IMPORTED 2004-4-16
%start%%quote%Travel is lethal to prejudice.//%Author%MARK TWAIN//%end%
%start%%quote%Jennings' Innate Perversity of Nature Rule: The tendancy of Nature to cause exactly the thing you are not prepared for, to happen. This is because Nature gets to use the set of all things NOT known to humans, which by definition is infinite.//%end%
%start%%quote%Paradise is just like where you are right now, only much better.//%Author%LAURIE ANDERSON//%Source%"Language is a virus"//%end%
%start%%quote%Diplomacy is the art of saying "Nice doggie" until you can find a rock.//%Author%UNKNOWN//%end%
%start%%quote%Nothing is true. Everything is permitted.//%Author%HASSAN I SABBAH//%end%
%start%%quote%Just because everything is different doesnt mean anything has changed.//%Author%SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA ORACLE//%end%
%start%%quote%The most merciful thing in the world ... is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents.//%Author%H. P. LOVECRAFT//%end%
%start%%quote%The most merciless thing in the world ... is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents.//%Author%H. P. LOVECRAFT//%end%
%start%%quote%Take what you can use and let the rest go by.//%Author%KEN KESEY//%end%
%start%%quote%Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar.//%Author%SIGMUND FREUD//%end%
%start%%quote%It is a rather pleasent experience to be alone in a bank at night.//%Author%WILLIE SUTTON//%end%
%start%%quote%If you think the United States has stood still, who built the largest shopping center in the world?//%Author%RICHARD M. NIXON//%end%
%start%%quote%Anything anybody can say about America is true.//%Author%EMMETT GROGAN//%end%
%start%%quote%If you've seen one city slum, you've seen them all.//%Author%SPIRO AGNEW//%end%
%start%%quote%He who shits on the road will meet flies on his return.//%Author%SOUTH AFRICAN SAYING//%end%
%start%%quote%It is necessary for me to establish a winner image. Therefore, I have to beat somebody.//%Author%RICHARD M. NIXON//%end%
%start%%quote%Military intelligence is a contradiction in terms.//%Author%GROUCHO MARX//%end%
%start%%quote%I think that God in creating man somewhat overestimated his ability.//%Author%OSCAR WILDE//%end%
%start%%quote%We are what we pretend to be.//%Author%KURT VONNEGUT, JR.//%end%
%start%%quote%We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.//%Author%OSCAR WILDE//%end%
%start%%quote%Real wealth can only increase.//%Author%R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER//%end%
%start%%quote%In the province of the mind, what one believes to be true either is true or becomes true.//%Author%JOHN LILLY//%end%
%start%%quote%Time is an illusion perpetrated by the manufacturers of space.//%Author%GRAFFITI//%end%
%start%%quote%A physicist is an atoms way of knowing about atoms.//%Author%GEORGE WALD//%end%
%start%%quote%I waited and waited, and when no message came, I knew it must have been from you.//%Author%ASHLEIGH BRILLIANT//%end%
%start%%quote%By doing just a little every day, I can gradually let the task completely overwhelm me.//%Author%ASHLEIGH BRILLIANT//%end%
%start%%quote%The world looks as if it has been left in the custody of trolls.//%Author%FATHER ROBERT F. CAPON//%end%
%start%%quote%"Contrariwise", continued Tweedledee, "If it was so, it might be; and if it were so, it would be; but as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic."//%Author%LEWIS CARROLL//%end%
%start%%quote%It takes a long time to understand nothing.//%Author%EDWARD DAHLBERG//%end%
%start%%quote%To know the world one must construct it.//%Author%CESARE PAVESE//%end%
%start%%quote%The mistake you make is in trying to figure it out.//%Author%TENESSEE WILLIAMS//%end%
%start%%quote%All I kin say is when you finds yo'self wanderin' in a peach orchard, ya dont go lookin' for rutabagas.//%Author%KINGFISH//%end%
%start%%quote%When more and more people are thrown out of work, unemployment results.//%Author%CALVIN COOLIDGE//%end%
