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I'll play with it first and tell you what it is later.
					-- Miles Davis
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I'm hungry! I'm hungry!
for good things to eat
for Sugar Jets, Sugar Jets
(whole toasted wheat)
					-- Advertisement
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I was in this prematurely air conditioned supermarket and there were all
these aisles and there were these bathing caps you could buy that had these
kind of Fourth of July plumes on them that were red and yellow and blue and
I wasn't tempted to buy one but I was reminded of the fact that I had been
avoiding the beach.
					-- Lucinda Childs
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Nothing is true. Everything is permitted.
					-- Hassan I Sabbah
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Don't let your mouth write no check that your tail can't cash.
					-- Bo Diddley
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The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the
opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth.
					-- Niels Bohr
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The most merciful thing in the world ... is the inability of the human
mind to correlate all its contents.
					-- H. P. Lovecraft
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Take what you can use and let the rest go by.
					-- Ken Kesey
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It's not the size of the ship, it's the size of the waves.
					-- Little Richard
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I never loved another person the way I loved myself.
					-- Mae West
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Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar.
					-- Sigmund Freud
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When choosing between two evils I always like to take the one
I've never tried before.
					-- Mae West
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Her life was saved by rock and roll.
					-- Lou Reed
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Honest, Officer, had I known my health stood in jeopardy I would never
had lit one.
					-- Maxim of the Hells Angels
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It is a rather pleasant experience to be alone in a bank at night.
					-- Willie Sutton
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Never invest your money in anything that eats or needs painting.
					-- Billy Rose
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The rich will do anything for the poor but get off their backs.
					-- Karl Marx
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If Karl, instead of writing a lot about capital, had made a lot of
it ... it would have been much better.
					-- Karl Marx's Mother
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If you think the United States has stood still, who built the
largest shopping center in the world?
					-- Richard M Nixon
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When I sell liquor, it's called bootlegging; when my patrons serve
it on Lake Shore Drive, it's called hospitality.
					-- Al Capone
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Anything anybody can say about America is true.
					-- Emmett Grogan
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Tip the world over on its side and everything loose will land
in Los Angeles.
					-- Frank Lloyd Wright
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If you've seen one city slum, you've seen them all.
					-- Spiro Agnew
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If you've seen one redwood, you've seen them all.
					-- Ronald Reagan
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Use it up ... Wear it out.
Make it do ... Or do without.
					-- US World War II Message
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You can't underestimate the power of fear.
					-- Tricia Nixon
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The whole earth is in jail and we're plotting this
incredible jailbreak.
					-- Wavy Gravy
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The end move in politics is always to pick up a gun.
					-- Buckminster Fuller
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Things are more like they are now than they ever were before.
					-- Dwight D Eisenhower
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You smash it - and I'll build around it.
					-- John Lennon
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College isn't the place to go for ideas.
					-- Helen Keller
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Politicians should read science fiction, not westerns
and detective stories.
					-- Arthur C Clarke
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America, how can you write a holy litany in your silly mood?
					-- Allen Ginsberg
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It is necessary for me to establish a winner image. Therefore,
I have to beat somebody.
					-- Richard M Nixon
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Any smoothly functioning technology will have the appearance of magic.
					-- Arthur C Clarke
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Justice is incidental to law and order.
					-- J. Edgar Hoover
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Military intelligence is a contradiction in terms.
					-- Groucho Marx
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The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it.
					-- Abbie Hoffman
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Stay out of the road, if you want to grow old.
					-- Pink Floyd
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Here I am, fifty-eight, and I still don't know what I want to be
when I grow up.
					-- Peter Drucker
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How can you be two places at once when you're not anywhere at all?
					-- Firesign Theater
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I think that God in creating man somewhat overestimated his ability.
					-- Oscar Wilde
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We are what we pretend to be.
					-- Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
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We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.
					-- Oscar Wilde
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The race is not always to the swift, nor the battle to the strong -
but that's the way to bet.
					-- Damon Runyon
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My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior
spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive
with our frail and feeble mind.
					-- Albert Einstein
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Real wealth can only increase.
					-- R. Buckminster Fuller
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Anyone can hate. it costs to love.
					-- John Williamson
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In the province of the mind, what one believes to be true either is true
or becomes true.
					-- John Lilly
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Time is an illusion perpetrated by the manufacturers of space.
					-- Graffiti
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The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is comprehensible.
					-- Albert Einstein
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Nobody can be exactly like me. Even I have trouble doing it.
					-- Tallulah Bankhead
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A physicist is an atom's way of knowing about atoms.
					-- George Wald
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Don't lose
Your head
To gain a minute
You need your head
Your brains are in it.
					-- Burma Shave
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It was always thus; and even if 'twere not, 'twould inevitably have been
always thus.
					-- Dean Lattimer
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Burnt Sienna. That's the best thing that ever happened to Crayolas.
					-- Ken Weaver
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We don't know who discovered water, but we are certain it wasn't a fish.
					-- John Culkin
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Try to be the best of what you are, even if what you are is no good.
					-- Ashleigh Brilliant

I waited and waited, and when no message came, I knew it must have
been from you.
					-- Ashleigh Brilliant
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Please don't lie to me, unless you're absolutely sure I'll never find
out the truth.
					-- Ashleigh Brilliant
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Please don't ask me what the score is, I'm not even sure what the game is.
