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There are some ideas so wrong that only a very intelligent person could believe in them. George Orwell
I'm not a clubber, preffering a coffee shop or pub, where I can hear my friends.. ;-p Tristan
What we are experiencing now is not a recession, not even a depression. We are under God's wrath. David Wilkerson
If you want to make God laugh, then just tell Him about your plans.
The problem with socialism is that eventually you run out of other peoples' money.
Get all the fools on your side and you can be elected to anything. - Frank Dane
Everyone is entitled to be stupid, but some abuse the privilege.
When you stare into the abyss the abyss stares back at you. - Friedrich Nietzsche
No price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself. - Friedrich Nietzsche
We make our plans independent of God, and then later ask him to bless and fulfill those hopes and desires. David Wilkerson
Insanity in individuals is something rare - but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule. - Friedrich Nietzsche
Sometimes the appropriate response to reality is to go insane. - Philip K. Dick
Universal education is the most corroding and disintegrating poison that liberalism has ever invented for its own destruction. - Adolf Hitler
The way to crush the bourgeoisie is to grind them between the millstones of taxation and inflation. - Vladimir Lenin
An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile -- hoping that it will eat him last. - Sir Winston Churchill, 1954
Back when I was a boy, it was 40 miles to everywhere, uphill both ways and it was always snowing.
Government lies, and newspapers lie, but in a democracy they are different lies.
Retirement means that when someone says "Have a nice day", you actually have a shot at it.
Too many people are thinking of security instead of opportunity. They seem more afraid of life than death. - James F. Byrnes
If you understand what you're doing, you're not learning anything. - Unknown
Maybe if we make the universe old enough we can give chance enough time to have actually created it.
When we remember we are all mad, the mysteries disappear and life stands explained. - Mark Twain
When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other. - Eric Hoffer
Friends may come and go, but enemies accumulate. - Thomas Jones
The problem with America is stupidity. I'm not saying there should be a capital punishment for stupidity, but why don't we just take the safety labels off of everything and let the problem solve itself?
"A paranoid is someone who knows a little of what's going on." - William S. Burroughs
"Freedom is just Chaos, with better lighting." - Alan Dean Foster
"Cryptography is nothing more than a mathematical framework for discussing various paranoid delusions." - Don Alvarez
"People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf." -George Orwell
"I don't believe in a government that protects us from ourselves." -Ronald Reagan
"Abortion is advocated only by persons who have themselves been born. -Ronald Reagan
"The only difference between the Democrats and the Republicans is that the Democrats allow the poor to be corrupt, too. - Oscar Levant
"The average, healthy, well-adjusted adult gets up at seven-thirty in the morning feeling just plain terrible. - Jean Kerr
"There is a degradation of our society, especially the morals of our society," he said. "Bill Clinton redefined morality to the level of an alley cat." -Tom Tancredo
The church is near but the road is icy, the bar is far away but I will walk carefully. - Russian Proverb
Science is like sex: sometimes something useful comes out, but that is not the reason we are doing it - Richard Feynman
Television is the first truly democratic culture - the first culture available to everybody and entirely governed by what the people want. The most terrifying thing is what people do want. - Clive Barnes
Play: Work that you enjoy doing for nothing. - Evan Esar
A lie told often enough becomes the truth. - Lenin
The good life, as I conceive it, is a happy life. I do not mean that if you are good you will be happy - I mean that if you are happy you will be good. - Bertrand Russell
I know that you believe that you understood what you think I said, but I am not sure you realize that what you heard is not what I meant. - Robert McCloskey
I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly. - Michel de Montaigne
The people who cast the votes decide nothing. The people who count the votes decide everything. - Joseph Stalin
Laws alone can not secure freedom of expression; in order that every man present his views without penalty there must be spirit of tolerance in the entire population. - Albert Einstein
It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education. - Albert Einstein
All paid jobs absorb and degrade the mind. - Aristotle
Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which differ from the prejudices of their social environment. Most people are even incapable of forming such opinions. - Albert Einstein
The desire to take medicine is perhaps the greatest feature which distinguishes man from animals. - Sir William Osler
Much of the social history of the Western world over the past three decades has involved replacing what worked with what sounded good. - Thomas Sowell
People often confuse what's fair and moral with what's legal. - Small Claims Court Handbook
Cocaine is God's way of saying that you're making too much money. - Robin Williams
Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent. - Isaac Asimov
If you believe everything you read, better not read. - Japanese Proverb
Nothing inspires forgiveness quite like revenge. - Scott Adams
Study without desire spoils the memory, and it retains nothing that it takes in. - Leonardo da Vinci
Education is a state-controlled manufactory of echoes. - Norman Douglas
In order to preserve your self-respect, it is sometimes necessary to lie and cheat. - Robert Byrne
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
What can you say about a society that says God is dead and Elvis is alive? - Irv Kupcinet
You've achieved success in your field when you don't know whether what you're doing is work or play. - Warren Beatty
A friend is someone who will help you move. A real friend is someone who will help you move a body.
