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- Nothing says, 'I have no idea what to get you,' quite like giant beige bath towels.
- Missbhavens, the miscellaneous mischievous misadventures of missbhavens, 05-05-07
- I saw that all things I feared, and which feared me, had nothing good or bad in them save insofar as the mind was affected by them.
- Baruch Spinoza (1632 - 1677)
- What the world needs is not dogma but an attitude of scientific inquiry combined with a belief that the torture of millions is not desirable, whether inflicted by Stalin or by a Deity imagined in the likeness of the believer.
- Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970)
- He who is in love with himself has at least this advantage - he won't encounter many rivals.
- Georg Christoph Lichtenberg (1742 - 1799)
- The only man, woman, or child who ever wrote a simple declarative sentence with seven grammatical errors is dead.
- e e cummings (1894 - 1962), on the death of Warren G. Harding, 1923
- At first, writing for The New Yorker was very scary to me. I couldn't imagine anything that I would write in that typeface.
- David Sedaris, interview in Louisville Courier-Journal, June 5, 2005
- The traveller must, of course, always be cautious of the overly broad generalisation. But I am an American, and a paucity of data does not stop me from making sweeping, vague, conceptual statements and, if necessary, following these statements up with troops.
- George Saunders, The Guardian (UK) July 22, 2006
- Use harms and even destroys beauty. The noblest function of an object is to be contemplated.
- Miguel de Unamuno (1864 - 1936)
- To me, there is no greater act of courage than being the one who kisses first.
- Janeane Garofalo
- People who go broke in a big way never miss any meals. It is the poor jerk who is shy a half slug who must tighten his belt.
- Robert Heinlein (1907 - 1988), Excerpt from the notebooks of Lazarus Long, "Time Enough for Love"
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