Her virtue was that she said what she thought, her vice that what she thought didn't amount to much.
-- Peter Ustinov
Monday, December 31, 2007
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Sunday, December 30, 2007
Saturday, December 29, 2007
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Thus the metric system did not really catch on in the States, unless you count the increasing popularity of the nine-millimeter bullet.
-- Dave Barry
Week in Review
Friday, December 28, 2007
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Its name is Public Opinion. It is held in reverence. It settles everything. Some think it is the voice of God.
-- Mark Twain
Thursday, December 27, 2007
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All I wanted was to make the world a better place... and to make an assload of money.
-- Jodene Sparks
Wednesday, December 26, 2007
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In the strict scientific sense we all feed on death -- even vegetarians.
-- Spock, "Wolf in the Fold", stardate 3615.4
Tuesday, December 25, 2007
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If you define cowardice as running away at the first sign of danger, screaming and tripping and begging for mercy, then yes, Mr. Brave man, I guess I'm a coward.
-- Jack Handey
Monday, December 24, 2007
Sunday, December 23, 2007
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She had a pretty gift for quotation, which is a serviceable substitute for wit.
-- W. Somerset Maugham
Saturday, December 22, 2007
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Imagine if every Thursday your shoes exploded if you tied them the usual way. This happens to us all the time with computers, and nobody thinks of complaining.
-- Jeff Raskin, interviewed in Doctor Dobb's Journal
Week in Review
Friday, December 21, 2007
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You see, boy? The real money's in bootlegging! Not in your childish vandalism.
-- Homer J. Simpson
Thursday, December 20, 2007
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We do not know what we want and yet we are responsible for what we are - that is the fact.
-- Jean-Paul Sartre
Wednesday, December 19, 2007
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A lot of the stuff I do is so minimal, and it's designed to be minimal. The smallness of it is what's attractive. It's weird, 'cause it's so intellectually lame. It's hard to see me doing that for the rest of my life. But at the same time, it's what I do best.
-- Chris Elliot, writer and performer on Late Night with David Letterman
Tuesday, December 18, 2007
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This anonymous clan of slack-jawed troglodytes has cost me the election, and yet if I were to have them killed, I would be the one to go to jail. That's democracy for you.
-- Charles Montgomery Burns
Monday, December 17, 2007
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Oh, no room for Bender, huh? Fine. I'll go build my own lunar lander. With blackjack. And hookers. In fact, forget the lunar lander and the blackjack! Ah, screw the whole thing.
-- Bender Unit 22
Sunday, December 16, 2007
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One thing kids like is to be tricked. For instance, I was going to take my little nephew to Disneyland, but instead I drove him to an old burned-out warehouse. "Oh, no," I said. "Disneyland burned down." He cried and cried, but I think that deep down, he thought it was a pretty good joke. I started to drive over to the real Disneyland, but it was getting pretty late.
-- Jack Handey
Saturday, December 15, 2007
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If a nation values anything more than freedom, it will lose its freedom; and the irony of it is that if it is comfort or money it values more, it will lose that, too.
-- W. Somerset Maugham
Friday, December 14, 2007
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Leave it to a girl to take the fun out of sex discrimination.
-- Bill Watterson, Calvin and Hobbes
Thursday, December 13, 2007
Wednesday, December 12, 2007
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I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living. It's a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope and that enables you to laugh at all of life's realities.
-- Theodore Seuss Geisel
Tuesday, December 11, 2007
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The Bible has been interpreted to justify such evil practices as, for example, slavery, the slaughter of prisoners of war, the sadistic murders of women believed to be witches, capital punishment for hundreds of offenses, polygamy, and cruelty to animals. It has been used to encourage belief in the grossest superstition and to discourage the free teaching of scientific truths. We must never forget that both good and evil flow from the Bible. It is therefore not above criticism.
-- Steve Allen
Monday, December 10, 2007
Sunday, December 09, 2007
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Indeed, history is nothing more than a tableau of crimes and misfortunes.
-- Voltaire
Saturday, December 08, 2007
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Part of the inhumanity of the computer is that, once it is competently programmed and working smoothly, it is completely honest.
-- Isaac Asimov
Week in Review
Friday, December 07, 2007
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And, Lord, we're especially thankful for nuclear power, the cleanest, safest energy source there is, except for solar, which is just a pipe dream.
-- Homer J. Simpson
Thursday, December 06, 2007
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Jazz is a mental attitude rather than a style. It uses a certain process of the mind expressed spontaneously through some musical instrument. I'm concerned with retaining that process.
-- Bill Evans
Wednesday, December 05, 2007
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Jazz does not belong to one race or culture, but is a gift that America has given the world.
-- Ahmad Alaadeen
Tuesday, December 04, 2007
Monday, December 03, 2007
Sunday, December 02, 2007
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It was I, you fools! The man you trusted wasn't Wavy Gravy at all! And all this time, I've been smoking harmless tobacco.
-- Charles Montgomery Burns
Saturday, December 01, 2007
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When people learn no tools of judgment and merely follow their hopes, the seeds of political manipulation are sown.
-- Stephen Jay Gould
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