It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.

Legal beats logic everytime.

Now I am unsure and nervous whereas before I thought it was mysterious and 
cute.

You're 7. You have to be like 15 to be a teenager.

A mind troubled by doubt cannot focus on the course to victory.

You want that bad attitude dripping out of your ears?

If you can't fix it, you got to stand it.

The tragedy in life doesn't lie in not reaching your goal. The tragedy 
lies in having no goal to reach.

The larger the island of knowledge, the longer the shoreline of wonder.

For those of you just joining us after having been born yesterday, the 
theme here is how good and evil struggle against each other in human 
nature.

When you're dead it robs life of many pleasures.
                                                
"Family is a collection of people who pool resources and help each other 
over the long haul. Families love one another even when that requires 
sacrifice. Family means that if you disagree, you still stay 
together...all members belong regardless of merit. Everyone is included 
regardless of health, likeability, or prestige...families come through 
when they must...From my point of view the issue isn't biology. Rather the 
issues are commitment and inclusiveness."
           
Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must first be 
overcome.
                                                                            
You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.

"Husbands are like guns ... keep one around for long enough and you're 
gonna want to shoot it!"

 Do not undermine my authority or love.

the bad news is that time flies, the good news is that you're the pilot

It is our choices...that show what we truly are, far more than our 
abilities.

Slashfood - Like slash dot not peanut butter / jam.

This isn't mission difficult, it's mission impossible. "Difficult" should 
be a walk in the park for you.

She's got no training for this.
What? To go to bed with a man and lie to him? 
She's a woman. She's got all the training she needs. 

The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity.

Men buy the drinks, girls call the shots.

Foot Note

At four she told of her inside
life in her mother
all red she said and she could hear
a heart loud as a storm
All day she had crawled
around in loops and nubbed
at her mother's navel
she relayed with her laugh
like running water
Thus storied out now
her finger traces her own
plump asterisk at her center
a footnote whose message
was written in
a faraway tongue

By Andrea Romeo

This is why polite people do not say everything they think, and sensible 
people do not urge others to do so.

You're the Spaulding Gray of crap.

All bicycles weigh fifty pounds. A thirty-pound bicycle needs a 
twenty-pound lock. A forty-pound bicycle needs a ten-pound lock. A 
fifty-pound bicycle doesn't need a lock.

A protected bicycle path is a symbol that a citizen on a $30 bicycle is 
equally important as one in a $30,000 car.

The moment one gives a close attention to anything, even a blade of grass, 
it becomes a mysterious, awesome, indescribably magnificent world unto 
itself.

He left us with his definition of magic: "The theatrical linking of a 
cause with an effect that has no basis in physical reality, but that - in 
our hearts - ought to"

When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it is tied to 
everything else in the universe.

I've come to realize that real growth of character takes place in the 
valleys of life.

Success does not consist in never making blunders, but in never making the 
same one a second time.

My heart broke in one place, and grew in another.

The chains of habit are generally too small to be felt until they are too 
strong to be broken.

If you don't like something change it; if you can't change it, change the 
way you think about it.

A successful person is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks 
that others throw at him.

Dormcest.

Chillaxin.

Darling do not fear what you don't really know.

First there is a mountain, then there is no mountain, then there is.

A newborn baby has only three demands.  They are warmth in the arms of its 
mother, food from her breasts, and security in the knowledge of her 
presence.  Breastfeeding satisfies all three.  ~Grantly Dick-Read


While breastfeeding may not seem the right choice for every parent, it is 
the best choice for every baby.  ~Amy Spangler


Breast Feeding should not be attempted by fathers with hairy chests, since 
they can make the baby sneeze and give it wind.  ~Mike Harding, The 
Armchair Anarchist's Almanac, 1981


My opinion is that anybody offended by breastfeeding is staring too hard.  
~David Allen


Nursing does not diminish the beauty of a woman's breasts; it enhances 
their charm by making them look lived in and happy.  ~Robert A. Heinlein


A pair of substantial mammary glands have the advantage over the two 
hemispheres of the most learned professor's brain in the art of 
compounding a nutritive fluid for infants.  ~Oliver Wendell Holmes


There are three reasons for breast-feeding:  the milk is always at the 
right temperature; it comes in attractive containers; and the cat can't 
get it.  ~Irena Chalmers


A baby nursing at a mother's breast... is an undeniable affirmation of our 
rootedness in nature.  ~David Suzuki


If a multinational company developed a product that was a nutritionally 
balanced and delicious food, a wonder drug that both prevented and treated 
disease, cost almost nothing to produce and could be delivered in 
quantities controlled by the consumers' needs, the very announcement of 
their find would send their shares rocketing to the top of the stock 
market.  The scientists who developed the product would win prizes and the 
wealth and influence of everyone involved would increase dramatically.  
Women have been producing such a miraculous substance, breastmilk, since 
the beginning of human existence.  ~Gabrielle Palmer


Breast milk is better than any udder milk!  ~Author Unknown


It is only in the act of nursing that a woman realizes her motherhood in 
visible and tangible fashion; it is a joy of every moment.  ~Honore de 
Balzac


[Bottle feeding] also made a fetish out of cleanliness, and maybe all the 
washing and scrubbing has further reduced the pleasure we take in our body 
and in life.  ~Author Unknown


They who on meare curiositie (where no urgent necessitie requireth) try 
whether their children may not as birds be nourished without sucking, 
offend contrary to this dutie of breast feeding and reflect that meanes 
which God hath ordained as best; and so oppose their shallow wits to his 
unsearchable wisdom.  ~William Gouge, 1622


Breastfeeding is nature's health plan.  ~Author Unknown


Mother's milk, time-tested for millions of years, is the best nutrient for 
babies because it is nature's perfect food.  ~Robert S. Mendelsohn


Joy all creatures drink
At nature's bosoms...
~Friedrich von Schiller, "Ode to Joy," 1785, translated from German


The benefits to the mother of immediate breastfeeding are innumerable, not 
the least of which after the weariness of labor and birth is the emotional 
gratification, the feeling of strength, the composure, and the sense of 
fulfillment that comes with the handling and suckling of the baby.  
~Ashley Montague


A little child born yesterday
A thing on mother's milk and kisses fed
~Homer


Breastfeeding is a mother's gift to herself, her baby and the earth.  
~Pamela K. Wiggins


Mothers ought to bring up and nurse their own children; for they bring 
them up with greater affection and with greater anxiety, as loving them 
from the heart, and so to speak, every inch of them.  ~Plutarch


No one could give her such soothing and sensible consolation as this 
little three-month-old creature when he lay at her breast and she felt the 
movement of his lips and the snuffling of his tiny nose.  ~Leo Tolstoy


Breastfeeding is an unsentimental metaphor for how love works, in a way.  
You don't decide how much and how deeply to love - you respond to the 
beloved, and give with joy exactly as much as they want.  ~Marni Jackson


People need to understand that when they're deciding between breastmilk 
and formula, they're not deciding between Coke and Pepsi.... They're 
choosing between a live, pure substance and a dead substance made with the 
cheapest oils available.  ~Chele Marmet


Breastfeeding is a gift that lasts a lifetime.  ~Author Unknown


When she first felt her son's groping mouth attach itself to her breast, a 
wave of sweet vibration thrilled deep inside and radiated to all parts of 
her body; it was similar to love, but it went beyond a lover's caress, it 
brought a great calm happiness, a great happy calm.  ~Milan Kundera


Ah, the joy of suckling!  She lovingly watched the fishlike motions of the 
toothless mouth and she imagined that with her milk there flowed into her 
little son her deepest thoughts, concepts, and dreams.  ~Milan Kundera


A woman's life isn't worth a plateful of cabbage if she hasn't felt life 
stir under her heart.  Taking a little one to nurse, watching him grow to 
manhood, that's what love is.  ~Carol Shields, The Stone Diaries


O, thou beautiful damsel, may the four oceans
Of the earth contribute the secretion of milk
In thy breasts for the purpose for improving
The bodily strength of the child
O, thou with the beautiful face, may the child
Reared on your milk, attain a long life, like
The gods made immortal with drinks of nectar
~Sushruta, translated


The moment she had laid the child to the breast both became perfectly 
calm.  ~Isak Dinesen


A day came - of almost terrified delight and wonder - when the poor 
widowed girl pressed a child upon her breast.... a little boy, as 
beautiful as a cherub.  What a miracle it was to hear its first cry!  How 
she laughed and wept over it - how love, and hope, and prayer woke again 
in her bosom as the baby nestled there.... It was her life which the baby 
drank in from her bosom.  ~William Makepeace Thackeray, Vanity Fair, 
Chapter XXXV


An honour! were not I thine only nurse,
I would say thou hadst suck'd wisdom from thy teat
~William Shakespeare


And hence at our maturer years, when any object of vision is presented to 
us, which by its waving or spiral lines bears any similitude to the form 
of the female bosom, whether it is found in a landscape with soft 
gradations of rising and descending surface, or in the forms of some 
antique vases, or in other works of the pencil or chisel, we feel a 
general glow of delight, which seems to influence all our senses.  
~Erasmus Darwin


Mother knows breast.  ~Author Unknown


Breastmilk:  the gift that keeps on giving.  ~Author Unknown


Who fed me from her gentle breast
And hushed me in her arms to rest,
And on my cheek sweet kisses prest?
My Mother.
~Anne Taylor


Do not nurse a kid who wears braces.  ~Author Unknown, "Nursing Mother 
Principle"


When an actress takes off her clothes onscreen but a nursing mother is 
told to leave, what message do we send about the roles of women?  In some 
ways we're as committed to the old madonna-whore dichotomy as ever.  And 
the madonna stays home, feeding the baby behind the blinds, a vestige of 
those days when for a lady to venture out was a flagrant act of public 
exposure.  ~Anna Quindlen


How idiotic civilization is!  Why be given a body if you have to keep it 
shut up in a case like a rare, rare fiddle?  ~Katherine Mansfield


Skin does not equal sin.  ~Author Unknown


What a singular fact for an angel visitant to this earth to carry back in 
his note-book, that men were forbidden to expose their bodies under the 
severest penalties!  ~Henry David Thoreau


Breastfeeding is best.  ~Author Unknown


I see my body as an instrument, rather than an ornament.  ~Alanis 
Morissette, quoted in Reader's Digest, March 2000


