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"Naturally the common people don't want war; neither in Russia, nor in England, nor in America, nor in Germany. That is understood. But after all, it is the leaders of the country who determine policy, and it is always a simple matter to drag the people along, whether it is a democracy, or a fascist dictatorship, or a parliament, or a communist dictatorship. Voice or no voice the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is to tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same in any country."-- Hermann Goering (at the Nuremberg Trials, April 18, 1946)
Is not that the nature of men and women--that the pleasure is in the learning of each other?
Sometimes before bed, I look in the mirror and wonder just what I'll be doing in ten years. Then I look at the clock and think, 'Probably flossing.'-- April Van Scherpe
"I'm not mad at the world... just at all the people in it."
The light at the end of a tunnel may be an oncoming train.
Hope is the feeling you have that the feeling you have isn't permanent.
America is like a melting pot. The people at the bottom get burned, and the scum floats to the top.
"Man gazing at the stars is proverbially at the mercy of the puddles in the road."-- Alexander Smith
Law of diminishing IQ:
The IQ of the group is the lowest IQ of a member of the group divided by the number of people in the group.
Democracy is the form of government where everyone gets what the majority deserves.
At the beginning and at the end of love, the two lovers are embarrassed to find themselves alone.-- La Bruyere
I think having 'Men' and 'Women' signs on bathrooms is a bad idea, because if aliens thought those rooms held standard specimens and went in to record data, they'd get some pretty bizarre examples.-- April Van Scherpe
"The conviction of the rich that the poor are happier is no more foolish than the conviction of the poor that the rich are."-- Mark Twain
Sign in a hotel elevator in Paris:
"Please leave your values at the front desk."
The music is the magic carpet that the other things take naps on.-- Tori Amos
Cigarette, n: A fire at one end, a fool at the other, and a bit of tobacco inbetween.
The principle difference between a cat and a lie is that the cat has only nine lives.
A trial is a lot like gladiator combat. Except trials don't feature half-naked men in armor with swords and spears and those ball thingies at the ends of ropes. Well, okay -- the good trials do, but it doesn't happen often enough, if you ask me.-- Jonathan Colan
The goodness of morals depends upon what the morals say, not just the fact that they are morals.-- Rob Bernardo
"I open up more when it's conversational. Otherwise, they're proving how smart they are, and I'm proving how smart I am. It's a penis race, and we're both losing. I'd rather just hang out and see where it can go."-- Tori Amos (The Orlando Sentinel, April 12, 1996)
We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.-- Oscar Wilde
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)
Art is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has known.
-- Oscar Wilde
"Blessed are the young, for they shall inherit the national debt."-- Herbert Hoover
"I wish I could drink like a lady
I can take one or two at the most.
Three and I'm under the table --
Four and I'm under the host!"
"I'd like to meet the person who invented sex and see what they're working on now."
"Remember the Golden Rule: Those who have the gold make the rules."
"The world breaks everyone, and afterward, some are strong at the broken places."-- Hemingway
Speer's 1st Law of Proofreading: The visibility of an error is inversely proportional to the number of times you have looked at it.
If you think that mental illness interferes with financial success, just look at the average television evangelist.
"Do not bend the spoon, instead realize the truth."
"The truth?"
"That the spoon effect will be added later by some sort of SGI workstation."
We accept the love we think we deserve
I worry that the person who thought up Muzak may be thinking up something else.-- Lily Tomlin
Lecture, n: Where the notes of the professor become the notes of the student without passing through the mind of either one.
Ask not for whom the bell tolls, let the machine get it.
"Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise. Seek what they sought"-- Basho
"We are at times too ready to believe that the present is the only possible state of things."-- Marcel Proust
All animals except man know that the principal business of life is to enjoy it.-- Samuel Butler
"The thing that I'm into is the philosophy of the music. I love the surprise of things, the accidents--just the sound of a word, to try to express them in the best way, so that the emotion is totally revealed."-- Beth Gibbons
"I don't know who Jim Henson is but I've heard he has his hand in a lot of things around here."-- Kermit the Frog (in 1972)
Half of what I say is meaningless; but I say it so that the other half may reach you.-- Kahlil Gibran
"The first 80% of software development is the easy part. The hard part is the next 80%"
"Must... defy... laws... of... physics!"-- The Tick
I'd love to change the world, but they won't give me the source code.
pride is not the opposite of shame, but its source
There are people so addicted to exaggeration that they can't tell the truth without lying.
