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- There are three side effects of acid. Enchanced long term memory, decreased short term memory, and I forget the third.
- Timothy Leary (1920 - 1996)
- In the topsy-turvy world of heavy rock, it's often useful to have a nice, solid piece of wood in your hands.
- Ian Faith, manager of Spinal Tap
- In accordance with our principles of free enterprise and healthy competition, I'm going to ask you two to fight to the death for it.
- Monty Python
- It's said that 'power corrupts', but actually it's more true that power attracts the corruptible. The sane are usually attracted by other things than power. When they do act, they think of it as service, which has limits. The tyrant, though, seeks mastery, for which he is insa- tiable, implacable.
- David Brin _The Postman_
- I'm free of all prejudices. I hate everyone equally.
- W.C. Fields
- I have been assured by a very knowing American of my acquaintance in London, that a young healthy child well nursed is at a year old a most delicious, nourishing, and wholesome food, whether stewed, roasted, baked, or boiled, and I make no doubt that it will equally serve in a fricassee, or a ragout.
- Jonathan Swift (1667 - 1745), "A Modest Proposal"
- War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse. The person who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself.
- John Stuart Mill (1806 - 1873)
- Neurosis is the inability to tolerate ambiguity.
- Sigmund Freud (1856 - 1939)
- Sometimes I think the surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that none of it has tried to contact us.
- Bill Watterson (1958 - ), cartoonist
- Saint, noun. A dead sinner revised and edited.
- Ambrose Bierce (1842 - 1914), The Devil's Dictionary
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