Here's my card. It's got my cell number, my pager number, my home number and my other pager number. I never take vacations, I never get sick. And I don't celebrate any major holidays.
-- Dwight Kurt Schrute III
Monday, September 30, 2024
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Sunday, September 29, 2024
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When you encounter seemingly good advice that contradicts other seemingly good advice, ignore them both.
-- Al Franken
Saturday, September 28, 2024
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So, a graduate student, huh? How come you guys can go to the moon but you can't make my shoes smell good?
-- Homer J. Simpson
Friday, September 27, 2024
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All right, who did this? I'm not mad, I just want to know who did it so I can punish them.
-- Dwight Kurt Schrute III
Thursday, September 26, 2024
Wednesday, September 25, 2024
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In the part of this universe that we know there is great injustice, and often the good suffer, and often the wicked prosper, and one hardly knows which of those is the more annoying.
--Bertrand Russell
Tuesday, September 24, 2024
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Most people are bothered by those passages of Scripture they do not understand, but the passages that bother me are those I do understand.
-- Mark Twain
Monday, September 23, 2024
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Why should we be in such desperate haste to succeed, and in such desperate enterprises? If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away.
-- Henry David Thoreau
Sunday, September 22, 2024
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The man who sets out to carry a cat by its tail learns something that will always be useful and which never will grow dim or doubtful.
-- Mark Twain
Saturday, September 21, 2024
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Without rules, we all might as well be up in a tree flinging our crap at each other.
-- Red Forman
Friday, September 20, 2024
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I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.
-- Groucho Marx
Thursday, September 19, 2024
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In the game of chess you can never let your adversary see your pieces.
-- Captain Zapp Brannigan
Wednesday, September 18, 2024
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True, it returns "" for false, but "" is an even more interesting number than 0.
-- Larry Wall in <199707300650.XAA05515@wall.org>
Tuesday, September 17, 2024
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America's health care system is second only to Japan... Canada, Sweden, Great Britain... well, all of Europe. But you can thank your lucky stars we don't live in Paraguay!
-- Homer J. Simpson
Monday, September 16, 2024
Sunday, September 15, 2024
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Washington couldn't tell a lie, Nixon couldn't tell the truth, and Reagan couldn't tell the difference.
-- Mort Sahl
Saturday, September 14, 2024
Friday, September 13, 2024
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I'll be more enthusiastic about encouraging thinking outside the box when there's evidence of any thinking going on inside it.
-- Terry Pratchett
Thursday, September 12, 2024
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I don't own a computer, or a modem, or anything like that; I still work on a manual typewriter, by choice, and to those who consider me a Luddite I say: Fuck you and yo mama. I operate at the level of technology that best suits my needs. And I type at 120 words per minute --two fingers --I make no mistakes, and my manuscripts are real. You can pick them up and hold them. My typewriter doesn't dump it's memory --I don't lose a book.
-- Harlan Ellison
Wednesday, September 11, 2024
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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)
Tuesday, September 10, 2024
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As in certain cults it is possible to kill a process if you know its true name.
-- Ken Thompson and Dennis M. Ritchie
Monday, September 09, 2024
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I tell ya, I knew my morning wasn't going right. When I put on my shirt the button fell off, when I picked up my briefcase, the handle fell off, I tell ya, I was afraid to go to the bathroom.
-- Rodney Dangerfield
Sunday, September 08, 2024
Saturday, September 07, 2024
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I'm a firm believer in the philosophy of a ruling class. Especially since I rule.
-- Randal Graves
Friday, September 06, 2024
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Indeed, history is nothing more than a tableau of crimes and misfortunes.
-- Voltaire
Thursday, September 05, 2024
Wednesday, September 04, 2024
Tuesday, September 03, 2024
Monday, September 02, 2024
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He wrapped himself in quotations- as a beggar would enfold himself in the purple of Emperors.
-- Rudyard Kipling