"We're less horrible than a root canal with a cold chisel."
-- Cory Doctorow
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-She was alot like starbucks.
-IE, generic and expensive.
- -- hugh macleod http://www.gapingvoid.com/Moveable_Type/archives/001376.html
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Tell me something interesting about yourself.
Lie if you have to.
-- hugh macleod http://www.gapingvoid.com/archives/batch20.php
just close enough to watch other people fall off.
-- hugh macleod http://www.gapingvoid.com/Moveable_Type/archives/000309.html
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-Guns Don't Kill People.
-*I* Kill People.
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-DIE!
- -- Maritza Campos http://www.crfh.net/d/20020601.html
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"One disk to rule them all, One disk to find them. One disk to bring
them all and in the darkness grind them. In the Land of Redmond
where the shadows lie." -- The Silicon Valley Tarot
large flame-generating engine that the cabal uses to heat their coffee
-- Andrew Suffield (#debian-devel Fri, 14 Feb 2003 14:34 -0500)
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-"I was thinking seven figures," he said, "but I would have taken a
-hundred grand. I'm not a greedy person." [All for a moldy bottle of
-tropicana.]
- -- Sammi Hadzovic [in Andy Newman's 2003/02/14 NYT article.]
- http://www.nytimes.com/2003/02/14/nyregion/14EYEB.html
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[T]he question of whether Machines Can Think, [...] is about as
relevant as the question of whether Submarines Can Swim.
-- Edsger W. Dijkstra "The threats to computing science"
the Ugly).
-- Matt Welsh
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-CNN/Reuters: News reports have filtered out early this morning that US
-forces have swooped on an Iraqi Primary School and detained 6th Grade
-teacher Mohammed Al-Hazar. Sources indicate that, when arrested,
-Al-Hazar was in possession of a ruler, a protractor, a set square and
-a calculator. US President George W Bush argued that this was clear
-and overwhelming evidence that Iraq indeed possessed weapons of math
-instruction.
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-I'd never hurt another living thing.
-But if I did...
-It would be you.
- -- Chris Bishop http://www.chrisbishop.com/her/archives/her69.html
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Our days are precious, but we gladly see them going
If in their place we find a thing more precious growing
A rare, exotic plant, our gardener's heart delighting
Fate and Temperament are two words for one and the same concept.
-- Novalis [Hermann Hesse _Demian_]
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-[Panama, 1989. The U.S. government called it "Operation Just Cause".]
-I think they misspelled this. Shouldn't it be "Operation Just 'Cause"?
- -- TekPolitik http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=59669&cid=5664907
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Grimble left his mother in the food store and went to the launderette
and watched the clothes go round. It was a bit like color television
only with less plot.
values more, it will lose that, too.
-- W. Somerset Maugham
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-Sentenced to two years hard labor (for sodomy), Oscar Wilde stood
-handcuffed in driving rain waiting for transport to prison. "If this
-is the way Queen Victoria treats her prisoners," he remarked, "she
-doesn't deserve to have any."
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The sheer ponderousness of the panel's opinion [...] refutes its
thesis far more convincingly than anything I might say. The panel's
labored effort to smother the Second Amendment by sheer body weight
sitting on it---and is just as likely to succeed.
-- Alex Kozinski, Dissenting in Silveira v. Lockyer
(CV-00-00411-WBS p5983-4)
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- EQUAL RIGHTS FOR WOMEN
-Don't be teased or humiliated. See their look of surprise when you
-step right up to a urinal and use it with a smile. Get Dr. Mary Evers'
-EQUAL-NOW Adapter (pat. appld. for) -- purse size, fool proof,
-sanitary -- comes in nine lovely, feminine, psychedelic patterns --
-requires no fitting, no prescriptions.
- -- Robert A Heinlein _I Will Fear No Evil_ p470.
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-It has always been Debian's philosophy in the past to stick to what
-makes sense, regardless of what crack the rest of the universe is
-smoking.
- -- Andrew Suffield in 20030403211305.GD29698@doc.ic.ac.uk
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If I had a letter, sealed it in a locked vault and hid the vault
somewhere in New York. Then told you to read the letter, thats not
get at or repair.
-- Douglas Adams _Mostly Harmless_
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-<Clint> why the hell does kernel-source-2.6.3 depend on xfree86-common?
-<infinity> It... Doesn't?
-<Clint> good point
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"For those who understand, no explanation is necessary.
For those who do not, none is possible."
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[...] You can't conquer a free man; the most you can do is kill him.
-- Robert Heinlein _Revolt in 2010_ p54
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-"Facts" are the refuge of people unwilling to reassess what they hold
-to be "True".
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LEADERSHIP -- A form of self-preservation exhibited by people with
autodestructive imaginations in order to ensure that when it comes to
the crunch it'll be someone else's bones which go crack and not their
when you are old."
-- Shinka proverb. (John Brunner _Stand On Zanzibar_ p413)
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-If you find it impossible to believe that the universe didn't have a
-creator, why don't you find it impossible that your creator didn't
-have one either?
- -- Anonymous Coward http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=167556&cid=13970629
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Information wants to be free to kill again.
-- Red Robot http://www.dieselsweeties.com/archive.php?s=1372
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does not justify the conclusion that all swans are white.
-- Sir Karl Popper _Logic of Scientific Discovery_
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-The state must declare the child to be the most precious treasure of
-the people. As long as the government is perceived as working for the
-benefit of the children, the people will happily endure almost any
-curtailment of liberty and almost any deprivation.
- -- Adolf Hitler _Mein Kampf_ p403
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I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended
up where I needed to be.
-- Douglas Adams _The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul_
tragedy on an almost daily basis. [...] I don't think you get
enlightenment after something like that. I think all anyone really
wants, if they're honest with themselves, is a quiet, easy life
-surrounded by people that love them. Anything else is conceit[ed].
+surrounded by people that love them. Anything else is a conceit.
-- OP from 99chan
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Overcast nights are beautiful; the sun, mostly set, a near full moon
You are educated when you have the ability to listen to almost
anything without losing your temper or self-confidence.
-- Robert Frost
+%
+Le temps est un grand maître, dit-on; le malheur est qu'il soit un
+maître inhumain qui tue ses élèves.
+Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils.
+ -- Hector Berlioz
+%
+That's the wonderful thing about crayons. They can take you to more
+places than a starship.
+ -- Guinan "Star Trek: The Next Generation: Rascals (#6.7)"
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