could be a virtue."
 -- Voltaire
%%
"A witty saying proves nothing."
 -- Voltaire
%%
"Anything too stupid to be said is sung."
 -- Voltaire
%%
"Who the hell wants to hear actors talk?"
 -- H.M. Warner, Warner Brothers, 1927.
%%
"One could not be a successful scientist without realizing that, in
contrast to the popular conception supported by newspapers and mothers
of scientists, a goodly number of scientists are not only narrow-minded
and dull, but also just stupid."
 -- J. D. Watson, "The Double Helix"
%%
"I'd rather have a bottle in front of me than a frontal lobotomy."
 -- Scott Watson
%%
"Basic research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing."
 -- Wernher von Braun
%%
"Man is the best computer we can put aboard a spacecraft... and the
only one that can be mass produced with unskilled labor."
 -- Wernher von Braun
%%
"We can lick gravity, but sometimes the paperwork is overwhelming."
 -- Wernher von Braun
%%
"I have learned to use the word `impossible' with the greatest
caution."
 -- Wernher von Braun
%%
"Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and
finds himself no wiser than before," Bokonon tells us.  "He is full of
murderous resentment of people who are ignorant without having come by
their ignorance the hard way."
 -- Kurt Vonnegut, "Cat's Cradle"
%%
"You wake me up early in the morning to tell me I am right?  Please
wait until I am wrong."
 -- John von Neumann, on being phoned at 10 a.m.
%%
"There's no sense in being precise when you don't even know what you're
talking about."
 -- John von Neumann
%%
"Anyone who considers arithmetical methods of producing random digits
is, of course, in a state of sin."
 -- John von Neumann
%%
"I didn't think it could be done, though given Sun's track record, I
suppose that I shouldn't be surprised that they've managed to produce
an even worse keyboard than any that they previously had on the
market."
 -- Steve Wadlow
%%
"A physicist is an atom's way of knowing about atoms."
 -- George Wald
%%
"It won't be covered in the book.  The source code has to be useful for
something, after all...  :-)"
 -- Larry Wall in <10160@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV>
%%
"Does the same as the system call of that name. If you don't know what
it does, don't worry about it."
 -- Larry Wall in the perl man page regarding chroot(2)
%%
"[End of diatribe.  We now return you to your regularly scheduled
programming...]"
 -- Larry Wall in Configure from the perl distribution
%%
"It is easier to port a shell than a shell script."
 -- Larry Wall
%%
"No, I'm not going to explain it.  If you can't figure it out, you
didn't want to know anyway...  :-)"
 -- Larry Wall in <1991Aug7.180856.2854@netlabs.com>
%%
"Real programmers can write assembly code in any language.   :-)"
 -- Larry Wall in  <8571@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV>
%%
"Before the Gulf War started, the Iraqi Army was the the fourth largest
in the world. Now, its the second largest army in Iraq."
 -- Wall Street Journal, March 15, 1991
%%
"I can't complain, but sometimes I still do."
 -- Joe Walsh
%%
"I have already given two cousins to the war and I stand ready to
sacrifice my wife's brother."
 -- Artemus Ward
%%
"Why is this thus? What is the reason for this thusness?"
 -- Artemus Ward
%%
"They say that time changes things, but actually you have to change
them yourself."
 -- Andy Warhol
%%
"Government is not reason; it is not eloquence; it is force! It is a
dangerous servant and a terrible master."
 -- George Washington
%%
"At Group L, Stoffel oversees six first-rate programmers, a managerial
challenge roughly comparable to herding cats."
 -- The Washington Post Magazine, June 9, 1985
%%
"Now let me explain why this makes intuitive sense."
 -- Prof. Larry Wasserman
%%
"I think there's a world market for about five computers."
 -- Thomas J Watson, Chairman of the Board, IBM.
%%
"Relative calm is expected in South Central Los Angeles for the next
several weeks, as looters stay home and try to program their new VCRs."
 -- Weekend Update
%%
"My doctor told me to stop having intimate dinners for four.  Unless
there are three other people."
 -- Orson Welles
%%
"In the beginning, there was nothing. And God said, 'Let there be
Light.' And there was still nothing. But, you could see it."
 -- Dave Weinstein (dweinste@isis.cs.du.edu)
%%
"The chalk marks are transient, the formulas eternal."
 -- S. Weinstein
%%
"As far as we know, our computer has never had an undetected error."
 -- Weisert
%%
"Man is not a machine... Although man most certainly processes
information, he does not necessarily process it in the way computers
do. Computers and men are not species of the same genus... However much
intelligence computers may attain, now or in the furture, theirs must
always be an intelligence alien to genuine human problems and
concerns."
 -- Joseph Weizenbaum
%%
"Non-violence is the policy of the vegetable kingdom"
 -- H. G. Wells
%%
"The trouble with doing something right the first time is that nobody
appreciates how difficult it was."