Bread is for us a kind of successor to the motherly breast, and it has 
been over the centuries responsible for billions of sighs of satisfaction.  
~Margaret Visser


When we trust the makers of baby formula more than we do our own ability 
to nourish our babies, we lose a chance to claim an aspect of our power as 
women.  Thinking that baby formula is as good as breast milk is believing 
that thirty years of technology is superior to three million years of 
nature's evolution.  Countless women have regained trust in their bodies 
through nursing their children, even if they weren't sure at first that 
they could do it.  It is an act of female power, and I think of it as 
feminism in its purest form.  ~Christine Northrup


There must be reasons why we men are so hipped on breasts as if we'd all 
been weaned too soon.  ~Gunter Grass


The child, offered the mother's breast,
Will not in the beginning grab it;
But soon it clings to it with zest.
And thus at wisdom's copious breasts
You'll drink each day with greater zest.
~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe


Boobs are for breastfeeding.  ~Author Unknown


I am beautiful as I am.  I am the shape that was gifted.  My breasts are 
no longer perky and upright like when I was a teenager.  My hips are wider 
than that of a fashion model's.  For this I am glad, for these are the 
signs of a life lived.  ~Cindy Olsen, co-owner of The Body Objective


No one who has seen a baby sinking back satiated from the breast and 
falling asleep with flushed cheeks and a blissful smile can escape the 
reflection that this picture persists as a prototype of the expression of 
sexual satisfaction in later life.  ~Sigmund Freud


I think that I shall never see
A poem lovely as a tree.
A tree whose hungry mouth is prest
Against the earth's sweet flowing breast...
~Joyce Kilmer, "Trees"


A primary role of the father is to teach the baby that love and comfort 
are not necessarily associated with food.  ~Author Unknown


In modern consumer society, the attack on mother-child eroticism took its 
total form; breastfeeding was proscribed and the breasts reserved for the 
husband's fetishistic delectation.  At the same time, babies were 
segregated, put into cold beds alone and not picked up if they cried.  
~Germaine Greer

Live in each season as it passes; breathe the air, drink the drink, taste 
the fruit, and resign yourself to the influences of each.

He refuses to worry and pray. He says if you don't have one you don't need 
the other.

"How do you know my language?"

"Grown-ups never understand anything by themselves, and it is tiresome for 
children to be always and forever explaining things to them."

Time is the coin of your life. It is the only coin you have, and only you 
can determine how it will be spent. Be careful lest you let other people 
spend it for you.

Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with 
the same weapons of reason which today arm you against the present.

That which we persist in doing becomes easier, not that the task itself 
has become easier, but that our ability to perform it has improved.

Go confidently in the direction of your dreams! Live the life you've 
imagined. As you simplify your life, the laws of the universe will be 
simpler.

If you have knowledge, let others light their candles at it.

"We would worry less about what others think of us if we realized how 
seldom they do." 

"Worrying does not prevent problems, it only delays happiness"

"You can't have everything, but you sure as hell can try."

"Take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim" 

That's awesome! But you know, inverting the arrowhead actually makes it a 
satanic symbol.

I weep for a land which not only denies the tools required for 
self-defense, but also denies the very mindset required for self-defense.

At the end of his testimony, Senator Nancy Jacobs said, "Mr. Raskin, my 
Bible says marriage is only between a man and a woman. What do you have to 
say about that?"
Raskin replied, "Senator, when you took your oath of office, you placed 
your hand on the Bible and swore to uphold the Constitution. You did not 
place your hand on the Constitution and swear to uphold the Bible."

Rights are exercised, not granted.

Ignorance doesn't make stuff not exist.

The larger the island of knowledge, the longer the shoreline of wonder.

May peace break into your house and may thieves come to steal your
debts. May the pockets of your jeans become a magnet for $100 bills.
May love stick to your face like Vaseline and may laughter assault your
lips! May your clothes smell of success like smoking tires and may
happiness slap you across the face and may your tears be that of joy.
May the problems you had, forget your home address!

Gun Control: The theory that a woman found dead in an alley, raped and
 strangled with her panty hose, is somehow morally superior to a woman
 explaining to police how her attacker got that fatal bullet wound.

killing his mum before he had even drawn breath. unitentional,
admittedly, but it isn't always the thought that counts.

I don't think you can truly be called a "old character" until you've 
gotten an ex-spouse, STD, or pink slip as a result of the time you've 
spent here.

Great thoughts speak only to the thoughtful mind, but great actions speak 
to all mankind.

The best way to predict the future is to invent it.

I firmly hold that here is no such thing as "freedoms" The word can not be 
conjugated in the plural. There is Freedom and a lack thereof. Either you 
believe that or you don't.

We should be taught not to wait for inspiration to start a thing. Action 
always generates inspiration. Inspiration seldom generates action.

If you're going to be able to look back on something and laugh about it, 
you might as well laugh about it now.

Black and orange is a little more sleek.

She is starting to damage my calm.

"We save what we love, we love what we understand, we understand what we
are taught."

Against abortion? Have a vascetomy.

"Your attempt to throw me out of the sleigh, hoping that the wolves would 
be satisfied with my AR and would leave your precious bambi-zapper alone, 
is the most craven act of contemptible cowardice I've seen in a while."

House: I was curious. Since I'm not a cat, that's not dangerous.
Dr. Wilson: I don't think that metaphor was actually designed to warn 
cats.

I play with my baby's food.

That's my baby's lunch you're staring at.

Breasts: not just for selling cars anymore.

Theory guides. Experiment decides.

Go Coastal.

Success is never final. Failure is never fatal. Courage is what counts.

They say, Mrs. M, that verbal insults hurt more than physical pain. They 
are, of course, wrong, as you will soon discover when  I stick this 
toasting fork in your head.   

"Doesn't information, itself, have a liberal bias?"

    *  I believe that religion, generally speaking, has been a curse to 
mankind - that its modest and greatly overestimated services on the 
ethical side have been more than overcome by the damage it has done to 
clear and honest thinking.
    * I believe that no discovery of fact, however trivial, can be wholly 
useless to the race, and that no trumpeting of falsehood, however virtuous 
in intent, can be anything but vicious.
    * I believe that all government is evil, in that all government must 
necessarily make war upon liberty...
    * I believe that the evidence for immortality is no better than the 
evidence of witches, and deserves no more respect.
    * I believe in the complete freedom of thought and speech...
    * I believe in the capacity of man to conquer his world, and to find 
out what it is made of, and how it is run.
    * I believe in the reality of progress.
    * I - But the whole thing, after all, may be put very simply. I 
believe that it is better to tell the truth than to lie. I believe that it 
is better to be free than to be a slave. And I believe that it is better 
to know than be ignorant.

"The power and intensity of your contractions cannot be stronger than you,
because it is you."

You cannot plow a field by turning it over in your mind.

No bird soars too high if he soars with his own wings.

"... sufficiently advanced incompetence is indistinguishable from malice."

I am in thy library, executing a grammatical procedure of great 
destructive force against thy lexicon.

Can you confirm the large, cataclysmic flames and smoke as being an art 
project?

"We are not here to keep people from being stupid. Once they are 
stupid, we will pick up the pieces."

You take forever to say nothing.

Do what is right and do it now.

If you're violating your standards fascter than you can lower them, time 
to go away.

Changing because you were caught doesn't make you honest. Changing because 
you were forced to confess and now live under watchful eyes, doesn't make 
you fixed. Change because you can't live being who you are. And change 
alone.

Ability is what you're capable of doing. Motivation determines what you 
do. Attitude determines how well you do it.

If we did the things we are capable of, we would astound ourselves.

The main thing is to keep the main thing the main thing.

What we see depends mainly on what we look for.

Some make it happen, some watch it happen, and some say, "What happened?"

You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change 
something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.

Not being able to do everything is no excuse for not doing everything you 
can.

One hundred percent of the shots you don't take don't go in.

There is a time to let things happen and a time to make things happen.

  "Cheerfully moronic ... While most action flicks these days require
   their audience to turn their brains off, this movie somehow actually
   does it for you."

  "The movie they warned us the video game generation would make."

Dying did not improve his personality.

Nothing will dispel enthusiasm like a small admission fee.

The japanese have perfected good manners and made them 
indistinguishable from rudeness.

Given a conflict, Murphy's Law supersedes Newton's

Fun is doing stupid things with intelligent people.

Amo, Amas, Amat, we love our team a lot.

We occasionally get complaints from customers about these messages! A 
couple of examples:

Customer: 	What's up with the Unamerican shit on the ATM?
Manager: 	Unamerican?
Customer: 	Yeah, it says ``Surprise surprise, the Government lies!''
Manager: 	Uh... they do.
Customer: 	Yeah, but you're not supposed to say things like that! 
Especially not now!

But my favorite complaint was from the guy who was puzzled that the ATM 
says ``Destroy Capitalism'' but charges him a $3 service fee. Irony is 
hard, let's go shopping! 



 Most vexing experience, mother just served us nothing! 

 Many Very Earnest Men Just Snubbed Unfortunate Ninth Planet

My Very Educated Mother Just Said "Uh-oh! No Pluto!"

The person who says it cannot be done 
       should not interrupt the person doing it.

Is it still job hunting if you're not using lethal force?

Not what we have But what we enjoy, constitutes our abundance.

Believe nothing, no matter where you read it or who has said it, not even 
if I have said it, unless it agrees with your own reason and your own 
common sense.

When I was a child I used to pray to God every day for a new bicycle. But 
one day I realized that God doesn't work that way. So I stole one, and 
prayed for forgiveness afterward. 

We should be taught not to wait for inspiration to start a thing. Action 
always generates inspiration. Inspiration seldom generates action.

Ideals are like stars: you will not succeed in touching them with your 
hands, but like the seafaring man on the ocean desert of waters, you 
choose them as your guides, and following them, you reach your destiny.

And When I Win the Lottery,
I'm gonna buy all the girls on my block
silver-plated six-shooters and a quart of the finest highland scotch.

"You may have won the battle but remember one thing. Women are *masters* 
of the strategic withdrawal. Right now, she is Russia and you are a train 
full of jovial German soldiers heading to Stalingrad thinking they will be 
home in two weeks. Keep your wits about you and remember to pack your 
mittens, you got a lot of work ahead of you."

