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By me

• 12.12.00 -- Never forget!!
• "Life is a series of what-if questions, answered."
• "Don't think and just pull the trigger."
• "Rape me once, shame on you. Rape me twice, shame on me." (Reno 911! totally stole this from me. I swear.)
• "My two favorite words in the English language are 'free pie.' These are closely followed by the words 'indigenous nudity.'"
• "You have to know the world before you can change it."
• "I don't have any pets, but I keep some small children in my basement."
• "Fortunately, I would one day die. Unfortunately, I would also one day realize this."
• "Everyday of my life has felt exactly the same. Only when I have been creating through inspiration or destroying through anger have I felt to be truly living."
• "As I stand there looking into her eyes, everything that never was, is. And forever shall be."
• "I need to want but I don't want to need."

• Random poem:

To me, happy

is not very

far away from insanity.

I am much more content

with content.

• Random haiku:

Snakes are on a plane.

Sammy Jackson takes action.

Gat! Gat! says the gun.

By people who are, unfortunately for them, not me

• "A bore is a man who deprives you of solitude without providing you with company." - Gian Vincenzo Gravina
• "People who work sitting down get paid more than people who work standing up." - Ogden Nash
• "It could probably be shown by facts and figures that there is no distinctly American criminal class except Congress." - Mark Twain
• "The ships hung in the sky in much the same way that bricks don't." - Douglas Adams
• "Jesus died to forgive our sins. Dare we make his martyrdom meaningless by not committing them?" - Jules Feiffer
• "Only the truth is revolutionary." - Anonymous graffiti
• "Money can't buy happiness, but neither can poverty." - Leo Rosten
• "Thus the metric system did not really catch on in the States, unless you count the increasing popularity of the nine-millimeter bullet." - Dave Barry
• "Think of how stupid the average person is and realize that half of everybody is stupider than that." - George Carlin
• "If you want to tell people the truth, make them laugh, otherwise they'll kill you." - Oscar Wilde
• "We've heard that a million monkeys at a million keyboards could produce the complete works of Shakespeare; now, thanks to the Internet, we know that is not true." - Robert Wilensky (By the way, since Robert Wilensky doesn't have a Wikipedia entry, does that mean he doesn't exist?)
• "Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind." - Dr. Seuss
• "If mankind minus one were of one opinion, then mankind is no more justified in silencing the one than the one - if he had the power - would be justified in silencing mankind." - John Stuart Mill
• "A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows that faith does not prove anything." - Friedrich Nietzsche
• "I believe in an open mind, but not so open that your brains fall out." - Arthur Hays Sulzberger
• "A great many people think they are thinking when they are really rearranging their prejudices." - William James
• "The most radical revolutionary will become a conservative the day after the revolution." - Hannah Arendt
• "Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored." - Aldous Huxley
• "Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd." - Voltaire
• "Insanity in individuals is something rare - but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule." - Friedrich Nietzsche
• "It was one of those perfect English autumnal days which occur more frequently in memory than in life." - P.D. James
• "Happiness is nothing more than good health and a bad memory." - Albert Schweitzer
• "The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do." - B.F. Skinner
• "I have been thinking that I would make a proposition to my Republican friends... that if they will stop telling lies about the Democrats, we will stop telling the truth about them." - Adlai Stevenson
• "It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it." - Aristotle
• "Old age is the most unexpected of all the things that happen to a man." - Leon Trotsky
• "You've achieved success in your field when you don't know whether what you're doing is work or play." - Warren Beatty
• "If your parents never had children, chances are you won't, either." - Dick Cavett
• "The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat." - Lily Tomlin
• "I have only one superstition. I touch all the bases when I hit a home run." - Babe Ruth
• "Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you walk into an open sewer and die." - Mel Brooks
• "Acceptance without proof is the fundamental characteristic of Western religion, rejection without proof is the fundamental characteristic of Western science." - Gary Zukav
• "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." - Benjamin Franklin
• "The best car safety device is a rear-view mirror with a cop in it." - Dudley Moore
