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Inquiry is fatal to certainty.
-- Will Durant
"Does it occur to you, the fallibility of CIT thinking? Flux-thinking. You have prophetic dreams, remember? You can dream about a man drinking a glass of milk. A week later you can see Yanni drinking tea at lunch and if seeing him do that has a high shock-value, you'll super the dream-state right over him, you'll swear you dreamed about him doing that, exactly at that table, and even psychprobe can't sort it out after that."
-- C.J. Cherryh (Cyteen, Grant ALX)
"To speak ill of others is a dishonest way of praising yourself."
-- Will and Ariel Durant
The Creation of the Universe was made possible by a grant from Texas Instruments.
(Credits, "The Creation of the Universe" (A PBS scientific documentary))
Try to relax and enjoy the crisis.
-- Ashleigh Brilliant
"All I want is a warm bed and a kind word and unlimited power."
-- Ashleigh Brilliant
I want to die like my grandfather, peaceful and in my sleep - not screaming like the other people in the car.
I don't want to be understandable. I want to be felt.
-- Martha Graham
"By doing just a little every day, I can gradually let the task completely overwhelm me."
-- Ashleigh Brilliant
A winning formula can be obliterated simply by the change to an ingorant new manager.
"I may not be totally perfect, but parts of me are excellent."
-- Ashleigh Brilliant
"I don't have any solution, but I certainly admire the problem."
-- Ashleigh Brilliant
My sources are unreliable, but their information is fascinating.
-- Ashleigh Brilliant
"Most men complacently accept 'knowledge' as 'truth.' They are sheep, ruled by fear."
-- Sydney Losstarot (Vagrant Story)
"If you can't learn to do it well, learn to enjoy doing it badly."
-- Ashleigh Brilliant
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
The time for action is past! Now is the time for senseless bickering!
-- Ashleigh Brilliant
"In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted."
-- Bertrand Russell
"Please don't lie to me, unless you're absolutely sure I'll never find out the truth."
-- Ashleigh Brilliant
A "practical joker" deserves applause for his wit according to its quality. Bastinado is about right. For exceptional wit one might grant keelhauling. But staking him out on an anthill should be reserved for the very wittiest.
-- Lazarus Long
Strangely enough, this is the past that somebody in the future is longing to go back to.
-- Ashleigh Brilliant
"So you want a realistic, down-to-earth show that's off-the-wall and full of magical robots?"
(The Simpsons)
I don't understand men, women, sheep, grass, or computers. Understanding is for those too weak to handle confusion.
-- Stevie Ulrich
"Americans are benevolently ignorant about Canada, while Canadians are malevolently well informed about the United States."
-- J. Bartlett Brebner
"It's good to know that if I behave strangely enough, society will take full responsibility for me."
-- Ashleigh Brilliant
"I want a car. Chicks dig the car."
"This is why Superman works alone."
-- Richard Grayson and Bruce Wayne (Batman & Robin)
"I want a chocolate bar infused with nicotine that's got a creamy coffee center... And wrap it in porn."
(TheWax.com)
Most of us ask for advice when we know the answer but we want a different one.
-- Ivern Ball
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")
Music is the science of manipulating emotion through sound.
-- Angus Gray
Back of tranquility lies conquered unhappiness.
-- David Grayson
Man is, and always has been, a maker of gods. It has been the most serious and significant occupation of his sojourn in the world.
-- John Burroughs
A legal kiss is never as good as a stolen one.
-- Guy de Maupassant
It wasn't a dark and stormy night. It should have been, but that's the weather for you.
-- Terry Pratchett (Good Omens)
Alien, n: A being who travels great distances to molest our cattle and trample our grain.
Can we have a new wall?
(graffiti at foot of graffiti-strewn wall)