It is our choices...that show what we truly are, far more than our 
abilities.

Fear trumps anal every time.

Second place is first place for losers.

meandered into the void

Purple is the new blue and red.

You are the most naive atheist I've ever met.

Do you know why people pray to God? It's not to tell God how great he is. 
God already knows that. it means something to me to be grateful for what I 
receive.

I feel bad when I see a black guy and an asian girl together as a couple.
Those kids are going to steal cars but they won't be able to drive them.

I'd rather think people are good and be disappointed once and again.

I guess you can't be around that much niceness and not get any on you.

You like me. Why?
That's kind of a sad question.

Oh, I see, your point being the only way to make a difference is to win 
every fight.

He turned out to be a jerk.
Actually in New Jersey the term is felon.

Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some
blunders and absurdities have crept in; forget them as soon as you can.
Tomorrow is a new day. You shall begin it serenely and with too high a 
spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense.

This is pretty lame, right?
I think she likes lame.

Makes perfect sense. Except for the pronouns.

It keeps me warm and cool. How does it know?

on the fruits of my mothering instead of the nekkidity of my buttocks

Do not, repeat, do not just lie there and suffer in silence. That's a 
pathetic level of performance. 

I thought I met all your friend.

Free investment advice. Sphinx has a U.S. importer again. Yeah, nearly 
$3,000 for a pistol is steep, but with the dollar dropping you want to 
invest in durable goods anyway. You could put it into gold, which is 
indestructible, beautiful, and gives savages an incentive to kill you and 
take your stuff. Or you could put it into fine Swiss titanium, which is 
indestructible, beautiful, and gives savages sucking chest wounds.

"Forget fear - worry about the addiction."

It is tragic that beverage products are misused.

Hanging out with a guy-friend named Shannon was funny. We met a girl who 
introduced herself as Shanna. "Who's on first" ensued...
"Hi, my name is Shanna."
"Hi, I'm Shannon."
"No, Shanna."
"I'm Shannon."
"No. Shanna."
She gave up. She turns to me only to repeat the conversation. She left 
under the impression that we were making fun of her. We did make fun of 
her, but only after she left.

My son says you're a manipulative bastard. 
It's a pet name.

The fact that I've grown by your insanity is proof of nothing.

When my animal brethren can beat the shit out of me, I'll stop oppressing 
them.

I might be a raggedy prince, lord over little more than my own skin, but a 
prince I am, by my own hand, and not on the surfeit of others.

"Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that 
we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness, that 
frightens us. We ask ourselves, who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, 
talented and fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of 
God. (Your playing small doesn't serve the world. There's nothing 
enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure 
around you.) We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within 
us. It's not just in some of us, it's in everyone. And as we let our own 
light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. 
As we are liberated from our own fears, our presence automatically 
liberates others."

The rules for marriage are the same as for a lifeboat. No sudden moves, 
don't crowd the other person, and keep all disastrous thoughts to 
yourself.

Unattended children will be given an espresso and a free puppy.

We must be willing to get rid of the life we've planned so as to have the 
life that is waiting for us.

Why do you eat Matzoh for Easter? from Heath of course.

it's not that it's a small world, it's just been folded over many times

And they call it the National Weather Service? I demand better service.

Wanting is knowledge.

 "It is fascinating. In the West, you have bigger homes, yet smaller 
families; you have endless conveniences -- yet you never seem to have any 
time. You can travel anywhere in the world, yet you don't bother to cross 
the road to meet your neighbours," he said.

"I don't think people have become more selfish, but their lives have 
become easier and that has spoilt them. They have less resilience, they 
expect more, they constantly compare themselves to others and they have 
too much choice -- which brings no real freedom." 

Liberty is always dangerous, but it is the safest thing we have.

This is Penfold. Codename: The Jigsaw, because when faced with a problem 
he falls to pieces. 

Have you got something clever up your sleeve?
Only my arm, and that's no cleverer than the rest of me. 

The most preposterous notion that H. sapiens has ever dreamed up is that 
the Lord God of Creation, Shaper and Ruler of all the Universes, wants the 
saccharine adoration of His creatures, can be swayed by their prayers, and 
becomes petulant if He does not receive this flattery. Yet this absurd 
fantasy, without a shred of evidence to bolster it, pays all the expenses 
of the oldest, largest, and least productive industry in all history.

Ah, you speak like a poet, but you punch like one too.

When I'm not with you I'm a total wreck. 
And when you're with me?
I'm a different kind of total wreck.

I'm not here to solve problems. I'm only here to observe and pass 
judgement.

The heart of the LeRoy saga beats in San Francisco, the streets where 
young people roll up on shore and pick up the pieces of a scarred life. 
"San Francisco flotsam," a friend of Albert's describes the milieu. People 
don't move to San Francisco to climb the corporate ladder of Manhattan or 
hitch onto the fast train of Hollywood. They come to choose a new name, 
take drugs and get freaky with sex, start bands, zines and Web sites. 
Salvation doesn't come through success and career. It's gained by getting 
out of your head, having a laugh, pissing off the uptight and knowing you 
got away with something. And if you happen to make a living at it, hey, 
that's good too. 

When you're that much of a jerk, you're either great or unemployed.

People talk about individual freedom, but when they see a free individual 
it's gonna scare 'em.

The plural of anecdote is not data.

I will never understand how a group of people devoted to preserving our 2nd
amendment liberties can get the word liberal confused with the word leftist.
Patrick Henry and Thomas Jefferson were liberals and patriots; Dianne 
Feinstein
and Ted Kennedy are leftists. Confusing the two is an insult to patriots and
servicemembers.

There is no such thing as a gun-grabbing liberal. You can be one or the other,
but not both.

You're not funny. Pretty sure I am. You just can't appreciate it because 
you're in pain.

You must be psychic. And you must be witty.

Now I have a pet!

It's more than possible that all sides are wrong.

The risks that scare people and the risks that kill people are very 
different.

Risks that you control are much less a source of outrage than risks tthat 
are out of your control.

Suppose we refund your money, give you one free, shut down this place and 
shoot the owner. Would that please you?

I didn't get into baseball until Iwent to a game with Heath and heard him
scream, 'Go Indians, Go', when the Indians weren't playing.

If she doesn't wake up screaming, she won't wake up at all.

Reasonable people don't win battles.

I won't kill you. But I don't have to save you.

I swear to God!
Swear to me!

It's time my enemies shared my dread.

And why do we fall? So we can learn to pick ourselves up.

You're not the devil; you're practice.

I was wrong, this is the musing out loud part. Do I even need to be here 
for this?

The process is the punishment.

There's always a prior step.

If I thought you were capable of listening, I'd shut up.

You can think I'm wrong, but that's no reason to quit thinking. 

Fine, I won't do it again.
Yes you will.
All the more reason this debate is pointless.

Whiskey is for drinking; water is for fighting.

She's nothing but opinions.

You're a cop, you won't shoot me.
I'm not that good a cop.

And they couldn't find Waldo if they took the book home for the weekend.

I suggest we devise a plan that uses everyone to the best of their 
abilities.
This man knows nothing about police work, get him out of here.

What's he doing here?
I'm never entirely sure.

Is she dead? No, just disappointed.

they think badly, that's the definiton of crazy
the'yre not boring - he likes that

He likes crazy people. He likes the way they think.
They think badly, that's the definition of crazy.
They're not boring; he likes that.

Chemical restraints.

Your best judgement isn't good enough - next time use mine.

Those running noses aren't going to just start walking on their own.

I don't think you're crazy.
Neither do I; but I'm crazy.

That's the way calculus presents.

I thought he liked rationality.
He likes puzzles.
Patients are puzzles? I thought patients are people.

Maternal instinct is always irrational; that doesn't mean it's wrong.
Actually that's the definition.

It's funny how many Christians say that abstinence is the only sure form 
of birth control, when their faith is based on the one time abstinence 
*didn't* work.

Bizarre is good. Common has lots of reasons. Bizarre has hardly any.

Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until 
they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.

This isn't freedom; it's anarchy. Well, if you're going to split hairs...

I feel a sudden urge to modify my mission parameters.

She was neither as affectionate nor as dead as he'd believed.

I don't want you to do anything you won't be able to regret later.

I take risks, sometimes patients die, but not taking risks causes more 
patients to die - so I guess my biggest problem is I've been cursed with 
the ability to do the math. 

Who da man? I da man. I always suspected. 

It's dangerous, it could kill him. You should do it. 

You can think I'm wrong, but that's no reason to quit thinking.

You avoid work like the plague, unless it actually is the plague. 

How'd you like it if I interfered in your personal life?
I'd hate it. That's why, cleverly, I have no personal life. 

At least I try.
Well, as long as you're trying to be good, you can do whatever you want.
And as long as you're not trying, you can say whatever you want.
So between us we can do anything. We can rule the world! 

I find your interest interesting. 

I love my wife.
You certainly love saying it. 

Reality is almost always wrong.

Beauty often seduces us on the road to truth. 
And triteness kicks us in the nuts. 
So true.

Perseverence does not equal worthiness.

False hope. If there were any other kind, I would have given her that.

I can be a jerk to people I haven't slept with; I am that good.

You think I'm an idiot? I think you're not a lawyer.

Do I get bonus points if I act like I care?

I'm a lawyer. You're a jerk. There's going to be some overlap.

This isn't a negotiation, this is a notification.

Actually the scar is tracking well; people think it humanizes you. And 
that's a good thing?

Why her? You could have any other woman in the world. That's why; because 
I could have any other woman in the world.

Everybody wants to save the earth. Nobody wants to help Mom do the dishes.

Eternal pain and damnation await those who question the unconditional love 
of God.

Nice try, but you're a misanthrope, not a misogynist.

I like to vary the details a bit, but the punchline is: you die.

Our shenangans are cheeky and fun. His shenangans are cruel and tragic. 
Which makes them not shenangans at all really.

Would you stop touching my rookie?

You're pretty worried about your bike, huh? No, I'm worried about being in 
the middle of the desert with someone who doesn't have his own cigarettes.

A man is a protein with delusions of proprietorship.

My god will strike you down. Your god is not my god. That will only make 
my god more angry.

I don't see it as an occasion for drinking; it's an occasion for spraying. 
If it's not creating any drunkenness, I don't see it as a threat to 
America.