• "The right to be heard does not automatically include the right to be taken seriously." - Hubert Humphrey
• "The really frightening thing about middle age is that you know you'll grow out of it." - Doris Day
• "The only paradise is paradise lost." - Marcel Proust
• "Last night I dreamed I ate a ten-pound marshmallow, and when I woke up the pillow was gone." - Tommy Cooper
• "People with courage and character always seem sinister to the rest." - Hermann Hesse
• "In politics, absurdity is not a handicap." - Napoleon Bonaparte
• "In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it's the exact opposite." - Paul Dirac
• "We live in an age when pizza gets to your home before the police." - Jeff Marder
• "It is impossible to enjoy idling thoroughly unless one has plenty of work to do." - Jerome K. Jerome
• "I have too much respect for the idea of God to make it responsible for such an absurd world." - Georges Duhamel
• "What we think, or what we know, or what we believe is, in the end, of little consequence. The only consequence is what we do." - John Ruskin
• "War is a series of catastrophes that results in a victory." - Georges Clemenceau
• "Now, now, dear man, this is not the time to be making enemies." - Voltaire (on his deathbed when a priest asked him to "renounce Satan")
• "If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent Him." - Voltaire
• "Education is a state-controlled manufactory of echoes." - Norman Douglas
• "Where facts are few, experts are many." - Donald R. Gannon
• "If you can't say anything good about someone, sit right here by me." - Alice Roosevelt Longworth
• "A myth is a religion in which no one any longer believes." - James Feibleman
• "Dreaming permits each and every one of us to be quietly and safely insane every night of our lives." - William Dement
• "It's no longer a question of staying healthy. It's a question of finding a sickness you like." - Jackie Mason
• "The problem with political jokes is they get elected." - Henry Cate VII
• "I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth." - Umberto Eco
• "I think it's the duty of the comedian to find out where the line is drawn and cross it deliberately." - George Carlin
• "Our great democracies still tend to think that a stupid man is more likely to be honest than a clever man." - Bertrand Russell
• "A facility for quotation covers the absence of original thought." - Dorothy L. Sayers
• "The remarkable thing about Shakespeare is that he really is very good, in spite of all the people who say he is very good." - Robert Graves
• "At the age of eleven or thereabouts women acquire a poise and an ability to handle difficult situations which a man, if he is lucky, manages to achieve somewhere in the later seventies." - P. G. Wodehouse
• "His mother should have thrown him away and kept the stork." - Mae West
• "Always and never are two words you should always remember never to use." - Wendell Johnson
• "An intellectual is a person who has discovered something more interesting than sex." - Aldous Huxley
• "One should always play fairly when one has the winning cards." - Oscar Wilde
• "It matters not whether you win or lose; what matters is whether I win or lose." - Darrin Weinberg
• "Nothing travels faster than the speed of light with the possible exception of bad news, which obeys its own special laws." - Douglas Adams
• "Under capitalism, man exploits man. Under communism, it's just the opposite." - John Kenneth Galbraith
• "They always talk who never think." - Matthew Prior
• "I'll be more enthusiastic about encouraging thinking outside the box when there's evidence of any thinking going on inside it." - Terry Pratchett
• "Never have children, only grandchildren." - Gore Vidal
• "Now and then an innocent man is sent to the legislature." - Kin Hubbard
• "A country can be judged by the quality of its proverbs." - German proverb
• "The point of living and of being an optimist, is to be foolish enough to believe the best is yet to come." - Peter Ustinov
• "It has always been the prerogative of children and half-wits to point out that the emperor has no clothes. But the half-wit remains a half-wit, and the emperor remains an emperor." - Neil Gaiman
• "The difference between a violin and a viola is that a viola burns longer." - Victor Borge
• "Historians are like deaf people who go on answering questions that no one has asked them." - Leo Tolstoy
• "Some people are born on third base and go through life thinking they hit a triple." - Barry Switzer
• "I look to the future because that's where I'm going to spend the rest of my life." - George Burns
• "The least of learning is done in the classrooms." - Thomas Merton
• "Oh, I don't blame Congress. If I had $600 billion at my disposal, I'd be irresponsible, too." - Lichty and Wagner
• "Fortune does not change men, it unmasks them." - Suzanne Necker
• "In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice; In practice, there is." - Chuck Reid
• "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
• "The only thing I like about rich people is their money." - Nancy Astor
