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- I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly.
- Michel de Montaigne (1533 - 1592)
- The infliction of cruelty with a good conscience is a delight to moralists - that is why they invented hell.
- Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970)
- When solving a "panic" you must first ask yourself what you were doing that could possibly frighten an operating system.
- Peter van der Linden
- I was much distressed by next door people who had twin babies and played the violin; but one of the twins died, and the other has eaten the fiddle - so all is peace.
- Edward Lear
- Mr. Gates is up to his eyeballs in his knowledge of this stuff.
- US District Judge Royce Lambeth, ordering CIA Director Robert Gates to testify at the Clair George trial.
- Hana: What on Earth is a 'barbeque'?
Hel: A primitive tribal ritual featuring paper plates, elbows, flying insects, encrusted meat, hush puppies, and beer. Hana: I daren't ask what a 'hush puppy' is. Hel: Don't. - Trevanian from the novel "Shibumi"
- Melpomene was a substantial girl, thick of bosom, ankle, and forearm, rosy of cheek, and clear of eye. She seemed somehow incomplete without her hockey stick.
- Trevanian from the novel "Shibumi"
- Courtly love-poetry may first have been written during long periods of abstinence on the Crusades, but it would not have flourished in the cold of northern Europe without some help from the chimney.
- James Burke
- Reason and Justice tell me that there is more love of man in electricity and steam, than in chastity and refusal to eat meat.
- Chekov of Tolstoy
- Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them good.
- H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)
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