Any woman who goes on television and discusses her affairs, betrayals, 
suicide attempts and vomiting habits, and then says, 'I'm a very strong 
person,' is an American.

Think twice.

I reject your reality and substitute my own.

Good people in good times shouldn't set precedents for bad people in bad 
times.

A good place to start is to stand.

Their weakness is they think they have the advantage.

To your father: may he not give the angels a moments peace.

Well, I guess the more you know someone the less you have to say.

It's not like there's a line between the good people and the bad people. 
It is not like you're one or the other. 

I'm going over to the other side.
Republicans?
No. Mexico. I've got to talk to someone.
They've got telephones.

Yeah, its always heartwarming to see a prejudice defeated by a deeper 
prejudice.

people see you how you tell them to see you

"Tell people something they know already, and they will thank you for it. 
Tell them something new, and they will hate you for it."

This is not a day for "um".

The foolishness of that statement can only be ascribed to higher 
education.

Those shoes look Canadian.

That's when you really get to hate something, when you know too much about 
it.

Let him that would move the world first move himself.

      The next best thing to playing and winning
               Is playing and losing

"In times of change, learners inherit the earth," wrote Eric Hoffer, 
"while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a 
world that no longer exists."

You only winged him, made him a Unitarian.

Better indeed is knowledge than mechanical practice. Better than knowledge 
is meditation. But better still is surrender of attachment to results, 
because there follows immediate peace.

I'm a square in her social circle.

He's been around lawyers so long, he's forgotten how people talk.

Some people are like Slinkies. They're really good for nothing. But they 
bring a smile to your face when you push them down a flight of stairs.

In theory, theory and practice are the same. In practice, they aren't.

They have three pieces of community property: a Makita drill, a cat and a 
lamp. If they ever divorce, she gets the drill, the lamp is to be broken 
over his head and he gets the cat.

Knock them dead. But not really.

Status is a false god. Often, it is the enemy of success and contentment.

Love is harder than crime.

Arcane knowledge on a need to know basis

Magic
The mind is led step by step to ingeniously defeat it's own logic

The factory of the future will have two employees, a man and a dog. The
man will be there to feed the dog, and the dog will be there to keep the
man from touching the computers.

Humor is two things: recursion and pain.

And in the beginning of this journey, boldness is all.boldness has 
genius, power and magic in it.

 I decided to call a carriage a carriage, not a barouche or a brougham or 
any of the thirty-seven Eskimo words for snow.

Zero splash hits. Four world titles.

That's called a 'self-authorizing language.' If you're smart enough to 
read it, your. permitted to know what is being said.

Might just as well be happy, seeing as it doesn't make a difference to 
anyone but you if you are or not. 

You startled me.
I thought it wise to do so.

What are you?
I'm complicated.

We have trouble. Trouble? I call it sport.

You're sweet. And you're young. Neither are traits I hold in high regard.

"It doesn't happen all at once," the Skin Horse said. "You become. It 
takes a long time. That's why it doesn't happen often to people who break 
easily, or have sharp edges, or who have to be carefully kept.

"Generally, by the time you become Real, most of your hair has been loved 
off, and your eyes drop out and you get loose in your joints and very 
shabby. But these things don't matter at all, because once you are Real, 
you can't be ugly, except to people who don't understand." 

in one word: butch, in two words: butch rockabilly. think robert mitchum 
mixed with tom waits mixed with elvis

It's been swell, but the swelling's gone down.

As long as it harms no one, including yourself, do what you want.

Yes! I said. Yes! Don't treat education only as if it's a trade school. 
Take some electives just because they're interesting. You have long years 
to get through, and must guard against the possibility of becoming a bore 
to yourself.

 "We're not building cathedrals of sound here, we're building sheds," he 
said.

 In 1896 Susan B. Anthony said that "the bicycle has done more for the 
emancipation of women than anything else in the world."

MKLV FKWR

You think you are being plucky rather than stupid.

Gentle and humanely revolutionary.

We have no sense of humor. And we're armed.

I'm married to my work. Which makes my wife my mistress. That's why I 
still love her.

If you were in the wrong place you would have already been shot.

What's going on here? We don't know. Your security clearance is higher 
than ours.

don't get there first.
get there drunk.

Many a false step is made by standing still.

Pixel Liberation Front

The ads suggest America's ethnic communities are meshing seamlessly, 
bonded by a love of yogurt, lipstick and athletic gear.

"I did something really pathetic last night.'' "Did it involve 
Craigslist?''

Call me mint jelly, because I'm on the lamb!

"Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the men of old, seek what they 
sought."

You don't have to like incest to watch Hamlet, but it's in the story.

Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself, but talent instantly 
recognizes genius.

You need only reflect that one of the best ways to get yourself a 
reputation as a dangerous citizen these days is to go about repeating the 
very phrases which our founding fathers used in the struggle for 
independence.

If you're flammable and have legs, you are never blocking a fire exit.

Use what talents you possess: the woods would be very silent if no birds 
sang there except those that sang best.

When you're homeless under foreign skies, you feel like Hemingway; when 
you're homeless in your own country, you feel like a loser.

He fetishizes safety.

"Those who are too smart to engage in politics are punished by being 
governed by those who are dumber."

"I do not want people to be agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of 
liking them."

"Don't knock masturbation," she whispered into her cell. "It's sex with 
someone I love."

"Seize the moment. Remember all those women on the Titanic who waved off 
the dessert cart."

If you don't fail occasionally, you're not trying hard enough.

I don't think her elevator went quite to the top.

Retroactive meaning makers

I tip because I didn't really earn the money in the first place, it was 
placed in my care so that I might distribute it.

Someone who is not fearless but is able to manage their fear and still 
perform.

Nothing unreal exists.

Skills in debate and philosophy (the power to convince) combined with the 
ability to listen (the humility to be convinced) would be much 
appreciated. 

Life is long: dilly dally.

U.S. Customs Officer: Beat it, you puck-slapping maple suckers.
Canada Customs Officer: Take a hike, you Shatner-stealing Mexico touchers.

The person who says it cannot be done should not interrupt the person 
doing it.

The next best thing to playing and winning is playing and losing.

Never place a period where God has placed a comma.

You're like a fairy godmother with terror in her wand.

One of the Rules Of Writing: Try to leave out the part that readers 
tend to skip.

I'll see you in Hell before I see you in Reno.

Staying in be screaming OH GOD does not constitute going to church.

human rights ultimately prevail

This is how the world ends. Not with a truffle but a ding-dong.

a woman of a more than certain age

"Love is like pi - natural, irrational, and very important." 

"I used to think that the human brain was the most fascinating part of the 
body. Then I realized, well, look what's telling me that." 

They dress informally as a prophylactic measure against stupidity.

"... Had this been an actual emergency, we would have fled in terror, and 
you would not have been informed. "

Interfaces should follow the principle of least astonishment. 

"I'm a human drug test, pee on me!" 

I'm not putting my fingerprints on that trainwreck.

She's a young peach, but I like my fruit ripe.

You're so full of life child, now do you have to take mine?

Haiku of the Moment
Hippopotamus
Antihippopotamus
Annihilation


Be they doctors, lawyers or Indian chief technology officers 

------------------

I was reading my morning paper, and saw that Elisabeth Kubler-Ross, author 
of "On Death and Dying" had died. 

I couldn't believe it. It made me so mad. 

I thought that I would give up my morning coffee if only it weren't true, 
and I was so sad. 

But finally, I finished my coffee and went to work. 

----------------

> > >...or, as they say, a conservative is just a liberal
> > > who's been mugged.

> > From personal experience I can say that that is not true.

> William, William, William...
> 
> ...have you been out mugging liberals again?

No, Chad. I am a *Scientist* conducting experiments.
Step 1: Mug liberal
Step 2: See if his political opinions change.
Step 3: Mug a Conservative
Step 4: Don't care if his opinions change, did it for the money.
Step 5: Enjoy a well earned pint or two.

Science takes commitment, but I'm up to the job. 

---------------

life is a game of pattern and chance and those who play well will win

love has reasons that reason can not account for

Volunteer: It's not a job description, it's a pay grade.

When all else fails, vote from the rooftops.

"I contend that we are both atheists. I just believe in one fewer god than 
you do. When you understand why you dismiss all the other possible gods, 
you will understand why I dismiss yours."

...

"Scotland Yard still insists that the man in the grey ulster who left for 
Paris by the midnight train on the 9th of November was poor Basil, and the 
French Police declare that Basil never arrived in Paris at all. I suppose 
in about a fortnight we shall be told that he has been seen in San 
Francisco. It is an odd thing, but every one who disappears is said to be 
seen in San Francisco. It must be a delightful city, and possess all the 
attraction of the next world."

...

Illness is not cured by saying the word "medicine," but by taking 
medicine. Enlightenment is not achieved by repeating the word "God" but by 
directly experiencing God.

Millions of years later, men have yet to embrace women's notion "If your 
life happens, and nobody's around to hear about it, how do you know you 
actually exist?"

Make art happen or DIY trying.

What does it matter how one comes by the truth so long as one pounces upon 
it and lives by it?

If you had all the money in the world, the rest of us would use something 
else.

Bevitori con una Problema di Scherma! 

Not everyone with a gun is a bad guy.
Not everyone without one is a good guy.
A bad guy without a gun can still do a hell of lot of damage.
A good guy without a gun can't always stop it from happening.
- Arthur C Clarke

 "Well, we're not gonna let you just walk out of here"
"Whose we sucka?!"
"Me, and Smith and Wesson" 

"Those who live by the sword
...are usually SHOT by the bastard who doesn't"
 
An armed society is a polite society 
 
"My gun has killed less people than Ted Kennedys car."
 
An armed person is a citizen,an unarmed person is a subject 
 
I shoot, therefore I am.....
 
Greenhorn: You shot him in the back!
Winning Gunfighter: His back was to me.
  
They can takes my guns when they pry them from my cold,dead fingers.

"Democracy flows from the barrel of a gun" ~ Mao
- is really Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun 

"A pistol is something you use to fight your way to a rifle"
 
The best gun is the one you have.