• "Students achieving Oneness will move on to Twoness." - Woody Allen
• "He hoped and prayed that there wasn't an afterlife. Then he realized there was a contradiction involved here and merely hoped that there wasn't an afterlife." - Douglas Adams
• "Take everything you like seriously, except yourselves." - Rudyard Kipling
• "If at first you don't succeed, find out if the loser gets anything." - Bill Lyon
• "Even if you do learn to speak correct English, whom are you going to speak it to?" - Clarence Darrow
• "We cross our bridges when we come to them and burn them behind us, with nothing to show for our progress except a memory of the smell of smoke, and a presumption that once our eyes watered." - Tom Stoppard
• "When they call the roll in the Senate, the Senators do not know whether to answer 'Present' or 'Not guilty.'" - Theodore Roosevelt
• "Nothing is impossible. Some things are just less likely than others." - Jonathan Winters
• "Sometimes I lie awake at night, and I ask, "Where have I gone wrong?"/ Then a voice says to me, "This is going to take more than one night." - Charles M. Schulz
• "The Romans would never have found time to conquer the world if they had been obliged first to learn Latin." - Heinrich Heine
• "I don't deserve this award, but I have arthritis and I don't deserve that either." - Jack Benny
• "In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock." - Thomas Jefferson
• "Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city." - George Burns
• "Imagine what it would be like if TV actually were good. It would be the end of everything we know." - Marvin Minsky
• "No one really listens to anyone else, and if you try it for a while you'll see why." - Mignon McLaughlin
• "Statistics: The only science that enables different experts using the same figures to draw different conclusions." - Evan Esar
• "When everyone is against you, it means that you are absolutely wrong-- or absolutely right." - Albert Guinon
• "There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion." - Sir Francis Bacon
• "It is difficult to produce a television documentary that is both incisive and probing when every twelve minutes one is interrupted by twelve dancing rabbits singing about toilet paper." - Rod Serling
• "Usually, terrible things that are done with the excuse that progress requires them are not really progress at all, but just terrible things." - Russell Baker
• "We need a president who's fluent in at least one language." - Buck Henry
• "If you believe everything you read, better not read." - Japanese proverb
• "A sense of humor is part of the art of leadership, of getting along with people, of getting things done." - Dwight D. Eisenhower
• "Reality is the leading cause of stress amongst those in touch with it." - Jane Wagner
• "Against logic there is no armor like ignorance." - Laurence J. Peter
• "The men the American public admire most extravagantly are the most daring liars; the men they detest most violently are those who try to tell them the truth." - H.L. Mencken
• "If a thing isn't worth saying, you sing it." - Pierre Beaumarchais
• "In the part of this universe that we know there is great injustice, and often the good suffer, and often the wicked prosper, and one hardly knows which of those is the more annoying." - Bertrand Russell
• "When everyone is somebody, then no one's anybody." - W.S. Gilbert
• "We are at the very beginning of time for the human race. It is not unreasonable that we grapple with problems. But there are tens of thousands of years in the future. Our responsibility is to do what we can, learn what we can, improve the solutions, and pass them on." - Richard Feynman
• "To err is human; to forgive, infrequent." - Franklin Pierce Adams
• "Hard work never killed anybody, but why take a chance?" - Edgar Bergen
• "Because things are the way they are, things will not stay the way they are." - Bertolt Brecht
• "Never go to bed mad. Stay up and fight." - Phyllis Diller
• "One of the most obvious facts about grownups to a child is that they have forgotten what it is like to be a child." - Randall Jarrell
• "Advertisements contain the only truths to be relied on in a newspaper." - Thomas Jefferson
• "Liberalism is trust of the people tempered by prudence. Conservatism is distrust of the people tempered by fear." - William E. Gladstone
• "When fascism comes to America , it will come in the name of anti-fascism." - Huey Long
• "There is nothing wrong with America that cannot be cured by what is right with America." - Bill Clinton
• "I distrust those people who know so well what God wants them to do because I notice it always coincides with their own desires." - Susan B. Anthony
• "Millions of innocent men, women and children, since the introduction of Christianity, have been burnt, tortured, fined, imprisoned; yet we have not advanced one inch towards uniformity. What has been the effect of coercion? To make half the world fools, and the other half hypocrites." - Thomas Jefferson
