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The explanation requiring the fewest assumptions is the most likely to be correct.
-- William of Occam

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When you encounter seemingly good advice that contradicts other seemingly good advice, ignore them both.
-- Al Franken

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Whoever named it "necking" was a poor judge of anatomy.
-- Groucho Marx

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Documentation is like sex: when it is good, it is very, very good; and when it is bad, it is better than nothing.
-- Dick Brandon

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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

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Strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government! Supreme executive power is derived by a mandate from the masses, not from some farcical aquatic ceremony!
-- Monty Python

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We owe it to ourselves as respectable human beings, as thinking human beings, to do what we can to make humanity more rational...Humanists recognize that it is only when people feel free to think for themselves, using reason as their guide, that they are best capable of developing values that succeed in satisfying human needs and serving human interests.
-- Isaac Asimov

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Want me to smack the corpse around a little?
-- Bender Unit 22

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Making the simple complicated is commonplace; making the complicated simple, awesomely simple, that's creativity.
-- Charles Mingus

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I got kicked out of ballet class because I pulled a groin muscle. It wasn't mine.
-- Rita Rudner