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- We have not lost faith, but we have transferred it from God to the medical profession.
- George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)
- The world is populated in the main by people who should not exist.
- George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)
- Advertising is legalized lying.
- H.G. Wells
- Television: chewing gum for the eyes.
- Frank Lloyd Wright (1869 - 1959)
- Morality is the weakness of the mind.
- Arthur Rimbaud
- New York: A third-rate Babylon.
- H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)
- The phrase "we (I) (you) simply must..." designates something that need not be done. "That goes without saying" is a red warning. "Of course" means you had best check it yourself. These small-change cliches and others like them, when read correctly, are reliable channel markers.
- Excerpt from the notebooks of Lazarus Long, from Robert Heinlein's "Time Enough for Love"
- A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects.
- Excerpt from the notebooks of Lazarus Long, from Robert Heinlein's "Time Enough for Love"
- One man's "magic" is another man's engineering. "Supernatural" is a null word.
- Excerpt from the notebooks of Lazarus Long, from Robert Heinlein's "Time Enough for Love"
- You live and learn. Or you don't live long.
- Excerpt from the notebooks of Lazarus Long, from Robert Heinlein's "Time Enough for Love"
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