• "When fascism comes to America, it will be wrapped in the flag and carrying the cross." - Sinclair Lewis
• "Republicans want smaller government for the same reason crooks want fewer cops: it's easier to get away with murder." - James Carville
• "Poverty is the worst form of violence." - Mahatma Gandhi
• "True compassion is more than flinging a coin to a beggar; it understands that an edifice that produces beggars needs restructuring." - Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr.
• "There is indeed class warfare in this country. The problem is, only one class seems to know it." - Michael Zweig
• "I see in the near future a crisis approaching that unnerves me and causes me to tremble for the safety of my country. Corporations have been enthroned and an era of corruption in high places will follow." - Abraham Lincoln
• "Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed." - Dwight D. Eisenhower
• "I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones." - Albert Einstein
• "This is what Christianity is really good for: providing an environment in which grasping, greasy-haired, forehead-thwacking freaks can prosper, where piety is measured in dollars and the moneychangers have inherited the temple. Faith is just another word for credulity, and preacher is a fancy name for parasite." - PZ Meyers
• "Books have the same enemies as people: fire, humidity, animals, weather, and their own content. - Paul Valery
• "I think computer viruses should count as life. I think it says something about human nature that the only form of life we have created so far is purely destructive. We've created life in our own image. - Stephen Hawking
• "Good breeding consists of concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of the other person. - Mark Twain
• "Let us make a special effort to stop communicating with each other, so we can have some conversation." - Judith Martin
• "People who have what they want are fond of telling people who haven't what they want that they really don't want it." - Ogden Nash
• "The only reason for being a professional writer is that you can't help it." - Leo Rosten
• "If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts; but if he will be content to begin with doubts he shall end in certainties. - Francis Bacon
• "Americans will put up with anything provided it doesn't block traffic. - Dan Rather
• "I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use." - Galileo Galilei
• "My Grandmother is over eighty and still doesn't need glasses. Drinks right out of the bottle." - Henny Youngman
• "We are bits of stellar matter that got cold by accident, bits of a star gone wrong." - Sir Arthur Eddington
• "The NBA... what was once a tasteful, classy, entertaining institution that could inspire its fans has turned into a hobby for thugs who care nothing about morals, integrity, image, or others in general. What was once a league which exhibited morality, fair competition on and off the court, and pride and dignity has been reduced to rubble. Players no longer care to attend practice, and demand to be traded when they are unhappy with a lack of money or a lack of championship rings. They act disgracefully when they have a problem with another player, and they either take shots at them via the media or throw fists at them, rather than solving their problems like men. What happened to class? I feel sorry for the kids growing up who idolize these hooligans and wishing to be like them. I tell ya, I sure as hell have no respect for these fuckbags anymore. Take your $6 million contract and grow some balls." - Jeffrey Dolan
• "The wit makes fun of other persons; the satirist makes fun of the world; the humorist makes fun of himself." - James Thurber
• "Writing gives you the illusion of control, and then you realize it's just an illusion, that people are going to bring their own stuff into it." - David Sedaris
• "Economics is extremely useful as a form of employment for economists." - John Kenneth Galbraith
• "Never go out to meet trouble. If you will just sit still, nine cases out of ten someone will intercept it before it reaches you." - Calvin Coolidge
• "Never try to tell everything you know. It may take too short a time." - Norman Ford
• "With most men, unbelief in one thing springs from blind belief in another." - Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
• "Freedom of the press is limited to those who own one." - A. J. Liebling
• "Every great advance in natural knowledge has involved the absolute rejection of authority." - Thomas Huxley
• "It is a common delusion that you make things better by talking about them." - Rose Macaulay
• "How can I believe in God when just last week I got my tongue caught in the roller of an electric typewriter?" - Woody Allen
• "What luck for rulers that men do not think." - Adolf Hitler
• "The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly is to fill the world with fools. - Herbert Spencer
• "There is no nonsense so gross that society will not, at some time, make a doctrine of it and defend it with every weapon of communal stupidity." - Robertson Davies
