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Accuracy, n: The vice of being right.
"I really don't see anything romantic in proposing. It is very romantic to be in love. But there is nothing romantic about a definite proposal. Why, one may be accepted. One usually is, I believe. Then the excitement is all over."
-- Oscar Wilde (The Importance of Being Earnest)
"No one gets too old to learn a new way of being stupid."
The important thing is never to stop questioning.
-- Albert Einstein
I'm tired of being this pristine little socially acceptable monstrosity
Why serial commas are important: "I dedicate this book to my parents, Ayn Rand and God."
The chance of a lifetime is to be yourself.
Sex is like air. It's not important unless you aren't getting any.
I'll try being nicer if you'll try being smarter.
"And really, what's so important that it can't wait until after noon, anyway?"
"Science has made gods of us before we were even worthy of being men."
-- Jean Rostand
Schizophrenia beats being alone.
Love is like pi: natural, irrational and very important.
-- Lisa Hoffman
The cost of living is going up, and the chance of living is going down.
Breakfast is the most important meal of the afternoon.
-- Amelia T. Smith
"The biggest disease today isn't leprosy or tuberculosis, but the feeling of being unwanted."
-- Mother Theresa
"This report, by its very length, defends itself against the risk of being read."
-- Winston Churchill
Punctuation is important. There is a world of semantic difference between "Damn straight." and "Damn, straight."
"... it is important to realize that any lock can be picked with a big enough hammer."
(Sun System & Network Admin manual)
It's easier to get forgiveness for being wrong than forgiveness for being right.
"I think that happiness is when you can let yourself feel every emotion you want at any time instead of being a lying little fuck."
-- Tori Amos
All good work is done in defiance of management.
-- Bob Woodward
"The generation of random numbers is too important to be left to chance."
-- Robert R. Coveyou
Old friends pass away, new friends appear. It is just like the days. An old day passes, a new day arrives. The important thing is to make it meaningful: a meaningful friend--or a meaningful day.
-- The Dalai Lama ("Time," 11 April 1988)
"It's all cheese anyway."
-- Barnes and Barnes
Loneliness does not come from having no people about one, but from being unable to communicate the things that seem important to oneself, or from holding certain views which others find inadmissible.
-- Carl Jung
One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly important.
-- Bertrand Russell
The secret of being miserable is to have leisure to bother about whether you are happy or not. The cure for it is occupation.
-- George Bernard Shaw
They both savoured the strange warm glow of being much more ignorant than ordinary people, who were only ignorant of ordinary things.
-- Terry Pratchett ("Equal Rites")
Few things are harder to put up with than the annoyance of a good example.
-- Mark Twain
On-line, adj: The idea that a human being should always be accessible to a computer.
The value of the Constitution depends on the good will of government itself. If the Supreme Court rules that the Bill of Rights should not interfere with the important business of government (which they have done on at least two occasions), then the Constitution is meaningless.
-- John Kormylo
"Nothing succeeds like the appearance of success."
-- Christopher Lasch
"The disappearance of a sense of responsibility is the most far-reaching consequence of submission to authority."
-- Stanley Milgram
Alien, n: A being who travels great distances to molest our cattle and trample our grain.
"Discretion is being able to raise your eyebrow instead of your voice."
Is there anything safer than TV-style seriousness--i.e., delivering the conventional wisdom as if it were the deeply important truth?
-- Pauline Kael
Music is the science of manipulating emotion through sound.
-- Angus Gray
I pity you if you feel that the 'support' of such fair-weather 'friends' is more important than self-respect. Such friends offer no support, but rather slavery in a different cell: that of their approval.
-- Clay Bond
I like being single. I'm always there when I need me.
-- Art Leo
"The imposition of stigma is the commonest form of violence used in democratic societies."
-- R. A. Pinker
Anyone who considers protocol unimportant has never dealt with a cat.
-- Robert A. Heinlein