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"Hey, Aeryn's gorgeous--she can change any guy's tune. She can also change 'im from tenor to soprano, but that's beside the point."-- Grace
Education, then, beyond all other devices of human origin, is the great machinery.-- Horace Mann
"The world is a comedy to those who think, a tragedy to those who feel."-- Horace Walpole
"Forget all those health clinics and gyms. Sex is the best cure for everything, especially stress. If I have a good night of sex, all my problems are gone by 10 o' clock in the morning."-- Grace Jones
Nine-tenths of the people were created so you would want to be with the other tenth.-- Horace Walpole
"All children are morbid. It is their one saving grace."-- Truman Capote
If the mind were exercised as much as the mouth, we would be a race of geniuses.
Much learning does not teach understanding.-- Heraclitus
We were raised in vastly different places,/
Yet speak this uncanny similar tongue./
Sometimes we're different races./
Certainly we're different classes./
Yet our common bonds and common graces,/
Common wounds and destinations,/
Keep us closer than some married folks.-- Judy Grahn
"Here's a horrible thought: You know how dumb the average person is? Well, half the human race is even dumber than that..."
Accuracy, n: The vice of being right.
The truth is not decided by democracy.
Music is the science of manipulating emotion through sound.-- Angus Gray
If practice makes perfect and nobody's perfect, why practice?
A penny saved is 2.5 grams of zinc alloy.
I don't want to be understandable. I want to be felt.-- Martha Graham
"O human race, born to fly upward, wherefore at a little wind dost thou so fall?"-- Dante Alighieri
The only good strategy is one that no one else understands.-- Tracy Kidder
"There is no abstract art. You must always start with something. Afterward you can remove all traces of reality."-- Pablo Picasso
Acute Angle: A very attractive early Briton.
The end of the human race will be that it will eventually die of civilization.-- Ralph Waldo Emerson
All that glitters has a high refractive index.
There are no shortcuts to any place worth going.
Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe is winning.-- Rich Cook
It's only by NOT taking the human race seriously that I retain what fragments of my once considerable mental powers I still possess.-- Roger Noe
"The Schizophrenic: An Unauthorized Autobiography"
"...the only place for 63,000 bugs is a rain forest"
A dark past creates a long path back to the surface.
You can't make a program without breaking some egos.
Headline: Astronaut Takes Blame for Gas in Spacecraft
The nuclear arms race is like two sworn enemies standing waist deep in gasoline, one with three matches, the other with five.-- Dr. Carl Sagan
"The problem with post-modernism is that you like it more if you're innumerate or illiterate; both is best."-- Graydon
Practice random kindness and senseless acts of beauty.
I want to die like my grandfather, peaceful and in my sleep - not screaming like the other people in the car.
If I'm not back in five minutes, wait longer. (Ace Ventura)
Private faces in public places /
Are wiser and nicer /
Than public faces in private places.-- W.H. Auden
I'm not a perfectionist. That would be a character flaw.
The difference between theory and practice is greater in practice than it is in theory.