 -- Walt West
%%
"Great occasions do not make heroes or cowards; they simply unveil them
to the eyes of men."
 -- Brooke Foss Westcott
%%
"This 'telephone' has too many shortcomings to be seriously considered
as a means of communication.  The device is inherently of no value to
us."
 -- Western Union internal memo, 1876.
%%
"A coupla months in the laboratory can save a coupla hours in the
library."
 -- Westheimer's Discovery
%%
"Two and two continue to make four, in spite of the whine of the
amateur for three, or the cry of the critic for five."
 -- James McNeill Whistler
%%
"We find no evidence that Congress intended to modify the nostrum to
read, 'crime does not pay, except for attorney's fees.'"
 -- Justice Byron R. White
%%
"Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people
are right more than half the time."
 -- E. B. White
%%
"Analyzing humor is like dissecting a frog. Few people are interested
and the frog dies of it."
 -- E. B. White
%%
"Any appeasement of tyranny is treason to this republic and to the
democratic ideal."
 -- William Allen White
%%
"The art of progress is to preserve order amid change and to preserve
change amid order."
 -- Alfred North Whitehead
%%
"If I traveled to the end of the rainbow As Dame Fortune did intend,
Murphy would be there to tell me The pot's at the other end."
 -- Bert Whitney
%%
"What most experimenters take for granted before they begin their
experiments is infinitely more interesting than any results to which
their experiments lead."
 -- Norbert Wiener
%%
"Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called
upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason."
 -- Oscar Wilde
%%
"My great mistake, the fault for which I can't forgive myself, is that
one day I ceased my obstinate pursuit of my own individuality."
 -- Oscar Wilde
%%
"There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well
written or badly written."
 -- Oscar Wilde
%%
"I sometimes think that God, in creating man, overestimated His
ability."
 -- Oscar Wilde
%%
"Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it
every six months."
 -- Oscar Wilde
%%
"Seriousness is the only refuge of the shallow."
 -- Oscar Wilde
%%
"The English country gentleman galloping after a fox -- the unspeakable
in full pursuit of the uneatable."
 -- Oscar Wilde
%%
"To be good, according to the vulgar standard of goodness, is obviously
quite easy. It merely requires a certain amount of sordid terror, a
certain lack of imaginative thought, and a certain low passion for
middle-class respectability."
 -- Oscar Wilde
%%
"The fact is, that civilization requires slaves. The Greeks were quite
right there. Unless there are slaves to do the ugly, horrible,
uninteresting work, culture, and contemplation become almost
impossible. Human slavery is wrong, insecure, and demoralizing. On
mechanical slavery, on the slavery of the machine, the future of the
world depends."
 -- Oscar Wilde
%%
"The basis for optimism is sheer terror."
 -- Oscar Wilde
%%
"Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for
the people."
 -- Oscar Wilde
%%
"Alas, I am dying beyond my means."
 -- Oscar Wilde, as he sipped champagne on his deathbed
%%
"A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it."
 -- Oscar Wilde
%%
"Whenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong."
 -- Oscar Wilde
%%
"Action is the last refuge of those who cannot dream."
 -- Oscar Wilde
%%
"Why was I born with such contemporaries?"
 -- Oscar Wilde
%%
"Only the shallow know themselves."
 -- Oscar Wilde
%%
"As long as war is regarded as wicked, it will always have its
fascination.  When it is looked upon as vulgar, it will cease to be
popular."
 -- Oscar Wilde
%%
"To be willing to die for an ideal is to set a rather high price on
conjecture."
 -- Oscar Wilde (?)
%%
"The pure and simple truth is rarely pure and never simple."
 -- Oscar Wilde
%%
"Wherever you get near the human race, there's just layers and layers
of nonsense."
 -- Thornton Wilder
%%
"As soon as we started programming, we found to our surprise that it
wasn't as easy to get programs right as we had thought.  Debugging had
to be discovered.  I can remember the exact instant when I realized
that a large part of my life from then on was going to be spent in
finding mistakes in my own programs."
 -- Maurice Wilkes discovers debugging, 1949
%%
"If you want to understand your government, don't begin by reading the
Constitution. It conveys precious little of the flavor of today's
statecraft. Instead, read selected portions of the Washington telephone
directory containing listings for all the organizations with titles
beginning with the word `National'."
 -- George Will
%%
"The Berlin Wall is the defining achievement of socialism."
 -- George Will
%%
"Football is a mistake.  It combines the two worst elements of American
life.  Violence and committee meetings."
 -- George Will
%%
"Furious activity is no substitute for understanding."
 -- H. H. Williams
%%
"If you think nobody cares if you're alive, try missing a couple of car
payments."
 -- Earl Wilson
%%
"Belief is the death of intelligence."
 -- Robert Anton Wilson
%%
"Only the madman is absolutely sure."
 -- Robert Anton Wilson
%%
"I not only use all the brains that I have, but all that I can borrow."