%start%%quote%A man without religion is like a fish without a bicycle.//%Author%Vique's Law//%end%
%start%%quote%The unnatural, that too is natural.//%Author%GOETHE//%end%
%start%%quote%I used to be indecisive; now I'm not sure.//%Author%GRAFFITI//%end%
%start%%quote%I had a monumental idea this morning, but I didn't like it.//%Author%SAMUEL GOLDWYN//%end%
%start%%quote%I'd give my right arm to be ambidextrous.//%Author%GRAFFITI//%end%
%start%%quote%Civilization is a movement, not a condition; it is a voyage, not a harbor.//%Author%Arnold J. Toynbee//%end%
%start%%quote%If you don't care where you are, then you ain't lost.//%Author%UNKNOWN//%end%
%start%%quote%Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.//%Author%Albert Einstein//%end%
%start%%quote%How often I found where I should be going only by setting out for somewhere else.//%Author%R. Buckminster Fuller//%end%
%start%%quote%I wish there was a knob on the TV to turn up the intelligence. There's a knob called "brightness", but it doesn't work.//%Author%Gallagher//%Who%Comedian//%end%
%start%%quote%Place your clothes and weapons where you can find them in the dark.//%Author%Robert Heinlein//%end%
%start%%quote%... if it is a Miracle, any sort of evidence will answer, but if it is a Fact, proof is necessary.//%Author%Mark Twain//%end%
%start%%quote%I reverently believe that the maker who made us all makes everything in New England, but the weather. I don't know who makes that, but I think it must be raw apprentices in the weather-clerks factory who experiment and learn how, in New England, for board and clothes, and then are promoted to make weather for countries that require a good article, and will take their custom elsewhere if they don't get it.//%Author%Mark Twain//%end%
%start%%quote%The confidence of ignorance will always overcome the indecision of knowledge.//%Author%Unknown//%end%
%start%%quote%Secrecy is the beginning of tyranny.//%Author%Unknown//%end%
%start%%quote%A poet who reads his verse in public may have other nasty habits.//%Author%Unknown//%end%
%start%%quote%We are getting into semantics again. If we use words, there is a very grave danger they will be misinterpreted.//%Author%H. R. Haldeman, testifying in his own defense.//%end%
%start%%quote%Home is the place where, when you have to go there, they have to take you in.//%Author%Unknown//%end%
%start%%quote%America is the country where you buy a lifetime supply of aspirin for one dollar, and use it up in two weeks.//%Author%Unknown//%end%
%start%%quote%Dawn: The time when men of reason go to bed. Certain old men prefer to rise at about that time, taking a cold bath and a long walk with an empty stomach, and otherwise mortifying the flesh. They then point with pride to these practices as the cause of their sturdy health and ripe years; the truth being that they are hearty and old, not because of their habits, but in spite of them. The reason we find only robust persons doing this thing is that it has killed all the others who have tried it.//%Author%Unknown//%end%
%start%%quote%Cynic: A blackguard whose faulty vision sees things as they are, not as they ought to be. Hence the custom among the Scythians of plucking out a cynic's eyes to improve his vision.//%Author%Unknown//%end%
%start%%quote%Even the smallest candle burns brighter in the dark.//%Author%Proverb//%end%
%start%%quote%I think it would be an excellent idea.//%Author%Gandhi//%Source%When asked what he thought of Western civilization.//%end%
%start%%quote%A committee is a cul-de-sac down which ideas are lured and then quietly strangled.//%Author%Unknown//%end%
%start%%quote%One Galileo in two thousand years is enough.//%Author%Pope Pius XII//%end%
%start%%quote%Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing.//%Author%Unknown//%end%
%start%%quote%Observation, and not old age, brings wisdom.//%Author%Proverb//%end%
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