Humans are not proud of their ancestors, and rarely invite them round to dinner.
-- Douglas Adams
Sunday, October 31, 2010
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Saturday, October 30, 2010
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It isn't necessary to imagine the world ending in fire or ice - there are two other possibilities: one is paperwork, and the other is nostalgia.
-- Frank Zappa
Friday, October 29, 2010
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All religions issue Bibles against Satan, and say the most injurious things against him, but we never hear his side.
-- Mark Twain
Thursday, October 28, 2010
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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
Wednesday, October 27, 2010
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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
Tuesday, October 26, 2010
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Sen. Danforth: There is nothing on the face of the album which would notify you if the record has pornographics material or material glorifying violence?
Tipper Gore: No, there is nothing that would suggest that to me.
Frank Zappa: I would say that a buzz saw blade between the guy's legs on the album cover is good indication that it's not for little Johnny.
-- The Senate Commerce Committee hearing on rock lyrics, from The Village Voice, 6 Oct 1985
Monday, October 25, 2010
Sunday, October 24, 2010
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Without coffee he could not work, or at least he could not have worked in the way he did. In addition to paper and pens, he took with him everywhere as an indispensable article of equipment the coffee machine, which was no less important to him than his table or his white robe.
-- Stefan Zweigs, Biography of Balzac
Saturday, October 23, 2010
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I have examined all the known superstitions of the world, and I do not find in our particular superstition of Christianity one redeeming feature. They are all alike founded on fables and mythology.
-- Thomas Jefferson
Friday, October 22, 2010
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Illegal aliens have always been a problem in the United States. Ask any Indian.
-- Robert Orben
Thursday, October 21, 2010
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Faith is, at one and the same time, absolutely necessary and altogether impossible.
-- Stanislaw Lem
Wednesday, October 20, 2010
Tuesday, October 19, 2010
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I went to a job interview the other day, the guy asked me if I had any questions , I said yes, just one, if you're in a car traveling at the speed of light and you turn your headlights on, does anything happen?
He said he couldn't answer that, I told him sorry, but I couldn't work for him then.
-- Stephen Wright
Monday, October 18, 2010
Sunday, October 17, 2010
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The National Rifle Association says, 'Gun's don't kill people. People do'. But I think the gun helps.
-- Eddie Izzard
Saturday, October 16, 2010
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I think that all good, right thinking people in this country are sick and tired of being told that all good, right thinking people in this country are fed up with being told that all good, right thinking people in this country are fed up with being sick and tired. I'm certainly not, and I'm sick and tired of being told that I am!
-- Monty Python
Friday, October 15, 2010
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The universe may have a purpose, but nothing we know suggests that, if so, this purpose has any similarity to ours.
-- Bertrand Russell
Thursday, October 14, 2010
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The concept of the rock-guitar solo in the eightees has pretty much been reduced to: Weedly-weedly-wee, make a face, hold your guitar like it's your weenie, point it heavenward, and look like you're really doing something. Then, you geta big ovation while the the smoke bombs go off, and the motorized lights in your truss twirl around.
-- Frank Zappa
Wednesday, October 13, 2010
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It is said that power corrupts, but actually it's more true that power attracts the corruptible. The sane are usually attracted by other things than power.
-- David Brin
Tuesday, October 12, 2010
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Go back to bed, America, your government has figured out how it all transpired, go back to bed America, your government is in control again. Here, here's American Gladiators. Watch this, shut up, go back to bed America, here is American Gladiators, here is 56 channels of it! Watch these pituitary retards bang their fucking skulls together and congratulate you on living in the land of freedom. Here you go America - you are free to do what we tell you! You are free to do what we tell you!
-- Bill Hicks
Monday, October 11, 2010
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Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.
-- Albert Einstein
Sunday, October 10, 2010
Saturday, October 09, 2010
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Turn the world over on its side and everything loose will land in Los Angeles.
-- Frank Lloyd Wright
Friday, October 08, 2010
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Percy, Duke of Northumberland: You know, they do say that the Infanta's eyes are more beautiful than the famous Stone of Galveston.
Prince Edmund, the Black Adder: Mm! ... What?
Percy: The famous Stone of Galveston, My Lord.
Edmund: And what's that, exactly?
Percy: Well, it's a famous blue stone, and it comes [points dramatically] from Galveston.
Edmund: I see. And what about it?
Percy: Well, My Lord, the Infanta's eyes are bluer than it, for a start.
Edmund: I see. And have you ever seen this stone?
Percy: [nods] No, not as such, My Lord, but I know a couple of people who have, and they say it's very very blue indeed.
Edmund: And have these people seen the Infanta's eyes?
Percy: No, I shouldn't think so, My Lord.
Edmund: And neither have you, presumably.
Percy: No, My Lord.
Edmund: So, what you're telling me, Percy, is that something you have never seen is slightly less blue than something else you have never seen.
Percy: [finally begins to grasp] Yes, My Lord.
Edmund: Percy, in the end, you are about as much use to me as an hole in the head...
-- Prince Edmund, the Black Adder and Percy, Duke of Northumberland (The Black Adder)
Thursday, October 07, 2010
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If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face - for ever.
-- George Orwell
Wednesday, October 06, 2010
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Honesty may be the best policy, but it's important to remember that apparently, by elimination, dishonesty is the second-best policy.
-- George Carlin
Tuesday, October 05, 2010
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I don't have a photograph, but you can have my footprints. They're upstairs in my socks.
-- Groucho Marx
Monday, October 04, 2010
Sunday, October 03, 2010
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Damn it, when I'm bombastic, I have my reasons. I want to be bombastic-take it or leave it.
-- Dave Brubeck
Saturday, October 02, 2010
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Our great democracies still tend to think that a stupid man is more likely to be honest than a clever man.
-- Bertrand Russell
Friday, October 01, 2010
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You can tell how far we have to go, when FORTRAN is the language of supercomputers.
-- Steven Feiner
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