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- Big nations are like chickens. They like to make big noises, but very often it is no more than squabbling.
- Dr. Albert Schweitzer, Playboy Interview - December 1963
- No national political party is going to nominate another right-wing candidate for a long time.
- Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., Playboy Interview - May 1966
- The juvenile sea squirt wanders through the sea searching for a suitable rock or hunk of coral to cling to and make its home for life. For this task, it has a rudimentary nervous system. When it finds its spot and takes root, it doesn't need its brain anymore so it eats it! (It's rather like getting tenure.)
- Daniel Dennett, from CONSCIOUSNESS EXPLAINED p. 177
- I don't believe in leaving anything to be inherited.
- Robert Maxwell, Playboy Interview - October 1991
- I'll always stay connected with Apple.
- Steven Jobs, Playboy Interview - February 1985
- The trouble with America is that there are far too many wide-open spaces surrounded by teeth.
- Charles Luckman
- ...they no longer felt like newlyweds, and even less like belated lovers. It was as if they had lept over the arduous calvary of conjugal life and gone straight to the heart of love. They were together in silence like an old married couple wary of life, beyond the pitfalls of passion, beyond the brutal mockery of hope and the phantoms of disillusion: beyond love. For they had lived together long enough to know that love was always love, anytime and anyplace, but it was more solid the closer it came to death.
- Gabriel Garcia Marquez, from "Love in the Time of Cholera"
- No man should marry before he has studied anatomy and dissected the body of a woman.
- Honore de Balzac (1799 - 1850)
- He doesn't have the greatest smarts in the world. His main interests in school were broads and booze.
- J. Danforth Quayle's Father, 08/23/88
- Things are so bad in Massachusetts now they don't even bother to plough Route 128 when it snows.
- Scott McNealy, in the wake of Wang's going Chapter 11
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