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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)
Government of the people
By a corrupt subset of the people
For the people who can afford the corrupt subset of the people.
-- Chris Newport
Beauty lies in the hands of the beer holder.
"One good turn gets most of the blankets"
Half of the people in the world are below average.
Eat a live toad in the morning, and nothing worse will happen to you the rest of the day.
Ninety percent of the time things turn out worse than you thought they would. The other ten percent of the time you had no right to expect that much.-- Augustine
People often find it easier to be a result of the past than a cause of the future.
I do not like the man: he has all of the virtues I detest and none of the vices I admire.-- Winston Churchill
If you're not part of the freaks, you're part of the boredom.-- Perry Farrell
Oh yeah? You wanna step out of the giant robot and say that again?
If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate.-- Steven Wright
Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter.-- Oscar Wilde
Pedestrian, n: The variable (and audible) part of the roadway for an automobile.
Law of diminishing IQ:
The IQ of the group is the lowest IQ of a member of the group divided by the number of people in the group.
"Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise. Seek what they sought"-- Basho
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"Once a new technology rolls over you, if you're not part of the steamroller, you're part of the road."-- Stewart Brand
"I wanted to make a little spot in the context of the record where there was this break in the action. In the midst of this buildup of these ever-growing, terrible machines, I just wanted to remember that there is somewhere... else."-- Trent Reznor
"I am not part of the problem; I am a Republican."-- Dan Quayle
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.
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
Mustard: Are you trying to make me look stupid in front of the other guests?
Wadsworth: You don't need any help from me, sir.
Mustard: That's right! (Clue)
2, 3, 3, 37 - the prime factorization of the beast.
TCP_UP - The 16-bit TCP Urgent Pointer, encoded as the hex representation of the value of the field. The hex string MUST be capitalized since it is urgent. (RFC 3093)
The future exists first in the imagination, then in the will, then in reality.
Laugh, and the world laughs with you. But you know most of them didn't get the joke in the first place, the lying weasels.-- Wade Kwon
Now, in the Overall Schema Of The Universe, I would imagine that this sort of thing ranks somewhere down around gnat's eyelashes.-- George Madison
Karate is a form of martial arts in which people who have trained for years and years can, using only their hands and feet, make some of the worst movies in the history of the world.
Do not condemn the judgment of another because it differs from your own. You may both be wrong.-- Dandemis
If we couldn't laugh at things that didn't make sense,
we couldn't react to a lot of the world around us." (Calvin & Hobbes)
"Anger is natural. It's part of the force. You just have to learn to hang out with it."-- Tori Amos
The day after tomorrow is the third day of the rest of your life.
"Man gazing at the stars is proverbially at the mercy of the puddles in the road."-- Alexander Smith
Computers make it easier to do a lot of things, but most of the things they make it easier to do don't need to be done.-- Andy Rooney
He was just... well, like a lot of madmen. Somewhat accurate view of the problem, really insane view of the solution. (Kid Radd)
Lecture, n: Where the notes of the professor become the notes of the student without passing through the mind of either one.
Patience is something you admire greatly in the driver behind you but not in the one ahead of you.
I once talked a guy out of blowing up the Sears tower, but I can't talk my wife out of the bathroom or my daughter off the phone. (The Negotiator)
Thinking: The talking of the soul with itself.-- Plato
"All the parts falling off this car are of the very finest British manufacture"-- Bumper sticker
The fact that I know I'm often a fool, but that I also have an IQ a fair bit over a hundred, scares me. What fools the rest of the world must be.