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Results from Rand Lindsly's Quotations:

What is a cynic? A man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.: Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900)
For flavor, instant sex will never supercede the stuff you have to peel and cook.: Quentin Crisp
Never keep up with the Joneses. Drag them down to your level.: Quentin Crisp
Conscience is a mother-in-law whose visit never ends: H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)
Did blind chance know that there was light and what was its refraction, and fit the eyes of all creatures after the most curious manner to make use of it? These and other suchlike considerations, always have, and always will prevail with mankind, to believe that there is a Being who made all things, who has all things in his power, and who is therefore to be feared.: Isaac Newton (1642 - 1727)
Television: chewing gum for the eyes.: Frank Lloyd Wright (1869 - 1959)
Revolution is a trivial shift in the emphasis of suffering.: Tom Stoppard (1937 - )
Beware of altruism. It is based on self-deception, the root of all evil.: Excerpt from the notebooks of Lazarus Long, from Robert Heinlein's "Time Enough for Love"
What are the facts? Again and again and again - what are the facts? Shun wishful thinking, ignore divine revelation, forget what "the stars fortell", avoid opinion, care not what the neighbors think, never mind the unguessable "verdict of history" - what are the facts, and to how many decimal places? You pilot always into an unknown future; facts are your single clue. Get the facts!: Excerpt from the notebooks of Lazarus Long, from Robert Heinlein's "Time Enough for Love"
Men rarely (if ever) manage to dream up a god superior to themselves. Most gods have the manners and morals of a spoiled child.: Excerpt from the notebooks of Lazarus Long, from Robert Heinlein's "Time Enough for Love"

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