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Results from Rand Lindsly's Quotations:

If we take in our hand any volume; of divinity or school metaphysics, for instance; let us ask, "Does it contain any abstract reasoning concerning quantity or number?" No. "Does it contain any experimental reasoning concerning matter of fact and existence?" No. Commit it then to the flames: for it can contain nothing but sophistry and illusion.: David Hume (1711 - 1776)
I've got one word for the eighties. One word. Handguns. Disposable Handguns.: Bobbi Harlow's father to Steve Dallas in Bloom County
For the skeptic there remains only one consolation: if there should be such a thing as superhuman law it is administered with subhuman inefficiency.: Eric Ambler
Usenet is like a herd of performing elephants with diarrhea -- massive, difficult to redirect, awe-inspiring, entertaining, and a source of mind- boggling amounts of excrement when you least expect it.: Gene Spafford, 1992
I have the distinction of speaking to you from one of the few countries that still has a communist party.: Dennis Miller, MCing the 1991 Emmies
Who cares who's captain after the wings have fallen off.: Scott McNealy on IBM Corp's new chief executive officer Louis Gerstner
This place makes Mayberry look like a think tank.: Dennis Miller (told to me by a CV employee)
Earthly minds, like mud walls, resist the strongest batteries; and though, perhaps, somethimes the force of a clear argument may make some impression, yet they nevertheless stand firm, keep out the enemy, truth, that would captivate or disturbe them.: John Locke (1632 - 1704)
Knowledge is not a series of self-consistent theories that converges toward an ideal view; it is rather an ever increasing ocean of mutually incompatible (and perhaps even incommensurable) alternatives, each single theory, each fairy tale, each myth that is part of the collection forcing the others into greater articulation and all of them contributing, via this process of competition, to the development of our consciousness.: Paul Feyerabend
The whole problem with news on television comes down to this: all the words uttered in an hour of news coverage could be printed on page of a newspaper. And the world cannot be understood in one page.: Neil Postman

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