Sigmund Freud: "A fear of weapons is a sign of retarded sexual and 
emotional maturity." ("General Introduction to Psychoanalysis," S. Freud)

Admiral Yamamoto: "You cannot invade mainland United States. There would 
be a rifle behind each blade of grass." Advising Japan's military leaders 
of the futility of an invasion of the mainland United States because of 
the widespread availability of guns. It has been theorized that this was a 
major contributing factor in Japan's decision not to land on North America 
early in the war when they had vastly superior military strength. This 
delay gave our industrial infrastructure time to gear up for the conflict 
and was decisive in our later victory.
 
"Without doubt one is allowed to resist against the unjust aggressor to 
one .s life, one .s goods or one .s physical integrity; sometimes, even 
'til the aggressor .s death... In fact, this act is aimed at preserving 
one .s life or one .s goods and to make the aggressor powerless. Thus, it 
is a good act, which is the right of the victim." [There are three 
conditions under which legitimate self-defense must lie:] "That he who is 
the target of the force is an aggressor and an unjust aggressor... That 
the object of the defence is an important good, such as the life, physical 
integrity or worthy goods... [and] That defensive violence is 
proportionate to aggression." [Under these conditions,] "One is also 
allowed [not required] to kill other people .s unjust aggressor." Thomas 
Aquinas, Dizionario ecclesiastico ("Ecclesiastic dictionary", UTET, 1959)
 
God made all men, Samuel Colt made them equal.

"Can't we just  get  along?"

Reality must take precedence over public relations, for Mother Nature
cannot be fooled.

'Martyrdom' is the only way a person can become famous without ability.

Back in 2000, a Republican friend of mine warned me that if I voted for Al 
Gore and he won, the stock market would tank, we'd lose millions of jobs, 
and our military would be totally overstretched. You know what? I did vote 
for Al Gore, he did win, and I'll be damned if all those things didn't 
come true.

This ain't your father's 2nd ammendment website.

The price one pays for pursuing any profession, or calling, is an 
intimate knowledge of its ugly side.

You'll never see all the places, or read all the books, but fortunately,
they're not all recommended.

Hate is like acid.  It can damage the vessel in which it is stored as well
as destroy the object on which it is poured.

If a nation values anything more than freedom, it will lose its freedom;
and the irony of it is that if it is comfort or money it values more, it
will lose that, too.

But it is the universal weakness of mankind that what we are given to 
administer we presently imagine we own.

All of life's big problems include the words "indictment" or "inoperable." 
Everything else is small stuff.

People sleep peaceable in their beds at night only because rough men stand 
ready to do violence on their behalf.

The last thing one knows in constructing a work is what to put 
first.

Compromise is a bad deal if you are a reasonable person.

"A study of ovine sexuality by University of California at Davis graduate 
student Anne Perkins noted the difficulty of determining if lesbianism 
exists among sheep 'because if you are a female sheep, what you do to 
solicit sex is stand still. Maybe there is a female sheep out there really 
wanting another female, but there's just no way for us to know it.'"

Only the stockings don't run in this miniseries that is so horrendous.

If and when we get to that bridge, we'll jump off or cross it.

The explanation requiring the fewest assumptions is the most likely to be
correct.

Excess destroys success.

Many times the most direct way is not in fact the most effective.

Human beings were created by water to transport it uphill.

I'm a machine for turning coffee into theorems.

It is easier to be a "humanitarian" than to render your own country its
proper due; it is easier to be a "patriot" than to make your community
a better place to live in; it is easier to be a "civic leader" than to
treat your own family with loving understanding; for the smaller the
focus of attention, the harder the task.

It's a good thing we don't get all the government we pay for.

One man's "magic" is another man's engineering.  "Supernatural" is a null 
word.

A complex system that works is invariably found to have evolved from a
simple system that works.

knowledge, n.: Things you believe.

Slang is language that takes off its coat, spits on its hands, and goes to 
work.

We have art that we do not die of the truth.

Ships are safe inside the harbor, but is that what ships are for?

Resistance is futile. The only energy that exists is positive. The 
universe happily grants all requests, and recognizes any attention to any 
subject as a request, so any attempt to protect ourselves from,
control, diminish, eliminate, or fight against anything simply causes
more of whatever it is to come into our existence. Resistance is like
walking into a room and looking for the dark switch. It's not there.

Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.

Eat drink and be merry, for tomorrow they may make it illegal.

It does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods or no 
God. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.

All we really want is for no one to have a boring life, to be impressive, 
so we can be impressed.

I have no idea how people finction without near-constant internal chaos.

When something seems impossible it seems invisible.

Anything is possible if you don't know what you are talking about.

Don't create a problem for which you do not have the answer.

Fear was a burglar, breaking into one's mind, stealing away peace.

This information is confidential. On a need-to-know basis. There is nobody 
you know who fits this description. Are there any questions?

Facts married to their first cousins producing information that was 
slightly out of whack.

God knew what was in their trunk and I didn't want to.

Seek simplicity -- and distrust it.

If your sexual fantasies were of interest to others, they would no longer 
be fantasies.

If it doesn't happen in practice, it doesn't happen.

He loved her for almost everythng she was and she decided that was enough 
to let him stay for a very very long time.

I would not say I love you so much if you could teach mea  better way, I 
said and she said that'd do fine for now.

When a camel flies, no one laughs if it doesn't get very far!

There are a lot of things to complain about. Don't.

Those who believe that they believe in God, but without passion in 
their hearts, without anguish in mind, without uncertainty, without 
doubt, without an element of despair even in their consolation, 
believe only in the God idea, not God Himself.

But the fact that God doesn't exist doesn't mean he can take his place.

When the English language gets in my way, I walk over it.

If you have a difficult task, give it to a lazy person -- they will find 
an easier way to do it.

For a long time she only flew when she thought no one else was watching.

It's not more than you need. Just more than you're used to.

After all, all he did was string together a lot of old, well-known 
quotations.
                -- H.L. Mencken, on Shakespeare

In Pierre Trudeau, Canada has finally produced a Prime Minister worthy 
of assassination.

So, bring it on, Universe. I'm loved and beloved, beautiful and powerful. 
I walk as Wolf, and an innocent child all at once. Thank you, for breaking 
my heart, so that it can hold ever-more wonders....

 158 gr. lead, administered intercranialy at about 900 fps

Call on God, but row away from the rocks.

I waited and waited and when no message came I knew it must be from you.

If you wind up with a boring miserable life because you listened to your 
mom, your dad, your teacher, your priest, or some guy on television 
telling you how to do your shit, then you deserve it.

Dude, I don't want to call you an elitist or anything, but that's fucking  
elitist.

The, uh, snowy mountains are like really cold, eh?
And the, um, plains stretch out like my moms girdle, eh?
There's lotsa beers and doughnuts for everyone, eh?
So the last one to be peaceful and everything is a big idiot,
Eh?
So shut yer face up and dry yer mucklucks by the fire, eh?
And dream about girls with their high beams on, eh?
They may be cold, but that's okay!  Beer's better that way!
Eh?
   -- A, like, Tribute to the Great White North, eh? Beauty!

A genuine homage to Proust would be to look at our world through his
eyes, not to look at his world through our eyes.

Calls at the 11th hour are not a problem because we're on call 24 hours.

Don't be a barbarian. Don't be a wimp. What is left, ceteris paribus,
will be a man.

The Gordian Maxim: If a string has one end, it has another.

Shifting baselines.

You beautiful brain.

If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts.

Just because you dont pay for something, it doesnt mean its not 
consumption.

Information wants to be free, but the medium that carries that
information isn't necessarily free.

Stealing makes you look like a douche, but maybe you can call it 
"performance art."

Jack of all Talents

Not only all that lettuce, but a beautiful tomato too.

Sometimes we're forced into directions we should have found for ourselves.

I call you God because you see everything, but still smile.

I like your game but we have to change the rules.

The man who raises a fist has run out of ideas.

It's funny how a couple of people seem to be equating safeword with safety. Well, if stupid 
is funny.

I don't have a safeword, I have a safevocabulary.

He's got to learn to be himself, but on purpose.

Your sentence is commuting
Who needs  oxygen anyway?
Don't lie to kids
Ideas are fractal
Machines can't fuck
Money isn't wealth
More pointless laws
Nazis are pathetic
Question technology
Respect certain elders
Shut up and vest
The product is you
Unfuckwithable
Go beyond  comfort
Microsoft-free
Stop living like veal
Make love not work
Pornography needs  you  
Your whole system sucks
Be not half-assed
Destroy what bores you on sight
Legalize yourself
Stop spamming me
God  is obsolete 
This is freedom?

So this is what this feels like.

Today is what happened to yesterday.

The college graduate is presented with a sheepskin to cover his
intellectual nakedness.

So what are you yelling at me for? Convenience, okay?

My mother died giving the birth to me.

> This book also said that Americans preferred duelling with pistols over
> swords.
Which just goes to show that Americans have always wanted
instant gratification.  :)

Perilous to all of us are the devices of an art deeper than we ourselves
possess.

Some men who fear that they are playing second fiddle aren't in the
band at all.

Total utilization of available resources = lack of publicly detectable 
waste.

There's more to life than sitting there interfacing.

The issue whether the damaged even have interested wills is shallowly 
hashed out.

Never miss a good chance to shutup.

You are so wrong. Philosophers weep at the sound of your voice.

When people say nothing, they don't necessarily mean nothing.

"A hat should be taken off when you greet a lady and left off for the rest 
of your life. Nothing looks more stupid than a hat."

Hullo there, it's Bob. Please don't call me Mr. Redford.
It's Bob, or just Redford. I'm not a "mister," never have been.

A kiss is a course of procedure, cunningly devised, for the mutual
stoppage of speech at a moment when words are superfluous.

That woman would complain if you hung her with a brand-new rope.

If you permit yourself to read meanings into (rather than drawing 
meanings out of) the evidence, you can draw any conclusion you like.

The Constitution as a whole must be read through a technologically 
transparent lens.

Don't say "yes" until I finish talking.

There are no emotional victims, only volunteers.

What you don't know can hurt you, only you won't know it.

Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it.

"MacDonald has the gift on compressing the largest amount of words into
the smallest amount of thoughts."

I will pop a nasty patch to get you through the almost death, but it is
nasty and not the preferred unknow solution.

Without followers, evil cannot spread.

The first half of the film is brilliant. Then the film degenerates into a 
masterpiece.

