2003-01-07|12:34 p.m.
I am fond of quotes:
The word 'politics' is derived from the word 'poly', meaning 'many', and the word 'ticks', meaning 'blood sucking parasites'. --Larry Hardiman
I have an existential map. It has 'You are here' written all over it. --Steven Wright
My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music. --Vladimir Nabokov
Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first. --Mark Twain
The fact that man knows right from wrong proves his intellectual superiority to other creatures; but the fact that he can do wrong proves his moral inferiority to any creature that cannot. --Mark Twain
I was thrown out of college for cheating on the metaphysics exam; I looked into the soul of the boy sitting next to me. --Woody Allen
Organized crime in America takes in over forty billion dollars a year and spends very little on office supplies. --Woody Allen
As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light in the darkness of mere being. --Carl Jung
Some people are born on third base and go through life thinking they hit a triple. --Barry Switzer
The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man. --George Bernard Shaw
My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble mind. --Albert Einstein
There will always be a part, and always a very large part of every community, that have no care but for themselves, and whose care for themselves reaches little further than impatience of immediate pain, and eagerness for the nearest good. --Samuel Johnson
Political language - and with variations this is true of all political parties, from Conservatives to Anarchists - is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind. --George Orwell
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