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- 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)
- What if everything is an illusion and nothing exists? In that case, I definitely overpaid for my carpet.
- Woody Allen (1935 - )
- Estimated amount of glucose used by an adult human brain each day, expressed in M&Ms: 250
- Harper's Index, October 1989
- Time is that quality of nature which keeps events from happening all at once. Lately it doesn't seem to be working.
- Anonymous
- On account of being a democracy and run by the people, we are the only nation in the world that has to keep a government four years, no matter what it does.
- Will Rogers (1879 - 1935)
- It is better to know some of the questions than all of the answers.
- James Thurber (1894 - 1961)
- There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.
- George Santayana (1863 - 1952), Soliloquies in England, 1922, "War Shrines"
- For three days after death hair and fingernails continue to grow but phone calls taper off.
- Johnny Carson (1925 - 2005)
- The human mind treats a new idea the same way the body treats a strange protein; it rejects it.
- P. B. Medawar (1915 - )
- I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.
- Umberto Eco (1932 - )
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