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Millions long for immortality who don't know what to do with
themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon.
-- Susan Ertz, Anger in the Sky
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There are only two kinds of people who are really fascinating:
people who know absolutely everything, and people who know
absolutely nothing.
-- Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900)
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To be stupid, selfish, and have good health are three requirements
for happiness, though if stupidity is lacking, all is lost.
-- Gustave Flaubert (1821 - 1880)
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You wake me up early in the morning to tell me I am right?
Please
wait until I am wrong.
Johann von Neumann (1903 - 1957), on being phoned at 10:00
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I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas.
I'm frightened of the old ones.
-- John Cage (1912 - 1992)
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The cloning of humans is on most of the lists of things to worry
about from Science, along with behaviour control, genetic
engineering, transplanted heads, computer poetry and the
unrestrained growth of plastic flowers.
-- Lewis Thomas (1913 - 1993)
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I find that a great part of the information I have was acquired by
looking up something and finding something else on the way.
-- Franklin P. Adams (1881 - 1960)
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If you wish to be happy for one hour
- get intoxicated
if you wish to be happy for one day
- sell all your investments
if you wish to be happy for eight days
- get married
if you wish to be happy for ever
- learn to fish
email signature in an incoming private email
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A little nonsense now and then, is cherished by the wisest men.
Roald Dahl (1916 - 1990), (Willy Wonka) Charlie and the
Chocolate Factory
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Live in such a way that you would not be ashamed to sell your
parrot to the town gossip.
-- Will Rogers (1879 - 1935)
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All progress is based upon a universal innate desire on the part
of every organism to live beyond its income.
-- Samuel Butler (1835 - 1902), Notebooks, 1912
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The only thing that saves us from the bureaucracy is inefficiency.
An efficient bureaucracy is the greatest threat to liberty.
-- Eugene McCarthy (1916 - ), Time magazine, Feb. 12, 1979
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The real art of conversation is not only to say the right thing
at the right place but to leave unsaid the wrong thing at
the tempting moment.
-- Dorothy Nevill
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"infinite loop _see_ loop, infinite" discovered in Index of Borland Pascal Language Guide
-- ref. in email signature received from Simon Tatham (putty)
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A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is a
visible labor and there is an invisible labor.
Victor Hugo (1802 - 1885)
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The conception of two people living together for twenty-five years
without having a cross word suggests a lack of spirit only to
be admired in sheep.
-- Alan Patrick Herbert
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After one look at this planet any visitor from outer space
would
say "I want to see the manager."
- William S. Burroughs (1914 - )
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It is nobler to declare oneself wrong than to insist on being
right - especially when one is right.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche (1844 - 1900), Thus Spoke Zarathustra
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Don't tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and let
them surprise you with their results.
-- George S. Patton (1885 - 1945)
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When we are unable to find tranquility within ourselves,
it is useless to seek it elsewhere.
-- Francois de La Rochefoucauld (1613 - 1680)
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No matter how rich you become, how famous or powerful,
when you die the size of your funeral will still pretty
much depend on the weather.
-- Michael Pritchard
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No one means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean,
for
words are slippery and thought is viscous.
-- Henry Adams (1838 - 1918)
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Cogito cogito ergo cogito sum
(I think that I think, therefore I
think that I am.)
-- Ambrose Bierce (1842 - 1914), The Devil's Dictionary
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Talent hits a target no one else can hit;
Genius hits a target no one else can see.
-- Arthur Schopenhauer (1788 - 1860)
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You see things; and you say, 'Why?' But I dream things that never
were;
and I say, "Why not?"
-- George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950),
"Back to Methuselah"
(1921), part 1, act 1
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When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President.
Now I'm beginning to believe it. -- Clarence Darrow (1857 - 1938)
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The way I see it, there's so much love and beauty in world,
and someone has to balance that shit out.
Randy K. Milholland, Something Positive Comic, 10-13-04
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The happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence but
in the mastery of his passions.
-- Alfred Lord Tennyson (1809 - 1892)
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The generation of random numbers is too important to be left to chance.
-- Robert R. Coveyou, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
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"Wir können nicht davon leben, daß wir uns gegenseitig die Haare schneiden."
--der bayerische Wirtschaftsminister Otto Wiesheu
... zitiert in einer m.E. bemerkenswerten Analyse "Defektes Deutschland"
von Paul Schulmeister in der Europäischen Rundschau (Paul Lendvai),
Ausgabe Sommer, 2004/3, S. 31
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There is nothing new under the sun but there are lots
of old things we don't know. -- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary
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It is far more impressive when others discover your good qualities without your help.
-- Judith Martin, (Miss Manners)
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For every human problem, there is a neat, simple solution; and it is always wrong
-- H. L. Mencken, Mencken's Metalaw
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We hate some persons because we do not know them;
and we will not know them because we hate them.
-- Charles Caleb Colton
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The people I distrust most are those who want to improve our lives
but have only one course of action. -- Frank Herbert
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The test of courage comes when we are in the minority.
The test of tolerance comes when we are in the majority.
-- Ralph W. Sockman
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There are people who, instead of listening to what is being said to them,
are already listening to what they are going to say themselves.
-- Albert Guinon
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Money frees you from doing things you dislike.
Since I dislike doing nearly everything, money is handy.
-- Groucho Marx
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A little nonsense now and then, is cherished by the wisest men.
-- Roald Dahl, (Willy Wonka) Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
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I'm astounded by people who want to 'know' the universe
when it's hard enough to find your way around Chinatown.
-- Woody Allen
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One man that has a mind and knows it can always beat ten men
who haven't and don't. -- George Bernard Shaw, "The Apple Cart" (1930), act I
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There are a terrible lot of lies going around the world,
and the worst of it is half of them are true.
-- Sir Winston Churchill
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There is no safety in numbers, or in anything else.
-- James Thurber, New Yorker, Feb. 4, 1939, "The Fairly Intelligent Fly"
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