A man of genius makes no mistakes. His errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery.
-- James Joyce (Ulysses)
Saturday, April 30, 2022
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Friday, April 29, 2022
Thursday, April 28, 2022
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Oh sweet information superhighway, what bring you me from the depths of cyberspace?
-- Crow T. Robot
Wednesday, April 27, 2022
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My only official recommendations are US Army-issued mustache trimmers, Morton's Salt, and the C.R. Lawrence Fein two inch axe-style scraper oscillating knife blade.
-- Ron Swanson
Tuesday, April 26, 2022
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(Religion) With or without it you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion
-- Steven Weinberg
Monday, April 25, 2022
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Quickly, bring me a beaker of wine, so that I may wet my mind and say something clever.
-- Aristophanes
Sunday, April 24, 2022
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It had never occurred to me before that music and thinking are so much alike. In fact you could say music is another way of thinking, or maybe thinking is another kind of music.
-- Ursula K. Le Guin
Saturday, April 23, 2022
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To me, boxing is like ballet, except there's no music, no choreography, and the dancers hit each other.
-- Jack Handey
Friday, April 22, 2022
Thursday, April 21, 2022
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If toast always lands butter-side down, and cats always land on their feet, what happens if you strap toast on the back of a cat and drop it?
-- Stephen Wright
Wednesday, April 20, 2022
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Like the wind crying endlessly through the universe, Time carries away the names and the deeds of conquerors and commoners alike. And all that we are, all that remains, is in the memories of those who cared we came this way for a brief moment.
-- Harlan Ellison
Tuesday, April 19, 2022
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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, April 18, 2022
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Life... is like a grapefruit. It's orange and squishy, and has a few pips in it, and some folks have half a one for breakfast.
-- Douglas Adams
Sunday, April 17, 2022
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In Vegas, everyone goes everywhere in limos. Las Vegas is just a giant prom night for adults who are very bad at math.
-- Penn Jillette
Saturday, April 16, 2022
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Tragedy is when I cut my finger, comedy is when I walk into an open sewer and die.
-- Mel Brooks
Friday, April 15, 2022
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Someday I want to be rich. Some people get so rich they lose all respect for humanity. That's how rich I want to be.
-- Rita Rudner
Thursday, April 14, 2022
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Anything that can be done chemically can be done by other means.
-- William S. Burroughs
Wednesday, April 13, 2022
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Laurie got offended that I used the word "puke", but to me, that's what her dinner tasted like.
-- Jack Handey
Tuesday, April 12, 2022
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What have been [Christianity's] fruits? More or less in all places, pride and indolence in the Clergy, ignorance and servility in the laity; in both, superstition, bigotry and persecution.
-- James Madison
Monday, April 11, 2022
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Talking with you is sort of the conversational equivalent of an out of body experience.
-- Bill Watterson (Calvin and Hobbes)
Sunday, April 10, 2022
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Without rules, we all might as well be up in a tree flinging our crap at each other.
-- Red Forman
Saturday, April 09, 2022
Friday, April 08, 2022
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If all mankind minus one were of one opinion, mankind would be no more justified in silencing that one person than he, if he had the power, would be justified in silencing mankind.
-- John Stuart Mill
Thursday, April 07, 2022
Wednesday, April 06, 2022
Tuesday, April 05, 2022
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I think perhaps the most important problem is that we are trying to understand the fundamental workings of the universe via a language devised for telling one another where the best fruit is.
-- Terry Pratchett
Monday, April 04, 2022
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It is the dull man who is always sure, and the sure man who is always dull.
-- H.L. Mencken
Sunday, April 03, 2022
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All right, brain. You don't like me and I don't like you, but let's just do this and I can get back to killing you with beer.
-- Homer J. Simpson
Saturday, April 02, 2022
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Not all chemicals are bad. Without chemicals such as hydrogen and oxygen, for example, there would be no way to make water, a vital ingredient in beer.
-- Dave Barry
Friday, April 01, 2022
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Do not worry about your problems in mathematics. I assure you, my problems with mathematics are much greater than yours.
-- Albert Einstein