The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his. - G. Patto
In the Soviet army it takes more courage to retreat than advance. - Joseph Stalin
Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake. - Napoleon Bonaparte
If you are not a liberal at twenty, you have no heart. If you are not a conservative at forty, you have no brain. - Winston Churchhill
A liberal is someone who feels a great debt to his fellow man, which debt he proposes to pay off with your money. - G. Gordon Liddy
You've achieved success in your field when you don't know whether what you're doing is work or play. - Warren Beatty
Today's youth don't have dreams, they have illusions. To dream is to want to accomplish something difficult that is a challenge. Instead youngsters believe they have a right to everything and if things don't go the way they want it's someone else's fault. - Dr Pitte re: The French
A liberal is a person whose interests aren't at stake at the moment. - Willis Player
Sometimes what's right isn't as important as what's profitable. - Trey Parker and Matt Stone
The significant problems we have cannot be solved at the same level of thinking with which we created them. - Albert Einstein
An inventor is simply a fellow who doesn't take his education too seriously. - Charles F. Kettering
Man has to suffer. When he has no real afflictions, he invents some. - Jose Marti
The only reason some people get lost in thought is because it's unfamiliar territory. - Paul Fix
See we think now, relax later - they relax now, but later they cannot think - therefore struggle through life. - ???
Every culture has its distinctive and normal system of government. Yours is democracy, moderated by corruption. Ours is totalitarianism, moderated by assassination. - Russian
I don't believe in a government that protects us from ourselves. - Ronald Reagan
The ultimate determinant in the struggle now going on for the world will not be bombs and rockets but a test of wills and ideas-a trial of spiritual resolve: the values we hold, the beliefs we cherish and the ideals to which we are dedicated. - Ronald Reagan
How do you tell a communist? Well, it's someone who reads Marx and Lenin. And how do you tell an anti-Communist? It's someone who understands Marx and Lenin. - Ronald Reagan
Politics is not a bad profession. If you succeed there are many rewards, if you disgrace yourself you can always write a book. - Ronald Reagan
My fellow Americans, I am pleased to tell you I just signed legislation which outlaws Russia forever. The bombing begins in five minutes - Ronald Reagan - Said during a radio microphone test, 1984
My whole career can be summed up with 'Ignorance is bliss.' When you do not know better, you do not really worry about failing. - Jeff Foxworthy
All love that has not friendship for its base, is like a mansion built upon sand. - Ella Wheeler Wilcox
U.N.:
    Tomorrow's corruption today.
    Raising pointless squabbling to an art form.
    We take bribes so you don't have to.
    If this is an emergency, please hang up and dial America. - ThoseShirts.com
French: To get with modern times, they have adopted a stance of preemptive surrender. - ThoseShirts.com
He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches. - George Bernard Shaw
Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it. - George Bernard Shaw
A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul. - George Bernard Shaw
The word 'politics' is derived from the word 'poly', meaning 'many', and the word 'ticks', meaning 'blood sucking parasites'. - Larry Hardiman
People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don't believe in circumstances. The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and, if they can't find them, make them. - George Bernard Shaw
We see plenty of opportunities in things that Google might or might not do. If you read the newspapers today, other than curing cancer, Google will do everything." - Steve Ballmer, Microsoft
The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one. - Elbert Hubbard
Abortion is advocated only by persons who have themselves been born. - Ronald Reagan
The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it!
I think there is a world market for maybe five computers. - Thomas Watson, chairman of IBM in 1943
When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other.Eric Hoffer (1902 - 1983)
I am not in this world to live up to other people's expectations, nor do I feel that the world must live up to mine. - Fritz Perls
We learn and grow and are transformed not so much by what we do but by why and how we do it. - Sharon Salzberg
There is only one success - to be able to spend your life in your own way. - Christopher Morley
Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it. - George Santayana
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
Whenever you find that you are on the side of the majority, it is time to reform. - Mark Twain
Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time; it is regret for the things we did not do that is inconsolable. - Sidney J. Harris
Contrary to general belief, I do not believe that friends are necessarily the people you like best, they are merely the people who got there first. - Peter Ustinov, Dear Me (1977)
In America, through pressure of conformity, there is freedom of choice, but nothing to choose from - Peter Ustinov
Punctuality is the virtue of the bored. - Evelyn Waugh
Abandon your ideological hate and free your mind.
