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People look ridiculous when they're in ecstasy.-- David Byrne
Sexuality does not "turn on" at puberty and "turn off" at menopause. It is not a thing external, no matter how hard our culture teaches us to push it away. It is every bit as integral and fundamental the day you're born as it is the day you die.-- David Casti
You can be a professional without being constipated about it.-- David Keyser
Education's purpose is to replace an open mind with a full one.-- David Nestor
"Intellectual brilliance is no guarentee against being dead wrong."-- David Fasold
"The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn."-- David Russell
"Singing is a trick to get people to listen to music for longer than they would ordinarily."-- David Byrne
True friendship comes when silence between two people is comfortable.-- David Tyson Gentry
"I don't think you can be a true man until you've humiliated yourself before a woman."-- David Duchovny
"Read the best books first, or you may not have a chance to read them all."-- Henry David Thoreau
What do you mean, "If a woodchuck could chuck wood"? What's the point in calling it a "woodchuck" if it can't ?-- David Gunter
People will accept your ideas much more readily if you tell them that Benjamin Franklin said it first.-- David H. Comins
If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.-- Henry David Thoreau
The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation and go to the grave with the song still in them.-- Henry David Thoreau
The disarmament of fear, in ourselves and those that oppose, propels us. Every step forward brings the possibility of backlash. But forward we go.-- David G. Welton
I was not born to be forced. I will breathe after my own fashion. If a plant cannot live according to its nature, it dies; and so a man.-- Henry David Thoreau
The direct use of physical force is so poor a solution to the problem of limited resources that it is commonly employed only by small children and great nations.-- David Friedman
Recession: your friend loses his job. Depression: you lose your job. Recovery: Bush loses his job.-- Bill Davidsen
Girls are such exquisite hell.-- Ovid
"Our country was founded on a distrust of government. Our founding fathers gave power to the people to keep an eye on government. So when politicians say "Trust me" they're actually being very unamerican."-- David Duchovny (X Files)
Nana is now 99, in a nursing home, healthy, and still as sharp as a tack (not the best situation when you're surrounded by the demented, but she makes do).
-- Steve Dyer
Ah, then she'd have no problem relating to Usenet...-- David Preston
"I went to the woods because I wanted to live deliberately. I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life; to put to route all that was not life and not, when I had come to die, discover that I had not lived."-- Henry David Thoreau ("Walden")
Unfortunately, as Usenet gets out to the masses it will become diluted.
-- Nelson Minar
*Again*!?!?
-- David Preston
My life has a superb cast but I can't figure out the plot.
-Ashleigh Brilliant
When I was your age I...wait, I can't tell that story, it's wildly inappropriate. Which, oddly enough, is my point. Don't you want wildly inappropriate stories that you can't tell your children?-- Castle
For an instant I think I saw. I saw the loneliness of man as a gigantic wave which had been frozen in front of me, held back by the invisible wall of a metaphor.-- Carlos Casteneda
Sarchasm (n): The gulf between the author of sarcastic wit and the person who doesn't get it.
When they broadcast this footage, they proceeded it with something like "KRON has learned that a group of paedophiles has been meeting in a public library." They implied over and over again that these people, whose faces they were showing on TV, were criminals. Hell, maybe half of them are, but the other half have been slandered and had their reputations ruined. It's supposed to be innocent until proven guilty, not innocent until caught in the wrong place on a slow news day.-- David Preston
"If you risk nothing, then you risk everything."-- Geena Davis
"Documentation is the castor oil of programming. Managers know it must be good because the programmers hate it so much."
Procrastination will rule one day, OK?
In case of emergency, speak in cliches.