 -- Woodrow Wilson
%%
"The man who is swimming against the stream knows the strength of it."
 -- Woodrow Wilson
%%
"Nothing recedes like success."
 -- Walter Winchell
%%
"Thats why I was running the debugger, I didn't want it to crash."
 -- Aaron Wohl
%%
"There is no limit to stupidity.  Space itself is said to be bounded by
its own curvature, but stupidity continues beyond infinity."
 -- Gene Wolfe
%%
"I try to know what I need to know.  I make sure to know what I want to
know."
 -- Nero Wolfe
%%
"As part of Academic Computing's commitment to its Sun 3 users.....
<pause>...<long pause>...<deep chuckling>"
 -- Walter Wong
%%
"Jean, are you busy at 5 o'clock? I need a girl pretty desperatly."
 -- Ben Woodard
%%
"An ambassador is a man of virtue sent to lie abroad for his country; a
news-writer is a man without virtue who lies at home for himself."
 -- Sir Henry Wotton, "Reliquae Wottonianae"
%%
"When I woke up this morning my girlfriend asked me, 'Did you sleep
good?' I said 'No, I made a few mistakes.'"
 -- Stephen Wright
%%
"Everywhere is walking distance if you have the time."
 -- Stephen Wright
%%
Student: "Can you do problem number twelve?" Wyler:
"Twelve?...NO!...That problem is on the test."
 -- Oswald Wyler
%%
"The truth of the matter is that window management under X is not yet
well understood."
 -- The "Xlib Programming Manual"
%%
"Nothing is illegal if one hundred businessmen decide to do it."
 -- Andrew Young
%%
"I don't do this for my health, you understand. I do it for the pain.
I *LOVE* the pain!"
 -- Professor Hugh D. Young, quoted out of context.
%%
"Don't do things half-assed.  If a thing is worth doing at all, it's
worth doing as well as you can possibly do it.  Pick out something you
think is worthwhile and do it or work at it with passion.  Do it with
all your might."
 -- Hugh Young
%%
"So, this doesn't mean anything, but at least it's not obvious
nonsense."
 -- Hugh Young
%%
"This calls for a very special plan of psychology and extreme violence"
 -- The Young Ones
%%
"If you're going to do something tonight that you'll be sorry for
tomorrow morning, sleep late."
 -- Henny Youngman
%%
"Sometimes it is more important to discover what one cannot do, than
what one can do."
 -- Lin Yutang
%%
"Don't say yes until I finish talking."
 -- Darryl F. Zanuck
%%
"If you choose not to live in a cluster, uh, dorm..."
 -- Jim Zelenka
%%
"Duct tape is like the force.  It has a light side, and a dark side,
and it holds the universe together ..."
 -- Carl Zwanzig
%%
Oscar Wilde: "I wish I had said that."
Whistler: "You will, Oscar; you will."
 -- Oscar Wilde
%%
 I've had a perfectly wonderful evening.  But this wasn't it.
 -- Groucho Marx
%%
 Military intelligence is a contradiction in terms.
 -- Groucho Marx
%%
 Usenet is distributed network anarchy at its best---or worst,
   depending on what is posted on any particular day. 
 -- David Fiedler 
 -- in _Byte_
%%
 "My life is a simple thing that would interest no one. It is a known 
   fact that I was born and that is all that is necessary."
 -- Albert Einstein
%%
 "I never think of the future. It comes soon enough."
 -- Albert Einstein
%%
 "My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior 
   spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive 
   with our frail and feeble mind."
 -- Albert Einstein
%%
 "The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own 
   reason for existing."
 -- Albert Einstein
%%
 "Imagination is more important than knowledge."
 -- Albert Einstein
%%
 "Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler."
 -- Albert Einstein
%%
If my theory of relativity is proven successful, Germany will claim
  me as a German and France will declare that I am a citizen of the world.
 -- Einstein
%%
When you sling mud, you lose ground.
 -- Adlai Stevenson
%%
The most important thing in communication is hearing
what isn't said.
 -- Peter Drucker
%%
One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song,
read a good poem, see a fine picture and, if possible,
speak a few reasonable words.
 -- Goethe
%%
Don't SAY things. What you ARE stands over you the
while, and thunders so that I cannot hear what you
say to the contrary.
 -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
 -- Social Aims
%%
It takes two to speak the truth--one to speak
and the other to hear.
 -- Henry David Thoreau
%%
 "How often have I said to you that when you have eliminated the
   impossible, whatever remains, however imporbablyk must be the truth?"
 -- Sherlock Holmes (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
 -- Sign of Four
%%
We shall not flag or fail. We shall go on to the end, we shall fight in France,
we shall fight on the seas and oceans, we shall fight with growing confidence 
and growing strength in the air, we shall defend our island, whatever the cost
may be, we shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, 
we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; 
we shall never surrender.
