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Subduction leads to orogeny!
An unrestricted satisfaction of every need presents itself as the most enticing method of conducting one's life, but it means putting enjoyment before caution, and soon brings its own punishment.-- Sigmund Freud
Fanfiction is just fixing things in post-post-production
War on common sense - I think we actually won that one...
Only the good die young. Note the average age in Congress.
Baby-sitter, n: A teenager acting like an adult, while the adults are out acting like teenagers.
"Doesn't anyone remember one of the biggest problems the Super Conducting Super Collider project ran into during construction in Texas? It wasn't politics... It was the Mecca of fire ants in all the extremely high-voltage conduits, junctions, transformers, and other high-strength field areas. The ants would eat the insulating compounds off and sit there basking in the emf high they apparently got. Occasionally, an ant would offer itself as sacrifice, prompting some Damn Big Breakers to blow..." -- RISKS
"The essence of intelligence is skill in extracting meaning from everyday experience."
The whole problem can be stated quite simply by asking, 'Is there a meaning to music?' My answer would be, 'Yes.' And 'Can you state in so many words what the meaning is? My answer to that would be, 'No.'-- Aaron Copland
"Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd."-- Voltaire
"The best education consists in immunizing people against systematic attempts at education."-- Paul Karl Feyerabend
Bullshit, in contrast to mere nonsense, is something that implies, but does not contain, adequate meaning or truth.
Organic chemistry is the chemistry of carbon compounds.
Biochemistry is the study of carbon compounds that crawl.-- Mike Adams
The simple rights, the civil liberties from generations of struggle must not be just fine words for patriotic holidays, words we subvert on weekdays, but living, honored rules of conduct amongst us... I'm glad the American Civil Liberties Union gets indignant, and I hope this will always be so.-- Adlai Stevenson
Study the past, if you would divine the future.-- Confucius
"It's been reported that John Bobbitt's porno movie grossed over 10 million. I'm not sure whether that's dollars or people."-- Conan O'Brien
A mathematician is a machine for converting coffee into theorems.
Better a diamond with a flaw than a pebble without.-- Confucius
"Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain -- and most fools do."-- Dale Carnegie
Expecting something for nothing is the most popular form of hope.-- Arnold Glasgow
Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance.-- Confucius
Do not condemn the judgment of another because it differs from your own. You may both be wrong.-- Dandemis
Abnormal, adj:
Not conforming to standard. In matters of thought and conduct, to be independent is to be abnormal, to be abnormal is to be detested. Wherefore the lexicographer adviseth a striving toward the straiter [sic] resemblance of the Average Man than he hath to himself. Whoso attaineth thereto shall have peace, the prospect of death and the hope of Hell.-- Ambrose Bierce (The Devil's Dictionary)
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.
"Democracy consists of choosing your dictators, after they've told you what it is you want to hear."-- Alan Coren