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What are we to make of a system that blames us for failing to procreate while refusing us custody of our children? That perpetuates the myth that we are weaklings while denying us the right to serve in the military? That regards us as incapable of forming stable relationships while forbidding us to marry?-- Richard Goldstein (in the "Gay Life 1991" segment of The Village Voice)
"I was not lying. I said things that later on seemed to be untrue."-- Richard Nixon
"What are our schools for if not indoctrination against Communism?"-- Richard Nixon
I listen so that I may decipher the mystery of myself and become more whole.-- Richard Moss
There are things so deeply personal that they can be revealed only to strangers.-- Richard Rodriguez
The first principle is that you must not fool yourself - and you are the easiest person to fool.-- Richard Feynman
"What is a committee? A group of the unwilling, picked from the unfit, to do the unnecessary."-- Richard Harkness
"All dogmas perish the thinking mind, especially ones you agree with."-- Adam Richardson
[A] thing is symmetrical if there is something we can do to it so that after we have done it, it looks the same as it did before.-- Richard Feynman
Those parts of the system that you can hit with a hammer are called hardware; those program instructions that you can only curse at are software.-- Richard P. Brennan
A writer is someone who writes, and a stinger is something that stings. But fingers don't fing, grocers don't groce, haberdashers don't haberdash, hammers don't ham, and humdingers don't humding.-- Richard Lederer (Crazy English)
The problem isn't that the victim can't fight, the problem is that they have to. Saying that self-defense classes are the answer to gay bashers is like saying that it would be good if the government stopped prosecuting rape cases and used the money saved to hand out free mace.-- Richard Caley
For years a secret shame destroyed my peace --
I'd not read Eliot, Auden or MacNiece.
But now I think a thought that brings me hope:
Neither had Chaucer, Shakespeare, Milton, Pope.-- Justin Richardson
The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax.-- Albert Einstein
"Remember the Golden Rule: Those who have the gold make the rules."
It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.-- Albert Einstein
Only a monomaniac gets what we commonly refer to as results.-- Albert Einstein
Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.-- Albert Einstein
Common sense: The collection of prejudices acquired by age 18.-- Albert Einstein
Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.-- Albert Einstein
Nationalism is an infantile disease. It is the measles of mankind.-- Albert Einstein
"The laws of probability, so true in general, so fallacious in particular."-- Edward Gibbon
Science without religion is lame; religion without science is blind.-- Albert Einstein
What is inconceivable about the universe is that it is at all conceivable.-- Albert Einstein
If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it?-- Albert Einstein
Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.-- Albert Einstein
"Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle."
Real programmers don't comment their code. If it was hard to write, it should be hard to understand.
"A hard man is good to find."-- Mae West
Don't ask "why" unless you're not disappointed with answers like "I don't know."-- Andrew Walenstein
Statistics are like a bikini. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.-- Aaron Levenstein
Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.-- Albert Einstein
The bigger they are, the harder they hit.
I don't know what your problem is, but I bet it's hard to pronounce.