 -- Winston Churchill
 -- Speech, 4. June, 1940
%%
Nature and Nature's laws lay hid in night.
God said, "Let Newton be!" and all was light.
 -- Alexander Pope
 -- "A Random Walk in Science" compiled by R. L. Weber, edited by E. Mendoza
%%
It did not last: the devil howling "Ho!
Let Einstein be!" restored the status quo.
 -- Sir John Collins Squire
 -- "A Random Walk in Science" compiled by R. L. Weber, edited by E. Mendoza
%%
You may assume infinite ignorance and unlimited intelligence.
 -- Leo Szilard
 -- "A Random Walk in Science" compiled by R. L. Weber, edited by E. Mendoza
%%
Basic research is what I am doing when I don't know what I am doing.
 -- Werner von Braun
 -- "A Random Walk in Science" compiled by R. L. Weber, edited by E. Mendoza
%%
Report writing, like motor-car driving and love-making, is one of those 
activities which almost every Englishman thinks he can do well without 
instruction.  The results are of course usually abominable.
 -- Tom Margerison
 -- "A Random Walk in Science" compiled by R. L. Weber, edited by E. Mendoza
%%
The farther the experiment is from theory the closer it is to the Nobel Prize.
 -- Frederic Joliot-Curie, quoted by M.A. Markov
 -- "A Random Walk in Science" compiled by R. L. Weber, edited by E. Mendoza
%%
Emilio, I am getting rusty and old, I cannot follow the highbrow theory 
developed by Oppenheimer's pupils any more.  I went to their seminar and 
was depressed by my inability to understand them.  Only the last sentence 
cheered me up.  It was: "And this is Fermi's theory of beta decay."
 -- Enrico Fermi
 -- "A Random Walk in Science" compiled by R. L. Weber, edited by E. Mendoza
%%
There is something fascinating about science.  One gets such wholesale 
returns of conjecture out of such a trifling investment of fact.
 -- Mark Twain
 -- "Life on the Mississippi"
%%
A facility for quotation covers the absence of original thought.
 -- Dorothy L. Sayers
 -- "Gaudy Night"
%%
People call me feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate 
me from a doormat or a prostitute.
 -- Rebecca West
%%
Nothing great was ever acheived without enthusiasm.
 -- R. W. Emerson
%%
It turns out that an eerie type of chaos can lurk just behind a facade of 
order -- and yet, deep inside the chaos lurks an even eerier type of order.
 -- Douglas Hostadter
%%
It ain't what they call you, it's what you answer to.
 -- William Clinton
%%
Many a zero thinks it is the ellipse on which the Earth travels.
 -- Stanislaw Lec
%%
If a man who cannot count finds a four-leaf clover, is he entitled 
to happiness?
 -- Stanislaw Lec
 -- "Unkempt Thoughts"
%%
Age is not important unless you're a cheese.
 -- Helen Hayes
%%
Experience is a hard teacher. She gives the test first and the lessons 
afterwards.
 -- Unknown
%%
Experience...is simply the name we give our mistakes.
 -- Oscar Wilde
%%
It is a rather pleasant experience to be alone in a bank at night.
 -- Willie Sutton
%%
I have found little that is good about human beings.  In my experience 
most of them, on the whole, are trash.
 -- Sigmund Freud
%%
Experience is a great advantage. The problem is that shen you get the 
experience, you're too damned old to do anything about it.
 -- Jimmy Connors
%%
Experience is a good school, but the fees are high.
 -- Heinrich Heine
%%
Truth stands the test of time; lies are soon exposed. 
 -- Proverbs 12:19 
 -- The Bible
%%
The lip of truth shall be established for ever: but a lying tongue is 
but for a moment.
 -- Proverbs 12:19
 -- The King James Bible
%%
 Publish and be damned!
 --        Arthur Wellesley  , Duke of Wellington   1769-1852
 --        Attributed; when the courtesan Harriette Wilson threatened to 
          publish her memoirs and his letters
%%
 "If the victor had the gods on his side, the vanquished had Cato." 
 --     Lucan (Marcus Annaeus Lucanus)   AD 39-65
 --      The Civil War, bk. I, 128
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 "Do not speak ill of the dead."
 --     The Seven Sages (Bias, Chilon, Cleobulus, Periander,
       Pittacus,Solon, Thales) c. 650 - c. 550 BC
 --     From Diogenes Laertius,  
       Lives of Eminent Philosophers, bk. I, sec. 70
%%
 "Let no one be willing to speak ill of the absent."
 --       Sextus Propertius  54 BC-AD 2
 --        Elegies, II, xix, 32
%%
 "Opposites are cures for opposites."
 --       Hippocrates   c. 460-400 BC
 --       Breaths, bk. I
%%
 "It's a dog-eat-dog world out there,
   and I'm wearing Milk-Bone underwear"
 -- Cheers, Norm
%%
Simple pleasures are the last refuge of the complex.