Progress isn't made by early risers. It's made by lazy men trying to find easier ways to do something. - Robert Heinlein
Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh. - George Bernard Shaw
My life has no purpose, no direction, no aim, no meaning, and yet I'm happy. I can't figure it out. What am I doing right? - Charles M. Schulz
Who controls the past, controls the future; who controls the present, controls the past - 1984 George Orwell
"From the Soviet times, we have the High Dam, we have the factories of heavy industry," said Thabit, a member of the Nasserite Party and of Egypt's new reform movement, Kifaya. "All we see from the Americans is blue jeans, soft drinks and hamburgers."
Innovation is the enemy of the status quo - it puts people out of business.
"The number of Unix installations has grown to 10, with more expected." -- The Unix Programmer's Manual, 2nd Edition, June, 1972
"Fubu shirt - $40 South Pole pants - $50 Sean John hat - $30 Realizing your white... *Priceless*"
With a rubber duck, one's never alone. -- "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy"
"My friends, there is no Palestinian-Israeli conflict. There is only the global war on terrorism." -- U.S. House Majority Leader Tom DeLay, August 30, 2004
She hates testicles, thus limiting the men she can admire to Democratic candidates for president. -- John Greenway, "The American Tradition", on feminist Elizabeth Gould Davis
Where there is no police, there is no speed limit.
Who needs friends when you can sit alone in your room and drink?
The only problem with being a man of leisure is you cannot stop and take a rest.
Spouse, n.: Someone who'll stand by you through all the trouble you wouldn't have had if you'd stayed single.
Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence. -- H. L. Mencken
I am a PC technician - however, this has unfortunately caused my computer to be running Win98. -- seen on a FreeBSD mailing-list
"Belief in the theory of evolution is thus exactly parallel to belief in special creation--both are concepts which believers know to be true but neither, up to the present, has been capable of proof." - L. Harrison Matthews, Origin of the Species - 1971
You cannot achieve the impossible without attempting the absurd.
A nuclear war can ruin your whole day.
Life is a tragedy to those who feel, and a comedy to those who think!
"One death is a tragedy, a million deaths is a statistic" ~ Stalin [?]
When did everyone go nutz??? Or is that just me?
"It is dreadful when something weights on your mind - not to have a soul to unburden yourself to... I tell my piano the things I once told you." - Frederic Chopin
Beware of the script kiddie force, it will eat you alive, and then spit you out as an MCSE!
"When you do things right, people won't be sure you've done anything at all" god/Futurama
We need is more "Freedom" and less "FreeDumb."
The human mind treats a new idea the way the body treats a strange protein -- it rejects it. -- P. Medawar
I went to a linux con today. It made me want to scrap redhat and get FreeBSD
Thou shalt obey thy first commandment!
Going to church does not make a person religious, nor does going to school make a person educated, any more than going to a garage makes a person a car.
It may be bad manners to talk with your mouth full, but it isn't too good either if you speak when your head is empty.
You can make it illegal, but you can't make it unpopular.
I went to a linux con today. It made me want to scrap redhat and get FreeBSD
Tell them we are not Gods, but Sysadmins
The Italian mobsters played cards, the Russian mobsters played chess.
.... um, i lost you after "0110100001101001"
"While we are postponing, life speeds by." - Seneca
Get a taste of religion... eat a priest!
Hiroshima 45, Chernobyl 86, Windows 95
"You have zero privacy anyway. Get over it." -Scott McNealy, CEO, Sun Microsystems, Inc.
Yeah, Windows is great... with out it, how the hell would I download FreeBSD?
Why do we have to hide from the police, Daddy? Because we use vi, son. They use emacs.
1 copy of microsoft office premier edition w/ front page: $599, 1 copy of adobe illustrator: $199, upgrading your cpu and your ram so that you can run them both at the same time: $699, watching the guy in the next cubicle do a better job in half the time on a pentium 1 from a text only console: priceless! vi, it's everywhere you wanna be.
Instead of getting better with each new release, Windows is just getting different. - Bill Joy
I hate having ethics - it complicates issues remarkably
In the public arena, rhetoric is more important than logic; sounding right is more important than being right
Conway's Law: In any organization there will always be one person who knows what is going on... This person must be fired!

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