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- One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly important.
- Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970), Conquest of Happiness (1930) ch. 5
- Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.
- Jean-Paul Sartre (1905 - 1980), Nausea (1938) "Vendredi"
- Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature.
- Samuel Butler (1835 - 1902)
- I don't care what is written about me so long as it isn't true.
- Dorothy Parker (1893 - 1967)
- I like a woman with a head on her shoulders. I hate necks.
- Steve Martin (1945 - )
- We are drawn to our television sets each April the way we are drawn to the scene of an accident.
- Vincent Canby, on the Academy Awards
- If it weren't for Philo T. Farnsworth, inventor of television, we'd still be eating frozen radio dinners.
- Johnny Carson (1925 - 2005)
- If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee.
- Abraham Lincoln (1809 - 1865)
- Everything is in a state of flux, including the status quo.
- Robert Byrne
- The cloning of humans is on most of the lists of things to worry about from Science, along with behaviour control, genetic engineering, transplanted heads, computer poetry and the unrestrained growth of plastic flowers.
- Lewis Thomas (1913 - 1993)
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