 -- Oscar Wilde
%%
To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.
 -- Oscar Wilde
%%
We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars
 -- Oscar Wilde
%%
Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live.  It is asking other
people to live as one wishes to live.
 -- Oscar Wilde
%%
Nowadays most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and
discover when it is too late that the only things one never regrets are
one's mistakes.
 -- Oscar Wilde
%%
It is an odd thing, but everyone who disappears is said to be seen at
San Francisco.  It must be a delightful city, and possess all the
attractions of the next world.
 -- Oscar Wilde
%%
 ``Lesser artists borrow, great artists steal.''  Igor Stravinsky
 -- Igor Stravinski
%%
 Each of us visits this Earth involuntarily, and without an invitation.
   For me, it is enough to wonder at the secrets.
 -- 	- Albert Einstein
%%
The Democrats are the party that says government will make you smarter,
taller, richer, and remove the crabgrass on your lawn. The Republicans
are the party that says government doesn't work and then they get elected
and prove it.
 -- P.J. O'Rourke
%%
 Senescent judges show how patriotic they are by passing out
        hard sentences for tearing up a draft card or following one's
        conscience according to the principles established by our
        country at the Nuremburg trials. 
 -- Albert Szent-Gyorgyi
 -- The Crazy Ape
%%
I still believe in liberalism today as much as I ever did, but, oh,
there was a happy time when I believed in liberals...
 -- G. K. Chesterton
%%
We who are liberal and progressive know that the poor are our equals
in every sense except that of being equal to us.
 -- Lionel Trilling
%%
Conservative: one who admires radicals centuries after they're dead.
 -- Leo Rosten
%%
You see things, and you say "Why?"  But I dream things that never were,
and say "Why not?"
 -- George Bernard Shaw
 -- "Metamagical Themas" by Douglas Hofstadter
%%
Liberalism is trust of the people, tempered by prudence;
conservatism, distrust of people, tempered by fear.
 -- William Gladstone
%%
 "That's the problem with tradition, it's always dated."
 -- Curt George Siffert
%%
Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by
the corrupt few.
 -- George Bernard Shaw
 -- Man and Superman (1903) "Maxims for Revolutionists: Democracy"
%%
 "I, on the other hand, have a degree from the University of Life,
   a diploma from the School of Hard Knocks, and three gold stars from
   the Kindergarten of Getting the Shit Kicked Out of Me."
 -- Captain Edmund Blackadder, 
 -- Blackadder Goes Forth
%%
 I think it would be a good idea.
 -- Mahatma Ghandi
%%
Just like the falling rainbow
Just like the stars in the sky
Life should never feel small.
 -- Vearncombe
 -- Black, "Paradise"
%%
 "I want to know Gods thoughts.... all the rest are just details"
 -- Albert Einstein
%%
A common mistake people make when trying to design something completely 
foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.
 -- Douglas Adams
 -- "Mostly Harmless"
%%
The major difference between a thing that might go wrong and a thing that 
cannot possibly go wrong is that when a thing that cannot possibly go wrong 
goes wrong it usually turns out to be impossible to get at and repair.
 -- Douglas Adams
 -- "Mostly Harmless"
%%
Life is islands of ecstasy in an ocean of ennui, and after the age of thirty 
land is seldom seen.
 -- Luke Rhinehart
%%
The most incomprehensible thing about the universe is that it is 
comprehensible.
 -- Albert Einstein.
%%
Geschichte ist die geistige Form, in der sich eine Kultur ueber ihre
Vergangenheit Rechenschaft gibt.
[transl.:] History is the mental/intellectual form, in which a culture
renders account of its past to itself.
 -- Johan Huizinga, (1872-1945)
 -- Ueber eine Definition des Begriffs 'Geschichte'. In: J.HUIZINGA:
Geschichte und Kultur. Stuttgart 1954, S. 13
%%
Geschichte ist [...] ein Dialog zwischen Gegenwart und Vergangenheit.
[re-transl.:] History is [...] a dialogue between the present and the past.
 -- Edward Hallet CARR,
 -- Was ist Geschichte?, S. 54
%%
It's hard to work in groups when you're omnipotent.
 -- Q.
 -- Star Trek, the Next Generation
%%
This is getting on my nerves, now that I have them.
 -- Q.
 -- Star Trek, the Next Generation, "Deja Q"
%%
Guess again.
 -- The Running Man, movie
%%
If it bleeds, you can kill it
 -- Predator
%%
 Statistics are like lampposts: they are good to lean on, but
   they don't shed much light.
 -- Storm P (Robert Storm-Petersen), 1882-1946, Danish black-and-white artist
%%
There is a theory which states that if ever anyone discovers exactly what
the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be
replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable.
There is another theory that states that this has already happened.
 -- Douglas Adams
 -- The Restaurant at the End of the Universe
%%
All's well that ends well....
