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It is a good thing to in your mind be able to seperate the artist from the art.
One can't proceed from the informal to the formal by formal means.
"I have learnt silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet strange, I am ungrateful to these teachers."-- Kahlil Gibran
The only thing that separates us from the animals is our ability to accessorize. (Steel Magnolias)
Learn from the mistakes of others. You won't live long enough to make them all yourself.
On applause: They named it Ovation from the Latin ovis, a sheep.-- Plutarch
"Without freedom from the past, there is no freedom at all, because the mind is never new, fresh, innocent."
Democracy is the art and science of running the circus from the monkey cage.-- H. L. Mencken
Not to expose your true feelings to an adult seems to be instinctive from the age of seven or eight onwards.-- George Orwell
A linguistics professor was lecturing to his class one day.
"In English," he said, "A double negative forms a positive. In some languages, though, such as Russian, a double negative is still a negative. However, there is no language wherein a double positive can form a negative."
A voice from the back of the room piped up, "Yeah, right."
In Taiwan, the translation of the Pepsi slogan "Come alive with the Pepsi Generation" came out as "Pepsi will bring your ancestors back from the dead."
"We all suffer from the preoccupation that there exists ... in the loved one, perfection."-- Sidney Poitier
"What is a committee? A group of the unwilling, picked from the unfit, to do the unnecessary."-- Richard Harkness
In a church bulletin: This evening at 7 P.M. there will be a hymn sing in the park across from the Church. Bring a blanket and come prepared to sin.
The human animal differs from the lesser primates in his passion for lists of "Ten Best".-- H. Allen Smith
Skinner's Constant (or Flannagan's Finagling Factor): That quantity which, when multiplied by, divided by, added to, or subtracted from the answer you get, gives you the answer you should have gotten.
Learn from the mistakes of others. You can't live long enough to make them all yourself.-- Eleanor Roosevelt
"The Hindenburg crash had 62 survivors and 35 fatalities. Of the 35 deaths, 27 resulting from jumping from the airship. Many of the remaining 8 deaths resulted from burns and injuries due to the ensuing diesel fuel fire."-- Dan Egnor
Absent, adj: Exposed to the attacks of friends and acquaintances; defamed; slandered.
Ask not for whom the bell tolls, let the machine get it.
Morality is simply the attitude we adopt towards people whom we personally dislike.-- Oscar Wilde
From the 'Rules for women':
Women wearing Wonderbras and low-cut blouses lose their right to complain about being stared at.
The BeOS takes the best features from the major operating systems. It's got the power and flexibility of Unix, the interface and ease of use of the MacOS, and Minesweeper from Windows.-- Tyler Riti
Take it from the staff of a five-cat house: A group of cats is a "conceit." They'd like to be a "pride" but that would fool no one.-- Morely Dotes
Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so.-- Douglas Adams
Our hope of immortality does not come from any religions, but nearly all religions come from that hope.-- Robert Green Ingersoll
Just about all real intellectual activity starts from the understanding that *there is a problem here*, especially in things we take for granted.-- Arnold Zwicky
Majority, n: That quality that distinguishes a crime from a law.
A sense of humor keen enough to show a man his own absurdities will keep him from the commission of all sins, or nearly all, save those that are worth committing.-- Samuel Butler
Sufficiently advanced incompetence is indistinguishable from malice
Humanity has in the course of time had to endure from the hands of science two great outrages upon its naive self-love. The first was when it realized that our earth was not the center of the universe, but only a speck in a world-system of a magnitude hardly conceivable... The second was when biological research robbed man of his particular privilege of having been specially created, and relegated him to a descent from the animal world.-- Sigmund Freud
Any sufficiently optimistic statement is indistinguishable from sarcasm.
"A child does not have to be taught how to be happy or the ways of love. It is fear, hatred, & prejudice that have to be taught. And from the condition of the world we can see that unfortunately there are some very good teachers."-- Javan
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
"Real poetry doesn't say anything, it just ticks off the possibilities, opens all doors; you can walk through any one that suits you. If my poetry aims to achieve anything, it's to deliver people from the limited ways in which they see and feel."-- Jim Morrison
A sufficiently optimistic statement is indistinguishable from social sycophancy.
Maybe you can keep me from ever being happy, but you're not gonna stop me from having fun.-- Ani Difranco