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The inability to secure a reservation drives yuppies absolutely crazy.: Waiter Rant, Waiter Rant weblog, 09-07-05
He that is busy is tempted by but one devil; he that is idle, by a legion.: Thomas Fuller (1608 - 1661), Gnomologia, 1732
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They wanted facts. Facts! They demanded facts from him, as if facts could explain anything.: Joseph Conrad (1857 - 1924)
There is no credulity so eager and blind as the credulity of covetness, which, in its universal extent, measures the moral misery and the intellectual destitution of mankind.: Joseph Conrad (1857 - 1924), Nostromo
Having had to encounter single-handed during his period of eclipse many physical dangers, he was well aware of the most dangerous element common to them all: of the crushing, paralysing sense of human littleness, which is what really defeats a human struggling with natural forces, alone, far from the eyes of his fellows.: Joseph Conrad (1857 - 1924)
Who could tell what forms, what visions, what faces, what forgiveness he could see in the glow of the west!: Joseph Conrad (1857 - 1924), Lord Jim
Our generation is realistic, for we have come to know man as he really is. After all, man is that being who invented the gas chambers of Auschwitz; however, he is also that being who entered those gas chambers upright, with the Lord's Prayer or the Shema Yisrael on his lips.: Viktor Frankl, "Logotherapy in a Nutshell" Man's Search for Meaning (1959, 1962, 1985)
The purpose of most computer languages is to lengthen your resume by a word and a comma.: Larry Wall
If lawyers are disbarred and clergymen defrocked, doesn't it follow that electricians can be delighted, musicians denoted?: George Carlin (1937 - 2008)
This is why I loved the support groups so much. If people thought you were dying, they gave you their full attention. If this might be the last time they saw you, they really saw you. People listened instead of just waiting for their turn to speak. And when they spoke, they weren't telling you a story. When the two of you talked, you were building something, and afterward you were both different than before.: Chuck Palahniuk (1962 - ), Fight Club

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