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- Entia non sunt multiplicanda praeter necessitatem
(Entities must not be multiplied beyond necessity.) - William Occam
- This coffee plunges into the stomach...the mind is aroused, and ideas pour forth like the battalions of the Grand Army on the field of battle.... Memories charge at full gallop...the light cavalry of comparisons deploys itself magnificently; the artillery of logic hurry in with their train of ammunition; flashes of wit pop up like sharp-shooters.
- Honore de Balzac (1799 - 1850)
- I have never been drunk, but often I've been overserved.
- George Gobel
- Strategy is buying a bottle of fine wine when you take a lady out for dinner. Tactics is getting her to drink it.
- Frank Muir
- Water generally flows downhill in this area.
- Bob Bennett, WDIV News 4, Detroit, reporting on a flood that destroyed some suburban basement apartments.
- The affections are like lightning; You cannot tell where they will strike till they have fallen
- Jean Baptiste Lacoraire
- As part of it's 'Astro' program LAPD helicopters maintain an average nineteen-hours-per-day vigil over 'high crime areas', tactically coordinated to patrol car forces, and exceeding even the British Army's aerial surveillance of Belfast.
- Mike Davis, "City of Quartz"
- LA needs the cleansing of a great disaster or founding of a barricaded commune.
- Peter Plagens
- I was one of Them: the Strange Ones. The Funny People. The Odd Tribes of autograph collectors and photographers. The Ones who waited through long days and nights, who used other people's dreams for their lives.
- Ray Bradbury (1920 - )
- From Mount Hollywood, Los Angeles looks rather nice, enveloped in a haze of changing colors. Actually, and in spite of all the healthful sunshine and ocean breezes, it is a bad place - full of old, dying people, who were born old of tired pioneer parents, victims of America - full of curious wild and poisonous growths, decadent religious cults and fake science, and wildcat enterprises, which, with their aim for quick profit, are doomed to collapse and drag down multitudes of people.
- Louis Adamic
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