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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.

Back of tranquility lies conquered unhappiness.
-- David Grayson

Music is the science of manipulating emotion through sound.
-- Angus Gray

If practice makes perfect and nobody's perfect, why practice?

Can we have a new wall?
(graffiti at foot of graffiti-strewn wall)

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.

When you strike a flowing river, no trace remains in the water.
-- O-Sensei Morehei Ueshiba

You idiots! These are not them! You've captured their stunt doubles!
-- Spaceball Officer (Spaceballs)

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.

Persuasion rules, OK? - just this once?
(graffiti in Brighton)

The difference between theory and practice is greater in practice than it is in theory.