 -- William Shakespeare
 -- "All's Well That Ends Well"
%%
 "Good cleavage."  
 -- Mr. Spock 
 -- "The Apple", after breaking an indigenous rock.
%%
Too many of us look upon Americans as dollar chasers.  This is a
cruel libel, even if it is reiterated thoughtlessly by the Americans
themselves.
 -- Albert Einstein
 -- 1929
%%
"At sunrise everything is luminous but not clear."

"It is those we live with and love and should know who elude
us."

"You can love completely without complete understanding."
 -- Norman Maclean
 -- A River Runs Through It
%%
There is nothing more exhilarating than to be shot at without result.
 -- Winston Churchill (1874-1965)
%%
Although prepared for martyrdom, I preferred that it be postponed.
 -- Winston Churchill (1874-1965)
%%
It has been said that democracy is the worst form of government
except all the others that have been tried.
 -- Winston Churchill (1874-1965)
%%
I like pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.
 --  Winston Churchill (1874-1965)
%%
A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject.
 --  Winston Churchill (1874-1965)
%%
My wife and I tried to breakfast together, but we had
to stop or our marriage would have been wrecked.
 -- Winston Churchill (1874-1965)
%%
It's a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations.
 -- Winston Churchill (1874-1965)
 -- My Early Life - 1930
%%
History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.
 -- Winston Churchill (1874-1965)
%%
MacDonald has the gift of compressing the largest amount of words into
the smallest amount of thoughts.
 -- Winston Churchill (1874-1965)
%%
I have taken more out of alcohol than alcohol has taken out of me.
 -- Winston Churchill (1874-1965)
%%
If you go on with this nuclear arms race, all you are going to do is
make the rubble bounce.
 -- Winston Churchill (1874-1965)
%%
Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves
up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.
 -- Winston Churchill (1874-1965)
%%
Time is an illusion.  Lunchtime doubly so.
 -- Douglas Adams
 -- The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
%%
Gosh that takes me back... or is it forward?  That's the trouble with
time travel, you never can tell.
 -- Doctor Who
 -- Doctor Who, The Androids of Tara
%%
Captain Kirk speaks figuratively, and with undue emotion, but
what he says is essentially correct, and I do, in fact, agree
with it.
 -- Mr. Spock
 -- Star Trek
%%
To govern is to correct.  If you set an example by being correct, who
 would dare remain incorrect?
 -- Confucius
%%
Do not impose on others what you yourself do not desire.
 -- Confucius
 -- Analects, XV.24
%%
If a man remembers what is right at the sign of profit, is ready to lay
 down his life in the face of danger, and does not forget sentiments he
 has repeated all his life when he has been in straitened circumstances
 for a long time, he may be said to be a complete man.
 --  Confucius
 -- Analects, XIV.12
%%
It is only the benevolent man who is capable of liking or disliking
 other men.
 --  Confucius
 -- Analects, IV.3
%%
In his errors a man is true to type.  Observe the errors and you will
 know the man.
 --  Confucius
 -- Analects, IV.7
%%
While the gentleman cherishes benign rule, the small man cherishes his
 native land.  While the gentleman cherishes a respect for the law, the
 small man cherishes generous treatment.
 --  Confucius
 -- nalects, IV.11
%%
O, throw away the worser part of it,
And live the purer with the other half.
 -- Shakespeare
 -- Hamlet III, iv, 156-160.
%%
 "Crash programs fail because they are based on the
    premise that, with nine women pregnant, you'll get a baby in a month"
 -- Werner Von Braun
%%
    Among those whom I like or admire, I can find no common denominator, but
among those whom I love, I can: all of them make me laugh.
 -- W.H. Auden
%%
    Love is but the discovery of ourselves in others, and the delight in the
recognition.
 -- Alexander Smith
%%
If you're going to do something wrong, at least enjoy it.
 -- Leo Rosten
%%
We must laugh before we are happy, for fear we die before we laugh at all.
 -- Jean de La Bruyere
%%
    Each friend represents a world in us, a world not born until they arrive,
and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.
 -- Anais Nin
%%
There is more to life than increasing its speed.
 -- Gandhi
%%
There are very few people who are not ashamed of having been in love when
they no longer love each other.
 -- Francois, Duc de La Rouchefoucald
%%
The ultimate test of a relationship is to disagree but hold hands.
 -- Alexander Penney
%%
Life is like a dogsled team. If you ain't the lead dog, the scenery never
changes.
 -- Lewis Grizzard
%%
Beauty is the first test; there is no permanent place in the world for
 ugly mathematics.
 -- G.H. Hardy
 -- A Mathematician's Apology
%%
 The only thing you will ever be able to say in the 
   so-called 'social' sciences is: "some do, some don't."
 -- Ernst Rutherford
%%
"One of life's quiet excitements is to stand somewhat apart
from yourself and watch yourself softly becoming the author of
something beautiful, even if it is only falling ash."