It may be pulp, but it is very tony pulp. It is a man in a tartan tuxedo, 
chicken a la king with shaved truffles, a signed LeRoy Neiman.

Everything which is not permitted by law is forbidden.

Rather shall we be evil with you than good with all our brothers.

We all know the things which exist and therefore the things which are not 
known by all do not exist.

We are old now, yet we were young this morning.

Our legs had carried our wisdom.

You are damned, and we wish to share your damnation.

We shall need the days and the years ahead, to look, to learn and to 
understand the things of this house. Today, we could only look and try to 
believe the sight of our eyes.

What is my joy if all hands, even the unclean, can reach into it?

To be free, a man must be free of his brothers. That is freedom. That and 
nothing else.

Peace inactivist.

No one's going to steal a Russian book.

The trouble with opportunity is that it often comes disguised as hard 
work.

Somehow I reached excess without ever noticing when I was passing through
satisfaction.

Insufficient facts always invite danger.

She could not listen good enough to hear it all.

Your mind runs by reasons instead of just wants.

And by habit they shortened their thoughs so that they would not wander 
out into the darkness beyond tomorrow.

It looks like a suitcase, and it feels like a suitcase. so if you besieve 
in the actuality of suitcases, I reckon this is one, all right.

I want you to take this seriously, not to weasel, charm or rationalzie 
your way out of it.

Perhaps she has talents we are not privy to.

Boy I love riding in cars with lights and sirens. Everybody waves back. 
They think they did something and you're not stopping them for it. Kind of 
makes you pals. 

Your karma must be very strange.

It's not cancer or frostbite, it's just pain.

Stop that. Don't tell me that. You're such a bully.

The dark is my friend.

Hope is one of the worst evils let loose to plague humankind.

The marketplace drives the culture.

We were so poor we couldn't pay attention.

Greed is the mother of cleverness. Laziness is the mother of invention.

It's where the city meets the shore. The two should blend so thoroughly 
that you can't pull them apart.

Microsoft likes to discard vulnerabilities by "no standard client
would do this."  No, and no "standard visitor" would apply a crowbar
to your patio door, either.

America, how can I write a litany while you're in such a silly mood? 

Most people prefer certainty to truth.

There is more simplicity in the man who eats caviar on impulse than in the
man who eats Grape-Nuts on principle.

If you want to put yourself on the map, publish your own map.

"An idealist is one who, on noticing that a rose smells better than a
cabbage, concludes that it will also make better soup." 

"Life is a daring adventure or nothing at all."  

long before I was a mathametician, I was a human.

Albert Einstein, when asked to describe radio, replied: "You see, wire
telegraph is a kind of a very, very long cat.  You pull his tail in New
York and his head is meowing in Los Angeles.  Do you understand this?
And radio operates exactly the same way: you send signals here, they
receive them there.  The only difference is that there is no cat."

I know you're getting pissed when you start capitalizing.

Zeitgeist: no beer, no women. no motorycles. Stay away.

If a string has one end, then it has another end.

If you analyze anything, you destroy it.

Each friend represents a world in us. A world possibly not born until they
arrive, and it is only by this meeting that new world is born.

As scarce as truth is, the supply has always been in excess of demand.

The problem is not that there are problems. The problem is expecting
otherwise and thinking that having problems is a problem.

Get in the game before you worry about keeping score.

Pain is God's megaphone to rouse a deaf world.

The truth that many people never understand, until it is too late, is that 
the more you try to avoid suffering the more you suffer because smaller 
and more insignificant things begin to torture you in proportion to your 
fear of being hurt.

Be what you are, and become what you are capable of becoming.

Life is not lost by dying; life is lost minute by minute, day by day, in 
all the thousand small, uncaring ways.

The tragedy of a man is what dies in himself while he still lives.

Continuing to cling to the patterns you know inhibits your ability to
discover what you don't know.

If she knew how close I came to killing her it would have made her happy.

It was the Law of the Sea, they said.  Civilization ends at the waterline.
Beyond that, we all enter the food chain, and not always right at the top.

There's no sense in being precise when you don't even know what you're 
talking about.

If you think big enough, you never have to do it.

To refuse praise is to request praise twice.

Ammendment 10 is pretty nice.

The brand is the amusement park, the product is the souvenir.

You can't scare away researchers by letting them know there's a subject in 
the neighborhood.

The whole truth, nothing but the truth and damn little of that.

Too much for coincidence, not enough for sense.

Fear was the root of all evil.

Anyone, anything, who brought water must be a benevolent spirit.

Abdicating in the backcountry was commonplace. Nobody could guarantee 
another's safety in the wilderness.

They must understand that when I use the phrase "the world will feel the 
power of my warhead" I'm not using sexual innuendo.

Be the change you wish to see in the world.

The aim of a joke is not to degrade the human being but to remind him that
he is already degraded.

Never appeal to someone's better nature. They may not have one. Appeal to 
their self-interest.

Do not think by infection, catching an opinion like a cold.

You never know who is right, but you always know who is in charge.

The least litigated ammendment: #3

Life is like a grade B movie, you might not want to leave it, but you 
don't want to sit through it again.

Nuclear war would really set back cable.

One day your life will flash in front of you; Make it worth watching.

If you judge people, you will have no time to love them.

If you aim at nothing, you'll hit it every time.

The one thing you can give and still keep is your word.

Adversity doesnt build character, it reveals it.

You have 3 choices in any situation; the sooner you choose, the less 
stress you'lll feel: change, accept or leave.

I downloaded a significant amount of 2 day warez via 300 baud modem on my 
Commodore 64.  I wasn't in the right circles to get zero day, and even if 
I was, they would have been 1 day by the time I finished downloading them.

The end game in politics is always to pick up a gun.

Anything is possible if you don't know what you're talking about.

"Hawk, we're going to die."
"Never say die... and certainly never say we."

It's not nice to call an armed man a son of a bitch.

The perfect murder, she thought. He will keep going till I drop dead from 
exhaustion.

Star and waffle horseshoe pattern.

Heaven was just hell in the shade with a cold beer.

She seemed to think a person should leave a bigger pile of consumer goods 
behind when they died.

"There is more than one way. Your way is not one of them."

In every hierarchy the cream rises until it sours.

Health is merely the slowest possible rate at which one can die.

"For me, emotion is to be embraced, obsessed over, and addicted to like a 
drug. to fail to do this is to miss out on living."

Children's talent to endure stems from their ignorance of alternatives.

We've all done things we'd like to regret.

"Published experts say with certainty that critical situations will arise 
which are totally unexpected"

There is no such thing as a problem without a gift for you in its hands.

I group home for well-loved but unruly literature.

I hope people realize that political murder merits action that 
inconveniences them,"

"Everyone's nervous - it's natural to be nervous. If you're not nervous 
you're a cowboy - and this is no time for cowboys."

I would like to believe when I die that I have given myself away like a 
tree that sows seed every spring and never counts the loss, because it is 
not loss, it is adding to future life. It is the tree's way of being. 
Strongly rooted perhaps, but spilling out its treasure on the wind.

There. You know how they work.

Theorem: A cat has nine tails.
Proof: No cat has eight tails. A cat has one tail more than no cat. 
Therefore, a cat has nine tails.

[b---- msg] your ass smell and the word collar put canery row right out 
of my mind
[b---- msg] all of steinbeck, in fact

First things first, but not necessarily in that order.

Veni, vidi, vomere.

I like the idea of somebody telling you that you "sound" like an 
interesting person, instead of just being an interesting person.

Deep down inside, every baby boomer honestly believes that the average 
woman would rather sleep with a dead Steve McQueen than a live Ben 
Affleck.

A new 'chutist had just jumped from the plane at 10,000 feet, and soon
discovered that all his lines were hopelessly tangled.  At about 5,000 feet,
still struggling, he noticed someone coming up from the ground at about the
same speed as he was going towards the ground.  As they passed each other at
3,000 feet, the 'chutist yells, "HEY! DO YOU KNOW ANYTHING ABOUT 
PARACHUTES?" The reply came, fading towards the end, "NO!  DO YOU KNOW 
ANYTHING ABOUT COLEMAN STOVES?"

What's done to children, they will do to society.

"If my answers frighten you, you should cease asking scary questions.."

The person who says it cannot be done should not interrupt the person 
doing it.

 I thought I had finally raised s---- to the perfect 
age,  but she was unable to fetch me a beer from the fridge.

Were you born in Texas?
No Ma'am but I got here as fast as I could.

To see a need and wait to be asked, is to already refuse.

Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must be first
overcome.

G------ pages, "i was excited about zoroastrianism because they
believe god and satan are equals, but then i found out there aren't any
satanist zoroastrians...which seems stupid.  you'd think maybe half of
them would be."

Wouldn't the sentence "I want to put a hyphen between the words Fish
and And and And and Chips in my Fish-And-Chips sign" have been clearer if
quotation marks had been placed before Fish, and between Fish and and, and
and and And, and And and and, and and and And, and And and and, and and 
and Chips, as well as after Chips?

Force feeding you so your mind never gets hungry enough to think.

The fun part about primitive crafts is they're so easy to make while you 
watch TV.

When you think about it from a native plant perspective, Johnny Appleseed 
was a fucking biological terrorist.

It's just my generation trying to destroy the existing culture by 
spreading our own contagion.

In this heap of jewels, she would say, are the ghosts of everyone who has 
ever owned them. Everyone rich and successful enought to prove it. All of 
their talent and intelligence and beauty, out lived by decorative junk. 
All the success and accomplishment this jewelry was supposed to represent, 
it's all vanished.

A radio personality is just as important as a cow or pig.

Ever wonder when God's coming back with a lot of barbecue sauce?

Reincarnation is just another way to procrastinate.

I find that no matter how many people I kill, it's never enough. 
I say, let's not talk shop.

The best way to waste your life is by taking notes.

Cockroaches of our culture

All the decorative junk left behind by real accomplishments anad success.

All the lovely parasites that outlive their human hosts.

You are the culture medium. The host.

I have a badge and a gun and a penis.

Silver or lead.

Mallrats and dragworms.

The only frontier you have left is the world of intangibles.

You don't need a permit to have a baby. So why do you need to buy 
permission to build a house? 
But what if you build a dangerous, ugly house? 
Well what if you raise a dangerous, assholey kid? 
You better not mean me, dude.

