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[lib.git] / signature_stuff / quote.txt

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@@ -79,7 +79,7 @@ take MONTHS to make up the difference, and meanwhile Debian users will
 be fleeing to SLACKWARE.
 
 And what about SHAREHOLDER VALUE? 
- -- Matt Zimmerman in <gYuD3D.A.ayC.nGB39@murphy>
+ -- Matt Zimmerman in <20021120225004.GX14809@mizar.alcor.net>
 %
 You could say she lived on the edge... Well, maybe not exactly on the edge,
 just close enough to watch other people fall off.
@@ -308,14 +308,6 @@ has all the grace of a sumo wrestler trying to kill a rattlesnake by
 sitting on it---and is just as likely to succeed.
  -- Alex Kozinski, Dissenting in Silveira v. Lockyer
     (CV-00-00411-WBS p5983-4)
-%
-                    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.
 %
 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
@@ -511,10 +503,6 @@ won't rise again.
 Leukocyte... I am your father.
  -- R. Stevens http://www.dieselsweeties.com/archive.php?s=1546
 %
-Your village called.
-They want their idiot back.
- -- xkcd http://xkcd.com/c23.html
-%
 S: Make me a sandwich
 B: What? Make it yourself.
 S: sudo make me a sandwich
@@ -861,7 +849,7 @@ It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.
  -- Frederick Douglass
 %
 "That is why I am still tyrant of [Ankh-Morpork]. The way to retain
-power, I have always thought, is to ensure the absolute unthinkabilty
+power, I have always thought, is to ensure the absolute unthinkability
 of oneself not being there."
  -- Terry Pratchett _Unseen Academicals_ p391
 %
@@ -1015,7 +1003,7 @@ they're going to be subjected to intense life experiences and personal
 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
 %
 Overcast nights are beautiful; the sun, mostly set, a near full moon
@@ -1102,3 +1090,18 @@ scraped together for particle accelerators."
 "Our opponent is an alien starship packed with atomic bombs. [...] We
 have a protractor."
  -- Neal Stephenson _Anathem_ p320
+%
+The whole modern world has divided itself into Conservatives and
+Progressives. The business of Progressives is to go on making
+mistakes. The business of the Conservatives is to prevent the mistakes
+from being corrected.
+ -- G. K. Chesterton "Illustrated London News (1924-04-19)"
+%
+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