The average girl would rather have beauty than brains because she knows that the average man can see much better than he can think. (Ladies' Home Journal)
Giving help doesn't mean dashing in and doing what seems like a good idea to you. It means doing what the other person wants. If what the person wants is for you leave them alone, it means doing that.-- John Fisher
When in doubt, make a fool of yourself. There is a microscopically thin line between being brilliantly creative and acting like the most gigantic idiot in the universe- So what the hell, leap.
"I really didn't foresee the Internet. But then, neither did the computer industry. Not that that tells us very much of course - the computer industry didn't even foresee that the century was going to end."-- Douglas Adams
All over the place, from the popular culture to the propaganda system, there is constant pressure to make people feel that they are helpless, that the only role they can have is to ratify decisions and to consume.-- Noam Chomsky
What really matters is the name you succeed in imposing on the facts -- not the facts themselves.-- Cohen's Law
When a true genius appears in the world, you may know him by this sign, that the dunces are all in confederacy against him.-- Jonathan Swift
A passionate commitment to social justice is no substitute for knowing what the hell you're talking about.-- Thomas Sowell
"Life at the top is financially rewarding, spiritually draining, physically exhausting, and short."-- Peter C. Newman
"All the people stared as if we were both quite insane."-- The Hollies
I once talked a guy out of blowing up the Sears tower, but I can't talk my wife out of the bathroom or my daughter off the phone. (The Negotiator)
Maybe love is letting people be just what they want to be. The door always must be left unlocked.
"The radical of one century is the conservative of the next. The radical invents the views. When he has worn them out the conservative adopts them."-- Mark Twain
Power doesn't always corrupt. Power always reveals. When you have enough power to do what you always wanted to do, then you see what the guy always wanted to do.
"I loathe people who keep dogs. They are cowards who haven't got the guts to bite people themselves."-- August Strindberg
If it wasn't for the optimist the pessimist would never know how happy he isn't.
Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day.-- Thomas Jefferson
Life is like a dog-sled team; If you ain't the lead dog, the scene never changes.
In the beginning was the word, and the word was "aardvark".
I'd like to teach the world to sing in perfect harmony. Especially Bob Dylan.-- Jim Rosenberg
This must be morning. I never could get the hang of mornings.
The use of either 'PC' or 'lighten up' is usually enough to cause me to junk an article: the former indicates that the writer is a raving moron incapable of original thought, while the latter is a pretty clear indication that the writer is an insensitive clod.-- Melinda Shore
It's not the men in my life, it's the life in my men.-- Mae West
"Oh, you hate your job? Why didn't you say so? There's a support group for that. It's called EVERYBODY, and they meet at the bar."-- Drew Carey
The state doesn't do what I tell it to do, which is fair, because I don't do what the state tells me to do.-- Desmodus Rotundus
The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function.-- F. Scott Fitzgerald
I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forget their use.-- Galileo Galilei
I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody.
Of all the truths in the world, humor is the most satisfying and often the healthiest.
My opinions may have changed, but not the fact that I am right.
Television: the bland leading the bland.
WITTICISM, n. A sharp and clever remark, usually quoted, and seldom noted; what the Philistine is pleased to call a "joke."-- Ambrose Bierce
Isn't it interesting that the same people who laugh at science fiction listen to weather forecasts and economists?-- Kelvin Throop III
No man ever believes that the Bible means what it says; he is always convinced that it says what he means.-- George Bernard Shaw
The world is moving so fast these days that the man who says it can't be done is generally interrupted by someone doing it.-- Harry Emerson Fosdick
The problem isn't that the victim can't fight, the problem is that they have to. Saying that self-defense classes are the answer to gay bashers is like saying that it would be good if the government stopped prosecuting rape cases and used the money saved to hand out free mace.-- Richard Caley
Lust comes at first sight, love comes after staring at the same person for elongated periods of time.-- lj user slvrstarlight
Dessert is probably the most important stage of the meal, since it will be the last thing your guests remember before they pass out all over the table.-- The Anarchist Cookbook
"Everything is convention, including law. When it is not the thought that led to the convention, but just the records of the convention that define morals, structural ethics are too dependant, and likely doomed."