• "To succeed in the world it is not enough to be stupid, you must also be well-mannered." - Voltaire
• "A newspaper consists of just the same number of words, whether there be any news in it or not." - Henry Fielding
• "A celebrity is a person who works hard all his life to become well known, then wears dark glasses to avoid being recognized." - Fred Allen
• "Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former." - Albert Einstein
• "One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and always a clever thing to say." - Will Durant
• "I belong to no organized party. I am a Democrat." - Will Rogers
• "Laws are like sausages. It's better not to see them being made." - Otto von Bismarck
• "The United States is a nation of laws: badly written and randomly enforced." - Frank Zappa
• "There are moments when one feels free from one's own identification with human limitations and inadequacies. At such moments one imagines that one stands on some spot of a small planet, gazing in amazement at the cold yet profoundly moving beauty of the eternal, the unfathomable; life and death flow into one, and there is neither evolution nor destiny; only Being." - Albert Einstein
• "Adventure is just bad planning." - Roald Amundsen
• "The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none." - Thomas Carlyle
• "Cats are intended to teach us that not everything in nature has a function." - Unknown
• "Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius -- and a lot of courage -- to move in the opposite direction." - E.F. Schumacher
• "After twelve years of therapy my psychiatrist said something that brought tears to my eyes. He said, 'No hablo ingles.'" - Ronnie Shakes
• "Assuming either the Left Wing or the Right Wing gained control of the country, it would probably fly around in circles." - Pat Paulsen
• "In those days spirits were brave, the stakes were high, men were real men, women were real women and small furry creatures from Alpha Centauri were real small furry creatures from Alpha Centauri." - Douglas Adams
• "Idealism is what precedes experience; cynicism is what follows." - David T. Wolf
• "Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much." - Oscar Wilde
• "Humankind cannot stand very much reality." - T.S. Eliot
• "I take my wife everywhere, but she keeps finding her way back." - Henny Youngman
• "The problem with people who have no vices is that generally you can be pretty sure they're going to have some pretty annoying virtues." - Elizabeth Taylor
• "In order to be effective truth must penetrate like an arrow - and that is likely to hurt." Wei Wu Wei
• "War is good business. Invest your sons." - Unknown
• "Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution yet." - Mae West
• "Eternal nothingness is fine if you happen to be dressed for it." - Woody Allen
• "Everyone has a purpose in life. Perhaps yours is watching television." - David Letterman
• "Nothing is as simple as we hope it will be." - Jim Horning
• "I am not young enough to know everything." - Oscar Wilde
• "In preparing for battle I have always found that plans are useless, but planning is indispensable." - Dwight D. Eisenhower
• "The purpose of a fish trap is to catch fish, and when the fish are caught, the trap is forgotten. The purpose of a rabbit snare is to catch rabbits. When the rabbits are caught, the snare is forgotten. The purpose of words is to convey ideas. When the ideas are grasped, the words are forgotten. Where can I find a man who has forgotten words? He is the one I would like to talk to." - Chuang Tzu
• "When you give a shilling to a beggar - do you realize that you are giving it to yourself? When you help a lame dog over a stile - do you realize that you yourself are being helped? When you kick a man when he is down - do you realize that you are kicking yourself? Give him another kick - if you deserve it!" - Wei Wu Wei
• "Be wise, disciplined and non-violent and you will find peace. Be aware both night and day, continue your practice, and you will attain Nirvana." - Buddha
• "I am he as you are he as you are me and we are all together." - The Beatles
• "Some deny the existence of misery by pointing to the sun; he denies the existence of the sun by pointing to misery." - Franz Kafka
• "Believe those who are seeking the truth; doubt those who find it." - André Gide
• "Patriotism is often an arbitrary veneration of real estate above principles." - George Jean Nathan
• "A happy childhood is poor preparation for human contacts." - Colette
• "A good listener is not only popular everywhere, but after a while he gets to know something." - Wilson Mizner
• "The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions, that I wish it always to be kept alive." - Thomas Jefferson
• "The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do." - Walter Bagehot
• "Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know." - Ernest Hemingway

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