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"Ergotism is what you get if you overuse the word "therefore". Egotism on the other hand is a form of "I" strain."
-- Paul Martin

"I am not a Marxist."
-- Karl Marx

"Never forget that everything Hitler did in Germany was legal."
-- Martin Luther King Jr.

"It is far more impressive when others discover your good qualities without your help."
-- Judith Martin (Miss Manners)

Human salvation lies in the hands of the creatively maladjusted.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr.

Fighting for peace is like fucking for virginity.
-- Paul Biron

Do you know the difference between involvement and commitment? Think of ham and eggs. The chicken is involved. The pig is committed.
-- Martina Navratilova

"We are all born charming, fresh and spontaneous and must be civilized before we are fit to participate in society."
-- Miss Manners (Judith Martin)

Seeing is forgetting the name of that which one sees.
-- Paul Valery

If all the world's a stage, I want to operate the trap door.
-- Paul Beatty

Why am I so soft in the middle when the rest of my life is so hard?
-- Paul Simon

I don't want to be understandable. I want to be felt.
-- Martha Graham

Everything has been figured out, except how to live.
-- Jean-Paul Sartre

"Like all dreamers, I mistook disenchantment for truth."
-- Jean-Paul Sartre

Basically, to learn Unix you learn to understand and apply a small set of key ideas and achieve expertise by expanding both the set of ideas and your ability to apply them
-- Paul Murphy

Let's get out of these wet clothes and into a dry martini.
-- Robert Benchley

"Hunting is not a sport. In a sport, both sides should know they're in the game."
-- Paul Rodriguez

"When ET left, he told Drew Barrymore to be good. Boy, is he gonna be surprised when he comes back."
-- Paul Rocci

Every psychic investigator of [the medium] Mrs. Piper was impressed by her simplicity and honesty. It never occurred to them that no charlatan ever achieves greatness by acting like a charlatan. No professional spy acts like a spy. No card cheat behaves at the table like a card cheat.
-- Martin W. Gardner

Erotica is stuff that's meant to be read with one hand.
-- Carl Manz

"Rebellion is almost as stupid as obedience. In either case you let yourself be defined by what they tell you to do."
-- Paul Graham

Jesus was killed by a moral majority.

"The best education consists in immunizing people against systematic attempts at education."
-- Paul Karl Feyerabend

I never forget a face, but in your case I'll make an exception.
-- Groucho Marx

Intuition comes from experience, that experience comes from failure, and that failure comes from trying.
-- Paul Snively (Lambda the Ultimate weblog)

"In no sense do I advocate evading or defying the law ... That would lead to anarchy. An individual who breaks a law that his conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the highest respect for law."
-- Martin Luther King

Paul's Law: You can't fall off the floor.

If a tree falls in a forest and lands on a politician, even if you can't hear the tree or the screams, I'll bet you'd at least hear the applause.
-- Paul Tindale

"Do you know a cow was murdered to make that jacket?"
"I didn't know there were any witnesses. Now I guess I'll have to kill you too."

-- Paul Crowley

"Denial ain't just a river in Egypt."
-- Mark Twain

The truth shall make you free, but first it shall make you angry.

"Be virtuous and you will be eccentric."
-- Mark Twain

"True friendship is never serene."
-- Marie de Rabutin-Chantal

"Me, getting smart with you? How would you know?"

I'll try being nicer if you'll try being smarter.

The past does not repeat itself, but it rhymes.
-- Mark Twain

"Familiarity breeds contempt--and children."
-- Mark Twain

"Man is condemned to be free; because once thrown into the world, he is responsible for everything he does."

"It is up to you to give [life] a meaning."

-- Jean-Paul Sartre

"Virtue has never been as respectable as money."
-- Mark Twain

If the moon hit your eye like a big pizza pie, it might be amor�, but I'd be more worried about the interplanetary gravitational effects from this cataclysmic event.
-- Paul Paternoster

Climate is what we expect, weather is what we get.
-- Mark Twain

"When angry, count four; when very angry, swear."
-- Mark Twain