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- This is my favorite book in all the world, though I have never read it.
- William Goldman, The Princess Bride
- Anything that is in the world when you’re born is normal and ordinary and is just a natural part of the way the world works. Anything that’s invented between when you’re fifteen and thirty- five is new and exciting and revolutionary and you can probably get a career in it. Anything invented after you’re thirty-five is against the natural order of things.
- Douglas Adams (1952 - 2001), The Salmon of Doubt
- Wagner's music is better than it sounds.
- Edgar Wilson Nye (1850 - 1896), quoted in Mark Twain's Autobiography, 1924
- If you want to know what God thinks of money, just look at the people he gave it to.
- Dorothy Parker (1893 - 1967)
- I don't mind what Congress does, as long as they don't do it in the streets and frighten the horses.
- Victor Hugo (1802 - 1885)
- Estimated amount of glucose used by an adult human brain each day, expressed in M&Ms: 250
- Harper's Index, October 1989
- The Army has carried the American ... ideal to its logical conclusion. Not only do they prohibit discrimination on the grounds of race, creed and color, but also on ability.
- Tom Lehrer (1928 - )
- It is better to know some of the questions than all of the answers.
- James Thurber (1894 - 1961)
- I know the answer! The answer lies within the heart of all mankind! The answer is twelve? I think I'm in the wrong building.
- Charles M. Schulz (1922 - 2000)
- Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans.
- John Lennon (1940 - 1980), "Beautiful Boy"
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