 -- Norman Maclean
 -- A River Runs Through It    
%%
 "What is it the Bible teaches us? - rapine, cruelty, and murder. What
   is it the Testament teaches us? - to believe that the Almighty
   committed debauchery with a woman engaged to be married, and the
   belief of this debauchery is called faith."
 -- Thomas Paine
 -- The Age of Reason
%%
Maj. Burns:  "What kind of idiot do you think I am?"
Cpl. O'Reily:  "You'd know that better than me, sir."
 -- M*A*S*H, television program
%%
Middle age is when you've met so many people that every new person you meet
reminds you of someone else.
 -- Ogden Nash
%%
Love is an irresistable desire to be irresistably desired.
 -- Robert Frost
%%
I am the only guinea pig I have.
 -- R.Buckminster Fuller
%%
True friendship is never serene.
 -- Marie de Rabutin-Chantal
%%
I always wanted to be somebody, but I should have been more specific.
 -- Lily Tomlin
%%
The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.
 -- Walter Bagehot
%%
Sweet is revenge - especially to women.
 -- Lord Byron
%%
Whenever we read the obscene stories, the voluptuous debaucheries, the cruel
and torturous executions, the unrelenting vindictiveness, with which more
than half the bible is filled, it would seem more consistent that we called 
it the word of a demon than the Word of God. It is a history of wickedness 
that has served to corrupt and brutalize mankind.
 -- Thomas Paine
 -- "The Age of Reason"
%%
My writing is like a ten gallon spring.  It can issue from the ground
anywhere at all.  On smooth ground it rushes swiftly on and covers
a thouasand li in a single day without difficulty.  When it twists and
turns among mountains and rocks, it fits its form to things it meets:
unknowable. What can be known is, it always goes where it must go, always
stops where it cannot help stopping -- nothing else. More than that,
even I cannot know.
 -- Su Shih
%%
I'm not going to bed after all.  Somebody around here hath murdered sleep.
Good for him.
 -- J.D.Salinger
 -- Seymour:An Introduction
%%
God does not play dice with the universe; He plays an ineffible game of his
own devising, which might be compared, from the perspective of any of the 
other players, to being involved in an obscure and complex version of poker
in a pitch dark room, with blank cards, for infinite stakes, with a dealer
who won't tell you the rules, and who smiles all the time.
 --  Gaiman and Pratchett
 -- Good Omens
%%
But, my dearest Agathon, it is truth which you cannot contradict; you can
without any difficulty contradict Socrates. 
 -- Plato
 -- Symposium
%%
There is no "royal road" to geometry. 
 -- Euclid
 -- Said to king Ptolemy I
%%
A mind once stretched by a new idea never regains its original dimension.
 -- Oliver Wendell Holmes
%%
O God, that men should put an enemy in their mouths to steal away their brains!
 -- Shakespeare
 -- Othello
%%
A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into
superstition, and art into pedantry.  Hence University education.
 -- G. B. Shaw
%%
I bet the human brain is a kludge.
 -- Marvin Minsky
%%
Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that he sometimes has  
to eat them.
 -- Adlai Stevenson
%%
There are three types of people in this world:  those who can count, 
and those who cannot.
 -- Carl G. Hostnik
%%
We have enough religion to hate each other, but not enough to love 
each other.
 -- Jonathan Swift
%%
Learning builds daily accumulation, but the prictice of Tao builds daily
simplification.  Simplify and simplify, until all contamination from 
relative, contridictory thinking is eliminated.  Then one does nothing,
yet nothing is left undone.  One who wins the world does so by not 
meddling with it.  One who meddles with the world loses it.
 -- Lao-Tzu
 -- Tao te Ching
%%
 "Attention, attention, there are monkey-boys in the complex."
 -- Buckaroo Banzai (the film)
%%
 "Home is where you wear your hat."
 -- Buckaroo Banzai (the film)
%%
 "Don't tug on that...you never know what it might be attatched to."
 -- Buckaroo Banzai (the film)
%%
"Nietsche is Pietsche." 
 -- Ogden Nash
%%
 "There are no physicists in the hottest parts of hell,
   because the existence of a "hottest part" implies a temperature difference,
   and any marginally competent physicist would immediately use this to run a
   heat engine and make some other part of hell comfortably cool.  This is
   obviously impossible." 
 -- Richard Davisson
%%
 "Yields falsehood when preceded by its quotation" yields falsehood when 
   preceded by its quotation.
 -- W.V.O. Quine
%%
 "All say, 'How hard it is to die' - a strange complaint
   to come from the mouths of people who have had to live."
 -- Mark Twain
%%
 "Whoever has lived long enough to find out what life is
   knows how deep a debt of grattitude we owe to Adam, the first
   great benefactor of our race.  He brought death into the world."
 -- Mark Twain
%%
 "There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies,
   and statistics."
 -- Mark Twain
%%
 "Familiarity breeds contempt - and children."