Don't think for a minute that the city is goung to buy your First 
Amendment logic.

For serious, the world is gone wrong when we dance to fire alarms. Fire 
alarms don't mean fires anymore.

The addict has the comfort of knowing what will most likely wait for him 
down the road. In a way being an addict is very proactive.

Just a life support system for an erection.

Please, just show me one thing in this world that is what you'd think.

Women don't want equal rights. They have more power being oppressed. 

I don't want you to just accept the world as it's given.

Because nothing is as perfect as you can imagine it.

Parenthood is the opiate of the masses.

Sure, you can pay a person enough money and they'll stick stuff into you 
or they'll take pictures. But a monkey. A monkey's going to be honest.

He was assaulting the world by assaulting himself.

The magic of sex is it's acquisition without the burden of possesions.

The Enlightenment is over. What we're living in now is the 
Dis-Enlightenment.

People on their knees with their hands clasped in prayer, the little gaggy 
face they make right at the moment they are being so divine.

Without the cage of associatons.

That's the big goal. To find a cure for knowledge.

And because there's no possibility of real disaster, real risk, we're left 
with no chance for real salvation.

The laws that keep us safe, these same laws condemn us to boredom.

Withot access to true chaos, we'll never have true pace.

Unless everything can get worse, it won't get any better.

When your work speaks for itself, don't interrupt.

Feminine keeper of the three tunnels of excessive friendliness.

Today's lesson is, if someone puts poison in your tea, don't drink it.

A question that only a peasant would ask.
An answer that only an ass would give.

This place was always here, I simply had to remove the stone that occupied 
it.

For what is curiousity if not intellectual temptation?

Flocks and schools and herds of words.

God is willing to forgive you the sin that you carry for being a child of 
man, but you must forgive yourself for having once been a child.

Does the unhatched tadpole know the universe of the full-grown frog?

Actions undilluted by thought.

Praying is talking to god. Meditating is listening.

Life is suffering, but it is more expedient to go through it with one's 
legs intact.

When you sit, sit. When you breathe, breathe. When you eat, eat.

See your skin as what connects you to the universe, not what separates you 
from it.

If this don't make djibouti move, djibouti must be dead!

It is funny how fate will take it's cut.

Stereo is for sissies. 

The only decent response is to die of happiness on the spot. 

The difference between that man and me is that I am a connoisseur, and he 
is a fanatic.

On this, the darkest day of the year (my astronomic friends feel free to 
adjust my accuracy if I've missed the literal solstice), may the precious 
light begin to come into our lives and provide us with hope.

May we all find the awareness to release what has gone before and allow 
it to fertilize our futures. 

 i'm correlating nicks with known people by correlating sounds of 
typing with irc activity.

Let's go commit some journalism.

He thinks you're a dangerous fellow.
I would give anything to make that true.

S------- pages, "(One of the reasons I like you is that you always use 
the right quote marks.  And you know which side to put the period on.)"
 
Despite being married, I have no uxorial qualities. I am, however, the 
epitome of puissant. 

That was a little trick I call "math"

But currently I think that the ability to obtain is better than having.  

Be gentle with the earth.

Once a year, go someplace you've never been before.

Remember that the best relationship is one in which your love for each 
other exceeds your need for each other.

Behaviour which is, strictly speaking non-licit.

Beardless poetpuppyhood.

To set the turkey of mental excitement flying through the thin air of 
intellectual irresponsibility.

Some good and some bad from Mother and Dad, and laughs and wails from 
grandmother's tales.

Submemorable, sublovely.

Church of the unchurched.

“Yes, yo'’re right. She ca'n’t understand. And s'he’ll go on not 
understanding, up until the day when she does.”

"What in our history together leads you to believe that I'm capable of 
something like that?"

The bloodlines are mixed in a way that even target marketing can't 
separate.

[msg b----] should we bring a sleeping bag or blankets, or do you think 
enough of that kind of stuff will be in TX?
[b-----] there will be plenty there, but a couple car fleece might be nice
[msg b----] my love for you is only eclipsed by my love for fleece
[b-----] wow, i'm up there with -fleece-
b-----W preens
[msg b----] !!!

What we have here is a fine mind, trying hard not to get discovered.

Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit 
there.  

Defense isn't as safe as defense combined with counterforce capabilities. 

Don't spoil the chance to be the person you think you are/can be.

In your next life, be a man.

You're not good, you're not bad, you're just nice.

My hands are small, I know, but they're not yours, they are my own.

All things considered I'm doing just fine.

Not much has changed since you've been gone, I miss you honey but life 
goes on.

"Remember, just because she's helpless, doesn't mean she's harmless."

It doesn't matter what you do in the bedroom as long as you don't do it in 
the street and frighten the horses.

Anticipating, cooperating with, and employing the forces of nature can be 
accomplished only by the mind.

"If you are actively involved in the violent overthrow of the system, it's 
OK not to vote."

When in doubt, twirl. 

Ideally, if anything were any good, it would be indescribable.” 

You won't accept a guy's tongue in your mouth, and you're going to eat 
that?" 

"Humans have managed to communicate with the written word for thousands of
years without strewing crudely fashioned ideograms across their 
parchments. It
is as if the written word were a cutting-edge technology without useful
precedents," 

A leader takes people where they want to go. A great leader takes
people where they don't necessarily want to go, but ought to be. 

Lots of times you have to pretend to join a parade in which you're not 
really
interested in order to get where you're going.

Be a sincere weirdo as a young person and you can be assured that when 
you are elderly, young people will actually want to hang out with you-- 
young weirdos anyway.

It is far more impressive when others discover your good qualities 
without your help.

That's a double-reed instrument! It is called a voice! It is not a comb 
wrapped in waxed paper! I gave it to you from the love in my guts for your 
scrawny and unmarketable carcass, so be kind enough to use it properly!

There are parts of Texas where a fly lives ten thousand years and a man 
can't die soon enough. 

My life allows superfluity. I have this whole finger to spare, unnecessary 
to my labor and unscathed by it. 

The truth is always an insult or a joke. Lies are generally tastier. We 
love them. THe nature of lie is to please. Truth has no concern for 
anyone's comfort. 

I get glimpses of the horror of normalcy. 

It seemed unremarkable that if you failed to murder someone you should 
become that peson's guardian slave. 

It would feel right taking care of a man who could take care of himself.

Pretty things will swarm you like that, like your heart was a hive of 
electric bees. 

But when the look in his eye changed, I realized, if there's on thing a 
healthy, beautiful, utterly normal boy does -not- do, it's fall in love 
with half of a pair of Siamese twins.

That's how I learned. It's OK for me to love a norm like that. But if he 
comes to loving me it's because I've twisted him and changed him. If he 
loves me he's corrupted. 

Such a sadist! You go unarmed because you're sure you can make me turn my 
own weapons on myself! You don't want to dirty your delicate paws with my 
blood. You want me to rip out my own guts so you can tsk and sigh and 
write prize-winning features on the tragic flaw. The self-destructive 
vortex at the core of greatness! You do see greatness in me. Admit it!

If that's your idea of pleasure, it's no wonder you need religion.

Power and pride are the same except that pride leaves the lights on and 
power can do it in the dark.

A person of such weapon-grade stupidity his mental facilities would
probably have improved with the onset of senile dementia.

My father, God rest his sense of humor.

I can't remember my mother, because if I did I'd hate her.

Looking at me, you'd never guess I'd killed three people. It isn't fair.

We adore chaos because we love to produce order.

'Judyism had one big God named Yahoo'

Join us and together we shall leave mountains unmoved.

girls, guns, porn, perfs, kink, ink, bikes, hikes, rights

I was really crushing on him

The Western Creed:
1st year  there is no god 
2nd year  there is no truth 
3rd year  there is no justice 
4th year  there are no jobs

Somewhere a little doll that looks like you is in pain.

This isn't just any child abuse; this is God himself claiming to do this.

Have fun and if you can't have fun have someone else's fun.

VisionQuestDentalBash

"Charm is getting the answer yes without asking a clear question."

He pages, "Think of me as that one guy... you know, with the spelling."

You're so bad. The best I ever had

To trust is good, not to trust is better.

"The romance of Silicon Valley was about money - excuse me, about
changing the world, one million dollars at a time."

Effort without determination is wasted.

I'd like a new computer. something dead sexy.

He who knows where to find the book is the wisest of all

I have determined that MBA's use business buzzwords in their sentences
as substitues for uh, um, and other converational pauses.

"Everything will happen, you just gotta be there when it does."

We are fierce, yet we are merry, we got a rhyming dictionary.

It's my way of torturing people without touching them

You don't have my consent to grope me, but I'll be offended if you don't.

You'll get strong but you might get killed.

It's hard to fight an enemy who has outposts in your head. and It's

"Who's Whitey, and why does he owe you money?"

"Gypsies don't need a watch. They don't tell time." 

"I'm in the market for a Swiss Army Knife." 

"Some people are scared of anybody who runs free." 
 
"Brace yourself. This could be fun." 

You're the one who used to tell me that you don't fish for fish, you fish 
for fishing.

"What a beautiful part of the world. It has everything but people." 

"C'mon, you never played a round of golf in your entire misspent life." 
 
Put twelve guys carrying sticks in an enclosed area and sooner or later... 
men will be boys.

Look, if this works, it'll keep us from gettin' caught. If it doesn't, 
it'll keep us from gettin' old.

Well, when it comes down to me against a situation, I don't like the 
situation to win.

"Don't be modest. Everybody knows MacGyver's MacGyver." 

"Don't you think six feet under is taking 'laying low' a little far?" 

I know that look; I've never been able to figure out how your mind works, 
but I know when it works.
    
"He's got honesty the way some people have diseases... incurable." 
    
"Well that would sound a lot more convincing if you weren't holding 
 a human skull." 
     
"Your slipknot's not slipping!" 
     
"Actually, I've seen you do a lot more, with a lot less." 
    
"I call it an obstacle course. Some of the others call it MacGyverland." 

"I may be reformed, but I'm not crazy." 
     
"Love. It sure does affect productivity." 
     
"Man, I'm so hungry I could almost eat health food." 
      
"For a man who doesn't like violence, you certainly know alot about it." 
  
