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- All progress is based upon a universal innate desire on the part of every organism to live beyond its income.
- Samuel Butler (1835 - 1902), Notebooks, 1912
- Well, if crime fighters fight crime and fire fighters fight fire, what do freedom fighters fight? They never mention that part to us, do they?
- George Carlin (1937 - 2008)
- I believe in getting into hot water; it keeps you clean.
- G. K. Chesterton (1874 - 1936)
- He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever.
- Chinese Proverb
- If the automobile had followed the same development cycle as the computer, a Rolls-Royce would today cost $100, get a million miles per gallon, and explode once a year, killing everyone inside.
- Robert X. Cringely, InfoWorld magazine
- Never keep up with the Joneses. Drag them down to your level.
- Quentin Crisp
- Even if you do learn to speak correct English, whom are you going to speak it to?
- Clarence Darrow (1857 - 1938)
- Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.
- Philip K. Dick (1928 - 1982), "How to Build a Universe That Doesn't Fall Apart Two Days Later", 1978
- One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and always a clever thing to say.
- Will Durant (1885 - 1981)
- The end of the human race will be that it will eventually die of civilization.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)
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