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"Democracy consists of choosing your dictators, after they've told you what it is you want to hear."-- Alan Coren
Those who love you are not fooled by mistakes you have made or dark images you hold about yourself. They remember your beauty when you feel ugly; your wholeness when you are broken; your innocence when you feel guilty; and your purpose when you are confused.-- Alan Cohen
What really matters is the name you succeed in imposing on the facts -- not the facts themselves.-- Cohen's Law
"Self-improvement is a dangerous form of vanity."-- Alan Watts
I'm in love with a girl who doesn't even know I'm alive.
She thinks she got me with her long range rifle, but she missed.-- Jonathan Colan
As the cheetah said to the chameleon:
You can hide, but you can't run!-- Alan Williams
We can only see a short distance ahead, but we can see plenty there that needs to be done.-- Alan Turing
And it came to pass that in the hands of the ignorant, the words of the Bible were used to beat plowshares into swords.-- Alan Watts
Once in a while it really hits people that they don't have to experience the world in the way they have been told to.-- Alan Keightley
A trial is a lot like gladiator combat. Except trials don't feature half-naked men in armor with swords and spears and those ball thingies at the ends of ropes. Well, okay -- the good trials do, but it doesn't happen often enough, if you ask me.-- Jonathan Colan
"All children are morbid. It is their one saving grace."-- Truman Capote
"I've always wanted to be Brigitte Bardot."-- Bob Dylan
"To live outside the law you must be honest."-- Bob Dylan
The man who follows the crowd will usually get no further than the crowd. The man who walks alone is likely to find himself in places no one has ever been.-- Alan Ashley-Pitt
Alimony: the fee a woman charges for name-dropping.
"You can complain because roses have thorns, or you can rejoice because thorns have roses."-- Ziggy
Good news is just life's way of keeping you off balance.
War on common sense - I think we actually won that one...
Insanity, a perfectly rational adjustment to an insane world.-- R. D. Lang
If men could get pregnant, abortion would be a sacrament.
Only the good die young. Note the average age in Congress.
Some husbands are living proof that a woman can take a joke.
"In California everyone goes to a therapist, is a therapist, or is a therapist going to a therapist."-- Truman Capote
"Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can never tell."-- Joan Crawford
"If man could be crossed with the cat, it would improve man but deteriorate the cat."-- Mark Twain
Never underestimate the human capacity for cognitive dissonance.
His lack of education is more than compensated for by his keenly developed moral bankruptcy.-- Woody Allen
I have great faith in fools; self-confidence my friends call it.-- Edgar Allan Poe
The two most common elements in the Universe are hydrogen and stupidity.-- Harlan Ellison
Do not go gentle into that good night... Rage, rage against the dying of the light.-- Dylan Thomas
Almost everything alive is about some kind of balance. Heck, even a lot of things that are not alive are about balance. However, thinking a particular balance is the only balance is often a mistake.
He uses statistics as a drunken man uses lampposts — for support rather than illumination.-- Andrew Lang
Adventure: The land between entertainment and panic.
A man said to the universe, "Sir, I exist."
"However," replied the universe, "the fact has not created in me a sense of obligation."-- Stephan Crane ("War is Kind," 1899)
The applied mathematician can find the solution to any difficulty, whilst the pure mathematician can find the difficulty to any solution.
"Don't be afraid to go after what you want to do, and what you want to be. But don't be afraid to be willing to pay the price."-- Lane Frost
You rarely have time for everything you want in this life, so you have to make choices. And hopefully your choices can come from a deep sense of who you are.-- Fred Rogers
Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.-- Carl Sagan
The whole problem can be stated quite simply by asking, 'Is there a meaning to music?' My answer would be, 'Yes.' And 'Can you state in so many words what the meaning is? My answer to that would be, 'No.'-- Aaron Copland