 -- Mark Twain
%%
 "One of the most striking differences between a cat and
   a lie is that a cat has only nine lives."
 -- Mark Twain
%%
 "When angry, count four; when very angry, swear."
 -- Mark Twain
%%
 "The coldest winter I ever spent was a summer in San Francisco."     
 -- Mark Twain
%%
 Hope is the thing with feathers
   That perches in the soul
   And sings the tune without the words
   And never stops at all.

   And sweetest in the gale is heard;
   And sore must be the storm
   That could abash the little bird
   That kept so many warm.

   I've heard it in the chilest land
   And on the strangest sea,
   Yet never in extremity
   It asked a crumb of me.
 -- Emily Dickenson
%%
 	"What is conservativism?  Is it not the aherence to the old
 and tried against the new and untried?"
 -- 		--Abraham Lincoln
%%
 	"The man for whom law exists - the man of forms, the
 Conservative, is a tame man."
 -- 		--Henry David Thoreau
%%
 	"A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs
 who, however, has never learned to walk."
 -- 		--Franklin Delano Roosevelt
%%
 	"Of all the varieties of virtues, liberalism is the
 most beloved."
 -- 		--Aristotle
%%
 	"All co	ves are such from personal defects.  They
 have been effeminated by position or nature, born halt and blind,
 through luxury of their parents, and can only, like invalids, act
 on the defensive."
 -- 		--Ralph Waldo Emerson
%%
 				--Henry David Thoreau
%%
       "Music is the wine that fills the cup of silence"
 --        --- Robert Fripp
%%
In Germany, they came first for the communists, and I didn't speak up
because I wasn't a communist.  Then they came for the Jews, and I
didn't speak up because I wasn't a Jew.  Then they came for the trade
unionists but I didn't speak up because I was not a trade unionist.
Then they came for the Catholics, and I didn't speak up because I was
a Protestant.  Then they came for me, and by that time nobody was left
to speak up.
 -- Martin Niemoeller
 -- Dachau, 1944
%%
 "Marxists are people whose insides are torn up day after day
   because they want to rule the world and no one will even publish their
   letter to the editor."
 -- --Mark Heprin 
 -- Winter's Tale
%%
 "Oh, come on.  If you can't laugh at the walking dead, who can you
   laugh at?"
 -- Dan Fielding
 -- Night Court
%%
The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises
in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral
justification for selfishness.
 -- John Kenneth Galbraith
%%
Conservatives are not necessarily stupid,
but most stupid people are conservatives.
 -- John Stuart Mill
%%
 "If the radiance of a thousand suns were to burst at once into the sky
   that would be like the splendor of the Mighty One... I am become Death,
   the Shatterer of Worlds."
 -- J. Robert Oppenheimer
 -- Quoting "The Bhagavad Gita",	Alamogordo, New Mexico, 1945
%%
 "Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions.  All life is an
   experiment."
 --  				-Emerson
%%
 Well, Woody, It's a dog eat dog world and I'm wearing Milk Bone underwear.
 -- Norm, 
 -- "Cheers"
%%
Only enemies speak the truth; friends and lovers lie endlessly, caught
in the web of duty.
 -- Roland
 -- "The Last Gunslinger"
%%
I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that
they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is.
 -- Alan Watts
%%
As if you could kill time without injuring eternity.
 -- Henry David Thoreau
%%
Eternity is not something that begins after you are dead.  
It is going on all the time.  We are in it now.
 -- Charlotte P Gilman
%%
There is nothing more notable in Socrates than that he found time, 
when he was an old man, to learn music and dancing, and thought it
time well spent.
 -- Montaigne
%%
People find life entirely too time-consuming.
 -- Stanislaw J. Lec
%%
If you can spend a perfectly useless afternoon in a perfectly useless
manner, you have learned how to live.
 -- Lin Yutang
%%
Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty--power is ever stealing from the
many to the few.
 -- Wendell Phillips
%%
Give me an incubator or give me death!
 -- Hawkeye and Trapper, M*A*S*H
%%
Don't play dumb.  You're not as good at it as I am.
 -- Colonel Flagg, M*A*S*H
%%
The biggest difference between time and space is that you can't reuse
time.
 -- Merrick Furst
%%
Sir, this mans crazy, you can't let him out of the army.
 -- Frank, M*A*S*H
%%
A conservative is a man who believes that nothing should be done for
the first time.
 -- Alfred E. Wiggam
%%
Knee-jerk liberals and all the certified saints of sanctified humanism
are quick to condemn this great and much-maligned Transylvanian
statesman.
 -- William F. Buckley, Jr.
 -- "The Wit and Wisdom of Vlad the Impaler"
%%
Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
 -- Albert Einstein
%%
The greatest obstacle to being heroic is the doubt whether one may
going to prove one's self a fool.
 -- Nathaniel Hawthorne
%%