Years ago, I tried to top everybody, but I don't anymore. I realized it was killing conversation. When you're always trying for a topper you aren't really listening. It ruins communication.
-- Groucho Marx
Monday, August 31, 2015
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Sunday, August 30, 2015
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One does not have to appeal to God to set the initial conditions for the creation of the universe, but if one does He would have to act through the laws of physics.
-- Stephen Hawking (Black Holes & Baby Universes)
Saturday, August 29, 2015
Friday, August 28, 2015
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We Americans live in a nation where the medical-care system is second to none in the world, unless you count maybe 25 or 30 little scuzzball countries like Scotland that we could vaporize in seconds if we felt like it.
-- Dave Barry
Thursday, August 27, 2015
Wednesday, August 26, 2015
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Melodrama coming from you is about as natural as an oral bowel movement.
-- Randal Graves
Tuesday, August 25, 2015
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Now, I'm no doctor, but it seems to me that we all have an obligation to the public health to track down anyone who gives us a disease, inform them of it, and take overwhelming revenge on that person. Again, I'm no doctor. I'm just a normal guy who enjoys revenge.
-- Dwight Kurt Schrute III
Monday, August 24, 2015
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I bet when the neanderthal kids would make a snowman, someone would always end up saying, "Don't forget the thick, heavy brows." Then they would all get embarrassed because they remembered they had the big hunky brows too, and they'd get mad and eat the snowman.
-- Jack Handey
Sunday, August 23, 2015
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Words are the litmus paper of the minds. If you find yourself in the power of someone who will use the word "commence" in cold blood, go somewhere else very quickly. But if they say "Enter", don't stop to pack.
-- Terry Pratchett (Small Gods)
Saturday, August 22, 2015
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That young man fills me with hope. Plus some other emotions which are weird and deeply confusing.
-- Captain Zapp Brannigan
Friday, August 21, 2015
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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
Thursday, August 20, 2015
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I find it rather easy to portray a businessman. Being bland, rather cruel and incompetent comes naturally to me.
-- John Cleese
Wednesday, August 19, 2015
Tuesday, August 18, 2015
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In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it's the exact opposite.
-- Paul Dirac
Monday, August 17, 2015
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God gave man two ears and one tongue so that we listen twice as much as we speak.
-- Arab proverb
Sunday, August 16, 2015
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The only thing that makes life possible is permanent, intolerable uncertainty, not knowing what comes next.
-- Ursula K. Le Guin
Saturday, August 15, 2015
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It is not easy to see how the more extreme forms of nationalism can long survive when men have seen the Earth in its true perspective as a single small globe against the stars.
-- Arthur C. Clarke
Friday, August 14, 2015
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Sex and the City 2 is the story of, and I mean this in the nicest way possible, four shopaholic whores.
-- Stephen Colbert
Thursday, August 13, 2015
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He was in a quandary...being devoured by the swirling cesspool of his own steaming desires... uh.. the guy was a wreck.
-- Frank Zappa
Wednesday, August 12, 2015
Tuesday, August 11, 2015
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Then you have to say one or other of two things. Either God only speaks to a very small percentage of mankind--which happens to include yourself--or He deliberately says things are not true in talking to the consciences of savages.
-- Bertrand Russell
Monday, August 10, 2015
Sunday, August 09, 2015
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The trinitarian believes a virgin to be the mother of a son who is her maker.
-- Sir Francis Bacon
Saturday, August 08, 2015
Friday, August 07, 2015
Thursday, August 06, 2015
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Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason.
-- Orson Welles
Wednesday, August 05, 2015
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I bought a cactus. A week later it died. And I got depressed, because I thought, Damn. I am less nurturing than a desert.
-- Demetri Martin
Tuesday, August 04, 2015
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... of course, this probably only happens for tcsh which uses wait4(), which is why I never saw it. Serves people who use that abomination right 8^)
-- Linus Torvalds, about a patch that fixes getrusage for 1.3.26
Monday, August 03, 2015
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I think it is not helpful to apply Darwinian language too widely. Conquest of nation by nation is too distant for Darwinian explanations to be helpful.
-- Richard Dawkin
Sunday, August 02, 2015
Saturday, August 01, 2015
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And pray that there's intelligent life somewhere out in space 'cause there's bugger all down here on Earth.
-- Eric Idle
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