					-- Ashleigh Brilliant
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I either want less corruption, or more chance to participate in it.
					-- Ashleigh Brilliant
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If you can't learn to do it well, learn to enjoy doing it badly.
					-- Ashleigh Brilliant
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I don't have any solution, but I certainly admire the problem.
					-- Ashleigh Brilliant
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Maybe I'm lucky to be going so slowly, because I may be going in the
wrong direction.
					-- Ashleigh Brilliant
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By doing just a little every day, I can gradually let the task
completely overwhelm me.
					-- Ashleigh Brilliant
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To be sure of hitting the target, shoot first, and call whatever you
hit the target.
					-- Ashleigh Brilliant
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America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence
without civilization in between.
					-- Oscar Wilde
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The flush toilet is the basis of Western civilization.
					-- Alan Coult
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If the aborigine drafted an IQ test, all of Western civilization would
presumably flunk it.
					-- Stanley Garn
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The world looks as if it has been left in the custody of trolls.
					-- Father Robert F. Capon
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Sure there are dishonest men in local government. But there are dishonest
men in national government too.
					-- Richard M. Nixon
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We are going to have peace even if we have to fight for it.
					-- Dwight D. Eisenhower
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If we make peaceful revolution impossible, we make violent revolution
inevitable.
					-- John F. Kennedy
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It takes a long time to understand nothing.
					-- Edward Dahlberg
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To know the world one must construct it.
					-- Cesare Pavese
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Eeny Meeny, Jelly Beanie, the spirits are about to speak.
					-- Bullwinkle Moose
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The mistake you make is in trying to figure it out.
					-- Tenessee Williams
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An object never serves the same function as its image- or its name.
					-- Rene Magritte
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All I kin say is when you finds yo'self wanderin' in a peach orchard,
ya don't go lookin' for rutabagas.
					-- Kingfish
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He who wonders discovers that this in itself is wonder.
					-- M. C. Escher
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Law of Computability Applied to Social Sciences:
 If at first you don't succeed, transform your data set.
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Laws of Computer Programming
    1. Any given program, when running, is obsolete.
    2. Any given program costs more and takes longer.
    3. If a program is useful, it will have to be changed.
    4. If a program is useless, it will have to be documented.
    5. Any given program will expand to fill all available memory.
    6. The value of a program is proportional to the weight of its output.
    7. Program complexity grows until it exceeds the capability of the
       programmer who must maintain it.
    8. Make it possible for programmers to write programs in English, and
       you will find that programmers cannot write in English.
					-- SIGPLAN Notices, Vol. 2 No. 2
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Froud's Law:
 A transistor protected by a fast-acting fuse will protect the
fuse by blowing first.
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Fullers Law of Cosmic Irreversibility:
    1 Pot T == 1 Pot P
    1 Pot P != 1 Pot T
					-- R. Buckminster Fuller
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Under any conditions, anywhere, whatever you are doing, there
is some ordinance under which you can be booked.
					-- Robert D. Sprecht (Rand Corp.)
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Thoreau's Law:
 If you see a man approaching you with the obvious intent of
doing you good, you should run for your life.
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Vique's Law:
 A man without religion is like a fish without a bicycle.
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Zimmerman's Law of Complaints:
Nobody notices when things go right.
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Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance.
					-- Confucius
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Whoso diggeth a pit shall fall therein.
					-- Book of Proverbs
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It usually takes more than three weeks to prepare a good
impromptu speech.
					-- Mark Twain
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The unnatural, that too is natural.
					-- Goethe
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I used to be indecisive; now I'm not sure.
					-- Graffiti
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I had a monumental idea this morning, but I didn't like it.
					-- Samuel Goldwyn
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He hasn't one redeeming vice.
					-- Oscar Wilde
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I'd give my right arm to be ambidextrous.
					-- Graffiti
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(To Walter Cronkite):
"Well Walter, I believe that the Good Lord gave us a finite number
of heartbeats and I'm damned if I'm going to use up mine running
up and down a street"
					-- Neil Armstrong
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"You doubted Me," God tells the Lawgiver [Moses], "But I forgave
you that doubt. You doubted your own self and failed to believe
in your own powers as a leader, and I forgave you that also. But
you lost faith in these people and doubted the divine possibilities
of Human Nature. THIS loss of faith makes it impossible for
you to enter the Promised Land."
					-- The Midrash
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'Martyrdom' is the only way a person can become famous without ability.
					-- George Bernard Shaw
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Science has proof without any certainty. Creationists have certainty
without any proof.
					-- Ashley Montague
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Make no little plans. They have no Magic to stir Men's blood.
					-- D. B. Hudson
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Software suppliers are trying to make their software packages more
'user-friendly'.... Their best approach, so far, has been to take
all the old brochures, and stamp the words, 'user-friendly' on the
cover.
					-- Bill Gates, Microsoft, Inc.
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Eight Things your computer won't do:
 1) It won't save you money
 2) It won't make your organization run right
 3) It won't solve every problem
 4) It won't run itself
 5) It won't always be right
 6) It won't meet all its own needs
 7) It won't protect itself
 8) It won't become obsolete
					-- J. Makower
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Ketterling's Law:
Logic is an organized way of going wrong with confidence.
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The government of the United States is not in any sense founded
on the Christian Religion.
					-- George Washington
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