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- Entia non sunt multiplicanda praeter necessitatem
(Entities must not be multiplied beyond necessity.) - William Occam
- Barring that natural expression of villainy which we all have, the man looked honest enough.
- Mark Twain (1835 - 1910), A Curious Dream (1872)
- This coffee plunges into the stomach...the mind is aroused, and ideas pour forth like the battalions of the Grand Army on the field of battle.... Memories charge at full gallop...the light cavalry of comparisons deploys itself magnificently; the artillery of logic hurry in with their train of ammunition; flashes of wit pop up like sharp-shooters.
- Honore de Balzac (1799 - 1850)
- They have, and bring with them, that upper-body strength. They have apparently developed that in their childhood and growing up, and they've further advanced in that regard.
- Former LAPD Chief Daryl Gates, on lesbians in the LA Police Dept.
- It was mentioned on CNN that the new prime number discovered recently is four times bigger then the previous record.
- John Blasik
- There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion.
- Sir Francis Bacon (1561 - 1626)
- I would rather see the portrait of a dog that I know, than all the allegorical paintings they can show me in the world.
- Samuel Johnson (1709 - 1784)
- Time is dead as long as it is being clicked off by little wheels; only when the clock stops does time come to life.
- William Faulkner (1897 - 1962)
- As part of it's 'Astro' program LAPD helicopters maintain an average nineteen-hours-per-day vigil over 'high crime areas', tactically coordinated to patrol car forces, and exceeding even the British Army's aerial surveillance of Belfast.
- Mike Davis, "City of Quartz"
- We're not a security guard company. We sell a *concept* of security.
- Michael Kaye, president of Westec, a residential security company.
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