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"In all our searching, the only thing we found that makes the emptiness bearable, is each other" (Contact)
I plead contemporary insanity.
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Interpretation is the revenge of the intellect upon art.-- Susan Sontag
"The only interesting answers are those which destroy the questions."-- Susan Sontag
Bullshit, in contrast to mere nonsense, is something that implies, but does not contain, adequate meaning or truth.
Sometimes I think the surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that none of it has tried to contact us.-- Calvin (Calvin & Hobbes)
"The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed."-- Carl Gustav Jung
I'd rather have a bottle in front of me than a frontal lobotomy
Religion is probably, after sex, the second oldest resource which human beings have available to them for blowing their minds.-- Susan Sontag
Landing: a controlled mid-air collision with a planet.
"The Ten Commandments contain 297 words. The Bill of Rights is stated in 463 words. Lincoln's Gettysburg Address contains 266 words. A recent federal directive to regulate the price of cabbage contains 26,911 words." (Atlanta Journal)
"He who establishes his argument by noise and command shows that his reason is weak."
-- Michel de Montaigne
"Tact is the art of making a point without making an enemy."
Dublin University contains the cream of Ireland: Rich and thick.-- Samuel Beckett
Brought to you by the people who made "out of context" a household word.
"Familiarity breeds contempt--and children."-- Mark Twain
Tact is the ability to tell a man he has an open mind when he has a hole in his head.
"Those who control their passions do so because their passions are weak enough to be controlled."-- William Blake
"She says control it, then she says don't control it, then she says you're controlling the way she makes you crawl."-- Tori Amos ("She's Your Cocaine")
There is perhaps no phenomenon which contains so much destructive feeling as moral indignation, which permits envy or hate to be acted out under the guise of virtue.-- Erich Fromm
I need more tact. I never say anything I want to say very well. I'm even worse at what I don't want to say.
Books: A controlled hallucinogen known to regularly cause people to imagine things that are not really there.
"Reading maketh a full man, conference a ready man, and writing an exact man."-- Francais Bacon
Language and its absurd conjunctions;
Constellations and crustaceans rhyme.
You will continue to suffer if you have an emotional reaction to everything that is said to you. True power is sitting back and observing things with logic. True power is restraint. If words control you that means everyone else can control you. Breathe and allow things to pass.
Study the past, if you would divine the future.-- Confucius
All of the books in the world contain no more information than is broadcast as video in a single large American city in a single year. Not all bits have equal value.-- Carl Sagan
Economics exists merely to employ economists.
The question is not so much whether there is life on Mars as whether it will continue to be possible to live on Earth.
Better a diamond with a flaw than a pebble without.-- Confucius
Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.-- Abraham Lincoln
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Politics: strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles.-- Ambrose Bierce
Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance.-- Confucius
"If everything seems under control, you're just not going fast enough."-- Mario Andretti
The right half of the brain controls the left half of the body. This means that only left handed people are in their right mind.
Hindsight is an exact science.
"When you are content to be simply yourself and don't compare or compete, everybody will respect you."-- Lao-Tzu
Practice random kindness and senseless acts of beauty.
Fanaticism consists of redoubling your efforts when you have forgotten your aim.-- George Santayana
Computer literacy is a contact with the activity of computing deep enough to make the computational equivalent of reading and writing fluent and enjoyable. As in all the arts, a romance with the material must be well under way. If we value the lifelong learning of arts and letters as a springboard for personal and societal growth, should any less effort be spent to make computing a part of our lives?-- Alan Kay (``Computer Software'', Scientific American)
There is a superstition in avoiding superstition.-- Francis Bacon
I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand.-- Confucius
Fungus is actually alive. Be afraid.
Absent, adj: Exposed to the attacks of friends and acquaintances; defamed; slandered.
Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.-- Confucius
If practice makes perfect and nobody's perfect, why practice?
We are continually faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised as insoluble problems.-- John Gardner
"Mankind will someday realize that we are actually in contact with the dead and with the other world, whatever it is; right now we could predict, if we only exerted enough mental will, what is giong to happen within the next hundred years and be able to take steps to avoid all kinds of catastrophes. When a man dies he undergoes a mutation in his brain that we know nothing about now but which will be very clear someday if scientists get on the ball. The bastards right now are only interested in seeing if they can blow up the world."-- Bull (On the Road)
Rule of Feline Frustration: When your cat has fallen asleep on your lap and looks utterly content and adorable, you will suddenly have to go to the bathroom.
In the end, man is not entirely guilty — he did not start history. Nor is he wholly innocent — he continues it.-- Albert Camus
"Men have fiendishly conceived a heaven only to find it insipid, and a hell only to find it ridiculous."-- George Santayana
"The most merciful thing in the world...is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents."-- H.P. Lovecraft
Come, let us retract the foreskin of misconception and apply the wire brush of enlightenment.
Chicken Soup, n.:
An ancient miracle drug containing equal parts of aureomycin, cocaine, interferon, and TLC. The only ailment chicken soup can't cure is neurotic dependence on one's mother.-- Arthur Naiman ("Every Goy's Guide to Yiddish")
"Being a woman is a terribly difficult trade since it consists principally of dealing with men."-- Joseph Conrad
Lies, damned lies and user documentation.
The moral of the story is that with a contrived example, you can prove anything. Oops. No, that's not what I meant to say.-- Joel Spolsky
In case of doubt, make it sound convincing.
Bees are very busy souls
They have no time for birth controls
And that is why in times like these
There are so many Sons of Bees.
Man will occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of the time he will pick himself up and continue on.-- Winston Churchill
Circumpopulate (sur kum pop' yew layt'), v: To finish off a popsicle "laterally" because the "frontal" approach causes one to gag.-- Rich Hall ("Sniglets")
In art, as in no other form of endeavor, there is meaning apart from success.-- Joseph Conrad
Acute Angle: A very attractive early Briton.
I was thinking of 'duh?' in the sense of 'a sentence containing several words more than three letters long, and possibly requiring general knowledge or a sense of history that extends past last Tuesday, has been used in my presense.'-- Terry Pratchett (alt.fan.pratchett)
Skepticism, like chastity, should not be relinquished too readily.-- George Santayana
Newton's Fourth Law: Every action has an equal and opposite satisfaction.
"If there is anything the nonconformist hates worse than a conformist it's another nonconformist who doesn't conform to the prevailing standards of nonconformity."