From f133e979776d53521151766387d842e4eec9351e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Don Armstrong Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2007 20:39:12 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] add more quotes --- signature_stuff/quote.txt | 65 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 65 insertions(+) diff --git a/signature_stuff/quote.txt b/signature_stuff/quote.txt index f3ccc75..1d07f8d 100644 --- a/signature_stuff/quote.txt +++ b/signature_stuff/quote.txt @@ -527,3 +527,68 @@ B: What? Make it yourself. S: sudo make me a sandwich B: Okay. -- xkcd http://xkcd.com/c149.html +% +Americans can always be counted on to do the right thing, after they +have exhausted all other possibilities. + -– W. Churchill +% +As nightfall does not come at once, neither does oppression. In both +instances, there is a twilight when everything remains seemingly +unchanged. And it is in such twilight that we all must be most aware +of change in the air however slight lest we become unwitting victims +of the darkness. + -- William O. Douglas +% +One day I put instant coffee in my microwave oven and almost went back +in time. + -- Steven Wright +% +To steal ideas from one person is plagiarism; to steal from many is +research. + -- Steven Wright +% +If everything seems to be going well, you have obviously overlooked +something. + -- Steven Wright +% +I'm wrong to criticize the valour of your brave men. It's important to +die for one's country when it means being the subject of a king who +wears a ruffled collar or a pleated one. + -- Cyrano de Bergerac +% +Democracy is more dangerous than fire. Fire can't vote itself immune +to water. + -- Michael Z. Williamson +% +A Democracy lead by politicians and political parties, fails. +% +We have to face the fact that either all of us are going to die +together or we are going to learn to live together and if we are to +live together we have to talk. + -- Eleanor Roosevelt +% +A Bill of Rights that means what the majority wants it to mean is worthless. + -- U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia +% +Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you really want to test his +character, give him power. + -- Abraham Lincoln +% +When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall one +by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle. + -- Edmund Burke "Thoughts on the Cause of Present Discoontents" +% +Herodotus says, "Very few things happen at the right time, and the +rest do not happen at all. The conscientious historian will correct +these defects". + -- Mark Twain _A Horse's Tail_ +% +No matter how many instances of white swans we may have observed, this +does not justify the conclusion that all swans are white. + -- Sir Karl Popper _Logic of Scientific Discovery_ +% +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 -- 2.39.2