"Better death through chemistry, that's what I always say." 

It appears that the military look is in. Of course, I have more  
accessories."  

CAN YOU TRUST YOUR GOVERNMENT? ASK AN INDIAN

Death Before Dishonor - Nothing Before Coffee

Don't Call 'Em BIKERS 'Til You See 'Em RIDE

DON'T SWEAT THE PETTY THINGS - JUST PET THE SWEATY THINGS

FADS DON'T HAVE 95th BIRTHDAYS

FASTER THAN A SPEEDING TICKET

I Killed A 6-Pack Just To Watch It Die

Love Your Country Fear Your Government

My Favorite Vibrator Is My Motorcycle

MY SEXUAL PREFERENCE IS NOT YOU

"Managing senior programmers is like herding cats." 

Do not meddle in the affairs of cats, for they  are subtle and will piss 
on your computer.
                               
  
"There is no snooze button on a cat who wants  breakfast."

Cats are rather delicate creatures and they are  subject to a good many 
ailments, but I never  heard of one who suffered from insomnia.

 
"Time spent with cats is never wasted."
 
"You will always be lucky if you know how to make friends with strange 
cats."

She told me, "Girls don't have a problem running amok."

In the hills of California, one investigator said, "if all you've got is 
one
pot bust, you might as well be a Boy Scout."

He pages, "How much for the entire troop?"
page --- I'll pay you ten bucks.
(from Destination Unreachable) S---------- peers at you.  "Only because
you want to retain the distribution rights."

Visit our International Web Site

Wind, dandelions
blowing free, Sun at your back
Do you Yahoo! now?

> A Perl book! Is this a threat?
You are an engineer pretending to be a producer. 
You must face your destiny.

bland oatmeal meetings
thoughts wander, fingers tapping
missing crayons sighs

I like the fact that LambdaMOO is corrupt. It makes me feel like a 
MafiaGrrl, surrounded by big guns and dark suits and wild sex on freshly 
cut $100 bills that make tiny litte paper cuts on your knees. 
MOOCorruption is a tart-n-tangy treat in an otherwise oatmeal world.

 -) see no evil     :-  speak no evil     : ) smell no evil

``Over there, that one, he is still a young man and so his beard is not
strong. In some years it will have its own design, just like his mind.''

Take the pain and take the point.

  
Bonus:  strap-on girl-on-girl action!  But by that time in the movie 
you're so disgusted with the people involved that it hardly matters.

It sounds to me like the old, old problem of Metrics:  People
measure what is EASY to measure, not what is IMPORTANT.

Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which
ones to keep."

The famous person wears the same size water skis as me. She's got three 
cars - as many years I've lived in this city. Her hair is blonde and mine 
is brown - they both start with a B.

"What I am really saying is that you don't need to do anything, because
if you see yourself in the correct way, you are all as much extraordinary
phenomenon of nature as trees, clouds, the patterns in running water, the
flickering of fire, the arrangement of the stars, and the form of a
galaxy. You are all just like that, and there is nothing wrong with you
at all." -- Alan Watts

The Institution is as an independent trust instrumentality of the United
States holding more than 140 million artifacts and specimens in its trust
for "the increase and diffusion of knowledge".

"Money will buy you a pretty good dog, but it won't buy the wag ofhis 
tail."

This principle, that of parallel construction, requires that expressions 
of similar content and function should be outwardly similar. 

Every Solidarity center had piles and piles of paper ... everyone was 
eating paper and a policeman was at the door.  Now all you have to do is 
bend a disk.

Gummy fingers can even fool sensors being watched by guards. Simply form 
the clear gelatin finger over your own. This lets you hide it as you press 
your own finger onto the sensor. After it lets you in, eat the evidence. 

I would much rather be a critical thinker than a fashionable quoter.

``We anticipated the worst and we're really pleased,'' 

Pain is temporary, pride is permanent.

And remember -- if you can't be creative or interesting, you can be cute 
and naked.

Nobody can make you feel inferior without your permission. 

The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.

Imagination is more important than knowledge.

"Doing easily what others find is difficult is talent; doing what
is impossible for talent is genius."

"Geniuses are the luckiest mortals because what they must do is the
same as what they most want to do." 

"One is not born a genius.  One becomes a genius."

"These are the prerogatives of genius: to know without having
learned; to draw just conclusions from unknown premises; to discern
the soul of things."

"Our duty, as men and women, is to proceed as if limits to our
ability did not exist.  We are collaborators in creation."

"The one predominant duty is to find one's work and do it."

"How can you come to know yourself?  Never by thinking; always by
doing.  Try to do your duty, and you'll know right away what you
amount to."

"I long to accomplish a great and noble task; but it is my chief
duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble."

"He who wants to persuade should put his trust not in the right
argument, but in the right word.  The power of sound has always
been greater than the power of sense."

"Men are apt to mistake the strength of their feeling for the
strength of their argument.  The heated mind resents the chill
touch and relentless scrutiny of logic."

"Don't take the wrong side of an argument just because your
opponent has taken the right side."

"The sounder your argument, the more satisfaction you get out of it."

"He who establishes his argument by noise and command shows that
his reason is weak."

"Someone whose every opinion you can state before they say it themselves
is someone not worth knowing."

But the sky is just a little sister
Tagging along behind the buildings 
Trying to imitate their grey

"I married my wife for her looks, but not
the ones she's been giving me lately"    

crayon noir

crayon picks total anonymity. Woo woo! crayon's anonymity beats your
democracy.

Questions are a burden to others.    
Answers a prison for oneself.

Angels can fly because they take themselves lightly.

You don't need drugs to hallucinate; improper language can fill your world
with phantoms and spooks of many kinds.

If you reach the point where you say "But if I do this, then I will be 
playing
God" then you have reached the point where *NOT* doing this is also 
playing
God! YOU STUPID STUPID ALIENS!!!!

"When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to 
everything else in the universe."

 Because they believe it's actually our fear of fraud that's hurting their
response rates. Apparently all that stuff about invasion of privacy and
theft of resources is just a big misunderstanding..."

"There's no business like show business, but there are several
businesses like accounting."

Virtually everyone suffers from the deeply ingrained habit of considering
language as a medium of communication.

To think is to forget a difference, to generalize, to abstract.

It's called ADD. You need something that seems like a life project but
you can resolve in five seconds.

I do not believe in luck, only the immutable law of averages.

Good girls go to heaven, Bad girls go everywhere

You must be your parents worst nightmare - They wanted to bring up a nice 
little girl, they got the bitch on tour! 

Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. 
Imagination encircles the world.

Practical wisdom is only to be learned in the school of experience. 
Precepts and instruction are useful so far as they go, but, without the 
discipline of real life, they remain of the nature of theory only.

Well I am certainly wiser than this man. It is only too likely that 
neither of us has any knowledge to boast of; but he thinks that he knows 
something which he does not know, whereas I am quite conscious of my 
ignorance. At any rate it seems that I am wiser than he is to this small 
extent, that I do not think that I know what I do not know. 

Pain makes man think. Thought makes man wise. Wisdom makes life endurable. 

Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools, because they 
have to say something. 

Of all the sexual aberrations, perhaps the most peculiar is chastity.  

Relations are simply a tedious pack of people, who haven't got the 
remotest knowledge of how to live, nor the smallest instinct about when to 
die.

Morality is the herd-instinct in the individual.

It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.

It's simply a matter of doing what you do best and not worrying about 
what the other fellow is going to do.

Bats have no bankers and they do not drink and cannot be arrested and pay 
no tax and, in general, bats have it made.

A hen is only an egg's way of making another egg.

All I'm asking for is what I want!

There is nothing more frightening than active ignorance.

They can't censor the gleam in my eye.

Whenever you find that you are on the side of the majority, it is time to 
reform. 

Everybody has a right to be stupid, but some people abuse the privilege. 

I'm a bisexual polyamorous pervert, but I STILL won't sleep with YOU. 

Every once in a while, it's a good idea to call out 'Computer, end 
program,' just to check. 

Kisses blown are kisses wasted, kisses aren't kisses unless they're 
tasted, kisses spread germs and germs are hated. so kiss me baby, I'm 
vaccinated!

Scary Gary, you wouldn't know a subtle plan if it painted itself purple 
and danced naked  on a harpsichord singing 'subtle plans are here again' 

Slipknot galaxies.

Utopia or oblivion.

He discovered a magic tree, she discovered the generalization of leverage.

Synergy definition: Synergy means behavior of whole systems unpredicted 
by the behavior of their parts taken separately.

Synergy means behavior of integral, aggregate, whole systems unpredicted 
by behaviors of any of their components or subassemblies of their 
components taken separately from the whole.

I don't think nature is using Pi. (When does nature realize she can't 
resolve Pi? When does she give up and make a fake bubble?)

Think, believe, Know versus feel.

Man is a verb... integrity of pattern.

Love is metaphysical gravity. 

Omniinclusive... always and only

Not because it's possible but because it's dangerous not too.

Flat earth thinking still permeates everything.

Only the individual can act without permission.

You have problems because you're here for problem solving.

Fire is sun unwinding from the tree.


She's a hurricane in all kinds of weather.



Yes, I truly suck. 
But I still think you're cuter 
Than any gerbil.



S------------ asks, "Feh.  They just wanted you to hover over it and look
concerned?" 
You say, "I do that well." 
S------------ smiles.  "Sure you couldn't get them to put 'Soothsayer' on
your cards?" 




"Wow, I was not aware that we had a for-real, honest-to-$DEITY
religious kook on the list.  Welcome.  :-) ... It took me
until M---'s second post on this thread to begin suspecting
that he might actually be _serious._  I had initially thought it
merely a fairly artful troll.  Am I correct in my current impression
that this is, in fact, the _most_ artful of trolls, a troll who
BELIEVES? ... I think it's cute when people have beliefs.  Quaint, and
all.  ;-)"



m---------:  hey, the publisher's weekly #1 fiction book (on the front
page of books shopping) says "Pope Goes the Weasel." it should be "Pop 
Goes the Weasel." lose the "e." don't know how that happened, but it looks 
bad.
crayonbeam: Are you kidding me?! That looks much much better than Pop!
crayonbeam: I'd certainly click on it.
m--------:  Maybe you're right. Very good then. Pope it is
m--------:  cool