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"I like the word 'indolence'. It makes my laziness seem classy."-- Bern Williams
As the cheetah said to the chameleon:
You can hide, but you can't run!-- Alan Williams
“Pain (any pain – emotional, physical, mental) has a message. The information it has about our life can be remarkably specific, but it usually falls into one of two categories: “We would be more alive if we did more of this,” and, “Life would be more lovely if we did less of that.” Once we get the pain’s message, and follow its advice, the pain goes away.”-- Peter McWilliams
You never know what is enough until you know what is more than enough.-- William Blake
Human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.-- William James
I must invent my own philosophical systems, or else be enslaved by other men's.-- William Blake
A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices.-- William James
"Those who control their passions do so because their passions are weak enough to be controlled."-- William Blake
"Dreaming permits each and every one of us to be quietly and safely insane every night of our lives."-- William Dement
"He that will not reason is a bigot, He that cannot reason is a fool, He that dares not reason is a slave."-- William Drummond
"Graze on my lips; and if those hills be dry, stray lower, where the pleasant fountains lie."-- William Shakespeare
Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us.-- Marianne Williamson (A Return to Love)
"An artist is a creature driven by demons. He don't usually know why they chose him and he's usually too busy to wonder why."-- William Faulkner
"In the U.S. you have to be a deviant or exist in extreme boredom...Make no mistake; all intellectuals are deviants in the U.S."-- William Burroughs
"The murals in restaurants are on a par with the food in museums."-- Peter De Vries
Education is a method whereby one acquires a higher grade of prejudices.-- Laurance J. Peter
Confession is good for the soul only in the sense that a tweed coat is good for dandruff.-- Peter de Vries
If you don't know where you are going, you'll probably end up somewhere else.-- Laurence J. Peter
Psychiatry enables us to correct our faults by confessing our parents' shortcomings.-- Laurence J. Peter
[Perl] isn't a programming language, it's a thousand special case rules flying in close formation.-- Peter da Silva
"Life at the top is financially rewarding, spiritually draining, physically exhausting, and short."-- Peter C. Newman
The loom works perfectly well without the steam powered wig darner and shortbread cutter stapled to the side.-- Peter da Silva
Education makes people easy to lead, but difficult to drive; easy to govern, but impossible to enslave.-- Henry Peter Brougham
"In America, through pressure of conformity, there is freedom of choice, but nothing to choose from."-- Peter Alexander Ustinov
"The main differences between a computer salesman and a used car salesman is that the used car salesman can probably drive and knows when he's lying."-- Peter da Silva
"When solving a kernel panic you must first ask yourself what you were doing that could possibly frighten an operating system."-- Peter van der Linden
> 0C is freezing, 100C is boiling, 70F is a nice day, and 110C is a nice
> sauna.
This is the same logic that took out the Mars Polar Lander, I see.-- Peter da Silva
She's not my girlfriend. I find her interesting because she's a client and she sleeps above her covers. Four feet above her covers.-- Dr. Peter Venkman (Ghostbusters.)
We have gone from a world of concentrated knowledge and wisdom to one of distributed ignorance. And we know and understand less while being increasingly capable.
-- Peter Cochrane
The time for action is past! Now is the time for senseless bickering!-- Ashleigh Brilliant
"Please don't lie to me, unless you're absolutely sure I'll never find out the truth."-- Ashleigh Brilliant
Strangely enough, this is the past that somebody in the future is longing to go back to.-- Ashleigh Brilliant
"Most of us, when all is said and done, like what we like and make up reasons for it afterwards."-- Soren F. Petersen
"By doing just a little every day, I can gradually let the task completely overwhelm me."-- Ashleigh Brilliant
Seattle reminds me a lot of London, where people will drink 12 beers but they never act drunk. Which makes you wonder what the point is of drinking 12 beers, if you're not going to put the lampshade on your head. You're killing your liver and still having no fun.-- Peter Bagge
The world is full of willing people; some willing to work, the rest willing to let them.-- Robert Frost
"It's good to know that if I behave strangely enough, society will take full responsibility for me."-- Ashleigh Brilliant
I think I'll go someplace where I can find intelligent conversation....
-- Alan Williams
Stop teasing like this! We know you love the attention you get here! Fess up -- you're a soc.motss abuse bottom and you know it!-- Greg Parkinson
If you're going to tell people the truth, you better make them laugh.